Airfix Catalogue 1973 Page by Page (Vintage Catalog) 10th Edition 

Lovely - great memories - thank you for sharing

I had this catalogue when I was 9 (in 1973) and I used to love drawing the aircraft from it. My favourite aircraft to draw was the 1/24 Hurricane. There was a painting competition in my primary school (in 1974 ) and I entered it. I decided that I would paint the 1/24 Hurricane. I painted it from memory. I knew every inch of that plane. It wasn't Roy Cross standard, but it looked really good, especially coming from a 10 year old. A couple of weeks later, my little class buddies ran up to me in excitement and said that I had won the competition. Everybody thought it looked great, especially the teachers. The prize was great too, it was £5.00. A lot of money in 1974. I don't have the painting anymore, which is a shame, but I have that great memory.

Always loved the box art.

This is the one I've been waiting for - thanks so much for showing these catalogues. As a 10/11 year old I knew this catalogue inside out back in the day, and have built lots of the kits from it. I lost the catalogue many years ago and have been looking for a copy to buy, so it's been great to look through it again now. Very nostalgic, thanks again.

I remember as a kid my dad bringing this home, used to save my pocket money to buy the boxes of soldiers, both sizes, I used the 1/32 to play outside with my friends and 1/72 to play indoors, also I got the FAL Rifle in the back of the catalogue for christmas, great memories.

Made so many of those kits, then school / uni studying got in the way and I found I had no time and stopped. The only one I have left, built with the original box, is the human skeleton. Wish I’d kept the rest, but that’s a lifetime ago. Great memories.

Have a mint copy of this edition in the stash, fantastic memories👌

Probably I've got one of this catalogue, 72 to 75.... Airfix Catalogues at that time and in my region was a pretty precious and rare stuff. A lot of memories.... I was pretty young.

How that brings back memories. The Lancaster was scarce where I lived, so I had to settle for the Liberator.

This was a great catalogue in those days. Page 24 Harrier : it was never released with this original RCross painting on the box top, I do have this original paintings "rough" pencil drawing in my collection...awesome stuff 🙂

It's so nostalgic❤

It’s hard to believe how big Airfix was

Back in 1973 I was a three year old Pork! As I got older and started building kits, I used to love the Airfix Apollo kits. I made a load of Saturn V’s, Lunar Modules and even the recovery helicopter, but in Brighton I could never find the Vostok rocket or the Saturn 1B; my parents searched high and low, but never found them!. Great video, thanks for this

Hey new friend. i hope all is well and you are looking forward to a productive week.

thanks a lot for sharing, more easier on RU-vid to consult models catalog than internet, so thanks again : please from OO/HO sodiers figures, the afrika korps is showing a drawing front cover box with an officer inside kubelwagen : never seen this boxart before, so is it a prototyp or really produced with this artbox ? take care dear Fellow...

Nice Video

I had the Airfix FN rifle with the little plastic bullets and rubber bayonet so you wouldn’t hurt your mates when playing army 😀

Back when a Series 1 kit cost 18p and almost every newsagent and corner shop had a rotating rack of baggies.

I remember the motorbike kits built them all and swopped parts on the Norton.

Same year as I was born, though the catalogue is in better condition lol

Love the action artwork, featuring real combat. Can't do that now, might scare the Karens. Pity.

I've built a fair few of those 1/32 scale cars like the DB5, Beetle and Ford 3litre GT. Unfortunately all were up to date "starter sets". In my opinion, the tooling is now no longer good enough, especially for beginners.

had that one kept it till it fell apart

Is that a Bronco versus a Mig-21? RIP Bronco.