About me
- Name:
- Dicky Swanhill
- Nickname:
- WAM BEAU
- Country:
United Kingdom- Town:
- Isle of Wight
- Member since:
- February 20, 2022
- Communities:
- papermates.net (Paper modeling)gundammates.com (Gundam modeling)railwaymates.com (Train modeling)diecastmates.com (Diecast models)rcmates.net (RC modeling)
Hi!
Aircraft model maker for some fifty years. Teethed on Frog (still croaking) and Airfix. Razor saws, putty, cross-kitting and stretched sprue... Alan Hall in the Airfix Magazine. Worked in splendid isolation until joining IPMS Essex in the late eighties. Best thing ever! So much help and improvement, through dialogue and sharing of techniques. Modern mainstream kits are so well detailed though, I feel the tooling does much of the model making for you! Late eighties/early nineties probably my halcyon days. Probably just as well, because I think getting models made of most Wight and Saunders types is going to be brutal. Plans, donor kits, junked scraps, scratch building, and persistence.
Aircraft model maker for some fifty years. Teethed on Frog (still croaking) and Airfix. Razor saws, putty, cross-kitting and stretched sprue... Alan Hall in the Airfix Magazine. Worked in splendid isolation until joining IPMS Essex in the late eighties. Best thing ever! So much help and improvement, through dialogue and sharing of techniques. Modern mainstream kits are so well detailed though, I feel the tooling does much of the model making for you! Late eighties/early nineties probably my halcyon days. Probably just as well, because I think getting models made of most Wight and Saunders types is going to be brutal. Plans, donor kits, junked scraps, scratch building, and persistence.
Goin' up to the loft room in the sky,
Perhaps tomorrow or bye and bye,
When I've died and they've had all my cash,
They'll start getting rid of my accumulated stash.
Small air forces of World War Two,
The odd old weird types many flew,
Vac-forms, short runs and stuff made from goo,
One time I built many, now I only make a few.
Never been a winner, not entered much,
Modelled for fun and loved the research..........
Half finished projects, unfulfilled,
They can all be added to the kits I'll never build.
Slowin’ up I moved to the Wight,
Air Museum, love at first sight,
Joining up, I just felt I ought,
To add me some flying boats to the stuff already bought.
To add me some flying boats to the stuff already bought......
To add me some flying boats to the stuff already bought......
All the money that I’ve spent and most has come to nought....
Perhaps tomorrow or bye and bye,
When I've died and they've had all my cash,
They'll start getting rid of my accumulated stash.
Small air forces of World War Two,
The odd old weird types many flew,
Vac-forms, short runs and stuff made from goo,
One time I built many, now I only make a few.
Never been a winner, not entered much,
Modelled for fun and loved the research..........
Half finished projects, unfulfilled,
They can all be added to the kits I'll never build.
Slowin’ up I moved to the Wight,
Air Museum, love at first sight,
Joining up, I just felt I ought,
To add me some flying boats to the stuff already bought.
To add me some flying boats to the stuff already bought......
To add me some flying boats to the stuff already bought......
All the money that I’ve spent and most has come to nought....
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