Black Knight

I once counted up that my 1930 Austin 7 has 13 different bolt threads on it

You should start your own thread about this Discussing yours on here is known as 'hi-jacking a thread' Not the best form

I reckon its time to start a thread for this. The kit needs some alterations to make it as the one HM presently uses Most of the parts are in white plastic But the horse harness is in a rubber The kit horses are a bit naff (two top ones), and they don't have any belly, so I think I'll try using a couple of Airfix horses (1 example at bottom). Although the Airfix horse looks really too small in the photo in the hand its only slightly smaller. Its the pose which makes it look so much smaller Now I wish I'd paid more attention to my friend's father who was a two-in-hand carriage driving champion and tried to get me into the sport

All quiet on the western front? The other day I picked up another coach on a BiN on ebay; Not only is it what it is but the original moulding dates from 1953 according to Scalemates The box looks a bit crushed but its still sealed in is original cellophane Supposed to be 1/48

I've just been doing a lot of small work on this I may have photos of the progress soon

hearts and coronets film

You think all that's bad; try deciphering miles and leagues in medieval history records and chronicles! England, Scotland, Hibernia, France, Flanders, German States, Bohemia, everyone had their own measure for a mile and for a league. So when a chronicler writes X's army marched 15 leagues in three days, is that 15 x 1.25 miles. or x 3 miles or x 5 miles or even x 13 miles, and whose miles? English? Scots which is longer, or Hibernian which is longer again, or French which was shorter that the English mile?

taking over the asylum

let sleeping logs eat

we got pie-eyed plastered

at Whitby Dracula Festival

refined from many EMOs

I intend to build a couple of individual figures

The Airfix Dragon Rapide is the Heller kit. The Dragon Rapide has a fuselage with a longer more pointy nose The D/R has longer tapering wings, vs the parallel square tipped of the Dragon Wheels are faired into the engines on the D/R

Whilst that suggestion might be good its not what this thread is about

extra; here is link to the sort of magazine, being sold on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144315498054?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D240677%26meid%3D19e0bf48a66f4ea084a38722fe544502%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D304568949599%26itm%3D144315498054%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv9PairwiseWebMskuAspectsV202110NoVariantSeedKnnRecallV1BERT&_trksid=p2047675.c101195.m1851&amdata=cksum%3A14431549805419e0bf48a66f4ea084a38722fe544502|enc%3AAQAHAAABMEro4ql1SUJ1li87bKftud%2BHNR6f%2BZqZvMWaqvYIq1S%2FWkIBqj9FQDQRu6mAcNzuioXWUR932%2F68tDooavd6O6QShguRmWvHa3H%2FRorYkIG8lY1sKMH2krmlRVeWo0dIsceuCwSM8wGMGKZZXUqNSaGtXg0bWc7ZofrquZ76gU6r%2FjQ7Bw6oqlVEuMA7QqsNAezclvh8fSqyVdx6B%2B1n08jZAGnsOcj2%2FXgZnsNcvQ9SMUUdZ5ptRbhw9Uurpez6meVhZDgwSmpfZcXzNgVKUdSOM7KKtUs7VxXeAe4gLFDiYMxdG6%2FwGde%2F3TGnbLlAtX6m49ldEEQydk3SUf6qnVazn32ha%2FXZ4UivUzspcsukJBfn%2FnMhcMyGnbZvtyt9NCbxr91QCloNFkfepE16YCw%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2047675

ah, some Roman or Greek Biremes and Triremes. An Egyptian 'papyrus' Nile ship. A ship of the mysterious 'Sea Peoples', A Babylonian reed boat What scale though? In 1/350 they'd be the size of the Airfix 'no-scale' small sailing ships, much too small 1/144 is better, but maybe even 1/72 The old Airfix Modelling magazine ran a series on building some of these How about Thor Heyerdahl's 'Kon-Tiki' In 1/32 or 1/35 I built one out of paper straws and balsa, crewed by Timpo figures, back when he sailed 'Ra' (1969) and the 'Kon-Tiki' became news again or his papyrus reed boats 'Ra' and 'Ra II'

at the Universe' End (I'm trying to get a load of responses in before the end)

I'll throw something in that may explain why 1/48, or 1/4 inch scale became popular in the U.S. From about the mid-1920s through to at least the 1980s U.S, hobbyists could buy what we now call bookazines. A monthly book type magazine devoted either solely to their hobby, or covering a few hobbies. Just about every boy and man in the U.S. bought these books. They sold in their millions. My father grew up in Chicago in the 1930s -1940s. He used to get these books. His main interests were radio & electronics and fishing but some of his books sometimes had plans to build one of the latest US Army airplanes. The models could be built either stick & tissue or of solid wood. Although not really interested my father built some of these aeroplanes. There are books out there which have reproductions of these plans. I have one which covers WW1 types Now to the point; the books were about 9 inches by 6 inches. The model aeroplanes plans were folded up x 4 inserted in the book. Opened up they'd be about 18 x 12 inches. The subject plans drawn on them measured out to be, on average, about 1/48 or 1/50. A great many of the plans are/were actually marked ' 1/4 inch scale ' Build plans of the smaller aeroplane types fit very well on this 18 x 12 sheet Up until about 10 years ago I used to have about 100 of the old 1930s/1940s books and many, many years ago I made some of the aeroplanes from the plans, in my balsa-free-flight aeroplanes stage. I propose that due to the number of U.S. hobbyists who were used to building aeroplanes from these plans in '1/4 inch scale' (1/48) that the U.S. plastic kit manufacturers kept to a scale the hobbyists were well used to

to apocalypse after tea-time

dancing to the BeeGees

in the barracks, shouted

afair there are a couple of panels/attachment points under the belly which would need removing I think these were for the chaff flares containers or something, which were only fitted to late versions

This may be a bit, er, um . . . Anyways, I'm sending best wishes to our mainland European members Why? Cos I've just been reading news that France is running out of drinking water in some areas https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62436468 and I suspect that the other countries are or will be experiencing the same drought conditions Adam's Ale is needed, it cannot be wasted, so make the most of it whilst you have it From Fred, in N.I. where its been raining heavy for the last week

What decals do you need? No promises, but I have loads of decals in my spares files and I may have what you need