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Changing subjects here but sticking with WWII aircraft....I'm sure many of you are familiar with Germany's WWII aircraft known as the ME-626 Jet Fighter that they had developed late in the war and were way ahead of the Allies in the aero industry development stages.

Though it is a known fact that German Engineers and Scientist were not the ones who actually designed and developed the concept of the jet engine. The Germans were the first though to actually develop and perfect the concept of the jet engine which would have gained them air superiority for Germany during WWII if they had developed it sooner rather than later in the war.

It was an Englishman named Frank Whittle who was the founder and developer of the first jet engine but it's a sad story on how he was rejected by his own government when he first presented the idea to his government.

Germany took full advantage when they came across his patent(s) on the jet engine development...and as they say the rest is history.

The following video best describes the details of it all.


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On anther aspect following WWII....it seems as though Great Britain could not grasp the concept on when to jump on a good development when the opportunity presented itself.

The following video is of how Great Britain (England) passed up the chance on possibility having become the very first nation on planet Earth to win the space race......far earlier than Russia or the U.S.A.


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Good to see model railroaders here. They were the ones who developed the weathering techniques us armor guys use and of course all the buildings and streetscapes. During our long Covid imprisonment here in Toronto I initially thought of getting my old 1960's HO gauge Brit model railroad stuff out and building a layout but then I saw a YT clip on RC tanks from a German show and was fascinated as WW2 tanks was what i had last modelled at 15 before moving on to stuff like audio gear and girls :D
 
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Changing subjects here but sticking with WWII aircraft....I'm sure many of you are familiar with Germany's WWII aircraft known as the ME-626 Jet Fighter that they had developed late in the war but were way ahead of the Allies in the aero industry development stages.

Though it is a known fact that German Engineers and Scientist were not the ones who actually designed and developed the concept of the jet engine. The Germans were the first though to actually develop and perfect the concept of the jet engine which would have gained them air superiority for Germany during WWII if it had developed it sooner rather than later in the war.

It was an Englishman named Frank Whittle who was the founder and developer of the first jet engine but it's a sad story on how he was rejected by his own government when he first presented the idea to his government.

Germany took full advantage when they came across his patent(s) on the jet engine development...and as they say the rest is history.

The following video best describes the details of it all.


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The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first model airplane that I ever built back in high school! It really seemed to be ahead of it's time! Makes you wonder how we went from the Wright Bros in 1903 to the jet engine age in 1941...just 38 years!
 
Way.....way....way.....back in my youth days I had a collection of WWI and WWII model aircraft of different nations....U.S.A., Japan, Germany, England, Russian and yes even Italy.

I also had a few model WWII battle tanks as well on display.

I also had a few model WWII Navy ships as well from U.S.A., Japan and Germany.....even a couple of submarines.

I recall specifically having a poster of the WWII Pacific battle scene of the battle of Midway.......that showed when the U.S. planes dropped bombs on the Japanese aircraft carrier the AKAGI and were flying off. What I did along with that poster, posted on the wall, I made a small shelf and had put together a model of the Japanese AKAGI aircraft carrier along with all it's small planes, etc. it was a site to see. I remember everyone who laid eyes on it always commented on it. Damn I sure miss all those models. I wish I would have taken pictures of them all back then.

Also had a collection HotRod model car's as well.

Yes those were some memorable, fun years back then that I cherish.

This is a copy of the print poster that I described above.
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This is a similar model kit of the WWII Japanese aircraft carrier AKAGI that I had displayed, on a shelf, in front of the print poster displayed on the wall. I remember I even added the large Red dot Japanese symbol on the front of the deck as depicted on the poster.
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I started off mostly with model planes and a few car models. I remember I had a Tempest GTO that i really liked. Didn't discover tank models until I was 14 when we were living in England. I had 3 of the early 1/35 Tamiya ones you could drive back and forth with a big controller attached by wire. They all got left in the UK when we came back to Canada the next year. After that I became obsessed with my stereo gear and riding 10 speeds and most of my part time job money went towards those. So when I started building tanks again in 2021 at 65 I guess things have come full circle after 50 years
 
We've been talking at the field about trying to get some WW2 style monochromatic images of the tanks. While we can't have permanent dioramas as the Sturmtiger is used to drive and battle with we set this up to try experimenting. The other guy's images are better and he knows how to edit but I tried this with just a mercury filter in MS Pictures. The original and the edited one

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