[Armour Addict]

Originally Posted by Ara1

OK diecasters, feel free to post yer supressed desire list here. (Yes Black 6 I'm making it happen.)

I ask y'all to follow 1 rule: This is not a wishlist for your favorite plane to be produced-- that could get lengthy.

My SD is to own as many Franklin Mint DC-3 / C-47s as I can! (Currently own a D-Day version, with a USAF Air Transport Command on the way). Hey Armour Addict, do you own the gorgeeeous Blue-n-Silver Lufthansa version?

SD is to finish my attic and create the ultimate diecast rec room.

SD is to get a Marushin Betty.

SD is to get all four C1 Focke-Wulfs and the Pearl P-40.

Let me see... My SD is to have all Hornet liveries brought out by FM and CDC. So far I am on a good way to be there!

Nice idea with the DC-3 / C-47s Ara! There aren't so many. I know of 13 different DC-3 / C-47s. So far I have two, the E058 MATS and C971 Camel Caravan to Berlin. Not, I don't have it. It is very nice I can tell you. I have seen it in a store. Did you know that there are two production batches of the Lufthansa DC-3, one with 400 and one with 200? If I would want it I could be able to get it.

[FormerViperDriver]

My SD is to work towards peace on earth and mutual understanding, erasing poverty and hunger...

NAAAAHHHH! Really, I like Rush 104's SD (own diecast company).

Or own my own private F-16 (a real one, a two-seater) to fly whenever I want. I do miss flying jets...

FVD

[Daywalker]

Originally Posted by Ara1

OK diecasters, feel free to post yer supressed desire list here. (Yes Black 6 I'm making it happen.)

SD is to get all four C1 Focke-Wulfs and the Pearl P-40.

Did C 1 produced 4 FW 190? I only know 3 (Barkhorn, Götz and Hofmann).

[FormerViperDriver]

Only 3, unless I missed something...

FVD

[Armour Addict]

Their webpage says three...

That should be the most accurate info.

[Ara1]

Yeah, my SD is to own all 3 Fw's, the D-9, D-11, and D-13. There ain't four yet.

[Ara1]

Originally Posted by jim

MY SD is to find the money to convert the loft into a diecast heaven.

Yes. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. I'd even have the construction guys build shelving where the roof slants. I'm thinking a bench-type shelf running the length of the house, where the floor meets the roof. I'd paint it white and all my 1/48's would be parked wing tip to wing tip. We can wish, can't we Jim?

[Kubikali]

I don't do post WWII jets!

But those Sabres, Phantoms, Tomcats, Corsair II's and Intruders are just too appealing...

[Ara1]

Originally Posted by FormerViperDriver

Or own my own private F-16 (a real one, a two-seater) to fly whenever I want. I do miss flying jets...

FVD

Interesting. My latest SD is to hear one of FVD's jet stories (if he cares to share with us here...)

[JustPlaneNuttz]

Suppressed Desire? What an original thread!

OK. Mine goes something like this:

I have that Corgi Canadian Pacific Airlines Bristol Britannia CF-CZA in the 1961 livery. It is very special to me, because a of very special event that happened to me in my formative years that turned me into an 'airplane nut'. When I was a kid about 10 -11 (1963-64), I had a chance to walk through that EXACT aircraft as it was being refueled in Prince George, B.C. To make a short story long, upon my Dad returning from a Hudson Bay Company business trip to Vancouver on it, I convinced him to speak to the Stewardess (Flight Attendant today) to see if she could show me around the airplane as it sat there -- empty. He did and this stunning looking blond in her early 20s with the snappy dark blue uniform and BOAC-like hat took me by the hand and showed me through -- telling me about the various features of the plane. It was ALSO that very aircraft -- CF-CZA! I remember because I wanted the Dinky Toy one (998) which had the same registration. There was nobody on the aircraft, so it was dead quiet with just the hum of some distant electric motor and the late afternoon April sun coming through the windows. Suffice it to say, it was like a 'living Temple to High Tech British Aviation' walking up that carpeted aisle to the cockpit. I still revere the Britannia as my all-time favourite propliner (specifically CPA). At the end, before she escorted me off the plane, she gave me one of those 'airplane candies' and a smile. I was in TOTAL 7th heaven!! (For a 10-11 year old.)

OK. Now fast forward. I often think back upon that, and I gotta tell ya, I sure would have liked to have been a few years older to repeat that same experience -- with something sweeter than just an 'airplane candy' (nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more squire!) as a token of that tour. Now just take a look at that Stewardess . . .



. . . SWEET! I'll leave it to you guys' fertile imaginations to connect the dots!! (HEY -- You asked for it! )

JPN