When the first tower came down, I was watching it on BBC and they thought there had been an explosion, and that was the guy on the ground, it was the reporter in the London studio that told him the building was coming down behind him. So mistakes can be made on the ground.

Also the heat didn’t melt the steel, it weakened it and that affected the structual integrity of it, added to that the weakened steel was supporting quite a bit of weight.

I have read a lot with regard to the official version of events, and I have done a lot of digging into the conspiracy side of things.

To my thinking, the official version is far more plausible and has more cedibility than the conspiracy version.

For the conspiracy theory to be the right one, you need to some how fabricate a fantastic story of airliners crashing into explosive filled and ready for detonation towers, then you need to have WTC wired up ready for detonation. And then somehow you need to convince the public that a plane hit the Pentagon and another crashed in a field.

To make this work and be credible, you would need too many people to execute the plan, and even more people in the know, and then you expect them to keep it zipped……..sorry, but once two people know, then it’s no longer a secret. I just can’t see it being carried off successfully.

So I think that I am going to stick with beliving the official line of what happened, along with reports from people I know that saw some of the aftermath first hand.

As far as I was aware, Richard was the only one of the three presenters that actually has a competition licence

If anyone is interested, another forum that I visit has set up a fund for the Yorks Air Ambulance, they have done this to honour the great wee driver that he is and of course to honour the hard work that these people do, without the air ambulance services a lot of people would not be here.

Anyway the link is….

http://www.justgiving.com/PHRichardHammond

*waves hand*

I would much rather use the Humbrol paint than the Revell paint, as it is a lot better.

The only time we don’t use Humbrol is when we are spraying a model, in which case we use Wilkinson’s own brand spray enamel (also works good as an undercoat!)

de ja vu! 😆

Modelzone in the Trafford centre has a few (or at least they did on Saturday) when him bought his two they said they had sold about 8 during the day.

Him has started on his already, for some strange reason he had in his head that it was a 1:48 scale, so was surprised at how small it was. Reckons it’s not gonna take much to knock it together.