Free Download Alert 03NOV25

[Jean]

Hello Boxsters,

Boxart denizen, Chuck D, has been busy of late scanning his stash of UK made Inpact kits.

These kits were all released in the mid to late 1960s.

Their full line consisted of 10 kits.

6 of them were from the Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines movie.

The remain 4 were all 1930s, British biplane fighters.

The kites were all 1/48 scale and generally well received by the modeling community.

Around 1970, Inpact closed their doors and the molds were acquired by Pyro, soon afterward, by Life Like.

After Life Like went out of business, Lindberg gathered them up, and they are currently in the Round 2 lineup.

The Fairey Flycatcher first flew in 1922 and was one of the UKs first carrier based aircraft.

The total production was 196 planes, and they served the Fleet Air Arm from 1923 until 1934.

I gathered a handful of images for your enjoyment.

All the images are 1280 pixels.

Get them at https://www.boxartden.com/FD/

Jean

[jaime hudson]

Good one, Jean.
I'd heard of this aircraft but had not ever seen this kit before.
Wonderful images you selected. Love carrier planes. One uncle
was an A/C crew chief on several Navy carriers over his lifetime career.
Will share these pics with him soon.
Thanks!
Jaime 'Jim' Hudson
'Keep 'Em Flying!

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[dgoessling]

Those Inpact kits were/are great. Very accurate for their time. I think some had cockpit detail? Very unusual back then.

I remember building the Gloster Gladiator in the 60s. I used aluminum foil for the shiny engine-area panels, and I rigged it with silver thread. 

The "Magnificent Men" aircraft were, and still are, very unusual subjects. 

I can only think of a few currently available models of >any< pre-WWI aircraft, or really any non-military aircraft from even the between-the-wars era. 

Williams Bros. and Hawk had a few, including some of the 30s racers like the GeeBee and record setters. Someone makes a 1/144 Gee Bee now - that is small!

 

Of course the old Monogram (now Revell boxing) Wright Flyer is still around: I'm sure they sell a lot of them at the Smithsonian gift shops. Also the 1/48 Glencoe (Hawk?) Spirit of St. Louis. You can still find the Airfix (or was it Frog?) 1/72 Spirit of St. Louis and a few odd British experimental aircraft of the 30s. But what else? No one cares about that period anymore I guess... 

Dave G.

[jaime hudson]

Dave G.,
Thanks for the input on those older aircraft and kits.
I built the old Hawk kit of the Spirit of St. Louis.
Such wonderful box art, as all Hawk kits had!
- Jaime

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