I reckon I built one with those moulds back in about 1990. Those parts and colour looked super familiar! I was always slightly disappointed in the swing wing mechanism meant the wing position was a little asynchronous when swept
Its been a year! Please build it, my inner nostalgic kid is waiting for it since I watched this video last year. Its my only hope, I cant find the kit anywehere near my place (south america). Cheers! Great work by the way!
Awesome! we used to get RAAF F111's at Kiwi airshows... 2 F111's have crashed here in flight ops with no loss of life.. cool plane.. thanks from NZ ✈️🇳🇿
Gee, I got that kit when the RAAF got the F-111Cs here in Australia. It was a good build, as I remember. I was a lot younger then. takes me back. Cheers, Bill
It's actually a reasonably accurate representation of the old Aardvaark, and the enjoyment you get from a kit is the whole reason we pursue this hobby, so glad you remember it fondly :-D
Not a bad kit, but there is glaring (but easily fixed) error. On the "E" model the rear main landing gear door behind the Main landing gear truck is NOT supposed to be parallel with the body. It was actually attached to and swung down from the body, perpendicular to the body, behind the main landing gear truck.
I built this one back in 1971 or 72, and enjoyed it tremendously. Of course, given what we know toaday, the modern methods we use and how accustomed we are to modern kits, this most likely would give young new modellers all kinds of horrors! But I would love to build one again, if I could lay my hands on one!
You're right Paul (though "improvement might be stretching it a bit!), the original kit was of the F-111A in 1967, this "E" model added some new parts in 1976, but the base kit is the original tooling.
This is not an old Kit , I did. buy one Last week . The plastic was babyblue , and the Box Illustration was from Roy Cross Greetings from Germany Edward
@@MannsModelMoments You know that. And I know that. But I think he was referring to when it was actually molded. It was molded relatively recent and reboxed, as you pointed out. But was molded using the old tooling.. and that is what makes it "old" he just didn't understand that.
I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford in the USAF from 1976 to 1978. This is a bit of a blast from the past for me....thx
Thanks for the comment - I will be returning to this kit soon in an upcoming video
The F111 also was in Lakenheath , 1986 the Bengasi , Tripolis Raid was flown from this Two Airbases Greetings Edward
Deja vu! I assembled that kit in the mid-eighties!
I reckon I built one with those moulds back in about 1990. Those parts and colour looked super familiar! I was always slightly disappointed in the swing wing mechanism meant the wing position was a little asynchronous when swept
Its been a year! Please build it, my inner nostalgic kid is waiting for it since I watched this video last year. Its my only hope, I cant find the kit anywehere near my place (south america).
Cheers! Great work by the way!
I was thinking of returning to this project just the other day with the XB-70 SEA scheme
@@MannsModelMoments I'll be waiting for the next video!
Awesome! we used to get RAAF F111's at Kiwi airshows... 2 F111's have crashed here in flight ops with no loss of life.. cool plane.. thanks from NZ ✈️🇳🇿
Gee, I got that kit when the RAAF got the F-111Cs here in Australia. It was a good build, as I remember. I was a lot younger then. takes me back. Cheers, Bill
It's actually a reasonably accurate representation of the old Aardvaark, and the enjoyment you get from a kit is the whole reason we pursue this hobby, so glad you remember it fondly :-D
Not a bad kit, but there is glaring (but easily fixed) error. On the "E" model the rear main landing gear door behind the Main landing gear truck is NOT supposed to be parallel with the body. It was actually attached to and swung down from the body, perpendicular to the body, behind the main landing gear truck.
I built this one back in 1971 or 72, and enjoyed it tremendously. Of course, given what we know toaday, the modern methods we use and how accustomed we are to modern kits, this most likely would give young new modellers all kinds of horrors! But I would love to build one again, if I could lay my hands on one!
I'm still working on this one...it's certainly a challenge but a classic!
Also built this back in the day! I remember it was an improvement on the earlier Airfix F-111 (possibly based on prototype?)
You're right Paul (though "improvement might be stretching it a bit!), the original kit was of the F-111A in 1967, this "E" model added some new parts in 1976, but the base kit is the original tooling.
Yes, the prototype. One can tell by the rear Main landing gear door. Its positioned incorrectly on this kit for an E.
This is not an old Kit , I did. buy one Last week . The plastic was babyblue , and the Box Illustration was from Roy Cross Greetings from Germany Edward
Yes it is an old kit, I don't know why you would say it isn't just because you can buy one today doesn't magically make all other castings of it new!
IT IS an OLD kit. It just was reboxed and remolded in different color plastic but SAME OLD tooling.
@@MannsModelMoments You know that. And I know that. But I think he was referring to when it was actually molded. It was molded relatively recent and reboxed, as you pointed out. But was molded using the old tooling.. and that is what makes it "old" he just didn't understand that.