I'm 11 years behind you. I hope you decide to build it again. How beautiful to experience even so much as a taste of our youth. Very, very different times.
Ah, my first model. Can still remember the roughness of the raised rivets in my small hands. Twisted off parts and loads of tube cement. Thanks for the terrific build and the double dose of nostalgia. Still modelling after nearly 60 years. Surely I can't be that old!!!!
Fantastic work! Some of the old Airfix kits are still real gems in the right hands. Amazing considering the methods employed in designing those kits all those years ago!
Quite extraordinary! When I saw the thumbnail for the vid, I thought "That's an excellent illustration of a Sunderland" - not realising it was a photo of a model! Really top quality work and attention to detail throughout, the highly artistic paintwork really makes it special. I think Roy Cross was for many years Airfix's secret weapon - I bet they sold a ton of models just because of his artwork! His book "Celebration of Flight: The Aviation Art of Roy Cross" is well worth getting.
I remember sat at our kitchen table, watching my dad build this Airfix model.He used to build some of it each night and I'd look forward to watching the model take shape.This was back in around 1970.Thats a class model you built.
AHH, the old written instructions from Airfix! The words 'locate and cement' are part of my childhood! What a terrific job on a kit I've never actually built. Marvelous 😊
Aged 9 I banged this Airfix kit together in an hour or so, glue everywhere, painted a kind of camouflage in a lurid green and wondered what the 'beaching kit' was, why would it have wheels?? What more can I say😂?
@@iconicshrubbery Aged nine I had the Airfix Mitchell. Didn't paint it but, choosing a solid nose variant, I filled the thing with lead shot and tube poly cement. 24 hrs later the nose had kind of collapsed and looked like someone had worked it over with a hammer. Still..... I was pleased 😄 Never did completely set.
What a truly fantastic and inspiring build. I remember seeing this kit in the toy shop window when I was a boy, with the evocative artwork on the box. Seeing it again brings back memories. Really enjoyed watching your build and your fantastic skill. I have subscribed and look forward to seeing your fututre work. Thank you.
Wow! I’ve built the Airfix Sunderland kit twice. It was the last model I built in my teens, in the mid nineties, and it was the first model I built when I got back into the hobby in my late thirties. Interestingly the kit doesn’t appear to have changed much in fifty years from your kit. But what I can say definitively is that whilst all three kits have the exact same shape, neither of mine looked even remotely like yours when finished! 🤣 What a work of art. Bravo!
What a beautiful tribute to a genius artist, never seen such exquisite modelling and just goes to show what you can do with a vintage kit. Truly wonderful…
With the skills that you possess, I'm sure this channel will be as successful as Plasmo and Scalemodelaircraft!💪 Built this same kit last year and truly enjoyed the build. Always a great enjoyment to see those old kits getting a bit of love from a younger generation. Looking forward to watching more builds in the future. 👍👍
Great to see you start your YT channel Andy 🤟 What an epic build of a classic aircraft 🫡 Well done my friend and look forward to getting the popcorn out and watching many more hours of your talented work 🤗
Stunning build of the old kit. Kind of intimidating as I have one I want to do as they flew from Castle Archdale in Fermanagh, about an hour and a half drive from my home 😁👍
The Airfix Sunderland was the first kit I ever built as a kid. My grandad used to be an armourer on them in the war. I remember seeing your posted pictures online a couple of weeks before this video was available. It's absolutely stunning stuff. Channel subscribed, and I look forward to more videos.
So you CAN make a silk purse out of a pigs ear! Absolutely fantastic! One very small criticism, you perhaps should have made more of the waterline moss/slime/oil build-up as these things spent more time on water than in the air.
Beautiful, my late father built that for me when I was a kid. He put lights inside, I had to connect a battery through one of the fuselage stores hatches.
Awesome work love all the attention you have for the details
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Wow. Fantastic work. I absolutely love old kits and I'm so glad you built this ancient classic Airfix kit so beautifully. I look forward to your next projects. I greet you. Aleš from Czech Republic 🙂👏👏👏👏🤝
If I remember rightly, I think I paid 10s 6d for it, as it was a series 6 kit. Series 1 was 2s; Series 2 was 3s and Series 3 was 4s 6d; Series 4 was 6s. At least those were the prices when I started modelling so many years ago (but my memory could be playing tricks on me). I can't remember how much a Series 5 kit was. I do vividly recall hanging the Sunderland from my bedroom ceiling employing cotton and drawing pins. Of course, my modelling skills were nothing remotely close to Mr Plamo's standards, and sadly they still aren't. But, I still enjoy making model kits in my late 70s.
@@Gynrathat’s interesting about the pricing Brian…my pocket money didn’t stretch any further than the Wellington bomber…I’m 74 and just had a combined vitrectomy/cataract in one eye , so I suspect my detailed modelling days are over…so it’s great to see this chap producing such an exhibition kit.D
@@derrickgreen9020 Sorry to hear that, Derrick. Fortunately, though I wear glasses, I still have high acuity eyesight. The thing that holds me back the most is the mild arthritis in my hands that limits how much modelling I can do at any one time. They are still very steady hands, though, so I'm not going to complain (any more than I already do). 😄
Wahouu !!!! Quel excellent montage , du grand art !!! Sachant que le kit a plus de 50 ans ,c'est extraordinaire un vrai plaisir pour les yeux . Encore un grand merci pour ce sublime montage , bravo bravo et encore bravo !!!!👏👏👏👏👏 👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁
Very cool! My Great-Grandfather was employed to build these during the war. So aside from being absolutely gorgeous aircraft, they also hold a special place of pride in my family. I think this might have to up next on my "to build" list! 😸👍
I bought my kit in the early 70s, I did start it but I didn’t get very far, I think I got as far as getting the fuselage halves together, I was 12 or 13 years old and then I found a part time job (paper round) girls, a weekend job (washing dishes etc) and schoolwork for exams, then I went to play on real aeroplanes, never did go back to model making until now, 61 years old, and I am going to build this kit when my pension money allows, I regret bitterly not making models for all those years, and especially the Sunderland, it was the first kit I ever bought for myself out of pocket money etc, I don’t even remember what happened to it, I just hope I can do it justice, never as good as this, but still good. 👍
When I see videos like this I go straight on the internet searching to buy the kit....That's the sign of a fabulous video and build...and I've been there, turning raised panel lines into scribe lines on a big kit...and it's a shed load of work...I did the Revell 1/32 Beau scribing and riveting, 2 coats of spray and all the rivets were gone, a week of work lost...arghhhh!
Fantastic Build!
Will we get a new tooled Sunderland?
Thank you Airfix! Hats off to engineering team back in the days with fully movable control surfaces and retractable nose turret!
High praise indeed!
Made this model, back in the 1960s, as a kid. No photo etch in those days. Now 72 and recently acquired it again, perhaps I'll make it one day!
Me tooooo😅
Best crack on sir
lol, I am using 70 as my buying stuff cut off! I must have 300 years of builds started and bought!
@@tonyromano6220 I hope you build more, sir
I'm 11 years behind you. I hope you decide to build it again. How beautiful to experience even so much as a taste of our youth. Very, very different times.
When you re this talented this will be the result.Turning a very basic early 1960s model into this splendid Sunderland show piece.
This wasn't just a build, this was a journey. Love the end result!
One of the best models I've ever seen. Bravo.
Ah, my first model. Can still remember the roughness of the raised rivets in my small hands. Twisted off parts and loads of tube cement. Thanks for the terrific build and the double dose of nostalgia. Still modelling after nearly 60 years. Surely I can't be that old!!!!
That's turning a basic duck into a beautiful swan. Absolutely stunning work sir. Happy to subscribe.
Fantastic work! Some of the old Airfix kits are still real gems in the right hands. Amazing considering the methods employed in designing those kits all those years ago!
Great, great, great work. In this video I think I have learned a lot of things. Thank you
Quite extraordinary! When I saw the thumbnail for the vid, I thought "That's an excellent illustration of a Sunderland" - not realising it was a photo of a model! Really top quality work and attention to detail throughout, the highly artistic paintwork really makes it special.
I think Roy Cross was for many years Airfix's secret weapon - I bet they sold a ton of models just because of his artwork! His book "Celebration of Flight: The Aviation Art of Roy Cross" is well worth getting.
@@Erny_Module thank you! Yes Roy’s work was extraordinary, don’t see box art like this anymore
That is beyond museum standard. Wonderful build.👏
That box art brings back a few memories..I remember how thrilled I was finally being able to afford to buy this kit back in the 70's.
That has to be the most complex set of PE I've ever seen. I can't help but be impressed with you skill in assembling it.
Man, that weathering is something else.
Thank you 😃
Absolutely STUNNING build!!
I NEVER get tired of your videos.
Beautifully done Sir!
I remember sat at our kitchen table, watching my dad build this Airfix model.He used to build some of it each night and I'd look forward to watching the model take shape.This was back in around 1970.Thats a class model you built.
i can feel it, your going to be a very famous modeller on youtube everyone has heard of. great build, keep the videos coming!!
Welcome to TH-cam! Very nice, quality content. Liked, commented and Subscribed! 😎
Wow thank you Dawid! It’s a lot coming from you! Thank you so much!
@@ScaleHangar182 that’s quite an endorsement out the gate!!
Two great YT modellers @ScaleHangar182 and @HammerheadModelMaking
@@briannolasco4911 cheers mate!
Fantastic model, really enjoyed your process. One of my all-time favourite aircraft.
Absolutely incredible! Considerably more patience and attention to detail than me 😂
Very nice build! My Grandfather served as the Wireless Operator' on the Short Sunderland in the North African Theatre during WWII.
This is some awesome modelling. Great kit to show what can be done to make it stand out. Excellent result 💥👍💥
My mother bought me the Airfix Sunderland and the Airfix PBY-5A Catalina for my birthday in 1974. I was 10. What a great birthday.
Beautiful work. Thank you for your sharing. I wish a long life to your channel.
fantastic job transforming this old lump into a work of art!!!
AHH, the old written instructions from Airfix!
The words 'locate and cement' are part of my childhood!
What a terrific job on a kit I've never actually built.
Marvelous 😊
You also get a "complaint" form from Airfix too that you can mail to them, wonder if it still works...😂
Aged 9 I banged this Airfix kit together in an hour or so, glue everywhere, painted a kind of camouflage in a lurid green and wondered what the 'beaching kit' was, why would it have wheels??
What more can I say😂?
@@mr_plamo Haven't seen one of those in a long time...........the address was something like Haldane Place?
@@iconicshrubbery Aged nine I had the Airfix Mitchell.
Didn't paint it but, choosing a solid nose variant, I filled the thing with lead shot and tube poly cement.
24 hrs later the nose had kind of collapsed and looked like someone had worked it over with a hammer.
Still..... I was pleased 😄
Never did completely set.
@@michaelevans205 that's SO imaginitive
Superb. I have two of these in my stash, as well as two Super Hobby and one Italieri kit. You've inspired me to build them, thank you .
This is quite excellent, you brought this one to life.
Cheers from Holland!
Exceptional result. This is the best finish Ive seen re any Sunderland, never mind the Airfix one, superb!!
Beautiful! An old dog can be taught new tricks.
Beautiful work and so relaxing to watch.
Wonderful construction, nice soundtrack at 25:16 - Congratulations
More, more and more! A very talented video, easy to follow. from Judy in Nova Scotia, Canada
Got to say a brilliant build. A lot of hard work but looks so good. Fantastix. Well done.
Glue fingerprint weathering is essential back in the days!!! not forget to mention rubbing Credit Card Carbon Paper for exhaust stains!
Simply special, great job bringing that ole kit up to scratch. Masterpiece of an amazing aircraft..
What a truly fantastic and inspiring build. I remember seeing this kit in the toy shop window when I was a boy, with the evocative artwork on the box. Seeing it again brings back memories.
Really enjoyed watching your build and your fantastic skill. I have subscribed and look forward to seeing your fututre work. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
What a wonderful build - a true masterpiece!
Also, a thoroughly enjoyable presentation in style and composition.
Thank you!
Thank you too!
Describing that whole model! You’ve got more patience and dedication than me. I’d go and buy the Special Hobby kit.
Superb Build, outstanding finished product 🤩🤩😊
I remember as a child our scout troop had this model as a prize and everyone being very impressed with the winner (not me).
Superlative result from such an old kit. Very well done; your hard work paid off.
Outstanding result from very early Airfix kit. Most of which don't come even close to modern day standards.
That was art, totally enjoyed it. I don’t do models anymore, just can’t see detail that well, but I know genius when I see it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing detail in the cockpit. Stunning build.👍👍 love the painted on decals.
You're certainly a brave man re-scribing all those panel lines. An outstanding build and an outstanding video. Thank you and best wishes.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow! I’ve built the Airfix Sunderland kit twice. It was the last model I built in my teens, in the mid nineties, and it was the first model I built when I got back into the hobby in my late thirties. Interestingly the kit doesn’t appear to have changed much in fifty years from your kit. But what I can say definitively is that whilst all three kits have the exact same shape, neither of mine looked even remotely like yours when finished! 🤣 What a work of art. Bravo!
This is one of the very best builds I have seen! Bravo mate... Well done! Just getting back into it after a 30 year hiatus... this is inspiring!
What a beautiful tribute to a genius artist, never seen such exquisite modelling and just goes to show what you can do with a vintage kit. Truly wonderful…
With the skills that you possess, I'm sure this channel will be as successful as Plasmo and Scalemodelaircraft!💪
Built this same kit last year and truly enjoyed the build. Always a great enjoyment to see those old kits getting a bit of love from a younger generation.
Looking forward to watching more builds in the future. 👍👍
Thank you
Great to see you start your YT channel Andy 🤟 What an epic build of a classic aircraft 🫡 Well done my friend and look forward to getting the popcorn out and watching many more hours of your talented work 🤗
Thank you James for always being supportive!
Stunning build of the old kit. Kind of intimidating as I have one I want to do as they flew from Castle Archdale in Fermanagh, about an hour and a half drive from my home 😁👍
The Airfix Sunderland was the first kit I ever built as a kid. My grandad used to be an armourer on them in the war.
I remember seeing your posted pictures online a couple of weeks before this video was available.
It's absolutely stunning stuff.
Channel subscribed, and I look forward to more videos.
Thank you!!
Absolute MASTER of your art
Wow! I guess you really can polish a turd! Beautiful work!
Amazing transformation on that old Airfix pig. Maybe I’ll dig mine out and build it. Your work is inspiring.
The kit is actually stamped 1959.....great work...!
🎩🎩hat off to you sir on your epic work of this very old kit . Looks awesome ,Roy Cross was a legend .
Beautiful build.
So you CAN make a silk purse out of a pigs ear! Absolutely fantastic! One very small criticism, you perhaps should have made more of the waterline moss/slime/oil build-up as these things spent more time on water than in the air.
@@daveabbott not at all, thanks for your feedback!
Absolutely wonderful work!! I can't wait to see the next build!
Excellent video thank you so much .
Wow! Beautiful build.
une des plus beau travail de peinture qu'il m'est été donné de voir, surtout au 1/72
Fantastic build, fantastic video. Welcome to TH-cam looking forward to many more of your videos
Thank you! I have just sub'd your channel too, I look forward to seeing your C-47 as that is what I am building currently too! Cheers!
It's a masterwork.
Beautiful, my late father built that for me when I was a kid. He put lights inside, I had to connect a battery through one of the fuselage stores hatches.
Awesome work love all the attention you have for the details
Wow. Fantastic work. I absolutely love old kits and I'm so glad you built this ancient classic Airfix kit so beautifully. I look forward to your next projects. I greet you. Aleš from Czech Republic 🙂👏👏👏👏🤝
Stunning..subscribed….couldn’t afford that model when I was young but have never forgotten it.
If I remember rightly, I think I paid 10s 6d for it, as it was a series 6 kit. Series 1 was 2s; Series 2 was 3s and Series 3 was 4s 6d; Series 4 was 6s. At least those were the prices when I started modelling so many years ago (but my memory could be playing tricks on me). I can't remember how much a Series 5 kit was. I do vividly recall hanging the Sunderland from my bedroom ceiling employing cotton and drawing pins. Of course, my modelling skills were nothing remotely close to Mr Plamo's standards, and sadly they still aren't. But, I still enjoy making model kits in my late 70s.
@@Gynrathat’s interesting about the pricing Brian…my pocket money didn’t stretch any further than the Wellington bomber…I’m 74 and just had a combined vitrectomy/cataract in one eye , so I suspect my detailed modelling days are over…so it’s great to see this chap producing such an exhibition kit.D
@@derrickgreen9020 Sorry to hear that, Derrick. Fortunately, though I wear glasses, I still have high acuity eyesight. The thing that holds me back the most is the mild arthritis in my hands that limits how much modelling I can do at any one time. They are still very steady hands, though, so I'm not going to complain (any more than I already do). 😄
Fantastic work Andy, this was really neat to watch you resurrect this old kit!
Thank you Brett, still so much to improve on. My hat really goes off to you and your amazing videos, it takes a lot of work behind the scenes!
@@mr_plamo I promise, it does get easier the more you do it!!
Wonderful build, well done.
Congratulations! You've done an excellent job updating and upgrading this really old model kit.
A truely splendid result from this old kit
Wow! Superb result
Wahouu !!!! Quel excellent montage , du grand art !!! Sachant que le kit a plus de 50 ans ,c'est extraordinaire un vrai plaisir pour les yeux .
Encore un grand merci pour ce sublime montage , bravo bravo et encore bravo !!!!👏👏👏👏👏 👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁
Glad to see you on TH-cam too my friend! Stunning build... I'm a fun...
Impressive work 👍 She came out looking great.
More patience with this kit than I could ever muster, but the results are spectacular.
If I had ALL the money, I would certainly have one of these built from scratch, it would be far better than a yacht.
Finally my man is here 🎉🎉 amazing build as always!!!
Thank you Ale! Hope I can keep this channel up and running 😅 lots of work !!
@@mr_plamo of course mate, and we will help you 😉💪 you deserve it
Very cool! My Great-Grandfather was employed to build these during the war. So aside from being absolutely gorgeous aircraft, they also hold a special place of pride in my family.
I think this might have to up next on my "to build" list! 😸👍
Excellent and beautiful finished result. Certainly one of the best… 😊
Interesting subject and great execution... Kudos 😎
A superb job, I remember making a hash of it when it first came out in 1959.
I bought my kit in the early 70s, I did start it but I didn’t get very far, I think I got as far as getting the fuselage halves together, I was 12 or 13 years old and then I found a part time job (paper round) girls, a weekend job (washing dishes etc) and schoolwork for exams, then I went to play on real aeroplanes, never did go back to model making until now, 61 years old, and I am going to build this kit when my pension money allows, I regret bitterly not making models for all those years, and especially the Sunderland, it was the first kit I ever bought for myself out of pocket money etc, I don’t even remember what happened to it, I just hope I can do it justice, never as good as this, but still good. 👍
The old kit never looked better nice work
I’ve always loved Matchbox aircraft models. You did a superb job on this build.
Outstanding build, video and presentation.
Thank you kindly!
A pretty amazing job.
I have this kit. Your build has convinced me to built it.
Very nice build of an old kit. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, very beautiful build! 😍👍
Saludos desde Mallorca.
Un trabajo perfecto 🏝🍺👍
Absolutely inspiring...!!
When I see videos like this I go straight on the internet searching to buy the kit....That's the sign of a fabulous video and build...and I've been there, turning raised panel lines into scribe lines on a big kit...and it's a shed load of work...I did the Revell 1/32 Beau scribing and riveting, 2 coats of spray and all the rivets were gone, a week of work lost...arghhhh!
Thanks for the kind words!! Yeah the rivets tends to disappear if they are not deep enough. Just need to find the right balance.
Congrats bro that's a killer build.
@@lpjmodels thank you for the kind words 🫡
A beautiful build
Inspirational build, amazing work, learned so much watching this. Pulling the masking away from the markings must have been tremendously satisfying!
Thank you, yes it was indeed!!
Glorious my man!
Beautiful work. Thanks.