Full frontals with cloud

[Splitpin]

My last set from FS9 for a while....i miss VLC, so back to FSX . These are all Alphasim/Fs9/Rex.

[Ian Warren]

Great Screens , Never bothered with the Prowler , F22 , B47, or the Typhoon , but i can say i have the Intruder - a wicked external model , my mind - ( I no is better) better than RAZBAM .. but internals , as for the B58 same with the internals but externally the Hustler is a rocker

[Adamski]

I really like the Prowler and Hustler ones too! The B-58 was one of my first ever plastic kits. It's sad fate was to be whirled round and round at the end of a fishing line, with a [lit] firework crammed into each of the four engines.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 12 2011,10:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great Screens , Never bothered with the Prowler , F22 , B47, or the Typhoon , but i can say i have the Intruder - a wicked external model , my mind - ( I no is better) better than RAZBAM .. but internals , as for the B58 same with the internals but externally the Hustler is a rocker

Agree...the bulk of the Alpha stuff was great on the outside....ideal for a screenie like me, but for the purest simmer the (some,not all)panels and dynamics fell short of the mark.
Thanks Ian.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Apr 12 2011,11:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I really like the Prowler and Hustler ones too! The B-58 was one of my first ever plastic kits. It's sad fate was to be whirled round and round at the end of a fishing line, with a [lit] firework crammed into each of the four engines.

Oh god....i can remember doing that as well....but the model was my brothers, after 40 odd years he still hasnt forgiven me, i think the aircraft was a B-66?...destroyer......blew the wings clean off it.... .....he later took revenge on my frog gannet.....remember the old frog kits?, they are worth big money these days.

Cheers Adam.

[Charl]

The Hustler was a Revell 1/72nd kit, and had a droppable pod.
Many an ant got nuked.

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 13 2011,7:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

....but the model was my brothers, after 40 odd years he still hasnt forgiven me...

He's quite right...grovel away!

I liked your FS9 sky series, but surely you have a TSR2??
Amazingly I seem to have most of these ALPHA models, save the Prowler/Intruder, Rick Sasala's always did it for me.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Apr 13 2011,12:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I really like the Prowler and Hustler ones too! The B-58 was one of my first ever plastic kits. It's sad fate was to be whirled round and round at the end of a fishing line, with a [lit] firework crammed into each of the four engines.

Adam .. This will rip shorts , we did one better , from our tree house across the road , a bracket slug on the model , some fish gut tied to a stick on the front lawn (pull forward the plane slowed down - pull back and the plane speed up ) the line was connected to the tree and down to a a large carrier deck , we were pilots at 11-12 yrs old .... the fire crackers come later and thats a dangerous story

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 13 2011,7:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Oh god....i can remember doing that as well....but the model was my brothers, after 40 odd years he still hasnt forgiven me, i think the aircraft was a B-66?...destroyer......blew the wings clean off it.... .....he later took revenge on my frog gannet.....remember the old frog kits?, they are worth big money these days.

By some strange quirk, that kit was my brother's too! He's been taking revenge on me ever since! Like yours, the first explosion ripped the wings off ... and the last three detonated independently ... sort of "all over the place".

Our other favourite trick was to half bury some flex with fusewire across it in some sand (our 8th army vs Afrika Korps layout) ... then flip the switch at the wall. Herr Rommel didn't like that one bit How we survived childhood I don't know!!

@charl - yes, you're right ... it was a Revell. I think we went pretty well all Airfix after that.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Charl @ Apr 13 2011,10:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The Hustler was a Revell 1/72nd kit, and had a droppable pod.
Many an ant got nuked.He's quite right...grovel away!

I liked your FS9 sky series, but surely you have a TSR2??
Amazingly I seem to have most of these ALPHA models, save the Prowler/Intruder, Rick Sasala's always did it for me.

I do have the TSR....ok, I'll stay back here and screen her.....boy, the money Ive pumped into Alpha....back in the good old days.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Apr 13 2011,1:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

By some strange quirk, that kit was my brother's too! He's been taking revenge on me ever since! Like yours, the first explosion ripped the wings off ... and the last three detonated independently ... sort of "all over the place".

Our other favourite trick was to half bury some flex with fusewire across it in some sand (our 8th army vs Afrika Korps layout) ... then flip the switch at the wall. Herr Rommel didn't like that one bit How we survived childhood I don't know!!

@charl - yes, you're right ... it was a Revell. I think we went pretty well all Airfix after that.

Are you sure your not my brother?........setting up the little soldiers in the sand, and blowing them away.......have you ever taken the bulb out of a lamp, and dropped a ball bearing into it with the power on?.....if so, we need to talk, theres something my parents arent telling me

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 13 2011,6:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Are you sure your not my brother?

Looks like that DNA test is long overdue

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 13 2011,6:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

...have you ever taken the bulb out of a lamp, and dropped a ball bearing into it with the power on?

Oooh ... that's pretty good ... must try that! Almost as spectacular as throwing bricks at old TV tubes (from what we thought to be a "safe" distance!).

Another one of our "faves" was passing a magnet (from the smashed TV above) in front of the controller panel of street lights - toggling them all on. The fun part was that they all went *off* at night . This was an updated version of earlier tomfoolery where we found a strong kick to a gas lamp (yes, I'm really that old folks!) would turn it on. Aaah... those were the days!!! Errrmm ... what was this thread about? Short term memory loss!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Apr 13 2011,8:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Aaah... those were the days!!! Errrmm ... what was this thread about? Short term memory loss!

Mmmmm me to , firecrackers ?