1/24 Airfix Typhoon: Part II

[@mikeslattery8715]

I, enjoy the work you do. I'am a retired 65 year old and Ben building plastic model kits since 1960. I, think the more build's I, see people like you, do, the more idea's I, can try . thanks for being out their.you do nice work!😃

[@RaduB.]

About Aitfix: some of their latest kits are pretty nice, most of all I appreciate their accuracy, although they continue to have chunky parts and deep engraved lines. That being said, I don't build planes in 1:24th, but I bought some of their latest 1:48th Spitfires and Hurricanes and I have built some of their 1:72th scale jets. A nice surprise was the Swift... And with some indulgence the Harrier and Hawk. I have also been pleased with how their 1:32nd Aston Martin DBR9 came out! Your Tempest is coming along nicely. (I find the riveting on this kit to be a bit heavy for my taste though...)

[@LBPhotoworks]

About Airfix - I recently finished their 1/48 scale Lynx AH.7 and had quite the nice time in the process. It came together well, no major fit issues, details are good but I agree with you on the sloppiness of Airfix when it comes to ejector marks and seam lines. With a bit more clever engineering or just a bit more thought about those things and it would have been an even better and a lot less time consuming build. But that said, their kits don't feel nowhere near as rushed as e.g. Kitty Hawk's. I generally like Airfix, they improved massively when it comes to details and the overall quality of their kits and I like that as a British company they focus on British equipment other model brands don't have, like the AH.7 Lynx I mentioned or the three V-Bombers.

[@manifestman132]

I love model kits. I just don’t have time or space for them with my other hobbies. So I just get enjoyment from watching videos of them. I don’t really have experience with Airfix but I get mixed reviews from guys at work.

[@greybeardmodels]

I have just finished my Airfix 1/24 Typhoon, it took about 6 months in between work and real life - I enjoyed having to work on this to get the fits to work, it makes it feel that you are putting your own skills into it. If everything all lines up and falls together you may as well bought a snap together kit. Great to see your techniques and ideas, like every modeller I am always learning new skills. All the best

[@tomcline5631]

I see what you're talking about,but at these prices,I ain't buying one! This supposed level of professionalism, I want one to go together,without fighting it,so I can concentrate on details. I use to love Lindbergh kits when I was a kid,but bought one ( truck and tanker trailer) a couple years ago,and almost every part had to be file fit and modified so the advertised features worked. Pissed me off so bad,after all that work, it turned out awful,and wound up chopping it up and useing pieces of the tank in another scratch build!

[@greybeardmodels]

@@tomcline5631 I agree, with some kits you get to losing the will to live. I find this hobby fascinating - some subjects we'll go miles to get the correct this and the correct that, super detail this and super detail that, and other kits that look so appealing you just want to melt down for sprue goo!

[@kevinkington3079]

I've got 2 of these beasts in my stash, no idea when i will get round to building them, but this is certainly giving me a nudge to get started. Never built 1/24 before so looking forward to it. Like most of us, I started out with Airfix as a kid, much, much later I returned to modelling about 15yrs ago, and was amazed the level of detail now included. started with some 1/72 and a very very old 1/32 spitfire kit, must have been about 20years old at that point, it was actually a seafire but I decided to build it as a Spit. I've built a lot of 1/48s and still have about 40 kits in the stash. Thanks for showing this and getting me set to start. Although i wont be going into all the detail here but its nice to see what can be done and some of the pitfalls.

[@chloeprice620]

Fantastic work! Love to watch your mods. Inspires me to try my own, albeit on a smaller scale. Still learning. Your patients leaves me in awe! Excellent!

[@apathtrampledbydeer8446]

Beautiful work!

[@thatfelladownunder9396]

I haven’t built a 1/24 Airfix kit since I was 12.(I’m 60 later this year), but I have fond, not, memories of attempting to put the Harriers fuselage together whilst juggling the Pegasus’s nozzles, and having gaps to deal with. But I did love the finished product. I have the 1/24 Hurricane in my stash and plan to build it soon, going in with the understanding there will be some work put into it. I’ve just finished the 1/72 BII Lancaster and it tested me at times, but again, the finished product looks fine. I don’t shy away from Airfix. But I usually go into an Airfix kit with my sleeves rolled up, knowing it’s not Tamiya gold star unit. But what’s the point of buying all the tools we buy if we don’t need them? And I think we owe our childhoods to Airfix kits. So I’m happy to keep building them.

[@dr.doppeldecker3832]

I rather get high from burned Airfix plastic than build it:) but to be fair, Airfix definitely has its place in the scale model market. Not everyone wants super detailed kits and just wants an easy weekend build! You definitely did an amazing job on that kit!

[@aydenenoch7913]

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[@kylanrory1402]

@Ayden Enoch Flixportal xD

[@aydenenoch7913]

@Kylan Rory Thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I really appreciate it!!

[@kylanrory1402]

@Ayden Enoch glad I could help :D

[@dr.doppeldecker3832]

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[@robbo1068]

Such a big scale but interesting concept with your build....colours, extra bits n pieces are all aligning to make a beaut build. I've not built an airfix model since I was a youngster over fifty years ago so can't comment on their worth nowadays. Given some of the comments below I think I will stick with the other brands!!

[@chriskinney8947]

You shuld call yourself The Canadian model guy absolut wizard, making my son watch your videos to see how it's done.

[@TheModelGuy]

That's too cool to read. How old is your son? Let him watch the Helicopter my boy made

[@hardysscalemodels]

Absolutely superb mate! Just ordered this kit snd can’t wait to start.

[@hantinos]

I was thinking of getting one of the big kits - but seeing this, I would stay with 1/32 for example Special Hobby Tempest, or maybe something from Trumpeter. I am surprised that even it is new kit, Airfix took some shortcuts and solutions, you will expect in the old kits.

[@TheModelGuy]

There are some definite challenges to this kit that require a lot of extra work. But I've heard a lot of horror stories about their older 1/24 stuff. This is not a scale I have built in before and I am learning that 1/24 gives you no room for error.

[@kevinjohnson8220]

I have the old 1:32 Revell Typhoon I might add some extra detail to.

[@voodoonights1671]

Some, but not all, of the later Airfix kits are good. Some are not so good and you are left wondering; "where is the quality control"?. There are sometimes strange things wrong that should have been caught earlier, or have been and it's too costly to fix. I have been tempted to try a 24th scale from Airfix, but i do worry about it having the patience if it's a real dog in that scale! That all said, i have seen some awful issues with Revell, Italeri and others so they are not alone. I look at Airfix and Revell as good bang for buck, just need work and mostly accept what i need to do. I will try the 24th one day, until then I'll stay with 32nd from other people for large scale. You have had your work cut out to beat this into submission. Well done. Love it!!

[@TheModelGuy]

I absolutely despise Revell kits. I've had so many issues with them it completely put me off. I'll hesitantly touch the rebox stuff from Eduard but even that's filled with doubt

[@johanblume2621]

Beautiful work !! I’m not much in to WWII planes, but this and the Hellcat are tempting me. Maybe it would challenge me beyond modern fighter jets.

[@kevinjohnson8220]

I have a 1:24 Hurricane that I'll probably do this to. Fortunately I have a pretty solid reference in the SAM book. I like Airfix personally and I'm not afraid of having to go the extra several miles on them.

[@billbrowning3021]

Very nice. I have never built an Airfix kit. Maybe I should try one,.

[@mybluebelly]

I think they recently did a 1:24 F6F Hellcat. Nice to have folding wings if your shelf space is limited ;-)

[@plastictsubasa1390]

Love the scratch building! You might want to modify your rotary tool to lower the RPM so the plastic doesn't melt and spall.

[@TheModelGuy]

It has a low speed setting...I figured I'd go all out through that thick wing haha. Hence why I leave about 2mm for clean up and straightening.

[@ikezutabunkyowa4628]

It’s good to get an honest picture of Airfix kits. I have the a Sea Fury and a Gloster Meteor in 1/48 from Airfix in the stash - I just really liked those subjects. I’m a very casual builder but I can usually produce something decent - helps if the kit is Tamiya or Eduard though I guess!! Made a nice TA-152 from the 1/48 Dragon kit. Intrigued by the way you’ve tackled this 1/24 Typhoon - you really are on a high level but you break it down so well for everyone’s benefit. And… my avatar is Japanese because I am studying the language, but my nationality is actually Canadian. I would have figured out you were Canadian also by the type of your sense of humour!

[@TheModelGuy]

Thanks Ikezu! I have their Sea Fury as well but it keeps getting pushed down the line. I also have their new Griff Spit and Hellcat. But when you see the Tamiya Spitfire it's really hard to even compare. Where are you from in Canada?

[@ikezutabunkyowa4628]

@@TheModelGuy You’re welcome - sincere thanks for your great, inspirational work! Yes, my experience with Tamiya is that they somehow seem to magically build themselves… You’re probably aware there’s a fit issue on the Sea Fury cowling which some aftermarkets have addressed. I’m in Ontario, originally from the shores of Lake Huron, but now in Waterloo. I think you are in Alberta? Keep up the great work!!!

[@TheModelGuy]

@@ikezutabunkyowa4628 I'm originally from outside Halifax and now live an hour and a bit East of Calgary. I picked up the Barracuda cowling and nose cone parts of correct the Sea Fury.

[@ikezutabunkyowa4628]

@@TheModelGuy Cool - my father did maintenance on sub patrol B-24s out east - I’m pretty sure that was in Dartmouth. Kind of interestingly also, my mother worked in a furniture factory in our town that converted to building part of the wings for Mosquitoes. So, I guess that’s my legacy to WWll aviation! Excellent, knowledgeable commentary you do for these videos as well !!!

[@highly_developed_bs_detect230]

i did 1/24 harrier and that had bad distortion problems ! to really bad ! btw you do great work !!

[@gendoikari6062]

I usually melt AIRFIX plastic models to create clothes pins for my wife's laundry.

[@robertomh8065]

No wonder there out of stock

[@MikoyanGurevich-xc7ft]

you're a psychopath

[@gerryparker1390]

Excellent work. You are taking some flack over your Airfix comments. Personally, I have a love / let down relation towards their kits. On the one hand they produce kits of aircraft that I am very much wanting to build ( who else has released a MkII Lancaster? ). I also think they respect the subjects. The flip side there is a lack of quality control. They put sprues in the box that simply are not properly shot and the problem does not seem to get fixed. Never the less over the last 3 years I have bought many Airfix kits, mostly 1/72 and the very Tiffy you are building now. I like them, but do not expect them to be as nice as a Tamiya or Eduard kit. Here in Canada I pay much less for a similar scale kit from Airfix, than I do for those other two. Overall Airfix is better than they were. Big improvement with the decals and the amount of detail in the kit. On a side note I do not understand comments about how others approach the hobby. If a person wants only a perfect kit out of the box and do not want to have any issues with assembly there is nothing wrong with that. Me I just want to finish the kit and will cut corners to do so. I really get intimidated if I have to modify a part to do the different variants in the kit, so avoid doing that. ( I can not cut a straight line. )

[@TheModelGuy]

I'm going to take flak for sure :) As for my comments they are my opinion and the die hard fans are going to fight tooth and nail to prove me wrong. Airfix is as embedded in the British as Hockey is here. Expect blow back! Like I said though, their newest kits are good for what they are but I'm not expecting shake and bake. I have a few kits of theirs in the stash still and they do choose some interesting subjects. Where Eduard plays it safe with a Mustang, 190 or Spit, Airfix is willing to do the Sea Fury or Blen. There are days though as a Heavy Diesel tech, I've been fighting to put shit together at work and when I come home to a kit to relax, it can stall a build when that is a lot of work too. I'm not lazy, I just like a quality build but if I'm spending twice as much time with clean up, it can be very off putting.

[@gerryparker1390]

@@TheModelGuy Yes work can interfere with the day :-). I am mostly and OOB builder and do not even weather very much. I see the weathering others do, including yourself and I think Wow! That is art. For me and my builds, once the paint and decals are on I am done and apologies to no one. ( For some reason I highlight and weather the cockpit and the landing gear. Go figure.)

[@averagecanadianguy1966]

I have been waiting for this one!

[@TheModelGuy]

I'm waiting for this one too...to be finished :)

[@eyalcr500]

@@TheModelGuy Hello Sir. ! great explanations, very interesting & useful , thanks ! can i ask just a small question : what exactly is MLT that you are thinning with ...??

[@TheModelGuy]

@@eyalcr500 Mr Leveling Thinner

[@eyalcr500]

@@TheModelGuy oh.... :-))) of course, how stupid of me ! thanks!

[@SprueFascinationChannel]

5:29 ;-) Enjoyed the video 👍

[@stevenartmann2642]

I'm having a nightmare with their 1/24 hellcat, warped parts, fuselage fit was terrible, wings were worse, cockpit tub needed lots of work to get it to fit within fuselage, def my last airfix, and my last 1/24, will stick to 48 from now

[@TheModelGuy]

Thank you for your honest post. The few reviews online are oddly super positive with no one mentioning any of the Airfix usual pit falls. I find a large percentage of reviewers will not mention short comings in order to keep the freebies coming. I was considering getting the Hellcat but after the Tiff I highly doubt it

[@seananthonyegan3395]

Hello I live in England I was buying Airfix as a child they never updated the moulds until recently so they have name as cheap kits .

[@reaperofsouls7700]

how you finally doing so far mate?

[@TheModelGuy]

As bad as some of the engineering is on this kit, they did really well with the gear leg fit. Doesn't need glue...but with the weight it holds they couldn't cut corners there

[@fury4539]

I'm about to start a 1 to 48 scale AIRFIX gloster meteor FR. Mk. IX.

[@TheModelGuy]

I still have a few of their kits. Mk I Spit with all the Eduard goodies, a Sea Fury and the Mustang they did.

[@johnreed3638]

Wish Airfix ventured into the 1/32 scale aircraft. There are so many British WWII aircraft that are not available in this scale, example, a 1/32 Handley page Hampden or a Bristol Blenheim would be nice.

[@TheModelGuy]

That's a lot of money to sink into development and would be a very large aircraft. With HKM focusing on 1/32 maybe it's something we'll see from them.

[@graemebrumfitt6668]

Not long got back into modelling my first kit was a 1/12th Bentley Blower and was not impressed with the amount of clean up but loved the kit! Then a few Takom tanks and the strabokran few more tanks! Have just got my hands on a 1/24th MK.1B car door after watching 'TyphoonLegacyCoLtd on here @please visit and subscribe' :) , so looks like I've got loads more clean up to do. TFS, GB :)

[@garyhiggins6718]

Personally I love airfix 1:24 kis but I haven't got the room in my flat so it has to be 1:48 scale!

[@bobdyer422]

OH, THAT'S NOTHING! {wing warp} Try a Vintage Fighter model. I'm building a 1/24 P-47 of theirs, instructions drawn by Helen Keller, engineering done by Curly, Moe,& Larry. If anyone ever offers you a Vintage Fighter kit, PUNCH THEM. Nothing fits properly, everything is warped, way too many pieces are 1/32nd scale. The pit does NOT have a landing gear actuator, not even the handle. No I do not like Airfix, but compared to Vintage, Airfix is Tamiya, well, at least Revell/ Germany. Typhoon Looks good, nice scratch building, I like your idea for the kit, most others are OoB. KUTGW!

[@TheModelGuy]

I hear the Kinetic Jug in 1/24 is brutal

[@bobdyer422]

@@TheModelGuy Kinetic purchased everything from Vintage Fighters, then continued to push out crap plastic.If it's not warped, it's locating pins are out of alignment, or wrong sized, or square to round, then it's out of scale, or obvious details missing. You can't even spin the prop without scratch building a collar. Kinetic is a joke, typical management half wits at the helm, the only thing they know about modeling they got from a Victoria's secretion catalog. Probably once worked at Boeing. I think one day they plan to be as good as Airfix, maybe one day next CENTURY. I'll take Tamiya, Zukie, Trumpeter{1/32nd only}}, anyday over these Kinetic Clowns.

[@danielblythe5337]

Airfix is one of the Great Companies. This is why we have this 1/24 Typhoon etc. Tamiya 1/48 kits like the 1/48 scale P-51 and Spitfire MK 5 are somewhat mediocre in detail. Worst of all, individual prop blades that will invariably be out of alignment, that in scale on the real plane, would vibrate the engine and prop right off it's mounts. Give me a precision one piece propeller on a a plane model any day!

[@kierenkeith6446]

I wouldn't touch 1/24 airfix with a barge pole. But the 1/72 and 1/48 stuff is decent.

[@mybluebelly]

Why? Are you saying they are bad models?

[@NigelsModellingBench]

It's such a shame the direction Airfix have taken.Look at the 1/24 Hellcat for example.. a beautifully detailed model of a beautiful aircraft. It's design is great and I'm sure if the plastic wasn't so soft, the parts weren't warped and they took the time to correct errors from the test shots,(engine core for example), it would be a class A kit. I'm not a fan of shake and bake kits, but Airfix quality is just too hit and miss. I have three late tool 1/72 Lanc kits, they all have stringing in the clear parts. Customer services told me "it's part of the moulding process". Oh..OK then???

[@swp12]

I think you answer your own criticisms about Airfix - they go after a particular market so you cannot complain if they produce a cheap model that needs work doing on it. The 1:24 scale are not cheap of course, but the detail is stunning, and to get utter perfection in such a thing would require ten times more development time leading to much higher prices. It is fashionable to knock Airfix - especially in the UK, but we would really miss them if they went under. I do sometimes thing that people who worry so much need to get away from their benches a bit more.... I think your comment about the wing skin thickness being out of scale is just unthinkingly silly. How can you have a wing skin which in reality would have been just a couple of millimetres thick, be 24 times thinner??! Such a model would be so fragile it would be unbuildable. It is good to put something of yourself in to a model - and you clearly do!!

[@TheModelGuy]

They could definitely be a lot thinner. The HK 1/32 stuff is just as big with a lot thinner plastic.

[@garyhiggins6718]

Face it guys, two hands are just not enough! 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰

[@paulmillard1130]

I started over 50 years ago making Airfix 1/72 tanks and they went together great and also did the small aircraft but after some time the kits got hit and miss until just as Monogram / Revell I just stayed away from them and stuck to Japanese products. Which is a shame because a lot of skilled draft work had gone into these models let down by poor QC which is a problem of poor management. Maybe they think all their customers are under 12 with no clue and parents with little time and too much money. Under 12s desevere better .

[@alec_f1]

Don't think I want to tangle with an Airfix kit. I like their stressed skin and thinking big scale kits, but their engineering and lack of thought on quality puts me off of wanting that much headache with the clean-up and forcing my will on parts that don't care to fit.

[@anotheruser9876]

Airfix? Ever tried to build a Matchbox kit? Airfix gives us a cheap option as the trend for manufacturers has been to increase the parts count (even in 1/144 to the point of ridiculousness) as well as the price of kits. Especially in Canada we get hosed with the low Loonie and stagnant wages aren't helping either.

[@TheModelGuy]

And that's the point I was trying to make, I guess not clearly...or people took it as an insult. My next video (after the Tiff series) will be a tri-build of the Eduard P-51D-5, Airfix F-51 and Tamiya P-51B to show how those different price points look.

[@anotheruser9876]

@@TheModelGuy Excellent!

[@yellowcake1320]

40 with a 1 year old and one on the way.....what do you do on a saturday night? Make a.......nope Sleep!

[@TheModelGuy]

I remember those days.

[@jaanikaapa6925]

As a kid when I was building kits I hated Airfix since the fit was bad. Seems that nothing has changed in almost 40 years. The most annoying thing back then was that my mom didn't allow painting or what not. Brits seem to be really proud of Airfix but I have no idea why. Matchbox's models were much better quality.

[@mazinman3]

In this day of computer aided design (CAD) there really is no excuse for Airfix kits to be as bad as they are. When you have companies like Tamiya & Eduard (& a few others) making some of the best, most well engineered kits out there, clearly it can be done.

[@averagecanadianguy1966]

How much did you pay for this because I can only find 1:24 models for +200$ CAD

[@TheModelGuy]

I bought it off a coworker for $80

[@agislycoudis4139]

to be honest, i like airflix n revell but they aint worth the time...the fittings are most of the time out of place or out of scale. I did a 1/32 revell p51d-20-5na mustang and the wings where a pain in the but. Ihad to drill most of the inside plastic to get them to fit and sit nicely, whilst the gears could sit straight and not flex....

[@ΠαύλοςΒαρσάμης-γ2ο]

My friend smokes weed end whenever I buy a Arefix Keith he steals the plastic and gets high . So I don't have really an opinion on the brand .

[@otterformosa2968]

OMG.......

[@SmallSoldier]

It looks like too much work to get a decent looking model. Long story short... don't buy this kit.🙄 I prefer 48 or 72nd. I wouldn't even know where to put something that big. I suppose if it were a commissioned piece and was eventually going to leave my house then maybe. That wouldn't happen to be the kit that was sitting at Model Land for eons, would it?

[@TheModelGuy]

I wouldn't say not to buy it, k would say expect a lot of work and a longer build time than usual. I got it from a co-worker who bought it for the pilot figure. Cost me $80. I'm still trying to sell the wife on this being a centerpiece at the dinner table :)

[@SmallSoldier]

Oh for 80. It’s a steal! Don’t they sell for $200. For 80 it’s worth the effort not retail though.

[@TheModelGuy]

@@SmallSoldier for us Colonials I think we're at $230 for the kit. I don't think I'd pay that for one

[@SmallSoldier]

Yeah I knew it was up there.

[@stevenreynolds4424]

I’m a bieging

[@abwm2365]

Have tried several Airfix. Some bought in-store others in bargain sales eBay. the last was the flying fortress 1/72 with vehicles etc. As usual poor fitting, lousy tooling and detail. I avoid Airfix have given it enough chances and they simply are poor quality.

[@arturbaluyev2873]

I think Airfix should just stop making models. Maybe continue producing some valuable successfull kits, but stop corrupting modelers with some unique models that appear to be a great disappointment, like their latest Spitfire XIV or Electric Lightning, a jet that has sandy surfaces out of box. It's time to stop.

[@TheGuitarmanrh]

Just what are you doing to one of the RAFs most iconic ground attack fighters? Absolute sacrelege! You should watch some footage of this plane in action! It saved your yank butts a few times by taking out tigers and panthers which where ripping your Sherman tin cans to bits!!!!

[@swp12]

Should check really - this guy is Canadian.... And remember this is model building, and not real life....

[@TheModelGuy]

It's being built to look like a restoration in process...which I mention a few times

[@SmallSoldier]

Did you check this guy out? Maybe that's why he's got a nutty comment and doesn't listen to the presentation given. A bible thumper...🙄

[@TheModelGuy]

@@SmallSoldier I sort of figured. The internet is such a fun place haha

[@prasunfloyd]

your use of the word Decal ( dee cal) is terrible

[@TheModelGuy]

That's how it's pronounced in Canada