Tag: Vintage Classic

• ” How Can You Waste Your Time On That Kit? “

  

  This one? This kit? This vintage classic old Airfix retro sagger of a kit? How can I waste my time on it? You misjudge. You mistake the meaning of the word ” waste “. You imagine that anything not conforming to the current latest magazine or YouTube trend is a waste. Oh, My Dear… This…

  Dick Stein

  October 5, 2025

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, Collecting, damage control, frugality, History, Model Airplane, retro, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Airfix, retro, Vintage Classic

• Airfix Auster – Part One – Vintage Classic Day

  

  My vigil at the hobby shop was rewarded – the re-issue of the Vintage Classic Airfix kit came in. And went out again, under my arm. I did not know in what form it would finally be assembled, but since I had such success with the similar Airfix Beaver, I was confident. The kit is…

  Dick Stein

  August 20, 2025

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, frugality, Hobby Shops, Israeli aircraft, Light plane, Model Airplane, Museums, research, Scale Models

  Airfix, IDF, Light plane, Vintage Classic

• Handley Page Heracles – Part One – A Present From The Past

  

  I recently asked my daughter to pick me up a fresh model kit when she passed through Melbourne. There are several good shops there and she might encounter something new. Well, she was taken by something old – an Airfix vintage Classic re-issue of a 1965 kit – the Handley Page HP.42 ” Heracles ”…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2024

  1:144 scale, airliner, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, Decals, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Airfix, airliner, Vintage Classic

• De Havilland Beaver – Part One – Leave it To Me, Wally

  

  Those of a ” certain age ” will get it… Those of that samecertain age will recognize the Airfix Vintage Classic Beaver kit as one of the British Army cooperation planes – but will be surprised when they look at the side of the box – it appears to have been used by the US…

  Dick Stein

  December 4, 2023

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, design, frugality, Light plane, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Airfix, bush plane, Canada, De Havilland, Vintage Classic

• Westland Whirlwind – Part One – A Green Stranger

  

  The Vintage Classic shelf again – this time something I have never built before – the Airfix Westland Whirlwind HAS.22. In reality, it was a Sikorsky S-55 sold to the Royal Navy. The original kit is apparently of late 50’s vintage though I never saw one in shops in Canada. Basic, as you would expect,…

  Dick Stein

  May 15, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, frugality, helicopter, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Airfix, helicopter, Vintage Classic

• Henschel Hs 123A-1 – Part One – 15th Squadron

  

  Well here we go again with the Airfix Classics. And this one is destined to be quite different from what Airfix envisaged. The plane is intriguing – one of the last of the serving biplanes…or this might even be considered a sesquiplane. It is deceptively fighter-like but in actuality is a dive bomber. When the…

  Dick Stein

  June 12, 2022

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Airfix, Henschel, Vintage Classic

• 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…

  Dick Stein

  November 22, 2021

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Hawker, RAF, Vintage Classic