Airfix H oo scale is a railway scale it is roughly 1/76 though airfix also re-boxed them as 1/72 . These are the kits I made as a kid the bagged kits were 20 pence and the bottom of the range and were the single seat fighters and the tanks . They weren’t very accurate but to a 7 year old they looked the part and were pocket money friendly.

I grew up in England in the 1950's/60's and bought and built one of the Airfix bagged kits from the local Woolworths store about every 2 weeks. They would cost me 2 shillings which I think amounts to 18 cents in the US, I didn't paint the kits initially as my pocket money wouldn't stretch to buying paints. I always found the FROG kits very interesting as they often produced kits of more unusual subjects, like the Westland Wallace and Wapiti and other between war aircraft, also many kits of British naval aircraft.

God Bless You Dan From New York 🤗🤗🤗an AWESOME Donation To The Museum. Thanks For Sharing Andy and God Bless You as well !!

The airfix hanger kits takes me back to my child hood. my first kits in the late sixties. you had to be carefull opening them as the hanger label had the instructions printed on the inside

As a boy I finshed one of these my dad started when he was a boy himself. That special feeling. It was closely after watching the movie The Battle of Britain. That's where it all started. Good memories😊. Thanks for sharing.

those bag kits bring me right back to my childhood in the 60's,all my early kits came in a bag,Airfix gave you a slip of paper in the bag in case there was parts missing,you filled out the little slip,posted it and they sent you out the missing part !

I've build a few of the Jo Han airplane kits. They have almost no interior, but they were fun to build.

AWESOMENESS in a small plastic bag (and its all legal). The JoHan aircraft kits were made with John Hanley's patented 'no touch' parts trees. These kits ended up at Intech and later Smer. I think they added a few planes from other manufacturers like FROG via Intech but it was never their focus (although John Haenle reportedly LOVED aircraft). The 'too little-too late' comment is spot on!

The Bren Carrier brings back memories form almost 60 years ago. Neat little vehicle.

Awesome kits for the museum. Thanks for sharing.

OO scale is a popular English/European model train scale that is about 1/76 scale (OK, it is 1/76.2 if we want to get all 'Mr. Spock' about it). 😁

Very cool addition to your collection Andy. Congratulations and thank you for sharing with us!

both the bren gun carrier and mark I tank bring back fond memories … thanks for posting

Those bag kits bring back memories. There was a rack of them by the check out counter at the hobbyshop my dad took me and my brother to. We built plenty.

Loving it! My first ever model kit was an Airfix bagged kit of the Spitfire Vb in that iconic blue plastic that I bought in a local cornershop. Fond memories. Keep it coming Andy.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!! I paid $1.25 (which was spendy) for my first bagged 1/72 scale Airfix Stuka. Again, my undieing gratitude.

Seeing some of those bagged Airfix kits is a trip down memory lane for me.

I really liked the old Jo-Han aircraft kits. My favorite was the Me-262, which could be built as a single seater or two seater. The canopies were extremely clear with very sharp detail for the time, (for ALL time, really.) I had several of them on hand when the "Luftwaffe '46" theme really got started in the late 1980's, and these kits really lent themselves to extensive modification. Thanks for posting this!

The Pyro 1/32 car kits aren't bad for their age, and they did some interesting subjects. I built their 1940 Ford 2-door sedan as a US army staff car years back, still have their 1934 Plymouth sedan with similar intentions, and used a Rolls-Royce of theirs as the basis for a scratchbuild/kitbash of the armoured car long before the Roden and Meng kits were available.

The Jo-Han planes came out in early 1974. I had all of them at one time, except the P-40 which I could never find. The frame lok boxes were neat. The model kits were all engraved and were excellent for 1974. I built a couple of the P-47's and also the Corsair and the Rufe. The Rufe could be built as a Zero as well. The Frog Sea Venom came out in 1973/74. Bought one at Combat Hobbies in Atlanta. Revell Germany also had it out a few years back.

Super COOOLLL of Dan To Donate ALL Those Kits To The Museum. Thanks For Sharing n Have a Blessed Wknd Andy.

Here's to Dan! 👍 🍻

That sprue gate reinforcing the box idea is pretty cool, have a few kits that would have benefited greatly. Manufactures should look into modifying the pizza box saver for some of their kits.

Andy 00 Scale usually is associated with Model Railroading it the size of the train or vehicle in comparison to the life size vehicle.

So good video and vintage Kit! Have a nice day my friend!

Got my bag kits from a petrol station in East London , my dad took me down there when we needed paraffin for our heaters ! No central heating back then 👍🏁

Awesome looking vintage kits Andy. Thanks for sharing. Rick 😎✌️

Dang, that is amazing. Those are great finds.

Outstanding video and presentation.

Wow, what a great bunch of classic kits. I'm currently building an Airfix R.E.8 that came in the same style packaging as that 1957 Stuka and the Airfix tanks. Mine'a a 1968 release I think but the kit was originally from around 1957. The instructions have the same artwork style as the 1967 kits you have. My father bought it sometime in the early to mid 70's. It's gone together quite well for such an old kit. The pilot and co-pilot are funny little guys and the decals have yellowed, but are still useable as far as I can tell. I've had them stuck to the window for a while to lighten up but the pilot names and aircraft numbers have not changed much. I'll probably just use them anyway and hope for the best. I had a few Frog kits years ago. I was building a Gloster Meteor a while back but the silver paint was giving me so much trouble I gave up on it. That was way before I got into airbrushing.

Just visited Andy's shop. It's amazing and I really reccomend going there! Awesome shop Andy!

Hi Andy, that was very generous of the gentleman, seeing that plastic bags reminded me how kits came packaged, I think they were 1/72nd scale aircraft, have a great weekend, regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.

Amazing model kits 👏

The museum is going to be awesome. Looks like I’ll need to make a pilgrimage to Arizona.

I've loads of old kits . Box and bag art was always really cool. Just got a new spray gun and kit . Time to start building 😛

it would be SO great to see at least some of these kits made by Andy!

I remember having several Airfix sets including the Bren Carrier with 6 pounder gun and the Me-262.

Built Airfix bag kits including the Stuka in the 1950’s. In England they cost 2/6. Two shillings and six pence which was my pocket money at the time. Started building kits again twelve months ago. How times have changed.

I remember the Jo Han kits. They were awesome! My favorite was the A6M2 / A6M2-N

Very cool, Andy! Interesting to see Jo-Han was doing recessed panel lines before it became the norm.

00 is 1:76 scale, the same scale as 00 model railways. I believe FROG (Flies Right Off the Ground) was the first ever maker of plastic model kits.

Hi Andy. Great show as usual! Nice to see some of the old kits from years gone bye...actually, I have that Jo-Han Me-109 kit, well I should say; what's left of it. Bought it several yrs ago, but never built it.

Hello from Barcelona

I´ve built that Bren carrier. Cardboard box with the same artwork. Had no idea how old the kit actually is. I also have Airfix Stuka.

I'm actually building the (re-released) Airfix WW1Mk 1 tank I built as a kid when it was first released, only this time correcting some of the errors on the original - unknown to them back in 1967 based on a Mk 2 at Bovington Tank Museum. It is actually a really nice little model for its time. I loved those models in bags when I was young and of course, they were affordable.

I used to get a lot of my early kits in the bags back in the day

The 1/76 was also compatable with HO/OO scale Railways, made nice wartime track displays.

Hi Andy. The Airfix armour kits up until now have all been 1/76 scale. That Airfix Stuka is particulay old and rare. Thanks for all your great videos!

The thing I remember about the Airfix Me-262 was the area around the cockpit was off in shape. Which is very apparent when placed next to the Frog Me-262 which was considered the best kit in the 60's before Revell came out. A thing I remember about the Jo-Han Me-262 was deep square trenches in the panel lines.

Super cool, that was VERY nice of Dan! 😉👍

This sort of bag kits are rare in Singapore, i bought a 1/72 Spitfire(blue color unbuild model in the clear bag) around 4 or 5 years ago that cost around 5 pound 30 pence

JUST TOO REMMBER KEEP THEM OUT OF THE SUN LIGHT, VERY NICE OF DAN .

I built that Bren Carrier as a kid! 😊

Verry Nice andy, i wish i could See yours museum but i live in europe

Very nice examples to receive and will make great additions. 00 scale equates to 1/76 scale and is/was also prevalent in model trains in the UK and Europe. The Airfix series 1 and 2 baggies would have been available in department stores such as Woolworths for about 20p (old money), have a few in the stash so must check. The Series 1 and 2 baggies were eventually available on blister cards with the instructions printed on the back.

I remember those. They also had wwI aircraft. I used to build them. Thanks for the ride back in time.

Airfix still do the Mk.1 Male Tank in 1/76th Scale under their Vintage Classic Branding - builds up nicely too.

I had the Bf 109 when I was a kid. Mine was molded in burgundy

I made both those armour kits when I was a lad. My local toy shop had loads of different kits hanging on metal pegs. I made the Gloden Hind and the Sopworth Camel biplane, Both came in bags. Think they were a shilling each. 5p in sterling today.. They were the cheapest Airfix kits later to becme series 1. slightly larger kits were series 2 and about 2 shillings and six pence, 15p today.......

Andy; From a conversion chart I have OO scale was a UK model rail scale 4mm scale with is 4mm per foot (1:76.2).

These days you could build these kits in an hour, and spend days painting and detailing.........If they were not collectors items, I would be so up for that!!!!

Double O scale is a train scale, so you can use with OO train scenery. That was a really early OO too

Ive had this in the late 70's

Airfix tractor in red plastic was the first model kit ever sold by Woolworths. The second kit was the golden hind sailing ship again by Airfix. Both sold in the old plastic bags with paperhangers for the rack in a shop/store, which also doubled as instructions inside.

I do believe I actually had that Packard/Cadillac kit, I remember that box art like it was yesterday

Come on Andy,get the glue out and build again!

OO scale is 1/72.6 - used by UK railway modelers. It uses the same gauge track - 16.5mm or 0.650" - as Continental European/American HO scale (1/87). This means the track gauge is incorrect - should be 18.83mm or 0.741 in", but the track is correct guage (er well, nearly - it's still a bit too small) for HO scale. Lord knows why it persists, really, as everyone apart from UK, Ireland (where it's used to represent 5'3" - not as wrong as the 4'8.25") and Australia model HO. Well, that's that made clear as mud. Anyway, great vids on these vintage kits, I've built quite a few of them in my time :)

Last time we checked the JoHan tooling was in storage at a tooling shop in KY.....they have not been rerun because the clear tooling is missing. Any takers???

Hello Andy, yes, about Airfix 00 scale kits, it's 1/76 scale.

OO scale is a British railroading scale, it uses the same track gauge as HO scale but the bodies of the locomotives are larger. This is why many old Airfix armor kits are 1/76 instead of 1/72. Hornby still primarily works in OO scale.

Growing up, every model I did I built with my imagination running wild & accuracy was never a concern or even a consideration. I got into the space kits as it was happening. Good times. I had done 2 or 3 Jo- Han kits. I just rebuilt almost all Tom Daniel hot rods & it was fun using my knowledge now to do nostalgic kits. 1/3 of my stash are old kits from my childhood. I bear Revell no criticism or negativity. They are old friends much as dear old Aurora.

00 is a UK model railroad scale close to 1/76. These vehicles would make great flat car loads or scenery items.

I found that same Jo-Han BF109 kit at an antique store for 1$. Unfortunately all of the parts were already cut off the sprue and loose, with several missing.

Airfix bagged kits, one weeks pocket money, if I recall 1/6d in old money. I could buy one a week 😂😂😂

The Jo Han Bf 109 is actually not a bad kit for 72nd scale. A few faults, but overall accurate.

Slot car racing was a big deal where I lived in the early-mid 60's. I built quite a few of the 1/32 Pyro car bodies and mounted them on a Monogram motorized chassis. Didn't win races but turned a few heads at our local track when I'd run a Woody wagon or Mercedes SSK there.

OO is basically just 1/76. It's most commonly called OO by British rail modelers but i've noticed that when it comes to kits most people and companies just call it 1/76

You can still get the Jo Han 109 kit from Mistercraft. The latest release isn't as good though as the molds haven't been looked after very well and the decals are poorer in the latest release. Still, if you want to build this kit and not use one of the survivors, its an option for modellers. I'm thinking of getting the Mistercraft kit just for the nostalgia, because I never saw any of their plane kits in Australia as a young fella.

Andy 00scale is 4mm per foot or as others have said 1/76 it is associated mainly with British outline railways. American railroads tend to be built to HO which Is 3.5 mm to the foot. A larger scale was used because British locomotives tend to be smaller and the large motors available at the time were difficult to fit in them. Perversely both 00 and HO fun on the same gauge track so arguably OO is less accurate

Which year marks vintage kits in the USA? I'm from Poland and we treat as vintage, kits made prior to 1989.

Ho in the United States is 1/87. Lionel made a pre war 00 scale in the us that was both 2 rail and a 3 rail version. Both were considered very realistic . But in the US after ww2, ho is what the scale modelers were doing and it caught on. The oo scale stayed in Europe and was slightly larger yet compel able so it stayed on. It is not an exact match to ho, but it was closer than 1/72.

Hmmm..wow

How can I see what older kits etc you have for sale?

00 is 1/87(??) Its the scale Hornby used - "Hornby Dubblo"

Andy OO scale is equivalent to American HO scale. The OO scale is 1/76th scale which H.O. scale is 1/87th scale.

Those Pyro kits were later owned by Lindberg, I don't know if they made the cross over after Round 2 got them though.

It’s probably been mentioned but Airfix’s OO scale is HO scale.

I had the 109g kit

And they still make those airfix kits

00 is a model railway scale and does equate to 1/76 scale. Typical of Airfix, most manufacturers use 1/72.

OO scale is a popular model railway scale as you say about 1/76 scale.

The "Minitanks" or something like that I have are all OO. Looks like you said 1:76, I always thought HO and OO was same.

As a point of historical interest, frog kits were manufactured at what is now the airfix factory.

Andy, been a fan awhile. I have been a CHiPs tv series fan since it’s inception. I have a vintage 1980 CHiPs motorcycle and been looking for someone to assemble it. I think it would be great for you channel. I have watch/assembled tanks and planes and watched your videos for inspiration, thank you. For some reason I have ruin one of the kit trying to assemble it, scared to ruin another kit.

"00" Scale is a British train model scale, which is 1:76. Also known as 00 gauge, 1:76 was a scale that better reflected the smaller British rolling stock on 16.5mm gauge tracks. For Airfix it was the obvious choice.

00 scale may refer to a train scale that the Brits used for their train sets.

OO scale means 1/76th scale

That little tank you have is the right size that you just said 76th scale I think it is I own two of those pieces but let me also know if you need a batmobile or the original bat plane or the back boat for your museum my name is John

Didn't knew Jo Han is the first to put frames around the sprues

00 scale roughly translates to 1/87 scale used primarily in Great Britain slightly larger than the HO scale trains using 16.5mm track common in the U.S. and other places