Are those really the only two payment methods they accept for this particular offer? If so, it's a bit rubbish considering they've happily taken my debit card payment for other purchases.

#baffled

Starter themes might include a series of kits that could be built. or used, in a particular setting. For example - Airfield Control Tower, Refuelling set, RAF Personnel, Tiger Moth, and Chipmunk - 5 kits, 4 genres, 1 simple airfield diorama.

On a similar theme - Harrier, Bedford refueller, Land Rover & Trailer, NATO Personnel - a Cold War setting. Add an especially commissioned Amera vac formed base and maybe scatter materials. How far could that be taken? Even added to a model railway diorama.

What are your thoughts. Are there particular groups of kits that would go together in a theme? Maybe themes is not the way and you might make another suggestion. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers and the only stupid suggestion is the one you should have made, but didn't...

Limited time Club offer: 20% discount

However, I then changed the items in my basket, instead putting in the Mystery Aircraft Bundle, (£89.99) and then entered the £15 discount code and hey presto, because it was higher the Club Discount vanished, replaced by the £15 off discount. I then proceeded to put the original items back in the basket, (the Club Sale 1/48 JU-87 at £26.67 and the VE Day 80th Bundle of a Spitfire, Hurricane, both 1/48, and VE Day Coin £49.99) and suddenly the £15 discount and the Club Discount were both being used. 

My ever-so slightly devious mind then wondered, what would happen if I took out the Mystery Aircraft Bundle? So I removed it, expecting the  £15 off or Club Discount to vanish. However, instead the checkout showed the £15 off was still applied, but also the Club Discount was taking off £2.67 too. It seems that the £15 off was applied solely to the VE Day Bundle and that left the Club Discount to give 10% off the Stuka. I tried it again with just the Mystery Aircraft Bundle but that only reduced it by the £15. 

Anyway, being ever the penny-pincher, but also in hopes it might work for other folk, I thought I'd leave this less than tiny note. I know, it was only an extra £2.67 off, but hey, these days who doesn't love a bit more cash off something. Maybe it will work with other items in the Club Sale, maybe it was because the true cost of the VE Day Bundle was close to £75 alone before being reduced, I just don't know. However, there it is, more bang, less bucks. Good hunting 🙂

I would just like to know can you renew your membership before its due. Any help would be appreciated.

Is there any way in my account info that I can find out if my membership has expired, or have I just had another memory lapse and my membership has not come up for renewal yet?

It isn't possible in the "My Profile" section.

I don't want to take out a new membership as I would lose the benefits I have built up.

I know I will be

Ian

If, as I expect, I renew my membership, sadly this will be straight on eBay! 😢

Thursday 16th January 2025 

The 2025 Airfix Club has landed! 

This year, the Airfix Club has had a refresh and includes some exciting items that we know modellers will love. New to the Club for 2025 is a single Limited Edition 1:72 scale Messerschmitt Me410A-3 with two decal options. One of the most sinister looking aircraft of the Second World War and featuring the reconnaissance variant of the Messerschmitt Me410 ‘Hornisse’, this kit includes marking options for a captured example operated by the RAF’s No.1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight, colloquially known as the ‘Rafwaffe’. Club members will receive the much-desired ‘Red Box’, which will include the exclusive Club kit plus a wealth of other modelling essentials, including instant access to an exclusive year-long 10% discount that can be used on products across the Airfix website, as well as access to news, competitions, giveaways, exclusive products, and more. Whether it’s the joy of claiming free kits with Flying Hour tokens or simply being part of the vibrant Airfix community, the Airfix Club is the ultimate modellers hub. Join us in honouring history and celebrating a shared passion for all things model building today. 

Club Package – What’s inside? 

On signing up, every UK Club Member will receive the much desired ‘Red Box’, containing the following goodies:

 • Limited edition, Club exclusive model kit: Messerschmitt Me410A-3

 • ‘Flying hours passport’

 • Airfix stickers

 • Three-yearly magazines sent throughout the year

 • Annual wall calendar sent throughout the year

 • Updated A4 modelling checklist poster

 • Welcome letter

 • Updated Key ring featuring a nod to the exclusive Club kit.

 • Updated Yearly pin badge

 • Door Hanger for when you’re in the modelling zone! 

There’s even more to the membership! Join today and get access to a range of perks including:

 • 10% discount on all items at Airfix.com*

 • Access to the exclusive Airfix Member’s Area 

PRESS RELEASE

 • Exclusive products, competitions and giveaways

 • Member-only experiences 2025 Limited Edition Club Exclusive Kit – 1:72 scale Messerschmitt Me410A-3 The Messerschmitt Me410A-3 was a dedicated reconnaissance version of the Me410 that featured a deepened forward fuselage bay which could hold a pair of cameras. This kit contains two schemes, both representing the same aircraft before and after it was captured by the RAF. On 27th November 1943, the aircraft took off from Perugia on a photographic reconnaissance flight over the Naples area. The aircraft suffered a technical fault, and the pilot decided to make an emergency landing at the nearest airfield, Monte Corvino which the Allies had captured a few months earlier. The occupying British forces captured the aircraft, which was in perfect flyable condition and the two crewmen became prisoners of war. 

PRESS RELEASE 

The aircraft was shipped to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, in Britain, arriving in April 1944. It was completely repainted in the RAF ‘Temperate Land Scheme’ and was marked per the official guidelines for prototype and experimental aircraft. It received the serial ‘TF209’ and made its first flight under its new identity on 1st May 1944, flown by the RAE’s chief test pilot, Squadron Leader Roland ‘Roly’ Falk. In August 1944, the aircraft was flown to the Fighter Interception Unit at RAF Wittering, undertaking comparative trials against the RAF’s de Havilland Mosquito. Ranked at skill level 2, the 1:72 scale Messerschmitt Me410A-3 was tooled in 2023 and features 143 parts, with a wingspan of 226mm and an overall length of 175mm. 

PRESS RELEASE 

Scheme A – Messerschmitt Me 410A-3 WNr.10259 F6+OK, 2.(F)/Aufklärungsgruppe 122, Perugia, Italy, November 1943. 

Scheme B - Messerschmitt Me 410A-3 WNr.10259 TF209/P, Fighter Interception Unit, RAF Wittering, England, August 1944. 

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I have been with Airfix since 2017, and up till now, I have had a Club Magazine every time it came out. ( I think it was quarterly but not sure!) Anyway I was just wondering if you still send them out on paper form.

Kind Regards

Martin Barrett

Thanks 

So the moral is renew while its active and dont let it expire!

Is the 80th anniversary of D-Day special model kit duo (1:72 Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB + Supermarine Spitfire PR.XIX) available to Airfix USA (ROW) members? If so, can anyone provide a link? many thanks!

All best wishes,

Tom

So, try as I may I cannot add anything more to my basket as it contains a membership ... Is this normal? (or is there a sneaky way around this so I can get s free pair of socks!)

I would like to caveat this by saying I do have plenty of clean socks without holes in them so I'm not entirely desperate ... I just like the look of them ... and they're free 🙂

Cheers

Ian