Airfix tweet

[AlanG]

Saw this on another forum and thought it was hitting the nail on the head.

[Gary MacKenzie]

That is their response to people getting a bit confused by some of the models they highlight as ''fantastic builds'' e.g. the Stalingrad diorama with tanks from 1939-1945 all in the same diorama.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1473952053164658699

[langy71]

A good response from Airfix in my opinion, it's designed to make folk stop and think for a moment before 'posting' that vitriolic post they've just finished writing.

for example,
whilst building the ICM Spitfire, I happened across a thread on another popular 'modelling' site in which folks were discussing various details about the good old Spitfire, after two or three pages it rapidly descended into little more than a full on a slag fest, where folks wouldn't accept differing opinions and more importantly actual proof of the differences.

Multiple times I read various replies, that were little more than 'That version of that aircraft only ever had that piece of equipment fitted because they'd run out of those parts at the time so they fitted this part instead, and an old friend who used to ride his pushbike past the assembly plants never saw it..

[Tim Marlow]

A good response from Airfix in my opinion, it's designed to make folk stop and think for a moment before 'posting' that vitriolic post they've just finished writing.

for example,
whilst building the ICM Spitfire, I happened across a thread on another popular 'modelling' site in which folks were discussing various details about the good old Spitfire, after two or three pages it rapidly descended into little more than a full on a slag fest, where folks wouldn't accept differing opinions and more importantly actual proof of the differences.

Multiple times I read various replies, that were little more than 'That version of that aircraft only ever had that piece of equipment fitted because they'd run out of those parts at the time so they fitted this part instead, and an old friend who used to ride his pushbike past the assembly plants never saw it..

Agree, excellent response from them. Those type of responses used to be called “my dad’s bigger than your dad” on the Railway forum I was on many years ago, by the way. Only trouble is they don’t reach that sort of intellectual level :tongue-out3: