Oh yeah! Now you're taxing the brain cell!

Classic!

Like the fireworks of the day....

"Light blue touchpaper and retire"

So I'd always go to bed 

I think Airfix and Railways arrived at roughly the same time for me in the mid 1960s, Unfortunately all the Built model kits got binned by my parents every time Dad got posted..
Once I started work, I built some of the Tamiya F1 racing car kits, they got left at my Parents when I got posted, I've never seen them again, I suspect my nephews and nieces destroyed them, like they did to a lot of my model railway layout..

The last aircraft kit I've partly built is the 1/32 Revell Tornado F2 , Heavily modified, into a parked  F3 with nose open to display the radar I worked on..Still some mods to finish it though, it's sitting in the foam lined Tin case I brought it back from Saudi in, 20 yeas ago. It's waiting for me to finish the model rail shed, where there is a corner allocated for it currently under the stack of railway models and kits..

Oh I did build a Boat from Scratch out in Saudi, 1:1 scale 18ft long, that came back in it's own tin box.. an ISO container. I'm retoring that at the moment..

Started with Hornby 0 gauge clockwork, kits were for balsa and tissue sailplanes, late 50s Dublo and Triang for sons, N gauge after leaving RAF in '74, still going.

My brother and myself made plenty of the Airfix airplane kits when we were teenagers and hung them from our bedroom ceiling. Dad was always telling us to not rush the construction. A few of my kits had fingerprints etched into the clear canopies - not sure how that happened! One of my favourites was the English Electric Lightning, which I painted silver.

I think my first taste of modelling was getting cardboard boxes from the local Co-op and making them into cars, buses and boats for my toys.

From there I played with my Dad's OO layout and built a tunnel from a shoebox and paper-mache following a feature on Blue Peter.

I did manage to build a good number of Airfix kits along the way:
Red Arrow hawk
Sopwith pup (or was it a camel?)
Tiger Moth
Hurricane
Spitfire
Lancaster Bomber
Seaking
HMS Belfast
8mm Flack gun and tractor
Harrier
RAF Rescue Launch
Scorpion

Apart from the Harrier and HMS Belfast I think they were all to 1:72 scale. A large proportion came from my grandparents as birthday and Christmas presents over a few years. They were Dutch which explains the lack of German WW2 models...

Steven B.

I also remember getting a air gun Pistol and trying to shoot down one of the planes hanging on the ceiling. Not sure how I missed it was a Lancaster bomber, I also sunk a aircraft carrier with 1p bangers, you know those standard firework ones.

Quote from: exmouthcraig on June 15, 2020, 04:26:58 PM
....Kev was heavily involved in the MOD upgrading of the Nimrod from MR2 to MRA4 and was in Kinloss on active service until the day the project was scrapped.

2014 I purchased an Airfix Nimrod kit. . . .

I've just purchased a Revell Avro Shackleton kit because I spent a week as an RAF Cadet in Kinloss in 1957 and got a flight in one. Only just back into modelling so a bit hesitant about tackling it.

@OffshoreAlan I do believe @class37025 has purchased one of these,

Alan you started building it yet???

MR.3 still awaiting building,
AEW.2 in progress
plus Airfix
MR.2 in progress, plus a couple built
AEW.2 in progress plus one built

must have caught the bug at Ballykelly, well I was always told four screws was better than four blow jobs 

Nimrod still firmly in the stash, must actually finish more projects  :'(

both the Airfix and new Revell Shacks are superb kits, far away from the ex-Frog MR.3s, and you can now choose to fit the Vipers in the outboard nacelles for the MR.3, or have without.

Yes, definitely. First kit was a FIAT G91 from the NAAFI shop in Münster (Dad was REME). I had loads of kits, mainly aircraft - living in West Wales as a teenager in the 1980s, there was nothing else to do on long winter nights or wet weekends.

I built a few kits with my son when he was growing up - he's now into Warhammer figures.

Quote from: class37025 on June 15, 2020, 07:10:24 PM
didn't Playcraft morph into Jouef, or was it the 'toy' arm of Jouef.

in the day the detail on Jouef compared to Hornby and Triang was amazing.

Yes it was the cheap starter stuff from Jouef.  I had a Playcraft set from Woollies back in the 70s, a little 4 wheel diesel shunter and a couple of wagons. It ran quite well but the wheels were brass and tended to get dirty rapidly. Non-standard couplings too.

I'm afraid I've never rated Jouef particularly highly, not compared to Fleischmann and Trix anyway.

My first kit at age of 7 was a Revell P40 and I was hooked right away  next weeks pocket money went on a F4U Corsair after that it depened on what the local toyshop/ tobacconists or Woolies had and how far  I could stretch my pocket money.

Quote from: 37214 on June 16, 2020, 06:28:17 PM
Yes, definitely. First kit was a FIAT G91 from the NAAFI shop in Münster (Dad was REME). I had loads of kits, mainly aircraft - living in West Wales as a teenager in the 1980s, there was nothing else to do on long winter nights or wet weekends.

I built a few kits with my son when he was growing up - he's now into Warhammer figures.

Really?  My father was also REME and we lived in Münster from 1973/4 to 1976. I was also a teenager in the 1980s (born in 1964). I remember some of my time in Münster very well, lived in Billerbeckweg and used to play football against the Germans regularly in 20-a-side matches.

I didn't make many Airfix kits at the time but did quite a few Airfix railway kits later on.

Quote from: exmouthcraig on June 16, 2020, 04:19:08 PMAlan you started building it yet???

  No, not yet, still digesting the instructions.  Probably be done by Christmas.

Hi all,

Now I am really feeling my age!

My first ever kit was from Airfix - Churchill Tank!

My first railway kits were Faller and Vollmer buildings

My first 'proper' railway kits were Rosebud/Kitmaster mk1 coaaches.

Thanks
Phil H