Latest Acquisitions (2022)

[Dave Ward]

An EVRI delivery


Reboxed Pit-Road. Ebay auction - not one of the cheaper wins ( at least by my standards ) :tongue-out3:
Dave

[spanner570]

Will I never learn?!

It's a card model. 1/250 scale, about a foot long.
I know HMS Hood is still to be finished, but I can't resist buying more torture and hair pulling. These things have it in spades!



Cheers.
Ron

[Allen Dewire]

Hi everyone,

With recent developments by one of our members and his now almost completed new work area, I began to have serious doubts about his capacity to think straight and focus on what he, in his heart, truly loves the most........I felt I had to purchase this kit (against my rules) with the hope it would bring him back to reality and keep him on the straight and narrow.........'Admiral' Bob, remember these!!!!!!


HTHs BobtheStuG!!!!

Prost
Allen

[outrunner]

Waited a long time to get one of these at the right price.

Plenty about with other colour schemes but I specifically wanted the Martini scheme as I think it looks so cool.

[Allen Dewire]

You are so right Andy!!! The Martini scheme does look good on any racing machine.................

[KarlW]

After that incident with the Humbrol gloss coat I made a small detour on my 279 mile journey home from work......

Fingers crossed I have no issues with this......

[Peter Gillson]

A few years ago I aquired nearly all editions of the wartime, fortnightly newspaper the war Illustrated, and having bound all my Mil Mod magazines I was going to bind these into 10 volumes. however I have not been able to find all of the missing editions, and I found a seller on Ebay selling a boumd set, which arrived today.



what
i really like about contempory books is that they are full of stuff not included in later history books, photos such as policing in Manchester during the blackout;



or articles such as one man's thought on being conscriped;



Of course, it is a little biased, but I can spend hours reading them, and getting ideas for models - a bust of that policeman?

Peter

[Guest]

I have a number of issues of a similar publication from one world war earlier, The War Pictorial, and like you say, they include great pictures (plus a good deal of overly retouched ones) that you never see in modern books about the subject.

[Tim Marlow]

Great acquisition Peter. I know exactly what you mean. I have the first volume of a high quality French WW1 pictorial history produced just after the war. Can’t easily read the text, but the pictures are superb. It even includes paintings of the principal French Generals. Wish I could find the second volume…….

[KarlW]

Arrived home to find this waiting for me, actually my 2nd one of these, but it was a good price, a bit under RRP which is unusual for an Eduard Ltd, and my nectar points paid for it.......
So if anyone wants a resin Douglas Bader just ask and I'll get him in the post.

[Guest]

I was given this today:

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The title translates loosely as The Little Book of Aircraft, which is apt because those tiles it’s on, are 5 cm square. No date inside, nor an author or even a publisher, but you can actually date it pretty well from just the picture on the front A Fokker G-I, so clearly late 1930s, and with an orange triangle as a nationality marking, which was adopted in October 1939. Given that it also talks about “the world war”, I’d say it dates from early 1940, probably before May that year.

Some inside views:

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I’ve deliberately included the Spitfire because of the main audience here The last pages even talk about model construction, both static and flying. The primitivity of it alone makes that part fun to read

[Jim R]

I appreciate that the book is probably 80 years old but doesn't it just show how publishing has changed. Things are so different now.
I have some WW2 cookery books and they are fascinating.

[scottie3158]

That looks like an interesting little book.

[KarlW]

@Jakko
That Gyrocopter was registered in 1933. (And maybe crashed in 1938....)
PDF of original document here.

[Guest]

I appreciate that the book is probably 80 years old but doesn't it just show how publishing has changed. Things are so different now.

For starters, it has far more detail than you would expect in a similar book today Most of it’s text, whereas now it would be mostly pictures with captions and the odd page of text — in a large point size because otherwise “it’s too difficult to read for children” …

That looks like an interesting little book.

Certainly does, and I intend to read it fully

That Gyrocopter was registered in 1933. (And maybe crashed in 1938....)
PDF of original document here.

Nice find I’m guessing they just painted it from a photograph of an autogyro that was reasonably modern at the time.