"Memories of Flight School"
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Yeah,yeah,I know this looks more like Nevada than Southern Ontario in November.Maybe whats needed is some good old GWN snow!!!!! Once I finish the basic landscaping I will have to deal with this, unless I change the storyline to the evils of gambling in the desert.
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I found that the sand granules at the front were too large and out of scale.So I took a very fine mesh screen(a frying pan spatter screen) and sifted the sand to a very small size.This I simply added over the large stuff and re-glued with the 75/25 water/glue mix.With a little pastel color and and colored turf builder,I think that this should look better.
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Looks to me that especially around military
airfields it did look a lot like Lost Wages
Nevada.But maybe the non-military airfields could
stand a little vegetation here and there..
airfields it did look a lot like Lost Wages
Nevada.But maybe the non-military airfields could
stand a little vegetation here and there..
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This pretty much confirms what I thought!
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New 1/48 figures for dioramas
New RAF figures for dioramas,although WW2 era they could be adapted to other eras with a little imagination.
http://www.relishmodels.co.uk/catalog/
New RAF figures for dioramas,although WW2 era they could be adapted to other eras with a little imagination.
http://www.relishmodels.co.uk/catalog/
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Engine room pinup.
1920's era pinup of Mary Pickford,a silent screen actress ,actually born in Southern Ontario .I don't think that this pic would be considered too daring even in conservative old Ontario of the era.Anyway ,Reid & Sons always liked a little spice in their life!!!!
1920's era pinup of Mary Pickford,a silent screen actress ,actually born in Southern Ontario .I don't think that this pic would be considered too daring even in conservative old Ontario of the era.Anyway ,Reid & Sons always liked a little spice in their life!!!!
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Camp Borden Ontario 1917.
Someone send me this pic just in time ,as I was starting to question my references on the window heights, especially the engine shop area.They looked a little high off the ground but this pic confirms they were meant for light not to be looked through.The roofing material is also interesting ,it looks like wood with tar covering the seams.
Other than a small area beside the road ,the other three sides of the hangars looks like a compacted material of some kind.
Someone send me this pic just in time ,as I was starting to question my references on the window heights, especially the engine shop area.They looked a little high off the ground but this pic confirms they were meant for light not to be looked through.The roofing material is also interesting ,it looks like wood with tar covering the seams.
Other than a small area beside the road ,the other three sides of the hangars looks like a compacted material of some kind.
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Very interesting!!!!
This is a really interesting pic from 1917 and shows just how well these hangars were constructed.I was surprised by the lattice type braces in the roof trusses.The only other construction of this type that I have seen is in the UK which is probably what was copied here.The floors are extremely well built for the era, when dirt was the norm.Of course here in the GWN getting wood was not a problem.It is also interesting that it looks like the construction was all done with backbreaking labor(not a crane in sight!)
This is a really interesting pic from 1917 and shows just how well these hangars were constructed.I was surprised by the lattice type braces in the roof trusses.The only other construction of this type that I have seen is in the UK which is probably what was copied here.The floors are extremely well built for the era, when dirt was the norm.Of course here in the GWN getting wood was not a problem.It is also interesting that it looks like the construction was all done with backbreaking labor(not a crane in sight!)
