I remember as a small boy in the 1950s looking up longingly at the big board Woolworth's used to display all the made up and painted kits of Airfix's latest releases, then saving pocket money for WEEKS until I could buy one. Then the HOURS of sitting with my Dad while I carefully made and painted them. I can still VERY clearly remember WHERE I bought the Hurricane, the Stuka, the Wildcat better than I can remember WHERE I was ONE year ago🤣🤣🤣
These old Airfix kits still build up to a nice looking model if only a basic model. I have several of the new tooling kits and they are a quantum leap from these ones with details and cockpits that I could only dream about as a kid who grew up with the old kits. I never knew that the British fighters had a spade grip on the control column until I saw the Movie The Battle of Britain when I was 13 years old. Books were expensive and the internet wasn't a thing that was even in science fiction movies and Airfix kits certainly had no detail inside apart from the pilot and sometimes a seat if you were lucky. I've often thought about building an old Airfix kit but probably I'll stick to the new ones for now. I do have a couple of the Airfix Classics such as the Boomerang and Westland Whirlwind egg beater so I suppose that counts as the old kits.
Although the tool for the Westland still exists (and has been issued in the Vintage Classic range). It has been altered into a different Westland model. Thus, the original illustration can't be used.
I had most of them, these were pratically the only models on the market, at least in my country, never understood why did Airfix made a not so well known version of the Hurricane, instead of the most famous one from BoB !
@@t55a2 No, because otherwise they would've made the classical Typhoon 's version, instead they choose to make the early one, with bombs, not with rockets.
So many memories of gluey fingerprinted cockpit canopies and collapsed undercarriage because the glue hadn't set :-)
I remember as a small boy in the 1950s looking up longingly at the big board Woolworth's used to display all the made up and painted kits of Airfix's latest releases, then saving pocket money for WEEKS until I could buy one. Then the HOURS of sitting with my Dad while I carefully made and painted them. I can still VERY clearly remember WHERE I bought the Hurricane, the Stuka, the Wildcat better than I can remember WHERE I was ONE year ago🤣🤣🤣
These old Airfix kits still build up to a nice looking model if only a basic model. I have several of the new tooling kits and they are a quantum leap from these ones with details and cockpits that I could only dream about as a kid who grew up with the old kits. I never knew that the British fighters had a spade grip on the control column until I saw the Movie The Battle of Britain when I was 13 years old. Books were expensive and the internet wasn't a thing that was even in science fiction movies and Airfix kits certainly had no detail inside apart from the pilot and sometimes a seat if you were lucky. I've often thought about building an old Airfix kit but probably I'll stick to the new ones for now.
I do have a couple of the Airfix Classics such as the Boomerang and Westland Whirlwind egg beater so I suppose that counts as the old kits.
Brilliance...i wonder why airfix and others omitted the stand from aircraft kits ?
Nice to see the original illustration of the Westland helicopter and the finished model.
Although the tool for the Westland still exists (and has been issued in the Vintage Classic range). It has been altered into a different Westland model. Thus, the original illustration can't be used.
I had most of them, these were pratically the only models on the market, at least in my country, never understood why did Airfix made a not so well known version of the Hurricane, instead of the most famous one from BoB !
I know what you mean. Instead of a MkIa Spitfire. They made a MkIX. It wasn't until the 1970's that Airfix sorted it out.
Maybe the rockets made it easier to market to kids then?
@@t55a2 No, because otherwise they would've made the classical Typhoon 's version, instead they choose to make the early one, with bombs, not with rockets.
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