Review, build thread and finished article here, why is the serial special?

De Havilland Chipmunk T.10 (1:48 Heritage) - Ready for Inspection - Aircraft - Britmodeller.com

I'm pretty certain that my earliest aviation memory is seeing my brothers building the Airfix Saunders Roe SR53 and HP Halifax. Shortly after having learned that aircraft with two fins were bombers, I saw a Beverley from the back garden and dashed into the house, convinced that we were going to be bombed...

While I have the greatest respect for those with the patience to build such immaculate, detailed models as those posted earlier on this thread, in my dayif it wasn't assembled, painted, transfers stuck on, played with and broken by lunchtime, it wasn't worth doing!

Here you go Nutty ...

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Yours truly up front with Boss John Shelton (RIP). Taken 4th August 1977. WK518 (prior to her transfer to the BoBMF) ... Spin Check ... 6 left, 6 right ... PFL ... tea and debrief ... great fun a very long time ago. :ok:

Coff.

Nutty, if you do an RAF EOD Officer circa 1982 in FI, don't forget the SD Hat.

I made a matchbox(I think) CH47 when I were a nipper. It kinda worked but it looked a bit bent and wonky when I finally finished it. Some might say I did the same thing to the real aircraft later in life........:}

My favourite models were the 1/48 Monogram range; B17, F4U, F4F, P51 (several...) etc etc. I've got a 1/48 Tigercat and a 1:24 P51 in the garage, one day I'll get round to doing them.....

Prizing open a virginal pot of gloss black paint (G4?!) was like opening a new album sleeve, the same approach on the senses. I get the same sensation when my copy of Octane arrives; that heady mixture of fresh ink, paper and plastic. My mother's duster too, has much to answer for. :uhoh:

Here's one I'm working on at the mo. Hasegawa not Airfix though!

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Lovely kit I must say.....

Guzz.

Got a model for my last birthday funnily enough...a nod to nostalgia from the family. 1/32 MkXXIV / MkXXII Spitfire...have some spare time this Easter so might get it going, thanks to this thread. :ok:

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Ahh, Airfix!
 

Oh yes, the joys of plastic modelling! Buying the Airfix Halifax with some money I had won at a public speaking competition, washing cars, cutting lawns, shoveling snow, then taking my earnings uptown on Saturday afternoon, (walking, to save bus fare ;) ), bringing my treasure home, putting it together and impatiently waiting an hour for the glue to dry before its First Flight. I built them with the undercarriage up, to make operations easier. Mine tended to survive, although I had a few friends who would blow theirs up. I remember being gobsmacked when I first saw "633 Squadron", that stirring music, those heroic feats and, of course, those beautiful Mosquitoes! (I also remember this particular 9 year old having an unfamiliar sensation when that uncredited blonde Gestapo officer snapped "Take off his clothes!" and then reached over and tore open George Chakiris' shirt.) To cut this ramble short, I am still building 49 years later, and I too have to thank Airfix for feeding my addiction. I was thrilled to bits when Airfix released their big Mossie.

54Phan, that SS officer was played by Anne Ridler:

Anyone else becoming a little worried about BEagle ... Over influenced by his Prep School Matron me thinks :ok:

For BEagle & 54phan
 

I'll have you know that my prep school matron was in her mid-20s and really rather gorgeous, Coff..:ok:

Odd man out!
 

Way back in 1970 (when I was a lad on Hercs), I came down stairs on my birthday really excited about the big present I'd seen my wife leave out for me the night before.

'What could it be?' I thought and rushed to rip the wrapping paper off. As it was revealed my face dropped,'What's the matter, darling?' said my beloved.

'You've bought me a bloody Airfix kit' I sobbed, hoping it was going to be a pile of books or Mayfair magazines.

'The Hercules kit has only just come in to the shops' she said,'I thought you'd be pleased to be one of the first to make one'.

'I hate making things' I cried, and had to explain that the most disappointing Christmas present I ever had as a child was a Meccano kit.I am the least practical person on the planet - much to the amusement of my off-spring.

Anne then had a very happy couple of days proudly making the Herc model. Guess who does the DIY in our house?

PS I do have a model of a Grippen in my study, but only because No1 son was given it by Saab when he was current on them.

My 9 yr old is half way through her first Spitfire. Hmmm I wonder?:suspect:

I think there may be something wrong though. She's not bothered about the glueing bit but loves painting all the fiddly bits. :eek:

You shouldn't have worried. You could probably out run it anyway. :E

Thanks for tre clarification....
 

..and a couple of good laughs, Beagle and Buster! Maybe we should set up a new thread, "Hotties of Aviation Films of the Sixties". I have to stop visiting this site at work because I laugh too much, my coworkers already look askance at me. And Turin, that Beverley quip was excellent.

To get back on track, it is nice to see Airfix getting into 1/48th scale in a bigger way. They seem to be slowly working their way through the inventory of the RAF and the FAA. After a few early "missteps" (their Buccaneers can make a strong man weep!), their quality is improving. I can't wait to get my mitts on a Canberra or six.

You must have joined the Royal Navy if the thoughts of him having HIS clothes taken off stirred things :p

Brian 48nav, that Hercules kit was modelled on one that had just come off sticks and despite people telling the said Airfix mob that descended on it to get measurements etc, it hit the market complete with jacking pads moulded on the outside... :=

Even of late, their Dambuster lancaster kit that came with a Dams base actually came with a standard Lancaster complete with upper turret, they had to recall the kit and send out new fuselages to those that had bought it... :O

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Hotties of aviation films - Sylvia Kristell in The Concorde - Airport 79, instantly brought to mind by memory of my the 8 year old (now 40!) seeing SK walking down the isle when he piped up - "That's the lady on the poster outside the other cinema with bare boobies". Entire cinema audience collapses in laughter - poster was advertising one of the Emmanuelle films

Well played, Nutloose, as per normal :). Thanks for the background on the Hercules model too. It's interesting what can make its way onto a kit. Tamiya released 1/32 Phantoms with BDR patches on them, generating electronic arguments which persist to this day. Monogram released a 1/48th scale RF-101B and included the AMARC inventory number on the decal sheet!