[Closed] Daydreaming about a lottery win – Part 2 – Airfix

I have a Hurricane at home to build. Problem is trying to get the kids (7 & 9) to want to they appear to prefer the Wii ... re-education is in order.

Tonight is Hurricane night!

Only problem with AIrfix in this house is getting 10yo son to do his homework before he carries on with whatever kit he is currently building!

Sea Harrier for me, any scale except 1/24th, too bloody expensive.

Definitely a Sea King helicopter.

I tried to build one when I was 13. I'd built 100s of kits. The Sea King kit wouldn't work, so I smashed it and never built another one.

DezB - Member
Definitely a Sea King helicopter.

I tried to build one when I was 13. I'd built 100s of kits. The Sea King kit wouldn't work, so I smashed it and never built another one.

I feel your pain. Rotor droop?

Gosh. I had a JU-88 (sic) Airfix kit when I was a kid. *wipes away tear of nostalgia*

Though if I was buying a kit today, it'd be this:

http://www.airfix.com/airfix-products/themed-sets/a11170-apollo-saturn-v-a11170/

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I had Stukkas hanging from the ceiling by bits of cotton. And Spitfires, Hurricaines and ME-109s, of course.

[i]I feel your pain. Rotor droop?[/i]

🙂 Can't remember what went wrong! My dad tried to help...

I had a Sea King helicopter kit when I was really young, but I got a little older and realised Citadel Miniatures were the way forwards. So I'd buy £15 worth of those

I have Classic Mini Cooper kit waiting to be built, had it over two years!

I just cannot decide what colour to paint it!

Old English White or BRG?

Arrrr!

Harry_the_Spider - Member
I feel your pain. Rotor droop?

😆

Tandem rotor helicopters were always trouble because of the afore mentioned "Rotor Droop" which was compounded by having two sets of blades. I could never get them to look right.

I had a Boeing Sea Knight and a Bristol Belvedere. Both looked bobbins.

The F4 Phantom in US Navy get up was my favourite as a kid. Probably because my Gran bought it for me.

I used to be able to turn out a nice F104. I got bought 2 1/48 scale ones (Revell IIRC) one Christmas. I was in solvent heaven until New Year.

I had hundreds of them as a kid. In fact, most are still hanging from my old bedroom ceiling - mainly because they're not in the way up there, whereas they would be if my parents took them down I guess, so flying they stay.

I think my favourite as to be the Lanc in Dambusters mode, however I always quite liked my Me-109e kit. It just seemed to be much better moulded than most of the others. Also, it, like my Spit and Hurri, was baught with pocket money, as opposed to a glut at xmas / birthday which handily coincided with Boydells (big ex-toyshop in Bolton) shutting down and doing them for 1/3rd price 🙂 So I guess I went a bit spoiled kid on quite a few as I had so many to do...

I also quite like my Sopwith Camel and Bristol Fighter actually

My worst (and last until I did my ankle 10 years later) was this.

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A present from my mum that was "different from all of the war planes". I mean...WTF?

That's quite nice is that.

I like fire engines me. I wanted to be one when I was very little.

My mum's logic was that it would look good on a shelf in my room. 🙄

Nothing warms up a 14 year old girl like a 1/32 scale model of the Trumpton Fire Engine.

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I had a spitfire kit as a kid, freaking glue everywhere! 😳

Come on...

This has to be the dream model kit to make 😉

[url= http://www.milanofixed.com/scala-19-ma-costa-come-quella-vera/ ]http://www.milanofixed.com/scala-19-ma-costa-come-quella-vera/[/url]

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😉

Thats a beauty. Certainly beats my one of these
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Can I top up my win with my own savings?

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Is that a Jones?

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njee20
Son currently doing the 1/72 Concorde. It's big, but not the easiest.
I want the new 1/24 Mosquito, £129, http://www.airfix.com/airfix-products/aircraft/military-aircraft/19301950/a25001-de-havilland-mosquito-nfiifbvi-a25001/?searchguid=201010515154&resultspage=&sortorder=

Mulletus Maximum - don't be surprised to see some scale models of burnt corpses courtesy of Elfinsafety 😛

[url= http://www.airfix.com/airfix-products/aircraft/military-aircraft/19301950/a04102-hawker-hurricane-mk1-a04102/ ]Hawker Hurricane, mainly because I built this kit as a kid and I'd love to relive that part of my youth.[/url]

However, I have to admit that I was always a bigger fan of Tamiya kits, especially their cars.

Airfix kits were and continue to be a bit rubbish really. Some of those 'new' models are releases of old Frog moulds that are a good 40-50 years old now...

AS OMITN as eluded to the best kits come from Japan. Hasegawa, and Tamiya spring to mind

Hasegawa, and Tamiya spring to mind

I had a Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar kit from Hasegawa that was way too tough for my youthful hands and immature patience. Never finished it.

I would build Tamiya kits in a day during the holidays. I suspect that my attention to detail probably wasn't as great as the designers had intended.

Hmm. Want to build another kit now....

Some of us could only afford Airfix 🙁

You just reminded me to order one of these. I've been meaning to replace it after my little sis smashed mine with my plastic lightsabre, circa 1980.
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you can come round and give me a hand with it if you want.

My Nan used to buy me an airfix kit every week when I was a kid.

She did it for so long after a while she ended up buying me the same ones again. She was a very lovely person.

Bazzer

I've enjoyed a fascinating 3 mins 41s watching the CGI video of the Mosquito mentioned above being put together.

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I want one.

Grans are the best. Mine used to give me 20p a week. A basic 1/72 kit was 45p at the local newsagents (1976 prices)so every 2 weeks I would get a bonus 5p off my Mum or Dad and treat myself to a Mig 15/Sabre/Hurricane/Gazelle. Happy days.

This one is half price at £14.99 for the 1/48!
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Elfin, I built the airfix chinook as a geeky teenager, bit disappointed with the moulding and fit IIRC. Lots of poor fitting windows. 🙁

WOW.

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Preferred Tamiya, had this one which was great:
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Winner!

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1/100 scale! It will look like it fell out of a cracker.

Yeah, but one of those Lightnings, a french banger up the back pipe, light, chuck in the air...

Damn - it was listed under 1/72nd which was already on the small side.

Tom Walkinshaw Racing Jaguar kit from Hasegawa

I would dearly love to know where to get these from. They're like hen's teeth and it's the perfect birthday present for my buddy. Well, apart from an actual XJS.

Price is too expensive, it's not Airfix .. big dose of fail for me, but it would have to be..

Revell's 1:96 scale Saturn V -

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our local observatory had one for years

I got a little older and realised Citadel Miniatures were the way forwards. So I'd buy £15 worth of those

They were expensive enough back when I was a kid, surely these days £15 will get you not much more than maybe a single 1" Space Marine or similar?

Airfix kits were and continue to be a bit rubbish really.

Some of the actually new stuff they're putting out seems to be pretty good. They may not be up there with the cream of the Japanese kits but they generally don't cost anywhere near as much, either.

Given the 15 quid budget for this question, I'd probably go for one of the Canberras. Or maybe a Sea Harrier FRS.1 and one of the new Spitfires.

They were expensive enough back when I was a kid, surely these days £15 will get you not much more than maybe a single 1" Space Marine or similar?

They're all plastic these days, 15 quid might get you two.