Avro Anson Mk.1 - Plastic by Airfix in 1/48 Scale - Build by Smithy

[Smithy]

Reading back over the last ten posts it would appear that I have hijacked my own thread.




Edit: And the next ten posts too! I'll get back on topic sooner or later - just scroll through until you see photographs.

 

[RussF]

I can tell that you identified the new Airfix kit which makes either variant so you win the prize.

Ooh, goodie! What is it? What is it? I'm quivering in anticipation!

 

[Smithy]

Ooh, goodie! What is it? What is it? I'm quivering in anticipation!

My undying respect.

 

[Jim Fortnam]

I’ve just come across thread, and I was transported to the basement floor of Woolworths where they had an entire counter full of Airfix kits. I think they started at 1/6d. (One shilling and sixpence) for a polythene bag of bits, with the folded instructions stapled at the top. A sheet of transfers (decals) was in the bag. I made dozens. After a few, I started to paint them, so they looked better. Then I had to put string across my bedroom from one picture rail to another, and hang them from there. But I also had to make them with undercarriage down so I could stand them on the chest of drawers.
I was always sorry my planes were in flight with their wheels down.
Eventually of course, they all went. But amazingly, about a couple of years ago, I found I had kept all of those instructions sheets, well, lots of them, and they went off via the Bay to new homes. Surprising how much interest 50 year old exploded diagrams still have for some of us.

Thanks for dragging out some old memories.

J

 

[Smithy]

some old

…shared…

memories

… apparently.

I remember Woolies with the spinner full of kits in bags and the bare wooden floor. Happy days.



Remember this one?

 

[Jim Fortnam]

Yes, I remember it,
But I’ll see your Anson, and raise you a Rotodyne,




But then, as this is a ship forum, maybe HMS Victorious, or HMS Daring for style, or HMS Campbeltown for a touch of class.

Hard to believe those old Woolies shops, M and S too, with the walk round island counters and an actual assistant in the centre of each.

Simple times for a simpler world

J

 

[Smithy]

your Anson

I confess that’s not mine, just an internet photo. My life has been far too nomadic to have kept anything from way back. Airfix models led me into the RAF.

A Javelin! I remember that one.

One thing that was really good about old Airfix instructions was the way they used the correct terms for things. I learned a lot that way, although I never learned how to pronounce ‘pitot’ before Air Force training, much to my embarrassment.

 

[Jim Fortnam]

One thing that was really good about old Airfix instructions was the way they used the correct terms for things. I learned a lot that way, although I never learned how to pronounce ‘pitot’ before Air Force training, much to my embarrassment.

Ah, my uncle, after whom I was named, was training in the Royal Flying Corps when war, WWI that is, ended. I have the control knob of an RE2 engraved with the date he crashed it.
Walking away from a string bag crash seems to have been a thing. Biggles did it all the time. Talking of Biggles, I have some of my Uncle’s books from WWI era which are in a similar vein. Maybe they were training manuals?

J