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| poliss |
New CAD Illustrations for Airfix BoxesSeen on the Airfix website. What do you think?http://www.airfix.com/latest-news/archive/2008/10/8/new-illustrations/ |
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| upnick |
Re: New CAD Illustrations for Airfix Boxes
The foundation of my modelling like lots of boys was started on Airfix and the old boxes with their distinctive art work cant forget the stirling bomber with its scene depicting a bombloader on a tractor with the trollies containing their load under the aircraft. It would be nice to know what Roy Cross made of subjects such as Wallace & Gromit ....... think he would have brought them to life more 
Wallace & Gromit addict when i get the time to build the vans Nick Park's creations are great 
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| Joe |
Im not sure, they don't appear to be bad but at the same time I never had the experience of building the older ones from by gone days so I can't say.
Joe (pointless post) |
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| Teleman |
Looks nice to me , lets hope the sales go up ,( still waiting for the rep to call at the shop ) | ||
| Even older tom |
"cant forget the stirling bomber with its scene depicting a bombloader on a tractor with the trollies containing their load under the aircraft."
That would be the Short Sterling upnick and I'm the same - didn't it look wonderful? Box art WAS an art in those days. Ho, hum... 
Edit - I really MUST get new glasses! Stirling! 
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| Noakesy123 |
I have a example of that very Short Stirling box, my grandad found it in his garage! | ||
| poliss |
If the Sunderland was anything to go by there were problems flying with that mid-upper. | ||
| upnick |
Hi Tom, Indeed the Short Stirling 
http://tinyurl.com/5wvodq and of course the cars http://tinyurl.com/5u4gnl http://tinyurl.com/6ag4n8 Many a Saturday i came home wth one of the kits and while watching Dad's army was busy assembling it One kit i never mastered the painting of was the Hovercraft http://tinyurl.com/5qvlc4 the clear roof covered in poly cement and areas of red paint that should have been clear
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| Teleman |
The hovercraft ,I made one to , it took weeks to build and looked realy naff after i finished .
Years later (in the 80s) i went on the real thing to France , now that was fun |
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| upnick |
Thats the word i was looking for Teleman 'naff'
I graduated to the huge Saturn 5 later but the white paint never seemed to dry properly 
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| Teleman |
The thing that got me about the Saturn 5 was its size  all that rocket for a small capsule at the top !
Did you have the 'Eagle' hanging in mid air to  I did 
Younger members may need to watch the film called 'The Dish' to see what it was like back then , Its a great film to btw i would give it an 8/10
Edit note ... as the kit was white i only painted the black bits ... still looked naff though we all have to start somewhere , look at are work now
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| poliss |
I think I had all the space kits except the Revell Saturn V, which looked about 3 feet tall. Mercury and Gemini, Saturn IB, Vostok/Soyuz, Lunar Module, Orion from 2001. The best of the lot was the Mecury kit. It came with the launch complex and trucks. Seen here as the Revell Atlas kit on the right. http://tinyurl.com/6l3dvp
I had problems painting the Saturn V too. All the black paint seeped through the masking tape. 
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| upnick |
I dont think the masking tape was good here either looked like a black and white Bertie Bassett production
Oh the joys of Humbrol silver ..... the paint under the lid always squelching out so it stuck to your finger as you closed it
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| poliss |
The metalic paints were always gritty. Anyone know why? | ||
| upnick |
Not sure why Poliss more than like the pigments where not ground as well as they could be .... good fun was to had with liquid glue and a freshly painted surface all the little flakes dancing around like a sea of ants
Not until the advent of humbrol authentics (remember those ) did the metallic range settle the metalcote especially good my local model shop couldnt keep up with my use of satin gold and i'm still looking for some for the stock cupboard
My other tins of new and used authentics were snapped up last year on ebay the post office scales bearing up under the strain
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| Even older tom |
What used to really annoy me was that you could paint silver over any colour without a problem, but just try painting over silver - disaster! | ||
| upnick |
Out with the wet and dry gently and then a black undercoat worked ... i would rather use polished ally from the metalcote range than silver even today. Good tip for metallics ....... a good matt black undercoat gives a deeper finish to a metallic final finish. |
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