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An Oops in my Airfix Kit Instructions

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Posted by Hutch6390 on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 10:53 AM

US Navy 262?  Now there's an interesting idea!

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

   

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Posted by Hoss WA on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 4:45 AM

That must have been quite a surprise. I wonder what somebody's 262 looks like with Wildcat stencils...

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Posted by Real G on Monday, February 7, 2022 9:26 PM

Hmmm... a dogfight double mixing Pacific War 1942 USN and 1944 ETO Luftwaffe?  Sounds like a Hollywood movie!

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Monday, February 7, 2022 8:45 PM

armornut

  Thats why they...not Airfix but others....put the disclaimer that " contents may not match box art."  Funny but you could have ended up with a 109 lol.

 

And all these years I always thought they were referring to it being unassembled and unpainted

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Posted by armornut on Monday, February 7, 2022 8:16 PM

  Thats why they...not Airfix but others....put the disclaimer that " contents may not match box art."  Funny but you could have ended up with a 109 lol.

we're modelers it's what we do

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Monday, February 7, 2022 8:14 PM

Might have been a double kit, and they forgot the 262 sprues and the other decal sheet and diagramBig Smile

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Posted by keavdog on Monday, February 7, 2022 7:54 PM

Funny!  The PDF instructions on Scalemates don't have that

https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/2/0/4/692204-58-instructions.pdf

Maybe your kit is a 262 in Wildcat camo - some real 1946 stuff Stick out tongue

 

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John

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An Oops in my Airfix Kit Instructions
Posted by PFJN2 on Monday, February 7, 2022 7:46 PM

Hi,

Today while shopping for supplies at Hobo Lobby I decided to through in an Airfix 1/72 FAF-4 Wildcat model, since it was only a few dollars (after discount).  When I got it home and began to look it over I saw that it looks to be a fairly nice kit and is apparently a relatively new tooling (2015).  I especially liked how in the instructions certain pieces are shaded in Red for emphasis.  One weird thing though that I noticed is that there was apparently an Ooops during the printing of my instructions, as the last page appears to show "Common Stencil Data for an Me-262A" instead of the alternate paint and decal guide for my F4F-4.

Somewhere I suspect that there is probably some other model buidler looking over his Me-262A kit wondering why the paint instructions make it look like  a USN figher off USS Enterprise in 1942 Indifferent

Pat

PS.  Here's an image, but itmight be kind ofhard to see.

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