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The official Airfix Club Magazine Issue 19

In this Issue...
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Douglas A4

SKYHAWK
PLUS...
RMS TITANIC A3 POSTER...
1912 - 2012 SPECIAL FALKLANDS
100TH ANNIVERSARY PULL OUT POSTER
 Welcome to the spring edition of the Airfix Club Magazine.
With those cold winter days behind us and the days
becoming longer, it is a great time to have a look at what

Contents events are coming up in the year. The Airfix Team will
be making appearances at many different venues over
South West Model Show...2 the next few months. Take a look at our Roadshow dates
Where Museum Meets and try to come along to as many as possible. There is
Theatre.............................3 a lot going on for all ages.
Channel Dash................4-5 In this edition of the magazine we also have a great offer
with the Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton, a fantastic
Fairey Swordfish Colour
Schemes...........................6
Fairey Swordfish Rigging
Build.................................7
editorial Falklands feature and many more exciting new items
and updates to show you.

Falklands History................8
Diary Dates.......................9
Now in its 16th year the...

South West Model Show

1912-2012 RMS Titanic
..................................10-11
Members’ Photos......12-13
Humbrol 2012............14-15 Now in its 16th year, Saturday February 11th promised to be the premier event in the South
Competition Time............16
West’s model enthusiasts’ calendar, with over 2000 visitors, clubs and traders expected to
attend the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s Model Show in Yeovilton.
Consultant Editor:
Over 130 traders and clubs exhibited everything from model aircraft, boats, figures, tanks and dioramas. Airfix ran a ‘Make
Susan Pownell. and Paint’ workshop and sponsored competitions designed to recognise high achievement in modelling across all disciplines.
Design & Production: Model enthusiasts could bring along their best models and possibly could walk away with a prize.
DSP Limited.
The highlight of the Show was a radio controlled flying display by the award winning BMFA (British Model Flying Association).
Membership Organiser:
Sarah Woodhouse.
Previous years had seen jet powered model aircraft and an internationally acclaimed model helicopter stunt team taking
2011 Subscription Fees: to the skies. When not looking around the model show visitors could go on board Concorde and see the award winning
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 Where museum meets theatre!
The Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton is
one of the Southwest’s leading attractions and will almost
certainly change your perception of aircraft museums.
As much an ‘attraction’ as it is a ‘museum’, the award winning Aircraft Carrier
Experience is where Museum meets theatre. You’ll ‘fly’ by helicopter to the
replica flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL.
On board the Ark Royal you’ll see ten aircraft and two enormous projection
screens showing a Phantom interceptor fighter and a Buccaneer low level
strike bomber. You will be in the heart of the action as powerful jet fighters
take off and land around you.
You will experience the thrills and sounds of a working flight deck, and feel
the wind in your hair as you witness a dramatic air-sea rescue when a
Buccaneer is lost over the side on the Ark Royal into the sea. You will even
see a nuclear bomb. Inside the Ark Royal is a series of faithfully reconstructed
cabins and operational areas from the Bridge to the ‘Goofers’ Deck’, which
looks down onto the flight deck below.
The Museum has the largest collection of Naval aircraft anywhere in Europe
and the first British built Concorde which you can go on-board and visit the
cockpit. Outside the Museum there is a children’s ‘Mini Marines’ adventure
playground, a licensed restaurant and a shop, ample free parking and excellent
disabled access. Just across the road from the main Museum is the Fleet
Air Arm Museum’s reserve collection.
The reserve collection is larger than that of many other entire aircraft
museums and is housed in a Heritage Lottery funded climate-controlled
building called Cobham Hall. Within Cobham Hall there are over thirty
historic aircraft and some five miles of shelving accommodating over 30,000
records and artefacts. AIRFIX CLUB MEMBER

2 FOR 1
Among the aircraft and artefacts within Cobham Hall are one of the largest
collections of Westland Helicopters and the only surviving example of a WW1
aircraft Carrier - a 60ft long Thorneycroft Seaplane Lighter. There’s a bullet
ridden Argentinian Beechcraft Mentor and even a prototype Bouncing Bomb!
Cobham Hall opens to the public once each year when it attracts visitors from
all over the UK to see its unique collection of aircraft, many of which have
never before been seen on public display.
The Museum is open throughout the year but closed on Mondays and
Tuesdays during the winter. It is situated alongside RNAS Yeovilton - Europe’s
busiest military air station - and dependent upon operational demands,
ADMISSION TO
you may see fighter aircraft and helicopters going through their rigorous
training procedures.

Airfix are pleased to be able to offer all club members “2 for 1 entry
into the Fleet Air Arm Museum”. This fantastic offer is for all club
members and is available until December 31st 2012.
To take advantage of this special offer, simply present the voucher
attached to this issue of Airfix Club magazine, along with your valid
club membership card, to gain entry to the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
The offer is not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. We are
always striving to get great deals such as this for the Airfix club and
we hope you all get the chance to make use of it.

RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset BA22 8HT. Situated on B3151,

close to junction of A303 and A37. Seven miles North
Brilliant radi of Yeovil. Tel 01935 840565. Web: www.fleetairarm.com
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The Channel Dash, Codenamed operation Cerberus
by the Germans, was one of the most audacious naval operations of all time.
In early 1942 three of the Kriegsmarine’s most powerful warships were stranded in the French port
of Brest unable to easily recover to a German port and under repeated bombing attacks by the RAF.
The three German capital ships, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and
Prinz Eugen had no choice but to run the British naval blockade
around the port of Brest and break for home waters through the
English Channel. A stretch of water in places only 30 miles wide
and under the noses of the RAF, Royal Navy and shore batteries.
On the night of the 11th of February the German ships slipped
through the blockade and made full speed into the channel.
Unfortunately for the British, and luckily for the Germans, the
ships were not spotted until the following morning by two
Spitfires of the RAF. However due to needing to maintain radio
silence they did not inform their superiors until landing.
While the RAF and Royal Navy had been expecting this operation
their response was far from effective. Just 6 Swordfish biplanes
made up the initial strike force. Led by Lieutenant Commander
Eugene Esmonde DSO the Swordfishes circled their base of
Manston for around 10 minutes waiting for their allotted escort of
RAF Spitfires, but it was just ten aircraft of number 72 squadron
that found the Swordfishes and gave them an escort.
1:72 SCALE
Against a force of up to 250 Luftwaffe fighters the
attack was suicide.The spitfires soon became embroiled
in a whirling dogfight with the Luftwaffe fighters,
leaving the Swordfishes to the mercy of any other
fighters and the murderous flak. Esmonde
pressed home his Torpedo run to the lowest level,
flying even when his port lower wing was shot off
and his aircraft was aflame. All the aircraft were lost with just 5
crewmen surviving. Esmonde was not one of the survivors.
All the ships escaped unharmed, with the only damage during the
whole operation coming to them thanks to mines laid in the
approach to their own harbours. Repeated attacks by bomber
command and coastal command were ineffective, as were the
shore batteries and destroyer assaults. For his heroic attack,
Esmonde was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. The attack
was made in the foulest of weather, against the most determined
enemy who out classed them in both numbers and equipment, but
the bravery of the Swordfish crews cannot be questioned and was
even commented on by the German captain of Scharnhorst
commenting “What an heroic stage for them to meet their end on.
Behind them their homeland which they had just left with their
hearts steeled to their purpose still in view" and a Daily Mail
Reporter to write - "This is an episode in the Battle of the Straits
of which Britains can be rightly proud. In planes which, against
the German protecting aircraft, were as slow as cart horses
compared with a motorcar, 18 men of the Fleet Air Arm flew over
the Channel. Crippled and ablaze before they got within range,
they kept on, delivered their attacks - and died!"
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 Only available at:

The Channel Dash, Codenamed operation Cerberus by the

Germans, was one of the most audacious naval operations of
all time.

‘18 MEN WE SHALL NEVER FORGET’

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FAIREY SWORDFISH www.airfix.com

COLOUR SCHEMES
K8393/E5A, NO.824 NAVAL AIR SQN, FLEET AIR ARM, HMS EAGLE, OPERATION JUDGEMENT, TARANTO, 11TH NOV 1940

K8449, NO.820 NAVAL AIR SQN, HMS COURAGEOUS, MARCH 1939

K8375/2Q, NO.810 NAVAL AIR SQUADRON, FLEET AIR ARM, HMS ARK ROYAL, MAY 1941

Only available at:

W5984/H, FLOWN BY LT-COMMANDER EUGENE ESMONDE VC, DSO, OPERATION “FULLER” (“THE CHANNELL DASH”)
NO.825 NAVAL AIR SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE MANSTON, ENGLAND, 12TH FEBRUARY 1942

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 FAIREY SWORDFISH www.airfix.com

RIGGING BUILD
3. Press fit the inner struts to wing centre 4. Glue long (1
section. Glue in the threads at the upper 0cm) threads to
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shown by 'X'. rut
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T6 and T7, pull
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off all th
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th e wi ng
the remainder of the top of the tail plane and fixes to the plane. A few trial and error attempts
fitted. top of the rear elevator (the next picture are needed to trim down the thread so
shows this in detail). Drill two holes it is reasonably tight when glued into
through fin at 'D'. the hole.
12. Measure the
distance betwee
front and rear m n the
If the thread is a little loose then light a match, blow it out and while the end it still ain wing bracing

TOP TIP... warm pass very close to the thread. The heat should shrink it slightly and will be
pulled taught. With a scalpel scrape away any extra glue around the holes once the
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 FALKLANDS HISTORY
The Falklands war started on the second of April 1982 with an Argentine invasion and occupation
of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British response was adamant, the Falklands were
British and would be re-taken either through diplomatic negotiations, or if that failed by force.

Douglas A4-B Skyhawk:

Speed: 673mph Range: 2,000 miles (with tanks) Wingspan: 8.4m Length: 13m
Armament: 2 x 30mm cannon various stores up to 9,000lb.

Sea Harrier:
Speed: 740 mph Range: 260miles Wingspan: 7.7m Length: 14.6m
Armament: 2 or 4 x sidewinder AAM 2 x 30mm Aden cannon.

By the 5th of April a British task force was underway. Diplomatic efforts
had gone nowhere and so the British government resigned itself to using
force to retake the islands. The Task force would be protected in the air
by just 28 Sea Harrier FRS1s. These aircraft were as yet unproven in
combat and many believed they would be outclassed by Argentina’s
supersonic Mirage III jet interceptors as well as outnumbered by its
larger force of combat aircraft.
The Sea Harriers main opposition in the conflict proved to be the Argentine
Air Force’s small attack aircraft such as the Pucara and the American built
Douglas A4 Skyhawk. The Mirage fighters rarely engaging the nimble
Harriers.
Without protection the ageing A4 Skyhawks suffered accordingly and
while some successes were achieved by the diminutive fighter bomber
against the task force’s ships, eight were lost in aerial combat. The Sea
Harrier by contrast suffered no air to air losses during the conflict and
ended the war a capable and proven fighter aircraft.

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FMA-IA58 PUCARA
The Pucara was designed to meet an Argentine Air Force requirement for a versatile, sturdy
aircraft for ground attack and counter insurgency (COIN) operations. A two seat low wing
monoplane powered by two Turbomeca Astazou XVIG turboprops rated at 1022shp each, it
has a top speed of 311mph with a range of 870 miles.
Coming soon...
First flying on the 20th August 1969 the Pucara proved to have good low
level flying characteristics and a strong airframe, with excellent rough field
capabilities, able to operate from roads and unprepared strips. It is also
able to carry an effective range of armaments, such as unguided bombs and
rockets, as well as being armed with two 20mm cannons and four 7.62mm
machine guns.
It was this very lethal armament that made the British forces fear the Pucara
at the start of the Falklands campaign of 1982. One of the few fixed wing
types to be stationed on the island, the Argentines hoped the Pucaras would
be a useful asset in defending the islands from any British counter attack.
However the Pucara’s very effectiveness would be its downfall in the
Falklands campaign as they were singled out for destruction by the RAF,
Royal Navy and the ground forces. Three were destroyed by cluster bombs
at Goose Green and the SAS destroyed another six in their raid on Pebble
Island. A number of others were also destroyed by Anti-Aircraft Artillery
(AAA) as well as Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs), with one being downed
After these were completed A-515 was donated to the RAF museum,
by a Sea Harrier. While the Pucara’s combat record over the Falklands was
repainted in Argentine colours, and has been on display ever since.
not sparkling, it does have the honour of claiming the only air to air kill by
the Argentine Air Force, with a Westland Scout helicopter being downed on However it is not just in the UK that the Falklands, or Malvinas, conflict is
the 28th of May with machine gun fire. remembered. With the Argentine air force painting one Pucara in 1997 in
the white scheme here, commemorating the Argentine personnel lost during
At the end of the conflict the British captured eleven Pucaras with six being
the conflict.
shipped back to the UK for trials and evaluation work. A-515 as depicted
here was one of those aircraft. Originally repainted in RAF colours and The bravery of the Pucara pilots was never questioned during the conflict by
markings the Pucara operated from Boscombe Down, undertaking a number the British, despite the slow moving COIN aircraft being especially vulnerable
of tests and trails to ascertain the effectiveness of the airframe, including to ground fire and fighters, the Argentine pilots still pressed home their
trials to test its rough field capability. attacks at very low level with severe determination.

Saturday 30th June - Sunday 1st July - Flying Legends Air Show

Diary Dates... 2012, IWM Duxford.

Saturday 31st March - Sunday 1st April - The Spring Spitfire Event,
Folkestone.
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. This Airfix Make & Paint is being run by
the event organisers on behalf of Airfix. National Memorial to the Few,
Capel-le-Ferne, Folkestone, Kent CT18 7JJ. www.battleofbritainmemorial.org
Sunday 27th May - The Jubilee Air Show, IWM Duxford.
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR.
www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Sunday 17th June - RAF Cosford Air Show 2012.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. RAF Cosford,
Wolverhampton WV7 3EX. www.raf.mod.uk/rafcosford
Saturday 23rd June - RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 2012.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. RNAS Yeovilton,
Ilchester, Somerset BA22 8HT.
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR.
www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th July - The Royal International Air Tattoo,
RAF Fairford.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. RAF Fairford, Fairford,
Gloucestershire GL7 4RB. www.airtattoo.com/airshow
Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th September - The Duxford Air Show,
IWM Duxford.
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR.
www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Sunday 14th October - The Autumn Airshow, IWM Duxford.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford,
Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR. www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th November - IPMS Scale ModelWorld
2012.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. The Telford International
Centre, Telford, Shropshire TF3 4JH. www.southwatereventgroup.com

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 RMS TI

RMS Titanic Specification

Olympic-class ocean liner
R.M.S TITANIC’S CAPTAIN...
Tonnage: 46,328 GRT Captain Edward John Smith was an English Naval
Displacement: 52,310 tons Reserve Officer and ship’s captain. He joined the White
Length: 882ft 9 in (269.1m) Star Line in March 1880 and received his first command
Beam: 92ft (28m)
in 1887.
Height: 175ft (53.3m)
Depth: 64ft 6 in (19.7m)
In 1911 he commanded the Olympic, the Titanic’s sister
Speed: 23 knots ship and in 1912 was given command of the Titanic.
Passengers: 3547 Captain Smith went down after his ship and took his place
Crew: 885 in history.

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TANIC

A50146 R.M.S. TITANIC...

It is a 100 years since the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic on
April 14th 1912 and we are taking a closer look at the Airfix 100th
Anniversary Kit. It is a 1:400 scale kit and boasts some fantastically detailed
features. On this double page spread you will be able to see some of these features
with the detailed photograph of the built up kit.
The model itself is 630mm long and comprises of 381 pieces.

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 Your contributions to our Members’ Photos page get better
and better and as you know, there is a prize for what our panel
considers the best submission in each Airfix magazine edition.
The winner chosen from all the photographs published on pages
12-13 in Issue 18 is James Ross from Hampshire.
Congratulations, James. Look out for your surprise Airfix gift,
which is on its way to you.

members’ photos

Member 600620, Kevin

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 2012
PAINTS & ACCESSORIES
enamel paints - matt colours spray paints
173 237 240 241 242 243 163 165 239 90 238 155

Track Colour Desert Tan RLM 02 RLM 70 RLM 71 RLM 72 Satin Satin Gloss Matt Gloss Matt
Grau Schwartzgrun Dunkelgrun Grun Dark Green Medium British Racing Beige Green Arrow red Olive Drab
Sea Grey Green
244 245 246 247 248 249

RLM 73 RLM 74 RLM 75 RLM 76 RLM 78 RLM 79

Now in
Grun Graugrün Grauviolett Lichtblau Himmelblau Sandbraun
flourescent colours stock

gloss colours 238 239

AD6202 AD6203 AD6204 AD6205 AD6210

Arrow Red British Racing

Green Pink Green Yellow Orange Blue

Now in
acrylic paints - matt colours multi-effect paints stock

83 67 237 155 94

Ochre Tank Grey Desert Tan Olive Drab Brown Yellow

gloss colours
9 18 38 20 238 239

Tan Orange Lime Crimson Arrow Red British Racing

Green

metalic colours
12 52 191

AD6211 AD6212 AD6213 AD6214 AD6215

Copper Baltic Blue Chrome
Silver
Gold Red Blue Green Violet

weathering powders
AV0001 AV0002 AV0003 AV0004

Black White Sand Smoke

AV0005 AV0006 AV0007 AV0008

Chrome Iron Oxide Dark Earth Rust

Oxide Green

2012 sees the introduction of over 60 fabulous new products to make your model even better than
ever. More colours, more accessories and a brilliant new Workstation, Humbrol really is the only
place to start and finish!
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enamel paint packs coatings & thinners
24 29 30 33 90

Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt

Trainer Yellow Dark Earth Dark Green Black Beige Green

pack 1 - WWII RAF

65 154 240 241 242

Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt

Aircraft Blue Insignia Yellow RLM 02 Grau RLM 70 RLM 71
Schwartzgrun Dunkelgrun

pack 2 - WWII Luftwaffe

34 60 61 62 186

Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt

White Scarlet Flesh Leather Brown

pack 3 - figure set

69 14 19 21 22

Gloss Gloss Gloss Gloss Gloss

Yellow French Blue Bright Red Black White

pack 4 - primary colours A4 cutting mat

acrylic paint packs

24 29 30 33 90

Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt

Trainer Yellow Dark Earth Dark Green Black Beige Green

pack 1 - WWII RAF

34 60 61 62 186

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White Scarlet Flesh Leather Brown

pack 2 - figure set

11 16 33 53 171

Metallic Metallic Matt Metallic Metallic

Silver Gold Black Gunmetal Antique Bronze

pack 3 - figure weapons

69 14 19 21 22

Gloss Gloss Gloss Gloss Gloss

Yellow French Blue Bright Red Black White

pack 4 - primary colours AG9155

A4 cutting mat

detail, flat & stiple brushes

AG4303
stipple brushes
4 per pack
AG4302
flat brushes
4 per pack
AG4301
detail brushes
4 per pack

Humbrol work station

A must for every modeller. The Humbrol
Work Station is manufactured from a tough
and durable material that can’t be melted by
Humbrol Poly Cement. AG9156

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AIRFIX & FINEST HOUR ART
English Electric

Lightning F.2A
Take a look at the latest edition to the Airfix Limited
Edition Prints. We have the English Electric Lightning.
Entering RAF squadron service in 1960, the Lightning represented a
quantum leap in capability and performance over the RAF's previous
interceptor jets, offering Mach 2+ performance as well as a phenomenal
rate of climb. Until its retirement in the 1980s, the Lightning had few rivals
for outright speed and climbing ability, however, it did have some
shortcomings, most notably its lack of range as well as its limited
armament of just two air-to-air missiles.
The fine art prints (Giclee) provided by Adam Tooby are produced using
archival quality (280gsm) paper. The paper used conforms to UV and Airfix will release a print every two months with a
longevity tests as specified by the guild of fine art as well as international wide and varying subject matter. Look out for our new
standards DIN6738; ANSI Z93.48-1984 and ISO9706. Each print is
release come mid-march!
produced using a 12 colour print process to ensure that colour accuracy
and fine detail is accurately reproduced. All prints are limited, so be one of the first to purchase
Finest hour art will be launching 3 new prints every 6 to eight weeks. Also this amazing imagery.
look out for the private collection launch of artwork that will be available
from June onwards. Please email info@finesthourart.com for more details.

COMPETITION TIME
We’ve devised a competition with an
interesting Airfix twist for you this time.
Take part in our Airfix Propellergram with
a chance of winning an example of a fantastic signed
boxed Airfix kit of the Royal Navy A05113 Westland Sea
King HAR.5 Helicopter. We have two kits to give away -
A
one to an adult winner and one to a junior winner aged
14 or under. These have been signed by the actual crews
serving on these fantastic aircraft. I S C I
E A
Using the letters on the propeller and the spinner in the illustration, see how U X T
many words you can make up using three letters or more. To test you even G A
further words which contain the letter X will count as double, giving you an O L
even better chance of obtaining that collectable prize! The adult and junior
reader sending us the longest list of words wins! R
F
Put all the words you’ve come up with on a postcard and send to Airfix Issue
19 Competition, PO Box 25, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE13 1ZG, UK
or email them to comp@entryairfix.com In either case, please quote your
name, address and membership number and for junior entrants, please state
your age (14 or under). Closing date for entries is 14th May 2012.

Rules of entry Competition Results

1. The two winners of the competition (one adult and one junior aged 14 or under) will be the first drawn from
the all-correct entries received by the closing date of 14th May 2012.
2. The competition is limited to one entry per current member of the Airfix Club.
3. The results of the competition will be announced in Issue 20 of the Airfix magazine and the winner notified
by post.
4. The competition is not open to employees of Hornby Hobbies Ltd., their agents or families.
5. No correspondence to be entered into in conjunction with the competition.
Our Airfix competition in Issue 18 promised a signed print of Airfix box-art specialist Adam Tooby’s Supermarine
Spitfire Mk XII, to be awarded to one adult and one junior winner. The lucky recipients are: Mr Vernon Holmes,
Member 565340 from Cambridgeshire and Tommy Sargeant, aged 12, Member 610767 from Aberdeenshire.
The answers to our competition questions were:
1. Woolf Barnato and Bernard Rubin. 2. 1969. 3. Feldwebel (Sergeant) Karl Hier.
Congratulations to you both. Your prizes are on their way, so make space on your hobby room wall.

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6. The Airfix Club accepts no responsibility for entries lost in the post or damaged or defaced in any way.
7. No cash equivalent is available.
8. The judges’ decision is final.

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