Ah, the good old days of Airfix instructions when they were educational! Loved 'em! By the way, the new 1/24 Airfix Spitfire IXc is manufactured and boxed in Good Ole Blighty, with just the decals by Cartograph. (Have to keep a country starting with an "I" in it somewhere.)
I totally agree about the old Airfix kit instructions I miss those three little words "locate and cement" you also got to know what part you were fixing I learnt a lot from Airfix instructions about the correct names of aircraft and car parts Please send a bit of your heat to a freezing UK 🌞
I have here the SS ORIANA started it but then i realised i had to "mature" a bit because that stern tô fit And look good needs a lot of work And some from scratch! Have a good one!
If it was a later moulding of the kits, especially from the late 80’s then the plastic and mould quality can be awful. That’s why I look for white box kits as much as possible from Airfix
This is one of my favourite old Airfix ships to build, ive built a handful now for ex crew members and people who sailed on her, with the addition of something as simple as photoetch railings, it just adds that extra bit of detail to the kit, although as youve said 1/600 railings are not easy to find especially in the UK..... ive built nearly all of their ocean liner ship kits now, QE2, Canberra, currently building another 1/600 Queen Mary 2, the one that keep evading me though, the 1/600 SS France! thats rarer than unicorn turds! and when it does pop up people are asking £100...£150....£200!!! 😬😬🤯🤯
Just to show the difference in strength of the Sun's UV depending on where you are; I bought one of these and of course the decals were yellowed to f- so I taped them to a south facing window...it took 2 months to lighten them! Well, the Sun doesn't shine much in Scotland...
A good looking kit, I agree the older kits are much better. I see Airfix are re-releasing the Great Western this year. I've never tackled that in it early incarnations so may buy it despite the poop plastic.
'Arry! 'Ow's it goin', mate? Yes, finding old and rare Airfix kits is great fun, and a fine bit of nostalgia too. I just managed to get my hands on an old Airfix Sunderland, as I was inspired by your recent video on that kit, and went looking for one on Ebay. The old instruction sheets are great! It was a far more literate age, and they actually bothered to explain and name everything. Brilliant! I wish that was still the case. Yes, bursting the bubble wrap is a wonderful stress reliever. Every kit should come with a bit of bubble wrap. I remember seeing the QE 2 kit many moons ago, but I never bought one of them.
Sadly I don’t recall ever seeing her down under… I have been on a number of old P&O ocean liners in the 60’s and 70’s as we steamed from Africa to Australia a few times. I remember being on the Orcades from Perth WA to Durbin in South Africa, where Dad had been in the Navy. That was where I bought the Airfix Scharnhorst from the ships toy store. But was forbidden to build it on board, so had to wait until we settled in Johannesburg before having fun with the kit.
That looks absolutely amazing Harry !! You almost build it right there :p Proves ones again that the old kits have nothing to envy at the new ones, like you say designed with cat ...
I’ve heard you can grind minions to a powder, add hot milk and make a nice porridge. I built that kit when I was a kid, dad helped or did I help him, long time ago and can’t remember, love to see your magic on it
Found a chap selling on someone's old collection. Have messaged him as there were actually two of the QE models listed but not certain if it's a double listing by accident. There's a few different ships . All white box and a good pile of plane kits. Some by FROG ??? . Not looked into those . £40 for the tub plus postage 👍
Loving The videos Harry! That looks a corker of a kit that. Glad to see I'm not the only one with a soft spot for vintage kits hehe. Just something about em. I stumbled upon an original Airfix 1/72 Arado float plane from the sixties at the local model shop for $3 dollars US. Was/is 100% complete with clear parts and even the decals look usable. It's also one of the most cleanly molded kits I have. Vintage Airfix is the good kush lol.
The instructions that accompanied the old Revell 1/96 USS Constitution back in the 60s are what taught me almost all sailing ship and rigging terminology - at least the fundamentals anyway.
Yes we learned a lot about how things worked, and the name of components from our modelling back then, before the inter-web made it so lazy to get answers.
Hmm, did you like watching Captain Pugwash when you were a kid?. I reckon this may have had something to do your obsession with all things maritime, not that I'm complaining mind you. I admire your skill and dry sense of humour!
I watched Gerry Anderson’s Stingray, mostly to perve on Marina. Dad was ex Navy and would always take me to any docking warship in harbour for a look. Guess I got salt in me blood.
I saw one at a car boot sale last year - I don't build ships often, so I passed on it. I think it was marked at £5. Now had it been the Airfix S.S. France... 😆😆😆
If we're not allowed to say tug, how are we gonna say tug boat? I think that there's a tug boat in the shadows, future, pipeline or whatever, right? 😉😎 Smashing video on this lovely floaty thingy....😉👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻 On to the next one, when finished....
I don't know if you watch "airfix and chill", but if not, they were deeply amused by the release of this year's vintage classic kits and how much they would harpoon the dealers. Incidentally, the stuka is one of them. ICM sent me decals free, including postage, despite the fact that I fessed up to making a total foobar of them 😂😂
A side by side comparison of the old release of such a kit and new(er) re-release might be interesting. But it doesn't look this kit made it into the Vintage classics series.
Bloo-D-Elle! love your videos ...Hey i resent that ! I'm Spanish, but im not a Spanish bull fighter (maybe a Spanish bull S#!+€r ) but my name is not InyourWinow!.... I had both this kit and the S.S.FRANCE back in the 90s and traded them for some Fighting Fantasy books😭
The SAM 2 kit is the saddest of all - when Airfix had one of their 'financial glitches' in the 1980's, manufacturing was taken up by Heller, in France. The tooling was exported, and that for the SAM 2, was destroyed when the train carrying the tools, was in an accident. I'd love for Airfix to remake the tooling for this kit, which was a real beauty. The SAM 2 is still in use by some countries today. Rare Airfix includes: Original Spitfire 'BT-K'; Hawker P-1127; Diesel Shunter; Civilian figures, in red stripe box; Original 1965 release of Concorde - before the real one even flew!; The S.S. Southern Cross; Saunders-Roe SR-53 rocket/jet fighter; The Pan-Am Orion Shuttle. And the only never made one I'm interested in, for which they created artwork, but then got cold feet over, was Captain Nemo's 'Nautilus', from the 1954 Disney movie 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'. Still possible, lads - a nice, affordable Nautilus would go down well (pun intended) with collectors.
@Brian the Pam-Am Orion Shuttle came up on eBay only yesterday. 8 shekels, which wasn’t bad, about $55 USD, then I saw the postage - another 12 shekels!
Sadly the collectors are taking the kits, never to be built.. but should sell for a song when their unsuspecting siblings sell off the stash once the collectors shuffle off this mortal coil.
If they are recent red box re-boxed Airfix kits using 50 year old moulds with the new Indian soft plastic, which they were never engineered for, then yes you’ll get flash, warpage and disappointment. It’s a crime they keep selling these. I always look for old 60’s 70’s White Box Airfix kits, when the moulds were new and the plastic was so much firmer. Those kits have hardly any flash and generally fit well.
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Ah, the good old days of Airfix instructions when they were educational! Loved 'em!
By the way, the new 1/24 Airfix Spitfire IXc is manufactured and boxed in Good Ole Blighty, with just the decals by Cartograph. (Have to keep a country starting with an "I" in it somewhere.)
Well they make nice food, those I fellows :). Both Mediterranean and Asian
Love the Stash tip using good old wood glue. Number on the parts. My what would the precious petals will think. I miss that about the old kits.
Glad it was helpful! Follow me for more tips :)
I totally agree about the old Airfix kit instructions I miss those three little words "locate and cement"
you also got to know what part you were fixing I learnt a lot from Airfix instructions about the correct names of aircraft and car parts
Please send a bit of your heat to a freezing UK 🌞
Just keep playing my videos.. the waffling should help melt any freeze
Harry! I have built the Queen Elizabeth as a Troopship. It will be a great kit!
Lovely… it does seem an interesting kit, and not something I would have usually bought for myself.
Hi Harry, I remember back in the mid 60s my dad built this kit and it was all white, excepted for the twin funnels, he painted them yellow.
That would work… it probably had a few colour schemes over the years
I have here the SS ORIANA started it but then i realised i had to "mature" a bit because that stern tô fit And look good needs a lot of work And some from scratch! Have a good one!
If it was a later moulding of the kits, especially from the late 80’s then the plastic and mould quality can be awful. That’s why I look for white box kits as much as possible from Airfix
This is one of my favourite old Airfix ships to build, ive built a handful now for ex crew members and people who sailed on her, with the addition of something as simple as photoetch railings, it just adds that extra bit of detail to the kit, although as youve said 1/600 railings are not easy to find especially in the UK..... ive built nearly all of their ocean liner ship kits now, QE2, Canberra, currently building another 1/600 Queen Mary 2, the one that keep evading me though, the 1/600 SS France! thats rarer than unicorn turds! and when it does pop up people are asking £100...£150....£200!!! 😬😬🤯🤯
Yep the collectors are just cashing in on Airfix nostalgia
You’re a good bloke, fair play…
Thanks Tinto
Just to show the difference in strength of the Sun's UV depending on where you are; I bought one of these and of course the decals were yellowed to f- so I taped them to a south facing window...it took 2 months to lighten them! Well, the Sun doesn't shine much in Scotland...
Ah yes, but you make better whiskey. So it all evens out in the scheme of things.
Another kit from my childhood / early - teens, nostalgia overload!
Glad I gave you some reminisce matey
Very nice kit, that swimming pool is just asking for tiny bit of 2 part resin to simulate water.
I was just going to paint it blue then spit inside.
A good looking kit, I agree the older kits are much better. I see Airfix are re-releasing the Great Western this year. I've never tackled that in it early incarnations so may buy it despite the poop plastic.
I am looking forward to seeing if they cleaned up the moulds and use better plastic for the Great Western re-release Gary
Bubble Wrap:Sneak up on Bask when she’s asleep and pop a bubble next to her ear!😂
You want me to break my other arm too?
'Arry! 'Ow's it goin', mate? Yes, finding old and rare Airfix kits is great fun, and a fine bit of nostalgia too. I just managed to get my hands on an old Airfix Sunderland, as I was inspired by your recent video on that kit, and went looking for one on Ebay. The old instruction sheets are great! It was a far more literate age, and they actually bothered to explain and name everything. Brilliant! I wish that was still the case. Yes, bursting the bubble wrap is a wonderful stress reliever. Every kit should come with a bit of bubble wrap. I remember seeing the QE 2 kit many moons ago, but I never bought one of them.
Sadly I don’t recall ever seeing her down under… I have been on a number of old P&O ocean liners in the 60’s and 70’s as we steamed from Africa to Australia a few times. I remember being on the Orcades from Perth WA to Durbin in South Africa, where Dad had been in the Navy. That was where I bought the Airfix Scharnhorst from the ships toy store. But was forbidden to build it on board, so had to wait until we settled in Johannesburg before having fun with the kit.
That looks absolutely amazing Harry !! You almost build it right there :p Proves ones again that the old kits have nothing to envy at the new ones, like you say designed with cat ...
Not sure the Cat had much to do with it hehe but designed with love and skill.
@@HarryHoudiniModels like you say, designed with lots of skill and love, yes I meant Cad design, but maybe the cat did help ;p
I meant your QE 2 will be brilliant
Thanks Phil
Airfix are realising the SS Great Western later this year will be getting that one to add to the stash
You and me both David
Greetings from frosty NW England.
G’day mate. Hot, humid and rainy here
Bolton model show today
Ah . . Your off to the dark side 😲
I’ve heard you can grind minions to a powder, add hot milk and make a nice porridge.
I built that kit when I was a kid, dad helped or did I help him, long time ago and can’t remember, love to see your magic on it
That porridge may taste like… Banana!
Hi Harry, just got home from cruising , you can't beat it , wish they'd build models of them , great review and remember building this ship 😊😊😊😊
hors boucanier étions-nous alors mista français?
@@HarryHoudiniModels Pardon Harry, brain is fried from drinking cocktails for 3 days at sea lol
Sings: What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Keel haul him in the morning!
@@HarryHoudiniModels 😂😂😂😂
Found one this morning at a very sensible price. . Original box and still sealed . . Added to stash 😁👍
Lucky man Darrell
Found a chap selling on someone's old collection. Have messaged him as there were actually two of the QE models listed but not certain if it's a double listing by accident. There's a few different ships . All white box and a good pile of plane kits. Some by FROG ??? . Not looked into those . £40 for the tub plus postage 👍
Also as always love the waffle and Voices Harry. Happy modeling
Glad you like them Steve
Loving The videos Harry! That looks a corker of a kit that. Glad to see I'm not the only one with a soft spot for vintage kits hehe. Just something about em. I stumbled upon an original Airfix 1/72 Arado float plane from the sixties at the local model shop for $3 dollars US. Was/is 100% complete with clear parts and even the decals look usable. It's also one of the most cleanly molded kits I have. Vintage Airfix is the good kush lol.
Thanks 👍Yep I always see Airfix through rose tinted glasses
Thanks Harry
My pleasure Cos.
The instructions that accompanied the old Revell 1/96 USS Constitution back in the 60s are what taught me almost all sailing ship and rigging terminology - at least the fundamentals anyway.
Yes we learned a lot about how things worked, and the name of components from our modelling back then, before the inter-web made it so lazy to get answers.
@@HarryHoudiniModels eber built tje Matchbox 1/72 Flower Class Corvette ship?
No I never built Matchbox as a youth, didn’t see their kits down under. Now they are rare and overpriced, if you can find them.
@@HarryHoudiniModels would love to get 1 as im from Ireland and back in the 1950s the Irish Naval Service used them
Nice kit!
Thanks… it was not one I would have thought to buy for myself, nor have I ever built an ocean liner, but as a gift it has been a welcome surprise.
Great review Harry. Greetings from frosty Bitmingham (UK).
You need a warming dram man….
Hmm, did you like watching Captain Pugwash when you were a kid?. I reckon this may have had something to do your obsession with all things maritime, not that I'm complaining mind you. I admire your skill and dry sense of humour!
I watched Gerry Anderson’s Stingray, mostly to perve on Marina. Dad was ex Navy and would always take me to any docking warship in harbour for a look. Guess I got salt in me blood.
Like airfix built their HMS Iron Duke and got their HMS Prince kit. Although trying to get my hands on something like Q.E 2 is alittle to expensive
They do seem to be getting pricey, but there are deceased estate and barn finds where you will get a bargain
I saw one at a car boot sale last year - I don't build ships often, so I passed on it. I think it was marked at £5. Now had it been the Airfix S.S. France... 😆😆😆
An opportunity missed then Brian
If we're not allowed to say tug, how are we gonna say tug boat?
I think that there's a tug boat in the shadows, future, pipeline or whatever, right? 😉😎
Smashing video on this lovely floaty thingy....😉👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻
On to the next one, when finished....
I don't think it's the Tug so much but the Gooch part which may fall foul :(
I don't know if you watch "airfix and chill", but if not, they were deeply amused by the release of this year's vintage classic kits and how much they would harpoon the dealers.
Incidentally, the stuka is one of them.
ICM sent me decals free, including postage, despite the fact that I fessed up to making a total foobar of them 😂😂
I had not heard of Airfix and Chill. Will seek them out. Good score on the Deck Alls.
@@HarryHoudiniModels If work doesn't get in the way, you would be able to participate as it's open to all youtube modellers
Greetings from cold and wintery Alberta canada
G’day matey
A side by side comparison of the old release of such a kit and new(er) re-release might be interesting. But it doesn't look this kit made it into the Vintage classics series.
I once did that with an old Airfix Spitfire and the new 21st century CAD design one. Both dry fit. There were surprising and interesting results
Bloo-D-Elle! love your videos ...Hey i resent that ! I'm Spanish, but im not a Spanish bull fighter (maybe a Spanish bull S#!+€r ) but my name is not InyourWinow!.... I had both this kit and the S.S.FRANCE back in the 90s and traded them for some Fighting Fantasy books😭
I knew a fella from Spain called Enu Endo…. hehe
10:36 I always thought innuendo was an Italian suppository
IGMC
Good one. LOL
haha you said fork n ship
…and in the long uncut 18+ version… cunning stunts!
As i understand, the rarest from Airfix is/are the Austin martin DB 5 007, the 1/76 scale SAM missile and one of the science model Birds
Yes there are a number of never re-released kits that collectors drool after.
Check the 2023 releases from Aifix for the Bloodhound......
The SAM 2 kit is the saddest of all - when Airfix had one of their 'financial glitches' in the 1980's, manufacturing was taken up by Heller, in France. The tooling was exported, and that for the SAM 2, was destroyed when the train carrying the tools, was in an accident. I'd love for Airfix to remake the tooling for this kit, which was a real beauty. The SAM 2 is still in use by some countries today.
Rare Airfix includes:
Original Spitfire 'BT-K';
Hawker P-1127;
Diesel Shunter;
Civilian figures, in red stripe box;
Original 1965 release of Concorde - before the real one even flew!;
The S.S. Southern Cross;
Saunders-Roe SR-53 rocket/jet fighter;
The Pan-Am Orion Shuttle.
And the only never made one I'm interested in, for which they created artwork, but then got cold feet over, was Captain Nemo's 'Nautilus', from the 1954 Disney movie 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'. Still possible, lads - a nice, affordable Nautilus would go down well (pun intended) with collectors.
@Brian the Pam-Am Orion Shuttle came up on eBay only yesterday. 8 shekels, which wasn’t bad, about $55 USD, then I saw the postage - another 12 shekels!
My model in the late 70s was a heck of alot cheaper but now the prices are now pricing kids out of the market
Sadly the collectors are taking the kits, never to be built.. but should sell for a song when their unsuspecting siblings sell off the stash once the collectors shuffle off this mortal coil.
@@HarryHoudiniModels my first trainset in Xmas 1960 cost £5 12 6d but now i cant buy the loco for less than £250.
True but £5 was a small fortune back then… I had hardly a shilling a week pocket money to spend on kits.
@@HarryHoudiniModels i know i used to get 6d pocket money per week . Now my daughter gets £10
Артефакт прошлого века...😢😮
May be old but still fun to build
Or even Birmingham.😎
Are you a Peaky Builder?
@@HarryHoudiniModels Ha😂
The worst bit was putting the decals for the shuffleboards on the deck.
bugger that… I will make scratch skittles hehe
I’ve had terrible experiences with airfix kits fitting horribly and flash flash flash; I think the poor molds have worn out.
If they are recent red box re-boxed Airfix kits using 50 year old moulds with the new Indian soft plastic, which they were never engineered for, then yes you’ll get flash, warpage and disappointment. It’s a crime they keep selling these. I always look for old 60’s 70’s White Box Airfix kits, when the moulds were new and the plastic was so much firmer. Those kits have hardly any flash and generally fit well.