TB+ pickup rings

[Lightyear]

... and the pups covered in sparkly gold stuff (on a second attempt - did you voodoo the chrome beneath to shed its covering...?)

Honest Ma'am... it does come off for inspection purposes... (ducking for cover, a sparkly gold one...  )

err... would you believe it's on an undercover mission...? (running much faster...)

Err going offline now and hiding in the shed until its safe to come out (stop sniggering, V...!)

HAVE YOU NO SHAME YOUNG MAN!?  Just wait 'till your father gets home   Oh, wait he would approve of the black paint   German sensabilites being what they are........

[Highlander]

Mind you, there is an awful lot of "sparkly-stuff" going to be on my 'bird...

[Highlander]

That's unusual... the sound of multiple piston engines... hmmm where are they going...?

[TBird1958]

Those are Hellcats Kenny, really

[Denis]

That's unusual... the sound of multiple piston engines... hmmm where are they going...?

I know where they are going: DOWN in flames!

[Basvarken]

They won't fit, but I had them make me a pair that would. Maybe they still have the template on file?

Great action shot Tom!

[Highlander]

Those are Hellcats Kenny, really

It's my dislek... disleks... dixslesia... err...

"... And frankly, I don't give a damn..."

(I'm not going to live that one down, am I Ma'am...  )

[TBird1958]

 Nope!   


 I hope whatever you painted those parts with has some bite - that and you must have a light touch......... I've worn groves into the metal on my '76s and on TB Plus.
I have visons of black paint flaking off of the pup cover in large necrotic chunks.........

[uwe]

Stukas were useful for lots of things, but they never helped much with bad taste. 

[Denis]

The propeller-driven siren on some of them didn't exactly raise anyone's spirits, either...

[uwe]

Well, they certainly grabbed attention!

But Fräulein Rpmmel's comment was right, in a way the Stukas were, well, not exactly Helldivers, but Dauntlesses, Ernst Udet (a WW I ace and early shaper of the Luftwaffe) brought the dive bomber concept to Germany only after having witnessed a test dive bomb attack on an old WW I battleship which the US Navy had staged in the early thirties to document how potent the new weapon could be. It's an American invention alright.

[Highlander]

I hope whatever you painted those parts with has some bite - that and you must have a light touch......... I've worn groves into the metal on my '76s and on TB Plus.
I have visons of black paint flaking off of the pup cover in large necrotic chunks.........

Don't forget I used to play mostly HM... never been accused of having a light touch... that's why I mentioned it was an easy fin... easy to redo... 

[Denis]

Well, they certainly grabbed attention!
But Fräulein Rpmmel's comment was right, in a way the Stukas were, well, not exactly Helldivers, but Dauntlesses, Ernst Udet (a WW I ace and early shaper of the Luftwaffe) brought the dive bomber concept to Germany only after having witnessed a test dive bomb attack on an old WW I battleship which the US Navy had staged in the early thirties to document how potent the new weapon could be. It's an American invention alright.

Those tests probably developed from Billy Mitchell's sinking of the ex-German Navy ship, the Ostfriesland, in 1921 and some former US Navy battleships a couple of years later.

[Barklessdog]

Stukas were useful for lots of things, but they never helped much with bad taste.

They were forever immortalized by Cox & Revell as a child.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Cox-Thimble-Drome-JU87d-Stuka-Dive-Bomber-1965_W0QQitemZ180490718217QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2a0615cc09#ht_836wt_1167

http://cgi.ebay.com/Revell-04620-1-72-Junkers-Ju-87-B-2-R-2-Stuka_W0QQitemZ280324373762QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4144a27d02#ht_2960wt_941

[gearHed289]

That just took me back to 1974.