Imperial War Museum Duxford

Moose-a-roo, I'm doing little bits and pieces on that in between... stages of a much bigger project which is in 1 32nd scale and after thinking no i'll wait and to buy one a club member who bought the edward 1 32nd mustang b took one lick in the box and went oh no i don't want to do all of that 3d stuff and i thought okay and he's like do you want it so we agreed a price and i bought it and started it and Well, I don't think, I certainly didn't think I'd build it as quick as I have.

Admittedly, I did take it to Duxford to the final flying day of the season with the Motley IPMS crew.

And we sat there and did some modelling as well.

I don't usually do building models at shows, if I'm honest with you.

I think the challenge is coming on quite nicely.

I have taken my time on it.

Obviously, I know we had a an issue with a certain heat wave which sort of curtailed it progress a little bit but I've been really enjoying the process I was talking to Dan about it when we met up at Duxford and obviously that said a minute ago I've been updating you guys as well with progress and I'm really enjoying it I'm looking forward to and now it's all masked up because I've so I've painted all of that the wheels and i've got all the side skirts and all that painted as well and now it's all masked up ready so i can do the the rest of the body so yeah looking forward to

how did you paint the wheels shit how yeah i just want to know what method you were

November 1947, an invitation to tender was issued for specification B33-46 for a medium bomber.

So one of the things, again, to remember when you see the sort of Vulcan and the Victor towering over you at Cosford or at Duxford is these were actually medium bombers.

This wasn't considered a heavy bomber.

And the result

So just the flight was only three hours long.

So having seen those seats on Concorde and the one at Duxford, the amount of room, it's not massive amount

of

room.

You can see Spitfires today at air shows across England and at museums from London to Los Angeles.

The Imperial War Museum at Duxford has them flying.

The Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford and at Hendon has them on static display.

The Solent Sky Museum in Southampton, near where Mitchell worked, has materials from his design work and the story of how the Schneider races became the Spitfire.

And the big boys, the 18-wheel trucks of 26 tonnes or over, can claim £120,000.

Now, that might sound like a lot, but a DAF electric truck, similar to the one in which Liam and I travelled from Welsh Group in Duxford recently, can cost £270,000.

So there's still quite an outlay there.

For smaller vehicles, there's the LCV grant, known as the Low Emission Van Grant.

There is on that B-52.

It has got it from fucking Duxford.

Hold on.

Did you see a plane just flying like that? That's how it

And he saw it and he was like, "Oh, Daddy, that looks really cool.

I would really like a Hurricane." And I think he felt inspired from the day before, because we were actually at the Battle of Britain Air Show at Duxford the day before we went to the Tank Museum, so it was a very fun-filled weekend, and he managed to find the last one on the shelf, so he got that.

And Jacob picked up a World War II Puma, which I think he's been, he's been a fan of 'cause it's in games like War Thunder and World of Tanks and all that sort of stuff.

So he's, he's started building that.

Yeah, we're still at, we're still at board meeting level with that one.

Fair enough.

I also went to the Battle of Britain show at Duxford both days.

Sunday was a bit of a washout in the morning, which meant that we had the world and his wife come in and walk past the models 'cause it was raining outside, which was-