Slightly odd Airfix box question

[Yertis]

Can any of you help? I'm looking for the precise dimensions of the Airfix 1/72 aircraft kit, Series 2 box, type 3/4. Don't have one to hand but need it for a little project I'm working on for my own satisfaction.

[Eric Mc]

Are you talking about the modern Airfix or earlier eras?

[Gokartmozart]

Box types here, but no dimensions. I wouls suggest posting on the ATF.

http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewforu...

[dr_gn]

Yertis said:

Can any of you help? I'm looking for the precise dimensions of the Airfix 1/72 aircraft kit, Series 2 box, type 3/4. Don't have one to hand but need it for a little project I'm working on for my own satisfaction.

Is the Dornier Do217E2 a series 2? If so, I've got a type 4 version in the loft.

Eric Mc said:

Are you talking about the modern Airfix or earlier eras?

Earlier - The box type dates it.

[Yertis]

dr_gn said:

Yertis said:

Can any of you help? I'm looking for the precise dimensions of the Airfix 1/72 aircraft kit, Series 2 box, type 3/4. Don't have one to hand but need it for a little project I'm working on for my own satisfaction.

Is the Dornier Do217E2 a series 2? If so, I've got a type 4 version in the loft.

Eric Mc said:

Are you talking about the modern Airfix or earlier eras?

Earlier - The box type dates it.

From (long-term) memory the 217e2 was Series 3. I think gokarts suggestion is wise, I'll try them. Or go on eBay and buy one.

[dr_gn]

Yertis said:

dr_gn said:

Yertis said:

Can any of you help? I'm looking for the precise dimensions of the Airfix 1/72 aircraft kit, Series 2 box, type 3/4. Don't have one to hand but need it for a little project I'm working on for my own satisfaction.

Is the Dornier Do217E2 a series 2? If so, I've got a type 4 version in the loft.

Eric Mc said:

Are you talking about the modern Airfix or earlier eras?

Earlier - The box type dates it.

From (long-term) memory the 217e2 was Series 3. I think gokarts suggestion is wise, I'll try them. Or go on eBay and buy one.

Give us an example of a kit you're thinking of - I might have it.

ETA, you're right, the Dornier is a Series 3:

Edited by dr_gn on Saturday 13th April 12:55

[Eric Mc]

I've been doing an inventory list of my "stash" (over 500 now) so I am currently able to access what I've got relatively easily. It's all listed and in numbered boxes so I know where everything is.

[Yertis]

A friend of mine makes specialist art mounts. I'm exploring the idea of a sort of wall frieze of Airfix boxes.

[Eric Mc]

Do you intend to cut up the box and place just the face of the box in the frame or do you intend to put the full box in the frame?

Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 13th April 16:07

[dr_gn]

Yertis said:

A friend of mine makes specialist art mounts. I'm exploring the idea of a sort of wall frieze of Airfix boxes.

Maybe you could ask them how to frame or mount my collection of blended old models. Can't face slinging them, so I thought shove them in a food blender, and put the fragments in some sort of transparent mounting.

[Eric Mc]

I intend to make my old unloved models in a box at the Farnborough Modelfest show for kids to take as playthings.

[Eric Mc]

For the record, I've just measured a 1978 vintage Series 2 box (the 1/72 Arado Ar196) and it works out as follows -

Length - 20.8 cm
Width - 11.3 cm
Height - 3.2 cm

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

I intend to make my old unloved models in a box at the Farnborough Modelfest show for kids to take as playthings.

I might give them to my son; effectively the same result as putting them in a blender.

[Yertis]

dr_gn said:

Maybe you could ask them how to frame or mount my collection of blended old models. Can't face slinging them, so I thought shove them in a food blender, and put the fragments in some sort of transparent mounting.

I share my studio with a chap who produces presentation cabinets which sometimes include models among their contents. I was wondering whether I could produce a sort of wall mounted cabinet with all my old models inside, as a sort of abstract (there's something like this with Corgi/Dinky toys in the Soho Hotel in London). Anyway the fins made it a practical impossibility but this idea was born of that.

[dr_gn]

Yertis said:

dr_gn said:

Maybe you could ask them how to frame or mount my collection of blended old models. Can't face slinging them, so I thought shove them in a food blender, and put the fragments in some sort of transparent mounting.

I share my studio with a chap who produces presentation cabinets which sometimes include models among their contents. I was wondering whether I could produce a sort of wall mounted cabinet with all my old models inside, as a sort of abstract (there's something like this with Corgi/Dinky toys in the Soho Hotel in London). Anyway the fins made it a practical impossibility but this idea was born of that.

Abstract?

Fins are a problem?

Isn't a heat gun the answer?

[Yertis]

dr_gn said:

Abstract?

Fins are a problem?

Isn't a heat gun the answer?

I'm going for pop-art abstract, not Daliesque surrealism

[Skodaku]

Yertis said:

I'm going for pop-art abstract, not Daliesque surrealism

Ooops, must have wandered onto ArtHeads by mistake. That one sentence has raised the standard of PH by rather a lot.

Well said that man.

[Yertis]

Skodaku said:

Yertis said:

I'm going for pop-art abstract, not Daliesque surrealism

Ooops, must have wandered onto ArtHeads by mistake. That one sentence has raised the standard of PH by rather a lot.

Well said that man.

Thanks to Eric for detailed dimensions by the way - now off to eBay.