Now I don’t usually do nostalgia ……. because it is one of those pernicious activities which makes you think the past was always wonderful and leads some to wish for a golden age that never was.
On the other hand if you are of a certain age, and possibly male, although that doesn’t have to be the case, the memory of those plastic kits of aircraft, vintage cars and old battleship, made by Airfix, Revel, and Aurora will bring back a smile.
I have never forgotten the joy in making the kit, and let your imagination roam over the events that played around it, but long ago lost all but a few of the models.
And then last week I came across an envelope full of transfers, which you could use to enhance the model.
I have no idea if they will work, but I might just cut one off the sheet, immerse it in warm water, and test if the passage of fifty years has dimmed its ability to work.
We shall see.
Location; bought in either the model shop behind Peckham Railway Station or the model shop on Well Hall Road, or just maybe that one at London Road Railway Station, by the stairs that led to the ramp down to the main road. Nostalgia can sometimes be OK ...... but memories play false.
Picture; sheet of transfers, circa 1963, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
I have never forgotten the joy in making the kit, and let your imagination roam over the events that played around it, but long ago lost all but a few of the models.
And then last week I came across an envelope full of transfers, which you could use to enhance the model.
I have no idea if they will work, but I might just cut one off the sheet, immerse it in warm water, and test if the passage of fifty years has dimmed its ability to work.
We shall see.
Location; bought in either the model shop behind Peckham Railway Station or the model shop on Well Hall Road, or just maybe that one at London Road Railway Station, by the stairs that led to the ramp down to the main road. Nostalgia can sometimes be OK ...... but memories play false.
Picture; sheet of transfers, circa 1963, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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