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Airfix models - loads of them in a tourist shop in Llanfair PG, 1/72 scale and 1/48 scale - tempted to buy the Saturn 5 rocket I always hankered after - interestingly there was a Typhoon so they must be still developing them !
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Took my 3yr old to the park last week saw a nitro rc car been thrashed about, after a few beers and a run on e bay i now have one on the bench.
Second hand £55.00 with new wheels/tyres and spares plus tools.
I say get these toys it's FUN.............................:-)
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No need to go to LPG , have a browse and become a 13 year old again!
www.airfix.com/
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Sat 19 Nov 11 at 15:23
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Oh I know ! But there was the tactile experience of handling the boxes - the Dogfight Doubles and the bit Canberra PR9 model. Also were the little figures - including the WW1 Royal Horse Artillery I was back in those endless summers of the late 60s and 70s !
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>> the Dogfight Doubles and the bit Canberra PR9 model.
Had the Beaufigther v Me109 kit.
Also, built the halifax, Sunderland, Stirling Wellington and Lanc one after the other back in about 79.
was sniffing about the local shop recently, with some ponce telling me about body putty and all the tools I'd need etc etc etc.
I pointed out that emery boards and polyfilla worked well enough back in my day, son... and you couldn't see the join...
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Airfix model airplanes? PAHHHHHHH PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTT
They didnt have THIS when you were a dustbin lid.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003ZFZLKG/ref=asc_df_B003ZFZLKG5308704
Bring it on Santa
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 19 Nov 11 at 15:50
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Bring this on if you are going to have spare time over the Festive Season! Reviewed in the motoring section of the DT today. 2,048 parts, 5 instruction books, just under 10 hours to construct.
www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Technic-8110-Mercedes-Benz-Unimog/dp/B004OT2WKO/ref=sr_1_1?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1321718512&sr=1-1
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As a child I always wanted one of these.
adamone.rchomepage.com/guide6.htm
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Back in my mid teens I was involved with diesel free flight and control line, before I discovered motorbikes and girls.
One of the guys that hung around (he was a far better model builder than I) built a pulse jet. I can't remember the engineering details, but he tried it out on control lines - he had to start it by swinging it around. The noise was unbelievable! I think the power of the thing scared him, we never saw it again.
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Dangling planes from the bedroom ceiling with fishing line?
The basic plane models were 1/6d pre decimal and came in a plastic bag rather than a box complete with the mysteriously named decals.
Strangely enough am at present half way through building a rubber powered balsa wood 'plane for my grandson (that's my excuse!). The smell of balsa cement - pure nostagia
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>> The basic plane models were 1/6d pre decimal and came in a plastic bag rather
>> than a box complete with the mysteriously named decals.
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Ha! Showing your age, they were half a crown when I first started, and yes I too remember the Series 1 kits being in a plaggy bag. Think the Ju87 Stuka was the first one I built; it costs nine quid now!
About 1973 the prices went up rapidly because of the oil crisis, I remember writing an indignant letter to Airfix about it.
Wifey's just bought one for my brother-in-law as occupational therapy while he recovers from a broken ankle; can't remember which one it was but it didn't leave much change out of a tenner and it wasn't a particularly big kit. It did have paints and a brush with it though.
That Saturn 5 rocket is forty quid on Airfix's website!
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My first was the Westland Lysander.......me mum sat me in the garden at an old card table one hot summer day.....around 1957, probably.
I moved on to the Lancaster, Wellington and the veteran cars.
I still have, unopened, the vintage fire engine, the Frog eye Sprite and the 00 gauge Spamcan.
Maybe one day I'll make them
Ted
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Plenty of Hornby 00 stuff there at half price as well Ted.
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>> I still have, unopened, the vintage fire engine, the Frog eye Sprite and the 00
>> gauge Spamcan.
>> Maybe one day I'll make them
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As you're probably all too aware, it's a sad fact of life that they're likely to be worth far more unmolested.
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Must admit I was tempted to blow a few quid in TKMaxx the other day, they had a random selection of Revell kits, including the Apollo command module and a German WW2 night fighter I can't remember the name of. I must've built around 100 kits in the early seventies, mostly planes or AFVs, worked my way up to the Hercules with bloodhound missile, trailer and Landie, 1/24th Hurricane and 1/32 Mossie. Last one I can recall building was a Monogram 1/48 Dornier Arrow.
Lots of nostalgia on the interweb unsurprisingly:-
pws.prserv.net/gbinet.dbjames/oindex.htm
Still got my early seventies Airfix catalogues in the loft somewhere, must have a rummage.
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Seeing those jet engines reminds me i must still have the old Jetex engines i inherited from my brother when i was a kid.
I had them powering speedboats as well as cars, always getting fingers burnt though trying to get the fuse wire out of the tiny propulsion hole before the intense hot air rush could take your fingers off, i wonder if they are still around.
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Ha! Showing your age,
Talking about 1962/3 I guess
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Still have some Jetex 50 motors..
Used to pull out wires with tweezers... (I "borrowed " my mother's).
Also two Swan Morton craft knives and blades and a 1cc Diesel engine..
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Thanks CGN, Jetex still going after all, and Madf a more sensible user than me.
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>> Thanks CGN, Jetex still going after all, and Madf a more sensible user than me.
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Unless his mum caught him using her tweezers.....
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Thanks for that link, Spammie. I've bookmarked it and I'll have a proper look tomorrow.
The bit I rerad brought back a few more memories....The Darraque, Model T, Dauphine. I recall making the Old Bill bus and the engine shed, pub, church and more.
By co-incidence, my Hornby magazine arrived last week with a DVD attached. Very good film about the Kent HQ and modern production of Hornby Airfix, Scalextric and more.
Management and staff interviewed..all thought they were one big family and the luckiest workers around. The Mosquito kit...a larger scale...was the kit of choice for some.
One for Brompton...they do a Scalextric cycle race !
Ted
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There was one of those there as well...
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A nostalgic shopping trip ! - Bigtee
