Airfix!

[ratbert]

In administration:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5304780.stm

So who made the models, and were you a member of Dick Emery's 'Airfix Modeller's Club'?

[TANGODANCER]

Few of today's kids would have the interest or the patience of those of past eras who didn't have pc's and mobile phones. Anyway, Airfix building involves work, and that's a dirty word today. We had toy guns as kids too, but they were only for playing cowboys and Indians with. Now, they have to be real and they're killing each other with them.

Back to Airfix: That and Meccano sets were our rainy day saviours. Ah, the joy of glueing your fingers and the fiddly bits to the newspaper covers on the table. Anybody buying them now though is probably a glue sniffer's apprentice.

[Little Green Man]

Did Airfix make plaggy soldiers as well? If they did, I seem to recall they had a defects form in the box that you could send back to them to blag half a dozen more soldiers. I think you got put on their blacklist after the third attempt.

[norm the jedi]

Did Airfix make plaggy soldiers as well? If they did, I seem to recall they had a defects form in the box that you could send back to them to blag half a dozen more soldiers. I think you got put on their blacklist after the third attempt.

They did, you could, I wasn't...

Hours of fun we had two biscuit tins full in our house... lego encapments... the benefit of two older brothers.. 7 years of collecting before hand...

[Little Green Man]

Did Airfix make plaggy soldiers as well? If they did, I seem to recall they had a defects form in the box that you could send back to them to blag half a dozen more soldiers. I think you got put on their blacklist after the third attempt.

They did, you could, I wasn't...

Hours of fun we had two biscuit tins full in our house... lego encapments... the benefit of two older brothers.. 7 years of collecting before hand...

In that case my faves were the British grenadiers from the War of American Independce. I seem to remember you couldn't buy the other side so the poor sods sat around kicking their plaggy heels looking for a fight with some battallion from altogether the wrong period.

[Dujon]

That's a darn shame, ratbert; thanks for the notification.

I hope that the administrators can find a way to trade the company out of its problems as it would be a shame to see what to me is an icon of the genre disappear forever.

Perhaps some enterprising person will bid for the moulds if they have a fire sale and produce some limited editions for the current generations (and maybe earlier ones too).

Yes, I too was a sometime modeller and had various aircraft suspended from my bedroom ceiling.

[CAPSLOCK]

THE MOULDING COMPANY - FRENCH I THINK - WENT BUST A MONTH OR TWO AGO

HERES AN ARTICLE FROM THE PLASTICS TRADE PAPER

http://www.prw.com/homePBP_NADetail_UP. ... &curpage=0

TBH, YOU CAN'T MAKE OWT LIKE THIS COMPETITIVELY IN WESTERN EUROPE

[Little Green Man]

THE MOULDING COMPANY - FRENCH I THINK - WENT BUST A MONTH OR TWO AGO

TBH, YOU CAN'T MAKE OWT LIKE THIS COMPETITIVELY IN WESTERN EUROPE

Surely, MSI could direct some of their hirelings towards getting the mouldings operation back up and running while Jose and Mr Abramovich decide which of them they want for their squad next season?

[TANGODANCER]

THE MOULDING COMPANY - FRENCH I THINK - WENT BUST A MONTH OR TWO AGO

TBH, YOU CAN'T MAKE OWT LIKE THIS COMPETITIVELY IN WESTERN EUROPE

Surely, MSI could direct some of their hirelings towards getting the mouldings operation back up and running while Jose and Mr Abramovich decide which of them they want for their squad next season?

No, LGM, we're talking "Airfix", not transfer fix.

[Little Green Man]

THE MOULDING COMPANY - FRENCH I THINK - WENT BUST A MONTH OR TWO AGO

TBH, YOU CAN'T MAKE OWT LIKE THIS COMPETITIVELY IN WESTERN EUROPE

Surely, MSI could direct some of their hirelings towards getting the mouldings operation back up and running while Jose and Mr Abramovich decide which of them they want for their squad next season?

No, LGM, we're talking "Airfix", not transfer fix.

Ba-dum, tish! Consider that offer of the Sir Richard Bishop CD duly withdrawn!

[TANGODANCER]

Ba-dum, tish! Consider that offer of the Sir Richard Bishop CD duly withdrawn!

Aw, you know you don't mean that LGM. (tried to find it on Limewire but got a load of porn links). Next time in town I'll try HMV. I really want to hear it)
Speaking of transfers, do you remember the ones that you floated on water then stuck on your arm? Great till next wash then gone forever.

Back to topic: Once made a great model of HMS Victory. Long gone now though.

[CAPSLOCK]

COULDN'T YOU SWAP IT VIA MSN OR SIMILAR?

[Dujon]

Ta, CAPSLOCK. I hadn't realised ('cos I'd never thought about it) that Humbrol and Airfix were one and the same. It makes sense I guess. I've still got a few cans of paint somewhere - no doubt if I dig them out they'll rattle if shaken. It will be interesting to see who owns the moulds and their designs.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

THE MOULDING COMPANY - FRENCH I THINK - WENT BUST A MONTH OR TWO AGO

HERES AN ARTICLE FROM THE PLASTICS TRADE PAPER

http://www.prw.com/homePBP_NADetail_UP. ... &curpage=0

TBH, YOU CAN'T MAKE OWT LIKE THIS COMPETITIVELY IN WESTERN EUROPE

What plastics do you make CAPS, assuming that article isn't something you just happened upon?