Airfix 1/32 WWII vehicle re releases (1 Viewer)

[Marxmaniac]

I know Airfix re released Rommel's staff car recently (last couple years) and now are coming out with the British 17 pounder artillery gun and Cruiser tank. Looking for a picture (actual not box lid) of the Rommel car and figures along with any pictures of the British items. My question is the plastic soft pliable or the stiff polystyrene type found in the classic style of models or hard plastic like the recent airfix figure reissues?

 

[THE SHOOTIST]

I used my "Google-Fu" and looked this up. They appear to be model kits, so my guess would be that they are polystyrene. They do look very nice, and giving the lack of 1/32 scale artillery/vehicles they would be worthy acquisitions for any enthusiast.

 

[Fitzgibbon]

Just finished Rommel's vehicle and have Monty's car to go. Well engineered kit with sufficient detail and crisp lines. A big improvement over the Airfix kits of my youth, and the technological advancements in paint product made it a fun project for the return to an old pastime. I could improve on the techniques I used to construct the tracked sets. The soft plastic treads were a challenge for dim eyes and clumsy fingers The decals are impressive and offer a non-Rommel version of the vehicle. Looking forward to "wrecking" Monty's car for a "what if" dio.

 

[blaster]

Both Airfix vehicles are polystyrene kits.

 

[larso]

Does anyone know what greif means in German?

 

[blaster]

Does anyone know what greif means in German?

I believe it means Griffin.

 

[binder001]

A bit of history from an old man... Airfix produced two 1/32 scale lines at the same time. One was the "soft" plastic figures and a couple vehicles (Daimler armoured car, German halftrack, etc) while the other line was for scale modelers. They made an M3 "Lee", M3 "Grant", Sdkfz 250 halftrack, the 17-pounder AT gun, the Crusader III cruiser tank, and Monty's staff car. These kits were complimented by the Multipose series of figures. These date from the 1970's when the future primary scale of tank modeling was uncertain. Tamiya won out with 1/35th scale after Italeri joined in. That left Monogram and Airfix as "orphans" in the 1/32nd area. The kits are generally quite nice but could use some finer detail in places. The kits fit together nicely if you are careful during your build. Most og these have been re-issued over the years sometimes with different plastic (still styrene).

Gary B.

 

[Fitzgibbon]

A bit of history from an old man... Airfix produced two 1/32 scale lines at the same time. One was the "soft" plastic figures and a couple vehicles (Daimler armoured car, German halftrack, etc) while the other line was for scale modelers. They made an M3 "Lee", M3 "Grant", Sdkfz 250 halftrack, the 17-pounder AT gun, the Crusader III cruiser tank, and Monty's staff car. These kits were complimented by the Multipose series of figures. These date from the 1970's when the future primary scale of tank modeling was uncertain. Tamiya won out with 1/35th scale after Italeri joined in. That left Monogram and Airfix as "orphans" in the 1/32nd area. The kits are generally quite nice but could use some finer detail in places. The kits fit together nicely if you are careful during your build. Most og these have been re-issued over the years sometimes with different plastic (still styrene).

Gary B.

And the Airfix 2016 yearbook suggests they will continue sporadic reruns of these.

 

[larso]

I'm not sure about new model kits but it's a shame and a surprise that Airfix, even under its various new owners, haven't seen fit to issue new toy soldier product. With the internet inspired boom in the hobby there was a window there when new stuff would've been very well received. I guess we were lucky that CTS at least bought the rights to the molds and had some figures and vehicles reissued.

The time is past but things like a US halftrack, with additional versions like the quad 50 AA, the Priest artillery and any number of German vehicles would've surfed the Conte and reissue wave very profitably.

 

[fritz]

I'm not sure about new model kits but it's a shame and a surprise that Airfix, even under its various new owners, haven't seen fit to issue new toy soldier product. With the internet inspired boom in the hobby there was a window there when new stuff would've been very well received. I guess we were lucky that CTS at least bought the rights to the molds and had some figures and vehicles reissued.

The time is past but things like a US halftrack, with additional versions like the quad 50 AA, the Priest artillery and any number of German vehicles would've surfed the Conte and reissue wave very profitably.

Most new owner of Airfix molds are not in to the toy soldier hobby, they do not have interest.
I met them at 2014 NYC toy fair and were only interest in new hobby electronic and have a young woman in charge of old residues sets SALE DEPT BRANCH. I ask her for the other multipole kits such AK, Japanese sets and armor in 1.32 not released for long?
She said :"Not worth invest in spend several thousand on do those when making enough what we have already".
beside are parts of a corps that own other models brands and they dedicate it direct to the hobby kit prebuild hobby line only.

 

[steve weston]

I know Airfix re released Rommel's staff car recently (last couple years) and now are coming out with the British 17 pounder artillery gun and Cruiser tank. Looking for a picture (actual not box lid) of the Rommel car and figures along with any pictures of the British items. My question is the plastic soft pliable or the stiff polystyrene type found in the classic style of models or hard plastic like the recent airfix figure reissues?

These are model kits, so all will be in the harder polystyrene as found in other model kits, the ready-made range were made in polythene/polythylene.