British men over 30 do NOT read this thread

**English assassin** · 08-31-2006, 14:17

Well, you asked for it. In a development that surely proves that the young of today are moral degenerates too busy downloading hard core porn off the internet to do proper boy stuff, Airfix have gone bust http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5301438.stm Yes, its all up for 1/72 scale Spitfires with little pilots squinting through the gluey fingerprints on their cockpit canopies at the Me109 dangling from the bedroom ceiling in front of them.

Mind you once I read that they had all their kits made in France it all became clear, obviously a dastardly gallic plot to take the airbrushes off the aeroplanes and into a certain few years of mid 20th century history....look out for the new Jeanne D'Arc range of historical figures soon

**mystic brew** · 08-31-2006, 14:23

and yet somehow, life goes on.

smaller, poorer, but life does go on.

for this generation, is it going to be when games workshop goes out of business?

**Prodigal** · 08-31-2006, 14:28

Oddly enough I bought a model tank to put together just yesterday...Why? RTW killed my PC. Anybody recommend a good base primer?

**doc_bean** · 08-31-2006, 14:42

Originally Posted by mystic brew

for this generation, is it going to be when games workshop goes out of business?

They're using their IP for videogames now, a good move probably. OTOH mainland Europe is probably still an expanding market for them (a shop in leuven carrying a lot of there stuff has recently opened), figures aren't a traditional big thing, but with influence from the internet (and general globalization) they might still gain popularity. Board game popularity is also on the rise, so this might have a positive impact too.

Of course, it won't mean a thing if they can produce is overpriced reissues...

/end economic analysis

**Al Khalifah** · 08-31-2006, 14:47

I am hurt by this. In my opinion, a boy is not a British boy unless at some point in his life he has constructed an Airfix model Spitfire and then painted it (or if you were clever, painted it first and then glued it together). It's a sad day.

I was never a "sad kid" but I still remember having a ceiling covered with the things. They were cheap addictive fun. Except the helicopters which were too difficult. The cutaway submarines were the best.

**yesdachi** · 08-31-2006, 15:09

But the company making the next generation’s favorite war model, the suicide bomber, is making a killing.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 08-31-2006, 15:53

How depressing. I've still got the E.E. Lightning I painted as a kid.

It is worth noting, however, that several Japanese companies sell scale models of far superior quality.

**Somebody Else** · 09-01-2006, 02:40

Originally Posted by Al Khalifah

I am hurt by this. In my opinion, a boy is not a British boy unless at some point in his life he has constructed an Airfix model Spitfire and then painted it (or if you were clever, painted it first and then glued it together). It's a sad day.

I haven't got a Spitfire, but I've got a Victory... Do I count as a real (British) boy?

**Captain Fishpants** · 09-01-2006, 12:40

No Airfix kits?

No Humbrol paints?

Another chunk of my childhood has died. And just when I was getting ready to revisit it.

We're in mourning at the CA design corner, I can tell you.

**macsen rufus** · 08-31-2006, 14:31

Sob.... wistfully dusts off the ageing Lancaster with it's peeling decals and half-rotating gun turrets. No more will teenage boys know the subtle difference between duck egg blue and sky blue, or the secret formula for mixing khaki. No more will the best silver spoons in the kitchen drawer sport the tell-tale smudges of tank-track rubber.