Airyda Kits?
Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:32 pmby soslipstream
I picked this up recently. Its a B-17 ID kit from the UK. Any histories on these?
Thanks, Tom Sanders
Re: Airyda Kits?
Posted:
Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:33 pmby MichaelB
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
Re: Airyda Kits?
Posted:
Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:09 amby MichaelB
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