Airfix at that time had pilots with deperately thin legs and hands indicating a violent stomach upset. It was years before (in my haste to glue on the canopy) I realised the effect of the plastic glue fumes - frosting the glazing.
I dont know why this was in my feed but it does bring memories of building that same model way back then....I had a fair collection of models all hung from the ceiling in my bedroom.
I was the same as a kid in the 1970s. Every Friday after school I'd get pocket money from my nan and grandad and would go to the local newsagent to buy a kit. I'd always ask the long suffering shopkeeper to get the kits (Airfix and Matchbox) out of the window, so I could look at them and decide which one to buy that week. He should have received a medal for his endless patience and kindness.
I built this kit back in 2017. An okay little kit, as early Airfix kits go. I'm 67 now, been modeling since I was tenish. We rarely saw Airfix kits in my youth here in Florida in the 1960s/1970s. 😊
An absolute pleasure to watch, and listen, to such a simple, effective demonstration of modelling art; no super-detailling, etched metal, resin aftermarket, just sheer skill in representing the true essence of an aeroplane. Thank you.
Ah, this brings back memories of a 1963-vintage Airfix Jet Provost kit our dentist gave to my younger brother some 45 years ago (damn am I old!). It came in similar packaging, which was odd to me at the time because other kits I had (from Tamiya and Otaki) came in boxes. Building model kits was a hobby of mine when I was young, the last kit I built was a Tamiya 1/32 Tomcat some 25 years ago. Sadly I can no longer indulge myself in this hobby for various reasons. Thanks for the memories!
I built this kit when it first came out in the late 50's, 2/- from Woolworths, and painted with Humbrol enamels. I'm alway surprised at how well some of these really vintage kits make up with modern building materials and techniques. This is a kit that's really crying out for a retooling. Thanks for showing this model, brings back some memories.
Fantastic- you “freed” the 60-year old plastic from its prison bag! Great to see. A real historic kit from many models youth. Keep building “ “ancient” plastic.
Whirlwind... possibly my favourite 40s plane . Seldom mentioned. Not one example left except yours and my rc one which has never flown for more than 10 seconds!
Wow - what a brilliant build. Marvellous seeing these old kits brought to life. Actually I have a couple of old kits that you can have free if you want to bring em to life. A French fighter by FROG and a Mosquito by Airfix, both old school.
Every day is a learning curve. Seeing old kits coming to life. Your approach and commentary adds a good touch to it all. Really looking forward to more.
I remember when i was young these airfix-kits in their plastic bags.. I beleive they were FL 1,25 up to 1,75 in Dutch money.. When i got me pocket money its was on to the store and get one.. Greatings from the Nedtherlands.. I build a lot of them..
Hi. You have done a great job there. I built this kit back in the 70's when I was a kid , mine wasn't as good as yours. I think that its time for Airfix to do a re-boot. Good job. Regards.
Old kits deserve to be built, no matter how crappy they are. What's the point of stashing them away to gradually deteriorate? I've spent the last 18 months building the models from my fathers stash that he's had since the mid 70's. Some of them have been an absolute nightmare, but they have all turned out to look pretty decent.
From this day on I shall now be using the correct technical term "flappy things" to describe aircraft ailerons and elevators. :) .. I DID build this as a kid back in the 60s (or maybe early 70s) but like all my models, I could only use the paints I could get... so most everything was painted Humbrol gloss colours and I made no distinction between the shades of colour of the RAF and the Luftwaffe. So gloss green and gloss brown covered just about all the camo on top and gloss duck egg blue for the underneath. Seriously though, that was a magical build and the final result was brilliant!
Thank you, I do know the correct names but when speaking of the cuff it is surprising how often I mess up. If I was having a proper conversation with a friend I don’t seem to have this brain fog. More practice required when speaking to fresh air I think 👍
I love old Airfix kits. Next time you need to get paint off try dettol 50/50. leave it immersed for a couple of days then hot water and fairy dish washer and a toothbrush. Job done. loved the vid. Thanks.
always wondered what this older whirlwind kit was actually like, doesn't seem too bad, and you've got yourself a really nice model from it, did think it was great that you used the original pilot, letting him finally fly his plane after 50 odd years!
Well done! A classic from the attic, oldie but goldie etc I think we condemn the old decals without trying to use them most of the time, it's encouraged me to hold back on going aftermarket immediately.
I did build this one over 55 years ago. even then the Package was found in a dusty corner of the store. It was the only one in a plastic bag, thats why I remember it so well.
The lack of Merlins was a problem for the Whirlwind but it's main problem was the wrong propellers were being used this isn't mentioned in most descriptions of the aircraft. A very nice build, this is a kit I've wanted to build for a long time, a very interesting AC.
It wasn't that it never got the Merlins, it was that it was designed around the Peregrine; to use Merlins (much bigger, more powerful, and in great demand for Spits, Hurricanes, and every other aircraft they were used in) - it would have required a complete redesign. If Westland and RR had the resources to keep developing both the airframe and the Kestrel/Peregrine, the Whirlwind might have become a favourite, and possibly have rendered the Typhoon unnecessary. I had this very kit back in the early '70s. I'm tempted to get the 1/32 kit just because.
This was one of my earliest Airfix purchases back in the early 60's from the Post Office in Breaston, Derbyshire, primarily because it had 2 engines. I remember it was 1 shilling and 3 pence (1/3, about 6p in todays world). Even back then as a 7-8 year old naive modeller, I knew this was a dog. From memory, I think you have made a slightly better job of it than I did!
Nice job on this Airfix oldie. Even though Airfix released a retooled version in 1977, and vastly better, it's still good to see an original getting some attention.
That's just the type of Airfix kit I used to build in the mid 1960's in my early teens.(Born 1950) I never thought I'd sent a kit ina plastic bag again. I'm sure it was one shilling and six pence And I'm almost certain I built a Westland Whirlwind Every Saturday morning I bought one Airfix kit from Woolworths with my pocket money and assembled it in the afternoon. Many thanks for reviving these memories
I did a similar thing, but for me it was the late 70s and early 80s and it was Matchbox kits that took my pocket money. Hours of entertainment for a £1.00.
Built one of these way back in 1984, fun kit of an impressive aircraft. One reason it never got merlins was because they were larger and heavier so installing them required a complete re design of the airframe. Pity. Great build and video!
Just as we Americans received the license to build the superb RR Merlin engine, the Brits should have gotten the license to build our R2600 and R2800 radial engines. This plane would have been very successful with a pair of R2600s. Lighter and more power and reliability. 😎👍
Hi, Nice build. I can remember building this kit as a child back in the late 60's. A point of interest the Whirlwind was never designed to use the Merlin engine. It was designed around the Rolls-Royce Peregrine engine. There are no surviving Whirlwinds as the were all eventually scrapped. But in 2011 the Whirlwind Fighter Project was commenced to build a full size replica of the aircraft. It will be a static replica as there are only 2 surviving Peregrine engines that were dug up from a crash site in Grangemouth. They are both wrecked and unusable. To the best of my Knowledge there are no plans to either try and make new Peregrine engines or re-engine it with a different engine.
Those early bagged kits used to come with a one-time flexible ampule of adhesive. That was dropped towards the mid-sixties as sales (And inflation ) took off. Then the soft metal adhesive tubes were re-included along with paints when the kits started being boxed in the late 1970s.
Beautiful build, truly shocked the decals worked at all, much less as almost new. Just goes to show that you don't need a new release to build a striking model.
I grew up with these kits (though I never actually built the Whirlwind). When I was boy, I could buy the basic Airfix bagged kits for around 1s 3d (even cheaper when I first made them), and they were available all over the place, not just in dedicated toy shops. My Dad gave me my first one for my 8th birthday (in 1960) - for some reason he chose a Fiat jet... and he had to build that one himself, but still that started me on a life-long hobby of model building.
Two bob (10p) from Woolworths in Watford High Street. I made so many at that time with my pocket money. Looking back I must have been obsessive...my parents must have despaired.
Blimey! Bagged Airfix! This takes me back 50 years when I used to get the baggies from a local newsagent. My building was always good, the painting not so...
I built this kit way back c1963-4 I think. Every weekend I was down at the local model shop spending my small / saved up pocket money on Airfix kits, paints etc. Happy days
It really didn't matter about flash and simplicity. You looked forward to going to the toy store, you took it home. You got the horrible glue over everything the canopy went cloudy,you used claggy humbrol enamel on it, and when finished it was put on the shelf with pride and the box art was pinned to the wall, simpler better times, ahhhh nostalgia.
Remember the original kit, I was an Airfix and Frog fanatic in the 1960s and built most of these kits except for some of the larger more expensive ones beyond my pocket money. I bough my kits from Woolworths were they had built up models on a large pegboard, happy days!
Those are the kits I started modelling way back in the 60s. Wish I could get hold of some of these old Airfix kits, but they cost more than their weight in gold!
@@creativetimewasting You were lucky! I searched for the 1/32nd Airfix Sunbeam Rapier, and the prices (two of them, and excluding shipping) were AU$460 or AU$150! (£233 and £76! )
I was just about to suggest Autoglym when you mentioned it. I use it on my model cars to polish them up and they come up beautifully. I also use it to fix up dull windows and canopies after sanding them with up to 15000 grit paper.
When I was a kid I built these kits of every type of aircraft I stopped when I hit 150 ran out of room still have a couple unbuilt Nakayama RITA 1/48 and DO 335 also 1/48 scale
Price on it was 2/11d! I can remember asking my father for an increase in pocket money from half a crown (2/6d) to three bob when Airfix increased the Series 1 kit price from 2/3d to 2/11d......... my father (a good Union shop steward) agreed, and congratulated me on having the basis of good negotiation - a reasonable demand, with supporting evidence!!!
The airfix Westland Whirlwind was the first kit I ever bought and put together late 1960's,/early 1970s. Was a fun build but I got a touch high from the polystyrene cement! A VERY fun build.
Hello, microscale has a fluid for keeping cracked decals together. The yellow of the decals can be corrected to white by putting them under uv light or sunlight for several days to bleach them
I built mine in about 1964. I had trouble keeping the tailplanes level while the glue set. You need a tube of good old Britfix 77 for the glue! The polish of choice for scratched canopies back then was toothpaste. I tried the Humbrol maskol in about '76 on a Matchbox SLUF A7. Not very sucessful, but then we didn't have airbrushes then.
I remember building this kit in the early 70's when I was about 10. Painted it with some paint that came in little glass tubes. Thee stuff was as thick nearly as filler. It didn't look no where near as good as yours. 😂
Yes I remember this kit from back 1975. I'd find these types of kits in the local post office and local milk Bar believe it or not. Airfix kits would be on a card backing with a clear front that showed all the parts. I'd never seen this one before in a plastic bag. That's an early one. I wander does leaving the yellowed decals in sunlight whiten them up again? I have lots of kits with that yellowish decals that's frustrating. I have two 1/48 scale Westland Whirlwinds Hobbyboss kits now for two colour schemes earth brown and green and grey green. I'd love to buy the 1/32 scale I think I did see. That 1/72 scale turned out quite well. It looks great for display. Great job on a simple model. Cheers. 👍🇭🇲🦘✌️ From Australia.
I used to buy the Airfix ‘blister pack’ as you describe at my post office in the 1970s, the plastic bags were before my time. I put these transfers on the windowsill for a few days and it helped somewhat.
@@creativetimewasting Thanks for your reply. The plastic bag models was before my time also. In the 70s the smaller Aircraft kits would be in a blister on card back. And some bigger were in a box as they are reissued now in the red box. I actually did put a decal sheet at the window sill and it curled up . Then I stuck it with blue tack on a piece of cardboard to keep it flat. But that was only for a short period. The decals on the Whirlwind you build actually look pretty well. I like the gloss sheen overall. But those kits were fun and still are as it brings back memories of those times back in the day. Nice build.👍🇭🇲🦘✌️🙂
Many modelling channels seem to trouble with focus, I wonder if turning the cutting mat upside down so there isn't an obvious grid to for the camera to autofocus on would help.
Probably because I’m just using my phone and have no proper gear. I have promised if I get to 5000 subs I will invest in some new tech and do proper editing.
I built the 1958 tooled Airfix R.E.8 last year. It had the same style of instructions as your Whirlwind. The kit was actually not bad to build. The decals were a bit fragile and I had to paint the side roundels as the originals fell off when a bit of masking tape touched them. The red bits were off center anyway and the colour was not great. I also had to touch up the rego numbers and tail markings, but the wing roundels were OK. The pilots were pretty bizarre little guys just like yours. I thought they looked a bit like Dr Who Cybermen.
A beautiful build of an ugly looking plane...lol . Seeing the fuselage parts just makes me remember how on those old kits from back then, the slot for the stand was always a little longer in one fuselage half than in the other...lol
I love the idea that the pilot has been waiting 60 years and finally gets to fly his plane. Cheers!
Airfix at that time had pilots with deperately thin legs and hands indicating a violent stomach upset. It was years before (in my haste to glue on the canopy) I realised the effect of the plastic glue fumes - frosting the glazing.
I do like seeing these old classics getting built up, they deserve to be built and put on display if just for historic purposes. Nice work
Ditto from me. 😍
I dont know why this was in my feed but it does bring memories of building that same model way back then....I had a fair collection of models all hung from the ceiling in my bedroom.
@@kimraymond2749 I think most of us of a certain age had many an aircraft hanging of our bedroom ceilings.
Takes me back to going to the model shop on a saturday and building my 99pence airfix kit over the weekend great days
I was the same as a kid in the 1970s. Every Friday after school I'd get pocket money from my nan and grandad and would go to the local newsagent to buy a kit. I'd always ask the long suffering shopkeeper to get the kits (Airfix and Matchbox) out of the window, so I could look at them and decide which one to buy that week. He should have received a medal for his endless patience and kindness.
@@davidmccann9811 Half a crown from Woolworths.
The scent of the glue.
I built this kit back in 2017. An okay little kit, as early Airfix kits go. I'm 67 now, been modeling since I was tenish. We rarely saw Airfix kits in my youth here in Florida in the 1960s/1970s. 😊
It's very pleasant to see this kind of reworking of old kits. Very successful, well done.
An absolute pleasure to watch, and listen, to such a simple, effective demonstration of modelling art; no super-detailling, etched metal, resin aftermarket, just sheer skill in representing the true essence of an aeroplane.
Thank you.
Stay tuned for more 👍
Ah, this brings back memories of a 1963-vintage Airfix Jet Provost kit our dentist gave to my younger brother some 45 years ago (damn am I old!). It came in similar packaging, which was odd to me at the time because other kits I had (from Tamiya and Otaki) came in boxes. Building model kits was a hobby of mine when I was young, the last kit I built was a Tamiya 1/32 Tomcat some 25 years ago. Sadly I can no longer indulge myself in this hobby for various reasons. Thanks for the memories!
Thanks for your comment, I will post more videos soon. I hope you like them. 👍
I built this kit when it first came out in the late 50's, 2/- from Woolworths, and painted with Humbrol enamels. I'm alway surprised at how well some of these really vintage kits make up with modern building materials and techniques. This is a kit that's really crying out for a retooling. Thanks for showing this model, brings back some memories.
Airfix need to get on with it.
Wonderful end result for such a kit !
I remember seeing these kits at my local newsagents here in Australia. Was a great entry into the hobby in the seventies.
Fantastic- you “freed” the 60-year old plastic from its prison bag! Great to see. A real historic kit from many models youth. Keep building “
“ancient” plastic.
Whirlwind... possibly my favourite 40s plane . Seldom mentioned. Not one example left except yours and my rc one which has never flown for more than 10 seconds!
Very nice built! Please build more of these old kits; bring back many memories of building these kits.👍👍👍
Thank you, there will be one loaded up later today. Keep watching 👍
Lots of memorys with that Airfix kit. Thanks !
Absolutely wonderful !
I truly enjoy watching this channel 👍👍
Than you, hopefully more to follow soon.
Great job and a real blast from the past for me. Thanks for putting the time and effort into producing a very good looking model.
Wow - what a brilliant build. Marvellous seeing these old kits brought to life. Actually I have a couple of old kits that you can have free if you want to bring em to life. A French fighter by FROG and a Mosquito by Airfix, both old school.
I would love to build them and happy to return them to you built if you want. Drop me an email and we can go from there.
neilmcconnachie@outlook.com
Every day is a learning curve. Seeing old kits coming to life. Your approach and commentary adds a good touch to it all.
Really looking forward to more.
Thanks for your comments, I will get more builds uploaded asap 👍
I remember when i was young these airfix-kits in their plastic bags.. I beleive they were FL 1,25 up to 1,75 in Dutch money.. When i got me pocket money its was on to the store and get one.. Greatings from the Nedtherlands.. I build a lot of them..
@@j.r.termaaten6979 this kits generate great memories from our now distant past. Happier times I think?
Hi. You have done a great job there. I built this kit back in the 70's when I was a kid , mine wasn't as good as yours. I think that its time for Airfix to do a re-boot. Good job. Regards.
Airfix need to get on it, new Whirlwind and Battle required in 1/72 and 1/48.
I too would like to see Airfix do a newly engineered kit to their present standards. 😊
Love seeing the old kits gettin built. Brilliant work , lad.👍
Old kits deserve to be built, no matter how crappy they are. What's the point of stashing them away to gradually deteriorate? I've spent the last 18 months building the models from my fathers stash that he's had since the mid 70's. Some of them have been an absolute nightmare, but they have all turned out to look pretty decent.
From this day on I shall now be using the correct technical term "flappy things" to describe aircraft ailerons and elevators. :) .. I DID build this as a kid back in the 60s (or maybe early 70s) but like all my models, I could only use the paints I could get... so most everything was painted Humbrol gloss colours and I made no distinction between the shades of colour of the RAF and the Luftwaffe. So gloss green and gloss brown covered just about all the camo on top and gloss duck egg blue for the underneath.
Seriously though, that was a magical build and the final result was brilliant!
Thank you, I do know the correct names but when speaking of the cuff it is surprising how often I mess up. If I was having a proper conversation with a friend I don’t seem to have this brain fog.
More practice required when speaking to fresh air I think 👍
Excellent build on this old kit, beautifully done! ...
I love old Airfix kits. Next time you need to get paint off try dettol 50/50. leave it immersed for a couple of days then hot water and fairy dish washer and a toothbrush. Job done. loved the vid. Thanks.
Very lovley Build❤ From this Old Kit great
Love seeing the old kits pop to life nice job!
More vintage kits will be posted soon. 👍
Nice model. I like it's design and this old kit is decent. Like a good old matchbox, simple and enjoyable moments.
always wondered what this older whirlwind kit was actually like, doesn't seem too bad, and you've got yourself a really nice model from it, did think it was great that you used the original pilot, letting him finally fly his plane after 50 odd years!
@@philsmodelmaking2260 I think he had waited long enough to get his wings.
Love these videos. The model in the bag takes me back
More builds to follow 👍
Looks amazing for such an old kit
Very nice build. The way you did it with the original decals and no added detail makes it look plausibly like an expert build from the 60s.
I remember these airfix-kits in their plastic bags, built some of them when I was a kid. Greetings from sweden
I think everyone of a certain age remembers these kits.
They had global appeal.
Absolutely cracking job of building this old kit. It was probably 1967 when I built this kit.
Very nice kit plane Westland Whirlwind RAF fighter love it
Well done! A classic from the attic, oldie but goldie etc I think we condemn the old decals without trying to use them most of the time, it's encouraged me to hold back on going aftermarket immediately.
I did build this one over 55 years ago. even then the Package was found in a dusty corner of the store. It was the only one in a plastic bag, thats why I remember it so well.
Bloody nice job considering what you had to work with.
The lack of Merlins was a problem for the Whirlwind but it's main problem was the wrong propellers were being used this isn't mentioned in most descriptions of the aircraft. A very nice build, this is a kit I've wanted to build for a long time, a very interesting AC.
It is one of my favourite aircraft, it just looks right.
It wasn't that it never got the Merlins, it was that it was designed around the Peregrine; to use Merlins (much bigger, more powerful, and in great demand for Spits, Hurricanes, and every other aircraft they were used in) - it would have required a complete redesign. If Westland and RR had the resources to keep developing both the airframe and the Kestrel/Peregrine, the Whirlwind might have become a favourite, and possibly have rendered the Typhoon unnecessary. I had this very kit back in the early '70s. I'm tempted to get the 1/32 kit just because.
Beautifully built and finished, scrubs up pretty well for a 66 year old kit, barely showing her age at all.
This was one of my earliest Airfix purchases back in the early 60's from the Post Office in Breaston, Derbyshire, primarily because it had 2 engines. I remember it was 1 shilling and 3 pence (1/3, about 6p in todays world). Even back then as a 7-8 year old naive modeller, I knew this was a dog.
From memory, I think you have made a slightly better job of it than I did!
That was a good landing Gina, a lot of Crosswind and a short runway! I think I need a new tin hat!🎉 Never Stop
Love this channel. Really informative and the commentary is spot on. I did smile about your comments of the dogs
Thank you, I do my best. The dogs might make an appearance soon. Stay tuned.
Great build. 👍👍
I reckon you've made an excellent job of this old kit - great to see
Nice job on this Airfix oldie. Even though Airfix released a retooled version in 1977, and vastly better, it's still good to see an original getting some attention.
I might build that version for comparison.
Great job with an elderly kit!
Excellent had many of these in the 70s preferred it to the spit welldone.
That's just the type of Airfix kit I used to build in the mid 1960's in my early teens.(Born 1950) I never thought I'd sent a kit ina plastic bag again. I'm sure it was one shilling and six pence
And I'm almost certain I built a Westland Whirlwind
Every Saturday morning I bought one Airfix kit from Woolworths with my pocket money and assembled it in the
afternoon.
Many thanks for reviving these memories
I did a similar thing, but for me it was the late 70s and early 80s and it was Matchbox kits that took my pocket money.
Hours of entertainment for a £1.00.
Really nice build, thanks for sharing!
Built one of these way back in 1984, fun kit of an impressive aircraft. One reason it never got merlins was because they were larger and heavier so installing them required a complete re design of the airframe. Pity. Great build and video!
Always thought an upgraded Whirlwind would have made a great aircraf carrier fighter/bomber.
Just as we Americans received the license to build the superb RR Merlin engine, the Brits should have gotten the license to build our R2600 and R2800 radial engines. This plane would have been very successful with a pair of R2600s. Lighter and more power and reliability. 😎👍
The kit in that bag is as old as I am! I remember building that in the 70's, but mine was pre re-tooling, so I guess the same as that one.
Hi, Nice build. I can remember building this kit as a child back in the late 60's. A point of interest the Whirlwind was never designed to use the Merlin engine. It was designed around the Rolls-Royce Peregrine engine. There are no surviving Whirlwinds as the were all eventually scrapped. But in 2011 the Whirlwind Fighter Project was commenced to build a full size replica of the aircraft. It will be a static replica as there are only 2 surviving Peregrine engines that were dug up from a crash site in Grangemouth. They are both wrecked and unusable. To the best of my Knowledge there are no plans to either try and make new Peregrine engines or re-engine it with a different engine.
@@gerardburton3741 thanks for the info, I would like to have seen an upgraded Whirlwind for aircraft operations. Might have been interesting.
Excellent job, looking forward to your next build.
Love love love this kit
Those early bagged kits used to come with a one-time flexible ampule of adhesive. That was dropped towards the mid-sixties as sales (And inflation ) took off. Then the soft metal adhesive tubes were re-included along with paints when the kits started being boxed in the late 1970s.
Entertaining and enlightening video - I have the slightly later 1970s one in the stash i collected as I want to get back into the hobby
Bravo. Lovely build.
Beautiful build, truly shocked the decals worked at all, much less as almost new. Just goes to show that you don't need a new release to build a striking model.
Nice one, I remember that package art like it was yesterday. I was very young finished models were for playing with, mine never looked like that! 😁
Beautiful job especially given the age. Lots of good detail tips in there too. Thank you.
They should bring them back again..l miss them, nice work Sir..🎉❤😊
I seem to remember building the 70s version when I was a kid.
Very nice work. I built that same model quite a few years ago . I came out OK, no longer have it though.
I grew up with these kits (though I never actually built the Whirlwind). When I was boy, I could buy the basic Airfix bagged kits for around 1s 3d (even cheaper when I first made them), and they were available all over the place, not just in dedicated toy shops. My Dad gave me my first one for my 8th birthday (in 1960) - for some reason he chose a Fiat jet... and he had to build that one himself, but still that started me on a life-long hobby of model building.
Two bob (10p) from Woolworths in Watford High Street. I made so many at that time with my pocket money. Looking back I must have been obsessive...my parents must have despaired.
Wey aye, Neil! Liked and subscribed 👍👍
Blimey!
Bagged Airfix!
This takes me back 50 years when I used to get the baggies from a local newsagent.
My building was always good, the painting not so...
I built this kit way back c1963-4 I think. Every weekend I was down at the local model shop spending my small / saved up pocket money on Airfix kits, paints etc. Happy days
It really didn't matter about flash and simplicity. You looked forward to going to the toy store, you took it home. You got the horrible glue over everything the canopy went cloudy,you used claggy humbrol enamel on it, and when finished it was put on the shelf with pride and the box art was pinned to the wall, simpler better times, ahhhh nostalgia.
Sounds familiar 👍
Hung from the ceiling with fishing wire - They looked good and mum was less inclined to dust them
Ahhhhhh back to the good old days
Something heartwarming about anthropomorphizing the pilot figure.
I always like to add figures even this ancient Airfix pilot, adds a sense of scale I think. 👍
Remember the original kit, I was an Airfix and Frog fanatic in the 1960s and built most of these kits except for some of the larger more expensive ones beyond my pocket money. I bough my kits from Woolworths were they had built up models on a large pegboard, happy days!
Stay tuned for more vintage builds 👍
@@creativetimewasting Thank you, brings back great memories, any old Frog kits?
I remember buying that type of Airfix kit (clear bag) as a child. They cost 17p. My pocket money was 10p a week 😮.
Worth saving for.
"So I think it's time he got to fly his plane." 😎👍
Those are the kits I started modelling way back in the 60s. Wish I could get hold of some of these old Airfix kits, but they cost more than their weight in gold!
I picked the whirlwind up for around £17 on eBay.
@@creativetimewasting You were lucky! I searched for the 1/32nd Airfix Sunbeam Rapier, and the prices (two of them, and excluding shipping) were AU$460 or AU$150! (£233 and £76! )
@ ouch
I was just about to suggest Autoglym when you mentioned it. I use it on my model cars to polish them up and they come up beautifully. I also use it to fix up dull windows and canopies after sanding them with up to 15000 grit paper.
When I was a kid I built these kits of every type of aircraft I stopped when I hit 150 ran out of room still have a couple unbuilt Nakayama RITA 1/48 and DO 335 also 1/48 scale
Wow....I'm building the 1977 tooling as we speak! What are the chances?
Agree on your sentiments regarding this plane - it's a real 'what if?'
Price on it was 2/11d! I can remember asking my father for an increase in pocket money from half a crown (2/6d) to three bob when Airfix increased the Series 1 kit price from 2/3d to 2/11d......... my father (a good Union shop steward) agreed, and congratulated me on having the basis of good negotiation - a reasonable demand, with supporting evidence!!!
I happy you won your reasonable demand for an inflation matching pay rise.
Bought by my Dad from Woolworth's for 2s6d and I was about 10 - so over 60 years ago.
I also made one in 1964. Date is certain as I went to see 633 Squadron at the cinema, I already had a Mosquito so dad got me a Whirlwind.
The airfix Westland Whirlwind was the first kit I ever bought and put together late 1960's,/early 1970s. Was a fun build but I got a touch high from the polystyrene cement! A VERY fun build.
Hello, microscale has a fluid for keeping cracked decals together. The yellow of the decals can be corrected to white by putting them under uv light or sunlight for several days to bleach them
Yes, the transfers were left on the windowsill for a week 👍
I built mine in about 1964. I had trouble keeping the tailplanes level while the glue set. You need a tube of good old Britfix 77 for the glue!
The polish of choice for scratched canopies back then was toothpaste.
I tried the Humbrol maskol in about '76 on a Matchbox SLUF A7. Not very sucessful, but then we didn't have airbrushes then.
Modern techniques can sure bring an old model to modern standards.
Just a lovely.
Fingers crossed! this will be released as a vintage classic kit next year, and then hopefully a new tool from Airfix in 1/48 scale!
It’s tailor made for Airfix.
Superb !
I remember building this kit in the early 70's when I was about 10. Painted it with some paint that came in little glass tubes. Thee stuff was as thick nearly as filler. It didn't look no where near as good as yours. 😂
Great job on an old kit, nice break from $100.00 kits.
Yes I remember this kit from back 1975. I'd find these types of kits in the local post office and local milk Bar believe it or not. Airfix kits would be on a card backing with a clear front that showed all the parts. I'd never seen this one before in a plastic bag. That's an early one. I wander does leaving the yellowed decals in sunlight whiten them up again? I have lots of kits with that yellowish decals that's frustrating. I have two 1/48 scale Westland Whirlwinds Hobbyboss kits now for two colour schemes earth brown and green and grey green. I'd love to buy the 1/32 scale I think I did see. That 1/72 scale turned out quite well. It looks great for display. Great job on a simple model. Cheers. 👍🇭🇲🦘✌️ From Australia.
I used to buy the Airfix ‘blister pack’ as you describe at my post office in the 1970s, the plastic bags were before my time.
I put these transfers on the windowsill for a few days and it helped somewhat.
@@creativetimewasting Thanks for your reply. The plastic bag models was before my time also. In the 70s the smaller Aircraft kits would be in a blister on card back. And some bigger were in a box as they are reissued now in the red box. I actually did put a decal sheet at the window sill and it curled up . Then I stuck it with blue tack on a piece of cardboard to keep it flat. But that was only for a short period. The decals on the Whirlwind you build actually look pretty well. I like the gloss sheen overall. But those kits were fun and still are as it brings back memories of those times back in the day. Nice build.👍🇭🇲🦘✌️🙂
Cool, I like it. You could do the prototype with a bit of work, as well.
When I started building Airfix kits in the early 60s this is exactly how they came packed and the series 1 kits cost 1/-
Many modelling channels seem to trouble with focus, I wonder if turning the cutting mat upside down so there isn't an obvious grid to for the camera to autofocus on would help.
Probably because I’m just using my phone and have no proper gear. I have promised if I get to 5000 subs I will invest in some new tech and do proper editing.
I have this kit 👍
I built the 1958 tooled Airfix R.E.8 last year. It had the same style of instructions as your Whirlwind. The kit was actually not bad to build. The decals were a bit fragile and I had to paint the side roundels as the originals fell off when a bit of masking tape touched them. The red bits were off center anyway and the colour was not great. I also had to touch up the rego numbers and tail markings, but the wing roundels were OK. The pilots were pretty bizarre little guys just like yours. I thought they looked a bit like Dr Who Cybermen.
A beautiful build of an ugly looking plane...lol . Seeing the fuselage parts just makes me remember how on those old kits from back then, the slot for the stand was always a little longer in one fuselage half than in the other...lol
I used to buy bagged kits like these from Woolworths for half a crown.
Dates me.
@@FredScuttle456 so many comments about memories, all good 👍
@@creativetimewasting The scent of the glue.
I’d completely forgotten the original packaging. 😮
Cost 2 shillings in the 50's and 60's . 10pence in our current currency. I mainly saw them being sold in racks in Woolworths