Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: James May toy stories
Anyone watching this they start tonight theres going to be some interesting viewing. Such as building a real life sized Spitfire from huge Airfix pieces,
AIRFIX - Tuesday 27 October
PLASTICINE - Tuesday 3 November
MECCANO - Tuesday 10 November
SCALEXTRIC - Tuesday 17 November
HORNBY & LEGO - Christmas Specials. Dates To Be announced.
More information on this video
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Well Gaz who's not paying attention now I saw them
Ian
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Excellent programme, could almost smell the glue, tried making that damn spitfire on numerous occasions, never did get it right. looking forward to the rest of the series. _________________ DinkyDublin
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Me too - so typical of the man to get his dad involved, great fun. I thought the poor man who did all the work at the fibreglass factory got a thin deal and not much recognition - mind you he was a miserable so and so
i enjoyed the program i like when his dad said , thats my boy i wasnt allowed to make them when i was young in case i got glue and paint everywhere but ive made a stuka this year so alls good im also building a bulsa wood and tissue spitfire
I used to enjoy making Airfix kits, the cars were always my favourites followed by the Railway Kits. Planes were not really my "thing", still aren't, come to that.
James had his work cut out trying to get those kiddies interested, however they did do a great job on the painting of that Spitfire, didn't they? _________________ Regards, Sandie.
Die feine Modeltechnik. Fragen Sie danach.
Among my many vices I have been building and flying model aircraft since I was a kid making Keelcraft tissue covered, rubber band powered models. Maybe that was what sparked my interest in flying the real thing. I have a couple at home including an Extra 300 and a Tiger 60. Boys and their toys eh !!
It was cars with me too - TR4, E-Type, MGB, Beetle, Escort then I was lucky enough to get some of the US kits with plating and rubber tyres - a Mustang and a Ford Fairlane, they were fab.
My best Airfix though was the Bond Aston, it must have been about 1:24 or 1:18 scale, bigger than the usual ones but everything worked, ejector seat, tyre slashers, revolving number plates, even the tail-lamps dropped down to release the caltraps - what a cracker that was - and damned hard to glue the bits together with springs under tension inside. _________________ Andrew Wood
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Will you be flying the balsa model or is it for static, I've made them with just the airframe, stained and a coat of varnish.
Ian
thats what i wanted to do after seeing the ww2 planes being built on the history channel but i sort of gave up with mine im not the best model maker in the world,i can never seem to get the wings right.
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i wasnt allowed to make them when i was young in case i got glue and paint everywhere 
im not the best model maker in the world,i can never seem to get the wings right.
