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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 25, 2008 1:45:24 GMT 12
Above is a poster I have created for the upcoming military model display and competition at the Armistice in Cambridge weekend. Though there have been many r/c models at this event in the past this is a new aspect, bringing the scale plastic models into it. We hope that modellers will attend from across the country. As well as displaying your models and dioramas, there will be a competition in which the public at large chooses the winner by voting for their favourite model/s. Modellers of all ages and skill levels are invited to enter. There will be seperate categories I believe. Do you know of a model shop in your area where we can send a poster to? Or are you in a club or group where you can spread the word? Please tell everyone about this, we hope that it will become a big success. Don't forget as well as models there's MUCH more to see during the weekend. Contact Rob Pinfold at Models@armisticeincambridge.co.nzOr see www.armisticeincambridge.co.nz
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Post by tibor on Jun 25, 2008 7:49:56 GMT 12
Dave, you may want to correct the spelling in your blurb before you print them, from "out website" to "our website". And also change "Cambidge" in the black box at the bottom.
And is that Captain Mainwaring?
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Post by Bruce on Jun 25, 2008 8:46:11 GMT 12
Might give it a go this year.....
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 25, 2008 12:08:41 GMT 12
Thanks Craig, I hadn't picked up those errors. I did this poster at about 2am so not surprising. We haven't printed them yet, so I will alter the master.
Yes, that is my Captain Mainwaring model, he's 120mm, I made him quite some years ago. I thought if anyone would raise the masses, he world ;D
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Post by tibor on Jun 25, 2008 12:54:26 GMT 12
Thanks Craig, I hadn't picked up those errors. I did this poster at about 2am so not surprising. We haven't printed them yet, so I will alter the master. Yes, that is my Captain Mainwaring model, he's 120mm, I made him quite some years ago. I thought if anyone would raise the masses, he world ;D Craig? Not quite, but I've answered to worse... "Took you a while to spot that one, didn't it Wilson?"
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 25, 2008 13:02:38 GMT 12
Sorry about that, got mixed up between Talon and Tibor...
Stupid boy...
The errors have now been fixed.
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Post by tibor on Jun 25, 2008 13:07:06 GMT 12
Sorry about that, got mixed up between Talon and Tibor... Stupid boy... The errors have now been fixed. An easy mistake to make, after all have you ever seen us in the same room together? "Just testing you, Wilson."
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 25, 2008 13:57:35 GMT 12
"Do you think that's wise, Sir?"
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Post by corsair67 on Jun 25, 2008 14:10:33 GMT 12
There's too many Craigs on this forum! A plague of Craigs? ;D
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jun 25, 2008 23:11:46 GMT 12
Those Dad's Army figures are very cool.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 25, 2008 23:49:30 GMT 12
Thanks Joe. I've done a few others too, Hodges, Jones, Walker, Pike, Godfrey and Frazer (most of them just heads so far) but they're all packed away. I also have Rangi Ram and the Punka Walla Rumzen from It Ain't Half Hot Mum completed, and was workign on the Sgt Major and Lofty Sugden too, the latter two also put away. I can photograph Rangi and Rumzan if you want to see them.
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Post by silverfox on Jun 26, 2008 7:20:57 GMT 12
The Dads Army chaps are fantastic, I for one would love to see more.
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Post by stu on Jun 26, 2008 8:57:45 GMT 12
The figures are fantastic Dave, more please
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jun 26, 2008 10:13:59 GMT 12
Dave, bring out Rangi and the Punka Walla. These figures are awesome.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 26, 2008 13:54:30 GMT 12
Blimey, I didn't expect this sort of reaction to my humble figures. I wouldn't say they're 'awesome', novel perhaps. Well, here's Rangi and the Punka Wallah (excuse the dust and hurried photography...). Everything is sculpted from Milliput except their hands and the basic heads which were Verlinden from memory, but they have both had their heads resculpted if course. They look better in person, the camera sees all the flaws. "And shit up straight when you are punka-ing!"
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 26, 2008 14:06:15 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jun 26, 2008 22:18:16 GMT 12
Very cool Dave, great work. I just finished collecting the last of the BBC Dad's Army DVD's, and have five of the It Ain't Half Hot Mum series so far. Love both those shows, I watch them regularly and they still bring a smile or laugh. Timeless humour, cleverly made, and honest pure British comedy. I know we're going off topic here from your Cambridge Modelling Competition thread, but the first Dad's Army DVD had some lost episodes (as did the It Aint Half Hot Mum one), but there were still one or two missing. Did the remaining episodes ever turn up in the archives or in someone's garage?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 26, 2008 22:35:19 GMT 12
The Dad's Army lost episodes have never turned up. They are: - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker - A Stripe For Frazer - Under Fire and the 1970 mini-episode from Christmas Night With The Stars (of which an audio recording from TV exists, as well as it being remade for the stage show and radio). Radio versions of the three lost ones do exist but they're never quite the same.
Incidentally, those two recovered ex-lost episodes on the IAHHM DVD were recovered and returned to the BBC by me, not that they gave me any credit. I did a search and found they had been recorded by a chap in Australia off air in about 1984. Typically the Aussie channel had cut bits out to squeeze adverts in, so they're not complete. They guy who taped them wasn't aware they'd been lost by the BBC. I sent them to David Croft who passed them onto the BBC and eventually to you loyal fans. The seen between the Sgt Major and Renu Setna over the bell makes the whole thing worth while!
I partially wrote a book on IAHHM once. No-one would publish it because the BBC reckoned it was racist and refused to repeat it. That's nonsense of course, Melvyn Hayes told me his theory was there were too many of them still alive to pay royalties to, and they'd repeat it again when they were all dead like they did with Dad's Army. I think he'd right, since then three of the cast have died and now they're selling it on DVD, so maybe I should dig the manuscript out of storage.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 26, 2008 22:36:48 GMT 12
I might start a new thread for the model competiton later, this one went haywire.
I'm off to watch some IAHHM...
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jun 26, 2008 22:45:46 GMT 12
Wow, you should push for a book to be publised Dave. Maybe a new thread for this topic might also be in order, it's quite fascinating.
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