




Since the idea of recreating Classic British Box Art worked so well and was so popular we decided to have another crack at it this year. Ten all new builds made it to Scale Model World 2012, and they were (literally) bigger and better than last years crop.
Thank you to all those people who stopped by to give us kind comments and have a chat, it was a pleasure to meet you all.
We also got blogged again by those lovely people at Osprey publishing The Modelling News.
We will be taking this on the road as before and hope to have a couple of extra builds that didn't make SMW due to a minor issue of a hurricane. We hop to be again at Huddersfield, Shropshire and Farnborough shows in 2013.
Welcome to the Classic British Kits SIG. We are an IPMS(UK) special interest group focusing on the plastic model kits from the golden age of the hobby in Britain. Names like Airfix, Frog and Matchbox are synonymous with plastic model kits. Though only Airfix is still going the other's kits are readily available on the second hand market and still re-boxed to this very day by other manufacturers. We are also interested in models from the multitude of smaller British manufacturers such as Inpact, Rareplanes etc.
The CBK unashamedly celebrates the nostalgia of our youth and its purpose is to promote the hobby as a fun and relaxing.The CBK regularly displays at models show with a new big display for Scale Model World at Telford every year that brings together the efforts of modellers from all over the world.
CBK activity takes place on the Unofficial Airfix Modellers Forum, this blog will keep you updated on shows that we attend and other CBK events.
For friends in North America look at our sister CBK(US) blog for news of displays on your side of the pond.