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Vostoc7
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 Posted: Thu 15 Jan 2009 16:13 pm Post subject: Good old fashioned prices |
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check these out....  ...£6.90 for 1/24 Harrier!!! 
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daniel7891
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| Posted: Thu 15 Jan 2009 16:23 pm Post subject: |
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Very interesting Vostok. A bit before my time. Just shows how much kits have gone up since then, 6.90for the harrier
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feanor
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| Posted: Thu 15 Jan 2009 16:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ayup All...
Ah... to be 12 again...
Classic Kit, Artwork, quintessential Airfix... Great price.
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tempestfan
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| Posted: Thu 15 Jan 2009 17:43 pm Post subject: |
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| feanor wrote: | Ayup All...
Ah... to be 12 again...
Classic Kit, Artwork, quintessential Airfix... Great price. |
Man you're old 
What's interesting is the large number of gaps in the list, when the catalogue told you all were available.
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feanor
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| tempestfan wrote: | | feanor wrote: | Ayup All...
Ah... to be 12 again...
Classic Kit, Artwork, quintessential Airfix... Great price. |
Man you're old
What's interesting is the large number of gaps in the list, when the catalogue told you all were available. |
Ayup tempestfan...
Don't worry mate. Not that old really. (43) you'll get here eventually.... and go past it. (hopefully)
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Graham Hall
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| feanor wrote: | Ayup All...
Ah... to be 12 again...
Classic Kit, Artwork, quintessential Airfix... Great price. |
I second that one, the days of buying a kit on the Saturday morning and building it same day!
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Sgt.Squarehead
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| Graham Hall wrote: | | feanor wrote: | Ayup All...
Ah... to be 12 again...
Classic Kit, Artwork, quintessential Airfix... Great price. |
I second that one, the days of buying a kit on the Saturday morning and building it same day! |
Thirded!
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Beaufighter
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Interesting to see how the differentials have changed. Back then a 1/24 Sea Harrier was 3.07 times the price of a 1/32 Lee/Grant tank, the one we keep nagging them to reissue.
Since a Sea Harrier is now about £76, would we really want the Lee / Grant reissued at £25? I.e the same relative price? I was thinking I'd like one or two at about, er, fifteen quid!
I do note though that a Series 1 kit is now 11.9 times the 1977 price, while a Series 18 Superkit is now 11.6 times as much. So overall the range of prices between top and bottom of range is quite consistent.
This came up on the Airfix Collecting Forum a while back and I seem to recall I did an analysis then of inflation by series. IIRC, overall the cheaper kits have stayed the same, the mid-range ones have got relatively costlier and the to-end ones have got cheaper. Must see if I can dig that post out.
Brave of Airfix to issue a "1977" price list. IIRC, didn't we have 28% inflation that year?
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tempestfan
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| Beaufighter wrote: |
Brave of Airfix to issue a "1977" price list. IIRC, didn't we have 28% inflation that year? |
Hey, it's the 1st Edition, so they kept us warned...
The 32nd Lee/Grant is a Series 8 kit (at least it was when issued last time). Airfix have never been too good in down-seriesing kits to remain competitive while keeping their kits in their inflexible price system, so if it's re-released in S. 8, I think 25 quid is about what the system says.
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stuzzar
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| Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2009 14:27 pm Post subject: |
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| tempestfan wrote: | Hey, it's the 1st Edition, so they kept us warned...
The 32nd Lee/Grant is a Series 8 kit (at least it was when issued last time). Airfix have never been too good in down-seriesing kits to remain competitive while keeping their kits in their inflexible price system, so if it's re-released in S. 8, I think 25 quid is about what the system says. |
They will probably chuck in a set of Mutipose 8th Army figures as well though
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Loll
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Blimey Feo I can't remember that far back, remembering 40+ is hard enough ....
And they keep telling us inflation is only 0.x percent in real terms ... pah humbug !
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Jonathan
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When I first started buying models around 1972 (ish) Airfix Series 1 kits were around 15 to 17 1/2 p in the local shops - but due to the economics back then and inflation within five years their price had almost doubled to 36p.
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