Re: [MV] SPITFIRES AND HURRICANES

From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 14 2005 - 15:14:51 PDT


Spitfire wing coffee tables! Just like they do with
old surfboards.

Rick

--- STUART BEENEY <stuart.beeney@btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Dear list.
> Here in England a relative of mine
> makes film props for a
> living and over the years he's done some interesting
> jobs and made some
> great props. One job he had to do many many years
> ago was to make 1 to 1
> scale Spitfires and Hurricanes that were used as
> Gate Guards for RAF
> Airfields and sites. These are absolutely correct
> and the original cast's
> were taken from real aircraft and not from
> blueprints like some. As the
> cast's are now gathering layers of dust he wondered
> if there was a demand
> for this sort of thing in the re-enactment /
> collectors world? He dosent
> know cost as yet but he says if theres enough
> interest he will start to look
> into things deeper. He can also make parts of the
> Aircraft form resin and
> glass fibre, so if you want just a Spitfire
> propeller or wing then that
> fine?
>
> Thanks for your time
> Stuart Beeney
>
>
>
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