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picked this up last week .. was 15% off "black friday " sale .. seems the price is back up now ..was 267 at the door .. hobby shop on the danforth .. did my part for the local business "guy"..rather than buying it online .. it WAS the best online price to boot ..SOOoo..

 

mine now.

and it's HUGE..

http://www.wheelswingsestore.com/air25001a-airfix-1-24-dehavilland-mosquito-fb-vi-canadian-content.html

video is just something I found while researchin' before buyin'

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdbRY1VHFo

 

thinkin' I MIGHT JUST paint it yellow.. seems the prototype (still in existence) was/is yellow as well as a few others as well..

 

been thinking some nice large model airplanes might be nice .. done a little differently 

skip the camouflage , skip the guns & bombs and just build them as the awesome airplanes they really were .. maybe more to look like racing planes

 

also have a nice 

 

 

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

 

in 1/18 scale on the way too.

https://internethobbies.com/collections/i-love-kit-planes/products/i-love-kit-planes-1-24-fokker-dr-1-kit

 

^ that listing at time of this post is a not bad price as it's a $169 usd kit .."usually"

 

also found a nice large scale Douglas Skyraider kit I want ..but "next month" ..maybe..

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well it seems I can't post links to anything these days ..arugh

sorry 'boutdat

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Fixed the links...Youtube link still bad

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thanks captain !!

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Here is the YouTube

 

 



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My late bro in law built a 1/4 scale RC Mozzy.
I think he used chainsaw motors.

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that would be something I'd have liked to see !!

looking (and dreamin') I was looking at some of the big scale R/C stuff
five cylinder radial engine .. 800 cc ..sweet as hell with a price tag to match of 8500 euros
..oh my..

but I'm good with some stuff to hang from the ceiling .. though some framed shadow boxes hung on the wall sounds like a nice dust free display plan


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www.youtube.com/watch

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Great video.
The P51D Mustang was missing.
The Mozzy, built by DeHaviland was part plywood.
Also their Vampire jet was part wood.

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The link is working on my end, this will be a good gift this Christmas.

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my father once told me about him and his friends from the street riding their bikes down to the factory to watch the Mosquitoes and Lancaster coming out the factory doors

That would have been an all day excursion for kids on coaster bikes ... really wish I could have seen that myself

funny you mention the Vampires.. I just moments ago saved the link for a set of custom decals for the Vampire jets before reading your post

little Christmas gift to me ..maybe... just made an offer on a WWI Prussian fighter pilot's badge
- seems I might have found ."something else to collect" 

 

IF that works out I know where to get a new authentic reproduction .. and affordable.., short WWI German fighter pilot's leather jacket to put it on..along with other's it looks like I "need"....



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I also stumbled across a listing for a moldy looking 100 odd year old WWI RAF Dispatch pilot's coat
- listed at 4500 bucks ..

but "I know a guy" .. who can make most anything from pics .. so I saved all the finer detail pics of this one

 

I had my doubts as to the "authenticity" of zippers on the German pilot's jacket .. until I saw that big honkin' zipper on the RAF coat..

the modern zipper patent was issued to a Canadian resident in the mid twenties .. so I'd had doubts ..

 

the lining didn't seem to have a slit to access a sidearm so I presume that's a big honkin' pocket too 

- insuring dispatch messages can be found IF the pilot can be found .. you know what I mean...

 

looking at it .. at least the dog might get lots of nice walks along the lakeshore .. you know on windy winter days...



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Lancasters were built at Malton by National Steel Car from Hamilton.
Victory Aircraft may have been their name.
Here's a place to get flight jackets, etc.
www.uswings.com/


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yep .. same building I believe that the arrows came out of .. used to drive past it everyday when I worked at the Modine radiator warehouse on american drive .. not much more than just around the corner

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well postal gods willing I have my second WWI relic - the guy accepted my offered amount ..

first one is a little folding checkerboard my great grandfather carried with him .. it came from some shop in London when he was on leave

a buddy goggled it and came up with a few the exact same .. suddenly a "light went on" and I had a mental image of any five and dime store or smoke shop having TONS of "camping" nic nac's .. along with boxes of playing cards and a nice stack of checkerboards just like the one I have ..

you know , waiting for the guys on leave with a pocket full of pay..

exactly the same as ..www.etsy.com/listing/278649736/checker-board-dated-1910-antique-wooden

though mine says made in England on it .. or London ..(?) and it's not missing any pieces

 

game pieces are a very early plastic of some sort .. pre Bakelite .. I have some vintage furniture with Bakelite bits on the drawer pulls so I know it's different..it's kinda like fake wood .. sorta

 

they don't seem to be worth a lot ..unless you realize where most of them were probably used ..

I'm sure some of the brown-ish colouring on mine used to be a french farm field ..

 

pic is my great grandfather at the hospital the third time he was wounded .. and "some new friends"  .. the King and the Queen 

 

I have to respect the simple little effort of the staff the photographer and the Royal couple .. just so as that pic is safely stored away now in a drawer..

 

it's not so much the "history" I find important but rather the human element of ..living , then, that fascinates me



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in the original terminator movie there's a cut to scene of an automaton killing machine , a tracked vehicle shooting lazer like blasts at everything with the sole purpose of killing any human it finds...
for a long time I always thought that's what things must have looked like to the poor farm boys and factory joe's stuck in those trenches..

and then I saw a German WWI tank crew badge .. which is almost the same view angle of much the same thing...

 



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my mother's oldest brother survived HMS Royal Oak being torpedoed in Scapa Flow.. simply because he had no smokes .. instead of being down below with his ship mates in their "off time" he was up on deck the air was fresh and he didn't feel the cigarette smoke of the cabins.. so he wasn't trapped inside when she turned over like 800 odd shipmates..were

I never got to know him but I can't imagine that being easy to have in your head



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My Grandad was wounded at The Battle of the Somme.
15 shrapnel wounds.
5 months in a hospital in England.



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sad there's so much recient history that simply isn't taught in the schools isn't it

sometimes I think that's so no one has a clue .. in case the powers that be wanna do it all over again .. a population who knows better would probably refuse to be forced into it again

though considering modern generations and the "my rights" thing .. these days you might not have much of a force show up at the front by the time you're done "shooting cowards at dawn"...

stand up , shut up and march 'cause you were told to probably wouldn't work the same these days

the idea or comprehension of "service" might escape a lot of people these days
- that comes from a modern lack of social and personal discipline

like a Christmas night 2 or 3 years ago
I took a buddy over to his folks place , as we were leaving we could hear someone shouting and screaming from the street behind their house ... driving up the street we saw nothing .. but the hollering was still going on..
when I got to the end of the street , instead of driving off I HAD to turn around and go back down the street
in one of the driveways I see a snow shovel in the middle of a driveway .. then , and only then could I barely make out the form of a woman on the ground in front of the shadow of her open garage

as we were helping her up .. the neighbor from the attached house next door came out to get something from his car
he tried his very best to ignore us all .. just feet away until my buddy said something about "are you gonna help your neighbor .. guess not eh"

THEN the look of feigned surprise ..

there's no possible way he didn't hear her .. we did , from around the block and from inside my truck ...

"nice"
Christmas night .. someone's mother , probably someone's grand mother screaming for help in the dark & cold for twenty or thirty minutes and the XXX-hat did absolutely , nothing

that's one on Karma's to do list I suppose .. now

having picked my own father up off the floor literally dozens of times .. it probably ain't gonna be pretty..
some of those resulted in a shoulder joint , knee joint and eventually , two hip replacements .. all due to falls
the broken shoulder was a fall in a hotel room bathtub and three hours of hollering for help all by himself ..followed by three days of driving to get home to Ontario 'cause "he wasn't going to any american hospital for it first ...



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DJD wrote:

picked this up last week .. was 15% off "black friday " sale .. seems the price is back up now ..was 267 at the door .. hobby shop on the danforth .. did my part for the local business "guy"..rather than buying it online .. it WAS the best online price to boot ..SOOoo..

 

mine now.

and it's HUGE..

http://www.wheelswingsestore.com/air25001a-airfix-1-24-dehavilland-mosquito-fb-vi-canadian-content.html

video is just something I found while researchin' before buyin'

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdbRY1VHFo

 

thinkin' I MIGHT JUST paint it yellow.. seems the prototype (still in existence) was/is yellow as well as a few others as well..

 

been thinking some nice large model airplanes might be nice .. done a little differently 

skip the camouflage , skip the guns & bombs and just build them as the awesome airplanes they really were .. maybe more to look like racing planes

 

also have a nice 

 

 

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

 

in 1/18 scale on the way too.

https://internethobbies.com/collections/i-love-kit-planes/products/i-love-kit-planes-1-24-fokker-dr-1-kit

 

^ that listing at time of this post is a not bad price as it's a $169 usd kit .."usually"

 

also found a nice large scale Douglas Skyraider kit I want ..but "next month" ..maybe..

.






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