New Spitfire Announced and Model Reviews - Airfix and Chill

New Spitfire Announced and Model Reviews - Airfix and Chill - 15th July 2024 #94

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@julianmhall 3 ай бұрын

Hi All.. sorry I was a bit quiet last night. Voice is rubbish and hard to understand for those who know me never mind all of you :) Anyway, as you've probably noticed I tend to be a bit long-winded, so apologies for the length of the below: Re new releases (from any company), yes there may be initial disappointment, but they are /companies/ in business to make money, and they will make what sells. Equally if a model required a significant expense, and for only a few tweaks the company could double the income from it, then of course they will. That being the case, one way to maximise profits would be to 'go the Shannon route', inasmuch as listen to customer feedback who would have liked to see X, Y, Z markings, and produce decal sheets for those markings, selling them separately, thereby maximising profits as customers may buy the kit now they know they can buy the markings they wanted /and/ buy the decal sheet. My response to criticism of unboxing videos is *thinks of a polite word* 'Rubbish!'. /Every/ unboxing video has IMHO /immense/ value, and I for one appreciate all of you that take the time to do them. As a few of the panel pointed out unboxing reviews do take a long time. I don't do YT videos but I would imagine there's a basic checklist of issues to cover such as: Box detail and type Kit packaging Sprues: Type of plastic, under-shots, broken / missing parts, release agent? Kit: Amount of detail; panel lines recessed or raised Clear parts: how clear are they? Decals: Registration, colour, fragility Instructions: Clarity Ancillary items, such as paints in an Airfix Starter Set... are they usable? I've probably missed a few items but those are off the top of my head. I view unboxing videos as having a /great/ value, in several ways: 'Try before you buy'.. or in this case watch someone else try before you buy. As Alex said last night if a customer asked if they could see the content of a /second hand/ item in his shop he would show them, but - I think quite rightly - wouldn't unseal and open a completely new kit. [It's just occurred to me that any retailer having done that would have an impossible task then of convincing other customers that the kit /was/ new as it had been opened]. So unboxing videos give the consumer the opportunity to make - as John Parker said - an /informed/ choice. Then they can decide for themselves if the kit is within their skill level, for instance raised panel lines may not faze them as they may decide to sand them all off and inscribe new ones. They could be an FAA veteran and see the Mistercraft Sea Harrier Gary Evans reviewed on a shelf and think it looks nice; only seeing the box opening video would show them what a truly /awful/ kit it is and the makers IMHO deserve the moniker Mistercr@p. The consumer might see a shiny new boxed kit and mistakenly think the kit is new too, and only after watching an unboxing video would they understand that the kit inside was tooled when God's dog was a puppy and has more flash than a 1980s scifi comedy with a bloke called Gordon. Unboxing videos are the first step in a /process/. In the real world a consumer buys a kit and takes it home, opens the box, then builds the kit. Unboxing videos are /part of that process/ and I think an essential one. You watch an unboxing, you think the kit looks good enough to part with your money, but you wonder 'It looks good but how easy is it to build? Were there any hidden SNAFUs in the instructions, such as parts built in the wrong order, don't /quite/ fit etc.?' So you decide to watch the Build video of the same kit, and those questions get answered. No you won't build it in the same way (as I think Alex said), and you won't have exactly the same experience and skill level, so you will only see /a/ way to make the kit not the /only/ way. What you /will/ see though is the modeller encounter any difficulties the kit and/or it's instructions presented, /and/ how the modeller overcame them. You may think 'I'd have done it differently' and that's fine, but equally you could have thought 'I'd have been royally stuffed, thanks for the advice!' [Edit: As for the Build videos themselves I see them as /aspirational/; I know I'm not as good as the YTers but it's a level to aspire to.] So after that somewhat lengthy post I hope I've made it clear what side of the fence I'm sat on. Firmly on the side supporting the continued existence of unboxing videos.

@MOS6510Models 3 ай бұрын

👀 Airfix announce the first Ever 1/24 Spitfire Mark 8🔥 Buy yours here prf.hn/l/DLXRZbE

@beskimo2 3 ай бұрын

I like seeing different perspectives of models hands on. I go to Anchorage House of Hobbies and they had a Mk IXc kit and the person working the shop asked if I wanted to open it up and see what the plastic was like. We took a look at some of the plastic and I picked it up after seeing the detail in person.

@davidi4306 3 ай бұрын

You asked about the white leading edges. Japanese aircraft used yellow leading edges. I would imagine they chose white to avoid confusion. Many Australian Spitfires also had white tails.

@MOS6510Models 3 ай бұрын

thank you.. yes i was educated during the chat lol

@pauloftarsus3843 3 ай бұрын

Really hoping that Airfix will come out with a 1/24 scale model of the Spitfire Mk XIVe with the 5 bladed prop, bubble canopy, and larger but less pointy rudder. That airplane, for me, is the most beautiful airplane ever built.

@MOS6510Models 3 ай бұрын

its a good shout