Creativity thread

some of them a little bigger!  

They are expertly put together, kits aren't actually always that easy to achieve that (my husband had a little bi-plane and about gave up on it), but they looks really solid. It reminds me of my dad's collection of world war 2 naval ships. 

Jolly good 

Cinnabar_wing said:

so couldn't be closer

well it could have been - but that would have been just too much of a coincidence!  Glad you like the photo 

best wishes :-)

We've managed to dig out when he did the flight, and it was July 2010! Brilliant photo! And exactly the right time frame -I looked it up and flying legends show was 10-11th that year, and he did it on the 16th, so couldn't be closer!

By a strange coincidence I took this photo at "flying legends" at Duxford in July 2010 Cinnabar_wing :-)

Hehe glad to learn that I'm no the only one holding on to my childhood!

Yep my wife and I are really fortunate to have those creative spaces - being creative is a great use for that "monotropic" skill.  

If you have a photo of the yellow tiger moth at Duxford, I'd love to see that, I think there were two flying that day, a grey and a yellow one, and it was the latter he went in. We have a dvd, but I'm trying to remember where the pictures would be from it, as it was 16 years ago, and it would have been an old camera most likely, certainly nothing with that clarity.

Ahh you have a white dwarf from the magazine, I did play myself back in school, but it was my brother's magazine so I didn't get the figure -at least the white metal was better than the older ones we used to get, which I'm sure might have contained lead. Probably why they always insisted models were at least undercoated! I still have a lot of mine in boxes, where as Damian has his in display cabinets in the office! 

That is some serious hacking skills to get a suitable place for using the airbrush, but must make it a lot handier to use. And an art studio in the garden sounds grand, both really good set ups for creativity!

that's a great coincidence! if it's not the exact one i have some of other tiger moths at Duxford if you haven' already got one (hehe after writing that i realise that's pretty unlikely - that sort of event definitely one likely to be captured ( including the post flight grin!)  I painted a lot of "dungeons and dragons" figures a looooong time ago - still got lots of them stashed away and my daughter now plays the game - (hehe mention to your husband that I have a white metal figure of "the White Dwarf" that was an early games workshop and see what he says maybe!  i painted and donated a lot of "spacemarines" et al several years ago to a suitably minded person.  Great to have hand individualised figures for the games!  yep the compressor for the airbrush is a bit noisy ( and the fumes a bit smelly!) I hacked into the extractor pipe for our downstairs loo and set up a fume cupboard to the outside world from my model cave (that was meant to be a professional workspace!).  Fortunately for my good lady wife we were able to build her a nice insulated arts studio in the garden after the misfortune of a tree blowing down meant an insurance "windfall" - nicely sound insulated too!  best wishes

Oh yes, it could even be the very plane, as it was at Duxford we went to. Their museum is really good too. 

That's some good advice I'll pass on about constructing a support for the biplane during gluing. My husband's display are mostly games workshop models, though he was painting up the models from a board game, mansions of madness (Lovecraft based as you can imagine). He has an airbrush, though it's quite noisy so he hasn't used it much.

here's a photo of a tiger moth from duxford a few years ago i hope it reminds of a happy flight!

here's a photo of a tiger moth from duxford a few years ago i hope it reminds of a happy flight!

Jolly good 

Cinnabar_wing said:

so couldn't be closer

well it could have been - but that would have been just too much of a coincidence!  Glad you like the photo 

best wishes :-)

We've managed to dig out when he did the flight, and it was July 2010! Brilliant photo! And exactly the right time frame -I looked it up and flying legends show was 10-11th that year, and he did it on the 16th, so couldn't be closer!

By a strange coincidence I took this photo at "flying legends" at Duxford in July 2010 Cinnabar_wing :-)

Hehe glad to learn that I'm no the only one holding on to my childhood!

Yep my wife and I are really fortunate to have those creative spaces - being creative is a great use for that "monotropic" skill.  

If you have a photo of the yellow tiger moth at Duxford, I'd love to see that, I think there were two flying that day, a grey and a yellow one, and it was the latter he went in. We have a dvd, but I'm trying to remember where the pictures would be from it, as it was 16 years ago, and it would have been an old camera most likely, certainly nothing with that clarity.

Ahh you have a white dwarf from the magazine, I did play myself back in school, but it was my brother's magazine so I didn't get the figure -at least the white metal was better than the older ones we used to get, which I'm sure might have contained lead. Probably why they always insisted models were at least undercoated! I still have a lot of mine in boxes, where as Damian has his in display cabinets in the office! 

That is some serious hacking skills to get a suitable place for using the airbrush, but must make it a lot handier to use. And an art studio in the garden sounds grand, both really good set ups for creativity!

that's a great coincidence! if it's not the exact one i have some of other tiger moths at Duxford if you haven' already got one (hehe after writing that i realise that's pretty unlikely - that sort of event definitely one likely to be captured ( including the post flight grin!)  I painted a lot of "dungeons and dragons" figures a looooong time ago - still got lots of them stashed away and my daughter now plays the game - (hehe mention to your husband that I have a white metal figure of "the White Dwarf" that was an early games workshop and see what he says maybe!  i painted and donated a lot of "spacemarines" et al several years ago to a suitably minded person.  Great to have hand individualised figures for the games!  yep the compressor for the airbrush is a bit noisy ( and the fumes a bit smelly!) I hacked into the extractor pipe for our downstairs loo and set up a fume cupboard to the outside world from my model cave (that was meant to be a professional workspace!).  Fortunately for my good lady wife we were able to build her a nice insulated arts studio in the garden after the misfortune of a tree blowing down meant an insurance "windfall" - nicely sound insulated too!  best wishes

Oh yes, it could even be the very plane, as it was at Duxford we went to. Their museum is really good too. 

That's some good advice I'll pass on about constructing a support for the biplane during gluing. My husband's display are mostly games workshop models, though he was painting up the models from a board game, mansions of madness (Lovecraft based as you can imagine). He has an airbrush, though it's quite noisy so he hasn't used it much.