GeePig Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Yeah fully signed up member here, Wasn't Dick Emery Aircrew in the RAF ? Possibly aircrew, certainly in the slammer for desertion :-D It sounds strange now, the pleasure in getting something like one whole penny of a model using a club voucher, but it certainly encouraged me to buy more kits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Oh dear, here I go again, just bought another kit ,! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
river6 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Me Too! Still buying the kits and making the models. Like others I've collected or built models of all the vehicles I've ever owned. I've got loads of back issues of 'Airfix Magazine' going back to 1970. Lots of scratchbuilding ideas and mods from the mags incorporated into the models - Vehicles, Aircraft and Ships. I'm looking at a display case here which has about 60 models all painted up in the different schemes. Learned how to research the colour schemes and unit markings from the box art and Almark books. How many hours have they occupied I wonder. All the names from yesteryear - Airfix, Matchbox, Monogram, Revell, Tamiya, Italieri. What a great education they provided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Same here - started on Airfix then expanded to Tamiya, Italeri and so forth. hen i left home my parent gave my collection away - and all my dinky and corgi vehicles inthuer boxes - would have been worth a small fortune right now !! right now I have the Italeri DUKW and BMP here as works in progress. The BMP having the conversion kit for the OT-90.... Wonder why... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Is it only me but does any one remember the plastic kits made by FROG l remember my dad making them in the mid 50s they made their first ones in the 1930s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Is it only me but does any one remember the plastic kits made by FROGl remember my dad making them in the mid 50s they made their first ones in the 1930s Hi Wally, I do believe I have a Frog kit made for me by my Dad in the mid 50's, it is a Sabre jet, a bigger scale than Airfix at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 HI RICHARD l wonder if your dad muttered as much as mine while making them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Didn't Revell and Hasegawa get some of Frogs's 1:72 moulds??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 NEIL Revell did get some of the moulds but also some of the kits were made in RUSSIA about 1970 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Didn't Revell and Hasegawa get some of Frogs's 1:72 moulds??????? Nova as well were ex Frog kits I think I have a Revell Shackleton somewhere which I think was ex Frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_(models) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted September 1, 2013 Author Share Posted September 1, 2013 FROG .. Flies Right Off the Ground....... That's where the name came from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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