fastbob Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 For no reason at all the thought came to me to start making plastic model kits again . Rather than buy expensive and super accurate Japanese kits , I decided to buy some very cheap kits from former Soviet Bloc countries . The smaller ones are reasonably accurate representations of a Mig 15 and a Mig 17 . The bigger one seems to have been designed from memory . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennie Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 I used to love making Airfix planes! had them hanging from the bedroom ceiling when I was very young. don't think I'd have the patience nowadays 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickly Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 I also made loads & hung them from the ceiling, when I got a bit older I hung them from a tree in our back garden and shot them with an air rifle from my bedroom window. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 I used to make them when I was a kid. They so ended up a air rifle fodder. A couple of years back our local school asked me to run some sessions with the year 6 class making Airfix models. It was something they'd never had a go at, their usual hobby being computer games. One or two took to it but the majority just didn't see the point. It was too difficult, too slow, no reset button if they made a mistake. Which makes me wonder how they're going to approach life skills in general. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Westerly Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 40 minutes ago, Mickly said: I also made loads & hung them from the ceiling, when I got a bit older I hung them from a tree in our back garden and shot them with an air rifle from my bedroom window. I did exactly the same. I had precisely 100 aircraft models, mostly airfix and like you hung them from a tree and shot them to bits although I used a competitive target air pistol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy sugger Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Same here, but with a BSA Airsporter . 22 fitted with telescopic sight and rather expensive prometheus hunting pellets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 51 minutes ago, billy sugger said: Same here, but with a BSA Airsporter . 22 fitted with telescopic sight and rather expensive prometheus hunting pellets I used to make exploding amunition by gluing the domed portion of a match head to the nose of each pellet . Looks great in the dark . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share Posted November 15, 2021 I thought I'd try something a little more advanced next . A Tamiya 1/48 Beaufighter . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy sugger Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 I saw something on the web yesterday, a boxer engine model built from solenoids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianco2564 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) Me and my brother's were mad on Airfix when kids, the bedroom ceiling was full of them. My Dad was clearing out his loft and found my first cine camera and projector, would have had this around 1976 and last used 1977 when I bought a better model. Stuck some new batteries in the camera and incredibly it worked, 44 years since it last run. You can still get film cartridges but with processing they are £80 for 3mins of film, I'll stick to using my phone. Edited November 17, 2021 by Bianco2564 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Westerly Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 It's quite phenomenal how mobile phones have evolved and apart from die-hard enthusiasts or professionals things like cameras and video recorders are almost obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted November 22, 2021 Author Share Posted November 22, 2021 Making progress . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianco2564 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) Looking good. Edited November 22, 2021 by Bianco2564 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted November 23, 2021 Author Share Posted November 23, 2021 (edited) Nearly ready for paint . I've always loved the Beaufighter . What a brutal looking aircraft . Imagine a flight of those coming at you with rockets and cannons . Edited November 23, 2021 by fastbob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHorton Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 13 minutes ago, fastbob said: Nearly ready for paint . I've always loved the Beaufighter . What a brutal looking aircraft . Imagine a flight of those coming at you with rockets and cannons . Looks great, the Beaufighter and Blenheim both ran from my local airfield Halfpenny Green during the war it was a navigational training airfield. I believe one Blenheim was gifted to the air cadets it was still airworthy and used for a couple of years. I loved the Mosquito who would think a wooden machine could travel so fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted November 29, 2021 Author Share Posted November 29, 2021 Paint on . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted December 5, 2021 Author Share Posted December 5, 2021 Engines done . Waiting for paints to be delivered to do the Invasion Stripes . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianco2564 Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 @fastbob. Got my projector working after buying new drive belts and went through all my home movies. There were clips of Coventry air show circa 1978-79 showing Concorde doing a fly past and a Lancaster landing. Also there's a shot of us flying to Jersey from Baginton on what I think was a Bristol Britannia, there's a shot out a window and clearly showing a turboprop engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted December 14, 2021 Author Share Posted December 14, 2021 12 hours ago, Bianco2564 said: @fastbob. Got my projector working after buying new drive belts and went through all my home movies. There were clips of Coventry air show circa 1978-79 showing Concorde doing a fly past and a Lancaster landing. Also there's a shot of us flying to Jersey from Baginton on what I think was a Bristol Britannia, there's a shot out a window and clearly showing a turboprop engine. I was there . Compared to today , Coventry airshows were amazing . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted December 15, 2021 Author Share Posted December 15, 2021 Invasion stripes painted . I decided to do it the hard way rather than use the supplied transfers . Next , the markings . I have chosen to represent an aircraft of the 144 Strike Group based at Banff , Aberdeenshire . This is a bicycle ride from where my Dad grew up and I'm pretty sure he would have spent some time there as a member of the ATC before joining up . When he did join the RAF he got transferred to the Fleet Air Arm and was stationed 480 miles away at Cleve Camp near Bude . So far away that he could not comfortably get home and back on a 48 hour pass . Left alone in the base he was befriended by the visiting pastor and his wife and taken into their family . Which is why I had an unrelated extra Grandma , and a bunch of Aunties , Uncles and Cousins who were all farmers in Devon . 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHorton Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Looks amazing and great to hear the story behind it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted December 16, 2021 Author Share Posted December 16, 2021 Just a few finishing touches now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHorton Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Looks perfect job we'll done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastbob Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 And that's how we do that . All ready to roar out over the North Sea and bomb , torpedo , strafe and rain rockets upon Nazi shipping . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy sugger Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 2 hours ago, fastbob said: And that's how we do that . All ready to roar out over the North Sea and bomb , torpedo , strafe and rain rockets upon Nazi shipping . Can't you just bomb the HOP instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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