AIRFIX MARY ROSE

Hi Noel - and best wishes for the season to you and your family!

The Airfix website now has a page of 2014 releases ( http://www.airfix.com/shop/new-for-2014/ ).  There are three "new" ships: reissues of the grand old 1/600 Mauritania and Queen Elizabeth, and a 1/400 "Mary Rose Starter Set." 

Looks like a product aimed primarily at kids - and the patrons of the gift shop at the Mary Rose.  Maybe, though, Airfix is testing the waters, and maybe it's thinking about getting back into the sailing ship world.  We can at least hope.

Airplane enthusiasts will be happier:  there's a spectacular-looking 1/24 Typhoon.

I used to really like the Airfix and Heller 1:600 kits!  I wish they would re-release some of those with PE shroud/ratlines.  Ratlines are sure tough in 1:600.   You could display a whole fleet in a reasonable area.

I suppose it's too much to ask that this Mary Rose would be the WWI British destroyer?  I have a resin kit of that ship in 1/700 and it is cute.

However, I suppose you all are discussing the carrack from 1509 that is preserved.  Right in keeping with the recent trend of cogs and things, isn't it?  But, kinda small...