I picked this up recently. Its a B-17 ID kit from the UK. Any histories on these?
Thanks, Tom Sanders
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Airyda Kits?
by soslipstream » Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:32 pm
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Re: Airyda Kits?
by MichaelB » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:33 pm
Red outline on the insignia means it's 1943 and that looks like a B-17E...not a shark tailed C or D.
I'll pose the ID to some of my Brit modeler buddies.
Michael
I'll pose the ID to some of my Brit modeler buddies.
Michael
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Re: Airyda Kits?
by MichaelB » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:09 am
This is what I got:
Mike -
I remember this line of kits from my teenage years, though I never made one. The reason: they were both crude and damned expensive. The price, 6/6, is about 40 cents in today's money - but it represented 1/12 of the average weekly wage in those days. I reckoned I could do better with balsa (scrap from the production of Mosquitos - balsa was plentiful in wartime).
Bill
Mike -
I remember this line of kits from my teenage years, though I never made one. The reason: they were both crude and damned expensive. The price, 6/6, is about 40 cents in today's money - but it represented 1/12 of the average weekly wage in those days. I reckoned I could do better with balsa (scrap from the production of Mosquitos - balsa was plentiful in wartime).
Bill
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