James May Airfix
styleguide/insertcontentheader.htm James May's 1:1 Scale Airfix SpitfireBy Martin Waligorski styleguide/insertadimagepagetop.htmLooking remarkably similar to the real thing, here is the largest plasticairplane model kit ever, the giant 1:1 Airfix Spitfire produced for JamesMay's 2009 BBC show Toy Stories. The model, constructed in three dayswith the help of local schoolchildren, has been retained at outdoor displayat Cosford Air MuseumPhotographed in November 2009, it was still in good condition, sans itsundercarriage which apparently turned out as fragile as per original Airfixkit!Click to enlarge imagesstyleguide/insertadimagepagebottom.htm styleguide/insertcontentfooter.htm.
7 ヶ月 前 +1I kept my Airfix kits in a suitcase and carried them from house to house for nearly 60 years. A couple of years ago they were so knocked about. I thought I should get rid of them, but could not just bin them.
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I put them into the garden incinerator and the clouds of black toxic smoke they gave off had to be seen to be believed. Plastics were different in the 1950s, but at least they had a proper sendoff. It's probably before James May's time, but the original kits including the Mayflower were in polythene bags with a crude picture and paper instructions stapled to the top. First kit I got was a Spitfire in sky blue plastic costing two shillings (10p) and by comparison with later models it was crude and carried four small bombs which so far as I know, no Spitfire ever did.
7 ヶ月 前The memories are so strong looking at the kits art work. Mine is standing at an outside work bench in Singapore, my Dad nearby with a cold one,printing an Avro Anson, in my minds eye, perfectly at 8 years old, I can almost smell the paint. Those kits brought to life my Dads stories of the fall of singa, we would visit the airbase, watch the take off and landings, explore old defences and have lunch back at the Naval base, missed lout on seeing the Sunderlands, but got to crawl through the one at Motat in NZ when Dads tour was over, I made that kit soon after, 2.
Excuse the rambling, I've been emptying my folks house out for sale today and my heads full of memories. Airfix is a National Treasure. 9 ヶ月 前I find the idea of 'sanitizing' things relating to military and removing the violence a bit odd.
These were machines of war, that's what they are. Their role was one of violence, of people killing one another - for right or for wrong. Whether you think that cool, or you find that abhorrent, that's what they are. To claim otherwise simply is untrue. If you wish to pretend there is no such thing as war, or to hide away violence, then buy a plastic model of an airliner or civilian plane - there are plenty of good ones out there.
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And I say this as a liberal pacifist.