As the board's slow, have a brazenly blatant repost for compo purposes.

It was all to boost flagging Airfix sales.

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( Peregrin ., Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:08, archived)

nice :)
i bought-ed someone an airfix kit for their birthday a few weeks go - and it's already been made as far as i can gather
( its_hatorah_bitch is b3ta the devil you know on, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:10, archived)

Airfix models were great
None of this PS3 malarky. In those days, toys were real toys, kids were real kids, men were real men.
( Peregrin ., Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:13, archived)

yeah
and did you ever paint it all before gluing it together? because i sure as fucking didn't.
( mutster101 is not the new Doctor Who, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:19, archived)

Ohhhh....
You know what, that never even occurred to me. But thinking about it now, it would have looked a hell of a lot neater. D'oh!

Never mind, they all went out of the window in the end, to see if they could fly.
( Peregrin ., Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:22, archived)

i knew a few people who were very much about doing it properly
and i was just like 'give me the damn glue'
( mutster101 is not the new Doctor Who, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:41, archived)

Yeah, but you didn't even have a model

( Skirite Gerrorf my larnd, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 11:37, archived)

The person I gave it too
was in "Yay! Airfix kit!" mode and therefore glued it together within a couple of days - but then i think it lost it's appeal when he remembered he didn't have any paint
( its_hatorah_bitch is b3ta the devil you know on, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:23, archived)

I bought one of my friend a big antenov plane
he built then said that the cockpit didn't look good enough, so he got a block of rubber and carved out a more realistic cockpit.
(pdjpdj, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:27, archived)

So does that
make him nerd or geek? :)
( Skirite Gerrorf my larnd, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 11:55, archived)

My gf bought me a tamiya 1/24 model of my car for christmas
and i'm determined to make it properly and YES that means painting it before putting it together. Christ its hard to resist the childhood urges of, "argh f*ck it, stick it all together NOW!"
(Ad7 Rename knives to 'gay sticks' and stop knife crime, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:45, archived)

And you could get high on the glue
and because it had the same effect on parents they weren't at all bothered
(thistle, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 13:23, archived)

I nearly bought a few airfix planes on ebay the other day

( davew27, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 10:48, archived)

Hahahaha
Shouldn't there be a second plane though?
( riverghost blessed are the gleesmakers, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 11:03, archived)

and as I always say
where are the little tail wings?
(Mehitabel_Itrang is pulling your leg, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 12:19, archived)

Hamtoucher.

( Pedantichrist twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 22 Apr 2007, 13:26, archived)