Airfix

Matt's post at Waterloo to Mons one of my favourite blogs for inspiration on the world wide web has hit the nostalgia subject right on the mark! What were our inspirations to enter the hobby? He lists films & books which encouraged us and provided the 'food' for our active young imaginations and of course Airfix HO/OO figures!!! Films provided much of the inspiration and brought the history books we avidly read (if there were battles involved! domestic life in medieval England was not so…

Dornier Do 17 Airfix

This looks like the '60's stock still knocking around in the toy shops of the '70's but priced for decimalisation (love that the '55p' price sticker is still on there!!)

Airfix G.50 Kit from mid 1970s

NEW CONTENT Airfix Box art, lots of large Roy Cross paintings! | Forums - Page 2

NEW CONTENT Airfix Box art, lots of large Roy Cross paintings! | Forums - Page 2

8th Army Group

Roy Cross, 90, of Kent, was the principal artist for Airfix during the Sixties and Seventies at the peak of the model kits' popularity.

Airfix Craft Master Joseph Stalin III Tank

Afrika Korps

Nottingham’s favourite outlaw as Airfix figures.

Airfix figure in scale 1:72, 01732-2 is a NEW tool released in 1968 | Contents, Previews, Reviews, History + Marketplace | British soldiers (WW2)

Set 03: WWII British Infantry

Airfix WWII Soviet Infantry With Officer 1:32 Scale, Carefully Painted. | eBay

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