Airfix rereleases "Vintage Classics" for limited time only

[Alanmccoubrey]

Tempting, if they have tidied up the moulds

Ah, the wargamer's "If"..."if" only they changed the scale to 15mm, etc,.

[Kalinovsky]

Seeing the WW1 figure sets rereleased makes you think what might have been if Hornsby hadn’t cancelled their proposed Great War Centenary sets

[mausmann]

But aren't some of these kits, well, a bit old?
Why would anyone torture themselves with the Airfix Churchill?

Coz it’s fun....

Absolutely.

I have very fond memories of most of these and I suspect that I will be getting some. The male MkI was the very first vehicle kit I built, after winning it at a friends birthday party - pass the parcel I think. The HMS Victory was the very first 'big' kit I did. Fairly sure it cost 10/6 (52.5p) then and that I bought it with my birthday money. I did a fairly good job of it but it never did get painted. I never did the Ark Royal, so I might get that one.

To use my daughter’s phraseology....OMG! I think I remember (it was a LONG time ago.....) buying the Airfix Infantry Combat Group and the German equivalent for 2sh 3p or maybe 2sh 8p each....or thereabouts.....

[7dot62mm]

I have very fond memories of most of these and I suspect that I will be getting some. The male MkI was the very first vehicle kit I built

Actually... same here. It was around 1970 and I was about five years old... my father ended up building it though My second kit was Richthoven's Fokker Triplane and my third, the first one I think I built mostly myself, was the Sherman tank... that one is still on my wargaming table and has been repainted twice now.

[ray]

I cannot remember which was my first kit. But I do have fond memories building many Airfix kit in the 70's.

[peterh]

i seem to remember those figures being pretty lacking in detail - although i can vividly picture the hobby shop where i first laid eyes on them during summer vacation and the countless hours setting them up (and losing a fair amount) in the sand on the beach. Occasionally I would recover a few men left behind from the battle the day, or days, before. so many hours of fun, and grateful, though not sure I could ever go back in light of what's available on the market now.

[Kalinovsky]

The original releases of the WW1 Germans and British (which IIRC were by John Braithwaife) were very crisp and had a standard of sculpting better by a country mile than e.g.the Infantry Combat Group and first series WW2 Germans; not surprising if 50 years on and after hundreds of thousands of sets the moulds show signs of wear.

I remember figures and series one kits being 2/11, which made it an even bigger shock to see the Hinchliffe 20mm Colonial 60pdr and Elephant Team in a hardware shop for more than £1...

[Fire at Will]

2/11 I remember buying them for 1/9

[Kalinovsky]

Yes but you are so much older than I am...

[Alanmccoubrey]

My first ones were the original German Infantry for 2s, they cost more in NI, in 1963, my first kit was the StuG III.

[7dot62mm]

In the newest edition of Workbench https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/news/workb ... e-classics the Airfix team share some of their insights about the re-released range, as well as share some personal tales from their youth.

It is kind of neat that the author specifically mentions wargaming as one of the reasons to bring back these models.