posted 11-19-2012 05:36 PM               

The kit is a re-release of the original Enterprise with 747 from the late 1970s with a new very nice decal sheet, it has been re-released previously in different guises.

The decal set is very comprehensive for both the Shuttle and 747 (N905), May 2012 and does include very small Silhouettes of carrier flights just above the blue passenger window line close to the forward passenger doors.

The kit builds into a very nice replica with a little bit of work, especially on the orbiter mounts.

If you wish to build the kit in the original modified American Airline livery, which I still particularly like, decals are available.

posted 12-07-2012 11:23 AM            

You can order it now from the Revell Store Online (Revell Germany - Space Sci/Fi), but they do not expect to have it in stock until December 10. However for other sources, Revell indicated it "should be shipped to the distributors by the last day of the month." So if you are hoping to get it at a discount from a hobby store (online or walkup), Santa may be a little late. Keep checking your favorite hobby source in case they surprise us and it shows up sooner.

About the decals — as has been indicated, Revell confirmed that the kit will only have decals for Discovery. I was really hoping the delay in the kit's arrival in the US (it was originally supposed to arrive in October) might be because they were reprinting the decals after all the coverage Endeavour got, but, sadly, that was not the case. So if you are planning to make the orbiter into one of the other shuttles, you might want to order decals from RealSpace now, before the kit is released and their stock sells out (although I would imaging they can reprint them easily enough). You might also check eBay -- unfortunately, eBay seems to be down as I type this. If worst comes to worst, there's also the option of printing your own decals. Google turned up lots of stuff on how to do that. I understand NASA used the font Helvetica for the names printed on the sides of the orbiters, although I don't know what font size you would use for 1/144 scale -- you might have to measure it from the size of "Discovery" in the Revell decals.

By the way, if you look at the space kits available from Revell of Germany, you'll notice 04842 "SpaceShip Two and Carrier White Kngh" shows in red as "Discontinued." I was told that, in fact, they expect to ship that in April, 2013 (which I take to mean possibly during the summer). But it has NOT been discontinued.