Teaching young lads about military history
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Finishing an Airfix Gnat with my eldest who was about five at the time and hanging it from his ceiling was AWESOME!!!
I'll leave you to guess who got most from the experience!
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The kits also lead you to ask questions about the real thing.
Like the 1/24th scale bona jet me and the boy finished recently - the Sharky Ward version.
Jeez, that thing has `fire access' points all over the place behind the pilot around the Pegasus.
I think I'm right in saying you couldn't run the water injection for any longer than about 30 seconds and that time in the hover was limited due to it getting too hot.
Was it especially prone to catching fire?
Possibly due to the excessive heat radiating from the office, due to the pilots ego?!
Like the 1/24th scale bona jet me and the boy finished recently - the Sharky Ward version.
Jeez, that thing has `fire access' points all over the place behind the pilot around the Pegasus.
I think I'm right in saying you couldn't run the water injection for any longer than about 30 seconds and that time in the hover was limited due to it getting too hot.
Was it especially prone to catching fire?
Possibly due to the excessive heat radiating from the office, due to the pilots ego?!
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My bedroom ceiling was festooned with 1/72nd Spitfires/Hurricanes/Me109s/Stukas etc, all hanging off bits of cotton in attack mode…..fantastic! (I miss those days).
Having a father who was in the services, I think automatically gravitates a young lad into an interest in the military. As a boy I could dentify dozens upon dozens of aircraft from the 40s-70s.
Having a father who was in the services, I think automatically gravitates a young lad into an interest in the military. As a boy I could dentify dozens upon dozens of aircraft from the 40s-70s.
MY stimulation of my grandson's interest in aviation is bearing fruit. Aged 19 he has just passed all of his ATPL ground exams with an average of over 90%. I made him model a/c and he 'made' me models in return. I still have all those he made me when he was little. But I do not know of anyone else locally with an interest in aviation.
H-h-h-Hancock's Half Hour - loved it and still do. Then discovered Anthony Aloysius was an old boy of my son's prep school in Dorset, brought him even closer.............
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Wander,
You can hear 'The Lad Himself' almost every day on this
British Comedy Channel Program Guide - The ROK Classic Radio Network
Have always been a keen but un-skilled model maker (glue fingerprints on the canopy etc) but am looking forward to helping the Grandchilden with there first attemps.
As an aside any one know the story of why a 1/72 TSR2 in 'Desert Pink' resides in 54's tea bar?
You can hear 'The Lad Himself' almost every day on this
British Comedy Channel Program Guide - The ROK Classic Radio Network
Have always been a keen but un-skilled model maker (glue fingerprints on the canopy etc) but am looking forward to helping the Grandchilden with there first attemps.
As an aside any one know the story of why a 1/72 TSR2 in 'Desert Pink' resides in 54's tea bar?
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First kit my son played with was a Frog Meteor 4. Bright red, it was. Second kit was a "display standard" Matchbox Gladiator [fully rigged] which he gave to his girlfiend [He was 3.5, she was 2.9] through the letterbox
He now makes me look like a 3 year old.....
He now makes me look like a 3 year old.....
There is no doubt in my mind that I went to university to do Engineering because of lego, and Aeronautical Engineering because of airfix (et al). Crucial. No other word for it.
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Never got into Airfix kits, always preferred the balsa wood and paper versions, I started with Keilkraft, 2s6d old money per kit. My first was a Stinson. By the time the 'extras' like dope etc. had been purchased it was a 5/- kit!
Progressed to a Jetex 50 power plant, built a beautiful Gloster Javelin, launched from parent upstairs bedroom window, straight up in the air, caught fire, (I had no asbestos paper, as required by instructions), crashed and burned!
Went back to Tow Line gliders after that.
Progressed to a Jetex 50 power plant, built a beautiful Gloster Javelin, launched from parent upstairs bedroom window, straight up in the air, caught fire, (I had no asbestos paper, as required by instructions), crashed and burned!
Went back to Tow Line gliders after that.
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Dad was ex-Air Force so I sort of grew up with it, but my pride and joy as a 11 year old was the 1:24 Mk II Spitfire I lovingly put together over weeks. Nothing spared, decal softener to mould it to the paint, clear gloss and then clear matt over the top of both, masking tape harness straps, muddy wheels, the lot. Gear and flaps down, canopy cracked open, gun port covers shot through, she was set on short final from my bedroom ceiling by some light gauge fishing line...
Her service life ended when she was unfortunately shot down and destroyed one cold July afternoon by my brother, who decided to see how much different history might have been if the Luftwaffe had taken to the RAF with air rifles...
Her service life ended when she was unfortunately shot down and destroyed one cold July afternoon by my brother, who decided to see how much different history might have been if the Luftwaffe had taken to the RAF with air rifles...
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When they are old enough and reading, try a copy of
"On the Psychology of Military Incompetence" as a primer?
Darned good read, pity most of the VSOs have never read AND digested! !
"On the Psychology of Military Incompetence" as a primer?
Darned good read, pity most of the VSOs have never read AND digested! !
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Still like to chill out by making the occasional model kit, although I've got a bit of a backlog at the moment: XB-35, XB-70, SR-71, Saturn V, Fairey Rotodyne, and RAH-66 are all awaiting completion.
When they are old enough and reading, try a copy of
"On the Psychology of Military Incompetence" as a primer?
Darned good read, pity most of the VSOs have never read AND digested! !
"On the Psychology of Military Incompetence" as a primer?
Darned good read, pity most of the VSOs have never read AND digested! !
Try 'googling' the latest airfix offering - a 1/24th scale Typhoon, (the ww2 one not the new jet) and have a look at the piccies of the finished model.
It is an amazing product even for the £100 price tag.
Well beyond my abilities to build! Lets hope my grandson is happy with the 1/72 kits. I expect they cost more than 2 bob these days.
It is an amazing product even for the £100 price tag.
Well beyond my abilities to build! Lets hope my grandson is happy with the 1/72 kits. I expect they cost more than 2 bob these days.
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The Typhoon looks huge but check out the Mozzie in that scale! I wouldn't fancy hanging that by a couple of drawing pins!
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One erm cough...has both the 1/24 Mossie and 1/24 Typhoon.
The 1/48 Mossie mentioned earlier has just been released by Revell
For those that haven't seen the Tiffie
more here including painted and assembled
http://scaleplasticandrail.com/kaboo...phoon-revealed
they have added panting to the skins etc on this.. it is superb.
The 1/48 Mossie mentioned earlier has just been released by Revell
For those that haven't seen the Tiffie
more here including painted and assembled
http://scaleplasticandrail.com/kaboo...phoon-revealed
they have added panting to the skins etc on this.. it is superb.
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I can assure you, that Mosquito is a beauty! I'm going to build mine as MM 417, EG-T of 487 Squadron, RNZAF. The original Airfix Mosquito was, while not my first, one of my earliest models, and it and its brethren launched me into the wonderful world of plastic aircraft modelling in particular and military aviation history in general.