Airfix!!! Funny that I was in the Australian Geographic shop in Perth the other day and saw Airfix 1:72 kits on sale at $19.95. I remember buying them from Woolworths on Brigate for 2/6d. now thats inflation, or maybe it was a long time ago. On 16/11/2013, at 6:37 AM, Guy Thornton wrote:
> Absolutely non LU this. > > Who else has been watching the BBC Cold War series? Me for one and it's with > a mixed feeling and > emotions. Younger members of this list may only now about it from history, > and maybe not even then. For > some of us it was reality > > Just been watching Cold War, Hot Jets. On the one hand I can remember having > Airfix models of some of > those aircraft, followed on from Airfix models of second world war military > aircraft and ships, and there > was a certain beauty, and most certainly awe, of the V-bombers and the > Lightning. On the other hand it > was scary. This was the time of MAD (that's Mutually Assured Destruction for > you youngsters, a term > coined in the early 50's). I remember '62 and the Cuban Missile Crisis. I may > have been a youngster still at > school but it' remains vivid. Despite turbulence, terrorism and the rest in > the world today this is probably > the nearest we came to world annihilation. > > My first reaction to try and do something about it was to join the Civil > Defence but it didn't take to long to > realize how futile that was. Shades of Raymond Briggs and there was Peter > Jenkin's The War Game. > Commissioned by the BBC but they though it too scary to show till many years > later. Saw it at the > filmhouse top of Vicar Lane in Leeds. And then there was Dr. Stangelove (or > how I learnt to stop worrying > and love the war). So it became CND and Alderston marches. > > That was living in interesting times > > Guy > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
