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    Airfix - the greatest history lesson of all time. ?

    in Military Scale Models

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    I wonder how many of us started our military interest due to Airfix models ? I certainly did. I remember my nan buying my first ever kit for me when I was about 5 years old. She got it for me in walthamstow high street in the early 1960s. A Hawker typhoon if I remember right. Terribly exciting with a fantastic picture on the paper label. By the time I was about 10 , I must have made every kit in the catalogue. By then I knew my crusaders from my Matilda's and my tigers from my panthers.

    the little information notes on the bags were history being told , with such names as Stalingrad , El alemain, and Normandy.

     

     

    never in the field of human history has so much been learned from such little bags.

    good old Airfix

    New Weapon banned from Canvey Island school

    in Weapons/Accessories

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    Aha!! Canvey island ... Born there and lived there for 47 years..... Halcyon days ... Collecting .50 cals from the crashed Flying Fortress and swapping them at school, searching through the wrecks of scrapped MTBs to find cannon shells............ ( They do make quite a bang..)

    playing soldiers on the old landing craft and carrying bits of Messerschmitt 109 home.

     

    yes good old days. What would they make of it now..?

    Snow or the lack of it in the UK

    in Other Chatter

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    Aha!! I didn't have to wait for the snow to use my winch in anger for the first time. A fork lift at the local garden centre went down a hole and nobody could get it out, but my Jimmy did it easy.! Good girl !!

    And it worked out better than I though because the same fork lift did me a favour and lifted up my gun ring so I could fit it.

    A jolly good show !

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