Whilst looking through various things on my re-search for Airfix i cam across this site. So rather than me waffle on with my boring rambles i thought its such a good sight i have posted the link.
Airfix Related Items
On here as well as the history nearly all if not all models are pictured, just click on the index at the bottom of the page and it will take you to the next oage where all of the models are pictured, click on a pic and it will explain about it. All though looking at the shunter i was wondering what it would of been like to fit a motor and what price back then.
Wonder if anyone of you bought any of these then, i know i did but only for my shelf in me bedroom.
Phill.

There is another link here Phill (i think its the same item?):

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Very much the same i think.
Phill

Very good link Phill to the Airfix model site i can remember making some
of those as a Kid
I recently purchased a Kitmaster Kit from Ebay a blue pullman Kitchen car.
I dont know if you realised that Airfix did an extensive range of ready to run locomotives and rolling stock as well as thier kits.
you often see them for sale on Ebay.

cheers Brian.W

Here you are Phill



The full Airfix RTR range plus a few Code 3 models and some resprays.

Because of the forum image size restrictions the individual engines are not as  clear as they could be so here is my favourite:



It does run.

I have always meant to weather an old chassis for display purposes but none of my 2-6-2's motors have given up the ghost yet.  25+ year old models and still going strong.

BLG

Bryan ( BLG) the Airfix 2-6-2T that is Scrap - yes the motor may still go but how does it go on a slow shunting exercise?

My Hornby equivalent, while it ran at a good speed, was not the ideal in shunting even though it was not a ringfield motor.

Ron

No, Sol

Horses for courses

It is not on shunting duties its "scraped"  

My shunting duties can adequately be covered by my Bachmann class 08's and a couple of little freelance Hornby 0-4-0 GWR diesels.

I'll see if I can get up in the loft today and take a photo of the 0-4-0's. I am sure there is the "odd" GWR fan that might like to see them.

My old ladies (2-6-2) when running will have a duty rota for short passenger trains (3/4 coaches) and local freight.

BLG

Blimey i take it all of them in the photo are airfix then  :shock: , did you have to make them from the kits then and was the motor supplied?
I like the scrap one, its got that character look about it and been round the block a few times  :D
As they say "the old ones are the best", how true a saying hey.  :)
Phill

Phill

Yes, they are all Airfix.

None of them are kit built.  For a period in the late 70's, 1980 and 1981 Airfix produced ready to run (RTR) models.

Motive Power as on the display board plus a range of coaches and wagons.

They were very good models for their time.

In fact the molds for some of the range have been used till quite recently.

Hornby, Bachmann and Dapol have owned and used some of the molds over the years.  

A perennial favourite is the 0-4-2 model

BLG

Hornby still uses the Arfix 0-4-2T 14XX and Country mold don't they?

I have two of the 0-4-2's which succumbed to the 'flood' and which no longer work but they are still lovely little models to look at.

black5 said

Hornby still uses the Arfix 0-4-2T 14XX and Country mold don't they?

If they are still using the mold of the 14XX.  Its not bad considering the original is 30 years old.  

The first release of the Airfix model was 1978 :shock: It was ground breaking stuff in its day.

Airfix didn't produce a county.

In RTR they produced A Castle.

Are you confusing it with the City of Truro which they produced as a kit?  

I have 2 versions of the kit made up, one motorised and one as a static model.

BLG

Apologies Sol

My little diesels are old Lima models.

You see 100's of the blue ones up for sale on Ebay.

Some green paint, a little red and silver plus the odd decal and:







Must get round to glazing them.

So many jobs so little time  :wink:

BLG

Bryan said

black5 said

Hornby still uses the Arfix 0-4-2T 14XX and Country mold don't they?

If they are still using the mold of the 14XX.  Its not bad considering the original is 30 years old.  

The first release of the Airfix model was 1978 :shock: It was ground breaking stuff in its day.

Airfix didn't produce a county.

In RTR they produced A Castle.

Are you confusing it with the City of Truro which they produced as a kit?  

Might have been the Castle I confused it with, was it Mainline which did the County which Dapol and later Hornby made?

black5 said

Might have been the Castle I confused it with, was it Mainline which did the County which Dapol and later Hornby made?

Airfix made a Castle which went to Dapol which then went to Hornby.

Dapol made a County which went to Hornby.

Mainline I don't think made a County or a Castle.

Mainline  did however make a Hall which went to Dapol.  But Hornby made their own.

It was quite confusing in the 80's with RTR models who made what, who acquired what and who eventually made what.

So I could be wrong and I could be corrected by somebody with better knowledge and records of GWR RTR models.

But I hope the above helps Les

BLG