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Airfix Instruction Sheet Service
Please read first:
Hornby offer a free instruction sheet and parts service for all current
Airfix kits. The instruction sheets can be downloaded from the Airfix website
at www.airfix.com. The following service is offered ONLY for Airfix kits
that are no longer in production.
I maintain a reasonable stock of instruction
sheets from the Airfix boxed kits. I am happy to offer an Instruction Sheet
service to any reader who is in need. Please just e-mail your request and
I'll see what I can do. Click here for my current
list of available sheets.
But I need YOUR help to make this work - previously, I offered to scan my sheets and e-mail
the images to anybody who was desperate for an old instruction sheet. Experience
has shown that this doesn't work, so I am no longer offering this facility.
Why? Three main reasons - (1) for the small-print instructions to be readable
the scanned file sizes were proving to be huge, (2) Airfix instruction
sheets tend never to be a nice A4 (US Letter) size. They are all odd-ball
sizes, often opening up bigger than A4 and hence extremely difficult to
scan in any reasonable manner, and (3) the early sheets were printed on
very flimsy paper, which is almost transparent to the bright light of a
scanner, hence very difficult not to get the reserve side showing through.
So, I now only offer a mail service for original
hardcopy instruction sheets.
But this means I will be constantly using
up my stock - which is where you come in ! I will need people to volunteer
and send me any Airfix instruction sheets that they no longer need. Please
donate them to this good cause ! In this way I might be able to replenish
my stock. Anything you have - you might think it just a worthless piece
of paper - but somebody out there may have a kit that cannot be finished
due to lack of instructions.
The deal -
1. In the Airfix collector's world, instruction
sheets do not change hands for money. I will mail an instruction sheet
to anywhere in the world - all I ask is a donation to postage costs.
2. I cannot offer any particular style of
sheet, there are just too many. Please don't ask for a sheet from a particular
year. If there are different versions of the kit, that's fine, I'll try
to keep appropriate versions of the sheets. But if you have a 1970s kit,
I might just send a 1980s instruction sheet. It should be OK !
3. I will refund the postage costs for anybody
sending me instruction sheets. Please be generous, otherwise this scheme
will not work
4. This service will not normally extend to plastic bag Header Cards as
they are collectors items, and often do change hands for money
e-mail me at dbjames@attglobal.net
Airfix Instruction Sheets over
the decades
click here
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The reverse side from the "Lowmac and JCB" kit instruction sheet. The kit was issued between 1963 and 1968 under Catalogue number R204, and is now quite rare. I remember making this kit as a boy. Ah, memories! |
Under Construction
Some time soon, I'll add some information
to this section on how the Airfix instruction sheet style evolved over
time.
In the meantime, try the Airfix Instruction
Sheet history and discussion document from Mike Dean on my Downloads
page.
Click here for one
of the nicest Airfix instruction booklets of all time ! (beware, large
image)
More Instruction Sheets - not just Airfix!
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