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Airfix A50189 Concorde Gift Set

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This kit has a reputation as a ‘beast’ of a build with poor fit, warping, inaccuracies and major steps in the joints among the list of difficulties faced, not one for the inexperienced it seems and perhaps why many kits languish in the stash for so long.

The very nice large display stand will be very useful during the build in any case as this is NOT a small model.Clear parts are reasonable clarity but on this sprue is the drooping nose mechanism, which I don’t intend to even attempt to play with. The kit captures the shape of this iconic flying machine very well and, even in 1/144 scale, it’s sizeable – the fuselage measuring almost 43cm in length. There are raised panel lines but they are very fine, so it’s up to you if you wish to sand them away and re-scribe (or simply not bother with panel lines at all). Do note, though, that the vertical tails have raised panel lines outlining the older British Airways ‘Negus’ design, so you’d want to remove these anyway. Based on a new tooling release of an Air France aircraft by Heller in 2004, the 1:72 scale Concorde was subsequently released by Airfix in 2005 in British Airways guise. The last re-release by Airfix was in 2008, however Revell then decided to market this kit and in 2015 we saw their effort become available. All versions have the same plastic in the box coming from the same moulds and it was really only new decals and box art that distinguished between them.

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