Airfix Catalogue 1972 Page by Page (Vintage Catalog) 9th Edition

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Airfix Catalogue 1972 Page by Page (Vintage Catalog) 9th Edition
Today we have a look at the 6th edition of the Airfix catalogue from 1972.
This Airfix scale model Catalog is 50 years old.
It's filmed in 1080p so feel free to go to the cog and settings and select the highest resolution possible in quality if you want you can also slow down the video by selecting the play back speed
What kits have you made from this Airfix Scale Model catalogue. Leave your comments in the box below, i always reply
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@jmccallion2394 2 жыл бұрын

I forgot how detailed this catalog was, especially for 1972! great memories!!

@darnick54 Жыл бұрын

Great video……..I recall almost 60 years back, the smaller (1/6d)Airfix models came in a clear plastic bag with a paper artwork, which unfolded to give a history of the aircraft and fairly detailed instruction. The artwork itself was a thing of beauty…….happy days. Thanks for this.

@MOS6510Models Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@peterlewerin4213 2 жыл бұрын

The Airfix Catalogue was a world to lose oneself in. Right now, I'm trying to recover from an epiphany. Fifty years ago, I was a seven-year old reading the catalogue more times than was perhaps good for me. Since then, I've completely put model kits and interest in aircraft aside, but my fascination for WWII armoured vehicles has increased, partly because my father was a tanker and in his last years tanks were easy to make small talk around. I have several books about WWII tanks etc and can identify most of them immediately from a photo or a video, but there is one tank that I always have to sort out in my brain before I can recognise it. The IS-2 tank has this big, boxy turret and a Christie-like cab for the driver, but I _always_ first think of it as having a low bowl turret and a snowplough front (like... another tank, but soft). I have wondered why many times, but now and until the day my memory goes I need not wonder any more. Once I got to 5:25, I immediately saw the IS-2 twinkle its red stars at me, an image I immediately recognised as ingrained in my brain... and the kit, once I found the description, turned out to be that other tank, an IS-3!!! My life, as they say, is a lie.

@MOS6510Models 2 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing that matey.. I did build that tank here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdF2mJClpsDJZaM.html

@thedodge1942 3 жыл бұрын

this was my first catalogue, it was brand new, many hours studying that one, i was nine at that time hehe

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

thank you geir angell for leaving a comment. I have a few vintage catalogs from Airfix here.. kzfaq.info/sun/PLc2bfNWiJAEnzU2UYh5MB0LBUnGDqN8ds Please subscribe if you haven't yet :)

@garyhiggins6718 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this, it is the edition I still have although I keep it in a plastic envelope these days! 😊😊😊😊😊😊

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! i keep mine in plastic folders too

@pyoung168 3 жыл бұрын

The number and variety of kits available back then is astounding. Thanks!

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul Young you can watch more catalogues by clicking here - kzfaq.info/sun/PLc2bfNWiJAEm7ZtPBf3057CZbcCVSs1s6 Hope you will subscribe too :D

@scratchinpetepa 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Loved the catalogue!

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@YTCityGirl 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video!!! Some nice vehicles that you were sharing. I left a like

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@YTCityGirl 3 жыл бұрын

@@MOS6510Models no problem

@modelnut Жыл бұрын

Hello Again, Ignore my last comment about the moon landing module, spoted it page 25. Thanks again.

@MOS6510Models Жыл бұрын

I will check it out

@davidhinkson8856 3 жыл бұрын

It's interesting they classify the hovercrafts as aircraft - I'd have thought they were ships. Be nice to see that big SRN4 back again even though they've been out of service for years now. HMS Fearless also brings back memories - when I visited England in 2006 I saw either Fearless or Intrepid in Portsmouth Harbour getting ready to be scrapped.

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

Yep I would love to see the hovercrafts back as a vintage classic.. seeing the cost of them on eBay is high

@edak482 3 жыл бұрын

That hovercraft (very nice boxart) was a horrible kit. A lot of poor fitting parts and some poor instructions.

@javiergilvidal1558 3 жыл бұрын

Airfix was very much shackled by the "constant scale" self-imposed restriction, which worked OK most (or at least some) of the time, but led to pretty inconsistent and strange choices now and then. Since modern ships "had" to be in 1/600, such a scale would make a paltry SRN4, which would not fit the bill of the spectacular, show-stopping kit they were after. 1/144 was just OK, but that scale was for the "Skyking" range, so they had to put the Hovercraft in the quaint category of an airliner. Scale rigidity also backfired in a few isolated by especially painful (to me) cases: The Handley Page Heracles was certainly a "Skyking" of the Thirties, but she's badly let down by the 1/144 scale, which makes her too small to be impressive. The kit was still very hot and popular when it first appeared in 1965, but I think that 1/72, which would place her into Series 6, would have done her far more justice, and would still sell well. Pretty much the same thing could be said of the Boeing Clipper, though I admit that, being larger than a B-29, she would be a Series 7 or even Series 8 aircraft kit and, while undoubtedly gorgeous, there would probably not be a market for her that was large enough to recover the huge tooling costs. Be it as it may, I find the Clipper too .... well, clipped in 1/144!

@Simon_Nonymous 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoying! Something that just struck me is how much this depends on box art for the planes, and yes - who were those people we saw holding those planes?

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

I agree!! But even then boxart use to be a picture of the completed model.. who knows what works best really, at the end of the day its all eye candy to the modeller lol

@batsup1951 2 жыл бұрын

The railway items featured in this catalogue are nothing like Hornby's electric trains because they're all plastic construction kits. What's more, as the Dapol company acquired the molds/tools they've all remained in production. Airfix didn't start 'dabbling' in electric trains until the late 1970's.

@MOS6510Models 2 жыл бұрын

I get you

@scalesmodellingmagic5883 3 жыл бұрын

Why are you posting so many catalogs lately

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

I’m trying to get my collection online so others can see them, and that I’ve had a major operation so recovering from that

@Simon_Nonymous 3 жыл бұрын

@@MOS6510Models and I love it - I went looking for the first Tamiya catalogue I ever bought from Beatties' in about 1980... still can't see it so waiting in hope! And hope you are recovering well old boy - all the best!

@MOS6510Models 3 жыл бұрын

@@Simon_Nonymous I do have a few 1980s catalogs so ill have a look and if i have that year ill film it this week, on the bench is 1972 and 1973 tamiya to film plus the last every frog catalogue produced.. keep an eye out :)