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    BPK Boeing B737-800 1/72nd

    in The Rumourmonger

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    8 hours ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said:

    It's not hard to figure out yourself, tape and main parts together, don't worry about the engines as they are forward of the MLG axis. Balance the model on some round stock (I use my modelling knife or a paint brush) at the MLG attachment point and see if it sits back. If so, add some weighty bits forward, tape them to the top of fuselage until it sits nose down. That's how much you will need.

    Thanks Ray I'll do that

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    Mel Bromley RIP

    in Chat

    Posted

    Saddened to hear this news, Mel was a top bloke and I enjoyed our chats at shows, especially the time he forgot his suit!

     

    He will be missed and should be congratulated for bringing us some much wanted models not least the Canberra, RIP Mel

    00 1:76 Vehicles for building site diorama

    in Vehicle Discussion

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    Sorry but if you want quality (as in your original post) they are very unlikely to be available cheap on ebay! I guess you could always make your own out of Plasticard and commercially available wheels, occasionally places like Home Bargains have suitable (toy) 1/76 vehicles that could be converted. Oxford Diecast do some modern Transits so you could use those?

    RIP Flying Legends

    in Aviation Chat

    Posted · Edited by wamwig

    9 minutes ago, fightersweep said:

    For info purposes, a tweet from the curator of IWM Duxford;

     

    "Yes Flying Legends is popular among a certain audience, but for a number of years it has been out performed by shows with less niche appeal. Duxford has always been a war museum first, aviation museum second, and IMO Legends' programme has become removed from its warbird origins."

     

     

    Yes a war museum first, aviation museum second which is why Duxford are removing the Land Warfare Hall and concentrating on aeroplanes!

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    RIP Flying Legends

    in Aviation Chat

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, jenko said:

    New venue........................... Manston......??????

     

    Well it is empty at the moment and just been approved to reinstate flying again.

     

    Dick

    Except it will be full of lorries waiting to cross the channel next year!

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    KP/AZ central discussion, questions & answers

    in Manufacturer News

    Posted

    On 8/4/2020 at 1:33 PM, Jan Polc said:

    Jazzie - you have hit in all mentioned... 🙂 

    Petr asked me to create that tartan tails...., I am not so much happy as decal designer.

    What I know, that line is planned to be a good supplement to Herpa die casts in the same scale. It is a try.

    And - to 1/144 scale of the same subjects - did you notice that SAABs are 3D designed...? 🙂 But I did not tell no word about.

    Hmmm does that mean 1/72 is a possibility as well?

    1/48 FAA Personnel all eras

    in Figure Discussion

    Posted

    23 hours ago, Robert Stuart said:

    I don't know if they are adaptable, and they're certainly not cheap - but take a look at 3d printed figures


    e.g.
    https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace/miniatures/figurines?q=royal+navy&sort=&facet[pdcId][]=111&facet[price][min]=1&facet[price][max]=2500&facet[price][from]=1&facet[price][to]=2500

     

    If you contact Luis (Holden8702) directly, he is on facebook, he has some more recent Royal Navy and RAF figures which he can print at any scale, and also cheaper than going through Shapeways, sadly at the moment he is unable to dispatch them to the UK (or anywhere else) as he is located in Spain but he is very helpful and will presumably be able to supply when things start opening up again after this current mess!

    Operation Dynamo 80th Anniversary

    in Work In Progress - Dioramas

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    Thanks, I know, but I'm looking forward to it!

     

    It will be 1/72 scale with a KeilKraft Green Line coach (demoted to bus work just before WW2), an ACE Austin Forlite 'staff' car (although it might be a civilian one) and a Military Wheels Gaz AA, masquerading as a Ford AA.  They, along with the many figures (from at least 12 different manufacturers so far). are the easy bit!

    Operation Dynamo 80th Anniversary

    in Work In Progress - Dioramas

    Posted

    Hi Everyone

     

    My first foray into building a diorama on Britmodeller, in fact my first building anything on Britmodeller!!

     

    This year (2019) I won the 144 Diorama competition at the Model Bus Federation National Show with a dio called Passchendaele.  The rules of the competition are quite simple it has to be 144 sq inches (though not necessarily 12x12) and it has to contain at least one 'bus', so my entry this year involved an 'Ole Bill' bus (the 1/72 Roden kit) on a muddy road picking up some weary British soldiers and I used several photos to create little vignettes within the overall scene.

     

    Anyway I had so much fun doing it I thought I'd do a few more of which the first would be an entry for the 2020 competition (next October) which would be based around a scene from Operation Dynamo (the Dunkirk evacuation), it being the 80th anniversary in 2020.  My initial thoughts are for one of the little ships returning to a UK port with soldiers on board, with more on the quayside having already arrived, with a waiting bus and a couple of other vehicles. 

     

    Operation Dynamo also has a personal history for me as my maternal grandmother's brother was with the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment and was one of the last away from the beaches, having to swim out to a boat.  They had spent the previous couple of weeks on a fighting retreat from around Zavantem.

     

    At the moment I have an idea, a couple of vehicles and a Wilko 12x12 black picture frame, hopefully it will all start to come together soon!

     

    Anthony

    Dunkirk Tribute Completed

    in Work in Progress - Maritime

    Posted

    Thanks, the photo doesn't quite do the mud justice, think the last boats I built were an Airfix Leander class frigate and a cardboard LCA from the plan in Almark Modelworld, both of which would have been back in the 70s, anyway we have digressed too far from your build so I'll leave mine there and start a new topic.

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