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I was studying photos of HM's barouche. Its not as straight forward to alter this as I thought I need to make a new front on the carriage, straighten it's rear vertically, sort out the hood and make 4 (!) double S bend mud guards

Spot the difference! Not much further on by the looks, but all wing to fuselage joints have been filled and smoothed. Those top joints of the tail planes is awkward due to the way the tail planes are angled up so much. Another coat of orange on the wings, just where it was needed. And the dark blue for the stripe painted towards the tail and all round the nose area. I have my own reasons for doing that I'll try to crack on with this over the weekend. 1. Mask and fit the cockpit canopy 2. mask the whole run of the dark blue on the fuselage 3. orange on areas yet to get it 4. . . . . lots of other things!

Check your box contents. Some boxings are missing 1 or more tyres

Bill Turnbull has died, aged 66, of cancer https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59082523 Perhaps not someone most of you would consider worthy of mention but I'm mentioning him because I met him a few times, and liked him He was a beekeeper and as a beekeeper he was invited to the N.I. Bee Keepers Association annual conferences a few times. That is where I met him and spent several hours with him sitting over tea and buns. For some, and still, unknown reason, during breaks in those conferences Bill gravitated to sitting and chatting with me with others joining us. He had time for everyone and signed numerous autographs. He was very knowledgeable on beekeeping, he was no fair-weather beekeeper but quite dedicated to it. He was also amused that I didn't know he was a presenter on TV until he mentioned it, as I don't have a TV I believe he did promote beekeeping and at one time tried to persuade the BBC to do a daily or weekly short slot on the daily/weekly activities of a beekeeper. rather like the Radio 2 monthly garden allotment slot RIP Bill, I'll remember those chats we had at Muckamore Agri

My sons had a Tonka truck like that un Spotted from a bus this afternoon; I'm not quite sure what it was ~ in a farmer's field, moving under its own power something that looked like a long tank (military tank) on the top but may have had 8 or 10 large wheels. For size; a Land Rover Discovery type vehicle was driving ahead of it slightly and to one side, the wheels of the mystery vehicle were almost the same height. Mystery vehicle had a long low profile turret, centrally placed, with a long barrel

a. I have just bought some 'nail art' tape. One of the colours I bought is black. The tape is about 0.8mm wide and extremely thin Could you use this to make the black lines? b Molotow does a chrome ink refill which can be sprayed

Youse were warned! Since I last posted I've bought two different years 1/43 Subaru WRC, from two different ebay sellers I've received one, but unfortunately the seller didn't pack it well, relying on a padded envelope, so the decals got creased and the car body shell got a wee bit damaged, the A pillars pushed down and over. Can be fixed though I've not received the second Subaru yet. Two postal strike days and the bank holiday has delayed its delivery I think I'm off to ebay now to see what else I can get (and a club member thinks he has a couple of WRC cars he'll sell me cheaply)

Try contacting someone with a 3D printer. Some who own these printers can be helpful whilst others are not Basically and generally the two sides of the fuselage are the same. They could scan the side you have, flip it and print out that mirrored part

The front turret could slide back so a crewman could have access to very front to throw out a sea anchor or tie the Sunderland to a buoy

Its been over 2 years but the saga continues; Gnat Whif number 5. Numbers 4 & 5 were part built scrap kits. They were already built wheels-up and pilots installed. I had to make canopies for them and tidy up the build. I have at least one more of these old Gnat kits left Swiss Air Force Previously;

Its been over 2 years but the saga continues; Gnat Whif number 4. Numbers 4 & 5 were part built scrap kits. They were already built wheels-up and pilots installed. I had to make canopies for them and tidy up the build. I have at least one more of these old Gnat kits left Royal Canadian Air Force Previously;

No, he is from the early period of 'Push of Pike' About 50 to 300 of him would advance upon the enemy pike men and when the two teams met they 'pushed' their pikes at each other, killing each other Eventually one team 'broke' and ran away. They ran and hid behind their musketeers. At this period there was about 1 musketeer per 4 or 5 pike men. The pikes were about 18 to 20ft long. About the total height of an ordinary 2 storey house. A battle could be won or lost on the length of the pikes. The pike was heavy and awkward to carry so many soldiers cut them short. It was up to the commanders to make sure this did not happen. Part of the reason the New Scots Parliamentary Army under Munro lost the Battle of Benburb in June 1646 to O'Neill's Irish Confederate/Royalist Army was that the New Scots pike men had cut their pikes down to 12 feet long and O'Neill's pike men had pikes of 20ft long, so when it came to 'push of pike' the New Scots men could not reach O'Neill's men. The New Scots were slaughtered At this period, of your man, the (mainly German) Landsknecht were making themselves a name. They used large 'anti-horse' swords of about 10ft long. They were better than the slender pike for killing horses.

Handbag indeed!! It was called a 'girdle purse' A belt was not a belt but a girdle I used to make a lot of these girdle purses That chap is carrying his dagger wrong. It should be horizontal through the purse hangars, with the hilt forward Leather mittens, usually padded, were easier and cheaper to make. Still are The leather on the shield would not normally be boiled, it would be raw-hide, partially tanned hide, which tightens up when wet Boiled leather, cuir bouilli , was stretched on an open frame shield, it does not need the under support of the laminated wood shield The chap's cod-piece would normally be of boiled leather and painted You're getting on well with him

your 'Ploughman's Lunch' down

I'll just pick up on one thing Dave mentions; brass washers at each end of the brass tube. Helps both with the looks and stops the tube damaging the model or base If you are really clever you can put the bolts/tubes in at angles. I remember seeing a H&W display model ship with 6 brass mounts, 3 each side and each at an angle to ship and base.

There be a quadzillion ways But here is one way; 1. About 1/4 or 1/3 of the length of the ship, from both bow and stern, drill holes of 6.5mm (or 1/4 inch) diameter on the keel line. 2. Firmly fix or embed M6 nuts over those holes inside the hull. Make sure they are really affixed 3. On the base, drill 6mm holes at the same distance apart as those on the hull 4. Under the base countersink the holes 5. use M6 bolts to attach the ship to the base BUT 6. cover the section of the bolt between the base and the hull with lengths of brass or polished copper tubing, to hide the bolt threads and to look pretty Holes, nuts and bolt sizes can be different according to size of ship

I thought they were Polish

a. I was told back in 2017 that they'd closed b. 'Whirlybirds' sold some of their resin kits under their name in their boxes

With most you can. I've mixed Humbrol. Revell, Vallejo, Citadel, MP, MrHobby, Tamiya and others together to make colours or shades I want Yes you can and there is myth that you cannot paint enamel over acrylic or acrylic over enamel; you can paint one over the other. Best to leave it to dry completely but I've painted one over the other before it completely dry/cured And for certain effects I've painted acrylic onto wet enamel, or enamel onto wet acrylic. I mostly do this for wood effects or for aeroplane exhausts

Use glass micro-beads fillers eg; https://www.mbfg.co.uk/glass-bubbles-filler-powder.html

The wings are on. I used 'plastic soup' to stick them on - glue and fillers in one As you see it here its a 'tail-sitter', but when the engines are on it sits on its nose wheel To save some time I pre-painted the tail wings (both sides) and the tops of the main wings with gloss orange, my favourite base coat for red. I have tried pink as a base coat but its no better than trying to cover white

I don't think its yellow. The fuel filler triangle is yellow with a white border. That yellow is still very light. Lighter than the cowling There also seems to be a coloured stripe across the top of the fin & rudder, in similar tone to the nose cowling

My ex-Irish army Brodie is a sort-of a bright grey-green, but the inside is just totally rust, no paint and no liner

Vallejo does a paint colour called 'English Uniform' 70-921 I find it an excellent match for WW1, WW2 British uniforms and WW1 US infantry uniforms These chaps were painted with it as was this chap Vallejo does a colour, 'Khaki Grey' 70-880, which is good for the webbing. The only Brodie helmet I have in my collection is an ex-Irish army one which is painted a really bright green edited to add; PS. the Vallejo 'English Uniform' paint matches almost perfectly some pieces of my Grandfather's WW1 uniform. He was in a US Artillery regiment

Warning; slight hi-jack/off topic I have a small desk 'angle-poise' type lamp with a halogen spot light bulb in it. I use the heat from that to speed up paint drying. I leave the lamp head at a fixed distance and just put the parts under it and leave them