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[tomoose]

Stopped by a garage sale this morning and picked these two up for a couple of bucks.
Original packages unopened apparently.  I remember buying these as a kid with my pocket money so bought these out of pure nostalgia.

[asso58]

Pure nostalgia not only Yours, cheers

[cgagan]

Ah, these bring back memories...

[Alfie Noakes]

+1

Airfix models were a major part of my life in the late 1960's / early 70's   

Cheers

Alfie

[stanislao]

    A Tiger and a Panther were part of a 1:35 scale diorama of mine with which I won first prize in a modelling competition...Sigh,I was at age 12...

[BalDaddy]

Memories of working in a sweet shop cum newsagents at weekends in the early 1960s. Of the 7/6d I earned, 2/- would go on a card-topped Airfix kit like these.
Forward to the late nineties I produced signage for a new Delicatessen moving into what had been a toyshop in a small market town in which many such kits from the fifties were left behind. Unfortunately these remainders were the kits that weren't popular sellers, such as Historical Figures, sailing ships and farm equipment.

[Andy H]

Great find, tomoose! 

Took me back. Looks like I'm not the only one. 

[tomoose]

BalDaddy;

2/- IIRC is more or less 20p which I spent (pocketmoney) back in 72/73 although I may be off on the actual amount. 

Planes hanging by thread and thumbtack from the ceiling and vehicles on the shelf.  A headache from sitting too long in glue fumes too.  The good old days, LOL.

[Old_DaD]

Nice find guv.
My first was in 1966, An Airfix Dornier.
Glue all over the place, cockpit especially, but I was chuffed at completing it.
Me and my mates would hangout near the Airfix factory or Wharehouse, in Wandsworth, South London on Friday evening. Thats when they used to dump all the substandard kits.
Usually the bagged ones but if you were lucky it might be a bigger kit.
I like the slips to complain and get spare parts sent..used them a few times i can tell you.
Thanks for that memory.
Martin@OLD_DAD.

[larschance]

When I was 8 or 9 I built my first kit which was the Airfix Spitfire IX. The markings included Johnnie Johnson's four leaf clover. I went on to built the Fokker Dr1 in all red plastic which was easy to put together. I then ventured into the B24J and B17G, all Airifx.

60 years later I helped a great nephew build a Lancaster. I botched up one of the engines, covered with surplus glue and non spinning propellor. I told him it was enemy gun fire damage which he seemed satisfied with. Probably thought 'poor old fool'.

As said above, the glue could give you a headache in those olden days.

p.s. My all time favourite was the Japanese Ki100 fighter in a 1/48th scale but I think that was by Revell not Airfix.

[cgagan]

 

[Mission_bug]

I cannot imagine a world without Airfix, such a staple of youth, even now I am a IPMS member with a cupboard full of kits I will probably never make now due to ill health, happy days when you used to wait with growing anticipation for a new release turning up in the corner shop or the old Woolworths stores back then.

So much was their effect on me I made this, not only on many occasions in plastic as a youth but also in 3d at a ripe old age:

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,67604.0.html

They were not just bits of plastic for boys to sticky their fingers on with all that glue but truly inspirational in the types they covered for all manner of historical reasons, they quite literally made history at Airfix like many others could not.

Take care and be safe.

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.