Peter @tecko, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baa+baa+black+sheep+tv+series+full+episodes

Don’t hold back, Tom. Tell us how you really feel...

I think most of us who are creating projects for this group build (regarding the TV shows especially) are indeed connecting with that 7 or 8 year old kid inside, not the adult who knows “hysterical accuracy” (thanks, Jeff) from reality. Hell, I am 100% sure every single thing you said is correct, but I wouldn’t tell my eight year old daughter Father Christmas is a capitalist ploy to get us to spend hard earned cash on c@#p we don’t need, even though I really want to.

Wilful suspension of disbelief comes second nature to a child although it’s something movie makers try (in some talented cases, anyway) very hard at recreating. I do think us modelers have a hard time dissociating from our ‘inner child’ when we build, and that’s healthy. Our identity is made over a lifetime, not something we arrive at. Not saying anything you said is wrong (far from it, actually) - just that for some of us Pappy was a fantasy, even though our adult selves know otherwise.

It’s becoming difficult just enjoying movies sometimes, I had a recent experiece watching the ‘Usual Suspects’ and couldn’t stop thinking of all that stuff going on with Kevin Spacey.

Just don’t try and tell me Captain Kirk was an a...let’s not go there.

Partner, around these parts, us folks call it being 'Cleavered' - and you ain't the first.

I am friends with two of the Baa Baa writers and that business with Bellisario still rankles. The thing about that show is, it could have been good. Instead, they went for the yuck.

One response: Band of Brothers. You can do it right and be entertaining and popular. All you have to do is want to. And yes, this is a fight I've been fighting in Okeefenokee West for 35 years now.

A fight that does not belong here on this site, take it somewhere else. We are talking about entertainment that reaches the masses. Some understand it, some don't some don't like it. Shows like Black Sheep, MASH and JAG were created to entertain. Take real events, put a spin on them to either to be funny or dramatic to make it interesting as best as possible. Knowing that targeting an audience that have no interest or care about warfare, or what a Corsair looks like or generally don't like military style shows. This thread is talking about modeling those Corsairs based on the show. A show many people liked and some who who didn't and in the end didn't last long despite many writing in too keep the show going. As it was entertaining. I loved it because, not because it was correct or historic not even close , because it was fun watching the Corsairs fly. Didn't care about the story, didn't care who was involved. The show was fictional. And to bag a WWII Marine Corp veteran despite his history is not your place to say. This is one person I did get to meet at the Chino Air Show back in the 80's and was able to spend some time, gruffy guy, and one thing he did say humbly was don't believe everything about him, , at the time I didn't know any of the things you say about the man (and I won't take what you said regardless). All I know that day it was Pappy Boyington retired Marine, and no one gets to be in command unit without earning it also give away Medal of Honor medals. What happens during war changes a man. He was also a POW. Not excusing him if it is true, but as we have found out, words from other people is just here say , As we know there are many outstanding men that had exploits that made them who they are on both sides, but unless we were right there next to them as winesse in how they performed how can we judge them except takes some ones elses word that may not be true? Besides your personal opinions on movies are yours alone and should keep to yourself. I don't like everything, but I'm not going to tell the world unless someone ask me directly. Band of Brothers excellent show. But when you group a bunch of us who happen to love movies and shows like Top Gun and Baa Baa Black Sheep and think we are mindless and don't care about what really happened or how it should've or could've and doesn't meet YOUR expectations well your a man in your own world. Is like saying that your books are fiction and pointless and are base on sheer fantasy of your own mind. Which I can't say as I have not read them and have no reason to read them ever. Even if they were given to me. I have no interest, but that's just me. But I won't say that because it's not true just because I don't like them don't mean I will go out and bag you or your books. Not a cool thing to do. When it comes to pointers or advise on models even though they are uninvited is one thing. But to bag on movies, or people because of your personal feelings about them is not really a place for that here. And as your just another modeler like everyone else. Your nothing special, really your not. Just one who believes he is above the rest. You just need to stop doing that.