batman

Yes.

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christoph404

Oh yes.....Airfix did a range of special kits called "Dogfight Doubles" Basically two kits in the same box of opposing fighter planes and obviously the Spitfire and Messerschmitt were in the series. They also produced "Dog fight doubles" of WW1 planes, the Red Barons little red Fokker tri plane versus a Sopwith Camel being a memorable example..............

Marky B

When? Last week?.
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Marky B

Does anyone remember Airfix bringing out the Pontoon Bridge Set,with an easy assembly bridge,tanks,and little toy soldiers (German and British). I used to wipe out an entire German column with a strafe of imaginary bullets from my Airfix Spitfire.
I think there was a Coastal Command set. I wrote to Airfix (I was member of their Airfix Modellers Club,Presidentick Emery) and suggested a Bridge Too Far set,but whereas I got a reply saying it was a good idea and they'd look into it. I think they did look into it......and that's it.
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MArky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

batman

A few weeks ago the Boy Wonder and I took some planes to the local park .... I was the Red Baron and he was Megatron!

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wearysloth

My dogfight double of choice was a match up between a Gloucester Meteor and an ME-262.
(No pesky propeller's to break off, easy kits to assemble unlike the ME-109 which was a pain)
Don't think they ever met up in reality though. Pity, would have been an interesting match.

Another thought: the Airfix 1/72 German infantry were curiously "smaller" than, say, the 1/72 British Paratroops. Patriotic bias?

Bloodthirsty little tykes, weren't we?

Bats - Did the Bloody Red Baron overcome Megatron?

cooleyn

Yes - absolutely I did . . .

I even hung them from my ceiling and shot them with my air rifle. Every time I missed, it knocked a chunk of plaster off the ceiling - I got into deep ca-ca for that.

My German pilots always went Gott in Himmel! when I shot them down, but my British ones always went Uuuuuungggh!!! then flew home for a crash landing.

My Germans pilots called me a Schweinhund Englisher, but I had to correct them and assure them that I was a Schweinhund Scotlander instead. . .

Did you ever set fire to them? Trouble is, polystyrene models don't have the decency to burn like a real aircraft.

They made a right old mess.

VERDAMMT!!!

God, I'm getting old . . . .

batman

I am afraid I have to report the loss of the Red Baron's plane in Eaton Park boating lake. No survivors. However, Megatron's plane survived until the next day, when he too sadly went to the great junk pile in the sky. Josh sat on it!

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christoph404

To make them burn you had to remove the cockpit glass and stuff inside the fuselage as much cotton wool soaked in lighter fuel as you could then fire them in the air via a catapult from a first floor bedroom window to create the desired effect, or otherwise stuff a firework inside, preferably a "banger" which would blow the whole aircraft to peices with a realistic bang!.....

penfold

As we're wandering way off topic and down Memory Lane, I had the Roman Fort, with accompanying guards and rampaging Briotns....great fun. I always lusted after the Tamiya version of the Lancaster....being 1/48 as opposed to 1/72 it was bl...y enormous. I graduated onto the set of Airfix Motorcycle kits, most of which I messed up trying to slim the spokes down to a realistic thickness...wish I had them now, very collectable...Ariel Golden Arrow, BSA C15, BMW 75...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Harleybloke

Me n'my mate Tim must have been better arsonists that you Chris, we managed by holding a lighter under the tail, the black smoke as they burned was very impressive.........!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

penfold

My bit of wanton model destruction was when I was learning to shoot at 12/13....remember those kit figurines? The Black Prince, Henry VIII, a Beefeater I think....stood about 6 inches in height. Explode impressively when hit by an air pellet from 30 yards....the length of the garden. I was a reasonable shot, got a marksmans qualification from the cadets later.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

christoph404

Those were the days.....children carry real guns now and shoot each other rather than practice on little figurines!...

batman

We once stuck a banger inside an Action Man and threw him off the top floor of some flats on a parachute .... spectacular!

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bartonbank

Anyway, back to the film.....

I originally saw the film at a cinema with my late father and it was definitely his favourite film and is one of mine.
One thing I have noticed, if I am not confusing it with a different film, is one scene is never shown on the tv version. I can recall, at the start of the film, the German staff officer going to inspect a Heinkel squadron. In the cinema they showed the inspection with the pilots and crew singing a German military song; on the tv version this is cut. Anyone know why?

Now, away from the film (think 'spooky'), after my father's funeral I was returning to London via the M6 and had stopped at Tebay South, which is in the back of beyond. For some reason I rang my Ma, even though I had only left her a couple of hours before. She said that she had just found a photo of my Dad standing in fromt of a Spit at an air museum. Just as I said he always remarked about how the sound of a Spit engine made the hairs on his neck stand on end.....I heard the unmistakable sound of the same bloody engine. I looked up and a spitfire flew overhead from nowhere.. One hell of a coincidence!