This must be my worst post ever. Does anyone know where to get or how to find out of stock old Airfix kits? I’m specifically interested in the ships Terra Nova and Discovery. It looks like Airfix made them a few years back but they are all gone now. Does anyone have any pointers?

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Ebay?

Edit – just looked and there are loads but none of the specific kits you mention just now. So set up a search for it and be alerted when someone lists them.

Try the IPMS website, (International Plastic Modellers Society)
There’ll be someone on there who’ll know.

These guys might be worth a try, the ones you list aren’t on their site, but the list doesn’t seem too comprehensive. If memory serves me right for the amount on the shelves at the shop, not everything is on the site.

http://www.halifaxmodellersworld.co.uk/

I was looking at Airfix models that I had made when I were a lad in my local Hobbycraft.

Older Airfix kits were dreadful quality; the new toolings are much better and easier to spot as the boxes have nice red flashes, but you still stand a chance of getting a real dog.

Tamiya, Hasegawa, Academy are much better; Revell aren’t bad either and pretty good value

Try http://www.airfix.co.uk list of stockists at bottom of page, the discovery was first produced in 1969

Apparantly my brothers work mate has a room full. He gave his two daughters a set each of a Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 110. Agree with john_drummer the quality of them is a bit shonky like some of the parts not fitting flush with each other.

quality of them is a bit shonky like some of the parts not fitting flush with each other.

That’s when it becomes ‘modelling’ rather than ‘assembling’. And when the fun starts!

Yea I know I built a lot of cars and motorbikes and often had to file bits to make them fit but these were shonky that I think even filling wouldn’t have made much difference like the canopy just didn’t fit square on one of the Spitfires.