and, it took another three years for me to find your answer Dave 🙂
Thanks very much for the picture, these I had seen before, but thank you for the effort nevertheless 😉

much appreciated

Bert

Greatpics, and to see the other perspective for a change, though the crowdrow viewpoint is always more scenic with the rolling fields and hills as backdrop, timeless, but for that lineup of plastic and aluminium private planes that spoils a lot of good pics, couldnt they park that away out of view for the weekend at least? There is so much authenticity at that place, add the reenactors and ground eqpt, and then to see a cessna172 in the backdrop kills it..

[/QUOTE] the Dutch B 25 was sensational at Manston in very difficult conditions.[/QUOTE]
A underrated flying act I agree.

What would be really cool is to see it fly together with a P-40 in contemporary Dutch colours, or any other Pacific theatre P-40.

Great pics Neil; the Jug and Emil are seriously convincing:

For a second thought I was looking at the Duxford Jug, and thought ‘did they do a lousy paintjob or put on fake weathering?’ 🙂

Still always wondered why LSM’s consistently have too short props for scale; that is in some cases the only give away? Ground clearance issues on grass?

A (matchbox ?) P47D, no paint, just glued it with that little silver tube.. Must have been 11 yrs old, 1975..

Man I was so proud of it , I took it to school to show me mates and the teacher, was granted permission to have it sit on my little desk for the day..

The smell of plastic from a freshly opened box and that glue can still provoke the same memory 🙂

nice!

Things are looking up chaps that’s the main thing. They are ready to fit the new engines not sure how Long it takes to fit an engine on the Vulcan???

RAF fitters could do it in seven hours i read recently in the mothermagazine:cool:

Dag Cees,

Two and half years since you started the thread Cees, and you are done.
Let me join all others in congratulating you and Lex on such a masterpiece of craftsmanship.

I have thorougly enjoyed looking at your posts in the past years, and you somewhere said you hoped it would inspire others. You certainly inspired me, not the build something alike, since I neither have the time, patience nor the tooling or the skills.

But it did inspire me to read and learn more about the Halifax, about Bomber Command, about the sacrifices of that doomed youth, that brought us freedom some seventy years ago. And judging to the Maltese scrapyard Hastings finds, more Halifax interest is sure to come in future.

…but..I did build something!:)

I collected odd instruments and bits over the years at some flea markets and would always bring one piece for my dad as well. He liked that so much, that he went on to do the same and giving me some.
Last year he suddenly died, much too young, and my mum brought me all those precious gifts in a box, not knowing what to do with it.

Rather than stowing it in a box, I have built my own fantasy cockpit out of them. It bears no resemblance to anything factual, (why would you have three compasses/directionfinders on a panel?? well because i have 3 :D) It has his old rs232 springloaded type control collumn fitted as well, back from his days of flying monochrome flightsimulator 1.0.
I have no idea what types of aircraft they come from, just that the gunsight frame is from a starfighter.

It’s fitted out in a cardboard panel strenghtened with wood, ducttape and spraypainted all black, as a fond memory of dad.

It was fun to do, and basically it’s all your fault Cees! 🙂

Looking forward to see that Fokker TV come to life, or you might just as well build the rest of that Halifax, you have the difficult part behind you! And Lex doesnt have anything better to do anyway 😎

groeten

Bert