Airfix

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:34 pm

Has anyone built an airfix model? I've built 5 of their ship models so far. I've got the Titanic, the Bismark, the Ark Royal, a world war 2 british destroyer, and the Scarnhost. I'm currently building another, the H.M.S. Belfast.

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:06 pm

I have built to many, and most of them aren't finished!

MTA · Post by **MTA** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:15 pm

I have built about 3-5, I find them far much easier to build than Revell kits. Like most of my projects, I stopped halfway through and the majority of them now resied on a landfill site somewhere! I have a completed one somewhere though

ACLR · Post by **ACLR** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:10 pm

I built a couple about 45 years ago but dont have them anymore

MTA · Post by **MTA** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:13 pm

After all the hu-bub about Airfix going into liquidation, who actually bought the rights/name to Airfix? I keep thinking it was Hornby

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:54 pm

yeah, it was Hornby. On all the boxes for the kits now there is the Hornby logo along with the Airfix logo.

ptlrcecil · Post by **ptlrcecil** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:40 pm

Aye I used to build airfix kits. My bedroom ceiling is full of WWII aircraft and theres a load I dont have room for.

John Chapman · Post by **John Chapman** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:44 pm

My uncle gave me one of the Airfix Ferguson tractors when I was about 5. I can remember that my Dad tried to make it for me, but we couldn't find any glue that would stick it. Somebody suggested nail varnish but that didn't work. The first proper Airfix kit I had was the "Golden Hind".

A bit of Airfix history http://www.airfix.com/about-airfix/

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:54 pm

Now then. Airfix. Revell. I have lots of those!
I have 5 Revell 1:18 trucks (including a Eddie Stobart) that sit in a cabinet, a Lancaster, 1:18 Hurricane, 2 small Spitfires, a WW2 tank diarama made from several kits, a Revell 1:18 Land Rover Series 3 109", a Subaru Imprenza that's unmade, along with a 1:18 Spitfire!!! LOL, I have a lot. I have plans to use the engine parts from the 1:18 Spitfire to make a loco engine (as you dont see the engine inside the aircraft!). And guess what the locos name will be? Spitfire!

steamyjim · Post by **steamyjim** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:38 pm

I never got on well with Airfix got a few unbuilt kits around the place... I would like to build a boat and sink it like on James Mays Top Toys though

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:25 pm

Built many Airfix, and other brands when I was younger, but like Graham none of them exist now.

I still have some boxed kits to build one day, including a special set of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight which an aviation museum in NE Scotland were selling very cheap - I looked at it as giving them a donation.

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