An edition of The Airfix Handbook (2010)

The Airfix Handbook

James May's Toy Stories

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An edition of The Airfix Handbook (2010)

The Airfix Handbook

James May's Toy Stories

Pocket-sized book which contains a potted history of the iconic plastic kit company, and the story behind the television program in which James made a life-size replica of a Spitfire.

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Publisher
Anova Books, Conway
Language
English
Pages
96

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The Airfix Handbook: James May's Toy Stories
2010, Anova Books, Conway
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Table of Contents

Why Airfix. 6
The History of Airfix
From combs to kits. 9
The Golden Hind and the Woolworths connection. 12
Kits in context. 15
From the drawing board to the display stand. 18
Airfix workshop: common faults. 22
Roy Cross: The doyen of Airfix artists. 26
Spitfire BTK. 30
Airfix workshop: Spitfire kits. 33
Tank firsts. 38
Boom and bust. 40
Dambusting Lancaster. 42
Hornby steams to the rescue. 44
Airfix workshop: 10 things I wish I'd known when I was 10. 46
People Power: The Airfix BAC TSR-2. 53
The Big Build
Supersize Spitfire. 54
Flight of fancy. 57
Airfix workshop: the 10 kits that every modeller should build. 60
A mouse the size of an elephant. 66
Face/Off. 69
Thomas Telford engineers Airfix. 71
Making an Airfix film. 74
Paint and decals - bringing BTK to life. 78
Airfix workshop: Spitfire PR.XIX build. 84
Complete Airfix kit catalogue. 89

Edition Notes

Published in
London, UK
Series
James May's Toy Stories
Copyright Date
2010

Classifications

Library of Congress
TT, TT154

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
96
Number of pages
96
Dimensions
19.6 x 13.6 x 1.3 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25155413M
Internet Archive
airfixhandbook00mayj
ISBN 13
9781844861163

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