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Haselsh1
28-09-2009, 18:07
More self indulgent stuff from my earlier days. I always did like the RAF Phantom as it was based just down the road from me at RAF Coningsby but my favourite was the Lightning as I lived but ten miles from end of RAF Binbrook's runway.

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/RAFPhantomwithrainbow.jpg

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/PhantomFGR2Conningsby.jpg

I was truly lost when the government closed RAF Binbrook as I spent my early days shooting hundreds of slides of the Lightning and watched it on many an occasion. RIP... F6

Haselsh1
28-09-2009, 18:13
Here's a couple more...

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/BuccaneerwithRainbow.jpg

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/SaabDrakenLeeming.jpg

Varun
28-09-2009, 19:08
My word Shaun- fabulous images.

Spectral Morn
28-09-2009, 19:28
Love the photos particularly the first and the Sea Buccaneer.


Regards D S D L

Alex_UK
28-09-2009, 21:43
Ahh, the Buccaneer, first Airfix model I ever built! Great pics Shaun, just need a Kenny Loggins or Harold Faltermeyer track now and we're well sorted! (How the **** did 80's popstars get away with such normal names like Kenny & Harold?!)

Haselsh1
29-09-2009, 08:13
Ahh, the Buccaneer, first Airfix model I ever built! Great pics Shaun, just need a Kenny Loggins or Harold Faltermeyer track now and we're well sorted! (How the **** did 80's popstars get away with such normal names like Kenny & Harold?!)


Hey, I also spent most of my youth building Airfix and Revell kits. The most ridiculous was a Boeing B52 Stratofortress at 1/72 scale. It was bloody huge...! My fave kits were Lightnings especially a little Tamiya 100th scale F6 which I did in all silver finish. The decals were for a 5th Squadron version which at the time, was based at RAF Binbrook.

My God, Kenny Loggins and Harold Faltermeyer... how dreadful...!!!

Haselsh1
29-09-2009, 08:23
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/EELightning1981.jpg

Here's one of my favourite English Electric Lightning F6 which by the time it became the F6 was actually British Aerospace. It was one of the only aircraft in the World to be sat on its tail about ten feet off the ground and reheated to 55,000 feet in under one minute. To see this was truly amazing and they sometimes did it for show at RAF Binbrook airshows.

Unfortunately, at full reheat, the Lightning could only fly for six minutes on internal fuel. It used 200 gallons of aviation fuel a minute.

Haselsh1
29-09-2009, 09:35
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/PanaviaTornadoADV.jpg

Panavia Tornado ADV Prototype just taking off from RAF Waddington around 1980.

Haselsh1
29-09-2009, 09:56
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab240/Haselsh1/Aircraft/LightningShockwave.jpg

Here is a shot of a British Aerospace Lightning F Mk3 pulling serious G over RAF Binbrook late in the year around 1980. It was taken using a Pentax ME with a Vivitar 70-210 Series One zoom and Agfa 50S slide film. Back in the days before in built motordrives, I only got the one shot.

Spectral Morn
29-09-2009, 10:07
Hi Guys

Airfix kits now we are going back. I used to build kits too Airfix, Matchbox, Aurora, Monogram, Revel, AMT, etc.

However I always thought some of the Airfix kits were not very clean in their detail. I now know thats because the molds had been used to death (similar to vinyl being repressed again and again, the molds get tired).

I preferred Matchbox models because they went together better and the detail was always sharp. The like of the Jap model brands when I was a child were very esoteric and dear.

Thought you might like to see bits from this book about 50 years of Airfix.

http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii364/davros124/Airfix001.jpg

http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii364/davros124/Airfix002.jpg

http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii364/davros124/Airfix003.jpg

http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii364/davros124/Airfix004.jpg

http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii364/davros124/Airfix005.jpg

Regards D S D L

The Grand Wazoo
29-09-2009, 11:44
In a discussion on a hi-fi forum like this, where one of the topics mentioned is modelling, it was only going to be a matter of time before someone notes the existence of a little company (from the town in Sussex where I originally come from) called Scale Model Engineering.............

Alex_UK
29-09-2009, 21:31
In a discussion on a hi-fi forum like this, where one of the topics mentioned is modelling, it was only going to be a matter of time before someone notes the existence of a little company (from the town in Sussex where I originally come from) called Scale Model Engineering.............

See, we got to hi-fi eventually! Couldn't afford any of their models with my pocket money back then though!

Great thread, thanks Shaun, and DSDL for the book info - might be popping that on my Chrimbo list!

Spectral Morn
29-09-2009, 22:04
See, we got to hi-fi eventually! Couldn't afford any of their models with my pocket money back then though!

Great thread, thanks Shaun, and DSDL for the book info - might be popping that on my Chrimbo list!


Hi Alex

Its out of print now. Copies on Amazon from £30 ish to £90 gulp..........:(


Regards D S D L

Alex_UK
30-09-2009, 10:00
Blimey - that is a "gulp" - sure I'll be able to find it a bit cheaper... I like a challenge.

Spectral Morn
30-09-2009, 10:05
Blimey - that is a "gulp" - sure I'll be able to find it a bit cheaper... I like a challenge.

Its a good book....I wish you the best in your quest.


Regards D S D L

Alex_UK
30-09-2009, 11:15
found it at www.alibris.co.uk for only £10.30 - went back to buy it and someone else has beaten me to it - £15 on ebay, but over £7 postage... still, cheaper than Amazon. No rush, I'll get it one day!

Rare Bird
13-10-2009, 21:07
http://i549.photobucket.com/albums/ii364/davros124/Airfix005.jpg

Regards D S D L

:lolsign: I still have my original corgi Angel Interceptor somewhere

Alex_UK
23-10-2009, 19:50
This Tuesday, 8pm BBC2 - New 6 part series - "James May's Toy Stories" - 'James May subjects traditional toys to supersize challengers' Part 1 - 'He tackles model aeroplanes by trying to make a full-size Spifire out of Airfix.'

Sounds intriguing - already on Sky+ Series Link in my house! Here's the press release: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/03_march/12/toy.shtml

and wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May%27s_Toy_Stories

DSJR
23-10-2009, 20:00
I bought the Konami UFO model from Japan, along with a Sky 1 and Interceptor. All have been played with extensively (no, not by me ;)) and the UFO's suffering. They do come up on fleabay now and again, but prices aint arf gone up.....

The Grand Wazoo
23-10-2009, 20:08
All my models bit the dust about a week after I discovered air rifles!

Alex_UK
23-10-2009, 20:16
All my models bit the dust about a week after I discovered air rifles!

Me too, as well as most of my Matchbox cars and toy soldiers! Bloody kids, eh?!

The Grand Wazoo
23-10-2009, 20:34
Funny thing is, even back then my taste in air rifles had a distinct vintage 'bent' like my taste in hi-fi aesthetics. Old Webleys, I love that sort of stuff.

Spectral Morn
23-10-2009, 20:43
I bought the Konami UFO model from Japan, along with a Sky 1 and Interceptor. All have been played with extensively (no, not by me ;)) and the UFO's suffering. They do come up on fleabay now and again, but prices aint arf gone up.....

Those are nice models Dave. I bought the Product enterprise UFO/Interceptor and Sky-Diver (always wanted models of these when I was a kid) metal models a few years ago...nice. Konami stuff is getting crazy now...lots of collectors out there.

I used to have the Airfix Angel Interceptor from Captain Scarlet when I was a kid....don't remember what happened to it as I have most of the other stuff from my childhood in boxes in the roof-space.

Regards D S D L

Primalsea
26-10-2009, 08:30
Neil,

Why is it I get a vision of you as a late-middle aged man in short trousers with your shirt hanging out, a catapult in your back pocket and an exercise book stuffed down the back of your trousers?

Spectral Morn
26-10-2009, 23:05
Neil,

Why is it I get a vision of you as a late-middle aged man in short trousers with your shirt hanging out, a catapult in your back pocket and an exercise book stuffed down the back of your trousers?


No idea.....;)



Regards D S D L

DSJR
27-10-2009, 13:18
:lol:

I have some boxed dinky toys from the early 60's. I'm hoping my son can one day make a tenner or three from them in years to come...

Spectral Morn
27-10-2009, 13:37
:lol:

I have some boxed dinky toys from the early 60's. I'm hoping my son can one day make a tenner or three from them in years to come...


As long as they have their original boxes in mint nick... Its complete toys that collectors want. This is great for the rest of us who don't care about the boxes....they are a lot cheaper.


Regards D S D L

Alex_UK
27-10-2009, 20:32
A few years ago, I started "investing" in mint/boxed Matchbox/Dinkys, and the odd Hot Wheels or Corgi along the way, and I've probably got a hundred or so - I only buy stuff I like, and I'm not ashamed to admit I still love checking them out from time to time! Better than having the money in an ISA!

Alex_UK
27-10-2009, 20:34
...I've also got a mint Etch-a-Sketch in it's box, as well as a lot of 70s/80s Top Trumps - damn, even I agree I'm a total geek!

Spectral Morn
27-10-2009, 21:05
...I've also got a mint Etch-a-Sketch in it's box, as well as a lot of 70s/80s Top Trumps - damn, even I agree I'm a total geek!

We have a lot in common Alex...as you noted earlier about our musical taste....now its collecting models. Yours are cars and mine are more Sci-Fi.

Just watched the James May program....excellent.


Regards D S D L

Alex_UK
27-10-2009, 21:36
Just watched the James May program....excellent.

I've Sky+'d it, Mrs Alex doesn't appreciate such things!