DougRichards 0 Posted May 4, 2018 Report Share Posted May 4, 2018 Are you going to build it? I remember going to Gloucester Market about 1982 or so and buying a Airfix Bristol Freighter that dated from the mid 1960s. I faffed it up (well I WAS pretty young once upon a time) but I wish they would reissue that. It would be quite a nice diorama with some 1-72 scale Jaguar E Types or Aston Martins. The point is, its surprising what turns up sometimes. Most people have lofts like mine I suppose. I won't build it, it is now a piece of a childhood memory that I wish that I had. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Galbraith 0 Posted May 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2018 I dont blame you, they are collectors items now anyway. Always liked the Beaufigther. I think revell did a 1-32 scale version I never completed. But heavens, what a kit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DougRichards 0 Posted May 5, 2018 Report Share Posted May 5, 2018 I dont blame you, they are collectors items now anyway. Always liked the Beaufigther. I think revell did a 1-32 scale version I never completed. But heavens, what a kit! After 50 years the transfers (no one in civilisation called them decals) would have had it anyway. I can remember the Bristol Freighter kit on the shelf in my local newsagency in 1969, a time when there were shops all over the place that sold plastic kits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Galbraith 0 Posted May 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2018 Yeah, maybe I ought to email them to rerelease it. Ive actually got their Concorde model sitting on a shelf. 1-72 scale, far too big and ive yet to complete it 10 years on. But by heavens, what a kit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DougRichards 0 Posted May 5, 2018 Report Share Posted May 5, 2018 Yeah, maybe I ought to email them to rerelease it. Ive actually got their Concorde model sitting on a shelf. 1-72 scale, far too big and ive yet to complete it 10 years on. But by heavens, what a kit! I have Meatbox's 1/72 Flower Class Corvette half built, not touched in 12 years - now THAT'S a kit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick 0 Posted May 6, 2018 Report Share Posted May 6, 2018 During the last '60's a good friend built Revell's HMS Ark Royal which came with a Tribal class DD. I then saved up lawn-cutting money and bought an Iowa class BB. Thus started my interest in the Navy, to ophthalmic tech, to civilian ophthalmic angiographer and now a landlord. All started by a model kit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DougRichards 0 Posted May 6, 2018 Report Share Posted May 6, 2018 During the last '60's a good friend built Revell's HMS Ark Royal which came with a Tribal class DD. I then saved up lawn-cutting money and bought an Iowa class BB. Thus started my interest in the Navy, to ophthalmic tech, to civilian ophthalmic angiographer and now a landlord. All started by a model kit. That Ark Royal was re-released last year and is still available https://metrohobbies.com.au/revell-1-720-hms-ark-royal-tribal-class-destroyer.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Galbraith 0 Posted May 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2018 Is this the same moulds as the old airfix Ark Royal? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DougRichards 0 Posted May 7, 2018 Report Share Posted May 7, 2018 Is this the same moulds as the old airfix Ark Royal? No, different scale at least: Airfix 1:600 Revell 1/720 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DougRichards 0 Posted May 8, 2018 Report Share Posted May 8, 2018 Newer Trumpeter ww2 Ark Royal http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.php?g=home&m=product&a=show&id=3086&l=en There are also kits from two different manufacturers in 1/350 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Galbraith 0 Posted June 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2018 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5834277/Man-spent-70-years-used-MILLION-matchsticks-create-484-Royal-Navy-warships.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DougRichards 0 Posted June 18, 2018 Report Share Posted June 18, 2018 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5834277/Man-spent-70-years-used-MILLION-matchsticks-create-484-Royal-Navy-warships.html more power to him but the concept of personality disorder comes to mind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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