Revell Magic Flight?

StephenLawson · 5 January 2006, 01:54 PM

Can anyone tell me what that is all about?

ChrisSavaglio · 5 January 2006, 01:58 PM

http://www.revell.de/typo3/en/compan...d_brands/?&L=1

The model's held aloft by 2 magnets repelling each other and stabilized by 2 almost invisible threads.

According to the above site.

Chris

Ross_Moorhouse · 5 January 2006, 02:44 PM

They are not cheap either. They are in 72nd scale.

Kitboy · 6 January 2006, 12:40 AM

I have heard they don't always work. The Dr1. Magic Flight contains the old kit.

Greetings, Nico Teunissen

Bruno Stachel · 6 January 2006, 11:20 AM

I saw two completed examples at a local toy store. A DR1 and a Spitfire (I believe). Very interesting to behold. Could be bashed into an interesting diorama I think. I couldn't quite get myself to crack open my wallet for one though. My memory is sketchy on the price; but I believe thy cost around $45.00 each.

Epee · 6 January 2006, 12:15 PM

I've seen a small, desktop sized, globe suspended with magnets in this way. It falls very easily if bumped and is the devil to put back in place. The "sweet spot" between falling and getting stuck to the magnet is very small.

StephenLawson · 6 January 2006, 12:50 PM

Thanks gents;

I have been offered a commission to build one (the Dr.I.) The illusion of flight what would, Orville or Wilbur say?

ChrisSavaglio · 6 January 2006, 05:23 PM

It's gimicky kind of stuff. Most longtime/hardcore modeler's don't go for that kind of stuff, but, hey, if that's what your customer wants, it's his dime.

Chris

StephenLawson · 7 January 2006, 01:34 AM

Actually, he's offered me a box of older unbuilt kits (1/72 & 1/48.) I'll take the DML Fok. D.VII kits and Eduard Nieuport 17 -21 types for the inprogress dioramas. The rest will probably go on my website for sale.

"...I’ve got a 2’ X 2’ X 6” box of 1/72nd (Airfix mostly), 1/28th (Revell mostly) and one or two 1/48th (a few foreign manufacturers, DML Fok. D.VII kits and Eduard Nieuport 17 -21 types ) scale kits for you. They were from a friend of mine who needed to decrease his stock. I need to pack the Magic Flight Dr.I and a set of instructions with them before I box it up and send it your way..." Cheers.

StephenLawson · 18 February 2006, 08:46 PM

Well it is here and I have started to work on it. I decided to crack open my old files on the 1/72 kits I used to do. (They are at the bottom of my sub-basement so far back I had to wade through two feet of water for 22 feet and pry open the very last vault door in my archive. (colourful exaggeration)

This was examined against the old Aeromodeller drawings. This study should be credited to Mr. C. Lamar Kemp of Tx.