Airfix new for 2020

[PhilJ W]

I had a chance to browse the 2020 Airfix catalogue today. There was not much for model railways as you might expect but listed is a 1/72 kit for a Case tractor towing a roller. This is basically a civilian vehicle used by the USAAF for airfield construction. Slightly overscale perhaps for 00 but a prototype that was imported during the war years to help in food production.

[modelldoc]

Yes, the tractor is a nice kit,

but

 

on the website these  kits (the Scammell too) are not listed,

 

why, at the moment, nobody knows it.

 

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[PhilJ W]

The catalogue only shows drawings of this and the Scammells, probably because they are still on the drawing board.

[Butler Henderson]

Another year waiting for yet another lightbulb to go on at Hornby and them release as Airfx kits some of the ebay ££££ Skaledale items - the brick retaining walls for example.

[wamwig]

General opinion elsewhere is that the Scammells and the Case tractor are models that Thunder Models were working on a couple of years ago but then quietly dropped to concentrate on larger scales.  Also IBG Models (A Polish company I think, who also make 1/72 scale Bedford QL's and CMP trucks) are understood to be producing a Scammell Recovery Vehicle and an  Artillery Tractor variant (with a tank transporter to come later) in 1/72 scale, with the first two versions probably released in a couple of months.

[modelldoc]

But in the workbench blog from 10th of January 2020 Airfix told us, we make all these kits.

 

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