Bond Airfix kits

DrFragment

Not sure this is a major topic, but does anyone have any photos etc of the Airfix Toyota 2000GT. I remember having the kit as a kid (god, I was I could travel back in time !) & my late father (rip) helping me build it. Don't think it ever got finished, but I seem to recall it was a top quality kit. It holds enormous sentimentality for me. It crops up on ebay now & then but goes price crazy. I own a few of the re-issues of Airfix Bond, but thought a gallery would be a nice trip down memory lane ?

nms75

Maybe a few can be found on Google? I know the Airfix Aston Martin DB5 and Toyota 2000GT are some of the most sought after kits Arifix ever made! It would be great to see if any have survived.

DrFragment

Google has images of the fantastic box artwork, but I can't find any pics of the kit made & painted. It was a decent scale, about 1/24th I think. But as you say very rare kits, so that could be why no images.

ppw3o6r

DrFragment wrote:

Not sure this is a major topic, but does anyone have any photos etc of the Airfix Toyota 2000GT. I remember having the kit as a kid (god, I was I could travel back in time !) & my late father (rip) helping me build it. Don't think it ever got finished, but I seem to recall it was a top quality kit. It holds enormous sentimentality for me. It crops up on ebay now & then but goes price crazy. I own a few of the re-issues of Airfix Bond, but thought a gallery would be a nice trip down memory lane ?

Here you go:

jamesbondasia

There you go , one of each

Regards JBA

Higgins

DrFragment wrote:

, but I can't find any pics of the kit made & painted.

IMHO the emphasis is on the quoted words...

ppw3o6r

Bondtoys wrote:

DrFragment wrote:

, but I can't find any pics of the kit made & painted.

IMHO the emphasis is on the quoted words...

Hold on I'll just build and paint it then....NOT!

Higgins

you'd better let Jeff do that for ya, John :v

ppw3o6r

Bondtoys wrote:

you'd better let Jeff do that for ya, John :v

Nah, it'll never get finished if I do...lol

danjaq_0ff

ppw3o6r wrote:

Bondtoys wrote:

you'd better let Jeff do that for ya, John :v

Nah, it'll never get finished if I do...lol

Lmfao )

minigeff

danjaq_0ff wrote:

ppw3o6r wrote:

Bondtoys wrote:

you'd better let Jeff do that for ya, John :v

Nah, it'll never get finished if I do...lol

Lmfao )

Ha bloody ha.

nms75

Give it to me, I'll soon whack it together and give it a lick o paint )

Rizzos Slots

DrFragment wrote:

Not sure this is a major topic, but does anyone have any photos etc of the Airfix Toyota 2000GT. I remember having the kit as a kid (god, I was I could travel back in time !) & my late father (rip) helping me build it. Don't think it ever got finished, but I seem to recall it was a top quality kit. It holds enormous sentimentality for me. It crops up on ebay now & then but goes price crazy. I own a few of the re-issues of Airfix Bond, but thought a gallery would be a nice trip down memory lane ?

Hi i have two of these kits i just found in my loft.

Donald Grant

Not the Bond convertible though. Besides, both the Airfix Aston Martin and the 2000 GT convertible were re-issued by Airfix in the 90's if memory serves. Same goes for little nelly. I have the AM, and little nelly myself, although they remain un-built.

DG

DrFragment

I'm not aware of the DB5 or Toyota kits ever being re-issued. Little Nellie & Bond V Oddjob were (currently building Bond v Oddjob). Shame Airfix can't pick up the licence to re-issue these lovely classic kits for the 50th year anniversary.

oscar rubio

jamesbondasia wrote:

There you go , one of each

Regards JBA

WOW!!!!!

Donald Grant

DrFragment wrote:

I'm not aware of the DB5 or Toyota kits ever being re-issued. Little Nellie & Bond V Oddjob were (currently building Bond v Oddjob). Shame Airfix can't pick up the licence to re-issue these lovely classic kits for the 50th year anniversary.

You know something, you are in fact correct. I mis-spoke. The models of the JB DB5 and Toyota that were issued in the 90's were actually made by Doyusha. They came with a Bond figure, Oddjobb and a Bond figure and Aki respectively. It's a b*tch getting old!

DG

Mark Hazard

Bit late coming into this, but Airfix did release a Bond DB5 in the late 90s. Only problem was, is that it was a re-boxed Doyusha. I came across it in a local model shop and asked to check the model before possibly buying it, and already having the Doyusha I recognised the moulding - may even have had the figure in it too.

The reason I had asked to check the kit, was that in the early 90s I had bumped into someone (well placed) from Airfix at a local model/car event (the details escape me) and he told me that the moulds had disappeared many years previously. I couldn't get him to admit to the same fate for the Toyota. The original artwork for Little Nellie had also dissapeared (when the Americans took over the company), hence the poor quality artwork on Nellie's re-issue - if they had only asked me, I still have one in my collection.

Donald Grant

Mark Hazard wrote:

Bit late coming into this, but Airfix did release a Bond DB5 in the late 90s. Only problem was, is that it was a re-boxed Doyusha. I came across it in a local model shop and asked to check the model before possibly buying it, and already having the Doyusha I recognised the moulding - may even have had the figure in it too.

The reason I had asked to check the kit, was that in the early 90s I had bumped into someone (well placed) from Airfix at a local model/car event (the details escape me) and he told me that the moulds had disappeared many years previously. I couldn't get him to admit to the same fate for the Toyota. The original artwork for Little Nellie had also dissapeared (when the Americans took over the company), hence the poor quality artwork on Nellie's re-issue - if they had only asked me, I still have one in my collection.

So the Doyusha molds were used for the re-issued Airfix models? Very interesting.

DG

dailo007

I have never heard of or seen an Airfix re-issue of the DB5 in the 90s, I'd love to see some pics!

dmcs

Mark Hazard wrote:

I have the Airfix DB5 still in box
Can remember friend of my brothers having Toyota in 1970's but wouldn't part with it sadly
But now also have original concept artwork DB5 by Roy Cross so alls well in the end

Mark Hazard

dailo007 wrote:

I have never heard of or seen an Airfix re-issue of the DB5 in the 90s, I'd love to see some pics!

As I never bought it I don't have any pics and it seemed to have a very limited run, as I never saw it in any other model shop in the Airfix box.

ppw3o6r

Mark Hazard wrote:

dailo007 wrote:

I have never heard of or seen an Airfix re-issue of the DB5 in the 90s, I'd love to see some pics!

As I never bought it I don't have any pics and it seemed to have a very limited run, as I never saw it in any other model shop in the Airfix box.

Pre-90's, mid 80's I worked in a hobby shop. An Airfix trade catalogue featured both the DB5 and Little Nellie however neither were re-released. Airfix did re-release the Aston Martin DB6 whose box artwork did look very similar to the car which appears on the Bond DB5 box in dark blue where the Bond DB5 was green for some reason but it was not the Bond DB5 regrettably.

Higgins

ppw3o6r wrote:

.....release the Aston Martin DB6 whose box artwork

8-) 8-) 8-)

ppw3o6r

Bondtoys wrote:

ppw3o6r wrote:

.....release the Aston Martin DB6 whose box artwork

8-) 8-) 8-)

The DB6 is the only Aston Martin kit which resembled a DB5 which Airfix rereleased in the 1980's