Your First Airfix Model?

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Did anyone else have a model of Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 ? It was one of those things you got with 3 packet tops off Weetabix boxes, plus a two shilling postal order. It was a proper plastic kit, and may well have been produced by Airfix. My dad put it together while he was recovering from an appendicectomy in the RAF hospital at Ely. :lol:
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I think I had one that flew via a catapult. If I didn't.. I surely wanted one :lol: Incidentally.. I have the complete series on DVD :worried:

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I remember having one of those but I think I got it off a Jumble Sale at the local Church Hall. :)

Fireball XL% was my favourite TV show at the time. I loved the Planet graphics on the closing credits B-)
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FlyTexas wrote:
Airspeed wrote:Nail varnish! :-O
It must have looked like it had got too close to the fire dump. :lol:
I bet some motorcycle models would look kinda sharp in nail varnish. :agree: Of course a 1/48 scale Lanc would pretty much clean out mother's varnish supply. :lol:

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I was thinking mostly of the solvents in nail varnish, and their effect on polystyrene (cheap polystyrene at that!)
Acetone was the remover, and you can melt, or glue, polystyrene with that.
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Oh now thats tricky *-) The first one I can remember my Dad showing me and my brother how to do and letting us help was the battleship Bismarck while on holiday in a caravan in Monifieth new Dundee in the early 70s. The first one I think I can remember partly making myself was with dad's help was a steam loco, I think a BR standard class 4 or something similar. First plane I remember doing myself may have been a Boulton Paul Defiant. We turned into serial Arfix junkies for years after that till late teens... Ah the memories... :thumbsup:

After the Airfix game we gravitated to Model Railways and photography and cars and girls ... etc. etc..
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The Defiant was the first model I painted. I bought it because it was just the one colour. I think I used a whole tin on that small model.

Don't remember but the chances are I painted everything within two feet of me :lol:

Still, I made a mess of it but I was very proud of my effort.
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