While I was looking for the issue date of Sabot's Airfix VW last week, I found this list of Airfix models and their production dates

http://www.airfixcollector.co.uk/airfix_complete_kit_catalogue_re.htm

So which Airfix model dates you?

(P.S. I'm a 75mm Assault Gun)

Damn David you are old!!!!! :-) :-) :-)

For me it is the "General Charger" thougth I would make it a bit harder I could also choose for T-rex or the Shelby Cobra.

I am another 75 mm assault gun ready to fire . :-)

Guess I'd be a US Army Cargo Truck

For me, it is the Tiger Tank.

Spitfire Mk IX !!!!! Word is I used one as a teething ring :-)

That's two of us...lol.

My first Airfix was a Spitfire, Mk1 I think.
It was in light torquoise blue plastic and came in a poly bag with the label/instructions folded and stapled to the top....well before boxed kits.
Around 1956/7...so old it is and so am I .

Cheers
Peter
not long for the old-age pension now.
:-)

I am definately an F104 Starfighter...Great site, David...

Gunny

Hmm, I myself am of "ww 1 tank" vintage. But I do remember the "Battlefront HO assault sets" and the "HO assault sets" because I had all of them...

My earliest memories are from Airfix "blister" packages, you know a piece of double folded cardbord with a plastic bag with the sprues in. Sadly enough I can't remember the first ever model I build. It must have been an Airfix one. But I do remember my first vehicles: the ambulance and fire truck set from airfix (I think it was called "RAF emergency set").

I also have fond memories about Matchbox kits, where the tanks came with a small dio base.

Kris

Hmm looks like I'm a Scorpion
Kris I can also remember the old matcbox kits the LRDG one was a nice little kit BTW have a look at the revell africa korps set with the skdz 11 in it Im sure it's the old matchbox set if not it uses the ruined builing with the german eagle on it

The LCM and Sherman....First edition!!! Series 3 it was...Ahhh, nostalgia!...Jim :-)

I think I build nearly the complete 1/72 plane and vehicle Airfix catalogue and some ships also. I think I also have build the complete 1/76 matchbox range.

And... nothing, absolutely nothing has survived ...
All my childhood memories have been smashed to bits...

Well, I have grown and so has the scale of my models and number of kits still to build :-) :-) :-) .

Kris

It is indeed!

:-)

Interesting...... I'm pre Golden Hind.......

Well you could say that I'm pre-airfix ! As a kid, we chipped models out of flint !

Cheers,

Grumpy ol Garry

Dave which one? the orginal 1/1 scale? :-) :-) :-)

I ran the ship's generators on the ARK..... LOL LMAO :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Hurricane IVRP. Born the year the kit was first released and in 1963 the first kit I built. Finished in red gloss paint with gloss black stripes - well I was only 7!

Hi,

A Sherman of course, on a poly bag with the label/instructions folded and stapled to the top.

There are also those bags with soldiers - UK, US, Germans, ... - that me and my brothers used to play wars at our bedroom floor.

Well there were no new kits released for my year of birth 1987..............

Oh alright, I'm a 75mm assault gun. It must be a reality shock for the really ancient members like Grumpyoldman to find they predate the list.

Never mind Grumpy, WOULD YOU LIKE A CUP OF TEA AND A BISCUIT BEFORE YOUR AFTERNOON NAP?

Grumpy, for a frightening second I thought you were describing the appearance of your posterior in the Red Gown... ...
Thankfully i realized you meant Sir Francis Drake's tub Toy.

As for me, well, Greetings from The QEII!!!! ( i was gonna say Skyraider, but it didn't seem masculine enough...)

btw Martin, what are you doing up? I thought you old guys needed your sleep

Well Robert I've found if I turn up my pacemaker to full I can stay awake for hours on end without my nap.

Besides, I'm still a young whippersnapper compared to some of the coffin dodgers here (mention no names....Grumpy....Mr Roo.....)

My first Airfix kit was the Commonwealth Boomerang, still in the plastic bag, with the picture & history & instruction sheet stapling it shut. Series 1, if I remember correctly. Series 2s' came in a box...
For whatever reason, I keep remembering Std. 6, so that must have been 1971...
I think my Boomerang got hit by flak... (firecrackers) ...so I don't think it survived...
What did you expect from a teen?

HMS Daring for me,not only was it issued the year I was born but it was my first ever kit(complete with 2/3 of a tube of glue)
Pete

No new kits in 1986