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Thanks Ray I'll do that

I believe Santa may be bringing me a P-8 version, does anyone know how much nose weight is needed to stop it becoming a tail sitter please?

And I'll go for #31 as I worked at Hatfield (in the 70s during school holidays) and my father did nearly 40 years there! I have plenty of de H types to build!

Saddened to hear this news, Mel was a top bloke and I enjoyed our chats at shows, especially the time he forgot his suit! He will be missed and should be congratulated for bringing us some much wanted models not least the Canberra, RIP Mel

Hmmm like a Bedford crew bus and a Leyland Hippo tanker?

The original Hawk T1 OOS date was between 2018 and 2020 so I guess they have been on borrowed time! Be nice to see what the (Civi) replacement is (if any).

Sorry but if you want quality (as in your original post) they are very unlikely to be available cheap on ebay! I guess you could always make your own out of Plasticard and commercially available wheels, occasionally places like Home Bargains have suitable (toy) 1/76 vehicles that could be converted. Oxford Diecast do some modern Transits so you could use those?

Also in addition to the above suggestions (from which I can recommend the AB and DTM figures) I understand Modelu will shortly be releasing some scanned and 3d printed British WW2 figures, a little more expensive but very good.

I see the decal sheet does indeed include XV215's nose art!

No but I'm sure Xtradecal will be preparing one, hmmm wonder if the 'Fat Slags' will be included on the Zvezda decal sheet.

Mine was an Airfix 1/72 Lightning F1, around the mid 60s

Yes a war museum first, aviation museum second which is why Duxford are removing the Land Warfare Hall and concentrating on aeroplanes!

Apparently they are also looking at Manston https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/new-sites-earmarked-for-brexit-lorry-parks-231008/

Except it will be full of lorries waiting to cross the channel next year!

Hmmm does that mean 1/72 is a possibility as well?

If you contact Luis (Holden8702) directly, he is on facebook, he has some more recent Royal Navy and RAF figures which he can print at any scale, and also cheaper than going through Shapeways, sadly at the moment he is unable to dispatch them to the UK (or anywhere else) as he is located in Spain but he is very helpful and will presumably be able to supply when things start opening up again after this current mess!

I've built the Ole Bill version and that goes together really well but you need to be careful with getting the small parts off the sprue, front mudguard stays/starting handle and others, other than that it builds up really well I found!

Well that's just saved me making one, which I was intending doing!

Terrific, shame you didn't want it as a 1/76 version as there is a resin kit about to be released!

Has anyone built one of these (any boxing) yet, if so how was it?

Mike You may find a suitable plan among this list http://www.terryblois-busdrawings.co.uk/ Best Regards Anthony

Thanks, I know, but I'm looking forward to it! It will be 1/72 scale with a KeilKraft Green Line coach (demoted to bus work just before WW2), an ACE Austin Forlite 'staff' car (although it might be a civilian one) and a Military Wheels Gaz AA, masquerading as a Ford AA. They, along with the many figures (from at least 12 different manufacturers so far). are the easy bit!

The boat I intend to model is the Breda, although then it was the Dab II, which has just undergone a thorough restoration. http://www.adls.org.uk/t1/content/dab-ii-now-breda-0 Anthony

Hi Everyone My first foray into building a diorama on Britmodeller, in fact my first building anything on Britmodeller!! This year (2019) I won the 144 Diorama competition at the Model Bus Federation National Show with a dio called Passchendaele. The rules of the competition are quite simple it has to be 144 sq inches (though not necessarily 12x12) and it has to contain at least one 'bus', so my entry this year involved an 'Ole Bill' bus (the 1/72 Roden kit) on a muddy road picking up some weary British soldiers and I used several photos to create little vignettes within the overall scene. Anyway I had so much fun doing it I thought I'd do a few more of which the first would be an entry for the 2020 competition (next October) which would be based around a scene from Operation Dynamo (the Dunkirk evacuation), it being the 80th anniversary in 2020. My initial thoughts are for one of the little ships returning to a UK port with soldiers on board, with more on the quayside having already arrived, with a waiting bus and a couple of other vehicles. Operation Dynamo also has a personal history for me as my maternal grandmother's brother was with the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment and was one of the last away from the beaches, having to swim out to a boat. They had spent the previous couple of weeks on a fighting retreat from around Zavantem. At the moment I have an idea, a couple of vehicles and a Wilko 12x12 black picture frame, hopefully it will all start to come together soon! Anthony

Thanks, the photo doesn't quite do the mud justice, think the last boats I built were an Airfix Leander class frigate and a cardboard LCA from the plan in Almark Modelworld, both of which would have been back in the 70s, anyway we have digressed too far from your build so I'll leave mine there and start a new topic.