swansonj
Guru
Naah, sorry, the most awesome noise I have ever heard is my babies breathing when asleep.
Apologies everyone for the complete out of context thread irrelevance
Spitfire
- Thread starter buggi
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Apologies everyone for the complete out of context thread irrelevance
@buggi If you have a look here there's a download for the instructions, it gives you details of all the different markings - http://www.revell.com/germany/aircraft/80-3986.html#.VdOe7m_bKM8
Aldi were selling that kit for a fiver a few months ago, guess who bought one?
Thankyou
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
I've just asked "someone who knows" and he reckons its a bit more complicated, from squadron to squadron and as the war progressed. It looks like what you have painted there is a lateish Mk IX version, by late in the war sometimes they were omitting the words altogether, relying on the A/C men to have been trained to know where to walk. Also some squads used the full walkway..., others just walk...
I think its safe to say that what I have painted is a hybrid of every spitfire ever going (hey... who's gonna notice?? LOL) so it doesn't really matter which version of words I use as long as they appeared on at least one of the planes that was made haha
I had kind of decided that it would be better to have no words than the wrong words, but now I know what they are I think it would make my hybrid look even more like a hybrid. Start as you mean to go on eh? (That would explain the difference between walk outboard and walkway outboard)
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Probably not the best to day to get excited about an air show... watching the news
Citius
Guest
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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The de Havilland Mosquito was a plane that I always liked and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned at all.
The de Havilland Mosquito was a plane that I always liked and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned at all.
Ahem, if you don't mind.
You're right though, one of the finest looking aircraft of all time.
I found an old Matchbox kit a while ago on eBay which is now built up and on display in my front room.
Then I had to pay a visit to Cosford to see one in the flesh.
machew
Veteran
Many years ago I heard of a Harrier bowing to some visiting Japanese dignitaries who politely bowed back
How childish. What I used to do was justify shooting at them with an air rifle by claiming (in my head) that this was for a forensic appraisal of what the effects of planes being shot up or shot down by anti-aircraft crew must have been like. That way, I legitimised my vandalism...as you do!...very nice, a budding artist I reckon. Reminds me of the Airfix models I used to make as kid - Spifire, Hurricane etc all dangling from the bedroom ceiling from cotton strings. Then, when I got my first air gun, shot them all to smithereens.................as you do......
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
I've still got my old Lysander, an uncle who flew them bought me it and I wouldn't dare think of breaking it.