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Your Workshop all in a Cigar Box.
Woodbines in the South, Park Drive oop North. and do you remember Dominos? they were in a paper packet as well. Only four to a pack tho'.I remember Gloy well. Had a slit in the top, IIRC. Serious ones like Doug used Secotine…
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Couldn't stand Park Drive ot Woodbines. Fortunately, my parents alternated between Players Navy Cut and Senior Service. They bought them in boxes of 100 which they decanted into a cigarette box. They had no idea how many they were smoking between them……………….. :roll::roll::roll:;-)
Keil Kraft and Veron were two model makers I remember. The dope was bought in small jars about the size of current "weathering washes". Pear drops were quite good (and you could buy them in sweet shops) but nothing came close to the effect of the dope …………thumbs
Domino have kept going but I think they make pizzas nowadays ………………:roll::roll::roll:
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Alan
Born beside the mighty GWR.
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You see what you've started Terry - a real old trip down Memory Lane - the older we are, the longer the lane ………………:cheers:cheers:cheers
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If found I think there's still a reward on it, can't remember exactly how much but there was a ha'penny involved.
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Yes it was a tablet Peter.Long memory,i was only five,that's fifty five years ago.I can't remember what i did yesterday.If I remember rightly, didn't the Jetex work from a tablet of "rocket fuel" you put into the motor and lit …………:roll::roll::roll:
You see what you've started Terry - a real old trip down Memory Lane - the older we are, the longer the lane ………………:cheers:cheers:cheers
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I couldn't possibly comment. I'm much too young!
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That's the ad that hooked me, taks me back to 'Wickes' second hand book shop in North Camp and piles of 3d war comics and railway magazines. Great memories, thank you.
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'You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil…' Aesop's Fables
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
In the land of the slap-dash and implausible, mediocrity is king
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
In the land of the slap-dash and implausible, mediocrity is king
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Some of the rearmost cut-outs, especially the 'Gates' would make great little fillers, just viewable as a'distant' glance between two foreground buildings.
SWMBO has fallen for the motor cruiser and especially the tugboat….
"Would it be difficult?" she asks.
'Oh no dear, just let me have your best manicure scissors, I'll grind them down a bit smaller….'
Nice work, Terry.
Doug
'You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil…' Aesop's Fables
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
In the land of the slap-dash and implausible, mediocrity is king
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
In the land of the slap-dash and implausible, mediocrity is king
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In the 10th post, I have added set HM, a Stirling Single and a LNER A4 Pacific, which I have just acquired.
Similarly, in the 38th post I have added the original Modelcraft set 'The Romance of Sail' to compare with the later Micromodels set 'Six Small Ships and Galleons'.
Terry
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