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Post by stu on Jan 16, 2010 16:06:46 GMT 12
Not sure if this should be here or in the modelling thread. I was given a couple of episodes from the series "James May Toy Stories" yesterday. In one of them he decides to scale up the basic 1/72 scale Airfix Spitfire to 1/1 scale using the same plans and number of plastic parts. I've only had a quick look through it so far and it seems quite interesting insofar as it's quite a technical challenge and it also re-introduces modelling to a new generation who seem to have lost interest. The episode can be found (in 10 minute segments) on Youtube in this channel... www.youtube.com/user/pully87 For those wanting to see the end result without watching the entire episode.... Cheers, Stu. |
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 16, 2010 16:47:29 GMT 12
Bloody marvellous!!
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Post by Brett on Jan 27, 2010 16:16:44 GMT 12
The series will soon to be on TV3...
Cheers,
Brett
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jan 31, 2010 13:00:40 GMT 12
The ultimate model kit. Nice video, cheers for posting it. Nice one Stu!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2010 16:55:17 GMT 12
When is the series coming to TV3? I've seen the ad several times but can't for the life of me remember when its actually on! Keen as mustard to see it.
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Post by stu on Feb 1, 2010 10:54:38 GMT 12
When is the series coming to TV3? I've seen the ad several times but can't for the life of me remember when its actually on! Keen as mustard to see it. Airfix Wed-03-Feb 19:30 DURATION: 60 GENRE: General Entertainment TELETEXT CAPTIONING: PG 801 RATING: G DESCRIPTION: James and his team sand, paint and glue together the world's biggest ever model plane, a full-size Spitfire. OVERVIEW: New to 3, James May's Toy Stories sees James May out to prove why traditional, old fashioned toys are still relevant today when he pushes them to the limit in spectacular, supersize challenges. EPISODE LIST: 03-Feb-2010 19:30 Wed 10-Feb-2010 19:30 Wed |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2010 16:49:09 GMT 12
Cheers Stu  I was hoping you'd lead me in the right direction! |
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Post by stu on Feb 3, 2010 20:17:36 GMT 12
In a "brilliant" programming decision the show was bumped to Monday nights at the last minute - much to the disgust of many viewers (and several of us crew) going by the numerous phone calls coming into the building at the moment.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 3, 2010 21:49:31 GMT 12
At least we got a chance to watch Simon on his new cooking show on TV1 without missing James on TV3. Well done to Simon, it was actually pretty entertaining, for a cooking reality series.
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Post by Deane B on Feb 8, 2010 9:08:16 GMT 12
In a "brilliant" programming decision the show was bumped to Monday nights at the last minute - much to the disgust of many viewers (and several of us crew) going by the numerous phone calls coming into the building at the moment. So does that mean the Spitfire model episode is on Tonight ? |
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Post by roan on Feb 8, 2010 14:49:58 GMT 12
In a "brilliant" programming decision the show was bumped to Monday nights at the last minute - much to the disgust of many viewers (and several of us crew) going by the numerous phone calls coming into the building at the moment. So does that mean the Spitfire model episode is on Tonight ? I have just checked the TV3 programming for tonight and it is on at 7.30pm. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 8, 2010 19:36:32 GMT 12
That was really great, I enjoyed it very much. I have resisted watch it on Youtube so as not to spoil it, and I'm pleased I did. James is so right that building kits gives kids a range of skills - not just educationally as he was saying but also artisticly too.
I wonder if when this aired in Britain whether it upped the sales of Airfix kits?
Does anyone know who the Spitfire pilots were? The lady must have been an ATA pilot I guess.
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Post by obiwan27 on Feb 9, 2010 14:45:15 GMT 12
Hi Dave we watched it last night with our folks who are over visiting from Oz. I think James said it was all his Dad's fault as he gave him the Spitfire Airfix kit as a gift. Funnily enough our Dad did a similar thing but actually gave us a 'class' in model kit building using the Spitfire (not sure if it was Airfix) and that's how we got started. How did other forum members get started in the aircraft modeling hobby?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 9, 2010 15:10:57 GMT 12
I rememebr building my first ever kit with my Dad, at age of about 6. It was a 1/144th scale Bandai Zero. Dad was a model builder from way back, doing when he was a kid in the 1940's and 50's, making freeflight balsa. He later did Airfix and Frog kits. When he grew up he was big into R/C aeroplanes and was twice the National President of the New Zealand Model Aircraft Association (not that the history on their website mentions him and the Cambridge Club who sorted out the NZMAA when it was in total turmoil in the mid-1970's) and then he founded SAANZ which rivalled NZMAA for several years. He later ran his own model business, GRH Hobbies. So I had a very good teacher.
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Post by ams888 on Feb 20, 2010 8:00:31 GMT 12
My first models were made for me by my dad. They were a range of 1/144 jets (hornet, phantom, and tornado) Then he built me a 1/72 mitchell bomber, and also a couple of 1/24 cars and hotrods. My dad was very good at building models for us, even with those stupid little tubes of glue that come in the boxes. I still have most of them, usually missing some parts, but too much sentimental value to get rid of...I gave it a go on (believe it or not) an airfix spitfire, and hurricane, which i brought at model x, when i was about 11. Been hooked ever since.
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I was hoping you'd lead me in the right direction!
