Bear Paw

Ha! I may not bin them. I was thinking of finding a range of Perspex box display cases for them. Does anyone know of a company that does them?

Model making and model storage are two opposite activities that do not sit well together with me. I am in agreement with Mr Bertie Psmith and frequently cull the dead wood. I am always impressed when people produce a sticky little Airfix kit they made when they were 8 but mine have all long gone. I recently put 23 completed kits in the bin, which was a strangely liberating thing to do. Consequently I am nervous about my Wingnut builds I have and I will not be able to store a 1/32 Lancaster any where even though I would like to build one. I often see people with gigantic work rooms on Facebook that has display cabinets but ultimately I would just become tired of them all.

WNW are not in business any more possibly because of the pricing policy where as Airfix and Tamiya have to make money. As for the question about how many Airfix 1/24 scale kits the Lancaster is worth that is a question only you can answer. Having built the Airfix 1/24 Typhoon and a few WNW kits I know what I think about that question. Other brands may try to ask for more money for their products on the back of this but do you think people will pay for for anything that is of inferior quality ?

Ha! I made the DH4 a while back on this thread and yes fiddly is not the word! I went straight to water with the old decals so I won't be doing that again. I will post my Storch up this weekend after I have applied the decals. Andrew.

Hello Tony, I have just popped back to this thread to get my hit of nostalgia and am pleased to see an original B26 Invader. That is the boxing I made back in time. Brush painted with humbrol silver of course. As I remember a difficult thing to do with the treacle like paint and a small stiff brush. I have recently bought a bagged series 1 Fiesler Storch for £6 and am making it as nostalgia build. I probably built it about 1969/1970 aged 11 or 12 priced 2/6d. The old me is finding the kit a surprisingly tricky little thing to build and I take my hat off to my younger self for doing it! So far I have had to clamp to warped fuselage halves together, sand out a massive step in the fuselage join, and replace the wing struts that were bent like bananas and were too brittle to react to hot water bending. The undercarriage legs and their supports have vague location points and attach directly on to the clear 3 part cockpit that has to support the not too insubstantial wings. I don't remember being phased by any of these problems before? I have paint on it now (airbrushed not brushed) but of course the 54 year old decals and shattered when dipped in water. I have sourced some more so it won't be in the original Airfix scheme but I will post it up here when complete. Regards, Andrew

It could like some one has mentioned previously be hung on a wall?

Yes well said Duncan. Yes Simon this thread on this subject does illustrate well just why the Australian call us ‘ whinging poms’ 😂

There are some colour schemes that have painted over the printed lozenge pattern.

Thank you all for the feed back and I have learnt a lot from this kit - have a more modern Dragon kit of the same vehicle so I will have a go at this when I have completed my Tamiya sdkfz 223. I am not too happy with the spare wheel on this as it too large. The stores and sandbags look a bit large too, so I may have a go at making my own. The tracks on this old kit are awful but I didn’t want to splash out on the metal set. I have now glued the tracks down on to the top of the road wheels to try and represent the characteristic sag.

Thank you John, it was a good opportunity to load up the vehicle with everything! Photos that I have seen show them with so much stuff on them. Here is a colour photo from the time with the crew giving their vehicle a posed wash down.

Thank you Swralph and Pete, I will make sure to post the 223 on here when built. Tbh there are a lot of these old Tamiya kits to go at! 👍🏻

Thank you Bush and Homer, I am new to building armoured vehicles but not modelling and so I have seen these kits around since I too was young. I bought this mail order for £20 including postage and so decided to have a go. It is a very simple kit and exactly what I was looking for to develop skills. It has been very enjoyable using all the weathering mate and techniques. I have enjoyed it so much I now have the Tamiya 1/35 Sdk.fz 223 armoured car to build. 👍🏻

It was the Tamiya Hanomag Sdkfz 251/1 1/35 item 35020*2200.

This is the third AFV model I have made. I have got to a sticky patch with the kit I am building at the moment and so have been distracted by this half track. As far as I can see this kit is a 45 year old kit and it is very simple. I have made it straight out of the box with stores. very enjoyable build

How does the cockpit area fit on this kit I have heard it is a bit awkward? Andrew.