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A lad lived down my road who I envied intensely because his Dad had bought him BOTH the Spitfire and Me109 1:24th scale Superkits - and built and painted them for him!
Did the French fly the Blenheim ?
Going back to the main thread......
Frog weren't good quality, but they did rare unusal stuff no one else did back in those IIRC.
I remember clearing out my parents loft some years back and found a box of unmade kits including many Frog ones, that my late Father must have stashed up there instead of throwing out, years and years before when I'd flown the nest and long since forgotten about them.
A bit of net trawling turned up some specialist's in selling unmade kits, and I ended up getting quite a few quid for them as some were now rare.....
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1971... The mind has gone... 
Frog... I seem to remember that... It's a bit foggy... but I do recall one manufacturer providing the whole shebang... I think I had one or two of them but they were things like tanks, jeeps and half tracks IIRC. I don't recall Matchbox doing models at all... Cars... Yes... Had loads of them.
1/24th Scale... Ahhh... Those were mere dreams... Practically flyable in the mind of this young lad... A mate had a Me 109... Perfectly painted etc. It was the bees...
GeeRam: I read something a few years ago about unmade models being worth a lot if they were from back when we were young... It struck me as pretty silly that they were worth so much unassembled and someone would spend all that money just to not assemble them...
Frog... I seem to remember that... It's a bit foggy... but I do recall one manufacturer providing the whole shebang... I think I had one or two of them but they were things like tanks, jeeps and half tracks IIRC. I don't recall Matchbox doing models at all... Cars... Yes... Had loads of them.
1/24th Scale... Ahhh... Those were mere dreams... Practically flyable in the mind of this young lad...
A mate had a Me 109... Perfectly painted etc. It was the bees...GeeRam: I read something a few years ago about unmade models being worth a lot if they were from back when we were young... It struck me as pretty silly that they were worth so much unassembled and someone would spend all that money just to not assemble them...
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I always thought that Airfix should have sold the Spitfire model with the undercarriage ripped off, no perpex and only one tail plane. The models always end up like that having been flown around the garden a gazillion times and used as a welcome gift by the dog.
And Airfix glue is great for removing chewing gum from car seats by the way. Or at least that's what my five year old claims.
And Airfix glue is great for removing chewing gum from car seats by the way. Or at least that's what my five year old claims.
But how do you remove the glue from the seat?
Airfix was always the price leader apart from (at some times) strange rebagged Frogs (like an FD.2) or weird bagged Hellers (1/100th Magisters are not large).
The Sunderland was the only Series 6 until the Stirling. Must have been a Shorts deal.
Airfix were fond of retractable landing gears with fixed doors. The wonder of making the gear work always seemed to make up for the fact that it looked odd.
Revell's WW2 fighter series were 2s 11d but had niceties like visible engines and sliding cockpits.
Airfix was always the price leader apart from (at some times) strange rebagged Frogs (like an FD.2) or weird bagged Hellers (1/100th Magisters are not large).
The Sunderland was the only Series 6 until the Stirling. Must have been a Shorts deal.
Airfix were fond of retractable landing gears with fixed doors. The wonder of making the gear work always seemed to make up for the fact that it looked odd.
Revell's WW2 fighter series were 2s 11d but had niceties like visible engines and sliding cockpits.
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My first kit was the Walrus, and the second this Skyraider.. a series 2!
Series 1s came in bags, and went for 16 pence. Series 3's were 29p and Series 2s were 21p. Pots of paint were 4p.
Never used liquid glue, bah. Modern fangled stuff.
I really wanted the Handley Page Hamden, but never got it. Got the really big (18" wingspan!
), the big ME109 for 2 Xmas's on the trot. God, I was happy as a pig in sh#t.
Frog made rubbish kits, but not as rubbish as Revell though.
Series 1s came in bags, and went for 16 pence. Series 3's were 29p and Series 2s were 21p. Pots of paint were 4p.
Never used liquid glue, bah. Modern fangled stuff.
I really wanted the Handley Page Hamden, but never got it. Got the really big (18" wingspan!
), the big ME109 for 2 Xmas's on the trot. God, I was happy as a pig in sh#t.Frog made rubbish kits, but not as rubbish as Revell though.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Spitfire and Gloster Gladiator were mine - the first two kits issued.
I had a Lysander, it would never have flown with 3 tins of paint on it - all gloss.
I also remember a Canberra of unknown provenance as it was made differently from every other model. The fuselage was made of cylinders and not halves.
Always wants a B36 but we only lived in a small semi
I had a Lysander, it would never have flown with 3 tins of paint on it - all gloss.
I also remember a Canberra of unknown provenance as it was made differently from every other model. The fuselage was made of cylinders and not halves.
Always wants a B36 but we only lived in a small semi
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Propellors and wheels that could spin round, gun turrets moving. What was the point? Mine usually got stuck by my messy use of glue anyway.
I remember getting a Vickers Valiant in a box - that must have been in the late 50's or up to 1960.
I remember getting a Vickers Valiant in a box - that must have been in the late 50's or up to 1960.
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Frog's Oxford was my first. My father brought three different kits home one evening from a sale - and started an "arms race" he came to regret between me and my two brothers.
Aurora had some specials: WWI fighters with crew - 1/24?
Aurora had some specials: WWI fighters with crew - 1/24?
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Safety_Helmut: Did the French fly the Blenheim ?
(Scroll past the first "PC" boxtop and "voila!")
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Also Lindberg and Monogram!
Even found my FROG Oxford here:
http://www.avkits.net/index.html
's - Love you!
Even found my FROG Oxford here:
http://www.avkits.net/index.html
's - Love you!
Decimalisation - 1968 v 1971
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I supect that you are both right in a sense because, whilst 15 Feb 71 was D-day, I understand that decimalisation was actually first introduced in 1968 when five and pence coins were issued in lieu of shillings and florins respectively.
Going back to FEARLESS herself, it's quite interesting that ORAC's thread with a nearly identical title started over five and a half years ago - and no mention of models!
Jack
PS Horrified at all you glue sniffers - mind you, I always thought that the old-style marker pens smelled rather special ....
I supect that you are both right in a sense because, whilst 15 Feb 71 was D-day, I understand that decimalisation was actually first introduced in 1968 when five and pence coins were issued in lieu of shillings and florins respectively.
Going back to FEARLESS herself, it's quite interesting that ORAC's thread with a nearly identical title started over five and a half years ago - and no mention of models!
Jack
PS Horrified at all you glue sniffers - mind you, I always thought that the old-style marker pens smelled rather special ....
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I supect that you are both right in a sense because, whilst 15 Feb 71 was D-day, I understand that decimalisation was actually first introduced in 1968 when five and pence coins were issued in lieu of shillings and florins respectively
[Don's tin hat and prepares to repel boarders]
Just got in from the pub, where I was in discussion about this very thread, and it all came flooding back.
Matchbox made kits with componantsi n TWO colours, thus no need for paint. The Zero i think was green and red, whilst the Lysander was two shades of brown.
I bid you all a single malt enabled goodnight!
Matchbox made kits with componantsi n TWO colours, thus no need for paint. The Zero i think was green and red, whilst the Lysander was two shades of brown.
I bid you all a single malt enabled goodnight!
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Matchbox made kits with componantsi n TWO colours, thus no need for paint.
I bid you all a single malt enabled goodnight!
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Saw a programme about rocketry the other night - and it reminded me that I had built the Saturn V model - what a great kit. Also, the space shuttle, (with big tank and rockets, not the one on top of the 747), as well as the lunar lander (Eagle). I also had the 'astronauts' 1:72 box of soldiers with moon buggies, experiments and flags, ... Oh, and the Orion shuttle from '2001 - A Space Odyssey'.
I also had both the transporter and the patrol ship from Space 1999, but I'm not sure whther they were Airfix or matchbox?
(Also a Star Trek Enterprise, but that was definitely not Airfix and the long pylons the engines were mounted on were definitely not designed to operate in Earth gravity... or maybe I just didn't let the glue dry for long enough).
God, I was a geek!
I also had both the transporter and the patrol ship from Space 1999, but I'm not sure whther they were Airfix or matchbox?
(Also a Star Trek Enterprise, but that was definitely not Airfix and the long pylons the engines were mounted on were definitely not designed to operate in Earth gravity... or maybe I just didn't let the glue dry for long enough).
God, I was a geek!
