This is a great thread! :rolleyes:
Like many,my Dad made my first kits which I promptly destroyed “landing” them on the living room carpet!
My first kit was a Spit,of course,followed every Saturday by another from the Airfix range.BTW,buy the Airfix book-I’ve spent hours gazing at the pictures and reminising.
As an Air Cadet I became aware of Hasegawa and Tamiya and from then,the mysteries of filling,sanding and-the ultimate-airbrushing!! oo-er 😀
From then the pilgramige was to Les Littles model shop-nirvana! (where are you now,Les?)
Now old and farty I collect the Corgi models,but my wife still thinks I’m a ten year old in a thirty-nine year old body……not far wrong!
Thanks for all the great posts on this thread.

Thanks Gerry,
Although I can’t stand Enterprise-too many re-hashed stories-I’ll look out for this one.

:confused: I agree with you,planejunky,why does the F3 have ASRAAMs and Skyflash? Where are the AMRAAMs?

Thanks Whalebone,your posts were both fascinating and sobering.We will remember.

Rafale,I’ve just moved to Canada from the UK,which is where I saw the 70’s series!

Superb pictures,thanks for posting.
Does anyone know why the XV sqn Tornadoo is in hi-viz markings? Some kind of anniversary?

A couple of comments that made me smile:
Heard in one of the huts at East Kirkby,looking at the Wellington artefacts:
“Oh yes,son,this was designed by the bloke that done the bouncing bomb,T E Lawrence”……….and;
In the AAM at DX stood near the SR71,an “expert” was describing how a yank pilot called Gary Sobers was shot down in this over Cuba in 1963 😀 :rolleyes: