Not quite John. There was a pre-Hornby, Airfix Forum (mk.I) and Airfix decided to close it because of a few problems in April 2006. Pretty rapidly Greg set up the UAMF and Dave Coventry set up the ATF at the same time (IIRC there was only hours between the two sites going live).jRatz wrote:The history of this forum goes back to when it was an Airfix forum, but after some changes we decided to go our own way in 2006 and thus the word "unofficial" and that's who we have been. Our online history from then until 2011 is preserved on a read-only archive at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/gregersfr/; (the successor to the old Forumer host system). Since 2011 we have hosted ourselves.ShaunW wrote:I'm afraid the title of the forum can be a little misleading, Chris and I've seen this asked before (I don't know why it was so named as that happened long before my time on here). You can build from whatever manufacturer's range you wish and most forum members do just that. I'm currently building a Tamiya kit for example.ChrisSC wrote: I'm curious, does this site also welcome builds from manufacturers other than Airfix?
This is a fun place for models, modelling, and modellers - not tied to any manufacturer, scale, media, genre, country, etc. Although our origins kinda lean us toward Airfix & Classic British Kits, 1/72 (1/76, 1/600, etc), styrene plastic, aircraft, British/Commonwealth - there is more than enough variety of everything, which we welcome.
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