Diary Dates –

Feb 16th /17th South West Model Show Bovington Mar 2nd ModelEx Aldingbourn

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February 2019 – Jim’s Issue No.86

Parish Notes from January.

At the January meeting we, the members present, decided the Vikings would attend Bovington and Yeovil to start the show year off. Later we heard from Aldingbourn and applied to attend there also. Terry was volunteered to coordinate the Telford theme again this year and has since sent out an email with some suggestions and requesting more for us to select from soon. Mike offered to run the sales table at our show again, on the same lines as last year and will bring along the forms so they can be filled in before the show avoiding a last minute panic. Kip will be looking in to the prospect of a club outing to Red Bull and/or Williams F1 racing facilities in the future. Also mentioned was the fact that Viking members can try a years membership of BMSS or IPMS . for 50% of the cost, just speak to Ian Groves or Graham Young respectively. Whilst on this subject could current IPMS members please confirm to Graham their membership so that he can complete his paperwork for the society. Next Model of the Month, once again a excellent selection of models to chose from, and as has been mentioned before any one of them could win a show competition, so winning MoM is a great achievement. This month this was ‘achieved’ by Ian Domeney with his awesome, as they say nowadays, Hawker Sea Fury FBII from the Airfix kit. words/photo next page also later is a piece by Ian on his early modelling memories, if anybody else has memories please let us know. Speaking of memories I hope you have all remembered this month (February) we are inviting partners along for a buffet and to see what we get up to at our meetings. Next month we will be hosting Mr Dale Johnson with his talk on the Home Guard that was postponed from last August due to ill health. Hope to see you all at these meetings.

Jim

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HAWKER SEA FURY FB11

If you’ve ever stood by the side of a Bristol Centaurus when that nice man in the cockpit pressed the starter button on a Royal Navy Sea Fury and watched the tiny puffs of smoke before the ground shakes as all eighteen cylinders burst into life then you’ll understand why the Sea Fury is my favourite propeller driven aircraft. In the air it looks mean and purposeful but oh the sound. Over 53 litres punching out 3,000 horsepower makes your knees buckle and the back of your neck shiver. So it was no surprise that when Airfix released a 1/48 scale FB11 I was at the front of the queue to part with my pocket money. For around £22.00 it’s possible to build one of two examples straight from the box but I chose to model TF956 of The Royal Navy Historic Flight. This is the aircraft that Lt Cdr John Beattie parted company with over the sea near Prestwick. Some time ago I had acquired a set of decals and intended to use them on either of the two previously available kits by Trumpeter or Hobby craft. Reviews of the models were not great so the decals went into the stash for another day. Then the Airfix offering came along I was able to put them to use on what is really a beautiful kit. I did waste an extra £8.00 on buying a brass etch detail set for the cockpit. Had I realised that the kit items are pretty good and that when the fuselage halves are joined, everything disappears into a dark hole, I’d have saved my cash. Construction is very straightforward with no surprises although some of the wing- fold mechanism isn’t included in the kit so I had to add the missing jacks and electrical wiring from the spares box. Painting was also uncomplicated until I messed up the black and white fuselage stripes. Even after careful measuring and double checking I still managed to position the 123 ident number in the wrong part of the banding. Doh! Rub down and reapply. Anyway, there we are. Certainly a favourite of mine and I’m very pleased that you liked it enough to vote for it last month. Many thanks.

Ian Domeney

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Memories. Santa Claus delivered, overnight in 1962, the first Airfix kit I ever had. It was a bright red Renault Dauphine saloon. The kit was one of those in a plastic bag with a yellow and white printed graphic on the folded paper instruction sheet. This was a time when Airfix was renowned for scale rivets the size of dinner plates and pilot figures that bore more than a passing resemblance to The Mekon. Anyway, I seem to remember that all twenty odd pieces had been glued together before lunch on Christmas Day and ignoring the finger prints on the transparencies and the wonky front wheels, it actually looked pretty much like a miniature version of the Dauphine up the road that Mr and Mrs Wells owned. Friends of the family you understand. Mrs Wells was a woman of enormous proportions and quite how she fitted between the front passenger seat and the windscreen is still a mystery to me. Her husband was however a diminutive being who always wore a cloth cap and I’m amazed that he was ever able to see over the dashboard of that Renault. Sorry, I’m drifting off the point here. That fact is that I was pleased with the finished model. OK the overall dimensions may have been a few millimetres short. The tread on the tyres may have been cross-ply when the real thing had radials and the windscreen scaled up to be about eight inches thick but I made it and it stayed on my bedside cabinet for many years until its gradual dismantling by Mum’s duster finally confined the remains to the dustbin. Even that wasn’t a big issue because for less than a week’s pocket money I could call into Woolworths and replace it. It’s what all the kids in my street did. How things have changed. Ian Domeney

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Previous page, Hawker Sea Fury available in other colours! This one in the Museo De La Revolucion Havana. I will bore you next month with some details of my visit to Havana.

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This year’s shows

February 9th/10th -- Railway show. Hamworthy Club. February 16th/17 th -- South West Model Show. Bovington * February 23rd -- On Track. Folkestone March 2nd – ModelEx 2019. Aldingbourne * March 16th/17th -- Railway show. Q E School March 16th – Southern Expo. Hornchurch March 23rd – Yeovil. * April 13th – own show. * April 14th – LGW2019 International Aviation Enthusiasts Fair, Crawley K2 May 4th – Tangmere. May 12th –Euro Miniature Expo. Folkestone May 25th -- Torbay. Torquay June 1st -- Salisbury. Laverstock July 14th – Romsey. Crosfield Hall Romsey August 11th – Boscombe Down Aviation Collection. Old Sarum September 14th – Farnborough Modelfest. Camberley September 28th/29th - South West Model Show Autumn, Bovington November 9th/10th – Scale Model World. Telford November 24th – Bugle Call . Nailsea

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Newsletter production by – Jim Smith © February 2019