Airfield modelling (Airfix / Hornby / Lego etc)

Had a few of these over the years but only in boxes.

Converted a few as well but the general consensus is that its loosely based on the 13726/41 type.

Somewhere, maybe in an ancient Airfix Magazine, though almost certainly not in the Arthur Ward books, as far as I can recall, was mention of staff members "wading through a cornfield" to get to a tower for measuring but I just cannot remember which tower it was or where I read it. If I do find it, and don't hold your breath, because I've been looking since this forum started, I will post it up.
My memory could be wrong, but Oxfordshire or Essex seem favourite, somewhere rural yet not too far away from the London factory.

Dave wrote:

I've got one in a box somewhere. I wonder which tower it was based on?

None unfortunately, was discussed at length here, /community/showthread.php?275-Control-Tower&highlight=airfix+control+tower

It seems a great opportunity was missed as it would have been so easy to have based the kit on a genuine smaller tower and even the classic WWII watch offices would have been quite straightforward.
Interesting to see this early form of the classic kit though, looks like it was originally issued as a post-war finished tower.

mawganmad;64258 wrote:

None unfortunately, was discussed at length here, /community/showthread.php?275-Control-Tower&highlight=airfix+control+tower

Threads merged!!

Thanks Richard, I must have overlooked that earlier discussion!

Ossington_2008;64255 wrote:

Somewhere, maybe in an ancient Airfix Magazine, though almost certainly not in the Arthur Ward books, as far as I can recall, was mention of staff members "wading through a cornfield" to get to a tower for measuring but I just cannot remember which tower it was or where I read it. If I do find it, and don't hold your breath, because I've been looking since this forum started, I will post it up.
My memory could be wrong, but Oxfordshire or Essex seem favourite, somewhere rural yet not too far away from the London factory.

Chris Ellis from Airfix Magazine is now running Model Trains International, maybe he can help?

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An offering from the mid sixties. Modakit also produced a few vehicle conversions. They were vac formed but in my opinion this did not work, I never invested in the vehicle conversions. Packaging was similar to the early Airfix.

You can tell the age - the wrapper is printed on foolscap size paper!

bw

Dave Molyneux

Hello gentlemen (and ladies)
My name is Diego Fernetti, and I'm a modeller from Rosario, Argentina. I have an ongoing project to build the very simple Airfix Control Tower kit. I already found out that the kit is quite innacurate, but for the time being it serves my purpose of being an ongoing project to add vehicles and scenery.
As I'm going to add an interior to it, I wonder which colours must be the walls (two-tone colour) floor (were these just painted concrete?) and ceilings during the WW2 period. My only references so far are some stills of the "Battle of Britain" movie! Still, I have yet to find out the colour of the flooring.
Can anyone help me, please?
Thanks a lot in advance...

Thanks a lot OTBC!
The photo helps... Here I attach one with a proposed set of colour matches... would this be reasonably accurate for a model?

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