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On the wing in the area of the main undercarriage wheels, I do not observe such a protrusion on a real aircraft

Looks really great...did you use the kit decals???

Have a look in the BM walkround section. Tornado GR4 on operations in Kandahar. Rob.

Interesting little build. The 162 had an ejection seat as far as I know. And for good reason with that engine on the back. I have no idea how well it worked though. Whether or not the 30mm guns should be called canons; as far as I know upwards of 20mm should be referred to as canons but of course there is some debate about that depending on the function and even the country you're in. Anyway, it would be advisable to stay away from the business end in any case. Enjoy the build

here are some of the photos I took today. Most don't need explaining, but I have put a comment or two on some of them. Note the caption by Paul's feet! This is a perfect illustration of the phrase gallows humour - the iceberg is part of the kit! Part of Pete Waterman's track layout - about the best photo I could get. I told the club showing this 1/156 panzer that they should have put Wallace looking out of the rear hatch. I thought it would have been humourous! a clear thunderbird 2 on the pocketbond stand; part of the Tamiya R/C display; this was an enormous R/C aeroplane! a lovely silver painted Porsche tractor A WW1 tank from laser cut wood kit. i

she looks devilishly fantastic!!!

Hi to all, I have just found this photo (I do not remember where) and wonder if someone could help us with information and suggestions. I would like to add this one to the ones already did Thank you very much Cheers Santiago

I think the photos look pretty damn' fine! You might want to choose a non-white background to make it look less stark? I have a bit of blue art paper that I keep rolled up for my "nice" (="less awful") photos and shoot most of my in progress stuff on my blue cutting board. Regards, Adrian

And on we build. After sanding and polishing the filled areas on the fuselage I have now reached the point at which airbrushing can commence. Lots of small lumps and bumps have been added to the fuselage and wings making the bird look operational and haphazardly altered at the same time. I have to admit that the kit is an easy build and it all feels sturdy which made me decide to add the measuring garden on the nose before airbrushing. I also coloured in the undercarriage and the accompanying doors. A wash will be applied once everything is painted, which I think would be the efficient thing to do. The seat has also received its colours although the webbing still has to be constructed. Next episode, so stay tuned. Ready for painting. I will tape off the engine of course but at the time of taking the picture it had just been sprayed on. Seat, undercarriage, the usual

Congratulations on retirement! Glad to see you are back on the case with the welder/dredger again, it's a really oddball model. Regards, Adrian

... 'Long as it's free

I'm lost in admiration for the work that's gone into this. A very special build indeed.

There might be a few more if the 'Size 10 Boot of Doom' gets involved. That plastic has been warned!

Drinking the sacramental-wine again ?

Yes it's scheme E I'll be doing.

This is beautiful work, a pleasure to watch it taking shape.

I've been quite interested in late war German aircraft lately, so I'll follow this thread. Good start

Cammo started. As ever, it'll look scruffy for a while - it's just an undercoat-cum-rough template for a slightly darker shade of pale blue at the moment.

Dear all, I wonder if someone could help us with this series. We are getting a new display cabinet for the "captured aircraft" of our collection. Since we will get more space we are thinking about enlarging some of our already finished series. I this case I would like to add some more Bf 108 Taifun. Could some of you help us with these selected aircraft?. I mean, with some information and suggestions in terms of colours. 1) PS T (Thanks to Carl Vincent) 2) Heliopolis 3) 127 W JDM These are the ones we did some years ago. Only 6 of them. Thank you very much Kind regards Santiago

That's what it is supposed to be. Reality differs somewhat with many insurance companies, hence why I will not have one in my car for any reason. Usually, drivers are scored on a number of metrics. These can be things like the smoothness of your driving, compliance with speed limits, the times you're driving at and so on. You are penalised for what the monitoring deems as bad driving, and if you get penalised too much, your insurance may be cancelled. But, it's obviously a human doing this monitoring, so a lot of context gets lost. A common issue would be being penalised for hard acceleration... but it's a short slip road. Appropriate acceleration to emerge safely? Penalised! Dangerously emerging at 35? Perfect driving! One of my friends who has a box in his car gets penalised constantly for sharp cornering.... the junction has a sharp angle. Clearly, he should put the car in the hedge opposite so he doesnt turn so sharply. The speed limits on the tracker may be wrong, or the GPS signal could be blocked in a tunnel for example resulting in it detecting a high speed when you jump from one end to the other of the tunnel according to its tracking. So the end result of this is drivers who are encouraged to drive poorly by a black box that's meant to enforce "good" driving, and lots of young drivers getting their insurance cancelled. This latter point is a big deal because you need to declare that for life when getting car insurance. Points, driving bans, etc, go away after a few years. Getting your insurance cancelled does not, and a lot of young drivers don't know this. Policies with a box are often cheaper. For me, it would have saved I think about 90 quid (box quotes for this year were about 450 iirc, I paid 540. That's driving a 2012 1L Citroën C1 with 2 years NCD and license held for 2 years, at 20 years old). With some cars, the price difference is much higher.

Superb mottling paintwork, really well done 👍

I've no Heller stuff unfortunately, apart from a 1/72 hurricane that I already volunteered for the Heller GB ! I remember they did quite a few cars at one point though, don't think I ever made one, not that I recall anyway ..

Last few pieces arrived, assembled, painted and fitted 182 Decoys Flight Deck Spotlights and Fuel Cans arrived and I built a rack for them. So that's the ships itself finished off (if a build like this is ever truly finished off) Just this little beast to build before RFI photos.

Looking really good. You have every right to be pleased.

It's no matter to me how old the kit is if it's a subject I like. I'm with Matt and Tom above, I like researching and enjoy the scratch building side more. Even if it's a shiny spanking new kit I'm looking at things I can refine in plastic card, sheet metal or wires. You can I guess blame Chris Ellis and Harry Woodman for that as their books back in the early seventies made me think there is more to just gluing two bits together. There's a limitation to injection moulding and this is where looking and understanding how the real thing was constructed and what machinery be it press, mill, lathe, English wheels etc etc was used brings a greater knowledge to ones own modelling I feel, After all, we must have at least a modicum of engineering and artistry in our bones as we're interested in modelling. I think I would be personally unfulfilled if I was just a buyer and assembler of the latest model in a race to be the first to post the finished article on the internet. Each to their own of course, Maslows Theory of Human Motivation and all that, which brings me nicely back to the OP's question Andrew