Best telly in ages...IMHO

Bladesman · Post by **Bladesman** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:15 pm

James May on BBC2 tonight with a programme about Airfix model kits (and in particular the Spitfire)

abash914 · Post by **abash914** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:49 pm

Agreed. Similar boyhood - especially as deepest Cornwall had little else to offer and the Newsagent in Padstow was an Airfix & Revell stockist....
TV that was different and spanned generations!! Great.
AA

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:54 pm

Yes, as good as I expected.
Thomas Telford is one of the top schools mind, but a great hour of TV.

GP911 · Post by **GP911** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:22 pm

Great stuff.

sladey · Post by **sladey** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:17 am

Caught it on iplayer - really enjoyed it

middlefour1 · Post by **middlefour1** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:38 am

Very good, best hour's telly in ages.

jwhillracer · Post by **jwhillracer** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:13 am

Superb programme! Have a look at http://www.gateguardsuk.com/index.html

Do you think the Spitfire Club Great Britain get sniffy about people having fibreglass replicas?

Cheers!

JW

( Interesting to note all the previous posts have been by DDK'rs " of a certain age"!

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middlefour1 · Post by **middlefour1** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:45 am

jwhillracer wrote: Interesting to note all the previous posts have been by DDK'rs " of a certain age"! )

True, true..... What would you give for a ride in the back seat of Caroline Grace's Spitfire. I have sat on her tail, as it were. When the Vulcan came into Bruntingthorpe a mate and I were on 'guard' duty around her Spitfire. It was a very windy day and when she was going to leave she asked me to sit on the tail whilst she taxied round to the runway. As you can see from this rather faded picture it was a bit brezy on the back!! Good fun though.

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:16 am

You look like Van Damme!

middlefour1 · Post by **middlefour1** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:26 am

Nige wrote:You look like Van Damme!

jwhillracer · Post by **jwhillracer** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:38 am

I guess it's the same reason that Graham's Lola project is so fascinating, part Meccano, part Airfix kit, part Porsche!

Cheers!

JW

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:50 am

Still got all my kits in my parents loft, assuming they haven't had a clear out to make Dad's Dungeon or something.

defianty · Post by **defianty** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:56 am

sladey wrote:Caught it on iplayer - really enjoyed it

I missed this and couldn't find it on iPlayer, I'll have to take another look.

356 Newbie · Post by **356 Newbie** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:13 am

Both myself and the missus really enjoyed it!

Didnt realise it was all going on just a stones throw from me (telford / cosford).

You'd have thought that the brummy in cornwall would have been a bit happier given the large amount of cash that he might have got / the free advertising!

I'll be at the cosford museum on sunday for the breakfast club meet so i might pop in and see if the model is still there!

mycar · Post by **mycar** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:55 am

356 Newbie wrote: You'd have thought that the brummy in cornwall would have been a bit happier given the large amount of cash that he might have got / the free advertising!

I hope he did get payed handsomely, I think he did a really excellent job. That look on his face was exactly the look I have when a customer, who knows nothing about the process, turns up and starts telling me that what he wants is going to be a piece of p!ss to make and can he have it the day after tomorrow.

Re Niges youtube about the grahics client.

Mike.