Nax Airfix Airforce

[Nax]

G'day fella's as of May this year it has been three years since I started back modeling after a 30 year break. My wife brought me a kit to help me give up smoking and it reignited a passion I'd displaced for years, and didn't help with my smoking.
I was fascinated with the builds of Mike Grant in SAMI and ingested all of the sidebars he had written about building better models along with tips from other builders and the forum.
Airfix was the dominate player on the market in Australia when I was growing up and I'm sure I suffer from "brand placement" from this period and although there are a lot of new players with fantastic kits, I have a desire to keep building Airfix kits and try and build them as good as a new tool offering and detailing with everyday bits and bobs that you find around the house.
Following are the all my Airfix builds from the last three years from the hairy stick to the airbrush.

All 1/72, Please enjoy.


Bf109G-6 (new tool)


Bristol Beaufighter.TF.X


Focke Wulf FW190D


Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk

Airbrush appears on the scene

Yakovlev Yak-9D


Dornier Do 17 E/F


Grumman J4F-1 Gosling / Widgeon


Mustang P-40D/K

Scribing tool arrives and the buffalo was the first victim.

Brewster Buffalo F2A-1


Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I/IIa (new tool)


Douglas Devestator TBD-1


Vought F4U Corsair


Ilyushin Strurmovik


Hawker Typhoon, old tooling


BAC Strikemaster/Jets Provst Mk5, real quick build with/for my son.


Albatross DVa


Wellington B.III


Mig.15 (new tool)


Aichi D3A1 Val, with floats from an Arado 96 fitted.


Arado Ar.196 A-2/A-3, with Ski's to replace the floats.


Auster AOP Mk.6


Hawker Hurricane Mk.I


Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.22 (new tool)


Arado Ar.196 A-2/A-3


Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb


Douglas Skyraider A-1J


Thanks for looking.

[PaulBradley]

Great collection, Steve, and interesting to see the progression from your earlier attempts to the latest.

[shangos70]

Great collection, you have really knocked these old kits into shape.

[Dirkpitt289]

That is some fantastic looking collection you got there. Very impressive

[Nax]

Two more builds for the thread.


Airfix 1/72 Hell Diver, converted to a float plane SB2C-2 which only made eight flights before it crashed.



Airfix 1/72 Arado 196 converted to a "whatiff" Italian diver bomber.

Thanks for looking in.