Airfix scale model kits
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Do I really need another Spitfire in my collection? Oh, yes! (or: how an old dream came true)
To the fortunately unasked question of whether "another Spitfire" is really necessary, I would answer: of course! One reason for this lies in the enormous range of what "Spitfire" can mean, as a Mk.I has very little in [...]
Airfix 1/72 A-4B Skyhawk, VA-15 Valions, USS Intrepid, Tonkin Gulf 1967
Hi all,
In order to keep the illusion going for the kids, I always purchase gifts for my wife and myself to put under the tree with their gifts around Christmas. For myself I usually just get something cheap and so this year I bought the [...]
Eye of the Tiger
I know…here we go again, here comes another stinking P-40, and a “Flying Tiger” one at that.
But…Please bear with me.
When I was a kid in the 1950’s, the “Flying Tigers”…the pilots of Claire Chennaults’s American [...]
Airfix 1/72 Dakota – D-Day Doll
Hi There,
So, last year when the Dakotas were at Prestwick I took a run through on the Saturday with Innis and his pal on what turned out to be a particulary typical Scottish summer day.
We were able to get on board D-Day Doll which for me [...]
W.I.P. Airbus A 300 DHL wash.
W.I.P. Airbus A 300 DHL ... wash and scrateches. A matt lacquer will follow. Then the final finish. Airfix model kit.
Airfix Vampire
From a few years ago here’s my 1/72 Airfix De Havilland Vampire T. 11. At the time I made this one I had done a couple of the “new Airfix” kits and was very much enjoying them. I picked this one up as an impulse buy and found it to [...]
Swift
And another one of my older kits to archive, here’s my 1/72 Airfix Supermarine Swift FR 5 from about 5 years ago. When I was a “littler” kid in the late 60’s I made several of the old Hawk Models Swifts. Those were always fun kits [...]
Airfix 1/48 Bolton Paul Defiant
Very nice kit from Airfix and rare topiic from WWII RAF.
