I just returned from my semi-annual visit to the hobby store to see what’s new and the reboxed 144 Airfix 727 in Air Canada colours caught my eye.
It’s nice the firm is hiring sight-challenged artists these days for their computer generated art….the windscreen on the box art looks nothing like the Boeing. 🙂 Really, I ‘ve seen better work on old Soviet-era kit boxes.
The 737 look fine. BTW: Do you think Airfix could update the 737?
The 200 is just about extinct. How about retooling for a 500 with the newer engines? By making it a 500, they could reuse the 200 fuselage, but they would have to add the dorsal fin.
By: J Boyle - 4th May 2014 at 00:14
My point was that id Airfix were trying to do “good enough”, they could update the 200 rather inexpensively.
I do wish they’d update/replace some of their kits…the things are older than I am.
By: garryrussell - 3rd May 2014 at 19:06
The -500 fuse is close but not exactly the same length as a -200. The -500 is 1 foot 7 inches longer
I don’t think the fin is the same so just adding a dorsal to a 200 fuse would be totally incorrect.
I guess the wing root fairings would be very different to.
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May 2, 2014 at 8:03 pm