Your First Airfix Model?
Moderators: Guru's, The Ministry
Re: Your First Airfix Model?
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.
- DaveB
- The Ministry
- Posts: 30457
- Joined: 17 Jun 2004, 20:46
- Location: Pelsall, West Mids, UK
- Contact:
Re: Your First Airfix Model?
I think I had one that flew via a catapult. If I didn't.. I surely wanted one Incidentally.. I have the complete series on DVD
ATB
DaveB
ATB
DaveB
Old sailors never die.. they just smell that way!
- Garry Russell
- The Ministry
- Posts: 27180
- Joined: 29 Jan 2005, 00:53
- Location: On the other side of the wall
Re: Your First Airfix Model?
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
Fireball XL% was my favourite TV show at the time. I loved the Planet graphics on the closing credits
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
- Airspeed
- Red Arrows
- Posts: 9338
- Joined: 14 Sep 2011, 03:46
- Location: Central Victorian Highlands, Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Australia
- Contact:
Re: Your First Airfix Model?
Hi BrianFlyTexas wrote:I bet some motorcycle models would look kinda sharp in nail varnish. Of course a 1/48 scale Lanc would pretty much clean out mother's varnish supply.Airspeed wrote:Nail varnish!
It must have looked like it had got too close to the fire dump.
Brian
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.
- gordon-in-aberdeen
- Vulcan
- Posts: 409
- Joined: 13 May 2008, 12:57
- Location: Stones' throw from old Montrose Air Station (well, 4 miles anyway:-)
Re: Your First Airfix Model?
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...
After the Airfix game we gravitated to Model Railways and photography and cars and girls ... etc. etc..
After the Airfix game we gravitated to Model Railways and photography and cars and girls ... etc. etc..
TTFN, Gordon
"To err is human, but to ARR is most definitely Pirate... "
"To err is human, but to ARR is most definitely Pirate... "
- Garry Russell
- The Ministry
- Posts: 27180
- Joined: 29 Jan 2005, 00:53
- Location: On the other side of the wall
Re: Your First Airfix Model?
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
Still, I made a mess of it but I was very proud of my effort.
Don't remember but the chances are I painted everything within two feet of me
Still, I made a mess of it but I was very proud of my effort.
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."