I've got some old tool Vulcans to find new homes, and the Matchbox Victors.

One of the Vulcans I was going to make as the Olympus FTB, I got a pair of Concorde nacelles to chop up from Aircraft in Miniature, who had a couple spare lying around.

Quote from: kitnut617 on October 27, 2022, 10:21:04 AMI've got some old tool Vulcans to find new homes, and the Matchbox Victors.

One of the Vulcans I was going to make as the Olympus FTB, I got a pair of Concorde nacelles to chop up from Aircraft in Miniature, who had a couple spare lying around.

Freightdog does a few Vulcan engine sets.

That Olympus FTB was for the Concorde engine which is rather larger.  Still, it would make an interesting model.

Quote from: kitnut617 on October 27, 2022, 10:21:04 AMI've got some old tool Vulcans to find new homes, and the Matchbox Victors.

One of the Vulcans I was going to make as the Olympus FTB, I got a pair of Concorde nacelles to chop up from Aircraft in Miniature, who had a couple spare lying around.

With or without the spray frame?

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Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on October 29, 2022, 02:49:26 AM

Quote from: kitnut617 on October 27, 2022, 10:21:04 AMI've got some old tool Vulcans to find new homes, and the Matchbox Victors.

One of the Vulcans I was going to make as the Olympus FTB, I got a pair of Concorde nacelles to chop up from Aircraft in Miniature, who had a couple spare lying around.

With or without the spray frame?

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Gondor

That's Weston-super-Mare in the background, you can make out Birnbeck Pier and the Marine Lake. I wonder how many people looked up and recognised the unusual Vulcan above them that day?

I got an email from Hornby yesterday advising the CA-13 Boomerang is back in stock at just £10.99

Quote from: Leading Observer on October 29, 2022, 06:57:58 AMI got an email from Hornby yesterday advising the CA-13 Boomerang is back in stock at just £10.99

I remember that coming out back in the day. That was the great thing about Airfix back then, if you read the history printed on the instruction sheet you learned about aircraft you'd never heard of before    I certainly did as a 12/13/14 year old

You needed these cards below back then Chris. They were my Grandads R.O.C. identification cards, I looked through them almost every day when I was a kid, I knew them off by heart back then, but I would struggle with some these days.
I had left them behind when I emigrated to Canada, but after Dad died, they were brought back to me by a visiting family member.

I've seen similar things to those Robert. Might have been one of my Grandad's who was in the ARP, but in all honesty I can't remember. Fascinating slice of history and I'm glad you got them back 

I remember being tested on the aircraft recognition cards during my days in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force 1986-1997.  These cards especially the ship cards helped the Nimrod boys when they had the Mk1 kit before the ESM pods were fitted as all they saw was the silhouette of the ship on the screen and not a 3D picture until the software was updated on the Mk2s.
 They often had exchange pilots on the Nimrods during the NATO Exercises in Gibraltar. A USN P-3 Orion pilot flew his Nimrod a bit too far into Spanish Air space and was buzzed by two
 F-18s.

As a boy I had "The Observer's Little Book of Aircraft" which was filled with similar images.  The images were on one page and the aircraft data on the facing page.  I never used in 'in anger', so to speak, but I did read it a lot.

When my Dad was still in the RAF I used to get copies of the 'Joint Forces Recognition Journal' or similar, and they had PAGES of stuff like that. Great fun going through the tests while suffering asthma attacks. 

Quote from: kitnut617 on October 30, 2022, 08:47:46 AMYou needed these cards below back then Chris. They were my Grandads R.O.C. identification cards, I looked through them almost every day when I was a kid, I knew them off by heart back then, but I would struggle with some these days.
I had left them behind when I emigrated to Canada, but after Dad died, they were brought back to me by a visiting family member.

I've got some of those somewhere from my days in R.O.C - we did Aircraft Recognition for fun when I was an Observer, as we were then Underground for the Nuclear Reporting role

When I was in the Army, I was the proud owner of the unit's recognition card set.  Fascinating range of aircraft and vehicles.   

Quote from: Scotaidh on October 31, 2022, 01:06:39 PMAs a boy I had "The Observer's Little Book of Aircraft" which was filled with similar images.  The images were on one page and the aircraft data on the facing page.  I never used in 'in anger', so to speak, but I did read it a lot.

Still got a couple of mine plus some of the Warplanes of the Second World War and Warplanes of WW1 series which were like hardback miniature Putnam's.