Three Fighter Aircraft From Different Generations

[cjf2]

Th

Love that Hurricane!

Thanks. Looks just like models when I was a boy.

 

[PentUp]

Th

Thanks. Looks just like models when I was a boy.

I used to make and paint Airfix models of Spitfires, Hurricanes, Stukas and Messerschmitts as a lad.

 

[Blufftonian]

I used to make and paint Airfix models of Spitfires, Hurricanes, Stukas and Messerschmitts as a lad.

Me too!

 

[ootanaboot]

Yep, me too!
My god, I remember the included glue had some insane melt power.
And I vaguely recall the paint we had was made by Umbro. I had loads of little glass bottles of different colours.

 

[Blufftonian]

I think the paint was Humbrol.

Umbro made your football shirt though!

 

[ootanaboot]

You're right. And I doubt myself they were in bottles now, they must have been in little tin pots.
I am obviously affected by the glue

Humbrol Enamel Paints

Humbrol’s iconic tin of oil-based Enamel has set the standard for modelling and hobbies for decades, providing a fantastic finish to all your projects, both indoors and outdoors.

uk.humbrol.com

>> off to ponder why I remember small but tall square glass pots...

 

[Downunder]

Here’s one from the era before WWI… a Bleriot monoplane, and still flying

 

[cjf2]

You're right. And I doubt myself they were in bottles now, they must have been in little tin pots.
I am obviously affected by the glue

Humbrol Enamel Paints

Humbrol’s iconic tin of oil-based Enamel has set the standard for modelling and hobbies for decades, providing a fantastic finish to all your projects, both indoors and outdoors.

uk.humbrol.com

>> off to ponder why I remember small but tall square glass pots...

The tall glass jars were Airfix own brand paints I think. Looks like now superseded http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/Paint.htm

 

[ootanaboot]

Wow what a relief, my mind is intact. lol
Thanks cjf.

 

[Blufftonian]

Here’s one from the era before WWI… a Bleriot monoplane, and still flying
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I’ve flown de Havilland Tiger Moths and Chipmunks, but I’m not sure I’d want to go up in that contraption!