HMS Fearless gets scrapped.
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HMS Fearless gets scrapped.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7024769.stm
I loved my Airfix kit of her.
God, the smell and sight of a virginal pot of Airfix gloss as you first opened it. G4 was gloss black I think. M11 was the RAF blue. Again, I think.
And as for getting a naughty whiff of that glue..
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I loved my Airfix kit of her.
God, the smell and sight of a virginal pot of Airfix gloss as you first opened it. G4 was gloss black I think. M11 was the RAF blue. Again, I think.
And as for getting a naughty whiff of that glue..
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IIRC, G4 was Black... M11 is familiar but I won't commit to it's color... 
Airfix... <sigh>... Newspaper spread out on the kitchen table... the smells... the sharp knife to clean the parts... all those paints that you convinced Dad to buy you because it "demanded" it on the plans... Displaying the finished product to anyone who would look... then, a few months later, destroying it in "air combat"... Only to save up to buy another model...
Airfix... <sigh>... Newspaper spread out on the kitchen table... the smells... the sharp knife to clean the parts... all those paints that you convinced Dad to buy you because it "demanded" it on the plans... Displaying the finished product to anyone who would look... then, a few months later, destroying it in "air combat"... Only to save up to buy another model...
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My dad ruined my HMS Discovery. 
I used to glue bangers into the ones I didn't like..
Using sellotape to get a straight line. Ballsing up the gloss on the MRCA and ending up with paint about half an inch thick.
I used to glue bangers into the ones I didn't like..
Using sellotape to get a straight line. Ballsing up the gloss on the MRCA and ending up with paint about half an inch thick.
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I used to glue bangers into the ones I didn't like..
I used to take out the prop and drill a hole in the rear, (we're talking Spit's, Hurricanes, 109's etc.), thread a fine cord through them that went from my bedroom window to the ground outside. Then, with the judicious use of Airfix glue (fresh, un-dried), and fire we would create the classic "Going down in flames"... So much fun, so many memories...
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Fascinating. I bet you two old duffers are a scream at the RAFA club.
AIRFIX AND YOU WERE BUILDING SHIPS.....?????????
Kommen sie bitter und listen to Kraftwerk!!!! - hang your heads in shame.
My flying choice in the school sandpit was the 'Brewster Buffalo' - Nuff Said.
Kommen sie bitter und listen to Kraftwerk!!!! - hang your heads in shame.
My flying choice in the school sandpit was the 'Brewster Buffalo' - Nuff Said.
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AIRFIX AND YOU WERE BUILDING SHIPS.....?????????
HMS Victory
HMS Hood
Bismark
Aircraft I can remember:-
Camel
Fokker Drie(sp?)
Another WWI British kite I forget the name of
Spitfire
Hurricane
ME109
Lot's more... But I just got called for dinner... So I have to go...
Demand the rest if you really need them...
AA...
Looks to me, that apart from birthdays, when Auntie Linda bought you the big kits, you were a series one, plastic bag 'wannabe'...
2 or 3 on middle class pocketmoney
Looks to me, that apart from birthdays, when Auntie Linda bought you the big kits, you were a series one, plastic bag 'wannabe'...
2 or 3 on middle class pocketmoney
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I didn't have an Auntie Linda...
Did yours do something absolutely rotten to you when you were young?
But it seems to me that you are a bit younger than me... I don't recall the plastic bag kits till I was 10 or more... Everything Airfix was in a box when I started... Including all the little 1/78th(?) scale "Armies"... (8th Army "Desert Rats" etc...)
Did yours do something absolutely rotten to you when you were young?
But it seems to me that you are a bit younger than me... I don't recall the plastic bag kits till I was 10 or more... Everything Airfix was in a box when I started... Including all the little 1/78th(?) scale "Armies"... (8th Army "Desert Rats" etc...)
About 2 years younger... which makes it about right. Series 2 came in at 25p and were the boxed kits. Series 1 were about 18p. Around the time of decimalisation. - so my Father tells me...
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From "Don't Cry For Me Sergeant Major".
Just after the landings at San Carlos..........
"As another three Argentinian jets screeched over, a Marine shouted up at the pilot. 'Fearless is the one with the two black balls on the mast, there's a fiver in it for you if you get the cooks on board.' "
Just after the landings at San Carlos..........
"As another three Argentinian jets screeched over, a Marine shouted up at the pilot. 'Fearless is the one with the two black balls on the mast, there's a fiver in it for you if you get the cooks on board.' "
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Henry crun, please stop taking this thread where it clearly doesn't want to go.
Wasn't G10 silver? And did anyone graduate to using 'Liquid Glue' that dried up and fell apart after about a month?
Wasn't G10 silver? And did anyone graduate to using 'Liquid Glue' that dried up and fell apart after about a month?
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Ahhh Happy memories of popping onto FEARLESS for a quick dhoby before going ashore again.................
Airfix............Dogfight doubles...ME110 and Spitfire..sat on a plastic A frame.
My first model was a JU 88........it too ended up with 0.5 inch paint job!
No one has mentioned Duck Egg Blue.......essential for most British aircraft!
Airfix............Dogfight doubles...ME110 and Spitfire..sat on a plastic A frame.
My first model was a JU 88........it too ended up with 0.5 inch paint job!
No one has mentioned Duck Egg Blue.......essential for most British aircraft!
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Ah yes, snivelling in a school dormitory, making up Fearless as my first plastic model, and then finding that I really should have put the landing craft dock inside before gluing the hull together ....
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Around the time of decimalisation. - so my Father tells me...
I was buying models before decimalization which was 1968 wasn't it... Making me < 10. If you wanted to go cheap back then you bought Revell(sp?). There was another manufacturer too wasn't there... They went out of business, (well, they disappeared from the modelling scene), probably in the early to mid seventies... I can't remember the name but they were the real "low end" that even pre-teen boys sneered at...
Series 1 - 2s
Series 2 - 3s 6d
Series 3 - 4s 6d
Series 4 - 6s
Series 5 - 7s 6d
Series 6 - 10s 6d
Then came the day I went to buy the M3 halftrack OR the F5 (decisions, decisions - only 2s pocket money) and found - horrors - that the price of Series 1 had gone up to 2s 3d
Sad intro to the realities of inflation and increasing oil prices for a 12y/o with no experience of same.
Series 2 - 3s 6d
Series 3 - 4s 6d
Series 4 - 6s
Series 5 - 7s 6d
Series 6 - 10s 6d
Then came the day I went to buy the M3 halftrack OR the F5 (decisions, decisions - only 2s pocket money) and found - horrors - that the price of Series 1 had gone up to 2s 3d
Sad intro to the realities of inflation and increasing oil prices for a 12y/o with no experience of same.
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Airborne Aircrew
Decimalisation was 1971! The other manufacturer you were thinking about was probably Matchbox - deep engraved anel lines and bits that didn't fit as they were supposed to.
Decimalisation was 1971! The other manufacturer you were thinking about was probably Matchbox - deep engraved anel lines and bits that didn't fit as they were supposed to.