What's hanging on your walls?

Right now I’ve got ten or twelve pieces of aviation art either hanging on the walls or being framed. As well as a few more pieces that I haven’t done anything with. Most of the other space is taken up by pictures from the “I love me” collection. They consist of pictures of me flying in different warbirds, as well as some of my military pictures. My office is lined with flight and maintenance manuals for all manner of warbirds. One bedroom is full of parts of my airplane that I am restoring, the garage is full of my tools, fuselage and wings. I’m planning on lining those walls with pictures as soon as I get a chance.

If any of you have high resolution scans of warbird pictures that you think would look good on the walls, feel free to email them to me! I’ll get them framed and hung up right away.

Brad

Re: Melvyn’s cats

Originally posted by DazDaMan
Melvyn – every cat needs his or her own website! It’s an unwritten law! 😉

For those that are reading this:

Yes it is sad but what the hell. I have over 20mb of web space and even with the commercial stuff for NBS Publications and stuff about the Rearwin (sadly not updated lately) I still have loads of room.

Sid will be getting his own site soon but I might actually update the Rearwin stuff first!

MH

Rob

Are you sure? I’ve just tried it and it seems to be just an ad banner pop-up. The servers I use are freeby ones that, unless you pay for them, are sponsored by pop-ups and so on. **Shouldn’t be** spamware, as far as I know (nothing’s ever happened to anyone else’s PC, that I know of).

Spitfire replicas

Isaacs Spitfire

Spitfire Squadron

:confused:

Daz,

You should serious reconsider moving that site. There is a file that tries to download immediately you click on the Tootsie link.

My recommendation to everyone is DO NOT ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE. It is spamware, so far as I can tell, and will be difficult to remove.

Melvyn’s cats

Melvyn – every cat needs his or her own website! It’s an unwritten law! 😉

I started one for mine, with a view to putting some of my non-replica Spitfire-related stuff on it (model aircraft etc), but haven’t done much, mainly due to a lack of content! 🙁

Tootsy

Tell us more about the Firefly blade.

Mark

The Firefly blade is Rotol wooden (three bladed) from a Mk1.
I acquired it from a chap in Denmark.

H M S Vulture

Originally posted by Black Knight
Cutaway. I think it was a limited edition print. I’ve only ever seen them for sale the once & that was at North Weald many years ago.

By Terry Lawless who’s dad had the Naval marked Tiger that was at Lee on Solent and that is now at Compton.

Melvyn Hiscock

HMS Vulture,

Tell us more about the Firefly blade.

Mark

Firefly blade and reading material

Barracuda picture and Firefly canopy part

Some Firefly related stuff hanging and leaning against the walls.

Originally posted by Moggy C
I’m hoping the kitten in the picture is not Guinness?

Moggy

No. poor old Guinness went from cancer on Carol’s birthday in September (master of timing!). He still has his old web page up at http://www.melvynhiscock.com/Guinness_the_Cat.html (if that fails try a search on Guinness the Cat, he’ll be there). Guinness was a star.

The kitten is Sid. Currently coming up on six months old and about to get his “pockets picked” as Maria at the vets puts it. He has all the makings of a good one.

BTW I completely forgot about the blinking great Sopwith Snipe drawing on the wall, the pic of me in AR213, the pic of my brother and I in G-BJNG and the great original painting I have of Rosemeyer (sp) taking the 400km/h straight line record in 1939, moments before he came over all dead. There is also a pic and autograph of Jimi on the walls that betray the other interest.

All further questions on Sid the Cat should be addressed to MOD/AHB

Melvyn

Just edited the URL so it works.
MH

Whilst in the corner Mr Warwick evinces his usual level of interest, lounging in a readiness Lloyd-Loom, waiting for the bell (cat food tin) to signal the ‘scramble’

Moggy

I’m hoping the kitten in the picture is not Guinness?

Here’s my lair. I really must finish tidying it.

Moggy

Originally posted by Melvyn Hiscock
Not that much aviation for me. Get enough of that outside the house.

Latest thing to go on the walls in the hall was a full set of Python autographs in a frame. That is close to the Spike Milligan signed first day cover and the Mel Blanc autograph. Somewhere in the house is a magazine with my aeroplane on the cover. I’d get that framed but seem to spend too much time fixing bits of it.

Screen wallpaper is the internationally famous (late) Guinness the Cat.

Actually, this pic shows what happens sometimes when I try to read the forum. It is one of Lancman’s posts as far as I can tell.

Melvyn

Cute cat – although mine doesn’t take much of an interest in warbirds!

Originally posted by Ashley
Moggy and Damien…and anyone else familiar with the Ante Room in the Officers’ Mess…have you seen that beautiful Lysander painting? The one where it’s just taken off, with a Hurricane taxi-ing in the background. I fell in love with that painting when Mr Ashley and I got married there, and would have happily bought it, had it not been for a great big gold streak down the left hand side of the painting, where some idiot has tried to “touch up” the gold frame but got more gold on the painting than on the frame 😡 At £400, I couldn’t quite justify paying that amount of money for a painting that had been effectively ruined 🙁 It’s still for sale now, I wonder if the price will get knocked down when they come to clear the Mess out in June/July?….

Know it well.

It might even be in the background of some of my wedding pics, I’ll take a look and scan/post from work next week. £400 is a bit steep, but it does have added significance. Maybe we should pool resources? You keep it for six months then pass it across to us for the next six?

On my wall?

In this tiny study, just a single pic of two Wellingtons, high over the cloud tops at dusk. That’s my gesture to the guys who flew them from the two airbases less than a mile or two in either direction from where I now sit.

And a 1999 Classic Airliners calendar, open at January (Concord). Not much else, all the walls are lined with bookshelving.

Moggy

An economic migrant asylum-seeking in Norfolk

Originally posted by Ashley
Currently on my walls:

*A large framed print of Brian Petch’s ‘Out of the Sun’ painting, signed by the artist and several Battle of Britain pilots

*A set of 16 WWII propaganda postcards (available in all IWM shops) mounted and framed by myself

*Two large framed photographic prints of the two early mark BBMF Spitfires

*A large set of aviation postcards mounted and framed by myself (includes the Blenheim, Black 6, MH434, PA474, the Shuttleworth Lizzy, the late much missed BAE Mossie alongside Kermit Week’s example)

*A smaller set of aviation postcards as above

*A cartoon from The Times a few years back (to do with the Frogs and B.S.E, and featuring a bull sat in Spitfire cockpit in full flying gear, clearly in a right temper!)

Currently awaiting transferral to my walls (when I move house!)

* Two caption boards from the AAM (no, I didn’t steal them, the old boards were given away to staff when they were replaced a couple of years back…managed to grab the boards for the B-17 and the P-51…the boards have spent the last three years propped up in my hallway much to Mr Ashley’s annoyance :D)

*A substantial collection of black and white prints, mainly of RAF aircraft, which were surplus to requirements and found their way to my spare room mysteriously! 😉

*Three framed poems written by Kev (are you sure you don’t want them back, Kev?)

*A lovely poster commemorating the 80th anniversary of the RAF with a beautiful montage of RAF aircraft from 1917-1997 (need to find a big enough frame for that one

Sure I’ll find more to put up!

Becka

P.S. Moggy and Damien…and anyone else familiar with the Ante Room in the Officers’ Mess…have you seen that beautiful Lysander painting? The one where it’s just taken off, with a Hurricane taxi-ing in the background. I fell in love with that painting when Mr Ashley and I got married there, and would have happily bought it, had it not been for a great big gold streak down the left hand side of the painting, where some idiot has tried to “touch up” the gold frame but got more gold on the painting than on the frame 😡 At £400, I couldn’t quite justify paying that amount of money for a painting that had been effectively ruined 🙁 It’s still for sale now, I wonder if the price will get knocked down when they come to clear the Mess out in June/July?….

Good on you lass. Nice to see a gal getting it in the neck over aviation stuff. Makes a nice change from us blokes getting the grief all the time:)

The only aviation things on the wall in our house are a triple hanging shelf in the hall containing Corgi Bf 109, Spitfire, EE Lightning and Hunter and a glass paperweight with an F/A 18 engraved on it and in our bedroom a framed photo of me in a Harrier T4 waiting to go flying. The only reason the phot of me in the harrier is allowed on the wall at all is that it doesn’t show the whole aircraft and the fact that I’m in it
Mike

Not that much aviation for me. Get enough of that outside the house.

Latest thing to go on the walls in the hall was a full set of Python autographs in a frame. That is close to the Spike Milligan signed first day cover and the Mel Blanc autograph. Somewhere in the house is a magazine with my aeroplane on the cover. I’d get that framed but seem to spend too much time fixing bits of it.

Screen wallpaper is the internationally famous (late) Guinness the Cat.

Actually, this pic shows what happens sometimes when I try to read the forum. It is one of Lancman’s posts as far as I can tell.

Melvyn

Hi All,

My living room has the old bit of Mossie stuff! In the piccie the picture in pride of place is Prelude to Peace by Ronald Wong. On the back wall is Mosquito by Robert Tomlin & Duel of Eagles by Robert Taylor. In the hall there are more Robert Taylor prints; The Dambusters, Air Strike over West Falklands & Spitfires. All my prints are signed by various aircrews & artists.

Cheers,
Neilly

Cutaway. I think it was a limited edition print. I’ve only ever seen them for sale the once & that was at North Weald many years ago.