Dear All
I hope you are all well and enjoying the flying season.
If this is an inappropriate place to post this.
Please let me know and I will remove it.
A little bit of background knowledge first.
In the UK the use of model forums has steadily declined.
The UK forum that I am referring to in this post was on the
verge of closing. Fortunately an unknown benefactor has stepped
in and has given funding for at least two years.
Not many people these days build anything in the UK,
it is predominately ARTFs. That is OK until they get damaged
repairable models get thrown away because the owners do not
know how to repair them.
So after seeing a post on another forum by Alan B. (Pupcam)
indicating that he was considering giving up the hobby.
That got me thinking (steady).
A lot of people do not frequent that forum as they do
and many pursue this hobby via Facebook. Which I will
never understand as these bona fide model sites are built
for our benefit.
So in an effort to rekindle 'morale' I thought of this,
hopefully one or two people might be interested
in what I am proposing.
We have lost many good people within the last two years.
Ivan Goodchild
June Howlett
Colin Griffith
Stuart Cotgrove (Stueysheep)
Ken Bones
To name but a few.
I still have four out of the five people on the
phone as contacts on my phone.
I do not honestly have the heart to remove them.
So as a kind of a tribute to all of our gone but never forgotten friends.
I thought it might be fitting if we formed a Squadron in their honour.
Stueysheep sprang to mind, So I thought why not call it the Black Sheep Squadron.
Not that Stuey was a Black Sheep, he was most certainly a good sheep.
So in an effort to get some interest in that forum, which is in all our interests.
Why not build something (now there is a novelty) for the new Sqn.
My thoughts are a subject subject,
Scale, I love scale models.
No retracts to keep the cost down.
Not a full kit, to keep the cost down.
Stueysheep had predominately WW1 models
So we decided on WW1
Is anyone interested in this?
Or have an opinion on what to build?
This is basically what I posted on the UK Forum
Below is the response.
Regards Phil G.
I hope you are all well and enjoying the flying season.
If this is an inappropriate place to post this.
Please let me know and I will remove it.
A little bit of background knowledge first.
In the UK the use of model forums has steadily declined.
The UK forum that I am referring to in this post was on the
verge of closing. Fortunately an unknown benefactor has stepped
in and has given funding for at least two years.
Not many people these days build anything in the UK,
it is predominately ARTFs. That is OK until they get damaged
repairable models get thrown away because the owners do not
know how to repair them.
So after seeing a post on another forum by Alan B. (Pupcam)
indicating that he was considering giving up the hobby.
That got me thinking (steady).
A lot of people do not frequent that forum as they do
and many pursue this hobby via Facebook. Which I will
never understand as these bona fide model sites are built
for our benefit.
So in an effort to rekindle 'morale' I thought of this,
hopefully one or two people might be interested
in what I am proposing.
We have lost many good people within the last two years.
Ivan Goodchild
June Howlett
Colin Griffith
Stuart Cotgrove (Stueysheep)
Ken Bones
To name but a few.
I still have four out of the five people on the
phone as contacts on my phone.
I do not honestly have the heart to remove them.
So as a kind of a tribute to all of our gone but never forgotten friends.
I thought it might be fitting if we formed a Squadron in their honour.
Stueysheep sprang to mind, So I thought why not call it the Black Sheep Squadron.
Not that Stuey was a Black Sheep, he was most certainly a good sheep.
So in an effort to get some interest in that forum, which is in all our interests.
Why not build something (now there is a novelty) for the new Sqn.
My thoughts are a subject subject,
Scale, I love scale models.
No retracts to keep the cost down.
Not a full kit, to keep the cost down.
Stueysheep had predominately WW1 models
So we decided on WW1
Is anyone interested in this?
Or have an opinion on what to build?
This is basically what I posted on the UK Forum
Below is the response.
Regards Phil G.
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