[machine shop to]

My son has been after me to post his Spifire photo. Here it is:

http://photos.hobbytalk.com/showphoto.php/photo/17333/cat/500/ppuser/28813

That's my boy!

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[Guest]

An output to be proud of, he's done nicely there Tom.

Go easy

 

[terryr]

That's great work for a brush. Any more photos?

 

[nunchuck]

Looks real nice :dude: His spitfire and those other works in his gallery looks way better than model kits I did (hand painted) when I was a kid. It would be coolif he put beer barrels under the wings. That's what RAF pilots did when they're having a party in their airbase.

 

[machine shop to]

Looks real nice :dude: His spitfire and those other works in his gallery looks way better than model kits I did (hand painted) when I was a kid. It would be coolif he put beer barrels under the wings. That's what RAF pilots did when they're having a party in their airbase.

I'd rather see a beer barrel in my garage.


The Spit is the only pic in the gallery that is his. The rest are mine. Those were airbrushed.

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[John P]

Dad once told me they got chilled beer in the Pacific by filling the ammo bays in a P-47 with beer bottles and flying up to 30,000 feet or so where it was 20 below zero.

 

[machine shop to]

Dad once told me they got chilled beer in the Pacific by filling the ammo bays in a P-47 with beer bottles and flying up to 30,000 feet or so where it was 20 below zero.

Thus, the bewildered but thankful Zero pilot learns at last why that feared P-47 didn't blast him from the sky.............


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[John P]

Then there was the "beer run" from the supply base - they'd strap cases of beer in the bomb bay of a B-25 rigged to the bomb shackles, so they could drop the extra weight if they had to run from a stray Jap fighter. And reeeaaallly, reeeeeeeeaally hope they didn't have to.

 

[F91]

Nice work on the Spit , tell the boy nice job.

 

[Lloyd Collins]

Impressive Spitfire! Got the brush work looking real good. Good to see a young modeler's work.

 

[machine shop to]

Thanks for all the kind compliments, guys. My son is about two inches taller now that he has seen your comments. :thumbsup:

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