Airfix Moskva Box Open and Dry Fit - Finding Airfix Rare Kits
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2023
- I crack open a 30 year old Airfix boxing of a 50 year old moulding of the Russian Helicopter Carrier Moskva from the 1960's. The kit is in surprisingly good condition, almost like new and I enjoy sharing the parts, instructions, a dry fit, plus a few jokes about the ship with you.
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It's Santa! And he knows just who's been nautical and nice!
That s very true….
I remember someone building the Moskva and going ham on it. He really made that kit into something, same with the Tiger.
I'm trying to find the build logs, if I find them I'll pos them here, because it really is something to behold.
The kit does lend it self to being super detailed… I will add a little PE but won’t go crazy… just enjoy the nostalgia of the build out of the box as much as possible.
I had and built this kit way back in the day. I was only maybe 10 to perhaps 12 years old (can't remember _exactly_ when I had it, but we're talking mid-1970's?), but it built up quite nicely. The biggest headache was that the sort of "rim" from the hull sides that meets around the back of the flight-deck was particularly badly fitting, but other than that my (admittedly vague) memory says it was quite a nice kit.....? Enjoy building it.
Yes mine had warping on the art section too.
@@HarryHoudiniModelsawesome video cpt Harry.👍👍
Cheers Harry. I for one would like to see the Moskva glued and painted.
Let's hope you can get it done sometime soon.
Bon Chance.
I will see if I can work it into my Battleship list for 2024
Remember having this for Christmas one year,probably around 1975. The helicopters on it are Kamov KA-25s.
This would make a great Airfix vintage classic re-release.
Great video 👍
Thanks for identifying the whirly birds John
I remember when this first appeared in the catalogue and thought “wow! Must have one!”. Never did, though. 😁
Well you can now enjoy the kit vicariously through me.
Had that back in the day when I was a pup, about 1975.
Good looking ship.
Just picked up the Airfix HMS Amazon.
The sprues are box like as well.
I had to look that ship up on scalemates.com
Back in the 60’s I remember the Devonshire being released but must have missed the 70’s new tool Amazon. Would be about the same period of Aifix kits as my Moskva.
I picked up this kit last year along with the WEM photo etch. Aurora in the States did this kit as well about the same time as Airfix (and around the same scale), and I built that one as a lad and enjoyed it quite a bit. The opening in the side of the hull is to load torpedoes, I believe, and the large "hatches" next to them are in front of the launchers themselves. The ship itself is intended to provide anti-submarine protection for a battle fleet. Looking forward to the return of Stingray.
Ah so that is what the hull side holes are for.. thanks John.
I love how they just made up the lower hull as they did not have any info on it back in the 1970's
You mean the part under the waterline, which they could not see in any photos of the ship?
Probably Airfix didn't like to send a frogman down after what happened to Commander Crabbe with the Ordzhonikidze.
Thanks Harry brings back memories so hard to find in England these are going for about 50 pounds over here
They have become scare these days
I thought you'd be doing a submarine for a bit there. But I must admit that Revell kit looks pretty good - very accurate!
Ha ha yes it is
Hi Harry that was the first kit me and my dad built in 1973
What a lovely memory Robert.. thanks for that
Blast, and I thought you showed us some beautiful waves from the sea, some wreckage from the Moskva, the waves can also be interesting.
I think we all waved goodbye to that ship!
I built that when I was a kid in the 1970s when i was between 10 and 12 or so. Definitely no warped plastic back then. I don't remember having any real problems building Airfix kits back then (except an HO scale Sherman, which became a gluey mess).
I expect the aerials in sep 11 are the guidance radars for the A2A missiles. Two launchers; two radar systems.
Well that makes more sense than my laser beam theory LOL
The side openings could be combination torpedo bays and accommodation access bays.
Thanks… sounds plausible
13-year-old me never even gave the Moskva a second look in the Airfix catalogue. Instead I pored over the Bismarck, Ark Royal, Hood, Vosper and E-boat. Now you’ve made me take a re-look Harry and I obviously missed out on something with this one. 🤔
I am so glad I finally found one… it was a missed gem from my youth.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Very happy for you Harry. It is nice isn’t when we get to revisit those kits from our past. 😀
Nice little kit.
Yes, I am surprised how much detail there is. Will be a fun ship to build, and a little outside the ships I usually build. So something new for me.
Ah; the very 600th kit (same '96 issue & everything) that I narrowly missed out on as a kid.
A bit like Airfix's kit of the Graf Spee, I've been meaning to nab one, and now have even more of a reason 🙂 .
That Airfix Graf Spee kit is hard to find these days… I ended up building the Trumpeter 1:350 instead and thoroughly enjoy the kit. Although if an Airfix 1:600 Garf Spee surface close by I would nab it in a heartbeat.
@HarryHoudiniModels Fair enough. In March I nearly bought the Vintage Classics re-issue of the Graf Spee while at MT Games in Weston-Super-Mare; unfortunately I only had enough money for one kit, and at least four 600th ships I didn't have to chose from 😅 .
(including HMS Fearless & HMS Devonshire)
Rather fittingly, my mother - who introduced me to the hobby & to 600th warships - was with me at the time, so I asked her to choose; the County class Destroyer won that test 😉 .
She passed away several months later (undiagnosed cancer), but that day in March was a positive note, and in a way has made me more determined to not just nab & build the Graf Spee, but also the various other 600th gems out there.
(thanks to mostly Japanese kit companies, there is, for instance, a full hull Yamato in 600th, as well as an Iowa class 🤔🙂)
I was hoping for the Russian Sean Connery figure peering from the bridge LOL.
Thanks for the review!
Send a single Ping Number One…
Definitely love to see this built Harry. I love those cold War ships.
On my list Paul
Cheers for the Review Harry.
Thanks Nick, my pleasure
Good review of another interesting old kit and I can vividly recall the joy a new kit gave to me. As a country boy I could see up close, things only seen in magazines or on the B/W telly. You mentioned battleships and I don’t know if you have ever watched anything from an older Canadian gentleman, Ron Calverley? He has just finished his 4th, the Iowa 1/200 and his approach is low key, very mellow and a bit like Bob Ross. 😊. Modeling and meditation, slows me down. Very different. Cheers, thanks mate
Yes that is what I love about the hobby… an escape, a time to slow down and just immerse yourself in the process.
This was a popular kit when I was at school. I made one in about 1974, and it's one of the very few ship kits I have ever made. I was fascinated by the weird double rotor Kamov 'Hormone' helicopters it carried. Much later, Airfix released a lovely 1/72 scale kit of one.
Heller making Airfix kits. The wilderness years. Crappy plastic. Bad decals. Sloppy packaging. (shudder). And they managed to lose/destroy a load of tooling, too.
Yes those days were a nightmare for the brand, so much damage and poor management. Thank goodness Airfix is back together in Blighty these days. Albeit with offshore plastic pressing. But you can’t have everything.
@@HarryHoudiniModels - One thing I really miss about old Airfix, is that beautiful white styrene they used. Slightly cheesy, it cut, and took scribing wonderfully. The new formula stuff is okay, but some kits have had styrene that was a bit too soapy and soft for my liking.
Hi Harry
Great kit of a not-so-usual BB's and AC's.
It has one major flaw though. One that you haven't touched on in your video - yet. Though I bet you'll discover it soon enough - especially once you start building it.
The propellers (and shafts) on the kit are ABSOLUTELY incorrect. They stick out to the sides of the ship at a weird and unnatural angle. If they were to be placed like they are on the kit, they should act like giant egg-beaters, churning the ocean into froth - but providing scant propulsive power.
The real Moskva had a graceful curved stern with the hull sweeping up in a beautiful curve, flattening up to the rounded transom; with the shafts and propellers tucked away UNDER the ship as proper screws are wont to do.
I have the drawings for that, but I cannot share them here.
it is a common flaw on the old Airfix ship kits. I usually make my own prop shafts from brass rod, glue them in at the correct angle, then fit modified bracketing and the screw props.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Its a little worse than that. You'll see what I mean when you build it. I'm looking forward to a complete surgery in this area
Definitely looking forward to seeing you put this together. Love the look of this kit
Thanks matey… I will try to squeeze it into my battleship schedule for 2024
Cool as always.
Thanks matey
Hi Harry you know I was after that kit well I finally got one from eBay so going to build it with my ageing father it was the first kit I built with my dad when he was younger now he is 82 some day soon I sit down with him and make it probably with out painting it because I don’t know if he is up to it love your videos 😀
Thanks Robert.. That is a lovely project to share with your father
Steps 11 & 12 are guidance radars (Head Light) for the SAM missile systems, the big radar is predictably called Top Sail in NATO parlance ;)
Well that makes more sense… thanks for the info
Captain Birdseye has been found!
Would you like a fish finger?
😂
I had this as a kid, but no clue what I thought of it.
I never did as a kid… but with older eyes I do like it now.
Nice kits (from Indonesia 🇮🇩)
Thank you
It's nice when you do find a rare gem of a kit now and again. I have some vinyl kits by Billiken that I've always wanted to build. Chief among them is a Bela Lugosi Dracula, I could have had him for £40 when new, but, I bugged the seller all day with questions beforehand and he told me he couldn't sell it to me! Big regret and I ended up paying a small fortune for the kit a few years ago, but, it was another 'When will you get another chance!?' thing. What prized kit has ended up costing you more than you ever bargained for?
The most expensive kit in my collection is the Fujimi 1:350 Fuso battleship. I had looked for years for an affordable one, even when I found one I could scrape the cash up for it cost an arm and leg to buy. Nevertheless I finally snaffled a kit. Cost me about 6 months of my usual budget for model kits, but who cares.
Helicopters are KA-25 "Hormones"
Thanks for the info… I’m not very clued up on egg beaters
During the period from about 1988 & 2006, Airfix & Heller were both owned by Humbrol of Humberside (Humbrol being short for *Humber Oil Company* 😉 ). Humbrol still did all their Paints & associated products in the UK, but as they already owned Heller when they bought Airfix from General Mills (aka, the Palitoy era) they opted to have all kit production moved to Trun in France.
(though it seems the Airfix range was still boxed up in the UK, and just the tooling for the plastic parts was at Trun)
Their redoing the Instructions in said era was rare, as - by contrast- the 600th Bismarck release at this time has a small slip of paper in the box, correcting the Paint codes needed 😆 .
(as the paint range had changed, and it was thought cheaper to add a correction slip to the box, than it would be to rework the instructions)
For me the Humbrol era was a fun one. They brought back the great boxart from before the early '80's, and while they didn't have much money for tooling new kits, some really notable ones such as the 1989 1/72 Buccaneer S.2B and the 2006 1/72 TSR-2 were thanks to them 😌👌 .
The most recent 600th moddl kit was also during said era (the QM2 kit), albeit for some reason it ended up part of the Heller range after Hornby divested the Frenchies as a going concern.
Yes I have done a whole video on the evolution of ownership of Airfix. What I wanted to know was if this kit had the awful Heller plastic from their aged decrepit moulding facility, but from examination it feels so much like 1970’s Airfix extruded styrene. Which pleased me immensely.
@HarryHoudiniModels Fair enough. I admit I've long been intrigued by Model Kit company histories, as both Airfix & Matchbox went through major changes while I was a kid (I recall for instance my 2nd uncle lamenting in about 1993 on how Matchbox [a fixture of his own childhood] had been going from one unfortunate ownership change & divestment to another since the early-'80's),
I'm not sure whether all the Airfix kits made at Trun had lesser quality plastic, but it's certainly possible, as Humbrol was not beyond cost saving measures, partially because the Trun factory proved a constant money pit that ultimately was a lead factor in the group going under in 2006 🙁 .
(something I'm going to look into though)
Ironically it was the main reason my stash got vastly bigger at the time, as it wasn't known for ages who'd bought the tooling, and whether some of it would end up being lost (as happened to a fair amount of Frog's back catalog after the USSR folded, and to Airfix's SS France in the '80's)
Harry please do build it
I will one day, maybe squeeze it in next year
How did they engineer this back in the day? Looks amazing!
I just found my first model ship on a second hand store, sealed in package the Revell 1:160 Paddlesteamer / Rheindampfer 'Goethe'. Can't wait to build it!
Back then they made a real model from scratch, then created the moulds from it. No CAD just skilled craftsmanship.
It definitely does not look like a lot of Bolshoi comrade. Not my cup of tea but a very good review Harry. All the best.
большое спасибо Bren
Not Огромный either!
Well, since it's Moskva that is in question, anything involving 'drying' to be had is not an easy task...
Ha ha ha ha… yes very true hehe
The Slava Class Moskva did not sink, it is conducting a Special Military Operation at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Of course comrade…. hehe
don't FARK with Moscow Harry you may find your way down with Davy Jones
I will just give them a dark sea wave and sink away out of reach hehe
Harry, are the retro reissues of the 1:600/1:700 Airfix ships worth picking up, or are they too far gone? Thinking of doing a Hood or a Belfast.
Some are, some are just badly worn out flashy blobby monsters. Still buildable for nostalgia sake, but honestly, there are much better moulded and detailed kits for similar money from Asian manufacturers these days.
I do have the Golden Hind 1:72 re-issue and may make a video about that one. But like most sailing ship kits the moulds were not worn to death over the years. Much lower production numbers than the popular Hood and Bismarck kits.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Cheers Cobber.
Harry, it was a "assault ship" as we knew it in the 70's.
Good to know, as it was an ambiguous class at the time.
As far as Iam aware, the Uk version of this could be HMS Fearless although I might stand to be corrected and, I am not an expert on the subject.@@HarryHoudiniModels
Can you build a wood kit?
Bit off topic, but yes I have built many wooden models in the last half century. I have a whole series of videos on RUclips showing my Hull Planking of the Constructo 1:48 Bounty. During the end of year break I intend to complete the upper deck fittings.
ruclips.net/p/PLNv64WC6ItdwkGbbJfcaQmUZJHQRLkXXZ
Does it come with 2 Neptune anti-ship missiles? 🇺🇦😂
I think the Revell kit did… snigger, snigger.
Does the kit come with the more recent submarine modification?
Only in the Revell version shown at the start of the video… different ship matey
I didn't know you liked submarines.
I have been known to go down from time to time…
Yeah russian moskva build in Mykalaev Ukraine and in soviet union)
Thanks for the info