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I loved the Airfix kits.
My first introduction to them was through my late Uncle, who used to make them and then give them to me. I can still recall spinning round and round in the garden with an Airfix Lancaster bomber on the end of two pieces of string; making it fly just above the bushes!
And the boxes of soldiers! My friends and I used to have huge make believe battles in the back garden between the 8th Army and the Afrika Corps.
But my most off the wall memory of Humbrol/Airfix is from about 18 years ago. We used to live about five minutes from the Humbrol factory on Hedon Road in Hull. And then one day the factory caught fire, quite seriously in fact, a young female employee was killed. The smoke could be seen for miles; everyone was evacuated, including my wife and infant daughter. Having said that, my Grandad, who also lived nearby and was well into his 90's, decided to ignore the police and went for a walk along Hedon Road to inspect the damage, quite unconcerned about the fact that several highly inflammable chemical tanks at the rear of the factory were in serious danger of explosion.
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