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Knowing your great skills at building from bugger all, thought you had turned your skills to a TV lolyes Bob about a 30" why ?
Knowing your great skills at building from bugger all, thought you had turned your skills to a TV lolyes Bob about a 30" why ?
YEA Scottie considering i dint have no plans on really no info on fireball as videos were only just comin out at the time i built this so i was very pleased all i had to go by was a picture on my TV CENTRUY 21 COMIC AS ON THE FRONT PAGE THERE WAS A FULL COLOUR PICTURE AN THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD SEEN IT IN COLOUR AS NORMALLY IT WAS SHOWN IN BLACK AN WHITE an ive still got the comic from all those years ago in my time capsule im bedroomChris,
That is a great build mate.
Bob mate im not that good lol an really im lousey at eletrics but when im doin them it just seems to flow from my hands if you get my meaning an most times it all works i amaze myself at times thinkin i cant do that but it happens crazy is'nt itKnowing your great skills at building from bugger all, thought you had turned your skills to a TV lol
THANKS PeterExcellent.
Peter
YEA so do i Steve i never missed it an i read the book by derek meddings sayin he dreaded havin to keep rebuilding the small ship that caught fire when he fired the little smoke unit in the model but i bet he had a great time makin all them exsploshion like on thuderbirds be right up J/R 's street that an all us kids would talk about how we was gonna be like steve zodeiac in the 21 first centrury but sadly it never happenedGreat effort ! I remember the TV series well from my childhood ( back in the Black and White days !!)
HI Rick i think it was a 30" hitchi think i spelt it right an it was a colour tv an no not got it now as this was 40 yrs ago an the tv has gone to the great eletronic graveyard in the sky lol an jen an i used to watch this in bedNice model Chris......How old is that TV and does it still work? B/W or Color?......I'm a fan of old electrical appliances. Also, what make is it? Cheers, Rick H.
WOW Rick thats got some history ANY CHANCE of a pic of it an well at the moment we have got a 43" sony HDMI smart TV in the livin room ( i wanted a 50") but it wont fit in an home cinema an a panasonic dvd recorder an a video recorder combined an under that another panasonic video an then an a normal SONY DVD PLAYER an a humax recoder an they all work through our smart TV only trouble is i have 6 HANDSETS to use on them oh an a computer game goin through the same TV phew an up in the bedroom a new toshiba 24 " HDMI TV an video an a sony DVD plyer to whatch in bed an thats another 3 handsets lol but we are not ruled by our tv's like some lolWow Chris that is going back a ways.....I think the brand was Hitachi.....I still have and use my 14" JVC with built in VHS player from the 1980's...works like a champ. The oldest working set I have is a 1939 Zenith multi band console radio.....I'm certain that, at one point, it was used to listen to the news broadcast of Hitler's march into Poland. Rick H.
DITTO TO WHAT Tim said Rick its a bueatfull radio thats when they made them with care AN TOOK PRIDE IN THE FINISHED ARTICKLE not like now with all this massed produced stuffThat’s fantastic Rick. I assume it’s valve driven? If so, do you have spares.
Wow another fab build Chris love it ,xxAN HERE IN ALL HER GLORY THE FINISHED MODEL ON HER STAND an she drawfes THUDERBIRD 2 which is about 15 inches long an THUNDERBIRD 1 at about 8 inches long as i still have the models up in the loft but jen wont let me bring them down View attachment 428381
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