Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (18 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

 

[Viking1066]

USS Saratoga (CV-3) Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters on the flight deck, as a TBM torpedo plane approaches to land, circa 1943-44 HISN

 

[Viking1066]

SBC Helldivers of VB-3 of the USS Yorktwon flying to Iwo Jima February 1945 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

P-51 Mustangs being transported through the Mersey Tunnel Liverpool England REDD

 

[Greg Boeser]

Buin is on the north coast of mainland New Guinea almost directly above Port Moresby and on the north end of the Kokoda Track - Not in the Solomons,

You are thinking of Buna.
Buin is a town on Bougainville.

 

[MiTasol]

Darn - you are right. I must be suffering from that horrible disease called Ol dage

 

[Viking1066]

A close-up which shows the "C" marking seen on many aircraft assigned to ASW units later in the war INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Another view of the same Ki-48-IIa of the 208th Sentai abandoned at Clark Field February 1945 WINS

 

[CATCH 22]

A close-up which shows the "C" marking seen on many aircraft assigned to ASW units later in the war INHG
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Which was to keep the right distance, when flying in formation, AFAIR. When the "C" optically "closes" in a circle, you are there!

 

[Viking1066]

A Ki-27 of the 59th Sentai carrying its drop tank OPSO

 

[Viking1066]

Aircrew board their E13A1 on Kimikawa Maru INHG

 

[flypaper2222]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

E13A1 from a shore-based anti-submarine unit displays several features of later production aircraft INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Flight Ki-2 bombers 1930's ALTH

 

[Viking1066]

Heinkel He 112 in Japanese colors 1945 DEST

 

[flypaper2222]

The last rotary powered aircraft used by the Army Air Service was the Fokker D-VIII (E5), several were returned to the US after the war to be examined and studied. They were also used in air displays and racing. The last one was stricken from AAS service in 1927. It was

later destroyed in a hanger fire in 1928.

 

[CATCH 22]

"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end..."

The guy with the camera is possibly my alter ego: a traveler, visiting a foreign city and searching for the hobby (model) shops.

 

[flypaper2222]

"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end..."
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The guy with the camera is possibly my alter ego: a traveler, visiting a foreign city and searching for the hobby (model) shops.

actually they havent, better kits, paints, information etc. Whats changed is the cost.....when you have to take out a loan to buy a 1/32 scale you know "those days are gone forever".

 

[CATCH 22]

actually they havent, better kits, paints, information etc. Whats changed is the cost.....when you have to take out a loan to buy a 1/32 scale you know "those days are gone forever".

I was thinking of something completely different: standing in front of a hobby store and looking at the models.
Where do you buy your models from and how many hobby stores (with plastic models, not for RC-fans) are there in your vicinity, let say in less than 10km/miles radius from your home?
I'm lucky - there are 2 bigger plastic models stores, approx. 15km from my home and I can visit both at the same time. I never buy from the one (because of what you mentioned above), but occasionally bring some older models from the second (they buy second-hand from modellers and sell with a profit, of course).
Those two are the typical "industrial units" (1-storey buildings with flat roof and steel structure) where you can have a lawyer, pet grooming or a Transylvanian clairvoyant as a neighbor. No window to look trough, no boys (older as well) standing in front of the store, no atmosphere. That's gone.