#4576879 - 08/09/21 09:15 PM
It made it at last!
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goon
Apex avoidance specialist
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Apex avoidance specialist
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Posts: 1,581
Stone, UK
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Hello Everyone, I can't recall posting about this model here before, so here we go. Last year, during vrious lockdowns, I got to communicating with various veterans of the Falklands War via Twitter. (You might know that this is my major area of interest in history and model making.) One contact put me in touch with Pablo Carballo, who was one of the Argentinian Air Force Skyhawk pilots during the hostilities. After xchaning messages with him I built one of the A-4s in my stash as an aircraft he had flown during the war, and the first Skyhawk he had soloed in. After a lot of research in how to best pack it up, I put it in the post in mid-February, bound for Cordoba in Argentina. After two months it had not arrived, and I presumed it lost, but today I received a message to say that it had arrived at the end of last month. It's totally made my day to learn that my work has made it half way round the world, and instead of sitting in a display cabinet here is int the home of the pilot who flew the subject.
Gareth UNDERSTEER - is when you hit the wall with the front wing. OVERSTEER - is when you hit the wall with the back wing. HORSEPOWER - is how fast you hit the wall. TORQUE - is how far you can take the wall with you. Read my scale modelling blog at www.latibuliser.com or mfhmazda787.com
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#4576927 - 08/10/21 12:52 PM
Re: It made it at last!
[Re: goon]
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goon
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Stone, UK
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It's the Hasegawa 1/48, with some small mods to make it an Argentinian A-4P.
Gareth UNDERSTEER - is when you hit the wall with the front wing. OVERSTEER - is when you hit the wall with the back wing. HORSEPOWER - is how fast you hit the wall. TORQUE - is how far you can take the wall with you. Read my scale modelling blog at www.latibuliser.com or mfhmazda787.com
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#4577013 - 08/11/21 12:02 PM
Re: It made it at last!
[Re: goon]
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RedToo
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Senior Member
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Bolton UK
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My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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