Airfix Bloodhound

There is a belief that the Airfix Bloodhound is molded in 1/76 scale. This thread was found on the Airfix Forum by fellow modeller Rob de Bie:

"Airfix's first military vehicle kit, the Bristol Bloodhound was also released in 1960 and was in 1/72 scale. The Type 2 bag this was first released in even had 1/72 scale on it. Measurements of the model also indicate that it is 1/72 scale. However, the next year, so as to be in scale with their figures, Airfix changed the scale of their military vehicles from 1/72 to 1/76. Airfix incorrectly relabelled the scale of the Bloodhound 1/76. Ironically, when Hornby corrected the scales for the Airfix military vehicles, they incorrectly labelled the Bloodhound as 1/76, when it should have stayed at 1/72."

For those of you that have a membership to the forum, the link is Airfix Bloodhound thread

Based on the post in the Arfix forum I decided to measure my Bloodhound using my dial calipers.

Measurements from Flight magazine, 6/Dec/1957 issue as found on the web lists the following for dimensional data for the Bloodhound Mk.I:

As you can see, my measurements show that the Airfix Bloodhound is extremely close to 1/72 scale and is definitely not a 1/76 scale kit as has been reported previously.