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PLASTY imported and reboxed Airfix and Lincoln kits in Germany, between the late 1950´s and early 1970 [ PAK-20 Burns (2003) and Ward (2003)].
PAK-20 (2003) lists 52 Plasty kits, 47 being from Airfix origin , 5 from Lincoln origin.
An example for the reboxing of a LINCOLN kit is shown on the right.
Plasty utilised various packaging styles for the Airfix kits and early bagged kits had different artwork see the Lysander on the right.
Here you find a attempt to oppose
variuos PLASTY package styles to the
corresponding AIRFIX package styles in a
chronological order. As I said: an attempt. Much research has to be done.
When I talk about Airfix kits I remember from my youth, at least part of them were certainly from PLASTY . But is is not clear to me if AIRFIX distributed kits directly in Germany, too. That PLASTY Lysander on the right for example looks quite familiar to me. On the other hand every original AIRFIX Type 2 header I see let me think I must have seen it sometime .
What I´m 100 % sure is that I had kits in that blue plastic boxes, an example of which can be seen right below.
It is remarkable that at this packaging style the PLASTY logo neither appears on the box nor on the header card nor on the German instruction sheet which is added. The only reference to PLASTY is in a small-printed remark in the instruction sheet recommending the use of PLASTY cement.
I do not remember cardbord boxes as shown below .
| PLASTY box which encloses an original AIRFIX Type 3 bag. The box is made from cardboard, the transparent lid is made from plastic. "PLASTY and AIRFIX " is printed on all box-ends. © C.J.K |
The type of boxing depicted below obviously it is the "one-piece box produced specifically for the Plasty kits" which is mentioned in PAK-20. I just have this picture and do not now anything more about it. I have never seen it offered in auctions in the last 2 years.
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| © Claus Wilker Collection |
Ward (2003) p 185 points out that the PLASTY edition of Airfix´s 1/72nd scale DH Heron in Jersey Airlines livery is quite sought after .
That corresponds to the fact that PAK-20 Burns (2003) quotes a five time higher value for that Heron than for any other Plasty kit listed. I never encoutered that Heron kit. But a must have for me.
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