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The '''Airfix Trackside''' construction kits first appeared in 1956 as a small set of "poly-bagged" kits designed to produce accessories of 00-gauge and H0-gauge model railways, and expanded into a popular range of trackside buildings, bridges, and eventually even people.
 
The kits allowed affordable highly detailed layout detailing. Although card models had been quite nice (and affordable), printed detail on flat surfaces created limitations on the amount of customisation that could be applied, and tended to result in lots of layouts with the same recognisably distinctive buildings. Th appearance of plastic kits, with their ''textured'' detailing allowed constructors to produce their own unique colour schemes and variations, and made it easier to produce weathering effects and dirt that made it easier for sets of buildings to look natural together and fit in with their surroundings. 
 
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* [http://www.airfixrailways.co.uk/tracksideindex.htm Airfix Trackside index (airfixrailways.co.uk)]

Revision as of 14:32, 10 November 2018

The Airfix Trackside construction kits first appeared in 1956 as a small set of "poly-bagged" kits designed to produce accessories of 00-gauge and H0-gauge model railways, and expanded into a popular range of trackside buildings, bridges, and eventually even people.

The kits allowed affordable highly detailed layout detailing. Although card models had been quite nice (and affordable), printed detail on flat surfaces created limitations on the amount of customisation that could be applied, and tended to result in lots of layouts with the same recognisably distinctive buildings. Th appearance of plastic kits, with their textured detailing allowed constructors to produce their own unique colour schemes and variations, and made it easier to produce weathering effects and dirt that made it easier for sets of buildings to look natural together and fit in with their surroundings.

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