This
is my Airfix Magister. I remembered building this kit as a kid in the
early 70’s, and recalled that it was one of Airfix’s better ones. I
spied the kit amongst a good mate’s collection (Colin Whitehouse) who now
builds mainly British subjects of the 50’s and 60’s in 1:48 scale. It took
some persuading to get Colin to swap it as he had been carting it around the
world for 25 years. Given this fact, and having pried it from him, I felt
I had better build it rather than add to my 750+ unbuilt babies.
The
kit is still nice build, and all I did was add scratch-built seat belts, lights
on the tip tanks, and replacement undercarriage doors and nose handles. I
chose the scheme using kit decals as it was the same one applied to a Magister
war bird based nearby to my home in
Auckland
,
New Zealand
. Very sadly this plane crashed recently with the loss of two crew during
a flight just prior to an air show.
Mark
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