An edition of The Airfix Handbook
(2010)
The Airfix Handbook
James May's Toy Stories
by James May
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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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History, Airplanes, Models, Vehicles, Ship models, Airfix, Airplanes, modelsTimes
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The Airfix Handbook: James May's Toy Stories
2010, Anova Books, Conway
Hardcover
in English
1844861163 9781844861163
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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
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