Airfix 2013 calendar, desktop downloads.
 

April looks pretty as a picture and that TSR2 looks amazing.

Scale Plastic Model Kits by Airfix

I wonder; anyone have their career paths mapped out at aged 10 by Airfix?

Yep, a bedroom ceiling with airfix kits strung from fishing line - glad I never had to replaster it.

from the kit to the medals to a very comfy airliner seat....loved every minute

I had all the recce cards. German and British were easy. Hadn't quite mastered all the Jap ones though :)

Used to drool over the superbly carved wooden models in our model shop.

Made the first Airfix Spitfire and Gladiator. More glue than paint.

Very nice indeed.


"More glue than paint."

That makes two of us. Attention to detail was never my strong point.

Devil if you got glue on the canopies! :* Biggest I built was the Lancaster; envied the chap who had the B29. Straight from school to RAF, then civil. No complaints.

Have un-opened Hunter and Phantom boxes. I'll get around to it one day.

Toothpaste is your friend....

I wish I had know that 30 years ago !

I have an F3 and a Fulmar sitting in boxes in the garage, my old jet and my Grandad's old fighter, he managed a few kills in his unlike me!

One day I'll put them together, honest...

Built the B36 which was almost as tall as me at the time. (wingspan)

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I think someone should mention that doing away with this machine was bonkers :)

I spent ages at Valley making one of these once. Everything was immaculate and I even filled the joints etc. Unfortunately, when moving down to Chivenor I placed my beloved model atop my mighty Fiesta and off I drove. They didn't tell me on the box that Airfix models would be wrecked if they fall upon tarmac at speed (not great speed, remember it was a Fiesta) :{

I cannot tell a lie, the crowning achievement of my 13th year was finishing a 1/24 scale Mk II Spitfire, complete with folded masking tape pilots harness, mud splattered undercarriage, exhaust burns and oil stained belly. Saw a Mk VIII (VH-HET) fly in the flesh a year later and was hooked for life..

I bet you can't buy that one in BA Pontius.

My first was a Frog 'Comet' Douglas F3D-2 Skynight in 1957....

Much 'locate and cement' work then followed, thanks mainly to Airfix. But it took 4 weeks pocket money before one could afford the latest 2/- kit in its poly bag!

But Airfix 2013 calendar - or Hooters 2013 calendar? Tricky choice....:\

Made a B36 but really wanted a B52.

Made a P51 once, actually managed to have the prop so it would spin. It was really spinning until it went in to a nose dive at Marble Arch. I was well annoyed that mother would not let me stop and pick it up.

Years later No 2 daughter managed to lose a Cindy doll at Marble Arch too. Bring a brutal father I wouldn't stop either :)

From the Airfix Halifax instructions (1960's vintage)

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To my 10 year old mind trying to understand why parts was referred to as male and female and how they fitted together was a little baffling.

This mystery was soon cleared up for many of us by those at my prep school who had elder sisters....:8 So we were all well-briefed long before the headmaster gave us 'The Talk' at the end of our final summer term.....:ooh:

A Series 1 Spitfire cost 19p from Davies' in Cowbridge in the early 70s.

I used to put a bangers into jet tailpipes to see how high they would get.

There's an as yet to be discovered PBY Catalina at the bottom of my father's fish pond. I didn't realise the lead weights I placed in the nose to keep it down would send it down when it alighted on water:ugh:

My dad bought me the first few, and then built them for me......My first effort was a Jaguar (Circa 1972??)...Glue on fingers and canopy, and also the melted nose due too much glue (sorry...cement!)..First saw a 'Real' Jaguar some decades later...
Within a year, by age 12, had the collection of mis-scaled and mis-era 'dog-fight' from ceiling with fishing wire....Lancaster and Saturn 5 looked cool form my bed though! ...