Poor old Airfix.

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Terrible puns from the Guardian:

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1862483,00.html

Repellent patronising bullshit from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5304780.stm

"This all sounds a very violent, male-dominated world, on the verge of Anorakdom...."
(please just fuck off, whoever wrote that)

I haven't stuck together a model plane for years and years, but this makes me feel really sad. I used to enjoy it so much! Useless bloody things, once you've finished assembling & painting them, mind.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i was born in 1980, don't know how many people my age 'did' airfix, but i did and i felt sad too.

― Proxy Fule (Proxy Fule), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeremy Brook, secretary of the Airfix Collectors Club, said the plastic models probably saved countless marriages in their heyday because "husbands were too busy building their airfix kits to go out and chase women".

Who needs patbull from media, when you can get it from source.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

You patbull terrier you

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Best ones I can remember were the WW1 Vickers bomber, which looked fucking awesome when you'd built it up, though it got covered in dust pretty quickly, the Westland Lysander, where there was a little model of a SPY holding a BRIEFCASE no doubt full of SECRET STUFF, moulded in a posture of climbing the aircraft's ladder, and the german equivalent of the Lysander (who am I trying to kid here? The Henschel 123) where there was a little model figure of a luftwaffe photographer holding a camera over the edge of the plane.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

YES @ the lysander. the first plane i made -- i mean 'that my dad made for me', of course.

― Proxy Fule (Proxy Fule), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

the props on the lysander would spin round when blown on -- a rarity, i think (but then i always overdid the glue).

― Proxy Fule (Proxy Fule), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurricane I, spitfire IIa, spitfire Vb, me109e, ju87b, p-38, and a lancaster III all 1:72

the lancaster had a nasty prang in 1997 when it flew off a speaker due to immense noise

― DG (The DG), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.2iemeguerre.com/avions/images/lysanderm.jpg

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

brilliant.

― Proxy Fule (Proxy Fule), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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