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The McLaren may be a virtual kit right now, but I wager we'll see something pretty similar from Airfix in 2009.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:14 am
Steven_Pietrobon
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Considering that Hornby have got a McLaren license for their Scalectrix sets, I think that's a sure bet. I wonder if it will be in 1/16 scale like in the commercial or in 1/12 scale like their other recent tie-ins.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:38 pm
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Looked at the Airfix website. They are in talks with Mercedes Mclaren to do a kit.
It's a kit, Jim, but not as we know it
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:05 pm
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As expected
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of F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes McLaren. It consists of 17 screw-together pre-painted parts.
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:06 am
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This is just the
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packaged in parts without the electric motor, gearbox and pickup. Scalextrix is owned by Hornby, so the amount of development effort is nought. As the Scalextrix cars costs £34.99, I'm sure there will be many slot-car people who will buy this and convert it back to a slot car. You can download the instructions for the Scalextrix model
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. The parts are identical, except for the parts needed to make it a slot-car.
By the way, the kit number is A50008, previously used for the canceled Dr. Who 1/12 Gridlock kit.
Hopefully we'll see a proper kit in the future, and in 1/20 scale.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:19 am
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Yes, that's what I was alluding to by my 'it's a kit, but not as we know it' comment. It's not even the 2008 McLaren!
Weren't there plans at one stage for some of the other Scalextric cars to be released as Airfix kits?
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:14 pm
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If Airfix also release a Ferrari kit, for added realism, you can nick bits from it and stick them on your McLaren!
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:48 pm
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matchbox_mike wrote:
If Airfix also release a Ferrari kit, for added realism, you can nick bits from it and stick them on your McLaren!
Perhaps it could come with a bonus Timo Glock figure as well.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:12 am
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How about a bonus Pussycat Doll girlfriend?!!!
Now that's what I'm talking about.......................
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Edited: suggestive comment removed from here by me in case of offence or younger forum members present. It was really funny though.............it involved rubber. You can make up your own suggestive comments from that.
I seem to remember that Tamiya did a bikini clad girl for their 1/12 driver figure, who looked like Emerson Fittipaldi (the driver figure, not the bikini clad girl. She looked more like James Hunt............ ).
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:30 am
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I think our youngest member is Claus, aged 35!
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:37 am
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frogman wrote:
I think our youngest member is Claus, aged 35!
Sean
Thanks for having due respect for my junior age - in fact I'm 36 now.
as it has become increasingly difficult lately to avoid argument with the force majeure over any newly arrived parcel, I'm afraid I'd have to smuggle any Pussycat Doll kits in in a very covert operation, and hide them in the furthest corner. But I'd watch your built-up ones with interest
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:04 pm
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At my recent visit to Hornby, I was told that Airfix had been approached by the Advert makers to provide images, etc, for a new Santander advert. Since they had no plans to do a LH car and the timescale was short, Airfix referred them to another company who could make up computer images, etc.
When Airfix saw the finished advert they realised that it was more Airfix than Abbey! So they immediately started work on a model, which is what you see on the website.
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:47 am
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RRP of £24.99!
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:43 am
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RRP of £24.99!
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That's more than twice what I would have expected.
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:41 am
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frogman wrote:
That's more than twice what I would have expected.
I guess I'll be buying half the number then of in stead of what I originally intended. (half of zero is still zero )
Now if a
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would comment "that's not a model, that's prefab!"I would have to agree this time.
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