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If you've got a (big) spare room available there's always the 1/72 C-17.
1/72 scale Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas) C-17 GlobeMaster - Tacticak Transport [sic]
(Anigrand also produce a 1/72 C-5 and 747 if anyone fancies getting divorced)
Personally I think I can get away with a 1/72 Apollo 11, all 5' of it, because it takes up very little floor space.
1/72 scale Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas) C-17 GlobeMaster - Tacticak Transport [sic]
(Anigrand also produce a 1/72 C-5 and 747 if anyone fancies getting divorced)
Personally I think I can get away with a 1/72 Apollo 11, all 5' of it, because it takes up very little floor space.
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Or the 1/32 B17 and B25, soon to be joined by the Lanc
The Modelling News: Now THIS is large scale modelling folks! HK Models B-17G Flying Fortress test kit - our thoughts so far?
Or the 1/32 resin Catalina
The Modelling News: Kingscale Models - 1/32 Catalina latest along with 1/18 engines & King Cobra pics
I have an unbuilt 1/72 uboat which Is 4 foot long
But for sheer size it's got to be the 1/35th railway gun
Not exactly pop it on the shelf to display it size lol
SCALE MODEL NEWS: REMEMBER THE HUGE DORA RAILWAY GUN? HERE?S THE MAN WHO MADE THE MASSIVE MASTERPIECE
The Modelling News: Now THIS is large scale modelling folks! HK Models B-17G Flying Fortress test kit - our thoughts so far?
Or the 1/32 resin Catalina
The Modelling News: Kingscale Models - 1/32 Catalina latest along with 1/18 engines & King Cobra pics
I have an unbuilt 1/72 uboat which Is 4 foot long
But for sheer size it's got to be the 1/35th railway gun
Not exactly pop it on the shelf to display it size lol
SCALE MODEL NEWS: REMEMBER THE HUGE DORA RAILWAY GUN? HERE?S THE MAN WHO MADE THE MASSIVE MASTERPIECE
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I think rather more of us a at least secret modellers, but I am sure that modelling was almost a right of passage in my schoolboy days. Not many lads went without an Airfix Spitfire, a brilliant stocking filler.
I built most of the Airfix offerings as a school boy and when I joined in 66, some of the stuff produced by fellow appos was amazing.
Having left in 90, I miss the sight sound and smell of the wonderful stuff that was flown by the RAF in my time, and when my grandson got to the right age I gave him a 1/72 Spit. Unfortunately he wasnt interested, but it rekindled a spark in me......... I have currently got a stack of Airfix kits waiting for my shakey old hands to murder, but I have such great memories; being kept awake as a 6/7 year old by Javs at Odiham, prototype VC 10s at @2000 over Bentley (why?) Black Arrows practising for Farnborough (never needed to go) Victor and a couple of Lightnings in formation the summer I joined up, again over Bentley, numerous sonic booms. The Jav on the main gate at Stafford Recruitment Centre and again the 1st fault finding excercise on a Jav in the hangar at Cosford. A Vulcan cruising over Cosford complete with Blue Steel, Shiny brown Hercs at Thorney Island.. Vulcans at Waddo and Scampers (how can 2 camps be so different?) Redtop & Firestreak at STCAAME for the sins of an earlier life but brilliant contact with the fast jet fleet... Marham for a couple of years on the magnificent Victor and finally a return to Fat Albert.
Currently got a Vulcan, 2 Valiants, 1/48 Jav, 1/48 Lightning lined up and looking for a Revell/Matchbox Victor. I shall enjoy every single minute of their construction and will be busy recalling happy times spent on the real thing. Airfix? Dont knock it!!
I built most of the Airfix offerings as a school boy and when I joined in 66, some of the stuff produced by fellow appos was amazing.
Having left in 90, I miss the sight sound and smell of the wonderful stuff that was flown by the RAF in my time, and when my grandson got to the right age I gave him a 1/72 Spit. Unfortunately he wasnt interested, but it rekindled a spark in me......... I have currently got a stack of Airfix kits waiting for my shakey old hands to murder, but I have such great memories; being kept awake as a 6/7 year old by Javs at Odiham, prototype VC 10s at @2000 over Bentley (why?) Black Arrows practising for Farnborough (never needed to go) Victor and a couple of Lightnings in formation the summer I joined up, again over Bentley, numerous sonic booms. The Jav on the main gate at Stafford Recruitment Centre and again the 1st fault finding excercise on a Jav in the hangar at Cosford. A Vulcan cruising over Cosford complete with Blue Steel, Shiny brown Hercs at Thorney Island.. Vulcans at Waddo and Scampers (how can 2 camps be so different?) Redtop & Firestreak at STCAAME for the sins of an earlier life but brilliant contact with the fast jet fleet... Marham for a couple of years on the magnificent Victor and finally a return to Fat Albert.
Currently got a Vulcan, 2 Valiants, 1/48 Jav, 1/48 Lightning lined up and looking for a Revell/Matchbox Victor. I shall enjoy every single minute of their construction and will be busy recalling happy times spent on the real thing. Airfix? Dont knock it!!
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