Goodness me, what have I done....

Desert Rat

Desert Rat

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Okay, a few months ago my venerable Intel 6700K rig died, thought it took some HDDs with it including my flight sim stuff. Slowly working on trying to recover stuff from an HDD that is sometimes recognised if I'm lucky. I now have a new rig with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 32gigglebites of DDR5 (OUCH!!) with a RTX4060Ti, so sorted for a while.

So whilst I was waiting for delivery/setting up/reinstalling/trying to rescue files/etc. my eldest daughter bought me an Airfix spitfire for fathers day. A can of worms was hence opened. As an avid kit builder as a child (in the 70s & early 80s) I fully embraced the reincarnated inner child and have instigated all the stuff for this I couldn't afford as a child, Airbrush, fancy glues, decal solutions, nice paints and thinners, etc. have all been ordered along with kits I had as a child. What have I done?!?!

Jamie
 
BTW, the reason my sig is the DH comet is I have a deep lying affinity with it, it was the first airfix kit I built with my father (I mostly watched, but it was enough to matter).
 
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Okay, a few months ago my venerable Intel 6700K rig died, thought it took some HDDs with it including my flight sim stuff. Slowly working on trying to recover stuff from an HDD that is sometimes recognised if I'm lucky. I now have a new rig with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 32gigglebites of DDR5 (OUCH!!) with a RTX4060Ti, so sorted for a while.

So whilst I was waiting for delivery/setting up/reinstalling/trying to rescue files/etc. my eldest daughter bought me an Airfix spitfire for fathers day. A can of worms was hence opened. As an avid kit builder as a child (in the 70s & early 80s) I fully embraced the reincarnated inner child and have instigated all the stuff for this I couldn't afford as a child, Airbrush, fancy glues, decal solutions, nice paints and thinners, etc. have all been ordered along with kits I had as a child. What have I done?!?!

Jamie
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Not just me then! šŸ˜…
 
I have that Airfix Comet on my model shelves! I built in plastic from the early seventies into the middle nineties and I have a model room with five levels of wide glass shelves along three walls packed with models. All are 1/72 scale with authentic paint jobs, mostly injected kits but many vacuforms. If I hadn't discovered flight sim I would've run out of shelf space in a few more years.

While I appreciate virtual modeling for its lack of toxic fumes, no need for shelf space, the ability to paint a plane in multiple liveries all on a single model, and no damaging interference by cats I still love all those little airplanes on all those glass shelves with my aviation library on book shelves below the models. Yeah, cats still interfere with my modeling (mostly painting but not entirely) but they can't destroy a work in progress. And when I go into the model room I can see many planes at once, not just one at a time.
 
There's a new 1:72 Comet on the block by Clear Prop, going to have to invest in that one soonish, much better than the Airfix offering (not hard, it's one of the worst kits ever, LOL). Bit pricey at Ā£34ish, considerably more than the airfix offering at Lidl atm.

Was thinking of making an airfix Comet to pop on my fathers grave (it wont last long, but hey ho).
 
Jamie, don't forget a pipe and some nice comfy slippers to go with those.......:eagerness:

Hugs

S

p.s. I SAID DON'T FORGET A PIPE AND....................................;)
 
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