HMS Illustrious

Flash Flash · HMS Illustrious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwazMd-oBHQ

Looks good

feanor

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? ...

Paddy O'Irishman

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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Obi-Jiff Kenobi

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.

Rigid

Loving the folded Merlins.
Not my scale but i might just have to be tempted, especially to see that lorry crane!

Flash Flash

DavidH

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.

Obi-Jiff Kenobi

BAGGY

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?

Jonathan

BAGGY

Blimey!
Think I might just be tempted there!
Thanks for doing the sums Jonathon!

FrankS

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,

Frank

Beaufighter

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.

feanor

dockyard matey

sorry guys but that is the saddest exuse exuse for a warship i have ever seen !!!!! .

Ratch

Sgt.Squarehead

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'.

For what it's worth, all the best
Sgt.S
** Simon Groom & 'Blue Peter' may you burn in hellfire for all eternity!

dockyard matey

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 .

DamienB

Paddy O'Irishman

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.

TopGun

I've been on board Illustrious when I did my Trident work experience at Portsmouth Naval Base back in 1995

Paddy O'Irishman

When I was four years old, my Dad, who had a lot of friends in the Royal Navy at that time, managed to get us aboard HMS Vanguard just before she was sold off for scrapping. To this day, it's still the most awe inspiring day of my life. The only downside of that day was Dad took loads of photo's,,, of me, not the ship, so the only pics I've got are of me looking up at the camera and all you can see of the ship is some deck planking, oh well, such is life.

dockyard matey

paddy not looking to upset anyone , the joke in the rn at the time of the falkland war was that invincible would recieve the burma star medal . i would think an awful lot of guys in the navy at the time would admit we nearly came in second . as for a profesional navy , all my photos etc came of the wall after the iranian fiasco and to think that that was'nt the first time .
anyway guys enjoy your modelling is what it's all about.

dockyard matey

Humble pie time , having seen lots of images of 'Illustrious' it's a nice looking kit

definatley looks better than the real thing .
It certainly looks a bargain when compared to the 'Repulse' .
That said , my old photos won't be going back on the wall .

Happy modelling cheers John ..

DavidH

Saw the Illustrious for the 1st time in the flesh on Sunday. She is in the midst of a refit and looking a bit sorry for herself with a big tent over the rear of the flight deck. All three of the class were there, with the Ark in dry dock being refitted as well. The star of the day for me was HMS Daring though. Very nice looking ship and one that I hope that Airfix will tool in 1/350th one day.

It's a nice looking kit at a good price, but I am still going to wait to see if they release an 1982 HMS Invincible version.

Ratch

Some more pix to whet your appetite

orionv

arrrgggggghh magnifique.

Obi-Jiff Kenobi

Looks great. I want it and I want it now!

Ratch

FrankS

Well,

I know I´ll get it as soon as it gets out, plus the WEM PE - nice birthday present from my modeling pals!

Until then ... the stash is way large enough

Frank

Operation Grandby

Hey franks try www.wonderlandmodels.com
in Edinburgh. the gift set is due out in Oct.

Ratch

Wonderland have a reputation for dodgy 'release' dates

What are those choppers

Seakings

Beaufighter

Amazon reckon it's out on 22 December. Interestingly, Amazon's indicated price is £7 more than that stated on the Airfix website. I predict that Amazon's will turn out to be the more accurate forecast.

Ratch

Can we keep speculation about release dates in Unofficial News of the Sprues

or they'll end up as more inaccurate/distorted rumours

Operation Grandby

I have a question has anyone built a 1:96 scale version of this model? I see she is in dock at Faselane at the moment.

Paula & Dan

Ratch

Operation Grandby

Jecobin do the plans for the boat which you can either scratch build the hull or can get the GPR hull from Fleetscale with the packs to complete the boat once finished building it measures out to 219cm long you can either put an engine in and sail it or keep it as a static model.

Rigid

Looks lovely.
But I'm a 1/600 man - boohoo

Steven Pietrobon

Me too! I hope Airfix do a tool in 1/600.

Operation Grandby

hey I have been on a website that someone If you type in Lego aircraft carrier and click on Truman aircraft carrier you will see a BIG boat that was built out of 200,000 lego bricks and its 350Ibs now thats what I call a boat.

Ratch

A bit like this one

Not exactly Airfix and not exactly Illustrious Think