James May Toy Stories Episode 1 Part 5

[OishiiSan1]

James: You've put a few hairs up my nose as well

Kid: Yeah, "try and make it as realistic as possible"

James: Right... alright, alright, alright

[AdmLeviathan]

James: But it is an opportunity for you lot to become a part of history

Kids: Yaay!

James: But only the history of Airfix.

Kids: Aww

I love British Television.

[kieghacat]

why the heck would you go line up a beyone concert when you could be building a spitfire with JAMES MAY!

[ZeetherKID77]

James, it's best you don't know who Beyonce is. :P

[UncleVlad478]

It's Simi from James May's Man Lab at :49

[hashrulsubzero]

@UncleVlad478 He also appear in the Great Train Race :) .

[thelege95]

They really do make airfix look easy.

[Valhure1]

Those cadets were YOUNG

[leknuklad]

What the hell 3.50?



[TYUIO11111]

lol of course dave was bloody right anyone with half a brain could tell it would be floppy

[niebells]

if he went to my school which is full of geeks, he won't be disappointed... after all, leaving this awesome task to see that stupid concert isn't a good deed!

[samosammo123]

Im the only person in my School in the Midlands who likes Airfix, i would rather build and paint airfix rather than play on a computer game!

[aporigine]

I think one of those panels with parts-in-sprue belongs in the main hall of a museum of modern art. 

[schwazer210]

Am i just the loneliest dick for thinking the Girl cadet at 3:50 was hot. me and my stupid 16 yr old self. any way i love video games, i breath it everyday, but i would love to have a go at building an airfix model.

[carlogwapo1234]

honestly the replica of James May more look like Jeremny Clarkson....

hahahahaha

[jaredlee283]

"Dave was right all along...But i think we can edit that out.." HAHAHA!!

[lostprophets123]

this is brilliant! I mean there aren't many shops that sell airfix models in my country, although there are more instances of these in another form. The Gundam models. I enjoy building Gundam models, and if there were models like these on new age cars/supercars i wouldn't mind doing it. Spitfires and tanks or whatever sounds great too.

Although i feel James' dad seems more youthful than he is. -.- Go Captain Slow!

[TeeGeeFan]

I'm 13, and I would place meeting James above all other things...even going to a Byonce concert :/

And I would have jumped at the chance to drive a tank, and build a 1:1 model of a spitfire...

I'm also a girl, and I don't care about shoes! Driving a tank, building a spitfire and meeting James May are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, but shoes are just inanimate objects.

[xbeckeringhx]

darn kids, I would have loved to make a 1:1 model of a spitfire :)

[TeeGeeFan]

@xbeckeringhx i would too, I'm 13. I wish James would come to my school, but seeing as I live in Australia, that's not really possible. I also love airfix...why are kids like this now?

[PhilipDK5800]

Are RAF cadets 14 years old these days? :S

[BF2superfans]

No, in all seriousness, WHO IS BEYONCE!!!!

[BigAndTall666]

At 0:49 that radial engine looks reminiscent of a engine for the FW-190, perhaps a 1:1 scale dogfight between the Spitfire and a Focke Wulff is to be expected sometime in the future? :-D

[Fuzzzboots]

James May > Beyonce

[TeeGeeFan]

@Fuzzzboots i agree. completely.

[rike889]

JAMES' DAD

[shon231]

3:56 blame your father! LOL

[parabellumantonio]

James May ignorante apestoso. Tu cara me produce vomito.

[1doc1savage1]

@parabellumantonio Al igual que a nadie le importa lo que piensa, ni siquiera se puede conjugar correctamente. Apestoso beaner, hijo de una violación.

[parabellumantonio]

@1doc1savage1 No entendi, te refieres a que no conjugue bien los verbos? es correcto, el ingles no es mi lengua natal.

Pero trato de ser respetuoso a otras culturas

[TeeGeeFan]

@1doc1savage1 well, no one cares what you think, either

[topgearfan188]

@parabellumantonio shut up

[OptimusGonzoo]

Mr. Pedantic Perfectionist gets recognition from the kids, I love it.

[Tiny578]

I love how he went in to that shed and convinced the bloke who made the model parts to make a 1:1 Spitifre model kit.

That's the May spirit!

[trishulf1]

@ 7:20 some kids puncing each other

[DamazViccar]

@trishulf1 Or dads.

[redmr2na]

take pride in something I could've been a part of. I guess now that I'm older, I tend to think like this.

[redmr2na]

The two girls Alli and Caitlin who left to go to a concert should not have been allowed to come back and join the others. They left, and as such I think they should be excluded from the honor and glory of being able to say they did it. I know all these kids were young at the time, but come on going to concert over helping to build something that will stand for all time in a national mueseum! To be fare I might have done the same thing, but I would've been very disapointed knowing I couldn't...

[codemannz]

That's shocking that the girls would rather go to a stupid concert then stay and get the task done!

[firebat42]

James, stop using kids to fullfill your dreams! >:(

lol this is awesome.

[aaron8862006]

lmfao the RAF cadets have some weird marching.

[crmnl320]

did he just call that girl a slut at the end? lol.

[OmegaDude22]

"That's my boy"

Lol XD

[animefangirlxx]

9:38 = a young James May prodigy lmao

[lugiamcg]

the song when the hanger's door is opened? thanks =D

[pinworms70]

Its funny, even though they are 'modern' kids, with all the electronic gizmos and video games, they are STILL way more behaved in a group than American kids are.  No one is acting up, no one is fidgeting about, just getting along with the program. Way to go, great series!

[HulkingShitzu]

.... you do everything. LOL

[hotrod347]

the idea of the assembly line build with the kids in the video b4 this one gave me an idea for a diorama of a spitfire assembly line. either that or one for all my WWII aircraft.

[FORTY848]

lol "who's beyonce?" he must be the only living being on this earth that doesnt know who beyonce is

[kaz3kag3gaara]

@FORTY848

I don't know who that is either.

[FORTY848]

@kaz3kag3gaara are you serious? wow you need to get out, just google her

[TarikuKunn]

@FORTY848 Seriously who is Beyonce?

[felixlaw]

@TarikuKunn ...who care who is beyonce...she doesn't live next with me

[JohnDavidHeptinstall]

@FORTY848 Why should he though, she's only a singer. It's not as if she actively offers anything to society - I find it extremely refreshing to that at least one persons mind hasn't been poisoned by overly obsessive pop culture

[FORTY848]

@JohnDavidHeptinstall that makes no sense at all

[JohnDavidHeptinstall]

@FORTY848 Basically just because someone is famous in the entertainment industry doesn't matter much in the great scheme of things and shouldn't have to demand the attention it does. It's not as if Beyonce was a great scientist, a revolutionist, a great philosopher or a great leader - yet she gains more respect than any one of these for nothing more than singing (Which is pretty sickening). So my thinking in that comment basically was - Why should James know about someone who is so worthless?

[Xothian]

I notice that they changed the position of the pilot's arms a bit... he's not holding his joystick anymore! ;)

[hill9868]

I hope that older, overly serious and excessively fanatical model-builders watch this program and get a timely reminder that model-making was always meant to be simply a fun-hobby. Too often these days it has become an overly competitive, almost semi-professionalised craft complete with its own guilds and inquistion. The consequence is that many potential new younger model-makers get frightened off by all the dreary obsessive fanatics who have taken all of the fun out of the hobby.

[KjayRockerz]

@hill9868

signed x2

[hill9868]

@KjayRockerz Cheers! Long live good old-fashioned Airfix!

[EVOVIIIARGT1300JR]

@hill9868 dead on M8. It's all about photo realistic detail on a 1/72 scale. And if you cannot put on filters, washes and super high detailed photoeteched parts it's rubbish. Screw that. Yes there are true artists the like of Rembrandt, Michelangolo, Picasso, Van Gogh, out there when it comes to moddeling. They make it microscopically realistic. But it all starts with a cheap kit, globs of glue and a sloppy paintjob.And just plain funin building something.

[hill9868]

@EVOVIIIARGT1300JR The paradox at present is that whilst there are a more kit manufacturers and more kits on the market than ever before, there are fewer modellers, most of whom are aged over 40. People of that age have more disposable income, hence the reason why there are so many more kits on the market these days. If the hobby is to ever have a future, they must attract younger people. Easier said than done of course!

[EVOVIIIARGT1300JR]

@hill9868 I think one of the ways to attract younger people is to update the kits made. It's mostly WW2 kits. There are modern jets & tanks off course but kids these days dont have much with a spitfire. There is enough modern stuff out there, but it seems to me also manufasturers stick with what they know sells to the older public. It's also they have to compete with computer consoles. Wich gives "instant" satisfaction to kids. But why not take the risk and make Halo vehicle kits for instance.

[EVOVIIIARGT1300JR]

@hill9868 Kits based on games. Perhaps that will attract a younger public. I understand the paradox you're talking about. May also hit the nail on the head that it is also a matter of letting kids know something like moddeling even existst out there, besides video games. And with todays models it's even easier to make children enthousiastic about it. Take revells simple click star wars models. Ready painted just click together. It's a good start to make youngsters enthousiastic about moddeling.

[JLCL01]

@EVOVIIIARGT1300JR

Another company that uses the "simple click" design to their model kits is Bandai They're mostly famous for their Gunplas: model kits based on mechas called "mobile suits" in the Gundam franchise. Although they also have some vehicle model kits from the Universal Century timeline. My main point is that if Mobile Suit Gundam, or mechas overall, ever becomes popular again in the west, this would be a good chance to introduce people to model kits.

[JLCL01]

@EVOVIIIARGT1300JR

Although as you said in an earlier comment, model kit companies could start making kits based on popular sci-fi movies and/or games in the west. Examples include Avatar, Mass Effect, Gears of War, Killzone, Metal Gear, etc.

[Hanske90]

@hill9868 Yea, i was into airfix as a kid, about 10 years ago or so, and i never felt at home at those stores. The old farts at the desk always looking at me like i didn't belong in their elite club :p

[brigadeir998]

you have a point, if you asked me to choose 1 it would be like choosing between my BMWs, I love both, the typhoon and tempest were to blast apart German fortifications more than shooting enemy heinkels Messerschmidts, Junkers and other types out of the sky, that is what the spitfire and the hurricane did.

[HawkerHobbies123]

this is cool, but... it's not a Hawker Tempest. That, was an aeroplane!

[djimajlosikirica]

Thank you for upload...enjoyed it!

[acanthopleura]

lol. I thought it was impossible but there you go, 1/1 scale.

[Nastranai]

Simply amazing. Kudos to the kids who did this, and to Mr May! You guys have made us in the Midlands proud!

[Winterbyte]

im 13 too and i'd kill to be one of those kids- damn im a nerd

[20PhantoM07]

epic!