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PostPosted: Fri 10 Feb 2012 11:37 am 
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Hi all,

Does anybody know the provenance of this impressive new creation? I'm inclined to think that like the 1/700 version, its a reboxing of the Academy kit but I seem to recall thats 1/350 scale? :roll:

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It's Academy tooling. Academy have tooled up Titanics in 1/700, 1/600, 1/400, 1/350, plus any others that I haven't yet noticed! Somebody at Academy must like Titanic, or at least recognise it as a big seller in any scale.

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Its all in the History Section  :idea:

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I wonder if the Airfix boxing of the kit uses three different colours of plastic like the Academy boxing?

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Spudgun:412218 wrote:
I wonder if the Airfix boxing of the kit uses three different colours of plastic like the Academy boxing?

It's possible, the usual procedure with reboxing is for the original manufacturer to send the bags of sprues to the other company, rather than lending them the moulds directly.
Academy have reissued this kit in Nov/Dec last year in a special version with photoetch parts and a wood deck in the box, list price is £99.99 for that.

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In an ex-Heller kit which Airfix released ... airfix literally took the Heller instruction manual and added an extra A3 page to it as the front/back cover.  The remaining 40+ A4 pages of instructions and preliminary information all have the Heller logo on them ... And are from the style of presentation obviously a Heller document.


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