History of Airfix - scale modelling
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- čas přidán 26. 11. 2018
- A brief history of scale model manufacturers, episode 1 - Airfix
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In the 70's we kids loved Airfix soldiers. We recreated many WWII battles with them. Great memories.
Years ago I built the Airfix 4 Stroke Engine model. It had a cutaway portion and lift off cam cover to show the valves with springs opening and closing at the proper time. I did one of my better paint jobs on it and it still looks great today! Parts fit was excellent and injection molding very well done. I purchased another kit to hold onto and build again down the road. A fun to build kit that is my only Airfix kit in hundreds of models built so far in my life!
When I was a kid I had a subscription to Airfix magazine. While other kids were reading comic books I was the strange kid reading a magazine about plastic model building and dioramas.
I probably bought my first Airfix Kit way back in 1956/57 at the age of 7, bought from the local Woolworths store of course. I remember building the Golden Hind and the Spitfire among many others, no paint though at that time, my pocket money only allowed me to buy a kit every month or so. paint would have to come later.
I am dazzled with how much history you managed to fit into a 5 minute video. Well done!
I bought so many Airfix kits in plastic bags hanging from rotating display trees. Good times for a young scale modeller.
Ah! Ah! I can still remember in my early 70's, all these Airfix 1/72 soldiers take cover behind my old grandma's "Mahjong" block, truly "east meet west"!
Very well done, love to hear how Tamiya got started.
I'm from HKG, I started to play model kits when I was a kid in 70's. Besides the Japanese brand TAMIYA, I loved the Airfix models, who produced a lot of military kits, especially those Royal navy warships, fighter planes and vehicles in very precise appearance. By the time when other scale models companies focused on mostly WWII military stuffs. I still remember
I grew up making Airfix kits and honed my skills with Humbrol paints,first with a brush and then with spray paint.If I ruined and parts in error then I wrote to Airfix with the part numbers and they would send me the replacement parts free of charge.I loved making the kit in a bag range of models in the early 1960's.The parts always fit well with Airfix and I spent many many hours making them including buildings for the family model Tri ang railway.Most kits I bought from Woolworths.
excellent...please do a video on matchbox kits😁
Very interesting. I grew up making Airfix models, mostly WW2 planes (my favourite was the Wellington Bomber), but I knew nothing about the history of the company. Thank you.
The new Airfix kits are very well done.
Modern tooling makes the Airfix kits really detailed and good.
My childhood in a box 😊
Great cover 182.
Loved it!
I have been building airfix models since the mid sixties my first model was a Sherman tank it was a good model it came in a plastic bag with instructions they were relatively cheap then they are getting more and more expensive now this year they are realising the old model again through out the year I am working on the Saturn v rocket at the moment I have had this model for a long time so I thought I would start it airfix are using the old mould’s still just new box art I hope the younger generation will take the hobby up and keep it going it’s a good hobby just need a bit of time and patience and a bit of skill as well (good video)
Very nicely done.
Yes. I patronised Woolworths from the mid 1950s to the late 60s for Airfix and Humbrol. Many kits were only two shillings-pocket money. I was amazed when into the seventies I saw the prices. I learned much from this short video!