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Classic British Models
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 15:07
by migman29
The new section over at Classic British Files,the happy otter's own site,is now up,running and ready for you to post your Classic British modelling articles and pictures of what you've built.
The theme is Brits in British service, in "foreign"service or "foreigners" in British sevice,military,civil,GA,rotary and fixed wing,Edwardian,WW1,WW2,'50's,60's,70',prototype or whatever,just as long as it has a Classic British theme to it.
http://classicbritishfiles.com/index.ph ... e&Itemid=1
Mark :-({|=
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 15:38
by airboatr
your doing a great job Mark
nice modeling and good comentary
Joe
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 15:46
by VEGAS
Damn it, I opened this thread hoping for Kate Moss.
Ok ok I'm going...!

Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 15:49
by Garry Russell
That'll be the British Smoker thread Eddie :roll:
Garry
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 15:51
by Rick Piper
Hi Garry
Please can you post some pics of your models as i love that sort of stuff.
sadly as i'm finding that i have lost my abilities to build stuff like i used to.
I seem to have moved to the digital way of doing things a little too much.
Regards
Rick

Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 16:03
by Garry Russell
Sorry Rick
I lost all of them in family circumstances apart form a few crushed bits. :sad:
So if I am ever able to make them again I will but at the moment I am unable to.
I had a set of Viscount 700' with the different cockpits air scoop props, radar etc.
Capital, Air France, Alitalia, BEA Red Square, Air Canada, British United.
Also a corrected Airfix Vanguard and a Merchantman.
I recently found the remains of my Silver City Superfreighter and BEA Dakota in the pinstripes using FROG Viscount decals. The Viscount went into Red Square...I think I have a wing of that in a box with a fuse of a RS Trident.
I also cut a Heller DC 6B down into a Canadair Four with modified Shack engines and I was making a Carvair out of the Minicraft DC 6N with a shaped balsa block on the front end and the extended fin and shortenend tailplanes...just needed to do the engines.
Some of these exisit somewhere but I have boxes in various places. I doubt if anything is not broken.
C'est la vie.
Garry
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 19:42
by migman29
Garry Russell wrote:Sorry Rick
I lost all of them in family circumstances apart form a few crushed bits. :sad:
So if I am ever able to make them again I will but at the moment I am unable to.
I had a set of Viscount 700' with the different cockpits air scoop props, radar etc.
Capital, Air France, Alitalia, BEA Red Square, Air Canada, British United.
Also a corrected Airfix Vanguard and a Merchantman.
I recently found the remains of my Silver City Superfreighter and BEA Dakota in the pinstripes using FROG Viscount decals. The Viscount went into Red Square...I think I have a wing of that in a box with a fuse of a RS Trident.
I also cut a Heller DC 6B down into a Canadair Four with modified Shack engines and I was making a Carvair out of the Minicraft DC 6N with a shaped balsa block on the front end and the extended fin and shortenend tailplanes...just needed to do the engines.
Some of these exisit somewhere but I have boxes in various places. I doubt if anything is not broken.
C'est la vie.
Garry
Rick I think he needs to get going and do some re-furbishment and repair articles for Classic British Models don't you?
Garry you've let some cats out of some bags here mate
You'd best get 'em caught quick
Mark :-({|=
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 19:56
by Garry Russell
Actually it's sad to think of what's gone of at least appears to have gone :sad:
But maybe one day I can get arround to it again. :think:
Now..........I need a saucer of milk
Garry
Posted: 28 Aug 2006, 20:16
by thehappyotter
Rick,
There's plenty of photos of Marks FAA stuff in the gallery.
http://classicbritishfiles.com/index.ph ... ry&catid=3
Rob.
Posted: 29 Aug 2006, 20:32
by Jetset
Lovely pics Mark, and to think your just down the road!