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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: Jicehem on January 16, 2012, 11:11:11 PM

Title: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Jicehem on January 16, 2012, 11:11:11 PM: Hi everybody, :-salut :-salut

Here is surely a "Museum kit" from Airfix. This kit was issued for the first time in... 1957 ! It was continually on the shelves from 1957 to 1976, then from 1998 to 2002 and finally from 2010 to today...
Mine has been built in 1977 for my daughter who wanted to get a red airplane.
You see just below the illustration from 1976 (To be noted is the price at 4,20 FF equivalent of today 2,30 Euros. The kit is sold this year at the price of £ 5.39 in GB (about 6,80 Euros...) :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/img_0218.jpg)

Now, the kit which hast lost the propeller blades. The decals have yellowed...
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_0537.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_0538.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_0539.jpg)

(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/100_0540.jpg)

The reissue of 2010 with a new illustration indicating a change for this kit, but as you will see this is the only improvement :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/img_0219.jpg)

Look at the pilots : a typical representation of the 1950s :
(http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/10/07/63/16/img_0220.jpg)

Cheers,
Jicéhem :-wave :-wave
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: No.1 on January 16, 2012, 11:14:08 PM: Very nice shaped machine :-ok I am not very informed but this type can be seen as all red, green and black?
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Jicehem on January 16, 2012, 11:42:47 PM: Quote from: No.1 on January 16, 2012, 11:14:08 PM
Very nice shaped machine :-ok I am not very informed but this type can be seen as all red, green and black?

Yes, mate, you're right.

Jicehem
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: No.1 on January 16, 2012, 11:50:27 PM: Your red one look great and hope daughter is impressed too! Are you going to make any else samples?
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Jicehem on January 17, 2012, 12:12:56 AM: Quote from: No.1 on January 16, 2012, 11:50:27 PM
Your red one look great and hope daughter is impressed too! Are you going to make any else samples?

No, not in the next future. My daughter (now aged 41) doesn't want to keep her kit. It's the reason why it's at home...
I've too many kits to finish and I work so slowly. Tuesday, if the weather permits (sun !) I'll take pictures of my complete F-100A but still without markings.

Jicehem
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Sall on January 17, 2012, 01:01:50 AM: Huh,nice little plane Jicehem! Very good job by your daughter! :-clap :-clap
How you mean complete F-100A,but without markings? :-think Will you add them later? :-think
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Jicehem on January 17, 2012, 08:21:36 AM: Quote from: Sall on January 17, 2012, 01:01:50 AM
How you mean complete F-100A,but without markings? :-think Will you add them later? :-think

Hi Sall, :-salut :-salut

Yes, of course.

Jicehem :-wave :-wave
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Sall on January 17, 2012, 10:09:39 AM: All right mate! ;) :-flo
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: jonbius on January 18, 2012, 05:29:56 PM: That is such a cool looking airplane. I've always wanted to do one of those, but give it markings like it was from the computer game "Crimson Skies". Make it sort of a "pirate fighter plane" like the game had.
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: draken35 on January 19, 2012, 08:34:17 PM: :-ok
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Nico Braas on January 19, 2012, 11:07:01 PM: Comet racer had interesting scheme when R.A.F. evaluated this machine in 1936 at Martlesham Heath!
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: No.1 on January 19, 2012, 11:12:50 PM: This one is great subject!!!
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Second Air Force on January 20, 2012, 04:09:30 PM: De Havilland designed some of the nicest shaped airplanes, didn't they!? Like many of the Italian designs this looks fast just sitting on the ground.
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Nico Braas on January 20, 2012, 05:13:28 PM: I fully agree De Havillland built some very nice looking machines!
This is another example: the DH-91 Albatros.
About time that a nice model kit of this type will be released; would be a good effort for Airfix!!
Title: Re: De Havilland DH 88 Comet Racer
Post by: Second Air Force on January 20, 2012, 05:20:24 PM: I was thinking of the DH-91 when I was typing my post, Nico. That was just a brillaint design in my opinion. I wonder sometimes if the designers at Lockheed didn't use the Albatros as their starting point when the Constellation was designed.