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Originally Posted by Bluewavestudios Thanks Barry,
Like I said, I am sure Dave would have been proud of this himself,
I got to know Dave many years ago when he was Flying one of his Byron Models down on the beach and I recognised the kit, as soon as I said it was a Byron Kit he knew I was a modeller and we had been friends ever since.
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***Byron originals are a legend in themselves,sadly the company decided to abandon kit production a few years back and concentrate purely on the manufacture of model fuels.
The impressive scale model shows organised with great attention to detail in the States are now a thing of the past,where else could you have seen a staged model show of the Pearl Harbour attack with large scale Zero fighters flying through all of the amazing pyrotechnics ?
They did such monsters as a PBY Catalina,Douglas C-47,B-25 Mitchell and their famous P-51 Mustang kit.
For those not familiar with these models the Byron principle was that any average modeller could successfully build one of these ambitious model designs as they took most of the heavy donkey work away,fuselages and wings were sometimes pre-moulded in blue foam with a clever series of structional members in place without adding too much weight,all cowls,undercarriages,canopies could be purchased as replacements,the one outstanding feature was a first class power to weight ratio.I would imagine now that these kits unbuilt would be worth a few bob as they have been out of production for some time.
Look in any old American flying model magazines and you will see their ads,I wonder why they decided to give up their unique kit production ?