DO WE NEED IT?! - BRAND NEW Airfix 1/72 Chinook Review
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- Airfix's latest release is their newly tooled for 2024 Boeing Chinook HC.1 in 1/72 scale. In this video we take a look at this BRAND NEW kit and compare it to Airfix's old one and answer the question, "Did we really need a new tooled Chinook?"
Airfix, like Revell re-boxed Italeri's 1995 tooled kit and I just happen to have one in the stash. So, let's have a look and answer that question.
Very good review. I also have the Italeri kit from 1995 and your comparison with the new Airfix offering was particularly interesting. I'd probably use the Aussie decals from the Italeri kit if I bought the Airfix version which looks very good.
Glad it was helpful! 😀👍🏻
After many years serving on the Chinook fleet in the RAF I think I know every inch of them, from the MK1-Mk-3, and I received my Airfix kit this morning, and tbh I am not disappointed with what has been achieved to update the kit but I’m slightly disappointed with what has not been included, I will be feeding my thoughts back to Airfix about it but in general it is some really minor bits that could have easily been overlooked by the design team, for instance the maintenance panel in the Aft Starboard side has little detail to the panel itself with no gauges and no handle for the ramp control or the hydraulic hand pump necessary to start the APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) that then allows the main ECUs (Engines) to be started, the seats 💺 don’t have any seat belts and I have not seen any yaw pedals in my look over the instructions.
Looking at the Italeri kit the recessed panel lines are far to deep that it’s almost a chasm you could climb into, and both kits undercarriage detail could have been very much better.
On a personal note, and this is something that really annoys me with some model makers, but the Cockpit controls are NOT joy sticks, that is between your legs, on helicopters you have the “cyclic stick” that controls the aircraft’s pitch and roll and thrust (or a combination of those three) the Collective lever controls accent and decent and again has a bearing on thrust, and yaw pedals that control the yaw or direction the nose points in, on fixed wing aircraft it is either a control column or yoke that controls all flight axis except yaw and that is done via a set of rudder pedals and obviously speed is controlled by throttle levers, please pleas please do NOT call it a “joystick anymore, not only is it incorrect but it is something most people have picked up from films, mostly WWII with the stereotypical RAF Pilot with his white silk scarf that handlebar moustache, maybe a few pilots called it a joystick but an aircraft engineer would never call it a joystick, that’s if they were properly “educated” by their instructor (s).
Thanks for getting your review online so quickly and I appreciate your thoughts on this kit.
Sorry, just a small point, the “conical filters” (Scheme A) are called “debris screens” and the “dust filters” (Scheme B) are called EAPS modules (Engine Air Particle Separators) but that might confuse some so “conical filters and dust filters” is probably more appropriate for ease of understanding.
Just a suggestion for anyone doing the Bravo November scheme, you could leave the port cockpit door off, it was somehow lost during the campaign and flew without the door until the end of the campaign when a door was “liberated” from a captured Argentinian 🇦🇷 Chinook, and if memory serves a bit of plastic was taped to the door frame to stop water getting in, can’t remember if it flew with the plastic in place, but whatever the case it would have been very very noisy and windy in the cockpit, luckily (as with most helicopters) the aircraft captain sits in the right hand seat so it would not have affected him as badly as the co-Pilot/Navigator.
And finally, when Bravo November came home (or maybe before) there was a brass plaque placed on the centre console with an inscription on it (sorry can’t remember exactly what it said) and it stayed there for as long as I can remember but I would imagine that Bravo November is out of service (if it isn’t I would be very very surprised) and displayed in one of the Imperial War Museum sites, probably the RAF Museum just outside north London, not far from her base at RAF Odiham where I served on 18 Squadron until I demobed in 2003.
Per Ardua Ad Astra, Lest We Forget I salute all those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war to liberate the Falkland Islands Citizens. RIP Pete Whitwell, I didn’t know you for long but you were a true friend and brilliant “Rigger”.
Sorry ………again, personally I think the kit is worth the price, a little more detail hear and there would have been nice but for anyone without the same personal experience on the “Mighty Wokka” as myself it would not influence their build experience.
Thanks so much for your feedback. Great to get the insight from someone who has worked so closely with Chinooks! Brilliant tip on the door. Not only a great way to see more of the inside detail but accurate too! Apologies on the 'joystick' reference. I've had a helicopter flying lesson in the past so knew it was wrong but in my haste to get the video out I went for the commonly known, albeit incorrect, terminology.
I was trying to convert my old Matchbox Shithook into an Afghanistan veteran RCAF bird (we bought used USAF birds in-theater!) with the sand filters. There used to be a resin set of filters, they are OOP. I may have to buy this one JUST to get those...