Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:58 am Post subject: The Buckley Model
Well,
what can one say? Having served in the days the Buckleys are creating (the 50's) it is as good as it gets in recreating the atmosphere, even to the extent of having all those NCO's skiving around doing sweet F.A. (Before anyone takes me to task I was a lowly I Corps NCO). I said jokingly to Tom that 'one of the duckboards was out of line' which I meant to illustrate how close to the reality it was. Does the mud squelch and stick to your boots?
Congratulations to them and all I hope is that it will be going to Konigslutter for the re-union. It will be the star exhibit.
I would love to know the scale.
Is there any idea as to its final resting place? It deserves a place in a Museum in my view.
Wonderful, well done.
I wonder if the next task they set themselves will be the 'Bogs' remembered by everyone who used them. To really get the atmoshere of them you would need some sort of "Smellyvision" rather like they have/had at the Jorvik Museum at York. Funnily enough I can't recall them being recorded in any photo.
Thank you!
Evening Paul, and all you lads who volunteered suggestions as to the text on the Notice boards in front of the 'Wagons'. I hope you all see that your help and humour was well received and logged - of course. Sorry it is not in red Paul, but my printer verges on useless. so far as red is concerned.
It all started some ten or eleven years ago when we began our annual July visit to Beltring in Kent for the War and Peace Show. I began my forays around the Show Grounds, looking for, yes, quite right, OLIVE DRAB, BEDFORD QLR's. And yes they did bring back memories, and some years before we found The langeleben Reunion Branch.
As a little extra 70th birthday present last summer, my youngest Son gave me a Corgi, scale 1 : 50 model of a 1944 Normandy Royal Corps Bedford QLR. At Christmas, he gave me four more, this time the the RASC model, and for the New Year, a Bedford QLD. He was the one who later found your website and he liked the picture of the Wagons and truck in the snow.
For many reasons I chose the other picture and Olive Drab really was too DRAB. We thought it was finished when we got the Wagons and duckboards in place, but then it was lifeless. So we nipped down to Modelzone and obtained a 'WWII British Infantry Set', and so appeared a 'D' Watch Regimental Morning - running a new cable. The SSM was added when I realised we only had 13 figures, and it was necessary to literally cannibalise him from beret to boots.
Like Topsy, it just growed - it was never planned, but we are enjoying it and are still trying to complete it.
We had the 'Langeleben Glasshouse' made locally in Ilkeston and we think he made an excellent job. My woodwork and varnishing is not up to scratch. Taking up modelling at 70 only proves your eyes are not what they were and the dexterity in your fingers is virtually nil. Well they did in my case. Cynthia at least put some life and colour into the Langeleben grounds that I never saw while I was there!
Paul, I was just delighted to restrict the scene to the Wagons, I would not have known where to start or stop when we arrived at the 'honey buckets', besides, we would surely need planning permission in this day and age! The poetry on the walls was yet another story.
Get your hands off Croxson, once it gets inside the I Corps museum, us Siggies who did all the work will never see it again! All the best, Dave. _________________ Dave Thomas 2 Sqn 13 SR, '63-'66
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
