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Got mine today plus the decal sheet to create the version that carries my late father’s name through donation. Before I start I have airbrushing set up but wanted to ask all the best way to thin the supplied paint and ratio . I have tamiya thinner or is it just better to brush paint. Loving the new coloured instructions

Can you please make a video once you have had them mounted.

I used a Humbrol orange rattle can on the Severn and it worked perfectly. It was years ago but likely over a Halford's grey primer. I have an old Citadel orange which I recall was also good but was just too light for the RNLI shade. The Severn was worth persevering with as in the end it looks amazing. I think the superstructure was designed to lift off to show that detailed interior, but it was too tight a fit so I ended up sanding down the inside. But I agree, it depends how much you want to build it.

Perhaps an idea for painting the orange onto the kit.... How about having a white or yellow undercoat first, which should hopefully make the orange go on easier and make it pop more and perhaps less coats?

Just got mine today. Wanted to get from my local (ish to Middlesbrough) Shannon station at whitby, but they aren't selling it. Ended up visiting the model centre on the way home as they had stock for £17.99. I had hoped to have a good shop there for other kits as well, based on their website stock, but it turns out it's a small shop filled mainly with trains on display. Wasn't sure if I got extra paints or not as I had 10 pots. Now seeing your unboxing I see I have the same amount, but I have no 11 which isn't listed as being needed. Just wanted to check what paints others got. Mine were 11 15 18x2 27x2 33x2 34 56

It's a lovely looking kit! Mine came today; very impressive - slide moulding for the cabin piece as well; that doesn't come cheap to make! Airfix went all-in with this one, it seems; especially with the additional decal sheet...nice to see! 😃 Great review, and I look forward to seeing your build, and doing my own too! 👍

I like the kit i just wish they go back to the old plastic sprues ☹️the bits keep breaking off.

A good buy if you have orange paint left over from the Bond Bug. (Where else would you ever use it, other than the General Lee?)

The blue/grey colours are because this is a 1954 107 pick up, the first year they made a long wheelbase model, the previous were 80” and later 82”. The factory colours were grey body and RAF blue chassis and wheels or all RAF blue. Body cappings are as you say, zinc plated. 1959 they went to a black chassis as per all the SWB models for the last eight years or so, and bronze green was added as a body colour. Seats were available in black, grey or RAF blue options.

I would'nt be surprised if Airfix do the MERT version for their 2025 release list. 👍

Masking suggestion: Put a strip of masking tape on the inside of the sides to block the windows before sticking the two sides together. Make it long enough to stick out the back door and it should be simple to remove after the outside painting is done.

It is no longer simple to say "Hello Boys and Girls!".....you are now forced to say "Hello boys and girls and trannys!"

I thought that it would be bigger too, I guess it was just a very small aircraft in real life .

I've saved the old radio aerial wire of a dead stereo system for doing thing like radio antennae and some rigging. Just carefully strip off the insulation and you will find some VERY fine wires inside.

😉🖐👍👍👍

Can I have that keyring??

Is the Modeling Club only for the British, or can anyone in the world join? If not, I would remind Airfix it's the 21st century.

I only got rid of one of those Corgi E-types a few years ago! When I joined the Airfix Modellers Club, Dick Emery was the president, which just shows how long ago it was.

Brilliant video your Bug looks fantastic and the green looks Ace I’m building this kit myself and not got to the front wheel yet so thanks for the heads up about the part impeding the front wheel. I’ll subscribe to your channel 👍

One of my favourites as a lad and great to see it built so beautifully. I still have one in my stash, unmade in a red stripe box like your one.

Like you say, it's just something that seeks out to you. Now if they could just do a model of my local lifeboat in redcar, Zetland, the world's oldest surviving lifeboat!

Excellent video and build. The Rotodyne is one of the best subjects for a ‘what if’.

Going by the initial 2005 Catalogue appearance 2007 release date the kit was a Humbrol project Hornby completed after buying Humbrol inc Airfix in 2006, so pre-Hornby instructions, a comparison to the new Shannon Class will be interesting looking at the pre-release photo's the handrails are a lot chunkier, orange moulding would be nice imo.

Looks good. Like me a Fulmar a lot.

Hi, this will be one for me, love it matey. When the build video landing? Great stuff Bob England Now commenting having seen your video rather than with enthusiasm for it! Instructions look horrible!! Cooling off a bit now………..oh golly gosh! All those parts……need to watch your build video now……..dropping down another enthusiastic gear and payment card returns to wallet 😢…….

Great-looking build. Well done.

Can somebody send him a RELAX (Frankie Hoes To Hollywood) shirt? The one in video is nuts!!!

Did they fix it so that the interior actually fits this time?

Happy birthday! Anything new added to the stash? Never heard of this place! I'm only in Middlesbrough so will have to sweet talk the wife into a visit on (another 🙄) ikea trip. Have you visited the North East Model Centre? Went there a few months ago but it allowed again as the wife hated the awkward drive getting to it.

please make a build video :)

Right on my doorstep, and can recommend that it is well worth a visit, they even open up the Vulcan from time to time

What a kit , Airfix must have sold there soles to the modeling gods when they created this kit . It's not everyones cup of tea but I highly recommend it goes together so well and the detail is superb. Not to everyones budget however I can say this kit is value for money. If you're thinking of after market PE it will put the cost of the kit up another £30 you factor all your paints in the kit starts to look pricey. That said it will look just as good without the PE Airfix did such a good Job. Because the silver wing variant is a big slab of silver spend your money on different shades of silver and some nice rigging. What a kit What kit well-done Airfix .

Happy Birthday! Yes, I could do with a hangar to store my stash in too...

You can get the 56 us from either Sunderland or Newcastle to get there too

Bin there many times since alot of exhibits were moved from Newcastle

Well tidy what if,well tidy indeed.

G'day to you again,,I did a double take when I saw this, circa 1976 I had this kit,I I painted it RAAF colours ,mounted Rocket Pods on the wings twin 50cal Machine Guns in side Door and Mini Gun in Clam Doors, it looked good on a Wargaming Board!

Very nice :) built one got three more to do :)

Cool model. 🛩

Looks cool 👍

Hi, I do love your videos however I must ask; why are you making it on a nappy (diaper for the US viewers)? Also why are you wearing your wife’s jumper? I don’t care about either issue I’m just curious! I have enjoyed the order you made her, I’m far too green to risk it but one day??? What a wonderful outcome! A minor mod equals a vastly better look! Brilliant Bob England PS some folk scrape off paint where glue will be applied I noticed you don’t but suffer very few issues?

I was thinking of doing one as a gunship. Miniguns & 20mm in some of those windows and rear door.............

Excellent build son 👍

Nice build - was thinking about doing a 'Junglie' version for the Royal Marines

Great looking build well done

Looks great in that 'what-if' scheme; very official! 😃 The whole look also gives me a bit of a Gerry Anderson kind of vibe; similar to the sort of helicopters/heli-jets you'd see in Thunderbirds...!! 😆 Nice one. 👍

I bought three of these kits back in the day spread over a period of 2 ish years and they allwsys had the same problem there was a sprue missing ......the wings. Neadless to say none ever got built.

My Step Dad flew AQN with 276 Squadron from Harrowbeer , it was his favourite aircraft to fly and he also flew the Squadron Spitfire AQC on search missions . He said that the Walrus was often difficult to take off after a rescue if there was a heavy sea running so they had to taxi home but the rule was you always landed to rescue downed crew from the sea. I have already built this model from the original release it is a great kit and detailing is great .

The Airfix 1/72 scale Walrus was the very first kit I made all by myself, in 1971. Everyone was making Spitfires, but I wanted something different. The general weirdness of the Walrus struck a chord with me. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the 'Shagbat' was an aircraft beloved by it's crews, and even more by the downed airmen it saved. There are many tales told of heroic things done by this 'plane - one, where a Walrus picked up so many people, it could not actually take off, but evaded enemy fighters by escaping like an airboat, is legendary. And true. I'm actually making an old Matchbox one, which will be painted as a pre-war machine, inspired by a photo in an old album by A Certain Ratio.

known as the "ShagBat", thin guitar strings are quite good for rigging