FabSwingers.com forum: Airfix models

By *eordies OP Couple
over a year ago

newcastle

Maybe this will only strike a cord with men, but maybe some women built them as well.

So what was your favourite Airfix model, did you prefer aircraft, ships or vehicles ? Maybe you had loads of the small plastic soldiers which so often met a grizzly end at the business end of the hoover.

I'd mostly build aircraft, which when they got too battered would be set alight and catapulted across the garden.

I found the ships had too many fidley pieces and as for the ones with rigging, only Shel had the patients to build those.

John

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By *mm and EssCouple
over a year ago

Truro

Well not done this since I was a kid, but Spitfire nothing else comes close, well maybe an Apache, but they weren't around when I was a kid

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

spitfire and lancaster

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

P51 and Spitfire.

All came to a sticky end when I got an air riffle though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i thought these were a thing of the past , till other week wnt into a hobby shop , was full of airfix models and another brand i cant remeber name , was tepmted to buy one till i remebered how bad i was with the glue!! , lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bought 2 a few months back to keep me occupied, yes i bought a spitfire, but also bought a harrier, did a relatively good job on both as my 9yo daughter was impressed and wanted them. So i let her have both of them.Apparently they have pride of place in her bedroom at my ex wifes house

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

I had loads, all 1/72 scale ww2 aircraft and mini soldiers, tanks and halftracks. If memory serves, it all started with a pontoon bridge set and i do believe i still have them all in a large cardboard box somewhere.....of course i'm far too old for them now and besides, there'd be no room for them, what with my walking dead, halo and predator figs taking up shelf space

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Did the Airfix Vulcan a few years ago. It makes an impressive model.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Airfix there's a blast from the past, when I was a kid my dad was in a really bad accident and was in hospital for 8 months in traction and other things, all he did was airfix while he was in there I must of had about 100 150 models cars planes boats, I had all the planes hung from my walls and ceiling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The amount of pocket money I must have spent on AirFix kits over the years - jeeez! Could have built a house for that!! lol!

Out of many, many models of theirs that I made, the one that always sticks in the memory was the Sea King helicopter cos it was a 'right bugger' to get the rotor blades to lay at the correct angle.

The one AirFix kit I always wanted to get was the 1/12th (I think!) 'Blower' Bentley Le Mans. Could never save up enough pocket money for that, as it was one of the most expensive kits they made.

Been interesting the last few years going to Flying Legends at Duxford and seeing just how much some of the some of the cheapest kits change hands for now from the specialist sellers - specially when in the original bag and never been opened... Happy days...

ted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lancaster was my fav

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By *iamp86Man
over a year ago

preston

I have an Airfix model aircraft under construction at the moment - it's a TSR2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i went on a date 2 year ago and the guy wanted to leave early so he could get to the model shop in paignton before it closed...

i was miffed...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had a B52 and a lightning.

Preferred matchbox kits, they didnt need painting. Had an alfajet a Huey cobra and a spitfire mk9

My favourite was a lockheed starfighter

Best model I built was one I got in America

It was a custom corvette. The only one I painted properly. I sprayed it metallic jade green. It had working steering and real rubber tyres

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By *annGentMan
over a year ago

With a cracking view

"The one AirFix kit I always wanted to get was the 1/12th (I think!) 'Blower' Bentley Le Mans. Could never save up enough pocket money for that, as it was one of the most expensive kits they made."

Had to make this kit as I was lucky enough to be driven in one !!!!!

My brother used to 'fly' my models !!

No wonder i don't get on with him !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Built my son a 1/24 spitfire took about 90 hours to do,within a month he had broken it lol, now got a b17 and a f14 to do now and cant wait.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What the hell do you do with them once you have built them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First Ship was HMS Ajax,,,,,,,

First plane was a Hawker-Hurricane…

First box of litle soldiers,,, French foreign legion, who were given a grizzly send off, when I melted them down by feeding them into the Mentholated Spirit burner of my Mamod Traction engine….

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my favorites were the short sunderland sea plane and the mosquiteo,both ended their days hit by ground to air...air rifle fire lol

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

Progressed from the Airfix kits in my teens to Revell and Italieri trucks, both American and European in my 30`s through to now doing OO Gauge railway items and card buildings for the model railway layout that may eventually be built!

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By *ll-Knight-longMan
over a year ago

Derby/Notts(Long Eaton)

Yes up to the age about 15 spent plenty of money and hours building painting and setting in dioramas. Can remember building the big hovercraft and galleon (that damned rigging)

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