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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 May 2016, 04:20:07 PM

Title: My day today...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 May 2016, 04:20:07 PM
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/image_zpsrnargpip.jpeg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/image_zpsrnargpip.jpeg.html)

Is it FSN's front room?
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/image_zpsvpxu5acj.jpeg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/image_zpsvpxu5acj.jpeg.html)

Or Techno's lawn?
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/image_zps3r47o6cq.jpeg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/image_zps3r47o6cq.jpeg.html)
Ithorial's spare room?
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/image_zpsbgrvwgpi.jpeg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/image_zpsbgrvwgpi.jpeg.html)
Or is this secretly how Leon gets orders out so quickly?
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/image_zpstbgtlid8.jpeg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/image_zpstbgtlid8.jpeg.html)

Not a bad spot for lunch though!
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Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Steve J on 12 May 2016, 05:49:45 PM
Now that's what I call a nice day out :)
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Westmarcher on 12 May 2016, 06:19:24 PM
Looks like a good day out! Where is it? Duxford?
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: fsn on 12 May 2016, 07:58:20 PM
Very good paintwork Lemmey. So realistic. Submit one or two of these and you'll win the 2017 painting competition no problem.

One comment, your Tornado paint looks a bit blurry.

:P


On the other hand ... where were you?
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: paulr on 12 May 2016, 08:05:51 PM
You lucky lucky b*st*rd :)
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Womble67 on 12 May 2016, 10:09:42 PM
Looks like you had a good day

Take care

Andy
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: pierre the shy on 12 May 2016, 10:12:14 PM
Looks like Duxford....not that I've been there for a while  :(

Looks like a great day out  :)
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 May 2016, 10:28:35 PM
School trip to Duxford. :)
Best moment of the day, walking into the 1940 Battle Of Britain display and two of my girls saying "Look, it's a Messerschmitt 109!"

So proud!
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: paulr on 13 May 2016, 12:32:06 AM
Well done those daughters =D>

I wonder where they could have learnt that  :-\
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: FierceKitty on 13 May 2016, 04:41:27 AM
I once showed my first wife a 1:3000 model of the Dreadnaught. She looked at it for a few seconds and remarked "The lookout must have been blinded by smoke. Why's the mast behind the funnel?" A point that historically the Admiralty didn't pick up until trials of the completed battleship.
Brainy woman, that was (and is).
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 13 May 2016, 05:56:32 AM
Quote from: paulr on 13 May 2016, 12:32:06 AM
Well done those daughters =D>

I wonder where they could have learnt that  :-\

Wasn't my daughters, these were members of my class! ;D
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Techno on 13 May 2016, 09:43:25 AM
That's not my lawn !

Nowhere as level as that !

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Leman on 13 May 2016, 11:21:36 AM
Quote from: paulr on 12 May 2016, 08:05:51 PM
You lucky lucky b*st*rd :)
He's a teacher. Lucky is pretty much a moveable feast in that profession - if you can still call it a profession , with all the regulations now governing every aspect, including, if you believe this morning's news, the necessity to "moderate a northern accent." Whatever 'king next!!!
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: skywalker on 13 May 2016, 11:26:36 AM
Great day out. IWM Duxford is my favourite museum, closely followed by Bovington Tank Museum and The Fleet Air Arm Museum.

:) :)
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Roy on 13 May 2016, 12:58:02 PM
Tank museum is a favourite of mine.

Last time I was down that way my godparents (obviously am going back a long time, as do you still have godparents when you're an adult?) took me to Southsea and area to go to the D-Day museum and then another place which had a Short Sunderland inside the building. Best part of the day, that, climbing inside the Sunderland and getting to sit at the controls up in the cockpit. I just can't remember what the museum was called, and it must have been in the Portsmouth or Southampton area as it was under an hours drive from the D-Day place.
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Nosher on 13 May 2016, 01:13:12 PM
Quote from: Leman on 13 May 2016, 11:21:36 AM
if you believe this morning's news, the necessity to "moderate a northern accent." Whatever 'king next!!!

Good luck with that. People have been trying to moderate my accent for 48 years. A fair few have left with bloody noses - metaphorically and on occasion physically.
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Leman on 13 May 2016, 02:30:48 PM
 ;D ;D ;D Well done that man!
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: jimduncanuk on 13 May 2016, 03:31:09 PM
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 May 2016, 12:58:02 PM

Last time I was down that way my godparents (obviously am going back a long time, as do you still have godparents when you're an adult?) took me to Southsea and area to go to the D-Day museum and then another place which had a Short Sunderland inside the building. Best part of the day, that, climbing inside the Sunderland and getting to sit at the controls up in the cockpit. I just can't remember what the museum was called, and it must have been in the Portsmouth or Southampton area as it was under an hours drive from the D-Day place.


Probably the Royal Naval Air Service Museum at Yeovilton.

http://www.fleetairarm.com

Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: SerialLoser on 16 May 2016, 08:12:19 AM
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 May 2016, 12:58:02 PM
Tank museum is a favourite of mine.

Last time I was down that way my godparents (obviously am going back a long time, as do you still have godparents when you're an adult?) took me to Southsea and area to go to the D-Day museum and then another place which had a Short Sunderland inside the building. Best part of the day, that, climbing inside the Sunderland and getting to sit at the controls up in the cockpit. I just can't remember what the museum was called, and it must have been in the Portsmouth or Southampton area as it was under an hours drive from the D-Day place.


Solent Sky museum in Southampton (round the corner from where I work, used to go there in my lunch hour, until subsidies were cut and the prices shot up!). I don't think it's a Sunderland, though, but one of the Civvie versions. Used to have a Folland Gnat parked in the car park, too.
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Roy on 16 May 2016, 08:47:03 AM
Quote from: SerialLoser on 16 May 2016, 08:12:19 AM
Solent Sky museum in Southampton (round the corner from where I work, used to go there in my lunch hour, until subsidies were cut and the prices shot up!). I don't think it's a Sunderland, though, but one of the Civvie versions. Used to have a Folland Gnat parked in the car park, too.

Yes, you could just be correct - more thank likely, in fact. Looking at the photos on their website, and on google, it seems to match what little I can remember of the place. In fact all I can remember was the fact there was a big flying boat inside a building and I got to go inside it.
I was sure it was a Sunderland ... but obviously it wasn't.
Thank you for the info, as it has been plaguing me for years trying to find out where it was that I'd been taken to as a kid.
:)
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Tawa on 18 May 2016, 02:22:19 PM
I don't remember there being a '17 at Duxford?  :o
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 18 May 2016, 03:49:38 PM
Two now: One on the ground, one in US hanger!
Title: Re: My day today...
Post by: Tawa on 20 May 2016, 09:14:08 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 May 2016, 03:49:38 PM
Two now: One on the ground, one in US hanger!


I feel a visit to Duxford coming on.....  :D