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My very longsuffering wife allows “plastic creep” from the den (aka model room) into the living room… BTW while I’m waiting for the monster to arrive, for a training run, I’m having a bash at the Mach 2 Britannia. Bash is the operative word… Cheers!

escaping from his own

Tashkent was built on an Italian shipyard in Livorno 11 Jan. 1937. When completed the destroyer was delivered October 1939 to the Black Sea fleet without guns. The Russian navy fitted Tashkent with arms shortly before the German army invaded Russia. ⚓👍

That's a good question, Pat. I've read those two books in the past (I thought I had a copy of Scramble but can't now find it) and never thought about the gap. I have an idea that he was sent home sick from Malta and then went on to a training role. But I may well be thinking of someone else. The conditions on Malta took their toll on the Pilots. And of course everyone else there. I recently re-read First Light, and it is still an excellent read and hard to put down

A 'Goldilocks' finish - everything 'just right'. That's very nicely done indeed.

Serves you right for using Ex Luftwaffe Baedeker maps of the U.K. And staying in a Caravan Crocheted by Her ladyship. Cut price Holidays indeed! (Boyo).

A while back I saw a YouTube clip in which a chap used a stiff paint brush to flick paint onto a base to represent splatters of dirt on concrete. I liked the effect and gave it a go using an old toothbrush. It's not bad, but overscale. Some of those splatters would be puddles 6" across. But it would be great if this were 1/32 or bigger. After grumping over it for half an hour I came up with a plan to tone it down a bit. That is much better. I used a damp sponge pan cleaner with a circular scrubbing motion to remove most of the splats leaving more subtle staining. Buoyed up by that I decided to experiment with some scenic grass scatter materials that have been in a drawer since a stalled railway layout project for one of my sons about a decade ago. I started by mixing a few drops of brown acrylic paint with PVA glue and brushing that onto the corner that I wanted to cover. I made a blend of medium green Meadow Grass and a very dark, almost blue, Moorland Grass and sprinkled that onto the brown PVA. No spring flowers in Wyton in December! It's still a bit bright and summery looking. I will have a think about that, but not now. That's all for tonight folks!

That's a nice looking lil Zero.

First coat of Tamiya X-1 black, looks a little rough but I'll work on it. And no, this colour is not a base coat for silver.

She's beautiful

There is an article in a journal where her mechanic describes painting the 02 on the fuselage of her Yak. This was the reference for a model in our club Aviatrix display in 2012. PM me your email and I will see if I can find the article.

The never-ending saga... I'm in one of these moments. No, not the murdery one, but wondering how does this and this... ...get me 'dis..? Yes, that roundish lump within the liquid is the paint. That's an acrylic and that is an acrylic, and so the two acrylics should be in acrylical bliss, instead they'd gone to the paint version of divorce court. Their child (me) is not happy... Confused in North East USA... Thom EDIT I just tried mixing a bit with Tamiya X20 and had the same result.

Many years ago in a pub in Queenstown, a regular gathering spot for tour drivers, one of our number did just this with his jug of beer. When he got back to the table, there were several other sets of teeth in there. A good laugh was had by all, teeth were retrieved & the owner of the first set of teeth went to buy another jug. Steve

Thanks Steve 👍 Dave

As far as I am aware it was related to the reformulation of Armour Yellow on their locomotives to not to involve lead (lead based zinc chromate) and cadmium yellow plus some other unhealthy products. Then it turned out the new paint was very weak so it had to be covered by clear coat, then it turned out that clear coat does not give the proper look of the old color so the color had to be modified to give an appearance of old armor yellow with proper layer of clear coat. That implies that the resulting color depends now on the application of the protective layer and that suggests the end result can vary. Not to mention that 100% replication of those not available anymore (zinc chromate and cadmium yellow) pigments is next to impossible.

I do want to build one of these in the B.o.B. GN*A Markings. https://i.imgur.com/MpkjLiy.jpg

I will get a start on this one soon, I have a couple of others on the bench that are more of a priority

I am slowly sorting out that wing root, it has been primed and reworked. The engines are primed as well now. There will be a bunch of masking when the wings and engines are painted because of the bare metal finish.

I retrieve my Airfix boxing of the PM Sea Fury from box "C" in the garage (thank goodness for spreadsheets!) and dry fitted some parts: It looks the part and matches the profile very well. I like the restrained panel lining, although I will sand back some of the more textured areas, and I will consign the crude undercarriage, stores and cowling/propeller to the spares bin. I have to construct a new cowling, propeller and radiators, and adjust the fin and rudder shape. I have just bought another PM kit and will make the Griffon engine version too, which will be a lot easier if Peter can find the engine he has so generously offered to me. Now I'm going to forget about the Fury until the "Project Cancelled GB" starting in June, and concentrate on my more immediate builds! Regards, Adrian

Not a film or tv, but I found this on Youtube, the 70th VJ Day commemoration. Recites the poem very well, doesn't he?

Just one thing: release this family in 1/72, I can wait.

Consolidated Mess apparently does have this information. Or some of it. @Graham Boak whose just refound his copy maybe able to confirm? True of many types.

Thanks.. I have a few decals from Aztec that I think can be adapted to fit.

Looking brilliant! With a bit of finesse as you’ve shown here, these Frog kits really build up into something that holds up to modern standards.

I dunno - if you stand far enough back and squint ...