Aerodrome models

The idea of doing one of Usworth circa 1940 for our place has been talked about for years. Just one of those things which has never been started (yet)

I’d like to have a go at that. I hope you have some good plans and photos in the archives at NEAM??

Steve

The idea of doing one of Usworth circa 1940 for our place has been talked about for years. Just one of those things which has never been started (yet)

airfied models

i actually have two of the kellogs airfields stiil unused ive kept them as they are quite detailed and surprisingly well made, you often come across the spitfire models at boot sales 😎 😎 😎

I remember going to the Great Sailing village fete near Andrewsfield where they had a fantastic model of the airfield set up in the village hall, complete with Marauders all at the amazing scale of 1:72.
The village hall was demolished to make way for posh expensive houses, so what happened to the model, is it now at the airfield, does anyone know anything about it. It must have been in the mid 90’s when I saw this because the local hall was being used as the accomodation for some of the cast of Lovejoy when they were filming round here, an added attraction, though Mr Macshane had vanished that day.
Who had one of those cardboard cut out BoB airfields which I seem to remember were promoted by Kellogs Cornflakes in the 90’s, the Spitfires and Hurricanes were supposed to have been supplied by Matchbox but they proved too expensive and were eventually supplied by Ertl I believe.
They must be collectors items by now, bits of cardboard nissen huts turn up around the house occasionally but I still have about 4 of each of the aircraft.

Excellent stuff.
Funny ole thing, Im contemplating doing one on Mawgan, I have seen a really good model of RAF St Eval.

Thought this might interest a few forumites. It’s a scale model (1:300) of RAF Pocklington circa 1942-45. Built by a guy called Bernard Ross, assisted by Graham Puckering, they brought it to Breighton at the weekend and set it out in one of the hangars. Fascinating to look at, I gather its a work in progress which they hope to add lights to in due course. How wide spread is this hobby I wonder, and do other examples exist…?

Simply beautiful! It’s only a pity that they put the runway number 07 upside down. It should be readable in the landing direction.

aerodrome models bernard ross

Amazing model very accurate and done from memory im sure as Bernard lived close to Pocklington( or Barmby Moor as some call it) during the war and used to watch the Haifaxes take off on their sorties plus he witnessed many crashes there ,one in particular involved two haifaxes colliding over the base and crashing quite close to it, the RAf recovered the unfortunate air crews remains and a few days later a chap was walking his dog nearby when it found a human leg stuck in a hedge bottom .obviously the recovery crew had missed it, apparently there was a big inquiry as a result.
bernard actually showed me the field where the two aircraft ended up it was covered in the familiar blue alloy corrosive dust. and as we passed a dividing hedge he asked me to look in it as he was certain a small fragment of the hali had dropped in there, so i pushed back the branches to find a piece of twisted aluminiun covered in moss just where it had fallen and lain undisturbed for forty years, it felt very strange to see it and realise the tradgedy it had been involved in.bernard had earlier that year in the crash area dug down fourteen feet by hand and recovered one of the halis propeller reduction gear set, recovering it with no lifting tackle quite a feat, hes a remarkable man. another chap i know lived near linton on ouse and he and his mates used to stand on the runways perimeter fence and try to touch the Halifaxes undersides as they laboured to gain take off height! how amazing is that! and this was most evenings when ops were on , what a sight that must have been for those wartime kids

Aerodrome model

Wow that is impressive!
We have a scale model of No 5 EFTS station High River Alberta on display in our museum. It was built by a couple from Saskatchewan, Link here:
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/bcatphighriver.html
The model also has 2 dozen tiger moth aircraft on dispersal as well!

An even more impressive example of the genre is displayed in the church near Methwold aerodrome.

Moggy

Impresssive, I like the 1:300 Halifaxes at dispersal

Cheers

Cees