Don't knock that Airfix Spitfire Mk. I in 1/24. Far as I know, that was the first 1/24th scale model of a WWII fighter aircraft ever done. And they followed it up in short order with the Bf-109E... so you could have a dogfight right out of The Battle Of Britain in big scale. Those were the golden days of model building...when you never knew what was coming next, except that you had to have it. The younger set around here can't remember that time in the late
60's-early 70's when all hell was breaking loose in regards to wonderful models, and all the companies were basically going: "Oh yeah? Try this on for size!" on a month-to-month basis. You had to have a subscription to Scale Modeler even to hope to keep up with what had hit the model-building scene this month...or even week. Jeeze, what a time to be alive for a model builder. :-)Pat
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