Photographs Copyright © Collin Riley
2007
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Vampire FB Mk.5, WG833:GM, WG Cdr E.G.L. Millington, Caledonian Wing
Leader, Turnhouse, 1950's |
Aviation
Archive Cute, cute, cute, but "owe" so expensive.
I love the model, despite its many engineering oddities. Two oddities
especially are notable: the plastic pieces at the top of the twin
booms keep popping off and continually have to be clicked back into
place; the nose gear in the extended position tilts to port, and shy
of somehow bending the pegs, there isn't anyway to fix the problem.
Nonetheless, I really do like this tiny model, and plan to get another
version in the future, though I might have to let my credit card refill...
(While I was taking these pictures, one of the wheel covers went missing,
and after tearing the modelroom completely apart, and spending at
least an hour digging around, under, and inside file cabinets, beds,
and storage bins, I finally found it inside one of my boondockers,
which is ankle high and was covered by a jeans cuff, which I had already
checked. How the piece got in there I'll never know.) |
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Fighter |
| Corgi item no. |
AA37301 |
| Production run |
#0861 of 2510 |
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