TonyW Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Ratch's Windmill picture was the first time I've seen a built one, thanks for posting it. I'll post this Bus here. There will probably be two or three right behind it. I built the base to match the box top as I like displaying built models alongside the box, something like a shop window display. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 (edited) ......... and to get back on track with some more aircraft, how about this display I took along to a Farnborough IPMS meeting a few years back? That was all my Dogfight Doubles at the time. I've since added the Mig 21/Cessna and FW190/Stormovic to the collection. Tony. Edited November 22, 2017 by TonyW 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 26 minutes ago, TonyW said: I'll post this Bus here. There will probably be two or three right behind it. Missed that one the first time I read it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Another Airfix oldie I built a few years ago (2013) - 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 That's a very clean build. The kit itself dates right back to the start of the Airfix aircraft range, so your achievement is all the more impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventora3300 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 (edited) 8 hours ago, Eric Mc said: Another Airfix oldie I built a few years ago (2013) - I love this kit - the graceful Seahawk. (yours has a few enhancements? - the first jet I built - no prop to spin but I made sure the arrestor hook worked! Edited November 22, 2017 by Ventora3300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventora3300 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 (edited) 20 hours ago, TonyW said: Here's one of my favourite builds, the ancient Airfix Do217. Fantastic - my first build and a recent retro build. It was the retracting undercarriage and moveable turret that did it... Edited November 22, 2017 by Ventora3300 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimrod54 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Here are a couple of my attempts with classic Airfix kits. First up is my build of their Beagle Basset using the Kit-Starter release, I made this as an entry for the Made in Britain II GB held earlier this year. by John Leigh, on Flickr And I used the Airfix 1/72 Heron 2 kit as a starting point for this SABENA de Havilland Heron I, built for the Airliner III GB last year. I had a lot of fun building both of them. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old thumper Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 (edited) Although I acknowledge probably not Airfix's best kit, this is my favorite Airfix kit of all time the P-38F Lightning. I have built a number of these kits over the years and currently have three built examples in my collection plus one of two in the stash and will no doubt buy more. This kit is Airfix's second P-38 kit first released about 1972-4, their first P-38 kit being a J model dating from the late 1950's. First off the Pacific based sharks teeth box top version everyone knows and loves. Secondly "Pudgy", the alternative scheme from the kits most recent release. The original B- side scheme for this kit was for a North Africa based aircraft. And lastly a build which took sometime to complete, a re-scribed desert camouflaged P-38G. Just as a side note, from a small number of pictures and film clips there is evidence that a limited number of aircraft were given a desert camouflage scheme. Edited November 22, 2017 by old thumper 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 It's funny how you perceive nostalgia. The P38 above is like a new kit to me! By the time T4 kits were appearing, I was passing out of model building for a while, so those type boxes are not ones I remember buying first time around. I returned to modelling again in my mid twenties but as a car modeller, interests having changed in the meanwhile. Now I'm greedy and want the lot! ' Want' and ' Can Have' are two different things though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 I for one would love to see more of your non-aircraft nostalgia builds @Ratch. That Black Prince is excellent. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg B Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Gents, please refrain from needlessly repeating a whole post and its pictures when quoting. Its poor form for those scrolling through the thread to continually have to scroll through repeat after repeat. Use the edit function and minimise the repeats thanks. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old thumper Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 1 hour ago, TonyW said: It's funny how you perceive nostalgia. The P38 above is like a new kit to me! By the time T4 kits were appearing, I was passing out of model building for a while, so those type boxes are not ones I remember buying first time around. I returned to modelling again in my mid twenties but as a car modeller, interests having changed in the meanwhile. Now I'm greedy and want the lot! ' Want' and ' Can Have' are two different things though. Well I was born in 1968 so I was at the age of 10 in 1978, all or most of these kits were already here by then so I have pretty much spent my life with them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old thumper Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 39 minutes ago, Greg B said: Gents, please refrain from needlessly repeating a whole post and its pictures when quoting. Its poor form for those scrolling through the thread to continually have to scroll through repeat after repeat. Use the edit function and minimise the repeats thanks. Thanks, I see you are an administrator, could you just let us know if this thread belongs in Aircraft RFI and if not whether it could be moved? To begin with this topic was meant to be just aircraft but naturally as with all things Airfix we have digressed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 I always liked the Airfix 54mm figures. Nicely sculpted and with interchangeable parts. This was the French Polish Lancer (02553) converted to a British Private, 9th Light Dragoons (Lancers), 1817 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonM Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 19 hours ago, old thumper said: Thanks, I see you are an administrator, could you just let us know if this thread belongs in Aircraft RFI and if not whether it could be moved? To begin with this topic was meant to be just aircraft but naturally as with all things Airfix we have digressed. I will have thought the birds were the original ‘air craft’ - although I suppose that would behave been winged dinosaurs? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old thumper Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 4 hours ago, GordonM said: I will have thought the birds were the original ‘air craft’ - although I suppose that would behave been winged dinosaurs? Or perhaps it was the Aliens that brought them here? Only joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonM Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 1 hour ago, old thumper said: Or perhaps it was the Aliens that brought them here? Only joking. Don’t be silly, they’re space craft.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) Here is my F-86D, I dug the image out for another thread. OOB using the kit decals... cheers Plasto Edited November 24, 2017 by Plasto 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old thumper Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 2 hours ago, Plasto said: Here is my F-86D, OOB using the kit decals... cheers Plasto I remember building that one as a nipper, looking at yours inspires me to build another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) Here is another one the BN Islander / defender... again OOB with a mild rescribe... As as I find more images I’ll post em up.. found one the 1/72 Dinah... all painted markings on this one Edited November 24, 2017 by Plasto 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Airfix 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb (02046-2) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 A very early build of the Airfix Walrus. And a pair of restored BTK Spitfires. And to finish, a collection of early kits. About half are my builds, the rest are restored models bought over the years. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV (02042) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 (edited) Old bill bus with a few mods. Sheridan tank Matilda Tank. And Trevithick steam loco Edited November 29, 2017 by stevej60 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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