Airfix at that time had pilots with deperately thin legs and hands indicating a violent stomach upset. It was years before (in my haste to glue on the canopy) I realised the effect of the plastic glue fumes - frosting the glazing.
I dont know why this was in my feed but it does bring memories of building that same model way back then....I had a fair collection of models all hung from the ceiling in my bedroom.
An absolute pleasure to watch, and listen, to such a simple, effective demonstration of modelling art; no super-detailling, etched metal, resin aftermarket, just sheer skill in representing the true essence of an aeroplane. Thank you.
I built this kit back in 2017. An okay little kit, as early Airfix kits go. I'm 67 now, been modeling since I was tenish. We rarely saw Airfix kits in my youth here in Florida in the 1960s/1970s. 😊
I was the same as a kid in the 1970s. Every Friday after school I'd get pocket money from my nan and grandad and would go to the local newsagent to buy a kit. I'd always ask the long suffering shopkeeper to get the kits (Airfix and Matchbox) out of the window, so I could look at them and decide which one to buy that week. He should have received a medal for his endless patience and kindness.
Fantastic- you “freed” the 60-year old plastic from its prison bag! Great to see. A real historic kit from many models youth. Keep building “ “ancient” plastic.
I built this kit when it first came out in the late 50's, 2/- from Woolworths, and painted with Humbrol enamels. I'm alway surprised at how well some of these really vintage kits make up with modern building materials and techniques. This is a kit that's really crying out for a retooling. Thanks for showing this model, brings back some memories.
Hi. You have done a great job there. I built this kit back in the 70's when I was a kid , mine wasn't as good as yours. I think that its time for Airfix to do a re-boot. Good job. Regards.
Well done! A classic from the attic, oldie but goldie etc I think we condemn the old decals without trying to use them most of the time, it's encouraged me to hold back on going aftermarket immediately.
always wondered what this older whirlwind kit was actually like, doesn't seem too bad, and you've got yourself a really nice model from it, did think it was great that you used the original pilot, letting him finally fly his plane after 50 odd years!
Wow - what a brilliant build. Marvellous seeing these old kits brought to life. Actually I have a couple of old kits that you can have free if you want to bring em to life. A French fighter by FROG and a Mosquito by Airfix, both old school.
Beautiful build, truly shocked the decals worked at all, much less as almost new. Just goes to show that you don't need a new release to build a striking model.
I remember when i was young these airfix-kits in their plastic bags.. I beleive they were FL 1,25 up to 1,75 in Dutch money.. When i got me pocket money its was on to the store and get one.. Greatings from the Nedtherlands.. I build a lot of them..
That's just the type of Airfix kit I used to build in the mid 1960's in my early teens.(Born 1950) I never thought I'd sent a kit ina plastic bag again. I'm sure it was one shilling and six pence And I'm almost certain I built a Westland Whirlwind Every Saturday morning I bought one Airfix kit from Woolworths with my pocket money and assembled it in the afternoon. Many thanks for reviving these memories
I did a similar thing, but for me it was the late 70s and early 80s and it was Matchbox kits that took my pocket money. Hours of entertainment for a £1.00.
Old kits deserve to be built, no matter how crappy they are. What's the point of stashing them away to gradually deteriorate? I've spent the last 18 months building the models from my fathers stash that he's had since the mid 70's. Some of them have been an absolute nightmare, but they have all turned out to look pretty decent.
I did build this one over 55 years ago. even then the Package was found in a dusty corner of the store. It was the only one in a plastic bag, thats why I remember it so well.
I grew up with these kits (though I never actually built the Whirlwind). When I was boy, I could buy the basic Airfix bagged kits for around 1s 3d (even cheaper when I first made them), and they were available all over the place, not just in dedicated toy shops. My Dad gave me my first one for my 8th birthday (in 1960) - for some reason he chose a Fiat jet... and he had to build that one himself, but still that started me on a life-long hobby of model building.
Hi, Nice build. I can remember building this kit as a child back in the late 60's. A point of interest the Whirlwind was never designed to use the Merlin engine. It was designed around the Rolls-Royce Peregrine engine. There are no surviving Whirlwinds as the were all eventually scrapped. But in 2011 the Whirlwind Fighter Project was commenced to build a full size replica of the aircraft. It will be a static replica as there are only 2 surviving Peregrine engines that were dug up from a crash site in Grangemouth. They are both wrecked and unusable. To the best of my Knowledge there are no plans to either try and make new Peregrine engines or re-engine it with a different engine.
Those early bagged kits used to come with a one-time flexible ampule of adhesive. That was dropped towards the mid-sixties as sales (And inflation ) took off. Then the soft metal adhesive tubes were re-included along with paints when the kits started being boxed in the late 1970s.
The lack of Merlins was a problem for the Whirlwind but it's main problem was the wrong propellers were being used this isn't mentioned in most descriptions of the aircraft. A very nice build, this is a kit I've wanted to build for a long time, a very interesting AC.
It wasn't that it never got the Merlins, it was that it was designed around the Peregrine; to use Merlins (much bigger, more powerful, and in great demand for Spits, Hurricanes, and every other aircraft they were used in) - it would have required a complete redesign. If Westland and RR had the resources to keep developing both the airframe and the Kestrel/Peregrine, the Whirlwind might have become a favourite, and possibly have rendered the Typhoon unnecessary. I had this very kit back in the early '70s. I'm tempted to get the 1/32 kit just because.
Built one of these way back in 1984, fun kit of an impressive aircraft. One reason it never got merlins was because they were larger and heavier so installing them required a complete re design of the airframe. Pity. Great build and video!
Just as we Americans received the license to build the superb RR Merlin engine, the Brits should have gotten the license to build our R2600 and R2800 radial engines. This plane would have been very successful with a pair of R2600s. Lighter and more power and reliability. 😎👍
Nice job on this Airfix oldie. Even though Airfix released a retooled version in 1977, and vastly better, it's still good to see an original getting some attention.
From this day on I shall now be using the correct technical term "flappy things" to describe aircraft ailerons and elevators. :) .. I DID build this as a kid back in the 60s (or maybe early 70s) but like all my models, I could only use the paints I could get... so most everything was painted Humbrol gloss colours and I made no distinction between the shades of colour of the RAF and the Luftwaffe. So gloss green and gloss brown covered just about all the camo on top and gloss duck egg blue for the underneath. Seriously though, that was a magical build and the final result was brilliant!
Thank you, I do know the correct names but when speaking of the cuff it is surprising how often I mess up. If I was having a proper conversation with a friend I don’t seem to have this brain fog. More practice required when speaking to fresh air I think 👍
When I was a kid I built these kits of every type of aircraft I stopped when I hit 150 ran out of room still have a couple unbuilt Nakayama RITA 1/48 and DO 335 also 1/48 scale
I was just about to suggest Autoglym when you mentioned it. I use it on my model cars to polish them up and they come up beautifully. I also use it to fix up dull windows and canopies after sanding them with up to 15000 grit paper.
Remember the original kit, I was an Airfix and Frog fanatic in the 1960s and built most of these kits except for some of the larger more expensive ones beyond my pocket money. I bough my kits from Woolworths were they had built up models on a large pegboard, happy days!
Two bob (10p) from Woolworths in Watford High Street. I made so many at that time with my pocket money. Looking back I must have been obsessive...my parents must have despaired.
Those are the kits I started modelling way back in the 60s. Wish I could get hold of some of these old Airfix kits, but they cost more than their weight in gold!
@@creativetimewasting You were lucky! I searched for the 1/32nd Airfix Sunbeam Rapier, and the prices (two of them, and excluding shipping) were AU$460 or AU$150! (£233 and £76! )
Hello, microscale has a fluid for keeping cracked decals together. The yellow of the decals can be corrected to white by putting them under uv light or sunlight for several days to bleach them
I remember building this kit in the early 70's when I was about 10. Painted it with some paint that came in little glass tubes. Thee stuff was as thick nearly as filler. It didn't look no where near as good as yours. 😂
It really didn't matter about flash and simplicity. You looked forward to going to the toy store, you took it home. You got the horrible glue over everything the canopy went cloudy,you used claggy humbrol enamel on it, and when finished it was put on the shelf with pride and the box art was pinned to the wall, simpler better times, ahhhh nostalgia.
I built the 1958 tooled Airfix R.E.8 last year. It had the same style of instructions as your Whirlwind. The kit was actually not bad to build. The decals were a bit fragile and I had to paint the side roundels as the originals fell off when a bit of masking tape touched them. The red bits were off center anyway and the colour was not great. I also had to touch up the rego numbers and tail markings, but the wing roundels were OK. The pilots were pretty bizarre little guys just like yours. I thought they looked a bit like Dr Who Cybermen.
Very nice build I must say. I also have to say that roughly mid '70s is a starting point for me for acceptable vintages. Here, just like many of his contemporaries, everythng is thick, no details, just like toy not model. I am still waiting for something new from Airfix vintage series from 70s-80s that will be an interesing object and less toy-like
Yes I remember this kit from back 1975. I'd find these types of kits in the local post office and local milk Bar believe it or not. Airfix kits would be on a card backing with a clear front that showed all the parts. I'd never seen this one before in a plastic bag. That's an early one. I wander does leaving the yellowed decals in sunlight whiten them up again? I have lots of kits with that yellowish decals that's frustrating. I have two 1/48 scale Westland Whirlwinds Hobbyboss kits now for two colour schemes earth brown and green and grey green. I'd love to buy the 1/32 scale I think I did see. That 1/72 scale turned out quite well. It looks great for display. Great job on a simple model. Cheers. 👍🇭🇲🦘✌️ From Australia.
I used to buy the Airfix ‘blister pack’ as you describe at my post office in the 1970s, the plastic bags were before my time. I put these transfers on the windowsill for a few days and it helped somewhat.
@@creativetimewasting Thanks for your reply. The plastic bag models was before my time also. In the 70s the smaller Aircraft kits would be in a blister on card back. And some bigger were in a box as they are reissued now in the red box. I actually did put a decal sheet at the window sill and it curled up . Then I stuck it with blue tack on a piece of cardboard to keep it flat. But that was only for a short period. The decals on the Whirlwind you build actually look pretty well. I like the gloss sheen overall. But those kits were fun and still are as it brings back memories of those times back in the day. Nice build.👍🇭🇲🦘✌️🙂
A beautiful build of an ugly looking plane...lol . Seeing the fuselage parts just makes me remember how on those old kits from back then, the slot for the stand was always a little longer in one fuselage half than in the other...lol
Many modelling channels seem to trouble with focus, I wonder if turning the cutting mat upside down so there isn't an obvious grid to for the camera to autofocus on would help.
Probably because I’m just using my phone and have no proper gear. I have promised if I get to 5000 subs I will invest in some new tech and do proper editing.
Price on it was 2/11d! I can remember asking my father for an increase in pocket money from half a crown (2/6d) to three bob when Airfix increased the Series 1 kit price from 2/3d to 2/11d......... my father (a good Union shop steward) agreed, and congratulated me on having the basis of good negotiation - a reasonable demand, with supporting evidence!!!
How i loved those Blisterpacks ..and WHY always to make it " better " ??? Then don t build a vintage kit. btw : lovely time, without airbrush, super detailsets specials declas aso aso..just fun, and a nice affordable hobby.
Hi Alan, I’m not sure where I will be as I’ve never been before. I will have a look at the hall layout and try to find somewhere where I can be at a certain time. I will only be there on the Sunday so I will put up a little video with details etc. I might have to find some type of hat to wear for ID purposes. Stay tuned.
Great job! One of the first kits I built, about 60 years ago. I'll be 'crossing the pond' From Canada to Telford for SMW, if I'm not hanging around with the guys at the What If? SIG, look for some dishevelled old fart wearing a floppy hat with TORONTO across the front, and various souvenir pins all over it.
Brilliant watch,oh the nostalgia of watching you build this,memories of going on the bus with my pocket money down to rileys models and pick a blister pack airfix,actually don't recall building the whirlwind, but I'd be straight home and have it built and painted by the evening😂sure I had em all hanging in a massive dogfight from my bedroom cieling
I love the idea that the pilot has been waiting 60 years and finally gets to fly his plane. Cheers!
Airfix at that time had pilots with deperately thin legs and hands indicating a violent stomach upset. It was years before (in my haste to glue on the canopy) I realised the effect of the plastic glue fumes - frosting the glazing.
I dont know why this was in my feed but it does bring memories of building that same model way back then....I had a fair collection of models all hung from the ceiling in my bedroom.
@@kimraymond2749 I think most of us of a certain age had many an aircraft hanging of our bedroom ceilings.
Lots of memorys with that Airfix kit. Thanks !
It's very pleasant to see this kind of reworking of old kits. Very successful, well done.
Wonderful end result for such a kit !
An absolute pleasure to watch, and listen, to such a simple, effective demonstration of modelling art; no super-detailling, etched metal, resin aftermarket, just sheer skill in representing the true essence of an aeroplane.
Thank you.
Stay tuned for more 👍
I do like seeing these old classics getting built up, they deserve to be built and put on display if just for historic purposes. Nice work
I built this kit back in 2017. An okay little kit, as early Airfix kits go. I'm 67 now, been modeling since I was tenish. We rarely saw Airfix kits in my youth here in Florida in the 1960s/1970s. 😊
Takes me back to going to the model shop on a saturday and building my 99pence airfix kit over the weekend great days
I was the same as a kid in the 1970s. Every Friday after school I'd get pocket money from my nan and grandad and would go to the local newsagent to buy a kit. I'd always ask the long suffering shopkeeper to get the kits (Airfix and Matchbox) out of the window, so I could look at them and decide which one to buy that week. He should have received a medal for his endless patience and kindness.
@@davidmccann9811 Half a crown from Woolworths.
The scent of the glue.
Fantastic- you “freed” the 60-year old plastic from its prison bag! Great to see. A real historic kit from many models youth. Keep building “
“ancient” plastic.
Beautiful job especially given the age. Lots of good detail tips in there too. Thank you.
I built this kit when it first came out in the late 50's, 2/- from Woolworths, and painted with Humbrol enamels. I'm alway surprised at how well some of these really vintage kits make up with modern building materials and techniques. This is a kit that's really crying out for a retooling. Thanks for showing this model, brings back some memories.
Airfix need to get on with it.
They should bring them back again..l miss them, nice work Sir..🎉❤😊
Absolutely wonderful !
I truly enjoy watching this channel 👍👍
Than you, hopefully more to follow soon.
Hi. You have done a great job there. I built this kit back in the 70's when I was a kid , mine wasn't as good as yours. I think that its time for Airfix to do a re-boot. Good job. Regards.
Airfix need to get on it, new Whirlwind and Battle required in 1/72 and 1/48.
I too would like to see Airfix do a newly engineered kit to their present standards. 😊
Well done! A classic from the attic, oldie but goldie etc I think we condemn the old decals without trying to use them most of the time, it's encouraged me to hold back on going aftermarket immediately.
Nice model. I like it's design and this old kit is decent. Like a good old matchbox, simple and enjoyable moments.
Very nice build. The way you did it with the original decals and no added detail makes it look plausibly like an expert build from the 60s.
always wondered what this older whirlwind kit was actually like, doesn't seem too bad, and you've got yourself a really nice model from it, did think it was great that you used the original pilot, letting him finally fly his plane after 50 odd years!
@@philsmodelmaking2260 I think he had waited long enough to get his wings.
Wow - what a brilliant build. Marvellous seeing these old kits brought to life. Actually I have a couple of old kits that you can have free if you want to bring em to life. A French fighter by FROG and a Mosquito by Airfix, both old school.
I would love to build them and happy to return them to you built if you want. Drop me an email and we can go from there.
neilmcconnachie@outlook.com
Very lovley Build❤ From this Old Kit great
Looks amazing for such an old kit
Bloody nice job considering what you had to work with.
Love seeing the old kits pop to life nice job!
More vintage kits will be posted soon. 👍
Beautiful build, truly shocked the decals worked at all, much less as almost new. Just goes to show that you don't need a new release to build a striking model.
I remember these airfix-kits in their plastic bags, built some of them when I was a kid. Greetings from sweden
I think everyone of a certain age remembers these kits.
They had global appeal.
Modern techniques can sure bring an old model to modern standards.
I reckon you've made an excellent job of this old kit - great to see
I remember when i was young these airfix-kits in their plastic bags.. I beleive they were FL 1,25 up to 1,75 in Dutch money.. When i got me pocket money its was on to the store and get one.. Greatings from the Nedtherlands.. I build a lot of them..
@@j.r.termaaten6979 this kits generate great memories from our now distant past. Happier times I think?
That's just the type of Airfix kit I used to build in the mid 1960's in my early teens.(Born 1950) I never thought I'd sent a kit ina plastic bag again. I'm sure it was one shilling and six pence
And I'm almost certain I built a Westland Whirlwind
Every Saturday morning I bought one Airfix kit from Woolworths with my pocket money and assembled it in the
afternoon.
Many thanks for reviving these memories
I did a similar thing, but for me it was the late 70s and early 80s and it was Matchbox kits that took my pocket money.
Hours of entertainment for a £1.00.
Absolutely cracking job of building this old kit. It was probably 1967 when I built this kit.
Love seeing the old kits gettin built. Brilliant work , lad.👍
Old kits deserve to be built, no matter how crappy they are. What's the point of stashing them away to gradually deteriorate? I've spent the last 18 months building the models from my fathers stash that he's had since the mid 70's. Some of them have been an absolute nightmare, but they have all turned out to look pretty decent.
Excellent had many of these in the 70s preferred it to the spit welldone.
Really nice build, thanks for sharing!
I did build this one over 55 years ago. even then the Package was found in a dusty corner of the store. It was the only one in a plastic bag, thats why I remember it so well.
Very nice work. I built that same model quite a few years ago . I came out OK, no longer have it though.
I grew up with these kits (though I never actually built the Whirlwind). When I was boy, I could buy the basic Airfix bagged kits for around 1s 3d (even cheaper when I first made them), and they were available all over the place, not just in dedicated toy shops. My Dad gave me my first one for my 8th birthday (in 1960) - for some reason he chose a Fiat jet... and he had to build that one himself, but still that started me on a life-long hobby of model building.
Hi, Nice build. I can remember building this kit as a child back in the late 60's. A point of interest the Whirlwind was never designed to use the Merlin engine. It was designed around the Rolls-Royce Peregrine engine. There are no surviving Whirlwinds as the were all eventually scrapped. But in 2011 the Whirlwind Fighter Project was commenced to build a full size replica of the aircraft. It will be a static replica as there are only 2 surviving Peregrine engines that were dug up from a crash site in Grangemouth. They are both wrecked and unusable. To the best of my Knowledge there are no plans to either try and make new Peregrine engines or re-engine it with a different engine.
@@gerardburton3741 thanks for the info, I would like to have seen an upgraded Whirlwind for aircraft operations. Might have been interesting.
Beautifully built and finished, scrubs up pretty well for a 66 year old kit, barely showing her age at all.
Bravo. Lovely build.
Those early bagged kits used to come with a one-time flexible ampule of adhesive. That was dropped towards the mid-sixties as sales (And inflation ) took off. Then the soft metal adhesive tubes were re-included along with paints when the kits started being boxed in the late 1970s.
Love this channel. Really informative and the commentary is spot on. I did smile about your comments of the dogs
Thank you, I do my best. The dogs might make an appearance soon. Stay tuned.
Great job with an elderly kit!
Something heartwarming about anthropomorphizing the pilot figure.
I always like to add figures even this ancient Airfix pilot, adds a sense of scale I think. 👍
Entertaining and enlightening video - I have the slightly later 1970s one in the stash i collected as I want to get back into the hobby
Excellent job, looking forward to your next build.
The lack of Merlins was a problem for the Whirlwind but it's main problem was the wrong propellers were being used this isn't mentioned in most descriptions of the aircraft. A very nice build, this is a kit I've wanted to build for a long time, a very interesting AC.
It is one of my favourite aircraft, it just looks right.
It wasn't that it never got the Merlins, it was that it was designed around the Peregrine; to use Merlins (much bigger, more powerful, and in great demand for Spits, Hurricanes, and every other aircraft they were used in) - it would have required a complete redesign. If Westland and RR had the resources to keep developing both the airframe and the Kestrel/Peregrine, the Whirlwind might have become a favourite, and possibly have rendered the Typhoon unnecessary. I had this very kit back in the early '70s. I'm tempted to get the 1/32 kit just because.
Great build. 👍👍
Built one of these way back in 1984, fun kit of an impressive aircraft. One reason it never got merlins was because they were larger and heavier so installing them required a complete re design of the airframe. Pity. Great build and video!
Always thought an upgraded Whirlwind would have made a great aircraf carrier fighter/bomber.
Just as we Americans received the license to build the superb RR Merlin engine, the Brits should have gotten the license to build our R2600 and R2800 radial engines. This plane would have been very successful with a pair of R2600s. Lighter and more power and reliability. 😎👍
Very nice kit plane Westland Whirlwind RAF fighter love it
Wey aye, Neil! Liked and subscribed 👍👍
Nice job on this Airfix oldie. Even though Airfix released a retooled version in 1977, and vastly better, it's still good to see an original getting some attention.
I might build that version for comparison.
Love love love this kit
From this day on I shall now be using the correct technical term "flappy things" to describe aircraft ailerons and elevators. :) .. I DID build this as a kid back in the 60s (or maybe early 70s) but like all my models, I could only use the paints I could get... so most everything was painted Humbrol gloss colours and I made no distinction between the shades of colour of the RAF and the Luftwaffe. So gloss green and gloss brown covered just about all the camo on top and gloss duck egg blue for the underneath.
Seriously though, that was a magical build and the final result was brilliant!
Thank you, I do know the correct names but when speaking of the cuff it is surprising how often I mess up. If I was having a proper conversation with a friend I don’t seem to have this brain fog.
More practice required when speaking to fresh air I think 👍
Ahhhhhh back to the good old days
Bought by my Dad from Woolworth's for 2s6d and I was about 10 - so over 60 years ago.
I also made one in 1964. Date is certain as I went to see 633 Squadron at the cinema, I already had a Mosquito so dad got me a Whirlwind.
When I was a kid I built these kits of every type of aircraft I stopped when I hit 150 ran out of room still have a couple unbuilt Nakayama RITA 1/48 and DO 335 also 1/48 scale
I was just about to suggest Autoglym when you mentioned it. I use it on my model cars to polish them up and they come up beautifully. I also use it to fix up dull windows and canopies after sanding them with up to 15000 grit paper.
Remember the original kit, I was an Airfix and Frog fanatic in the 1960s and built most of these kits except for some of the larger more expensive ones beyond my pocket money. I bough my kits from Woolworths were they had built up models on a large pegboard, happy days!
Stay tuned for more vintage builds 👍
@@creativetimewasting Thank you, brings back great memories, any old Frog kits?
Two bob (10p) from Woolworths in Watford High Street. I made so many at that time with my pocket money. Looking back I must have been obsessive...my parents must have despaired.
I remember buying that type of Airfix kit (clear bag) as a child. They cost 17p. My pocket money was 10p a week 😮.
Worth saving for.
Those are the kits I started modelling way back in the 60s. Wish I could get hold of some of these old Airfix kits, but they cost more than their weight in gold!
I picked the whirlwind up for around £17 on eBay.
@@creativetimewasting You were lucky! I searched for the 1/32nd Airfix Sunbeam Rapier, and the prices (two of them, and excluding shipping) were AU$460 or AU$150! (£233 and £76! )
@ ouch
"So I think it's time he got to fly his plane." 😎👍
Cool, I like it. You could do the prototype with a bit of work, as well.
Fingers crossed! this will be released as a vintage classic kit next year, and then hopefully a new tool from Airfix in 1/48 scale!
It’s tailor made for Airfix.
Hello, microscale has a fluid for keeping cracked decals together. The yellow of the decals can be corrected to white by putting them under uv light or sunlight for several days to bleach them
Yes, the transfers were left on the windowsill for a week 👍
Wow....I'm building the 1977 tooling as we speak! What are the chances?
Agree on your sentiments regarding this plane - it's a real 'what if?'
I remember building this kit in the early 70's when I was about 10. Painted it with some paint that came in little glass tubes. Thee stuff was as thick nearly as filler. It didn't look no where near as good as yours. 😂
It really didn't matter about flash and simplicity. You looked forward to going to the toy store, you took it home. You got the horrible glue over everything the canopy went cloudy,you used claggy humbrol enamel on it, and when finished it was put on the shelf with pride and the box art was pinned to the wall, simpler better times, ahhhh nostalgia.
Sounds familiar 👍
Superb !
I built the 1958 tooled Airfix R.E.8 last year. It had the same style of instructions as your Whirlwind. The kit was actually not bad to build. The decals were a bit fragile and I had to paint the side roundels as the originals fell off when a bit of masking tape touched them. The red bits were off center anyway and the colour was not great. I also had to touch up the rego numbers and tail markings, but the wing roundels were OK. The pilots were pretty bizarre little guys just like yours. I thought they looked a bit like Dr Who Cybermen.
Very nice build I must say. I also have to say that roughly mid '70s is a starting point for me for acceptable vintages. Here, just like many of his contemporaries, everythng is thick, no details, just like toy not model. I am still waiting for something new from Airfix vintage series from 70s-80s that will be an interesing object and less toy-like
Impressive build. That’s how I did the stand. It’s the wrong way around. M
Yes I remember this kit from back 1975. I'd find these types of kits in the local post office and local milk Bar believe it or not. Airfix kits would be on a card backing with a clear front that showed all the parts. I'd never seen this one before in a plastic bag. That's an early one. I wander does leaving the yellowed decals in sunlight whiten them up again? I have lots of kits with that yellowish decals that's frustrating. I have two 1/48 scale Westland Whirlwinds Hobbyboss kits now for two colour schemes earth brown and green and grey green. I'd love to buy the 1/32 scale I think I did see. That 1/72 scale turned out quite well. It looks great for display. Great job on a simple model. Cheers. 👍🇭🇲🦘✌️ From Australia.
I used to buy the Airfix ‘blister pack’ as you describe at my post office in the 1970s, the plastic bags were before my time.
I put these transfers on the windowsill for a few days and it helped somewhat.
@@creativetimewasting Thanks for your reply. The plastic bag models was before my time also. In the 70s the smaller Aircraft kits would be in a blister on card back. And some bigger were in a box as they are reissued now in the red box. I actually did put a decal sheet at the window sill and it curled up . Then I stuck it with blue tack on a piece of cardboard to keep it flat. But that was only for a short period. The decals on the Whirlwind you build actually look pretty well. I like the gloss sheen overall. But those kits were fun and still are as it brings back memories of those times back in the day. Nice build.👍🇭🇲🦘✌️🙂
I used to buy bagged kits like these from Woolworths for half a crown.
Dates me.
@@FredScuttle456 so many comments about memories, all good 👍
@@creativetimewasting The scent of the glue.
I’d completely forgotten the original packaging. 😮
A beautiful build of an ugly looking plane...lol . Seeing the fuselage parts just makes me remember how on those old kits from back then, the slot for the stand was always a little longer in one fuselage half than in the other...lol
Many modelling channels seem to trouble with focus, I wonder if turning the cutting mat upside down so there isn't an obvious grid to for the camera to autofocus on would help.
Probably because I’m just using my phone and have no proper gear. I have promised if I get to 5000 subs I will invest in some new tech and do proper editing.
Price on it was 2/11d! I can remember asking my father for an increase in pocket money from half a crown (2/6d) to three bob when Airfix increased the Series 1 kit price from 2/3d to 2/11d......... my father (a good Union shop steward) agreed, and congratulated me on having the basis of good negotiation - a reasonable demand, with supporting evidence!!!
I happy you won your reasonable demand for an inflation matching pay rise.
How i loved those Blisterpacks ..and WHY always to make it " better " ??? Then don t build a vintage kit. btw : lovely time, without airbrush, super detailsets specials declas aso aso..just fun, and a nice affordable hobby.
Najs one!)
I think it was about 1970 when I built that kit.
Excellent build. Takes me back to my younger modelling days.
Out of curiosity, what gloss varnish did you use prior to putting on the decals?
Thanks, the gloss varnish is from AK it’s called intermediate Gauzy agent.
It’s great for brush painting as it self levels.
@creativetimewasting Thank you. I'll buy some and give it a try.
buy a stamp collectors U/V lamp instead of hopefully relying on British autumn sunshine!!:)
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Sure I read that Merlin engines would have been overpowered for the airframe
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I built it. I’m that old🤪
Which hall are you in, I'd like to have a chat with you, I'm Alan.
Hi Alan, I’m not sure where I will be as I’ve never been before.
I will have a look at the hall layout and try to find somewhere where I can be at a certain time. I will only be there on the Sunday so I will put up a little video with details etc.
I might have to find some type of hat to wear for ID purposes.
Stay tuned.
Great job! One of the first kits I built, about 60 years ago. I'll be 'crossing the pond' From Canada to Telford for SMW, if I'm not hanging around with the guys at the What If? SIG, look for some dishevelled old fart wearing a floppy hat with TORONTO across the front, and various souvenir pins all over it.
I will be there on the Sunday, I will keep my eye open for you 👍
Brilliant watch,oh the nostalgia of watching you build this,memories of going on the bus with my pocket money down to rileys models and pick a blister pack airfix,actually don't recall
building the whirlwind, but I'd be straight home and have it built and painted by the evening😂sure I had em all hanging in a massive dogfight from my bedroom cieling
Sweet made my day...ta chap.