Welcome to the Vintage Airfix GB
This will run April to June 2025
Rules and regs
1......any Airfix kit where it was new tool before 1981........if you have a reissue post '81 thats ok cos it was still made with that old old tooling.......its easy to check on the age of a kit by using Scalemates
Ive picked 1981 for a good reason after reading up about Airfix history.....it was the year they went bancrupt and got bought by an American company......all the tooling got shipped to a factory in France......a few years later Heller was using them as after another buyout put them as stablemates for over a decade.....very little new stuff came along til Hornby bought them and kick started the brand once again
2.......what you do with the kit is up to you......build it as is.......'improve' it.....do a dio....whatever........lets see if we can make a silk purse out of a sows ear
Key thing is to use a kit that at its newest is 40+ years old....there are kits that go back to late 1950s!!
Bonus bragging rights for who ever uses the 'oldest kit' in terms of when it was released first lol
3......When the time comes round start your own thread in the usual way........sprue shots are a must.. ....post pics and updates regulary......please include a pic of the boxart as that helps date the actual issue of the kit and we can look at that wonderful artwork they used to do before things went a bit pc
4.......'new'/ unstarted kits only
5.......subject or scale is up to you.....the Airfix back catalogue is pretty expansive....as long as its pre 1981 first issue
6.......use this thread to chat or ask questions about the GB
7.......above all, the most important rule of all........HAVE FUN!
This will run April to June 2025
Rules and regs
1......any Airfix kit where it was new tool before 1981........if you have a reissue post '81 thats ok cos it was still made with that old old tooling.......its easy to check on the age of a kit by using Scalemates
Ive picked 1981 for a good reason after reading up about Airfix history.....it was the year they went bancrupt and got bought by an American company......all the tooling got shipped to a factory in France......a few years later Heller was using them as after another buyout put them as stablemates for over a decade.....very little new stuff came along til Hornby bought them and kick started the brand once again
2.......what you do with the kit is up to you......build it as is.......'improve' it.....do a dio....whatever........lets see if we can make a silk purse out of a sows ear
Key thing is to use a kit that at its newest is 40+ years old....there are kits that go back to late 1950s!!
Bonus bragging rights for who ever uses the 'oldest kit' in terms of when it was released first lol
3......When the time comes round start your own thread in the usual way........sprue shots are a must.. ....post pics and updates regulary......please include a pic of the boxart as that helps date the actual issue of the kit and we can look at that wonderful artwork they used to do before things went a bit pc
4.......'new'/ unstarted kits only
5.......subject or scale is up to you.....the Airfix back catalogue is pretty expansive....as long as its pre 1981 first issue
6.......use this thread to chat or ask questions about the GB
7.......above all, the most important rule of all........HAVE FUN!
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