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Nigel Bunker

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  1. Their website is http://www.fujimimokei.com/ . You may be able to contact them through that, though the site is in Japanese and will need translating. Alternatively an advert in the Wanted section might bring results.
  2. Fresh baguette, butter and smoked back bacon. Heaven. And leave the condiments in the cupboard.
  3. Nigel Bunker

    Soooo.......

    Our wedding day was one week before my late wife's birthday. It made March a very expensive month, always with two presents to buy.
  4. To quote the late Frank Carson, every morning when I wake up I stretch my arms. If they don't hit the side of a coffin, it's going to be a good day.
  5. This conversion was for an HP Halifax C.VIII, very similar but not identical to an HP Halton, but probably an easier conversion (uses bomber clear nose and no fuselage windows to be added).
  6. I think you'll have to start building the stash, as will we all.
  7. Only if re-engined with a jet engine.😀 Only if re-engined with a jet engine.😀 Only if re-engined with a jet engine.😀
  8. Time to visit a medium and try to contact Edgar? I miss his Spitfire knowledge.
  9. The issue of Scale Aircraft Modelling was Volume 5, Issue 9 (June 1983).
  10. That was my intention, but as long as people have fun with the topic, all's good.
  11. I seem to recall the fuselage is the wrong length on this kit, and is pretty well unfixable.
  12. I was just thinking about how long aircraft serve for these days. F-14. First flight 21 December 1970. Still in service with IRIAF. 53 years. F-15. First flight 27 July 1972. Still in service with various air forces and still in production. 51 years. F-16. First flight 20 January 1974. Still in service with various air forces and still in production. 50 years. I can think of others but will leave it to my fellow Britmodellers to supply the facts. Have fun. (I bet the DC-3/C-47 holds the overall record for any type, prop or jet).
  13. I think that equates to 18" in old money.
  14. Hello Keith. Like Mark I have looked in both books & magazines, also on the internet, and it looks like you can have the canopy open or the fan lift doors open but not both. Nigel
  15. In 1/72. Orange Hobby made (or make) a kit of the F-35C. I bought one a couple of years ago but had to buy it from BNA Models on Australia as it was a choice of buying it from there or China.
  16. Moulds don't normally get shipped around as they are big heavy blocks of metal. What normally happens is that a company will order so many thousand sets of mouldings which are moulded by the company who own the moulds. These are bagged and shipped to the customer who adds instructions and decals then boxes them as their own product.
  17. My apologies for raising this topic again. Every time I think of something new to discuss, people have already been there before me.
  18. I want to build a 1/72 model of the Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master. I believe it shares the same basic airframe as the Yak 130, but are there any changes that need to be made? I know the engines and avionics are different, but I don't think that these affect thew look of the aircraft. So does anybody know of the differences?
  19. I believe it's known as natural selection.
  20. The model I'd like to be playing with is 5'9" tall and 36-24-36. Oh well, I can dream.
  21. Lead flashing is readily available from builder's suppliers like Wickes. I bought a roll of 6" flashing there about 8 years ago (it now costs about £42) and am still only half way through it. It saves huntinf for weifgts to use.
  22. A really good show. TVSMC thanks IPMS Abingdon for putting on a great show and we hope to see you for the next one in 2024.
  23. I remember back in the mid sixties, not long after I'd gone up to Grammar School, when 'The Man From Uncle' was on BBC1 on Thursday evenings. Everybody at school watched it - all the boys wanted to be Napoleon Solo whilst all the girls fancied Illya Kuryakin - I think David McCallum won that one.
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