I hope no one will mind my showing off the '60s plane kit which arrived this morning...
...if it's the new Encore Blue Max Pfalz!
Just couldn't resist it. My brother loves the film and when I've made it up this will be winging its way to him at some suitable festive point in the future.
I'm very impressed with this package, which even allows for it to be built authentic to the original novel, which interestingly had it as a sort of III/IIIa hybrid. But I can't imagine anyone will be building it as anything other than the movie version. Not when they've gone to the trouble of providing parts for the fake engine and all that awful 7-colour lozenge. The instructions and history are excellent.
And of course the figures. To be honest they don't really much resemble George Peppard or Ursula Andress, though some might say that with the way she's been sculpted, no one will be looking at her face
Definitely not suitably attired for a visit to a muddy aerodrome. But their poses are great and they'll add a lot of atmosphere to the scene. For me, the only big omission is a glowering James Mason!
Mark
