Procopius
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"But now it begins to appear that a number of things which were supposed to have been finished are coming to life again, as such things do, on occasion: good and evil, the gods and the evil spirits of greed and bestiality. I do not know if the end of the world is at hand, as Dostoyevsky said. But this I do know, that these are years of a turning in human affairs…"
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"This man is a strange mixture of heroism and cunning. If he had come to power in 1933, we would not be where we are today."
― Joseph Goebbels, diary entry on Winston Churchill, 7 May 1941
Happy birthday Winston.
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2016, do what you want to me, but leave the girl out of this.
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22 days since my big Hobbyterra order was processed through a shipping facility in Ukraine, and no sign of it here yet...getting antsy.
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After a night of staying up and watching Youtubed old BBC interviews from the 1980s with WWI pilots and T. O. M. Sopwith, I've concluded it just might be impossible not to love the strange little island that produced them.
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It's a pretty great place.
And for you, Stew? Anything.
Cecil Lewis, WWI ace, Academy Award winner, and author of classic memoir Saggitarius Rising:
Cavalry of the Clouds, with interviews with ace Gwilym Lewis MC (author of Wings over the Somme) and Ferdinand West VC:
1984 interview with T.O.M. Sopwith, a man who needs no introduction:
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Apparently my step-grandfather worked with Free Polish pilot Wladyslaw Chciuk back in the 1960s!
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Are there any good books out there by Bomber Command bomb aimers? I'm very curious as to the specifics of their duties on a raid.
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Don't know if you know about these, or if they are suitable:
Not read them, but they seem to get good reviews.
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It's the sort of deeply disingenuous pablum I'd expect to come out of a coterie of tech bros tooling around the latter-day Gomorrah of Silicon Valley, and they did not disappoint. "We realize we made a mistake by making a great service extremely useful and free. Now we'd like you to prepare for your pips to squeak."
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At this point, I don't even think 2016 deserves a Spitfire build from me. I'll build them in 2017, as top cover for all the good things that are gonna need to break on through.
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Coming down with something YET AGAIN. Being a parent is great.
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Currently sick with my annual September cold, courtesy of the biological warfare lab my wife teaches 3 through 6 year year old children. Powering through the way an F-4 Phantom glides.
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Do any of my fellow US-based modellers know of a good source for Brengun Typhoons?
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Feeling a weird interest in that vacform Vickers Windsor.
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For some reason, I can't post.
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Fun fact! The crew of Hampden EA-F/P1333, the box art subject for the Valom B Mk.I kit in 1/712, survived a crash-landing to become POWs in 1940. The pilot, pre-war regular MGP Stretton DFM, recorded an oral history for the IWM in 1978: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80003766
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Getting to the point where I think about next builds. Polish MiG-29? Su-9? Su-24? Harrier GR3? One of three hundred other kits on hand? Maybe some sort of psychiatric therapy? Infinite possibilities.
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Happy Christmas to all of Britmodeller! My life is greatly enriched by all of you and our wonderful shared hobby of buying kits, putting them safely away, and idly speculating about building them.
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I don't suppose anyone knows of a source for the Airfix Lancaster B.II? They seem to have become rarer than hen's teeth.
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I hate this forum update with the fire of a thousand suns.
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I just want to build a model, but unfortunately, my children have desynchronized their sleep cycles, and I only have time to curse the day I was born.
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Mr. P, find comfort in the simple pleasures of life.
Having the time to curse the day of your birth simply means that you have too much time on your hand. I haven't been able to do that for longer than I can remember...
I started a HobbyBoss easy build 6 months ago... I rest my case.
Regarding your children, I am interested, as I am running an illegal Tantalite mining operation and child labour is always welcome. You will be well paid for them, and when they are returned to you (did I just hear "the deal is off?") they will be real men! And you will have had time to finish your stash in the intervening years.
What are friends for?
Sterilization, of course, is another option for the long term.
JR
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I should be elated at how cheap the weak pound has made Hannants orders, but instead I just feel sick to my stomach.
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It's a good point PC.
Other post Brexit issues include pensions; my UK based monthly pension has decreased in real value by around 25% this year (£ to AUD$).
This will be happening to all those that had their working career in the U.K., and for whatever reason find themselves currently living overseas.
I still buy British whenever possible to try to help the economy, but feel it may be a feeble gesture
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I went down and looked at all of my unbuilt kits and was filled with self-loathing.
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I am still catching lurgies that the nineteen-year-old brings home becasue she feels sorry for them. You have my heat-felt sympathies.
Fair cop guv
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