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Colonel
I just had to post this in a separate thread.
Today I proved you cannot pass up Anything. No matter how silly it may seem at the time, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Annie and I are travelling South Australia. We are in the Barossa Valley, wine country. Miles from anything that counts, not an airport in sight. So you could imagine my uncertainty when I find a flyer in the Information centre advertising an "air museum", out in the country amidst the vineyards. So I says to myself, "Self, you just gotta go see what this is all about"! So we did. What a surprise. I also gotta tell yas, this has happened more than once in this country. Something unexpected, like the submarine in a park in Holbrook, sitting in a concrete slab at the waterline. Miles inland. Or the maritime museum with an old wood ferry used on the Sydney Harbour in drydock, the museum literally built around it.
You think you have models.......... Lincoln has a collection that has spanned many, many years. He has been building models for more years than most, and is still at it. He's got a couple of 1/48th B-25's he's about to start, because he found some real bargain cabinets to put them in. We chatted for over an hour after we went thru his Museum. He had been a pilot flying between the islands around the top end of Oz, a most interesting bloke.
From all over he has been collecting stuff from other collectors. Bits and big pieces of planes being used for spare parts. How many of you have a Canberra in the back yard, with a full size P-51 mock-up sitting next to it I ask. Lincoln does. You see just a sample of the stuff in the photos. It was magic. More than one Merlin engine, a full size, real, Viper in there as well. It just went on and on. So you just never know, if you are in the Barossa, you gotta go see Lincoln.
Just look at his wind vane!!!!!!!!!
Today I proved you cannot pass up Anything. No matter how silly it may seem at the time, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Annie and I are travelling South Australia. We are in the Barossa Valley, wine country. Miles from anything that counts, not an airport in sight. So you could imagine my uncertainty when I find a flyer in the Information centre advertising an "air museum", out in the country amidst the vineyards. So I says to myself, "Self, you just gotta go see what this is all about"! So we did. What a surprise. I also gotta tell yas, this has happened more than once in this country. Something unexpected, like the submarine in a park in Holbrook, sitting in a concrete slab at the waterline. Miles inland. Or the maritime museum with an old wood ferry used on the Sydney Harbour in drydock, the museum literally built around it.
You think you have models.......... Lincoln has a collection that has spanned many, many years. He has been building models for more years than most, and is still at it. He's got a couple of 1/48th B-25's he's about to start, because he found some real bargain cabinets to put them in. We chatted for over an hour after we went thru his Museum. He had been a pilot flying between the islands around the top end of Oz, a most interesting bloke.
From all over he has been collecting stuff from other collectors. Bits and big pieces of planes being used for spare parts. How many of you have a Canberra in the back yard, with a full size P-51 mock-up sitting next to it I ask. Lincoln does. You see just a sample of the stuff in the photos. It was magic. More than one Merlin engine, a full size, real, Viper in there as well. It just went on and on. So you just never know, if you are in the Barossa, you gotta go see Lincoln.
Just look at his wind vane!!!!!!!!!
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