Airfix- Workbench | British Army Cold War equipment trio a diorama creator’s delight
Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We have something very different to the norm in this latest edition of Workbench, as we will be featuring no fewer than THREE impending model kit release additions to the current range this time around, with this trio of models all linked by both scale and subject matter. In fact, each of the models featured will be of great interest to those readers with a passion for creating engaging diorama scenes, particularly those with a leaning towards British Army operations during the post war/Cold War era. With their rugged, go-anywhere, no-nonsense reputation, several variant incarnations of the classic Land Rover design have seen extensive British Military service over the years, with many thousands of these fantastic vehicles going on to wear the military colours of Britain’s armed forces. In addition to featuring our scale tributes to this magnificent series of support vehicles, our third subject is a lightweight, modern field gun system which was designed to provide British forces with a highly mobile field artillery piece, one which was effective enough to bring down meaningful suppressing fire against enemy positions quickly, but also to be light enough to be transported either by helicopter, or towed by 1 tonne Land Rover vehicles. We’re all on rapid deployment duties with the scale modelling version of the British Army, in this latest edition of your weekly Workbench blog.
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Airfix | Workbench- SLS Artemis – An Airfix design project that’s out of this world
Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix.We’re excited to be back in the fascinating territory of new kit additions to the current Airfix range in this latest edition of Workbench, or to be precise, the actual design of them, as we bring you details of a project which is literally ‘Out of this World!’ In this latest designer interview edition, we will be featuring the new SLS Artemis kit in 1/144th scale, our latest space exploration related kit addition to the range, and our scale tribute to NASA’s current high-tech Space Launch System.When you need a designer of some industry standing to cope with demanding situations such as these, we’re lucky to have just the man for the job, and you’ll be pleased to hear that Workbench regular Paramjit Sembhi will be in our hotseat again this time around, as we review what must have been quite the significant design challenge for him. Just as was the case with Ethan Barker over the previous two weeks and the Westland Wessex being his first helicopter design project, so SLS Artemis was Paramjit’s first foray into the world of spacecraft kit design, and that being the case, we had plenty of poignant questions lined up to ask him. As you would expect, we also requested a selection of supporting imagery to illustrate some of the points covered, and Paramjit didn’t let us down – we’re all in for a real design treat.We continue exploring the latest kit additions to the current Airfix range, as we go interstellar in this latest edition of Workbench.
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Airfix- Workbench | Westland Wessex. One of the world’s truly great helicopters
Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Following on from our Designer Interview edition, which was posted last weekend, we once again return to the subject of new 2025 tooling additions to the Airfix range in this latest edition of Workbench, and the hugely impressive Westland Wessex in 1/72nd scale. Having been allowed a fascinating insight into the design world of talented Product Designer Ethan Barker in our previous edition, we return to the subject of his latest impending new project addition to the Airfix kit range in this follow on feature, as we move from his computer screen to the wider modelling world and modeller workstations everywhere. This latest update will see us taking a more detailed look at the work done in support of his design efforts, as we feature box artwork, scheme details and include images of built models finished using the final test frames from this impressive new tooling.
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Airfix - Workbench | A Westland Wessex sized challenge for Airfix designer
Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix.We’re delighted to be in a position to confirm that for the next two editions of Workbench, the focus of our attentions will to be exclusively related to one of the headline new tooling announcements made to the current 2025 range, as we take this opportunity to introduce you to our new Westland Wessex kit in 1/72nd scale. In this first blog, we will be spending some time with the talented product designer who brought us this fabulous kit, and as this was his first helicopter design project, you can be sure we have much to ask him.Not only will we be bringing you details of how the design phase of the new Wessex kit was successfully negotiated, but we will also be sharing an impressive selection of exclusive CAD screenshots with you, as we guide you through some of the design nuances of this impressive helicopter addition to the Airfix range.It’s time for lift off with our fortnight of impending Westland Wessex kit new model tooling introductions.
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Airfix- Workbench | The most famous Luftwaffe aircraft of them all?
Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix.In this edition of Workbench, we will be looking at our latest scale model kit tribute to an aircraft which has to be considered one of the most notorious of the entire Second World War, one which became synonymous with the destructive intentions of the all-conquering Luftwaffe, the Heinkel He-III bomber. Unquestionably one of the most distinctive aircraft of WWII, the Heinkel He-III was one of several inter-war aviation projects which started development as a fast, modern civilian transport aircraft, only to later reveal its true intentions as a strike bomber. Produced in large quantities, wherever the Luftwaffe were operating, so you would expect to see the sky full of Heinkels.As we prepare to welcome the H-6 torpedo attack variant of this aircraft to the current Airfix range, we will be spending this edition looking at how this famous aircraft was able to adapt to take on a great many operational roles, and become the Luftwaffe’s main attack bomber for the duration of the Second World War.In other news, can you believe that this summer marks the 10th Anniversary of our Workbench blog? That being the case, and with this clearly being an opportunity to celebrate, we will be announcing our ‘Workbench Aluminium Anniversary Competition’ shortly, with an impressive Airfix prize haul awaiting our lucky winner, something no self-respecting Workbench reader will want to miss.We had hoped to launch our competition this week, however, the technology gods have not been on our side, so it’s going to be something to look out for in next week’s edition, so this is just our way of putting everyone under starter’s orders.On to matters pressing, and we have a classic WWII Luftwaffe kit addition to the 2025 range firmly in our sights in this latest edition of your weekly Workbench blog.
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