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[Jimbuna]

I've two versions in the collection:

http://www.skyguardianseurope.co.uk/Gannet2.html



http://www.skyguardianseurope.co.uk/12.html

[Hottentot]

Ooo, they even have pilots in them.

I have a radio controlled Bf-109, about 1m long, bought ages ago. It's otherwise a very cool plane and flies well too, but the only thing that puzzles me is the happily grinning Japanese man sitting in the cockpit.

[Gerald]

Scale 1/72, that's what's on offer?,Nice plane

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Ooo, they even have pilots in them.

I have a radio controlled Bf-109, about 1m long, bought ages ago. It's otherwise a very cool plane and flies well too, but the only thing that puzzles me is the happily grinning Japanese man sitting in the cockpit.

I've noticed that in a few of the larger kits over the years

[Gerald]

Thanks for the reply,

[Jimbuna]

I thought I already had.

[Gerald]

Sure...#1744

[Jimbuna]

I thought earlier in #1742

[Gerald]

No, 1744 is what counts and nothing else, pronto

[Jimbuna]

Oh heck!!....you've got me confused now

[Gerald]

#1744, ON A QUESTION OF SCALE ....

[Jimbuna]

Ah, yes...1/72 as are all my collection

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Ah, yes...1/72 as are all my collection

I thank you humbly for that answer, then I know it and can sleep well tonight,

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Not trying to sound insulting, but as someone studying museology as a minor subject, someone who has worked in a museum and someone who intends to one day become a professional on the field, I'm just confused by how wrong that all sounded.

Ah, now I understand. Well, here is the problem. The museum is at an Air Force Base, the main part is real airplanes, not models. Of course the real planes are limited in number, and are all American.

The workers are mostly retired mechanics. They can fix an F-16 blindfolded, but most of them have no clue what a S.P.A.D. 13 or a Fairey Fulmar was. Their expertise is limited to the real planes, and the model cases were neglected for a long time. So they needed a couple of guys who love to study the history.

I thought it was funny that Hill AFB was named for Major Ployer P. Hill, who died flying the Boeing 299, the prototype B-17, but the only model they had in the case labelled "Planes Major Hill Flew" was the Revell B-17F. They had a "professional" modelbuilder who was constructing Academy's new B-17C model tell them that the prototype just "couldn't be done". So I built one for them (actually I was already working on it) in time for the Base's 50th anniversary celebration in June 1990. So now the in the entrance to the indoor part of the museum is this (sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, but they were taken with a cheap camera twenty-one years ago).

[Jimbuna]

Here was I thinking you were making a veiled reference to the Gannet