Tag: Airfix
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Ruritania Post – Part One – Box O’ Doom
Every so often you encounter a model kit that is so old, warped, and manky that it could stand for election to the Sydney City Council…and win. This is the Airfix Heinkel He111 kit I have just opened. It is marginally older than Keith Richards but not in as good a condition. It dates from…
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Fieseler Storch – Part One – Plasti-pack
The packaging of the Airfix Storch is new to me – I’ve had baggies and boxes, but this is the first plasti-pack. I am surprised that the sprue trees survived the years. 1973 is the year it was repackaged like this – and it’s one of the Paul Planes that spent years in a hot…
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Handley Page Jetstream – Part Two – Saturday Build
I have three divisions of kits; Tuesday Mens Shed builds, home Little Workshop builds, and Saturday Historic Modelling Friends builds. I keep them as separate as painting requirements permit so that my pleasure in building them comes undiluted. The HP Jetstream is the Saturday Historic Modelling Friends kit. I enjoy an invitation once a fortnight…
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Handley Page Jetstream – Part One – Airfix Too Early
Occasionally you can get caught out by events…or by your own eagerness for business. This has happened twice to Airfix kits that I have encountered, but has not dimmed my pleasure in building them. The first model that made me aware of this was the original Airfix 1:72 Blackburn Buccaneer. I was given a historic…
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Canadian Car And Foundry Harvard II – Part Three – Precision in Plastic
We are accustomed to read about how precise Tamiya model kits are. This is no exaggeration – they fit pretty well perfectly as soon as you clean the sprue feed points. We are also used to reading the groans of people who have tried to work with Mach 2, Amodel, or PM kits. They also…
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Canadian Car And Foundry Harvard II – Part Two – You Need Not Believe All You See
But you should believe me. Honest. The aviation aficionados may be wondering why a railway carriage company should be credited with building Harvard II aircraft – when we all know North American made the AT-6 Texan and SNJ. Well they also leased out the plans for the things to other makers – a lot like…
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Canadian Car And Foundry Harvard II – Part One – The ’62 Model
Well, that’s the number engraved on the inside of this Airfix kit’s wing. It has a very long history – with this re-boxing probably being put out in ’79. I am fortunate in being able to remember both years, though I struggle to tell you what I had for tea two weeks ago. The kit…
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Heinkel He 177 – Part Two – Riveting Detail
There are those in the world who would have me sand down the rivet detail of the 1967 Airfix Heinkel Greif, scribe lines between the panels, and re-mark sunken rivets. There are also people who would have me eat rutabagas and ground cockroaches…and I am here to tell you that I am as likely to…
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Heinkel He 177 – Part One – The Griffon Again
This model is a gift from my friend Paul, but it is not the first time I’ve built one. I purchased the same model from a small hobby shop located underneath Trinity Arcade in Perth in the 1960’s – a last gasp of plastic modelling before academic pressures took all my spare time away. I…
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Hawker Demon – Part Three – I Was Right
Well, it had to happen some time, eh? The Airfix Vintage Classic Hawker Demon is a colourful gem. The decision to pair it with the Bristol Bulldog was brilliant; it is every bit as good. The building fit was straightforward – once the sinks and posts had been dealt with. Very little filling needed on…
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