Reminds me of Friday afternoon in Woolworth's after school. Bagged 1:72 kits were made for pocket money prices, unlike some of today's construction kits.
I remember building kits like this from Airfix and Revell back in the late 60s/ early 70s...whack 'em together with loads of glue from the tube, and before it's even properly dry, start painting with those awful tins of Airfix/Humbrol enamel paints that took days to dry properly - though I probably never gave them that time ('cause the paint did go on very thick!!), and then start doing the transfers (as they were always called - not decals!).... I loved 'em! 😆 They must have looked terrible! But hey, I was only 8, 9, 10...I did my best! Ha Ha!! Not like today, where time is taken with everything, and everything gets time to cure and dry properly - no enamels allowed - and now I can actually produce a pretty decent kit! 😉 The result that you got with this one was pretty damn good considering you made it with no filler, card filets, and no enamel paints!! (not a fan of them either - the fumes are horrible!)...... call the slight streaky acrylic paint look a 'natural wear 'n tear' or patina! The fact that those 65 year old transfers (decals, if you must!) actually worked still, and didn't shatter when you put them in the water is really quite amazing 🤩 Good quality stuff used back then! Just goes to show that you can be over 60 and not get all wrinkly..!! Ha Ha Ha! 😂
You’re like the Bob Ross of modelling it’s so relaxing. Never made an incredibly old kit I’ve grown up with all this new technology but my uncle probably has plenty of experience with kits from the 50s and 60s
I miss the seventies, local hobby shop was owned by a couple Vietnam veterans, jamm we d with kits, Wall to Wall, floor to ceiling. I love old airfix kits.
Purchased from the post office in Breaston, 1968 for 1/6 (One shilling and sixpence - 7.5p today) Marvellous memories. A school friend used to cut the transfers out and stick them on complete with backing paper with the airfix cement until I put him right! lol
Nice one. It would be nice to get one of these and build it with a 'that's good enough' mentality, drop some of the 'perfectionist' attitude that I sometime get these days. I like your style. Also, excellent Spanish City coffee mug at the start, there.
Hi, The reason for the Airfix kits being in bags was due to a deal they struck with Woolworths. It was so they could keep the prices down and sell them cheap in their shops. Very nice build for such an old model.
The first kit I built was the Airfix Westland Lysander which came in a plastic bag the same as your Lightning, that was at the tender age of 13 which is 66 years ago. It wasn't a success for me, I was so naive I couldn't understand why the polystyrene glue wouldn't stick the decals on, I'd never heard of waterside decals. Best wishes Vic
@@nostalgicplastic4323 It definitely was! The little turbocharges were separate parts, with very fine detail and overall shapes were much better. I re-scribed all rised panel lines on it, made detailed cockpit and gear wells with pieces of scrap plastic and stretched sprues. I also had some basic PE upgrade for it, made by a local guy at his home. Painted it in all-metal color scheme. Too bad, it is now lost to history...
*Series 2 Type 1 Bags* DH Mosquito - 1957 Supermarine Walrus - 1958 Bristol Beaufighter - 1958 Lockheed P38J Lightning - 1958 *Series 2 Type 2 Bags* includes Type 1 four plus .. Fairey Swordfish - 1958 Me 110 - 1959 Hawker Hunter - 1960 Saunders Roe SRN-1 - 1960 EE Lightning F1 - 1963 Most of those found their way initially into Type 2 Boxes and all went to Type 3 boxes during the 1960's where numbers where gradually being added to tooling along with new instructions. Some 1st issues where unique coloured plastic not seen for long like the Me110 in green (also applies to Series 1 A/C and Veteran Cars). Stands changed from Rectangular (scaled down Aurora copy) to Teardrop during Type 1 (Series 1 kits) and Teardrop to the more common V 'Star Trek badge' shape during Type 2 with S M L size variations. Similar for AV, Cars and Railway kits. Although there were exceptions most Series 2 bag headers where 8'' wide, Series 1 where generally 7'' wide. Did you have any plans for the left over Display Stand or Complaint slip?
@@nostalgicplastic4323- Same here, still am tbh and glad to be, that was all before I was born, the Saturn V was the biggest kit I made as a kid but as an adult have some bagged kits in a display cabinet with some more recentish builds and have a hefty collection mostly cobbled back together from loose stuff in new bags, my version of 'building' old kits and in doing so knowledge has collected free. I've added the release dates above which show how Series 2 bags were phased out by the mid 1960's hence missing from our memories. re Stand, thanks thought it better to ask first.
just come back to the hobby after 50 years , they are not 2/6 any more Lol , even Ebay people are wanting top doller for old kits, makes you wonder how people can afford these huge stashes
Yer never read the instructions just followed the picture And some one said the glue would go everywhere and the paints in the tins were shit yer there called transfer not decals
