I think I'd like it Neil, so that I can send it back to you and say;
'OK, here's a serious project for you. In order to expand your already extensive knowledge and apprecaition of WW2 fighters, and particularly the aircraft and men of the RCAF during the war, your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to carry out research to enable you to then continue, to build as near a perfect (outwardly) replica of Spitfire MkV, in 1/48th scale, of any serving RCAF Squadron equipped with the type during World War Two. Furthermore, the model should accurately represent a specific airframe, and be representative of a particular pilot or pilots, who's service careers, and ultimate fate, should be illustrated along with the service history (as far as is known) of the chosen subject.'
'Having completed this part of the mission, the next step is to document the reserach, and convert this, in an easy to read and absorbing and interesting style, into a convenient form for publication and access on this forum. This document should be illustrated, where possible, with contemporary photos, maps and/or other historic documents, showing and supporting the evidence of the reserach, and culminating in a series of pictures of the completed model, demonstrating how it accurately depicts the actual subject airframe at a specific time period. Additionally, the actual build of the model is to be recounted and illustrated, highlighting any problem areas and how they were overcome, and presented in such a form as to be interesting and informative, whilst at the same time being educatrional without being self-centered. Any and all sources of illustrations, documents and accounts should be listed and/or acknowledged and, in the event that certain information might be lacking, a request for same should be politely requested, in order to complete the historic documentation and recording of this portion of our history.'
'In completing this mission, you will not only have (hopefully) re-kindled an interest in an absorbing and creative hobby, but you will have saved a module of history from possible total loss, and re-created that piece of very important history in miniature, in a form which is not only easily accessible, but in '3D', and quickly and easily assimilated, especially by those members of a generation, or generations, to whom WW2 is very realistically 'ancient' history, and not fully understood, by that geneation (generations) to be the very reasaon they are able to walk freely within their existanc e today'.
Good enough?!
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