Airfix Celebrating 50 Years of The Greatest Plastic Kits in the World

Only a very sad minority of men aged 30-50 did not make Airfix kits when they were boys.This book enables the rest of us to relive the glory days of our plastic air forces, navies or tank fleets. Superbly executed studio photographs show all the obscure and highly collectible kits as well as the best sellers, with illustrations of the packets, box art, adverts in 1960s and 1970s magazines, and a mass of period ephemera.
Arthur Ward investigates the rise, fall and rise again of Airfix models. It's a nostalgic reminder of kits long vanished, but with a happy ending: Airfix are now re-releasing 40 kits a year, bringing back some not seen for twenty years.
For anyone who's ever watched an Airfix Messerschmitt plummet to its fiery doom from the bedroom window, Airfix recaptures the magic of the modelling world.



Ted Smart/The Book People 1999 edition of Harper Collins 1st, 192pp profusely illustrated, index, appendices. 23x29 fine in near fine d/j.





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