in my childhood ive built hundreds of airfix kits we used to have a local model shop that sold hundreds you also used to be able to buy then in your local newsagents too :grin:

i got the model bug from my uncle i used to spend a lot of time with my uncle and cousin as my father was away on deployment for long periods of time and my uncle still has lots of models me and my cousin made when we were kids plus the hundreds he built himself :grin:


i can prob say i got the aircraft bug from him too as he used to take me and my cousin to lots of airshows i have very fond memories of my uncle he was like a second father figure to me and i still visit him often to catch up on things :grin:

As a kid i used to do airfix models with my dad, but always broke a few when i tried playing with them :( as i grew up i switched vfrom airfix to die cast collectibles... very very expensive though :( i have over 50 of these die cast models. My favourites being...yeah you know it, the hawker hurricane (4 of them) and the lancaster (2 of them).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...983/35501a.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...983/35501c.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35501sv2.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35501sv1.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/35501fv.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/35501rv.jpg

Just one of the 4.

Never built a Hurricane but i think ive got the kit for one some where.
goes and looks, yeah a promo one from the daily telegraph.

The daily telegraph obviously knows what a great plane it is :D but whats the deal with reading such a posh paper?? lol.

Heres a quick shot of the lanc -

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...983/32601a.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/32601sv.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/32601nn.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/32601S35.jpg

ATENTION THIS POST MUST BE SAVED FOR ALL TIME SO THAT YOU CAN SHOW YOUR CHILDREN A POST BY FOZ1983 THAT DIDNT MENTION THE HURRICAN BY NAME!
ahem
it also gave a way a Spitfire aswell oh and i read it because i prefer it thats all. Oh and Lanc is beautiful buit one of the dambuster ones.

lol, yeah it didnt mention the hurricane!! if you want i'll even show you a spit!! and my other lanc haha just to show im not stricly only enjoying and repsect the hurricane. I have to respect the lanc, my grandad did 2 tours in them, if it wasnt for him then i dont think i'd have any interest in avitain at all.

The other lanc i have (dambusters) is good, it comes on a stand, well more of a base thats shaped like the mohner dam, but it has a button on it. When you press the button you see lights flash on the base to simulate gun fire and water from the dam, but also the sound of the lanc flying over low and fats before playing the dambusters music!! worth the £150 i paid for it :D

Sorry for the picture quality but heres my Lanc
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00940.jpg
and another but theres also a Vulcan and a Lightning in there
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00941.jpg

nice!!

AJ-S, mines AJ-G.

Notice a "lightning" in the background to i think??

AJ-G was Guy Penrose Gibsons Leader of 617sqn.
Lancaster AJ-S flown by Pilot Officer Louis Burpee, which was shot down in Holland in wave 3 of the Dambusters Raid.
Ive just realised how ever that its number is that of AJ-N