Airfix Little Nellie, James Bond You only live twice

[M1ks]

Completed the old 1/24 Airfix Little Nellie Wallis Autogyro.

Blog review here:

https://miksmodelkits.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/airfix-wallis-autogyro-james-bonds-little-nellie/

 

Youtube review and build here with more detail pics:

 

ln1web by mike michael michaels, on Flickr

 

lnnp2web by mike michael michaels, on Flickr

[Foxer]

that's pretty cool .. never seen it. You did a good job!

[M1ks]

Thankyou, It's a really old Airfix kit, you do see the odd one on ebay but then there are some jokers too, one on there currently for £300+, crazy.
Personally i'd say the kit, interesting as it is, isn't worth over £20.

 

[blunc]

judging from the box art, Little Nellie has "auto pilot" or JB is flying with his knees.

interesting and rare subject.

[Dragline]

THAT is straight up Bad @ss...... Wow.

Edited September 17, 2017 by Dragline

[ChrisR]

Looks good!

[cobraman]

Very cool and well done to boot !

[unclescott58]

A very nice build and a decent video review. Thank you for sharing it with us. The only thing I'm confused on is the history on the auto gyro that you give at the beginning of video #1. Is this the history of that particular auto gyro? Or the history in the Bond books? Or what? For you state that the Q branch invented the auto gyro in the late 1950's. But, gave credit to another for inventing it earlier. As I say, I'm a little confused by This statement. For the auto gyro was around at least as early as the mid 1930's, in real life, as far as I know. In fact, you can see one in use in the 1936 movie "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable.

Still a nice build. And a very set of videos.

[M1ks]

A very nice build and a decent video review. Thank you for sharing it with us. The only thing I'm confused on is the history on the auto gyro that you give at the beginning of video #1. Is this the history of that particular auto gyro? Or the history in the Bond books? Or what? For you state that the Q branch invented the auto gyro in the late 1950's. But, gave credit to another for inventing it earlier. As I say, I'm a little confused by This statement. For the auto gyro was around at least as early as the mid 1930's, in real life, as far as I know. In fact, you can see one in use in the 1936 movie "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable.

Still a nice build. And a very set of videos.

That was a very tongue in cheek potted history of the autogyro.
The original design concept is commonly attributable to Juan De La Cierva but this specific one is attributable to Wing Commander Ken Wallis and the bare frame version mentioned was touted for military use as a close distance observational vehicle.
The mods were made specifically for the film and without considerable power modifications it wouldn't have flown were all the armaments real.
There's no official take on Q branch's input re Little Nellie as it wasn't in the books, (the films being a bit more fantastical and 'out there' than the books ever were), but I like to imagine little back stories to film vehicles.
Glad you enjoyed the build.

[disabled modeler]

COOL..!  Id like to build some 007 vehicles....had this kit coming but it got lost in shipping and was the only one the guy had.

[M1ks]

That's a shame, you do see them on ebay and such though. 

[stavanzer]

Great Work!  I need one of these!  Beautiful Build.

[vamach1]

Pretty cool and odd for sure but where is odd job?

[peekay]

On 13.9.2017 at 2:13 PM, Foxer said:

that's pretty cool .. never seen it. You did a good job!

x 2

[DPNM]

Nice to see one of these built. You did an excellent job, it looks really good.

I have one in my stash, don't think I ever opened it. Have plans for it...someday.

[disabled modeler]

On 10/5/2017 at 7:26 AM, M1ks said:

That's a shame, you do see them on ebay and such though. 

Yes it was... a real bummer...I have been wanting to build some 007 James Bond vehicles for some time now and make a nice little display for them.