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Hope you remember where you've put it come Christmas and don't end up buying more
I picked up 10 rolls between Sainsburys & Wilkos for the same price as the most expensive roll. Whether I find them next Christmas is another thing. Last year I went hunting for paper and found 14 brand new rolls all over the house. I can't resist what I think is a bargain, but I don't really need them cos I still have loads unused.Hope you remember where you've put it come Christmas and don't end up buying more
I remember it being much easier than it looked. The Pyro/Inpact/Lifelike kits were real quality items for the time - crisply moulded and well thought out. I think the wing struts were moulded as "squares", with a "rib" section top and bottom joining two struts, making things a lot easier than individual struts would be, the "ribs" sitting in slots in the wings. The "fuselage" side frames were each single mouldings.
I did manage this, admittedly rather less strutty, 1/48th Airfix Hawker Fury 1 a few years ago,
Mine arrived the other day - I may have a go at it shortly - and the other one that I bid on has just ended at a price nearly three times what I paid...Phew! I've just been outbid on an eBay auction. I say 'phew', because, after bidding on it, I spotted another offered as a 'buy it now' and at a better overall price and bought that in the hope of being outbid. The one that I first bid on is now more expensive that the one that I've bought - result! They don't come up very often and I decided that now was the time, before they dry up altogether.
It's an Airfix-type kit, actually an Inpact product, but Pyro and Lifelike also produced them from the same moulds. The moulding was very high-quality at the time. Above is one that a chap has built and added the 'knitting'. I may attempt the bracing this time using a special silvery filament that I produce here these days.
It's a very delicate and elegant model and, at 1/48th scale, quite a nice size. The Bristol Boxkite was one of the first really practical aeroplanes.
I made one of these models in 1966 and it has always stuck in my mind as one of my favourite kits, of the very many that I made over the years.
I bought the first one here, when this was still the Post Office - I 'remember' it being 6/6, but the one that I've just bought has a 9/6 sticker on. I do recall agonising over the premium price at the time, so that could be what it was...
An 'inflation calculator' says that 48p in 1966 (near enough 9/6) would be £8:83 today, so I have just paid very slightly over the same effective price, and got fifty years storage free!
Some reduced lines of ale in M&S. I bought four bottles at £1 each, only to find out at the checkout that they were still included in the four for three offer - £3.
