| Hiya again barry,
Yes this is a realease of the Heller mould so nothing new im afraid. However i stock the Heller Rapid- its a good kit, although the transfers let it down in my opinion. However the Airfix rep tells me that they are unhappy with the currant kits they stock and over the next year or so will be tooling up for some new kits!
Have you seen the "Robogear" sets, These are sci-fi wargaming sets produced by Airfix to combat the growing Games Workshop industry. Blatently this failed terribly, even the reps admit it. So from what i can gather they are re-aiming for the desired target audience!
Barry, Im sure you already know this but i will write it for the benifit of the others__
Heller & Airfix...a love affair
Heller, as from 18months time will no longer be tied in with Airfix. About 6 months ago Heller went through a mangement buy out and the company changed totally. The days of Anglo-French kit production is coming to and end.
Airfix's products are still made in the Heller factory in france and as you guys know many of the Heller moulds are in actual fact Airfix. This is not going to be the case for long however...
Heller have the "sweet" deal with Airfix for another 18months which includes the sharing of moulds and resources and the production of Airfix kits in the Heller factory. At the end of this iterim period Airfix will be forced to relocate all their tools and manufactuering so they will likelly contract this out to the chinesse market. They will need to keep a close eye on line quality here. Heller will split and start to produce their own kits indepandtly of Airifx. That said the chances of us seeing some old moulds crop up is very likelly......Frog anyone?
Already Airfix are tooling up new models to include a 1:48th Canbarra (thank god- if one more airshow goer asks for one of these im going to kill myself!) a Nimrod and the well known TSR.2 in 1:72nd. These are just the models Airfix has offically detailed, there are more in the pipeline.
Sorry about the terrible spelling...... |