After reading a good book on a subject, I invariably get the itchy modelling fingers. So it was with the Korean War book from Max Hastings. I therefore bought an in period model kit to make. As it happened it was a "model I missed as a child", aka the Airfix Shooting Star (re-released in the Vintage Kit series for old nostalgic fogies like me to buy). As a kid I was still very much a "WWII Spitfire Propeller" aficionado. I thought jets were a bit like cheating and not as interesting as the "piston-engine" planes (see below, I did not quite understand jets, I thought they were flying vacuum cleaners):
A bucket-list project for the winter months. This also means I will be on the lookout for Airfix re-releasing their Mig-15 [and as Bob Cordery pointed out .. The Gloster Meteor as flown by the RAAF and just as importantly, available in Airfix Vintage].
Geordie,
ReplyDeleteI do hope that your not going to ignore the Meteor ... which is still one of my favourite first generation jet fighters.
All the best,
Bob
Good call
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Are you going to hang them from the ceiling, as in the old days?
ReplyDeleteThat's the plan .. but borrowing the teenagers bedroom ceiling's as teh==he wife might not (as in not) approve!
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