Airfix 1/35 Stuka ????

[Alan 45]

I was just doing some resurch for my next build a 1/48 Stuka and I come across this [ATTACH]86162.IPB[/ATTACH]

Now I've never seen anything by airfix in 1/35 scale and I wondered if anyone else had ?
It would make a cracking dio don't you think

[eddiesolo]

Airfix did/do some 1/35 vehicles IRC, but never seen a aircraft as far as I know, the aircraft guys will know better.

Si

[Alan 45]

It's baffled me mate unless this is a mock up to wind people like me up

[eddiesolo]

It's baffled me mate unless this is a mock up to wind people like me up

The only 1/35 aircraft I know of are balsa types and large diecast jobbies, not plastic kits, could be wrong. Strange one.

Got to be a wind-up.

Si

[Alan 45]

The only 1/35 aircraft I know of are balsa types and large diecast jobbies, not plastic kits, could be wrong. Strange one.Got to be a wind-up.

Si

Yeah I think so too, not even tamiya have released a 1/35 scale aircraft and they love that scale well not that I know off anyway

[Guest]

I reckon that's a fake picture Alan, it looks like something from a computer game

[Alan 45]

It's actually a design artwork project Patrick , when I looked into it it's from a site called model art and design . Com , according to the banner it's for museums defence and industry so in some museum somewhere is an airfix kit in 1/35 scale

[Guest]

I smell FAAKE when I see stuff like that, I can only shake my head. The Airfix logo was never at any point looking like that....

John

[Alan 45]

This is the site http://www.modelartanddesign.com/page5.htm

[Guest]

A Stuka at 1/35

Alan...,will be a sin if you don't do a dio!!! :P

[Ian M]

someone is havin a giraffe.

Its not even a good fake.

[Guest]

That's conceptual artwork, definitely not for a kit past or present.

If Airfix did go into that area of scale, surely they'd use 1/32...

[eddiesolo]

I think that one give away is the name: STUKA...no model type, just the generic name.

Si

[Alan 45]

If you look at the link I posted it's the artwork for an actual model to be used in museums industry and the defence department so I can assume from that there is a model of a 1/35 Stuka comissioned by a museum , haven't you ever been in a museum and looked at the models some are scratch built and either donated or comissioned to built but I would think that an actual model producer would get asked to make a one off .

I would say that this could have been made for a war museum to desplay a dio depicting a war seen

[The Migrant]

I think it's probably just a 1/48 or 1/72 model photographed and used on a presentation mock-up, especially since the same image appears elsewhere labelled '1/72'. Took me a while to figure out what the website's about, but it seems to be a company offering a full design/presentation service to military museums and establishments - they'll do everything from signage, graphics, built models, even refurbishment of real military vehicles.

There are a few 1/35 aircraft models about. Bronco do a nice kit of the L4 Piper Cub, and a few V-1 variants (including a manned version). Academy do a US Army UAV.