About this episode
Our blog title for this week was intentionally selected to possess a little more intrigue than usual, as we want to do something a little different with this latest edition. As far as we know, there’s never actually been an ‘Avro Week’ commemoration event, and certainly never here on the Workbench blog, but as we find ourselves on the cusp of the scale modelling world’s annual ‘gathering’ at Telford’s International Centre, we wanted to take a little break from featuring new tooling projects and secret additions to the current Airfix range. Instead, we wanted to place the blog spotlight on a selection of (relatively) recent model kit releases, all of which are currently in stock and available for modelling project duty right now. Interestingly, the three kits we have selected chart 20 years of aircraft design development at one of the most famous company’s in British aviation history, a name which became synonymous with powerful bomber types, but can trace its origins back to the early years of the 20th century. We will be seeing how 20 years can seem like a lifetime in the world of aviation, and whilst all three aircraft were groundbreaking in their own right at the time of their maiden flights, how they could hardly be more different from each other, when it came to both their appearance, and their capabilities. You will probably be able to guess which aircraft types we’re going to be featuring, but you can be absolutely certain that the Airfix range has beautifully crafted scale kit representations of each one, albethey in different scales, to allow our model display cabinets to feature our own appealing tributes to each one of them. When it comes to Avro aircraft types, the current Airfix range certainly helps scale Avro aviators to gain their hobby wings. As we push the virtual hangar doors back on this latest edition of Workbench, which of this trio of Avro classics will be making its way to the blog taxiway first?