Friday, 10 January 2020

CIGARETTE CARD RAF

The ubiquitous cigarette cards of the 1930s - then faithfully collected by all small boys and girls of the better sort - now form a useful historical record for the VBCW player. Especially if collected together into the albums issued by the tobacco companies:

John Player's Aircraft of the RAF, published 1938
Blogger "Hatchfive" has kindly scanned all the cards and information from the 1938 RAF Album and published them in a series of links:

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force Part One
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force Part Two (Bombers)
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force Part Three (Fighters)
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force Part 4 (Flying Boats and General Purpose)
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RC and Trainers)

These cigarette cards - published in the very year of the VBCW - may provide inspiration for the 2020 Modelling Challenge, "Aircraft and Anti-Everything".

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