Reply to: Your first Airfix Kit...?

[wobbegong]

I think the term is called dioramas; the attention to detail on some of them beggers belief!

qh

Yeah, I was thinking more of the resin and punched brass interior detail packs that are available, as well as sheets of alternative decals.

[quackhandle]

Kits and the aftermarket accessories have come on a bit since ah were a lad!

I think the term is called dioramas; the attention to detail on some of them beggers belief!

qh

[OwlHoot]

I used to find the fiddly ones, like battleships, the best.

The trouble with many aircraft was that apart from the fusilage and wings there didn't seem that much detail to add.

[Cliphead]

I got a present of an Airfix Avro Lancaster when I was very young and thought it was broken opening the box and seeing all the parts. Next morning it was finished and waiting for me my mother having glued it all together and my father painting it.

I made dozens over the years but always aircraft the Spitfire being my favourite. The last one I built was the 1/24 Ju87B-2 Stuka which was fiddly and took a long time.

[SneakySimon]

Craic

Mig 15. I must have been about 6 or 7. We had a habit of setting fire to them or blowing them up with bangers.

Typical Irish!!

[Paddy]

Mig 15. I must have been about 6 or 7. We had a habit of setting fire to them or blowing them up with bangers.

[NickFitz]

I have a son on the way - popped into a model shop and happily relived my youth, almost bought a radio controlled plane until wife made me see sense!!

Never mind planes, you need one of these: Air Swimmer Shark

[SneakySimon]

Airfix

My first one was a spitfire but every Airfix model I made always looked crap or I would miss a crucial part.

If a miracle occured and the plane finished, glued together in one piece, then I would paint it. Badly. And place the stickers on. Badly.

Suffice to say, my planes always looked like they had crash landed!!

I have a son on the way - popped into a model shop and happily relived my youth, almost bought a radio controlled plane until wife made me see sense!!

[Mich the Tester]

I see Airfix will give you this for £20

or something more interesting with a tad higher price (eeeh we didn't have them when I was a nipper)

I seem to remember the lunes from Top Gear building a miniature jet engine and fixing it to the back of a bicycle, resulting in much merriment.

[Troll]

I see Airfix will give you this for £20

or something more interesting with a tad higher price (eeeh we didn't have them when I was a nipper)

[RSoles]

It's why I never bought shares in Hornby; and seems to be backed up bt James May's Airfix program.
Not so many new kids making models, just old fekkers like me trying ( vainly) to relive their childhoods.

[wobbegong]

Kits and the aftermarket accessories have come on a bit since ah were a lad!

[Mich the Tester]

I think it was HMS Hood that got ripped apart and plasticine ballast inserted to try and make it stay upright in the bath.

I don't recall the exercise being entirely successful.

I, on ze uzzer hent, consider zis to be a resounding success! My finest moment.

Yours,

Gunther.

[Sysman]

One of the little ships in the plastic bags. Golden Hind I think, Cost 2/11 in Glasgow.
Really pissed off when I tried to sail it in the sink and it wouldn't stay upright.

I think it was HMS Hood that got ripped apart and plasticine ballast inserted to try and make it stay upright in the bath.

I don't recall the exercise being entirely successful.

[RSoles]

One of the little ships in the plastic bags. Golden Hind I think, Cost 2/11 in Glasgow.
Really pissed off when I tried to sail it in the sink and it wouldn't stay upright.