I can’t decide on one particular best or worst and some of my choices have already been mentioned so I’ll just list a few that haven’t been already.
Best:
1:72 Spitfire Mk.1-the famous “AZ-H”-who here HASN’T built one? Still perhaps the most accurate looking 1:72 Spit on the market and an easy build.
1:72 B26 Marauder-easy to build, accurate and very decent interior detail for it’s age, complete with open bomb doors and a detailed bomb bay. Mine’s an old one that came with a stand- any chance they could start doing those again??
1:72 Fw190D-Perhaps overtaken by the latest ‘Tamigawa’s, but a simple kit that always turned out nicely and still looks good today.
1:72 Bf109K-Again like the Dora Nine, perhaps overtaken but still a good build and a nice model.
Worst
1:72 P51D- Bad overall shape and the two fuselage halves were a different size!Ergh!
1:72 Hawker Typhoon-Oversized prop and spinner moulded as one and always warped, the cockpit canopy was a blob of clear plastic.
1:72 Folland Gnat-I never built this one as a kid so I don’t have the fond memories of it that others here seem to have. Perhaps it’s the age of the moulds but mine was warped all over the place and the wing joints were extremely poor.
Most built:
1:72 Spitfires, both Mk.1 and Mk.V. I think I built three Mk.V’s in one go when I was a kid!
I sincerely hope Airfix will make a comeback, and I hope they’ll do the decent thing and bin the blatantly cr*p kits that give them such a bad name. They could also do with finding someone else to print thier decals for them, all Airfix kits I’ve bought in the last ten years have had absolutely awful decals, always printed off-centre and sometimes very brittle. Even some of the cr*pper kit makers (eg SMER) manage to supply very decent decals.
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