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I was going to say "and all from the word DARK"
I was going to say "and all from the word DARK"
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Ahh, Lips...It's the glam idea and I love the shape. Almost as curvy as me....oops sorry guys I'll give myself a slap on the wrist..hang on...noooo, I've started it again...must stop...I promise I'll:shutup3: as I'm digging a hole for myself.Originally posted by \
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Let's not forget please everyone that this forum is open to all ages and as such we need to excercise a degree of control with such inuendo's.
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Besides there is no glam in air travel these days. I have a wonderful documentary on a Pan Am 707 and it just oozes style and romance. That is why I watch Catch Me If You Can as often as I do or listen to Swing when Matt is out, he'd kill me if I listened to it when he's with me, pouring cawfee out of a Pan Am cawfee jug....ahhh *goes misty eyed* romance! I wasn't born then and sometimes I wish I had.
The days when Mission Control men wore McDonnell or Boeing or Grumman shirts with black ties, men wore suits everyday and girls wore really pretty dresses and cat eye sunglasses.
What do we have now? Trakkies and fake Burberry baseball caps and listen to manufactured pap. I'd rather live in my rose tinted world that see that s :censored2e round town. This is what things should still be like...if only...total glam!
Oh well...I'll get back to listening to Johnny Keating and Stan Kenton.Comment
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ah yes, one of the best films from Spielberg. I will never forget the colors he used in that film with zero special effects. Stan Kenton, eh? Thats a first for me reading this in a model forum!Comment
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Well, for better or for worse the days of glamour in airline travel are gone...and i can only agree most profoundly with pan-am-clipper-girl with regards being born a few decades toooo late.
Just once and for the hell of it I took an upgrade on the BA heathrow-Dullas route (which i used to fly about four times a year before moving stateside full time last year) to prem Buisness class... Not at all what i had hoped for! just slightly more leg room and better wine BUT NO EXTRA PAMPERING!!!!! NO SEPERATE GATES, SHOE SHINE BOYS, Champaigne lounges arrrrrr!
My late father flew all over in the early 60's while he worked in the Brit Oil industry... his old stories darn near make me cry when i think of all the class and style that are now lost.
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Ps.. F.A.O Lips:
Going supersonic is no big deal in itself... its the 3 hour flight time across the atlantic and the shape of the big steal swan flying over Reigate in surrey as she used to come in to land that Made her so special... I lived on her flight path from age 1yr to 10yrs (then moved north).
As for hovering... until you have flown observer with a pilot who knows his (or her) S#$t at ten feet and 140knts in a westland lynx- BETWEEN trees, cows, penguins and startled sheep farmers- you have not lived! Harriers are cool... and great to have on hand (we grunts love to know your on call in weather that the fastboys consider bad for their health) in extremitis... Then again, I have never been up in one, so i guess im open to re-education if the chance ever came up...but at 6ft 4" id never fit in one!Comment
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Well, for better or for worse the days of glamour in airline travel are gone...and i can only agree most profoundly with pan-am-clipper-girl with regards being born a few decades toooo late.
Just once and for the hell of it I took an upgrade on the BA heathrow-Dullas route (which i used to fly about four times a year before moving stateside full time last year) to prem Buisness class... Not at all what i had hoped for! just slightly more leg room and better wine BUT NO EXTRA PAMPERING!!!!! NO SEPERATE GATES, SHOE SHINE BOYS, Champaigne lounges arrrrrr!
My late father flew all over in the early 60's while he worked in the Brit Oil industry... his old stories darn near make me cry when i think of all the class and style that are now lost.
:emo10: (sob)
Ps.. F.A.O Lips: Going supersonic is no big deal in itself... its the 3 hour flight time across the atlantic and the shape of the big steal swan flying over Reigate in surrey as she used to come in to land that Made her so special... I lived on her flight path from age 1yr to 10yrs (then moved north).
As for hovering... until you have flown observer with a pilot who knows his (or her) S#$t at ten feet and 140knts in a westland lynx- BETWEEN trees, cows, penguins and startled sheep farmers- you have not lived! Harriers are cool... and great to have on hand (we grunts love to know your on call in weather that the fastboys consider bad for their health) in extremitis... Then again, I have never been up in one, so i guess im open to re-education if the chance ever came up...but at 6ft 4" id never fit in one!
:knight: Go Army!Comment
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Let's bring back Trilby hats and thin ties! Waves his copy of the Chap manifesto in the air!Originally posted by \AThis is what things should still be like...if only...total glam!
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OOops look's like I'm sent to the corner again...see you all tomorrow
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ok, take care! BTW: I'm planning on upping some more pics of the projects you have helped me on in the last few weeks. Right now, as i'm typing this yet another poopy diaper needs changing!Comment
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Thanks, Russ - we live for you grunts.Comment
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As for the Bucc, I'm getting there. The pressure is building as I only have until next Monday to finish. Tues I have to take it in
I'll post a pic or two when it's done. I have to spray my 8th coat on the 747 now.
Alan I agree lets get back to smarter clothing, can't wait for my uniform to be made.Comment
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Here it is. I managed to build the Trumpeter Hawker Sea Hawk while I was at it.
Strange session as I spent most of the allocated 45 mins talking about it.
The reason for me builing it was to have something to work towards and a form of relaxation, I won't pick anything like this again, blimey those decals were utter :censored2. I don't usually complain about models, after all that is part of the hobby isn't it, I can't see the fun of just building umpteen HaseTamiya kits, where is the fun it that? I won't pick another Bucc for sure, even though I still have another FAA and two RAF versions to do.
The other exercise was to learn to enjoy things again and also to make me tired at night. The therapist is going to get me to say that my models are good as I didn't look very happy when it was fished out of the box. So that is something else to make me see that I do good things and it is worthwhile.
The Bucc is one of 800 sqd. Finished in experimental scheme with Sqirrel grey undersides. I used the Neo-Mega cockpit. Airwaves wingfold and Paragon bulged main wheels and flaps.
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Despite the troubles, the model looks wonderful from here!Comment
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dear Pan-am-clipper...
Love the Bucc...bravo on the the seahawk too...all you need now is a scimiter, vamp and a spey engined F4 and you have the FAA jet set, then you can start building a nice 1/48 scale Ark Royal for the driveway to base em on!!!!
Note: it might be a bit on the large side to take along to each session tho...:grinball2:Comment
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As far as the comments go regarding a golden age of air travel - it was only golden because it was so inordinately expensive, only the super rich could fly and when they flew they expected almost 4 star hotel levels of luxury, on par with the experience they'd get from travelling on a luxury liner. They wanted their own cabin on the plane. It's also apparent that the super rich dress better, are better looking, have whiter teeth and better health insurance, and are generally more glamourous than the average Wayne or Waynetta on a council estate.
Regarding current day air travel, advances in technology and aeronautics and amazing engineering have enabled airlines to package huge numbers of people into the tightest spaces and for a reasonable fee you can now fly anywhere around the world, in relative comfort and very quickly too. Bringing travel to the masses, shrinking the world, breaking down boundaries and making the world a nicer place.
Even if you're in Economy class, it's not much of a hardship, you have to sit and watch films. Which are a couple of things that a lot of people like to do anyhow!
I think the fact that airliners are so sucessful has obviously been to their own detriment, they are really a victim of their own sucess, but in economic and engineering terms we're in a "golden" age of airtravel, however, current social and environmental factors don't look on this so favourably.
Thats my rant over!
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Thanks for the comments on the Bucc :grinball2:Everyone is soo kind here.Originally posted by \
Do you mean an F4 like this one??? *giggles*
I have a Scimitar to build too when I get round to it...I think i'll be in my 70's when that comes around though! I seem to do one or two Navy thing every decade, so it's a good job i'm going to live forever then isn't it!
Toodle pip.
Love you lots,
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