Double deltas - SAAB J35A/B Draken (Refurbished plus NOS 1957 Revell kits)

[zenrat]

I always want to build a kit straight from the box. It jut never seems to work out like that...

I'm not sure that I ever have, EVER, even when I was young! 

I completed quite a few on Friday Nights after tea, when we'd gotten it at the shop* and then got back home.
To be fair, I was (really) young and they looked like you'd expect from that sort of treatment, but - early, learning days. 

*mostly Airfix bagged kits, as I recall.

Build the kit with stringy tube glue twisting the parts from the sprues.  Put the transfers on.  Fly it round the house while the glue dries and then paint it the next day painting right up to the edge of the markings.  Things were less complicated back then.

[NARSES2]

Build the kit with stringy tube glue twisting the parts from the sprues.  Put the transfers on.  Fly it round the house while the glue dries and then paint it the next day painting right up to the edge of the markings.  Things were less complicated back then.

Paint ? What was that ? Don't think I painted anything in the early years, and mostly used that tiny little capsule of glue you got in the kit.

[steelpillow]

My main goal was to glue the fuselage carefully enough so the prop would still spin but it was held together well enough not to drop apart. Then hold it out the car window as Dad drove along.

The other joy was the firework season, when a cheap banger was just the right size to fit in an Airfix MiG 15, with the blue touchpaper sticking out the exhaust nozzle.

[PR19_Kit]

The other joy was the firework season, when a cheap banger was just the right size to fit in an Airfix MiG 15, with the blue touchpaper sticking out the exhaust nozzle.

Hmm, why does that ring a bell? 

[NARSES2]

The other joy was the firework season, when a cheap banger was just the right size to fit in an Airfix MiG 15, with the blue touchpaper sticking out the exhaust nozzle.

Hmm, why does that ring a bell? 

Or two 

[Pellson]

I always want to build a kit straight from the box. It jut never seems to work out like that...

I'm not sure that I ever have, EVER, even when I was young! 

I completed quite a few on Friday Nights after tea, when we'd gotten it at the shop* and then got back home.
To be fair, I was (really) young and they looked like you'd expect from that sort of treatment, but - early, learning days. 

*mostly Airfix bagged kits, as I recall.

Build the kit with stringy tube glue twisting the parts from the sprues.  Put the transfers on.  Fly it round the house while the glue dries and then paint it the next day painting right up to the edge of the markings.  Things were less complicated back then.

I think I always painted first, but otherwise, this is to the spot. And those were good days!

[steelpillow]

I dreamed of kits with parts moulded in different coloured plastic, right down to the markings, so when you glued them together it didn't need decals or painting.

Sixty years later, the Airfix Quickbuild Spitfire is the nearest yet. They do versions in green/brown, green/grey and desert.

[Pellson]

I dreamed of kits with parts moulded in different coloured plastic, right down to the markings, so when you glued them together it didn't need decals or painting.

Sixty years later, the Airfix Quickbuild Spitfire is the nearest yet. They do versions in green/brown, green/grey and desert.

Only downside with the Quickbuildsis that it seems the scales vary wildly. Or have I gotten that wrong?

[steelpillow]

They do indeed. Sized for the same weight of plastic, I suspect. The tooling can be a bit basic, too: the tinted cockpit reveals only its fastening lugs. And the decals are poor quality: not quite stick-on enough for their stiffness, and apt to be a bit transparent. You have to cut them carefully if you want to take the kit apart again. But at least the idea is there.

[Old Wombat]

I'm fairly sure their target audience for those isn't us. Perhaps "us" as we might have been 50/60/70 years ago ... Or in Kit's case, when he was at the birth of Jesus of Nazareth*. 




[*: You played drums back then, didn't you, Kit?  ]

[PR19_Kit]

[*: You played drums back then, didn't you, Kit?  ]

I actually WAS s drummer once, a very long time ago, in a school band. The word 'band' is used here in its WIDEST possible sense!

I'm not sure it QUITE that far back though............