Airfix Collectors Guide on CD-ROM

For the Airfix enthusiast and collector - a comprehensive listing of every Airfix plastic kit released from 1949 to 1990. 

Believed to be the most accurate and comprehensive guide to old Airfix kits available today. Enthusiasts will know that the current owners of the Airfix trademark (Hornby) have very little archive information from the early days of the Airfix company. What information is known now rests with the Airfix collecting community. This Collectors Guide represents the accumulation of much of that knowledge.

About the author (in all modesty) : well known in the Airfix and plastic model collecting community, and creator of the Airfix Collectors Club website www.airfix-collectors-club.com. A two page biography on the author was provided in Arthur Ward's recent publication "Classic Kits, Collecting the Greatest Model Kits in the World" Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-717695. In addition, he has been asked several times to appear on various TV programmes, the most recent being the BBC Money Programme.   

A must have addition for any Airfix enthusiast ! Details follow.......   

Contents of the CD-ROM:

• The Airfix Collectors Guide in two volumes
  • Volume 1 - the Early Years (1949 to 1980)
  • Volume 2 - the Palitoy and Humbrol Years (1981 to 1990)
• over 1300 high quality pictures of Airfix kits - these pictures include photos of the most rare kits, box artwork, original artwork (including many Roy Cross), plus many hundreds of pictures of "foreign" Airfix like Plasty, Craftmaster, US-Airfix etc
• scanned images of the 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1965 Airfix Toy Catalogues (all pages)
• a CD-ROM version of the Airfix Collectors Club website
• over 300 MB of data 
• a complimentary copy of Microsoft Excel Viewer for Microsoft Works users 

Installation and usage instructions are provided.

Contents and Description of the Airfix Collectors Guide itself:

• provided in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet format (see technical stuff below)
• lists the following Airfix products
  • all plastic kits released between the years 1949 and 1990
  • all electric Railways System items
  • a listing of all Airfix Motor Racing (slot-car) and MotorAce items (although this is not a comprehensive list of MRRC items)
• provides the following information on each kit (over 800 kits!)
  • name
  • year of first release
  • original and subsequent catalogue numbers (with date of change-over) 
  • an estimate of scarcity or rarity
  • series or category
  • also lists presentation sets and promotional offerings
  • also includes the complete Airfix plastic model book range 
• each section (Aircraft, Ships, AFVs etc) has a brief overview describing packaging styles, etc
• many kits have individual comments
• space is provided in each spreadsheet for collectors to add their own comments and "tick-off" kits within their collections
• online format allows printing and sorting to suit any user
• Special Features (see sample spreadsheet page picture below):
  • Click 1 - click on a spreadsheet cell to reveal a picture of the kit. Where multiple versions of the kit exist, the picture will normally be of the first release. See additional comment below. 
  • Click 2 - to reveal additional comments about individual kits or series

Small print and technical stuff

The Microsoft Excel spreadsheets on this CD-ROM are in Excel 2000 format and have been tested on Windows 95, 98, ME and XP. They are optimised for 1280x1024 resolution. Lower resolutions may require additional scrolling. As is normal with anything concerning PCs, I cannot guarantee that the spreadsheets will work as designed on any individual machine. If the spreadsheet does not work I will refund payment. Volume 1 and Volume 2 have a slightly different layouts. Pictures are provided for the vast majority of the 800+ kits listed in the Guide, but not all. Pictures are generally provided only for kits up to the late 1970s - some pictures are provided for later kits, but these will be separate on the CD and not integrated within the spreadsheet Guide. Microsoft Works users will not have Excel, so the official Microsoft Excel Viewer program is included on each CD. The jewel case seen in picture may not always be supplied, but CD will always be protected and shipped securely. The author reserves the right to continually improve this CD (eg by adding more pictures), therefore no two CDs may be absolutely identical.

Buy with confidence from a real model enthusiast. Airfix fans - see my collectors website at www.airfix-collectors-club.com 

I am always buying second-hand unmade plastic kits, whether individuals or huge collections. For details see www.revelstonemodels.com

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