Model Kits

[darren]

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[marc]

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Did anybody have one of these kits?

[Mulletino]

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Nope, but i'd have loved one! (still would)

[darren]

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[darren]

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[darren]

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[victorbrunswick]

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Anybody remember the snap together kits? The one I remember having was the Monogram kit of a Sopwith Camel piloted by Snoopy.

[Pussywillow]

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Nope, but i'd have loved one! (still would)

and me. Off to look on E-bay now !

[Donald the Great]

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We had very little to amuse ouselves at my our draconian boarding school. So I took up model areoplane making. Every family visiting day Mum would bring me a new model and I would begin immediately the family left and proudly show them next time they visited. The students had a model plane competition from time to time. I recall I won it at least five times. The winner pocketed the other boys lollies. I must have made 100 model planes during those days. My fave were the Brit Spitfire and Hurricane and WW2 German bombers.

[battyrat]

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Some of those kits were bloody hard ! Especially if the pieces didn't fit together very well as they did sometimes. Could never do those car ones

Anyone remember Frog kits ? Now they were damnmed hard and the instructions were terrible !

A couple of Frog Model planes I made back in 2013 for fun.


Got the plans from somewhere.Both were good fliers and had lots of fun with them that year,Hay fever included.

[Pussywillow]

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A couple of Frog Model planes I made back in 2013 for fun.


Got the plans from somewhere.Both were good fliers and had lots of fun with them that year,Hay fever included.

The Frog kits I recall didn't look like those....

[Semi42]

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Mostly airfix kits, I was even in the airfix modellers club that was fronted by Dick Emery
i remember one of the modelling tips was to make bullet holes in the models by holding a pin in a pair of pliers, heating it up on the gas stove , and piercing the model with the pin.
hence I had a Sunderland flying boat that looked like a tea bag and my mother asking what was that awful smell in the kitchen

[Semi42]

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Some of those kits were bloody hard ! Especially if the pieces didn't fit together very well as they did sometimes. Could never do those car ones

Anyone remember Frog kits ? Now they were damnmed hard and the instructions were terrible !

i remember getting a BSA motorcycle kit from airfix and the instructions were written with one illustration of the whole exploded view and lots of instructions like , attach the front crankcase half to the left hand gearbox sprocket.
i threw the lot in the bin in frustration.

thing I’d I could easily do it now

[battyrat]

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I think I may still have my Airfix modelers club badge somewhere.