A group shot 'from the archive', none of
these are mine, but it shows two of the Timpolene
composition 'planes (believed to be made by Zang,
but here labelled to Timpo) and a pair
of the similar figures with what may be factory paint, but may be home-paint?
They (the figures) do keep turning-up in
different finishes and the trouble with the effort of trying to decide on the
decoration is exacerbated by the fact that the average hobbyist in
1940/50-something could daub a bit of gloss to the same level of competence as
the out-painters!
Also, this is another of those moments when you think it's fine to push back the date the experts have previously given to the 'stuff's usage, as that is an experimental Whittle 'plane is it not? A late war, not post war machine? The same machine to be seen (controversially) in fibreglass in Farnborough?
This is mine and I'm sure we've seen one of
these shots before, but there were two in the folder so I've collaged them
together; to tick a box, or 'tick them off'.
Zang's (or Timpo's?) 30mm
highlander in working/combat dress (with kilt!), possibly used as a whiskey
premium, maybe Haig (who Britains would work with later) or Dewars, and as
I said before; he's been broken cleanly at the ankles and glued back together.
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