The Lancaster Bomber Magazine - Build your own model of the world's most famous WWII Bomber Issue one .50p then £4.99 for the other 124 which makes a grand total of £619.26 ! If only it was life size
The TV advert had me cackling last night. Something like "Using the very highest quality materials"... errr... wood apparently.
I wonder how many folks will do the whole thing ? These 50 weekly part things never really did it for me in terms of model aircraft or "detailed" figures etc .
Every "Build yourself a model" or "Collect this Unique Series" that I have subscribed to has gone bust before I managed to get halfway through. I dont think I will bother. The last Airfix Lancaster I built cost me about 18/6d. The smaller ones were 2/6d ( half a crown ). The large scale Spitfire and Me 109 cost me under £5 in the early seventies, I think I saw them recently for £24. I can fly with Ryanair for less than that and not get covered in paint and glue.
I would get so bored trying to do this model! Think about it, buy yourself a model kit and construct it at the rate of one piece a fortnight. See how far you get with it!
Yep, I'd rather have an Airfix kit, or the old Matchbox aircraft kits which were high quality from what I remember. Wonder where they are now?
I have seen Matchbox kits in my Local Model zone, do not think they are the same ones I did as a kid though. If they are using new sprues etc.....Interesting kits though. I used to love the matchbox models that came with the little dioramma bases!
Many people are taken in by the first and sometimes 2nd edition being almost given away (Just to get you on the hook) without taking time to see just how many editions are required and the final cost implications. I will stick with buying what I can see and knowing what I am paying. Regards Tom
Is this a flying model or what? How big is it? Even so you're much better off buying a plan from one of the several airmodelling plan editors plus the materials for a fraction of that. And even then I wouldn't advise anyone to tackle a 4-motor as a first project, by no means. This is a fools-trap only, it can never be serious. And Adam, a wooden model can be a thing of beauty, do not discount it for being simply wood I still remember the Veron and FROG (yes) models I built as a boy, actually my very first airmodel was a Slingsby glider kit by Veron. As for this one, even if buill I simply doubt it will be better than a brick.
Is this a flying model or what? How big is it? Even so you're much better off buying a plan from one of the several airmodelling plan editors plus the materials for a fraction of that. And even then I wouldn't advise anyone to tackle a 4-motor as a first project, by no means. This is a fools-trap only, it can never be serious. And Adam, a wooden model can be a thing of beauty, do not discount it for being simply wood I still remember the Veron and FROG (yes) models I built as a boy, actually my very first airmodel was a Slingsby glider kit by Veron. As for this one, even if buill I simply doubt it will be better than a brick. Miguel, You brought back happy memories of building the Frog and Kielkraft Balsa wood model aeroplanes. Made quite a few as a lad and they looked good when doped, painted and insignias in place. Some even flew pretty well with the wind up rubber band for power Never forget the day my big sister came home and accidentally (I think on purpose) destroyed my almost completed WW1 SE5A. Regards Tom
Isn't life grand? And here I am right in the heart of slope-soaring country and no time to enjoy it. We'll see
A little trivia... Did you know that Airfix kits were once manufactured by parent company Heller SA in Trun, Normandy. Trun formed part of the Falaise Pocket during WW2.
And Adam, a wooden model can be a thing of beauty, do not discount it for being simply wood I wasn't really Za, just laughing at their advertising boast . My old man scratch-builds planes and tanks from bits of old scrap wood and they're mighty pleasing things.
Revell own all the Matchbox moulds and are issuing all the old Matchbox kits in their range. They are exactly as before-except now as one colour mouldings
I built a couple of the Revell-boxed old Matchbox vehicles a while ago for a railway layout. The moulds are getting a bit...tired...now, extra flash and sags on the larger expanses of "flat" surface But still FAR better than some of the older Airfix ones - try making a "new" Matilda, for example....! Have to second on the Matchbox aircraft, though. Always were quality kits, somehow more substantial thatn Airfix, paticularly their biplanes. And they did a nice group of interwar RAF biplanes. But....there ARE plenty of specialist outlets that sell older kits....
Revell own all the Matchbox moulds and are issuing all the old Matchbox kits in their range. They are exactly as before-except now as one colour mouldings One colour only? What fun is that? One of my pet projects for when I find the time (hahaha!) would be to build olf Frog models as they come from the box, no photo etch, no resin, no nothing. Just for the nostalgia sake. My first airplane conversion was an Airfix Gnat trainer to single seat fighter using cork bits and candlewax, sometime in the late 60s Damn! If I grow a beard I'll look like a Ron Goldstein impersonator :p
The Lancaster Bomber Magazine - Build your own model of the world's most famous WWII Bomber Issue one .50p then £4.99 for the other 124 which makes a grand total of £619.26 ! If only it was life size Last monday I was speaking to my friend who owns a model shop nearby and in came a man enquiring about 1:6 scale figures. Marcus explained that he did not sell this scale, but the man standing nearby had an interest in that scale. It turned out that he had started to collect a magazine which gave out several parts every week (I think) to eventually build a WW1 Fokker Triplane of the RED BARON fame. After three years it was finished and cost over 500 Euros. He now required a pilot as the scale of the plane was, you guessed, 1:6. I provided a couple of websites where he may get lucky as I remembered that a while ago Dragon produced a 1:6 scale model of Baron Von Richthofen. Just goes to show how expensive these kind of models become. Regards Tom
On large model aircraft - I happen to know somebody's joined here recently that's making a 1/4 scale Spitfire... I do hope they show us more .
