AIRFIX - DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE LEGENDARY KITS

Description: Airfix: Celebrating 50 Years of the Greatest Plastic Kits in the Worldby Arthur WardHardcover, dust jacket, 9" x 11 1/4", 192 pages, in mint condition.Illustrated with hundreds of photographs. This gloriously illustrated, large-format volume celebrates 50 years of Airfix plastic modeling kits. Hundreds of superb color photos show all the obscure and highly collectible kits, as well as the best-sellers, with illustrations of packaging, box art, advertisements from Airfix magazine, and a mass of period ephemera. The lively text charts the rise, fall, and rise again of Airfix models. It's a nostalgic reminder of kits long vanished, but with a happy ending: Airfix is now re-releasing 40 kits a year, bringing back some models not seen in two decades. Airfix has all the information important to collectors, from complete range listings to production dates. From the dust jacket:Only a very sad minority of men aged 30-50 did not make Airfix when they were boys. This book enables the rest of us to relive the glory days of our plastic air forces, navies or tank fleets. Superbly executed studio photographs show all the obscure and highly collectible kits as well as the best sellers, with illustrations of the packets, box art, adverts in 1960s and 1970s magazines, and a mass of period ephemera. Arthur Ward investigates the rise, fall and rise again of Airfix models. It's a nostalgic reminder of kits long vanished, but with a happy ending: Airfix are now re-releasing 40 kits a year, bringing back some not seen for twenty years. For anyone who's ever watched an Airfix Messerschmitt plummet to its fiery doom from the bedroom window, Airfix recaptures the magic of the modeling world.

Price: 49.95 USD

Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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