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Old 25th Jul 2016, 18:27
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Danny42C
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Stanwell and Chugalug,

Striking Image it may have been, and what I know about aircraft "portraiture" could be written with a whitewash brush on the back of a postage stamp, but I'm more attracted to realism (is there anyone who hasn't sighed in nostalgia over the "Lone Spitfire" ?)

Thanks, Chugalug, but have examined your kind offering with magnifying glass; it is rather an impressionist effort, and, frankly, I would not cough up a fiver for it (Philistine that I am), never mind £225 !

There is not a scrap of realism, there is almost no detail of the underside of the VV, the wing 250lb bombs are not shown yellow (although the 500 lbs in the bay are), there is little colour, scaling from the size of the fields below, it is far too low for a vertical dive, the fields themselves resemble a pleasant pastoral scene in the shires, not a jungle, and at no stage of the wing-over did we go beyond 90° of bank. It is of no merit, IMHO.

(Takes a draught of the 'Dark Waters of the Liffey' to regain equilibrium),

Danny.