this kit means so much to me, for personal reasons, i think i was 8 when i got it , that box art , would love to get it again but i live in florida now, will have to keep checking ebay
I know what you're saying! I have an airfix Bf 110 old tool kit, which to be fair is pretty inaccurate in a lot of ways, however its also the very first kit I can clearly remember building, and will be built as part of a group build with my modelling club where we will build our first ever model again!
it was my first kit that i can remember building , it was unpainted , all the decals where not straight and by the time i got it home on the train, all the props where missing, but thats why i love airfix to this day @@philsmodelmaking2260
I vaguely remember building this kit back in about 1965 - I was 10 years old - and got told off when I took it into school for a 'What I did on holiday' show and tell because of the 'Bit 'O Lace' decal. Strange days indeed!
what a great story! i seem to remember that the real aircraft sometimes had to have saucy artwork toned down, i think one B17 was christened "bigast boid" after the crew were told they couldn't have the name "big assed bird" painted on the side of their aircraft!
challenge is right! even though I'm pretty much building this out of the box, the amount of guns and turrets and quite a big (albeit un detailed) flight deck I'll have to get inside, is making it feel like its a kit with a full interior!
Challenge? Yes. Fun? No. Old school modelling skills definitely required. Admittedly I can't be bothered when there are just much more pleasurable and satisfying result alternatives today.
yeah, lots of turrets and guns to deal with, like most kits of this time has very little internal detail, but still seems more complicated than something like a Lancaster or Halifax. ( I can see your thinking in building the black bitch!)
this will be the only the second time I've built this kit! the first time is the built one in the video! didn't notice it at first, but this kit has a date stamp of 1962 on it, 5 years before I was born!
When I came back, I built a 1/72 Airfix Hampden and a DH.88 Comet, both re-boxings of original 1950s and 1960s moulds. I've got to admit, revisiting destroyed any 1960s nostalgia. Admittedly I had a lot of fun with what was available in the day, but my expectations back then were commensurate with a child of 'the day'. Now these days 1/72 isn't my thing as I find it physically demanding of the fingers and eyes to the point of frustrating and a waste of time I could be putting into 1/48 or 1/32 which I enjoy far more and rewards the invested attention to minutiae. But that said, out of curiosity and inspired by the box art I recently built a NEW era mould Airfix 1/72 kit (Bf 109E-4) to be pleasantly surprised by its parts fit and attention to detail for 1/72 in comparison with yesteryear. Kudos to Airfix, for 1/72 very nice, especially the decals (Cartograf) with an instrument panel and a zillion stencils all of which laid down nicely with Micro Set & Sol. Masking its miniscule 3 part canopy however was the stuff of nightmares. Good luck to those who can cope, but I think my 1/72 days are a halcyon past memory.
I have a Hamden I've been building on and off for quite a while now, I have added some aftermarket parts to it, but built right out of the box it wouldn't be a bad kit. the comet however is truly showing its age.
@@philsmodelmaking2260 The Hampden (1968) A04011 is dreadful in comparison with the Bf 109 (2012) A01008 mentioned. Nothing fits without endless pre-fitting, sanding and-or cutting, the transparencies are like old glass Coke bottle bottoms, & the Vickers guns, good for Airfix of the day don't pass muster. The decals are scant as is detail is even for a 1/72 kit. The shape of the Hampden wingtips is wrong, and I'm not even critiquing Airfix's rivet madness trend of its particular period. I'd be miffed if I picked it up at a Series Four kit price today to discover the contents. As was, I picked mine up for a song when Hattons were selling Airfix a few years ago, before Airfix denied supply. In comparison, kudos to the brand the fit on the 2012 tool Bf 109 is as good as one could expect of a modern kit in 1/72 even today, the mouldings crisp and fine (wing MG/FF, aileron tabs, pitot, aerial), the transparencies thin. Even the panel lines are actually fine in comparison with the almost signature Airfix trenches of this era. That Bf 109E stems from 2009 tooling which was one of the initial NEW TOOL releases from Airfix bringing their toolings albeit kicking and screaming up to contemporary standards. And, unlike their Bf 110C-2/4 kit released around the same time, they did a great job. It compares favourably with a 1/72 Dragon He 219A-0 (1991) 5005 and an Italeri Me 210A-0 (1998) 077 I built in terms of fit, detail, etc. The 1958 Comet understandably, is a dog. Its singular redeeming feature is that it's an only show in town dog and the new decals to build other than Grosvener House were nice, Black Magic in my case. Although the only bit of magic that box contained was the artwork.
my Hampden certainly has had a lot of work done p/e interiors, some vac form glazing, wingtips changed with lights added, new resin engines, and bombs and shackles replaced, which made it the most expensive free kit I've ever built! @tonian3906
A kit I came close to buying in the 70s. But a bit $$ for my age. Thanks for showing your earlier build. Looking forward to following progress. Ive just got back into kit building. Any tips in vids welcomed. Go well.
I never got my hands on one of these back in the 70's either, up to now I've only built this kit once, which is the one featured in this video! as for tips, I've been modifying the upper gun turret in a way to make painting easier, that I'll feature in detail in my next video about this build.
@@philsmodelmaking2260 the products available to make the kits today are a quatum jump on our youth. To avoid the humbrol shine i took up Historex figures using Windsor and Newton oils. I briefly tried Testors acrylics on Monogram 1/72 kits at 16 but any, and i mean any skin contact left oily detailled prints. As for the safety warning.... I'll look forward to the next episode. Cheers Nic
that has crossed my mind! for now though I'll leave the older B17 alone because its an interesting comparison to what I'm doing now, and I am re building a Halifax kit that was built around the same time as the older B17, and once I get a couple of builds finished that I'm working on now I'll start a video series on that.
nice! its easy to forget just how long some of these kits have been around, the wing on mine has a date of 1962 on it so yours would have been a 7/8 year old kit even then.
The front gun side windows were a bitch to get right spent hours the other month trying to get them something like mine was a 1960 s moulding did it in O D to save the Bit o lace decals for the new Airfix B 17 moulding 🙄
yeah, they do look like fun! they are quite a strange shape in my kit, i may well use either something like clearfix or make new windows out of clear plastic sheet.
@@philsmodelmaking2260 That's cheating not O O B much more fun to struggle and the gap in the radio operators position was filled with stretched sprue out of the box not a very good fit on the clear part 😳
thats true! I will try to use all the kit clear parts before I consider any other options, I have been building an airfix Halifax that needed quit a bit of fettling to get the cockpit canopy right, so I'm kind of used to this sort of thing!@@WendyHodgkinson
@@philsmodelmaking2260 Airfix Halifax good kit the tail was always nasty and to thick and bulky for me should have just been two halves on each side stuck together 🤔
this kit means so much to me, for personal reasons, i think i was 8 when i got it , that box art , would love to get it again but i live in florida now, will have to keep checking ebay
I know what you're saying! I have an airfix Bf 110 old tool kit, which to be fair is pretty inaccurate in a lot of ways, however its also the very first kit I can clearly remember building, and will be built as part of a group build with my modelling club where we will build our first ever model again!
it was my first kit that i can remember building , it was unpainted , all the decals where not straight and by the time i got it home on the train, all the props where missing, but thats why i love airfix to this day @@philsmodelmaking2260
I vaguely remember building this kit back in about 1965 - I was 10 years old - and got told off when I took it into school for a 'What I did on holiday' show and tell because of the 'Bit 'O Lace' decal. Strange days indeed!
what a great story! i seem to remember that the real aircraft sometimes had to have saucy artwork toned down, i think one B17 was christened "bigast boid" after the crew were told they couldn't have the name "big assed bird" painted on the side of their aircraft!
older kits are always a fun challenge, looking forward to this
challenge is right! even though I'm pretty much building this out of the box, the amount of guns and turrets and quite a big (albeit un detailed) flight deck I'll have to get inside, is making it feel like its a kit with a full interior!
Challenge? Yes. Fun? No. Old school modelling skills definitely required. Admittedly I can't be bothered when there are just much more pleasurable and satisfying result alternatives today.
Stig Svanberg,Sweden : Remember building this in winter-65 or-66. Memories coming back.
glad to hear it! the nostalgia factor is a big part of my model building.
Thanks for sharing. It was a kit that was outside of pocket money range as a kid.
absolutely! as a kid these bigger kits were only seen at Christmas or birthdays by me!
Those are some classic looking kits. Its going to be fun to watch it come together.
yeah, lots of turrets and guns to deal with, like most kits of this time has very little internal detail, but still seems more complicated than something like a Lancaster or Halifax. ( I can see your thinking in building the black bitch!)
@@philsmodelmaking2260 I am
Classic kit. Takes me right back
this will be the only the second time I've built this kit! the first time is the built one in the video! didn't notice it at first, but this kit has a date stamp of 1962 on it, 5 years before I was born!
When I came back, I built a 1/72 Airfix Hampden and a DH.88 Comet, both re-boxings of original 1950s and 1960s moulds. I've got to admit, revisiting destroyed any 1960s nostalgia. Admittedly I had a lot of fun with what was available in the day, but my expectations back then were commensurate with a child of 'the day'.
Now these days 1/72 isn't my thing as I find it physically demanding of the fingers and eyes to the point of frustrating and a waste of time I could be putting into 1/48 or 1/32 which I enjoy far more and rewards the invested attention to minutiae. But that said, out of curiosity and inspired by the box art I recently built a NEW era mould Airfix 1/72 kit (Bf 109E-4) to be pleasantly surprised by its parts fit and attention to detail for 1/72 in comparison with yesteryear. Kudos to Airfix, for 1/72 very nice, especially the decals (Cartograf) with an instrument panel and a zillion stencils all of which laid down nicely with Micro Set & Sol. Masking its miniscule 3 part canopy however was the stuff of nightmares. Good luck to those who can cope, but I think my 1/72 days are a halcyon past memory.
I have a Hamden I've been building on and off for quite a while now, I have added some aftermarket parts to it, but built right out of the box it wouldn't be a bad kit. the comet however is truly showing its age.
@@philsmodelmaking2260 The Hampden (1968) A04011 is dreadful in comparison with the Bf 109 (2012) A01008 mentioned.
Nothing fits without endless pre-fitting, sanding and-or cutting, the transparencies are like old glass Coke bottle bottoms, & the Vickers guns, good for Airfix of the day don't pass muster. The decals are scant as is detail is even for a 1/72 kit.
The shape of the Hampden wingtips is wrong, and I'm not even critiquing Airfix's rivet madness trend of its particular period. I'd be miffed if I picked it up at a Series Four kit price today to discover the contents. As was, I picked mine up for a song when Hattons were selling Airfix a few years ago, before Airfix denied supply.
In comparison, kudos to the brand the fit on the 2012 tool Bf 109 is as good as one could expect of a modern kit in 1/72 even today, the mouldings crisp and fine (wing MG/FF, aileron tabs, pitot, aerial), the transparencies thin. Even the panel lines are actually fine in comparison with the almost signature Airfix trenches of this era.
That Bf 109E stems from 2009 tooling which was one of the initial NEW TOOL releases from Airfix bringing their toolings albeit kicking and screaming up to contemporary standards. And, unlike their Bf 110C-2/4 kit released around the same time, they did a great job. It compares favourably with a 1/72 Dragon He 219A-0 (1991) 5005 and an Italeri Me 210A-0 (1998) 077 I built in terms of fit, detail, etc.
The 1958 Comet understandably, is a dog. Its singular redeeming feature is that it's an only show in town dog and the new decals to build other than Grosvener House were nice, Black Magic in my case. Although the only bit of magic that box contained was the artwork.
my Hampden certainly has had a lot of work done p/e interiors, some vac form glazing, wingtips changed with lights added, new resin engines, and bombs and shackles replaced, which made it the most expensive free kit I've ever built! @tonian3906
A kit I came close to buying in the 70s. But a bit $$ for my age.
Thanks for showing your earlier build.
Looking forward to following progress.
Ive just got back into kit building. Any tips in vids welcomed.
Go well.
I never got my hands on one of these back in the 70's either, up to now I've only built this kit once, which is the one featured in this video! as for tips, I've been modifying the upper gun turret in a way to make painting easier, that I'll feature in detail in my next video about this build.
@@philsmodelmaking2260 the products available to make the kits today are a quatum jump on our youth. To avoid the humbrol shine i took up Historex figures using Windsor and Newton oils. I briefly tried Testors acrylics on Monogram 1/72 kits at 16 but any, and i mean any skin contact left oily detailled prints. As for the safety warning....
I'll look forward to the next episode.
Cheers
Nic
Old but Nice kit
yeah, its a definite old school classic! I've always enjoyed building these older kits
Why not rebuild your original one as well ? Bring the old girl back to life again. Maybe use the alternative decals.
that has crossed my mind! for now though I'll leave the older B17 alone because its an interesting comparison to what I'm doing now, and I am re building a Halifax kit that was built around the same time as the older B17, and once I get a couple of builds finished that I'm working on now I'll start a video series on that.
Im surprised the decals were still good
won't truly know until I use them!
I build it end of sixties😊
nice! its easy to forget just how long some of these kits have been around, the wing on mine has a date of 1962 on it so yours would have been a 7/8 year old kit even then.
Stig Svanberg: Remember building this in winter-65 or -66. Painted it with Humbrol aluminium.
The front gun side windows were a bitch to get right spent hours the other month trying to get them something like mine was a 1960 s moulding did it in O D to save the Bit o lace decals for the new Airfix B 17 moulding 🙄
yeah, they do look like fun! they are quite a strange shape in my kit, i may well use either something like clearfix or make new windows out of clear plastic sheet.
@@philsmodelmaking2260 That's cheating not O O B much more fun to struggle and the gap in the radio operators position was filled with stretched sprue out of the box not a very good fit on the clear part 😳
thats true! I will try to use all the kit clear parts before I consider any other options, I have been building an airfix Halifax that needed quit a bit of fettling to get the cockpit canopy right, so I'm kind of used to this sort of thing!@@WendyHodgkinson
@@philsmodelmaking2260 Airfix Halifax good kit the tail was always nasty and to thick and bulky for me should have just been two halves on each side stuck together 🤔