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Ayup You ! 
I saw that an hour after it had been posted ! Good looking kit, eh? I shall get one. what do you think of the tune? cool, eh Flash? ...
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Looks good to me, apparently it only has 4 Harriers, anyone know where you can get after market ones in 1/350, none of the usual suspects list any, and a Harrier Carrier aint a Harrier Carrier without lots of Harrier's to carry,,,, just like this little kiddy,,,
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It looks great, doesn't it? I wanted one before, but I really really want one now.
As for the Harriers, once the kit comes out we will probably be able to buy them from several different aftermarket companies. It's also possible, I suppose, that if Airfix get enough requests they'll release packs of Harriers and Merlins, like Trumpeter have done with their 1/350 aircraft.
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Loving the folded Merlins.
Not my scale but i might just have to be tempted, especially to see that lorry crane! |
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| feanor wrote: | Ayup You !
I saw that an hour after it had been posted ! Good looking kit, eh? I shall get one. what do you think of the tune? cool, eh Flash? ... |
Sorry just realised this post  
The music isn't my taste but I think this would of been more appropriate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeJFVvwz6A 
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| Wonder what the chances are of Airfix in time coming up with a few more sprues and releasing a 1982 HMS Invincible version? I would be more interested in modelling her than the Illustrious. |
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| DavidH wrote: | | Wonder what the chances are of Airfix in time coming up with a few more sprues and releasing a 1982 HMS Invincible version? I would be more interested in modelling her than the Illustrious. |
I'd say it's more a certainty, but it may take a couple of years.
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As a non-ship building kinda guy, but someone who has been on board Illustrious a few times and therefore wouldn't mind having one, roughly how long will the model be in this scale?
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| BAGGY wrote: | | As a non-ship building kinda guy, but someone who has been on board Illustrious a few times and therefore wouldn't mind having one, roughly how long will the model be in this scale? |
According to my CSE maths, around 23.5 inches (59.69cm).
Ish.
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Blimey!
Think I might just be tempted there!
Thanks for doing the sums Jonathon! 
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Hi all,
does anyone know when the kit will be available?
Despite the heap of kits in my den, this is a must-have and must-build for me - a bit like it was with the new Harry Potter books ;-)
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At two feet long it's not impossibly larger than a 1/600 Hood, which IIRC comes out at about 17" in length.
I'd be tempted to waterline it myself.
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| FrankS wrote: | Hi all,
does anyone know when the kit will be available?
Despite the heap of kits in my den, this is a must-have and must-build for me - a bit like it was with the new Harry Potter books ;-)
Curious,
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Ayup Frank...
And what did you build your Harry Potter books out of... 
Did we miss summat?
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| sorry guys but that is the saddest exuse exuse for a warship i have ever seen !!!!! . |
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| dockyard matey wrote: | | sorry guys but that is the saddest exuse exuse for a warship i have ever seen !!!!! . |
We don't mind criticism here provided its constructive 
I what way might the (proposed) kit be improved 
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I think the criticism might have been of the ship, rather than the model depicting it....."Call that an aircraft-carrier!" kind of thing.
It's certainly how I felt after they turned the real Ark-Royal into bean tins** and proposed to Rule The Waves with 'Through Deck Cruisers'. 
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sgt.s don't know if you where in the andrew but you are spot on it's not a carrier , more like a sad excuse for long ago ( eagle , ark , vic , bulwark , albion , hermes and centaur ) .
anyway i would have thought that kit builders fall into the older age group , kids today seem to be more into computor games .
ratch i was refering to the actual ship , not a carrier more like a rfa . |
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| dockyard matey wrote: | | sorry guys but that is the saddest exuse exuse for a warship i have ever seen !!!!! . |
Bet you I can find some Argentine (ex) pilots who disagree...
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The Invincible's might not be the prettiest or most warlike looking Carriers around, especially compared to something like Enterprise or Nimitz, but in the Falklands war, Invincible did the impossible, and proved her worth beyond any doubt whatsoever, and re confirmed the Royal Navy as, if not the biggest, certainly the finest and most profesional Navy in the world. I will say though that the Invincible's are actually very impressive looking when you see them for real and close up, I saw Illustrious in Greenwich, London in 2006, and was really surprised at how well she looked.
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