{"id":1628,"date":"2012-01-08T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2012-01-08T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T14:11:31","slug":"air-fix-models-for-the-40-kidults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2012\/01\/08\/air-fix-models-for-the-40-kidults\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-Fix models for the 40+ kidults?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When i was a kid we would spend ages glueing together model stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AA01308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1629\" title=\"AA01308\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AA01308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AA01308.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AA01308-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Airfix and humbrol FTW!<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, even if you are a 40+ kidult like me who wouldn&#8217;t feel silly ordering a model tank to build, the market does not seem to cater to me any more. Lets be honest, those model tanks we built as kids were actually pretty crap. I recall them being stupidly intricate and tricky and lifelike, but in fact they were small, very simple, easy to make, and always looked a bit crap.<\/p>\n<p>of course, if you have money to burn you can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modelworks-int.com\/asp\/d-no.asp?ProductID=18&amp;Process=1&amp;CatID=3\">these<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new_tiger2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1630\" title=\"new_tiger2\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new_tiger2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new_tiger2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/new_tiger2-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But they weight 70 KG&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But where is the middle ground? Show me a decent sized, hard to build (but satisfying to build) model tank and I&#8217;ll easily waste a weekend fending cats away from the glue as I stick a model together :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When i was a kid we would spend ages glueing together model stuff like this: Airfix and humbrol FTW! The problem is, even if you are a 40+ kidult like me who wouldn&#8217;t feel silly ordering a model tank to build, the market does not seem to cater to me any more. Lets be honest,<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Air-Fix models for the 40+ kidults?<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2012\/01\/08\/air-fix-models-for-the-40-kidults\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}