Seriously, what a great birthday this year! I am resting after Steak and Lobster supper, happy with the national fireworks display in my honor, "Thanks President Biden!", and having spent my Amazon gift card prezzie on lots of goodies!
So, the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway is a work of art by the famed british special effects modelmaker Rowland Emmit; the genius behind much of the wonderful "steampunk" visuals in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
So, I was able to aquire a PZL-11 polish gull wing fighter, and a Lublin XIII recon-bomber for the polyestrine air force, and check out this ground crew; 1940s dinky figures; sort of actual vetrans of the Battle of Britain...
My first introduction to Science fiction as a child was seeing this copy of Heinlien on Dad's bookshelf. It admired that cover for a couple of years before Dad would let me read it...
