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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:14 pm
by Splitpin
My last set from FS9 for a while....i miss VLC, so back to FSX . These are all Alphasim/Fs9/Rex.










PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:48 pm
by 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 sad.gif biggrin.gif , as for the B58 same with the internals but externally the Hustler is a rocker smile.gif

PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:14 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:26 am
by Splitpin
Ian Warren wrote:
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 sad.gif biggrin.gif , as for the B58 same with the internals but externally the Hustler is a rocker smile.gif

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.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:33 am
by Splitpin
Adamski wrote:
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.

laugh.gif 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.... winkyy.gif .....he later took revenge on my frog gannet.....remember the old frog kits?, they are worth big money these days.

Cheers Adam.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:09 am
by Charl
The Hustler was a Revell 1/72nd kit, and had a droppable pod.
Many an ant got nuked.
Splitpin wrote:
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.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:42 pm
by Ian Warren
Adamski wrote:
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 biggrin.gif.. 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 laugh.gif

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:59 pm
by Adamski
Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 13 2011,7:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
laugh.gif 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.... winkyy.gif .....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 laugh.gif 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.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:42 pm
by Splitpin
Charl wrote:
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.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:49 pm
by Splitpin
Adamski wrote:
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 laugh.gif 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 tongue.gif

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:23 pm
by Adamski
Splitpin wrote:
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 laugh.gif

Splitpin wrote:
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 laugh.gif. 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! winkyy.gif

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:50 pm
by Ian Warren
Adamski wrote:
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! winkyy.gif

Mmmmm me to , firecrackers ? ohmy.gif