Nice garden ornament in france

[Prolex-UK]

Spotted this today.

Er indoors took photo...

Maybe 1/4 scale?

Zoom in

[Paul-427]

Pity it's not clearer but I have been nagging my wife for something similar and she is less than enthused !

Where is it ?

[Prolex-UK]

Approaching ing chabanois on d29 from confolens in dept 16

Looked ok

Nearly ended up in a ditch when i first saw it

[littleredrooster]

Sorry, but I just cannot make out what that is supposed to be.

[kicks]

Paul-427 said:

Pity it's not clearer but I have been nagging my wife for something similar and she is less than enthused !

Where is it ?

Don't do it. My friend has a harrier and a phantom in their garden and all it does is attract bird poo.

[Doofus]

Prolex-UK said:

Approaching ing chabanois on d29 from confolens in dept 16

Looked ok

Nearly ended up in a ditch when i first saw it

Did your wife take the photo of the road sign too? I assume you mean Chabanais?

ETA. Sorry, that sounded snippy. Not intended.


Anyway, isn't the fire engine bloke on that road somewhere? He's in the vicinity of Saint Maurice IIRC. Anything to do with him?

Edited by Doofus on Tuesday 11th August 20:02

[Prolex-UK]

Its a p47 thunderbolt

[Paul-427]

kicks said:

Paul-427 said:

Pity it's not clearer but I have been nagging my wife for something similar and she is less than enthused !

Where is it ?

Don't do it. My friend has a harrier and a phantom in their garden and all it does is attract bird poo.

Didn't think that far ahead

[Eric Mc]

Can't really see what it is. Somebody above says it's a P-47 but it might as well be a dog kennel. Any chance of a bigger picture?

[Prolex-UK]

Eric Mc said:

Can't really see what it is. Somebody above says it's a P-47 but it might as well be a dog kennel. Any chance of a bigger picture?

was me

posted as thumbnail...will try to amend

[Prolex-UK]

[595Heaven]

Not showing on Street View

https://goo.gl/maps/CLhd9yi8akqWRcXMA

Nice house though!

[robemcdonald]

Prolex-UK said:

That's an odd looking P47. Replica?

[Eric Mc]

That's better. It's definitely a replica. The canopy is out of proportion to the fuselage so I reckon it is a flying replica - although whether it's currently flyable would be open to question.

[Yertis]

Eric Mc said:

It's definitely a replica.

There was me thinking someone might have a real P47D floating about in their front yard.


I must admit I don't really 'get' having aircraft as garden ornaments. It's not even as if they degrade gracefully. They just look more and more depressing until they inevitably get taken away for scrap.

[Eric Mc]

There are plenty of smaller scale replicas of World War 2 fighter aircraft.

Isaacs Spitfire -



Titan T-51



P-47

[ecsrobin]

Eric Mc said:

There are plenty of smaller scale replicas of World War 2 fighter aircraft.

Isaacs Spitfire -



Titan T-51



P-47

The spitfire is just so wrong I can imagine all the owners being weird!

[Doofus]

ecsrobin said:

The spitfire is just so wrong I can imagine all the owners being weird!

If you just consider it for what it is, it's a pretty little thing.

[Taylor James]

Doofus said:

ecsrobin said:

The spitfire is just so wrong I can imagine all the owners being weird!

If you just consider it for what it is, it's a pretty little thing.

I love warbirds but they just remind me of those awful shrunken Mk2 Jag 'replica' things you see from time to time.

I'd like an EE Lightning in the garden but suspect it might be a relationship ending move. It will remain in that dream bachelor pad fantasy.