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Topic: What was your first plastic kit? (Read 6230 times)
chrishanley
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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Quote from: paulr on 15 April 2020, 03:46:54 AM
Me109 maybe
Sorry, wrong war.
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smallchild139
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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16 April 2020, 01:07:59 PM »
Was the kit the Cessna from the Cessna/Mig 21 dogfight double. That had lots of transparency in it.
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Raider4
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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Quote from: smallchild139 on 16 April 2020, 01:07:59 PM
Was the kit the Cessna from the Cessna/Mig 21 dogfight double.
That's . . . a bit of an odd couple. Think the dogfight would be slightly one-sided.
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toxicpixie
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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16 April 2020, 02:16:15 PM »
I dunno, that West German kid flew his Cessna right into Red Square without alerting Soviet Air Defence. It might not be so one sided as you'd think
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Nirnman
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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16 April 2020, 03:22:04 PM »
It being more years ago than I can be certain of remembering accurately I think my first or nearly the first was a one-sixth scale Chinese mandarin figure produced buY Airfix (I think/he was one of a series of figures that include henry VII, Queen Elizabeth, a Lifeguard, a Yeoman of the Guard and Anne Boleyn.
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Smoking gun
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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16 April 2020, 03:32:24 PM »
Quote from: chrishanley on 14 April 2020, 12:17:22 PM
Unlike the multi-national step by step pictures with arrows and symbols of today, the early instructions had an exploded view of all the parts and a numbered sequence of descriptions.
For example, and this is a direct quote from an Airfix kit, circa 1966.
1. Locate and cement window transparencies (1-4) from inside port and starboard fuselage halves (5,6) applying cement to window surrounds only.
Huge points for anyone who can guess the kit... Clue, it was a Dogfight Double.
As you can imagine the instructions were quite a challenge for a young lad, so needs must and I therefore learnt to read by making Airfix models...
I learnt of technical language and improved my vocabulary by following the Airfix instructions, the cars and locomotive kits were full of, to a young boy, strange new words.
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FierceKitty
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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I'm still rather pleased to remember working out for myself what the "male" and "female" sections were that needed fastening together. Long before sex meant anything but reproductive biology to my innocent little mind.
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smallchild139
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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That was a real set. Bizarre but true...
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fsn
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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toxicpixie
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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Nice inversion of the power dichotomy in Vietnam there
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chrishanley
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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Bit of a one sided dog fight. Was the Cessna armed?
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fsn
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IIRC, the Cessna had rockets, but I think they were more for signalling than anything else.
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Lord Oik of Runcorn
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howayman
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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17 April 2020, 09:03:10 PM »
I've read this thread and the sad thing is i can not remember my first plastic kit.
The first figures were US 7th cavalry, Airfix of course. But plastic kit just escapes me.
I must be getting old.
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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I must be getting old.
Tell me bout it....
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fsn
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Re: What was your first plastic kit?
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I remember my brother made the Airfix Napoleon.
Only problem was, he put the legs on backwards.
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Lord Oik of Runcorn
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