Other hobbies/Obsessions?

banie01 wrote: »

There are a couple of models here, in particular the German ww2 bits that were assembled and painted by a lad from Tipp that he was going to end up dumping as he was running out of space!

I was and am absolutely delighted to give a home to!

https://imgur.com/a/SXUI0oV

Wow, yer man did a great job! I hadn't built a model since I was a kid, but over the recent lockdown a good mate of mine who's into that(and great at it too) sent me over a couple of aircraft kits for me to have a go at. Steep learning curve. :eek: Though some of it came back. I remembered how much I hated painting the glass canopies. :mad: Then he gave me a loan of an airbrush and that made a big difference(brush painting them is a pain). Here's one near completion. I can see the appeal as it's relaxing enough.



A Ju87 Stuka from Airfix. Man they've gone way up in quality and detail from what I remember. The very first kit I can remember building with my dad was another Stuka with a big snake down the side. My dad knew an ex Stuka pilot after the war and I talked with him over the phone a few times when I was a kid so they always fascinated me. I thought the snake scheme was a made up kinda thing, as the German stuff is generally not as colourful as say the American, but turns out it actually existed. There were a couple of them apparently. Found the decals for it on eBay, though they're slightly the wrong scale, so other than the snake I used the rest from the kit. The worst scenario of "snakes on a plane" if you happen to be on the receiving end of one diving at you. :eek:

IrishPlayer wrote: »

Not sure if you have done this already,maybe an idea for another model would be a captured aircraft,something like this P-47 Thunderbolt

Funny enough IP I was tempted to do similar with the above plane. Like this one. I love the placard in front.



Wrong version though I could have done a captured Italian one.


Mad factoid numero 199962: In many movies where planes are diving out of control, they almost always use the sound of a Stuka siren for effect, though diving planes don't make that sound. A good example and with our boyo from Navan too(30 second mark).



After a while Stukas stopped making the sound as the siren drove the pilots to distraction. So they added whistle tubes to the bombs themselves and that's also used a lot in movies where you have bombs falling and again bombs don't make that noise. One of the first ejection seats was first trialled in a converted Stuka and when the Americans were designing the A10 tank buster jet they interviewed ex Stuka pilots for their input.