Colin's Battle Of Britain GB chat thread

[Dave Ward]

I haven't had any benchtime for quite a while ( health ), but I think that given the time frame, I might have a stab at this - I've got a 1/48 Airfix Defiant that will fit the bill.........
Dave

[Lee Drennen]

Colin. Thanks for starting this I think I’m going to chose one of my Classic “Wingy” thing for my build

[papa 695]

I haven't had any benchtime for quite a while ( health ), but I think that given the time frame, I might have a stab at this - I've got a 1/48 Airfix Defiant that will fit the bill.........
Dave

If it’s the new tool Dave, it goes together great, but the gun turret is a little tight.

[stona]

As for Duxford, the IWM always regretted that one of the 1WW hangars was destroyed during the making of the film. The other is a listed building now.

I remember a scene in the film where various aircraft were blown up taking off. Is that the one in which the Duxford hangar was destroyed? That scene, or at least the Spitfires taking off through the bombing, is based on the 31st August raid on Hornchurch in which three No.54 Squadron Spitfires were destroyed as or just after they took off.

From the squadron ORB.

"The squadron was ordered off just as the first bombs were beginning to fall and eight of our machines safely cleared the ground; the remaining section, however, just became airborne as the bombs exploded. All three machines were wholly wrecked in the air. The survival of the pilots is a complete miracle. Sgt. Davis, taking off towards the hangars, was thrown back to the other side of the River Ingrebourne, two fields away, and scrambled out of his machine unscathed.

F/Lt Deere had one wing and his prop torn off; climbing to about a hundred feet he turned and, coming down, slid along the aerodrome for a hundred yards, upside down. He was saved from this unenviable position by P/O Edsall, the third member of the section, who had suffered a similar fate, except that he landed the right way up. Dashing across the aerodrome, with bombs still dropping, he extricated F/Lt Deere from his machine. "The first and last time - I hope" was the verdict of these truly amazing pilots - all of whom were ready for battle the next morning."

You literally couldn't make it up!

More seriously three men were killed on the ground and a fourth later died of wounds. Eleven more were wounded, some gravely, requiring hospitalisation (six 'seriously', two 'dangerously'). The other three were treated at the Station sick quarters.

I've got a broken Spitfire Mk.I which I might adapt to something like this, but not for the GB.

Steve

[Guest]

Hi Steve - Yes, that's the one. Built in the First World War and survived the second, only to fall victim to the British Film Industry. I remember that during the summer the film was made, two Spanish ''109s'' and an ''HE111'' flew in formation over our house (I was 7 years old). Everyone came out into their gardens and started shaking their fists at them - still shows how recent the war seemed then.

I've ordered this for my entry:

120mm from Mitche's Military Models.

[Neil Merryweather]

I've got several possibilities in the stash, including the Airfix 1-24 Hurricane, but I want to give myself a fighting chance of finishing in time, so I'm going to start with this

If it goes well and I'm in the mood I might do this

I watched the movie again the other day and I think it's bloody marvelous!
I'm not interested in detail nit-picking, the flying sequences alone are things of absolute beauty; and they were done almost totally for real, with ten to twenty aircraft in the air at times. I particularly like the shot where six spitfires'peel off' - Brilliant.
And let's not forget we have this film to thank for kickstarting the warbird scene in this country- I believe at the time they had assembled the world's 15th largest air force(or something like that)
AND it has Susannah York in just an a RAF shirt-what's not to like?
Tally Ho!

[rtfoe]

Hi Collin, I would so much like to join in but with a track record of not finishing let alone starting even might dash any hopes. I have quite a stash to fit the build but will have to find a subject that I can spend little time on to have a chance. The on going projects aren't going to help.

I have 1/48 figures from ICM RAF Personnel that might just make it. A pilot and his dog. If it works out I may use it for a dio.

Wait, I just checked...it's two pilots discussing fighter tactics and a dog. I may have to turn its head towards the discussion.

Cheers,
Richard

[colin m]

Just a little reminder for anyone who might like to take part in this group build. Just over two weeks until we start, just long enough to order that battle of Britain, build (what ever it might be) ready for July 10th.

[PaulTRose]

its sat on the shelf over the bench......waiting! :smiling5: :smiling5:

[Gern]

Gentlemen just remember the old truism, you can never have too many Spitfires!

The more the merrier.

Cheers

R. J. Mitchell

Don't know if it's just a rumour, but when Airfix first released their Spitfire kit back in the dark ages, weren't they churning out something like 500000 a year?

[Lee Drennen]

Colin. I’m ready the last of my items arrived last week.

[Lee Drennen]

This will be my entry

[colin m]

Don't know if it's just a rumour, but when Airfix first released their Spitfire kit back in the dark ages, weren't they churning out something like 500000 a year?

I'll bet Goering would have been relieved that the Air ministry couldn't match Airfix's production rate.

[colin m]

This will be my entry [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1127563[/ATTACH]

That looks very promising Lee. Lots of interesting 'add ons' there.

[papa 695]

Is it the 10th yet?:upside: