John

That's my son's Christmas sorted 🎄 John

Retire, you'll have plenty of time to induldge your hobbies... Doesn't work like that! Anyway, I've finally got a bit more done. I've taken an unconventional approach to construction, given the tight fit of the wings we discussed earlier: They didn't need any trimming but I chose to attach them to each fuselage half individually and glue them from the inside with EMA Plastic Weld. The fit's really good. After everything had dried I painted the insides with Humbrol 78 Cockpit Green, so there shouldn't be any stray grey bits visible through the canopy. The undercarriage is clearly not designed to be assembled "up", and the doors needed a bit of filler: Cockpit detail will consist of what's in the box, featuring Angus and Cliff here: Still, better than a lot of kits from this period. John

I've got a couple of the Revell 1/48th scale boxings that include the parts from the Pro Modeler partial retool. It's one of my favourite P-40 kits, capturing the rugged finish of the real thing. Better than those baby's bum smooth modern ones anyway... 😀 John

I'm in. I've built, if not finished 🙄, Gladiators in 3 recent GBs. Time to let it have a testimonial match in its own right. That and it would be nice to have the excuse to build one that's not from decades old tooling... John

I didn't know until today that Merit had done Campbell's Bluebird, I've certainly never seen one. I had the Artiplast moulding of the 504 many years ago. I'd summarise the finished model as nice but chunky 😀 John

I remember Woolworths got in a whole load of these kits in the second half of the 1970s, at quite cheap prices. I had one of these and the Gotha. That was impressive! If memory serves, the Fokker is a bit out of scale, being somewhat bigger than 1/48? John

Sadly I haven't had time to do much in the way of modelling over the last few weeks and I've missed the deadline for the Gallery, but I'll get both builds finished and photos on the threads over the next week or so 🤞 Congratulations to all the participants and thanks to the hosts. Now, where did I leave that Mosquito...? John

I had a number of relatives with Beetles when I was a kid so there was a bit of a production line going with this kit 😀 There were a couple of Herbies in there too. If I remember correctly Hornby were planning to release some of the Scalextric-branded 1/32 kits under the Airfix name a few years ago, which would have modernised range quite nicely. Nothing has come of that so far. John

Our friends at Humbrol did an excellent job. This is one of my favourite kits, I've got a load of them. We should give a prize to anyone who can get the control column off the sprue without breaking it... 🙄 John

Drop me a pm and I'll send you a set of the bigger tanks. I'm not planning on using them. John

I have many fond memories of watching the yellow SAR Wessex from Leuchars over the beach at St Andrews. That option alone may escalate the Airfix kit from a "that's interesting" to a "take my money"! John

This is the one they were building at East Fortune? John

That's a lovely job. It isn't a kit I've ever built but I do remember being struck by the excellent box art on both this and the air force variant. John

Looking for a bit of advice. I'm thinking about getting started with making some videos. Capturing the images isn't a problem but I'm very out of touch with video editing software. I think the last one I used was the old Serif MoviePlus, the free version. I know that's been discontinued so I'd be interested to know what other content producers out there use and would recommend. Thanks, John

In the garage looking for something else and... John