And now for something completely different!

Here is my contribution, a metal Halifax Mk III (actually this is engraved on the underside of the fuselage. The quality and detail is very good, I wonder if it was used as a gift for business contacts.

Cheers

Cees

Wow, you’re not kidding! Panel lines, guns…! 🙂

Great thread. Thanks.

Very nice…keep em coming chaps

Have posted this before but this is my MK1 Blenheim/ Spirit of Britain First car mascot, with passenger windows…like to think it was made for someone high up at Bristols – maybe even Lord Rothermere himself!

TT

Trench-Art Spitfire

I’ve got an aluminium “Spitfire” model which was passed on to me by a member of my family some thirty years ago. It’s a fairly basic model, and is mounted on a fairly basic stand.

I believe it was made during the war – my Father’s uncle, who passed it on to me, said the chap who made it (his father perhaps) also fashioned a few Spitfire brooches out of one penny pieces (the old pennies that were about an inch in diameter for those forumites too young to know about “real money”). Unfortunately he never found one of those to pass on.

Will post a photo asap.

Paul F

Lovely models, especially the wood one :rolleyes:

Here is my contribution, a metal Halifax Mk III (actually this is engraved on the underside of the fuselage. The quality and detail is very good, I wonder if it was used as a gift for business contacts.

Cheers

Cees

Use to be lots of old boys when i started work as a young man 1980 working at the rolls royce ansty . who used to make planes like them out of 2p coins and 1p coin spit was a bent over 2p coin for the wings and 2p for the fuse.
1p coin cut for the tailend etc and the off cuts for the props all brazed and filed and polished to make splendid tie pins etc.made lots of types all stunning little creations . the joys of the night shift ,they also made cracking Rc model engines for the rolls royce Rc model flying club all out of scrap alloy thou 😉

A few more for you….Hampden, Blenheim and two Spits (one made in a wartime factory – covered in Flypast in late 80s IIRC) 🙂

The level of detail in those models is very nice 🙂

Very very nice Alan…thanx for sharing them with us.

Just a selection of the models created by my late dad.

They started life as very crude, unfinished wartime castings, which the N.A.P.S. obtained a load of sometime in the early 70’s.

I bought one of each (were they really 10p, or is my memory at fault?) but never got around to doing anything with them.

When dad retired, he fancied having a go at them. He spent countless hours, carefully filing, then sanding, then polishing the basic casting. Even then, the surfaces were pitted by imperfections, so he developed a technique of filling each one by hammering in tiny slivers of aluminium, then sanding them flush.

Then he decided to add more detail, so all the guns, aerials, wheels, and props were fashioned out of scrap.

The results might not stand up to professional scrutiny, but I think they’re works of art and they are one of my proudest collections.

Those are great!

At least one Stirling exists, as it’s on top of my parent’s cupboard. But… I don’t have a digital camera! Grr!

ADrian

Very nice VACB.
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on taste) Spitfires are prevalent.

Wot, no Hurri?

Has the potential to be an interesting thread.

How’s about a Spitfire – no surprises there then!

Made of wood with a perspex tail section and canopy. It has a retractable undercarriage too with perspex wheels and tyres that rotate.

Airscrew and spinner are metal.

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