discussion Your Favorite 1/76 1/72 Airfix Boxart

[Lee Drennen]

Thanks guys for sharing your pics and memories. Keep it going.

 

[Airborne01]

I was in the S&S (Writer).

Dave

A posh b....er then!

 

[Nicko]

Well here you go Lee. In all it's 'glory'.....




Apologies for these last three pics of the full written instructions being upside down. I estimate that this has been with me for over forty years. It looks like I had made a start on the cockpit at some point and had already decided what scheme I wanted to do, and removed all the crew figures. Might go on a hunt for those tomorrow.

Nick

 

[Mini Me]

I would love to have one of these in 1/87 scale......by far my fav WW2 bomber. :thumb2: Rick H.

 

[Lee Drennen]

Well here you go Lee. In all it's 'glory'.....




Apologies for these last three pics of the full written instructions being upside down. I estimate that this has been with me for over forty years. It looks like I had made a start on the cockpit at some point and had already decided what scheme I wanted to do, and removed all the crew figures. Might go on a hunt for those tomorrow.

Nick

Nick. Thanks for taking the time to post these pics I really enjoy them. I may have to get one of these one day

 

[GerryW]

These pictures are so evocative. Every time I look I think, “missed that one…..
Love the Indians, by the way, another great image. It seems that Airfix moulded it’s soldiers in different colours….my Indians were a reddish brown…..as were the waggon train and the High Chapparell, but my cowboy set were moulded in cream…US cavalry were in Blue though!

My first soldiers were these….


Got a lot to answer for they have……

Can remember that their 'Robin Hood' set were done in bright green plastic, 'Guardsmen' in red, several (ww1 British/commando/paras/) were in green and others (afrika corps/8th army) buff coloured, French foreign legion dark blue, German (ww1 & 2), I think, were a sort of blue/grey colour?
Sorry, brought back a lot of memories.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Can remember that their 'Robin Hood' set were done in bright green plastic, 'Guardsmen' in red, several (ww1 British/commando/paras/) were in green and others (afrika corps/8th army) buff coloured, French foreign legion dark blue, German (ww1 & 2), I think, were a sort of blue/grey colour?
Sorry, brought back a lot of memories.

Yep, that’s as I remember them Gerry. Astronauts in white, ACW in blue and grey, Sheriff of Nottingham and Romans in silver, Japanese in yellow green, etc. Apparently later on they pretty much all became the same nondescript cream colour….

 

[Nicko]

Got a couple of intact boxes of these too:



I have a load of other figures in plastic bags that may be either airfix or matchbox.....

And here are a couple of other airfix I found in the loft...



Thats it for today....

Nick

 

[Lee Drennen]

I think this one is one of the best

 

[Andy the Sheep]

I took a look at my "archive" and that's what I found:

The "600" handwritten on the Matador is the kit price in Italian Lire (0,30 €).

 

[Andy the Sheep]

A further research revealed those relics too:
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and that's almost all is left of my Airfix modelling '70s.

 

[Lee Drennen]

I took a look at my "archive" and that's what I found:
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The "600" handwritten on the Matador is the kit price in Italian Lire (0,30 €).

Thanks for sharing Andrea a superb lineup