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Post by Cartman on Nov 9, 2019 21:52:36 GMT
Anyone remember building flying model planes which were powered by winding up an elastic band with the propellor? I built three, out of balsa wood, covered with tissue paper, which you then sprayed with water causing it to tighten up. After this you coated it with some strong smelling cellulose varnish stuff.
One of them didn't fly at all, the second one was a model spitfire and that one just about worked. The final one was one I designed myself, that one was totally unable to get off the ground.
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Post by Brown Granada on Nov 9, 2019 22:06:00 GMT
Never really been into planes much.
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Post by Three Litre on Nov 9, 2019 22:27:47 GMT
Anyone remember building flying model planes which were powered by winding up an elastic band with the propellor? I built three, out of balsa wood, covered with tissue paper, which you then sprayed with water causing it to tighten up. After this you coated it with some strong smelling cellulose varnish stuff. One of them didn't fly at all, the second one was a model spitfire and that one just about worked. The final one was one I designed myself, that one was totally unable to get off the ground. Had a lot of fun making planes. You are referring to what they called dope, they actually used it on real planes back in nineteen hundred and frozen to death. I had a tiny little piston on one model, about 0.75cc I think, not a glowplug variety, bit of pig to start. God knows why I was allowed one, it would have easily have had my fingers off. Also a jet engine, called Jetex. It used two small solid fuel pellets and a wick you had to coil up, also a pig to get going. The space shuttle solid rocket boosters were giant versions of them. But mine didn't leak on a freezing morning, blow up and kill me. Gliders were fun as well, four foot wind span, then tow them up to height with a string by running along the ground and let them go free.
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Post by The Saint on Nov 10, 2019 11:29:08 GMT
That is an amazing collection BG, I like the Beetle theme too! Thanks for sharing and a great idea for a thread I have a number of old Dinky and Corgi models packed away in boxes, I hope to be able to display them soon, when I do I will post some photos. I did purchase these two 1960s models from a charity shop recently, whilst very play worn they still look good. The Saint's Volvo and the original Corgi James Bond Aston Martin. Pretty good value at £1 each! The Saint
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Post by Three Litre on Nov 10, 2019 11:38:51 GMT
I seem to remember always wanting the DB6 as kid. Of course they famously made it gold instead of silver as it was in the film.
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Post by Cartman on Nov 10, 2019 14:04:01 GMT
I remember having a Transit that came as a kit that you had to assemble and paint, it had Avis markings and was red. They also did a Route master bus too. A couple of the larger Dinky ones I hung onto for quite a while were a Chevrolet Impala and an Austin A40
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Post by Vienna on Nov 10, 2019 14:21:57 GMT
Steve I had an action man too. Still have it as you can see it's in the bottom of the cabinet. I won it in a drawing competition with the Evening Argus newspaper. It has gripping hands and has the eagle eye to look through too. I also had a talking one before that as a present one Christmas but it broke. You pulled a string out of its back and it shouted out war commands. Did either of you have the action man helicopter as well ? I remember having this for a birthday at the time, but eventually it sadly got broken! Vi
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Post by Three Litre on Nov 10, 2019 14:38:43 GMT
I remember having a Transit that came as a kit that you had to assemble and paint, it had Avis markings and was red. They also did a Route master bus too. A couple of the larger Dinky ones I hung onto for quite a while were a Chevrolet Impala and an Austin A40 I remember those kits you had to build and paint as well, I had forgotten all about them! Very early 70's I think. You pulled a string out of its back and it shouted out war commands. Wasn't that the Action Trump model?
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Post by Sparky on Nov 10, 2019 15:46:28 GMT
I've got 11 locos and 15 coaches with, I think, 20 wagons. The locos are a mixture of Triang and Hornby Dublo 2 rail. The coaches are all Triang and Triang Hornby and the wagons are all the Dapol, ex Airfix kits I built and painted. TL, the Hornby O gauge clockwork isn't really very sought after, the 00 scale is, if its very good. They were churned out in millions from the factory at Binns Road, Liverpool, along with Dinky toys cars, and because they were so strongly made, there's still millions of them about! Is the Triang and Dublo the older stuff? I haven't seen any clockwork 0 or 00 at all.
I've had to design and build a new controller that will run both older and newer Locos. We found the "new" cheapolastic Hornby constrollers couldn't handle the older locos - which had older motors in.
After some tests (connecting a meter in line with the track and controller) we spotted large differences in the amount of juice the ones consumed. The older ones were too much for the newer controllers and overheated them. (cheap crap Chinese electronics)
So - thanks to Maplins going belly up - we managed to pick up all the required parts for less than £15.
The only expensive bit was finding a decent box to put it all in!
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