Airfix - Beginner's Tips Anywhere?

Crazy I know but you could try here;

BTW, I wonder how many people still have the old magazines in their attics ?

Richard.

Airfix magazine produced a series of beginner's guides. They show up on Ebay occasionally and are pretty good for the complete beginner.

And yes, Richard, lots of us still have our old Airfix magazines.

If we sent a nice enough email to Airfix I wonder if they minded if we set up an international database of articles, assuming they no longer have the full stock of magazines ? After all, it would help them without any outlay by themselves!

Richard.

Richard Brooks wrote

You've just been elected spokesman, Richard. Orf ya go!

RobG

You've got it!

As a snotty-nosed kid I did send a drawing for waterline hull (?) dioramas for want of a better word, i.e., an area of water to paint up for battleships and it actually got made. I'm sure it was quite a large request though!

See you later,

Richard.

I doubt if Airfix have anything like a full set of back issues of Airfix Magazine. Publication of the magazine was always a separate undertaking from the kit making business. In addition, the magazine changed hands a number of times before it went out of publication altogether and the various new publishers said that they didn't have complete sets either.

I can't imagine that Airfix would mind anyone setting up a database of articles.

Gord> >>Fred F> >>

Email sent (informing them of all the benefits to them) and now the same to do to the Aeroplane magazine for their wonderful WWII articles.

Richard.

I have an almost complete set of Airfix Magazines.

Looking for the last format Vol.2,#4 to complete the set.

Was there anything published after Vol.4,#10?

I also have their Annulas from #1-6 and the Annual for Aircraft.

Scale Aviation Modeller is now running a series of pull-out booklet pages in each issue sponsored by Airfix. They started in September,

Tom

What was on the cover of that issue Tom?

Didn't they get sold to Hall Publications back in the '90s? ISTR that happened before the whole thing went into receivership.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Yes. Hall Park Publications were the last owners of the title as far as I know. They produced quite a few issues, to their usual minimum production standards, before they packed up.

Gordon McLaughlin

Don't know as I don't have it.

There was also a series of Airfix Magazine guides. I have #11, RAF Camouflage of WWII. Their best work, though, were the hardcover books on building each of their 1/24 scale kits.

As far as basic modeling tips you can't beat the Fine Scale Modelng books.

Tom

Tom,

I'm aware of the books they did on their WWII kits in 1/24, but was there ever one on the Harrier?

Martin

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Here's a cute fact, this group has a Frequently Asked Questions. If you read through it you'll get all the info you need:

I don't think that they ever got to the Harrier.

Tom

There were 6 Classic Aircraft books

I assume that the Lancaster book was aimed at the 1/72nd model. The others related to 1/24th scale kits.

plus:

The Lancaster looks at converting a 1:72 kit (not necessarily the Airfix one) into a Manchester, B.II, B.VI, Air Sea Rescue or engine testbed Lancaster, Lancastrian or York; and detailing the Tamiya 1:48 kit. The Mosquito book looks at detailing the 1:32 Revell kit. The B-17 book looks at detailing and converting the Monogram 1:48 kit.

Jon.

There was a seventh, the deHavilland Mosquito I believe.

Bill Shuey