First placcy model
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Matchbox Hawker Hurricane when they were going through their green and brown plastic phase in the early 80s. Got more mileage out of that one model than most of me other stuff!
Dad once told me it was either the Hurricane or a McClaren!
*Considers at all the money, women and glamour around F1 drivers.....*
Bu**er!
BTW? Does anyone still build 'em? I haven't for years but I do recall Airfix on principle didn't include swastikas as part of their luftwaffe kits?
Dad once told me it was either the Hurricane or a McClaren!
*Considers at all the money, women and glamour around F1 drivers.....*
Bu**er!
BTW? Does anyone still build 'em? I haven't for years but I do recall Airfix on principle didn't include swastikas as part of their luftwaffe kits?
My first model, built mostly by my Dad with my 'help', was a Canadian Air Force Airfix F104 Starfighter. I seem to recall that the flag on the tail was the pre-Maple leaf version with a blue field with something or other on it and a Union Jack.
One summer, staying with my Gran for a few weeks, my uncle (who was only ten years older than me), made a balsa and tissue Douglas Skyraider powered by a Jetex engine. The first flight in Haqppy Valley was a failure resulting in irreparable damage to the centre section. I rescued the bits from the bin and replaced centre section with a solid block of balsa. Then re-attached Jetex using rubber band (!). Second flight was from Gran's council house driveway. Aircraft fell straight to ground, engine 'mounts' failed and Jetex flew over the hedge into allotments, lost forever.
My Airfix Hercules crashed and burned on a special forces mission somewhere behind enemy lines by the local brook. My dog wondered what the hell I was doing.
Dart engines from an Airfix F27 recovered to use as powerplants for self-designed, scratch-built mostly from balsa, commuter liner a bit like a Dash 8. I bet that would have gone some in real life!
How long did it take other readers to break the pitot tube on their Airfix F1A Lightning?
What fun....
One summer, staying with my Gran for a few weeks, my uncle (who was only ten years older than me), made a balsa and tissue Douglas Skyraider powered by a Jetex engine. The first flight in Haqppy Valley was a failure resulting in irreparable damage to the centre section. I rescued the bits from the bin and replaced centre section with a solid block of balsa. Then re-attached Jetex using rubber band (!). Second flight was from Gran's council house driveway. Aircraft fell straight to ground, engine 'mounts' failed and Jetex flew over the hedge into allotments, lost forever.
My Airfix Hercules crashed and burned on a special forces mission somewhere behind enemy lines by the local brook. My dog wondered what the hell I was doing.
Dart engines from an Airfix F27 recovered to use as powerplants for self-designed, scratch-built mostly from balsa, commuter liner a bit like a Dash 8. I bet that would have gone some in real life!
How long did it take other readers to break the pitot tube on their Airfix F1A Lightning?
What fun....
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Originally Posted by Navaleye
That puts the rat I shot at 30 yds from my bedroom window into perspective 
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Originally Posted by Dan Winterland
Airfix Avro504K - a bit ambitious with all those struts for a first attempt.
NA Super Sabre. Don't Know why I remember that one, But I remember playing with my brothers Frog model. It was in a box with a winding handle that charged the elastic band, the wings were detatchable and stowed in the box along side the fuselage, probably a Chipmunk.
Never flown a Chipmunk or a Sabre.
Shouldn't this thread be in AH&N???
Never flown a Chipmunk or a Sabre.
Shouldn't this thread be in AH&N???
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Spitfire was popular as it was one of the first Airfix did. Also did the Gladiator. Remember doing a Gannet - sod. Putting the fin strakes on was bloody hard, a tight fit and sharp as a razor; cut myself getting them on.
At least I knew it had two engines and contra rotating props whereas as the Shack had only one engine and contra rotators per pod unlike one senior officer who suggested extending the Shack range by shutting down the 'spare' engines just like the Gannet.
At least I knew it had two engines and contra rotating props whereas as the Shack had only one engine and contra rotators per pod unlike one senior officer who suggested extending the Shack range by shutting down the 'spare' engines just like the Gannet.
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A Sunderland, 1/72, built 1965. Moving 4 point bomb racks under each wing and remained plastic white, as the concept of actually finishing something with paint and transfers was not yet imbued.
Destroyed shortly after trying to escape my first floor bedroom on a length of fishing wire to a nearby satellite airfield, (tree) with a banger, (not a snorker) disguised as, with what I can now redeem myself with, a liferaft.
Those pre-global warming summers were great
Destroyed shortly after trying to escape my first floor bedroom on a length of fishing wire to a nearby satellite airfield, (tree) with a banger, (not a snorker) disguised as, with what I can now redeem myself with, a liferaft.
Those pre-global warming summers were great
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A SM79, the Italian transport (a bit like a Junkers tri motor). I dunno what brand it was but it was rubbish, the fusleage was warped so it never got any where near finished. I turned it into a shot down wreck, just like the one my grandad downed in his Fulmar.
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Those inflatable Spitfires look more like Focke Wolf 190's to my untrained eye.
On topic - A Gnat built and painted in 20 minutes in 1973, it looked horrible - and I got red paint on the carpet.
On topic - A Gnat built and painted in 20 minutes in 1973, it looked horrible - and I got red paint on the carpet.
I vaguely remeber it used to ba an (unofficial) requirement for the pilots of a certain twin engined single seat fighter with no autopilot (which needed the earth's curvature to gain some altitude) whilst on an operation from an airbase 50 miles from the Mediterranean to complete a palstic model in flight on the way to the AOR and back. Apparently, saliva was used for the decals!
c130techie yes it probably is a bit of a collectors item, good place to start looking for the value is on the dreaded ebay.
heres one wot i dun earlier
http://greengoscale.fotopic.net/p22414686.html
Started PPL and didnt finish, come to think of it I can think of a few models of mine like that too... does that count? Airguns fire and wire seem to feature strongly in my recollections too, as well as one or two bangers around fireworks night, (they used to make proper ones then), no-one else or just me with those?
My first one would have been an Airfix chippie I think, one day maybe I'll get a go in one!
heres one wot i dun earlier
http://greengoscale.fotopic.net/p22414686.html
Started PPL and didnt finish, come to think of it I can think of a few models of mine like that too... does that count? Airguns fire and wire seem to feature strongly in my recollections too, as well as one or two bangers around fireworks night, (they used to make proper ones then), no-one else or just me with those?
My first one would have been an Airfix chippie I think, one day maybe I'll get a go in one!
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BOB Kit
For his birthday (last New Year's Eve) I bought my lad the Airfix BOB kit of a Spitfire and Bf-110. We duly assembled them and painted them (he is 7 and struggled with the detail - so I bravely stepped in and completed the models). Both models were suspended from his bedroom ceiling and suffered a bit of damage (u/c separation, blade loss - usual placcy attrition...). We moved a month ago to a much larger property with a loft and dormer window. Last weekend I found remains of the Bf-110 in the garden. I looked cross and tears welled up in his eyes - and then I remembered that I had done exactly the same a number of decades ago although hankering for a nautical theme, USS Missouri was sent to Valhalla on a neighbour's fish pond.
Kids and their dads don't change, do they?
Kids and their dads don't change, do they?
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Re the inflatable Spitfires, the Germans would be within their rights to sell inflatable V-1s and V-2s, I reckon, especially as they will stuff us if we meet in the quarter-finals.
Back on thread, my first was a 1-72nd scale Hurricane IIc way back in 1958. I reckon that it was that model that sparked my RAF interest - along with my Dumpy Book of Aircraft and the Air. Flew a few fighters but never the Hurricane, sadly.
Back on thread, my first was a 1-72nd scale Hurricane IIc way back in 1958. I reckon that it was that model that sparked my RAF interest - along with my Dumpy Book of Aircraft and the Air. Flew a few fighters but never the Hurricane, sadly.