Airfix Kits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Airfix Kits write by Trevor Pask. This book was released on 2011-08-20. Airfix Kits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the aid of stringy glue and scalpel-sliced fingers, young and old have turned display cabinets and bedrooms into mini-museums, or tiny battlefields. This book looks at the fascinating tale of this British company a pioneer in the world of modelling as well as its products, its changing fortunes over the years, and its links with popular culture. Using colour images, Trevor Pask explores this thriving pastime, allowing Airfix kit lovers to indulge in a nostalgic journey and those new to the hobby an intriguing insight into its history.
The Airfix Book of Scale Modelling
The Airfix Book of Scale Modelling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Airfix Book of Scale Modelling write by Jonathan Mock. This book was released on 2014-02-06. The Airfix Book of Scale Modelling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Airfix Book of Scale Modelling is the essential guide to getting the most out of this fascinating and rewarding hobby, explaining how to build scale models to suit all levels of modelling skill. With full colour photography throughout, the book covers the history of modelling and of the Airfix company, and shows how injection moulded kits are made. It then describes and reviews the major modelling scales, as well as outlining the range of paints, tools and accessories that are available. Chapters include guides to choosing a kit, tools for the job, painting, decals, conversions, figure-painting, dioramas and more. Common problems and how to solve them are addressed, and there is also a series of step-by-step construction projects, including expert builds of the F86 Sabre jet, the Aston Martin DBR9, a Panzer IV tank, the Airfix yeoman figure (reissued for the London 2012 Olympics), a Trafalgar class submarine and a scenic diorama.
Sixty Years of Airfix Models
Sixty Years of Airfix Models - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sixty Years of Airfix Models write by Jeremy Brook. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Sixty Years of Airfix Models available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworth's. The kits were made to a constant scale and covered a wide variety of subjects, from aircraft to birds and from tanks to dinosaurs. In 1981 the famous London-based company closed down and only the kits survived intact. For the next twenty-five years Airfix was run by Palitoy and later Humbrol, but suffered from a lack of investment. In 2006, Hornby Hobbies Ltd, the train and Scalextric manufacturer, bought the ailing company and transformed it. Money and resources were ploughed into the range, and today Airfix releases around twenty new kits per year, designed to an incredibly high standard. The old kits of the 1950s and 1960s are gradually being replaced by new state-of-the-art tooling, all bearing that most prestigious name - Airfix. Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the first Airfix aircraft kit, Sixty Years of Airfix Models, tells the full story, year by year, of the company and its products. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs.of kits, box art and completed models.
Forty Years of Airfix Toys
Forty Years of Airfix Toys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Years of Airfix Toys write by Jeremy Brook. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Forty Years of Airfix Toys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Airfix acquired the first plastic injection moulding machine in the U.K. in the mid 1940's and was soon manufacturing vast numbers of plastic toys. By 1981, when Airfix's financial woes led to takeover and the end of all production save for plastic model kits, it had made a wide variety of toys, games, arts, crafts, building sets, racing sets, model trains and even Meccano and Dinky toys. Profusely illustrated with over three hundred photographs, Forty Years of Airfix Toys gives the full history of the Airfix toy range including year-by-year listings of all the toys sold by Airfix; logs and packaging; Airfix's magazines and a full listing of Airfix pattern numbers. It is a comprehensive guide to the history of the toys produced by the iconic brand Airfix.
Collecting Vintage Plastic Model Airplane Kits
Collecting Vintage Plastic Model Airplane Kits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collecting Vintage Plastic Model Airplane Kits write by Craig Kodera. This book was released on 2015. Collecting Vintage Plastic Model Airplane Kits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A life-long model builder, collector, and connoisseur, Craig Kodera examines the hobby of plastic model building to give you a book on collecting vintage model airplane kits. The book features more than 400 detailed, high-quality, full-color photos of vintage aircraft model kits and their components, and is written in an engaging and entertaining style to examine what gives specific models their current collectible value. Box wraps, direction sheets, and decals are also covered in detail. This book highlights exactly what collectors should look for (and be aware of) in building their collections. For proper historical perspective, the author covers model kit development in the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s. Comprehensive value and pricing information for vintage kits is shown as well.
