AIRFIX AUSTER ANTARCTIC IS BACK!

The company’s eye-popping 1/72 polar exploration aircraft has been re-released as a Vintage Classics boxing, after an almost 20-year absence. CHRIS CLIFFORD inspects the contents.

AIRFIX AUSTER ANTARCTIC IS BACK!

Anyone who has built Airfix’s 1979-era Auster AOP.6 observation aircraft may not have realised that it was based on the firm’s Auster Antarctic kit, first issued 21 years before. Originally moulded in bright yellow styrene, the model was provided on four runners (including a clear frame) and emulated WE600, one of two airframes converted from T.7s to equip the 1956 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

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