If I’m totally honest I don’t know where this has come from, but a some point in the pre-Edinburgh stress of July I had a craving.
Somewhere amongst all the panic I had a pang of serenity from my childhood. I can remember, when I was about seven years old I used to sit with my grandad making Airfix planes and things, I had about ten of them, and because I was so young, none of them were very good, my grandad used to insist that we painted the little pilots before we glued together the fuselage, but I wanted it done as quick as possible. My grandad, being older than me (that is kinda the point of grandads) had his way and so they didn’t get made.
Later that year my grandad died, this is not connected, and so the plane never got made.
I am now 26, the last time I tried to make an airfix plane was 19 years ago. I think I’m ready to attack it again.
back in London I am very poor, so knew I couldn’t go for a proper thing and buying all the paints and things. I wanted to go for a starter spitfire kit, I believe it was a spitfire my dead grandad and I abandoned.
They didn’t have any of them, but I have bought me a biplane, it is a Sopworth F-1 camel. For £6.99 I got me some bits of plastic, some decals (not transfers, they called decals), a brush, some glue and two different tins of paint.
Opening up the instructions I see I need about 6 extra tins of paint for little things like the nose and propeller. My dead grandad would have made me wait until we had the paint, but he is dead so I get my way.
I will be making a bi-plane tonight
UPDATE
Oh, what are the chances, after buying this (which I now see is not Airfix, I have bought a Revell plane) I read this on the news…
Dont get sticky fingers. Ew!