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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 09:56 AM UTC
http://englishrussia.com/?p=533
Augie
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 11:17 AM UTC
It's a sad thing to see such lovely pieces of machinery left to decay or to be torn apart.......
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 03:20 PM UTC
They should at least put a couple of them in museums.

To bad to see them all dismembered. However, it is a good sign and shows that the world have moved away from the apocalyptic nuclear war even though nuclear war still threatens the world on a lesser and maybe more likely scale.

At least we can reproduce them in 1/72 :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 03:31 PM UTC
I wonder if you can buy a nice MIG-21 to put in your garden? Then we have this, to come up with a good and believable excuse for the investment.... :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 03:52 PM UTC
Can I buy a Tu95 as a home????
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 04:38 PM UTC
Maybe rebuild Tu-95 as a business "jet", eh?
jba
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 05:05 PM UTC

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It's a sad thing to see such lovely pieces of machinery left to decay or to be torn apart.......


ever heard of "the beauty of decay"? i personnaly only do dioramas, and decaying airplanes are great subjects to deal with, harmless killing machines, passed Grandeur, there is a bit of sadness about the whole that in a way, i always found beautiful
thanks for sharing the pics!!
woltersk
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 05:06 PM UTC

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I wonder if you can buy a nice MIG-21 to put in your garden? Then we have this, to come up with a good and believable excuse for the investment.... :-)


Sure Can!

http://www.controller.com/listings/forsale/detail.asp?ohid=1084742

Place it in the garden and dress up the lawn gnome in pilot gear. :-)
Lucky13
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 05:17 PM UTC
I'll be.......
Something different to take your woman out for a ride in, eh?
Move over suckers.....! :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 06:18 AM UTC

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I'll be.......
Something different to take your woman out for a ride in, eh?
Move over suckers.....! :-)


Yeah, but I bet the bill for gasoline will be a bit higher than normal :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 07:07 AM UTC

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Yeah, but I bet the bill for gasoline will be a bit higher than normal :-)


Not in the UK. "Gasoline" is as cheap as dirt here!
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