1/32 Silver Wings Fairey Flycatcher Floatplane

[Archimedes]

Hi All

 

An announcement from Silver Wings:

 

“Dear Model Enthusiasts,

We are thrilled to announce the release of the highly anticipated Fairey Flycatcher Floatplane series! After 13 years of continued success with our original Fairey Flycatcher model, we've listened to your requests and are proud to present three new floatplane variants to complete your collection.

Available for purchase from mid-August! Order now directly from our online store (www.silverwings.pl) and be among the first 100 customers to get an early bird 15% discount.

Three various types of floats, three separate boxes, five marking options in total.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be among the first to own the new Fairey Flycatcher Floatplane models!”

 

 

Kind regards,

Paul

[LSP_Kevin]

Funny - I just received an email from Silver Wings, and no mention of it!

 

Kev

[scvrobeson]

Interesting. Wonder if it features any additional improvements on the original kit, or just the new bits for the floatplane added?

 

 

Matt 

[Archimedes]

1 hour ago, scvrobeson said:

Interesting. Wonder if it features any additional improvements on the original kit, or just the new bits for the floatplane added?

 

 

Matt 

Not a clue but I can only imagine the rest is the same. Personally I won’t be buying it as I am hoping they will eventually put out a Fairey IIIF which is much more elegant.

 

Kind regards,

Paul

[mozart]

I’m delighted to see this release from SW simply because it’s in our scale, not the 1/48 that previous ones have been. I have no intention of buying it because it doesn’t figure in any of my modelling themes, but it gives me hope for the future. 

[thierry laurent]

Well, this is good news as I thought they somewhat left the LSP arena to Lukgraph. This is a quite obscure version but at least the floatplane was aesthetically more attractive than the carrier-based fighter. So this is a good option. Now I hope they will at last work on the Finnish Fokker DXXI that many requested and for which we only got contradictory release messages for many years...

[MikeMaben]

Yep, I used to bug Simon about the -4 Sarja but like you say they never seemed enthused about it.

I think it would sell better than most of their kits.

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2024 by MikeMaben

[Iain]

Oooh...

 

Iain

[europapete]

'morning all. Yep, I got that email today also. Good news indeed. I will buy one for the 'tweener collection as I like floaty things and to encourage SW to produce more. Max, the Flycatcher wheeled version does come in 1/32, I have one in the stash. It was the Woodcock that only came in 1/48. ( have one of those too, nice kit). 

[mozart]

38 minutes ago, europapete said:

Max, the Flycatcher wheeled version does come in 1/32, I have one in the stash. It was the Woodcock that only came in 1/48. ( have one of those too, nice kit). 

Yep, I know that Pete, I obviously didn’t make my meaning clear which was that the last kit produced by SW was 1/48 scale and a “floaty” thing, Macchi M41. 

[europapete]

Well, between this and the Spitfire thread I am really doing well this morning. Better have another mug of coffee and put my reading glesses on.