Mr T

The Trestrol is now finished. What it really needs is a trestle to support heavy metal sheets diagonally, although they did run without as well wagons. Quite pleased with the end result. I now need a layout to run it round.

Students were the best for the 'quick' question, that was usually anything but, as it was often pretty broad. Also asked when you wanted lunch, the toilet or to go home.

Or 'Stayin' Alive' from my days of teaching Basic Life Support.

Just listened to it, and completely lost the will to live, even by the undemanding standards of children songs, it is pretty dreadful. When the children were small we had a tape of children songs in the car by 'Ashley Hutchings and Friends' that turned out to be most of Steeleye Span. It was that, 'Mrs Wobble the Waitress' or 'The Enormous Crocodile' by Roald Dahl. Kept them quietish.

I'll second what Dave said, read and follow the instructions,. Skybirds took a very engineering based to their kits, and if you ignore their build sequence, it will end in tears. Also Dave is right about the undercarriages, works of art, but not really strong enough to hold the kit up fr any length of time. Both my Sea Hornet and MB5 succumbed to terminal undercarriage collapse.

Didn't realise Jo-Han were from Detroit, quite appropriate when you think about it.

I remember them advertised and reviewed. In at least one case if you followed the instructions, you ended up with the barrel and stock stuck together and all the pieces that should be inside, on the outside.

A fair bit of progress on the Corsair. A couple of days off from digging owing to family stuff and my knackered knee playing up. Forget Time Team, they don't show you the hard graft before you even reach the archaeology. I think they will cope without me, although I do miss going as I never thought scraping away with a trowel could be so much fun, even when you know that there probably isn't going to be much to find apart from bits of foundation and demolition debris. Saying that, I did find a knife of uncertain age (probably Victorian) Back there on Friday and the weekend. Tonight, I intend to add the engine and cowling and canopy, as well as bits of painting of prop and wheels.

Last picture for the WIP, I managed to get more done to this in the last few days that I thought I would. Decals went on really well, both the SH stencils and the Ventura markings. Quite pleased with this one.

OK, fair enough, by 1997 was past partying and chasing girls, was an older parent (42 when my daughter was born the previous year) with a job that demanded a hefty commitment. Somehow seemed to miss out on the partying etc, when younger in the early seventies, although I made some time up when student nurse ten years later. 🥳🍺🎶🏥.

Still 3 minutes 7 seconds too long.

Hi Patrice, nice start on the Mirage. I built the Modelvisit IIIO for the Mirage GB last year. It is a good kit, and I don't recall any real issues. I put mine in the Inspiration Gallery and the build is somewhere in the Mirage GB archive.

I note on the Hannants website has the Australian and New Zealand roundels sheet available again. https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X72260?result-token=Q0Wnj

Before the Falklands War, with the exception of the Sea King HC4 and Wessex HU5, most Fleet Air Arm aircraft carried high visibility roundels. On the way out to Falklands the Sea Kings, Lynx and Sea Harriers had their roundels toned down by the removal of the white portion This was done on the ships and proportions did vary compared to the red/blue roundel that was already standard on Navy assault helicopters and most RAF and AAC combat aircraft. Try to find a photo of the aircraft you want to model, rather than just relying on artwork, which is not always correct.

A few from the archives, all aircraft and all 1/72nd scale Magna Bristol 146 Magna Gloster F/34 Magna DH Flamingo Rareplanes Miles M20 Magna Miles Marathon Magna MB2 Magna MB3 Joystick Morane P Skybirds86 Prentice Rareplanes Supermarine 224