Then of course you saw how dreadful some of the Airfix kits really were & turned to the Jap kits.
Still, in the Roy Cross era, the Airfix box art was simply stunning.
that’s fairly unfair !!
airfix are to some degree stuck inbetween a rock and a hard place
whilst yes the older generation require super detailed models airfix have to cater for the kids market suplying half decent kits at reasonable pocket money prices to get kids started in the hobby from what i remember airfix or matchbox were your weekly pocket money kits
japanese kits were your birthday and christmas kits and kits you baught when you started earning your own money !!
they are now giving the detail you cried out for ( but you’re now paying to look after johnny chineese instead of keeping british jobs )
one thing for sure if ever increasing detail is required at ever lower prices( how long before they are wholey based in china ??? )
i’d rather pay a little more , have a little less ( i’m a moddeler not a kit assembler !! ) and pay someone in this country a living not someone thousands of miles away that i have absolutely nothing in common with
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