Aviation Nostalgia Forum | First plastic kit you built ?

People of a certain age used to build Airfix or Frog plastic aircraft kits mine was the Black Hawker Hunter about 1963

Think mine was the Golden Hind! Really just to see if I liked kits or not. First kit I got as a hobby was an Airfix Avro Ansen - series 2?.

Remember to this day I didn't have the proper colours only some that a neighbour who was into modelling gave me.

The green camouflage part was Brunswick Green gloss, which though totally inaccurate I thought looked great!

Airfix Braniff 747, bright orange! V early 80's.

I had that, remember spray painting it & leaving it on the floor, brother came home from work with his great sodding work boots on - guess the rest.

It ended up having four rockets strapped on the engines on bonfire night.

Welcome back Johansen, hope you had a good holiday!

yes how many migs, messerschmitts ,and other aircrafy ended up being launched skywards in november !! lol

RAF Sea King. Sooo frustrating but worth it when finished.

I've just recently finished a Spitfire, just to see if I still had the knack. Got a few bits a bit wrong but it still all went together. I was more pleased with the paint job. I've even got the girlfriend into the airfix kits, she's just done a F-117 and Red Arrow. Good job of them too.

I used to end up hanging most of mine on a tree at the bottom of the garden and blowing them to smithereens with the help of an air pistol!

I now cheat and collect diecast models instead.

Im halfway through the Revell / Monogram 1/48 C47

KLM DC-9 is the earliest I remember, a silvery coloured Airfix kit. I also had several Lufthansa 737 and 727-100s.

I think everyone had (at one time or another) the rather poor Airfix 747-100 as well. The engines were hopeless and the fuselage was always a pain in the arse to assemble. Revell did a much more realistic 747 but with nasty windows.

I also dabbled with some East German kits that Beatties imported (can't remember the name) who produced some pretty amazing Tupolevs and Ilyushins. They weren't 1/144 but seemed so exotic they were irresistible.

I can even pre date plastics! My first models were balsa wood kits by Airider, astral, frog and the rest. When balsa wood was in short supply, we had Obechi, slightly harder, but a better finish. The flying models suffered too, we couldn't get rubber for the motors, so in the kit was huge bundle of thin white rubbery material that had to be plaited to form the motor, what a bind, especially when 12 years old and itching to ge the new model flyng. The motors were only good for about three flights and then it was back to the grindstone!!

Ken

HI.
FROG did stand for flies right of the ground. It was called the interceptor fighter and actually came out before the war. The whole thing came in a box approx' 18" x 8" x 6". The fuselage was pressed thin alloy, wings and tail was shaped cardboard. Rubber motor with a small phial of rubber lube. Assembled, it was placed in slots in the side of the box. A gear box on the end of the box engaged with the propellor and a handle wound up the rubber motor, hand launch or ROG. I think they cost about 12/6. I think a biplane was introduced after the war called the Fury, I am not sure though.

Ken

cheers i read that somewhere but i wasnt sure thanx

hi think mine was Airfix me109 but i do also remember matchbox,which came in two or three colours before you built them.or did i just dream it ?

No you are not dreaming depending on the series or size of the kits they came in 2 3 or 4 colours