Airfix

[Mossie]

My daughter in law and grand daughters  already make Lego flowers. They are making very interested noises about the Airfix offering.........so that's new customers for the Hornby concern!

I've just shown my arty daughter the video, same noises! I've got to build them and she'll paint them.
    

[Wardukw]

..well mum had planted some rhubarb plants in a new patch and i mowed right over em ,,they looked like weeds to me which is a right PITA cause i do love some nice rhubarb i can tell ya 

Ahhh! Stewed rhubarb and custard. A dessert fit for a king😋😉🤣. Ever had rhubarb jam?

Bet your left butt cheek ive had rhubarb jam matey 😉
My mum used to make it alone with jome made burnt plum jam ..my god the taste was amazing ..never found another plum jam which tasted that good 👍
As for the stewed rhubarb..I always liked it straight..I love me custard you can bet but on blueberry pie fresh out of the oven ..or better yet ..logan berry pie..absolutely heavenly 😋

[Beermonster58]

..well mum had planted some rhubarb plants in a new patch and i mowed right over em ,,they looked like weeds to me which is a right PITA cause i do love some nice rhubarb i can tell ya 

Ahhh! Stewed rhubarb and custard. A dessert fit for a king😋😉🤣. Ever had rhubarb jam?

Bet your left butt cheek ive had rhubarb jam matey 😉
My mum used to make it alone with jome made burnt plum jam ..my god the taste was amazing ..never found another plum jam which tasted that good 👍
As for the stewed rhubarb..I always liked it straight..I love me custard you can bet but on blueberry pie fresh out of the oven ..or better yet ..logan berry pie..absolutely heavenly 😋

My gran made rhubarb and ginger jam. It was amazing😋.

[Weaver]

We had rhubarb in the garden back in the day. Mum used to make rhubarb pie and rhubarb & ginger jam: both amazing.

[Old Wombat]

My daughter has rhubarb growing in a pot in the back yard - it's been doing so for years.

She's the biggest consumer of the product, but rhubarb & ice cream (as long as it has the words "ice cream" written on the tub) or custard is the go! 

[kerick]

Mom's rhubarb custard pie! I have to get a recipe for that.

[Rheged]

In a possibly vain attempt to drag this thread back from the joys of what the Victorians called  "...the delectable fruit-stalk..."   (and yes we do grow our own and Madame R makes a superb rhubarb and ginger conserve)      Can  people remember the first ever Airfix kit they built?    In my case it was as a seven year old in 1959 when with some help from dad I put together a grey plastic MiG 15.   It was supplied with Polish markings which Revolting Pedants would claim probably made it a Lim-2

[The Wooksta!]

The 1970s Fw 190D-9 in September 1982.  It was a Friday.

[PR19_Kit]

Not sure about my first Airfix kit, but my first plastic model kit was the ever popular 1/64 th scale Lindberg B-17G. I can distinctly recall taking it home to RAF Abingdon on the bus and daring anyone to try and take it off me! 

Maybe my first Airfix kit was the original Mosquito, as after doing a B-17, going 'downwards' to a Spitfire would have been definitely off! 

[Later] Ah, I forgot the date of all this, it would have been in 1953 or so. 

[scautomoton]

I think mine was an Airfix helicopter in about 1989. I can't remember any more than that though 

[scooter]

I honestly don't remember.  I think k I was 9 or 10 when I glue bombed a 144 Corsair...and while it was technically mine, my father built the MPC kit of Vader's TIE fighter just without paint and decals. I was about 6 or 7 when that happened

[The Rat]

Mine may have been the old BP Defiant, maybe around 1961-62.

[jcf]

Something bagged circa 1966-67. No recollection what it was, may
have been a car.

First definite Airfix memory is the P-61 in an MPC box, the Roy Cross painting boxtop
not the later profiles style. Which puts it somewhere around 1970-71.

[Mossie]

It was a Spitfire, I was pretty young. Not 100% sure it was Airfix, but it's likely.

Later, when I was a teenager my first stash was Airfix.  My Dad knew someone at Humbrol and I got a large number of kits for Christmas. I remember the Harrier GR.5, Catalina and 1/24 Harrier GR.1 (which I still have).

[Charlie_c67]

I've two possibilities, both built "with" (by) my dad. It's either the old yellow plastic Sea King with the spartan photo box art, or the equally yellow Tiger Moth from the same period. There was also the tiny ones free with Kellogg's cereal in there somewhere with the (in)famous family tale of my dad gluing the table cloth to the dining room table...