Not sure if this is the correct place for this, but I thought It'd be fun to show you a snap shot of my modelling past and describe a couple of deliberate Whiffs I'd done at the time. :)
Sooo ............
In the dim dark past when I was 16.
On Saturday 28Apr1979 a reporter from a Sydney local newspaper the, Parramatta Advertiser interviewed me about my hobbying after seeing my model collection when he came to interview my Grandfather a week before over his witnessing the demise of the "Red Baron" during his WW1 service.
These are the posed pics taken in my room (there's 4 of them total) I was sent before the newspaper article was published. The published article and an ad from the Advertiser dated Wed.16May1979. If you follow the link to my Photobucket you'll get to see the article too.
Click on html or images to go directly to my Flickr;
https://www.flickr.com/photos/45800749@N07/sets/72157686936153585 Me @ 16 newspaper photo No.1 28Apr1979s by
Neil, on Flickr
Me @ 16 newspaper photo No.3 28Apr1979s by
Neil, on Flickr
Me @ 16 newspaper photo No.4 28Apr1979s by
Neil, on Flickr
In the first pic there's three Whiffs out behind the Dornier 217J-1 nightfighter and the SAAB Viggen, I know they're a bit difficult to see but they are there;
First is an Airfix 1/72 Bristol Freighter done up as an RNZAF beastie, I'd just seen one previous to me building this model (a 'short' nose model at RAAF Richmond) and thought the Kiwis would like the expanded abilities that the long nose presented them, copped some flak over this one as I presented it at a modelling show at my school and sure enough along came a 'rivet counter'.
So I've never shown nor admitted Whiffery since then as the 'bean counter' couldn't see the 'fun' in creating something a little bit out of left field and plausible, he really made something out of it and it all got rather embarrassing.
Next behind the Dornier is a Revell 1/72 sale F-111A Ardvark modded into a long range fighter with an Aifix F-4s' IR sensor under the nose, a pair of AIM-7 Sparrows (Revell F-4E) on wing glove pylons (scratch built) and an M-61 in a gondola in the weapons bay (ala F-106 update), got the idea after reading about the navy F-111B and I had the damaged RAAF F-111C in the to be decided box, so, in a quick couple of hours I had committed Whiffery. Painted in the 'standard' camo for 111's with decals from the spares box.
And lastly, breaking hard to starboard behind the Dornier is an Airfix 1/72 scale Westland Whirlwind MkI (first tool) saved from scrapping as a Sea Whirlwind NF.MkII with slipper tanks, one with a radar in it also, folding wings and a stinger type arrestor hook painted for the Pacific Theater in Glossy dark blue upper surfaces, matt black under surfaces but to avoid being shot down by another nightfighter thinking it a twin engined sneaky son of Nippon pulling a night attack I painted the underside of the port outer wing and horizontal stabilizer gloss white as a recognition feature. Finished off with British Pacific theater roundels etc. This model can also be seen in the second pic top right corner.
Yes there is a lot of models hanging up, all up at this point there's about 150 aircraft models, 60 or so ships, some armor and 'normal' road vehicles. Approx 50% of what's in the pics survive intact, a lot are in the " .... to be repaired ...." boxes and some no longer exist at all.
I hope you enjoy this look into my hobby past, as you can see even at this early age the Whiff creature was alive and well.
If you'd like to see more of my surviving models I'll just post in this thread if possible? GTX?
Thanks for lookin' ladies and gents :)
***fixed your PhotoBucket so they now go directly to the first page of the image gallery -- jjf