RAF Whirlwind

[Hman]

This is the kit...it is not much younger than me

[Hman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idJ3tF00Og

[zenrat]

What time period were they putting kits in blister packs?

[Captain Canada]

Woah....some great footage in that video ! Now I want to watch the rest of it !

[rickshaw]

What time period were they putting kits in blister packs?

1980s basically.

[NARSES2]

I've built that kit, indeed I still have an example (boxed)  but I don't think I've ever built a blister kit from Airfix. I was off the scene in the 80's.

[PR19_Kit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6idJ3tF00Og

AMERICAN Whirlwinds? 

[Allan]

I've always like the look of this plane

[ennobee]

What time period were they putting kits in blister packs?

I remember the Airfix blister packs around 1976/1977, when I was about 9 years old and fanatically in love with anything airplane. They've could have been around a few years earlier already. Just that at this time I didn't really pay attention on account of me being too young then. After 1978, I lost focus of the blister packs and concentrated on the two-color Matchbox kits (anyone remembering those?) I recall that by 1981, Airfix had switched over to one-piece cardboard boxes completely, but I found one store that still had some blister packs left over. So I assume the timeframe for the blister packs is about 1975 to 1980

[zenrat]

Thanks folks.  I used to spend hours agonising over whether to spend my pocket money on a blister pack Airfix or a two-colour Matchbox.  It drove me mad that you couldn't see the decals clearly in the Airfix blister or see much at all through the Matchbox window.
I built a Whirlwind but I think it came in a box.