The fighter collection P40B and TF51

you being in the Roundel Police you’ll be well aware of the failings of modern BS Eau-de-nil to come up to the correct 1940 colour spec or are you?

Its always at the front of my mind 😮

Sky on the ceiling, with a tasteful combination of Dark Green and Dark Earth for the walls perhaps? 😀

Hey this is pre-August 1940 so Sky hasn’t really made it onto the streets yet…….(or the ceiling) that said I’m doing the right thing and going for my own version of Eau-de-nil, that’s Sky plus eight shots of Dark green in a half-litre mix or that’s what I did on LF363 last year. Of course you being in the Roundel Police you’ll be well aware of the failings of modern BS Eau-de-nil to come up to the correct 1940 colour spec or are you? I’m having trouble marking out the roundel on the ceiling of the Kennel right now, I think Custard’s bent my trammel:D

I’m at home decorating as we speak….even we get holiday sometimes:D

Sky on the ceiling, with a tasteful combination of Dark Green and Dark Earth for the walls perhaps? 😀

12th December 2006 09:12

Shouldn’t you be working, Roobarb?

😀

I’m at home decorating as we speak….even we get holiday sometimes:D

12th December 2006 09:12

Shouldn’t you be working, Roobarb?

😀

I love it when a plane comes together.

I’ll be up at Area 51 on Friday to bring back those rivets we borrowed…..[/QUOTE]

Yeah right, of course you will :rolleyes:
Speaking of tongue-in-cheek, I look forward to the next Legends when your
P40 flys in formation with those Curtiss rudder-pedals that you already operate 😀

Note to moderators….can we get a ‘Tongue in Cheek’ icon please? :diablo:

I’ll be up at Area 51 on Friday to bring back those rivets we borrowed…..

Most of my comments over the last x number of years have been tongue in cheek…….

At the end of the day does it really matter, the preservation scene has another new machine, the punters are happy at the show and we all have somethng else to whine and moan about because this and that is not how it should have been and the pilot isn’t wearing 100% authentic underpants etc etc etc. We should not loose sight of the fact that wherever these machines have come from they have taken a massive amount of input and investment from a small group of talented people…

I have to agree. Incidentally all my comments are 100% tongue in cheek.
Praise be the machines, whatever their stench…..

C6

At the end of the day does it really matter, the preservation scene has another new machine, the punters are happy at the show and we all have somethng else to whine and moan about because this and that is not how it should have been and the pilot isn’t wearing 100% authentic underpants etc etc etc. We should not loose sight of the fact that wherever these machines have come from they have taken a massive amount of input and investment from a small group of talented people…

Don’t think we said it was anything other than a major reconstruction and certainly not at Pearl Harbor, and it does actually have its date plate fitted:p

What, all of it…….

Don’t think we said it was anything other than a major reconstruction

Is that the same way as the Dutch Spit will be butchered?

New skins, new frames new wings new data plate blah blah blah…….:diablo:

C6

Better not mention “TA805” then……..

…………oops :rolleyes:

Don’t think we said it was anything other than a major reconstruction and certainly not at Pearl Harbor, and it does actually have its date plate fitted:p

Ah, the DX kitchen range pot kettling… :rolleyes:

Company by the M-11, thought they specialise in making planes round a data plate

TA805

What, a whole data plate. You don’t get provenance like that everywhere..

Company by the M-11, thought they specialise in making planes round a data plate

TA805

Wow! Isn’t it great the way they’ve grafted that genuine Pearl Harbor anchor nut into a new-build P40. Shame that it was only possible to save the cage as the nut was corroded beyond use. Mind you I understand that that cage has a nick in it from an incoming bullet from a Zero that was attacking at the time. This is also under rebuild from a wood splinter after it was shot down by a Colt 45 aimed by John wayne and the wreckage was washed up on the shore of some beach out there and used as a tooth-pick by Ronald Reagan at the height of the cold war. Such provenance:p

Better not mention “TA805” then……..

…………oops :rolleyes:

A Legendary preview!

How are they going to get through that door and even Elvis can’t be in 2 places at once, he was on Steve Wright’s show on friday afternoon.

Wow! Isn’t it great the way they’ve grafted that genuine Pearl Harbor anchor nut into a new-build P40. Shame that it was only possible to save the cage as the nut was corroded beyond use. Mind you I understand that that cage has a nick in it from an incoming bullet from a Zero that was attacking at the time. This is also under rebuild from a wood splinter after it was shot down by a Colt 45 aimed by John wayne and the wreckage was washed up on the shore of some beach out there and used as a tooth-pick by Ronald Reagan at the height of the cold war. Such provenance:p