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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Sea => Topic started by: kpnuts on June 20, 2019, 03:49:57 AM

Title: Demise of the QE2
Post by: kpnuts on June 20, 2019, 03:49:57 AM
Hi all well due to the move these are the last pics of a scratch built  7'4" model of the new QE2

I fear I will be burning loads more.

(https://i.ibb.co/BKRY8mg/IMG-20190619-24129.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/7KJv1JM/IMG-20190619-2996.jpg)
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: apophenia on June 20, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Ouch!  :o
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: ChernayaAkula on June 20, 2019, 08:40:49 AM
Huh?  :o What happened?
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: Kerick on June 20, 2019, 08:57:22 AM
I’m feeling the pain with you!
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: Old Wombat on June 20, 2019, 12:52:25 PM
I'm trying to figure out how you can have a fire that close to vegetation without at least a metre of cleared ground all around & not have it set the entire state alight! :o


Recovering from that: I feel your pain but, sometimes, as gut-wrenching as it may be, it needs to be done & is for the greater good. :icon_meditation:




I can't believe I just wrote that shit!
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 21, 2019, 01:49:47 AM
Why destroy them?  Fair enough if you don't want them yourself but why not first offer them for sale?
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: kpnuts on June 21, 2019, 02:56:17 AM
No one would buy it been through trying to sell models before, and I couldn't give it away it was too big.
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: Robomog on July 17, 2019, 11:24:06 PM
owwww !, what a waste of time and skill, sad it had to come to this and i feel your pain.

Mog
>^-.-^<
Title: Model "Funeral Pyres"
Post by: Inactive on July 19, 2019, 05:53:37 PM
Absolute last one for me was of a badly built Airfix P-38 one afternoon winter 2005-6 during a rainstorm no less. Still remember the 1960s pyres; hissing, bubbling styrene minute or so after igniting the gasoline, thick black acrid smoke wrapping 'round the engine nacelles of that hand brushed & spray can-painted Airfix Heinkel 111H-20 winter 1965-6 in particular, only time I'd ever see perfect soot stains 'round engine nacelles. The final 1960s "Burning Men" were 16 or so models formerly hanging over the bedroom ceiling one afternoon 50 years ago last June, thought then I'd never build models again.
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: Kerick on July 26, 2020, 01:10:05 AM
Back then I used to blow them up with fire crackers first!
Title: Re: Demise of the QE2
Post by: perttime on July 26, 2020, 12:49:21 PM
I'm trying to figure out how you can have a fire that close to vegetation without at least a metre of cleared ground all around & not have it set the entire state alight! :o

...

The place looks wet.

Way back as a kid, some of the worst ones I built ended up as airgun targets.