Found Objects: Fill-Your-Own Xmas baubles

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Random fact, my Dad used to work for Airship Industries in Shed 1 at Cardington.... I remember going in when I was about 9 years old and thinking it was enormous.

[Gondor]

Shed 1 at Cardington is enormous. I used to go past it on the way to and from Bedford when I was stationed at RAF Henlow at the end of the eighties.

[Weaver]

Random fact, my Dad used to work for Airship Industries in Shed 1 at Cardington.... I remember going in when I was about 9 years old and thinking it was enormous.

Understandable: I was 30-odd when I first walked into the main hangar at Woodford, and I still had a mini-vertigo attack...

[zenrat]

I get a Tank Girl vibe from them.

Zizacktly! I was going to suggest mounting them under Jet Girl's plane, but my plan for that model might not have enough ground clearance.

Of course, if you were into really big scale figure modelling...    

I spent about an hour looking for that picture...

[Weaver]

I spent about an hour looking for that picture...

I was actually looking for the black and white original, but couldn't find it. For some reason, Google Images is WAY better on Tank Girl than Ecosia.

[PR19_Kit]

That really does justice to the old saying about a well-endowed girl - "Shot in the back with two Exocets"!

Or as my mother used to put it: "Well if she fell on her face she wouldn't break her nose, would she?"

Yet another alternative, from my lady friend. 'Hmm, She'll never drown, will she?' 

[PR19_Kit]

Shed 1 at Cardington is enormous. I used to go past it on the way to and from Bedford when I was stationed at RAF Henlow at the end of the eighties.

BOTH sheds there are ginormous!

Back in the 70s the FAI held the World Model Pylon Racing Championships at Cranfield and the World Indoor Model Flying Champs at nearby Cardington. IPMS Trent, of which I was the Secretary, were asked to put on a model display at Cranfield (Those of you who get the SIG Newsletter will know this already as it features in Kits Kolumn 37) and that gave us free access to both sites.

I went over to Cardington to have a close look at Shed 2 there, as it hangered the R-100, THE best airship as far as I'm concerned, and found all the model flyers just standing there with their very flimsy looking models in their hands, all looking upwards. I asked one of the officials why and he pointed upwards and said, 'We're waiting for the clouds to burn off!'

Sure enough, there were clouds up there, INSIDE the shed! Apparently it happened quite often, depending on the relative temperature and humidity inside and outside the massive shed. 

[Nick]

Random fact, my Dad used to work for Airship Industries in Shed 1 at Cardington.... I remember going in when I was about 9 years old and thinking it was enormous.

Understandable: I was 30-odd when I first walked into the main hangar at Woodford, and I still had a mini-vertigo attack...

I remember driving past Cardington years ago and just watching the hangars get bigger... and bigger... and bigger as I got closer.

A contender for largest building must be the new ship building shed in Glasgow which can hold 2 frigates side by side 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rpke84208o

[Weaver]

From Poundstretcher: box of six fill-your-own Christmas baubles for £2.70

These are basically 60mm diameter clear plastic spheres, each split into two halves, with locking edges and a tab at one side. Importantly, there are no manufacturer's marks or moulding marks anywhere on them, unlike a lot of clear domes you can find on other products. On the downside, they are a little scratched, but nothing that won't buff out.

Seem like a natural for a 1/48th bubble-ship cockpit, or a 1/144th (or smaller) Mars colony.

[Rick Lowe]

I found a pack of those, too - one half is to be the canopy for my Spaceman Spiff saucer.
Not sure what I'll do with the other 11 halves, but something will come up. 

[zenrat]

They could also become a bubble top on a custom.

[Rheged]

They could also become a bubble top on a custom.

It looks  most curious, what is it (or at least, what is it based on)?

[PR19_Kit]

I'd guess it was an early T-Bird. The sides, with those vestigial fins, look like T-Bird fins.

[Weaver]

They could also become a bubble top on a custom.

A little small for 1/24th perhaps (unless it's a single-seater).

Hobbycraft are doing 80mm ones.

[Weaver]

Another thing you could do is use them as actual decorations, but use your modelling skills to make mini-dioramas inside them.