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Well I've just completed the Plastic Pilgrimage to the holy city of Lowestoft, where I found an absolutely GINORMOUS model shop hidden in a warehouse... Of course it would never do to anger the modelling gods by coming away empty-handed, so in addition to the 1:72 Academy KAI KF-21 I went to collect, the following also jumped into the shopping trolley that mysteriously appeared in front of me : A&A Models 1:72 VJ-101C-X1 A-Model 1:72 DA-42 MPP Avis 1:72 Edgely EA-7 Optica Litaki 1:72 Soko NJ-22 Orao Zvezda 1:144 Beriev Be-200 and assorted glues, fillers,varnish. My credit card is still not speaking to me ! (but a big thanks to lovely ladies in Hannants reception who managed to find the right code for those Humbrol bits)

Being in my mid 50s, I'm still young and dumb enough to believe that I will get round to building all 191 kits in the stash, especially at my current prodigious build rate of 1-2 a year. Where I will store them once built is a problem for future me to worry about

Guess I'm building my 30 year old Vulcan kit instead of buying the new tool one then !

Put up more shelves !

No "bat in house" thread is complete without Derry making an appearance

Try that in Scotland and you'll get 1 moth + 5000 midges......

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What is this word "downsize" ?

Well it would have been disappointing to leave the Midland Air Museum empty-handed......

Wot no Starfix ? 😁 I think the key point is *consistency* , so when it comes to the re-boxers it's hard to tell. I've had some really quite good Italeri, I've also had some less good from them too. Haven't built enough Zvezda to comment, the one kit I'm still building was from the "good" side of the fence. At the end of the day, a good modeller will get a great result from an average kit, whereas I can completely completely cock up even the best of kits

A 1:24 Vulcan would be very surprising indeed......

I must admit my first thought was "no way, must have been a red kite" but she's been through several bird books and definately swears it was a hen harrier. Must have been on its way North and stopped for a brief snack!

About a month back my daughter went outside and came face to face with what she identified as a hen harrier standing on a trampoline with a starling in its claws. After a 20 second staring match, it flew off leaving one dazed (and extraordinarily lucky) starling to gather its wits and fly off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-69056052 Sad news. Airframes are rebuildable, pilots aren't.

Looking at a Scoville chart got me wondering..... at what point does it become simpler just to squirt pepper spray on to your Doritos ? (closely followed by "in what universe is that an evenly remotely good idea?" )

Give it a few more minutes and an Airfix Grand Piano will drop on it.....

If you are selling 1, yes. If you are trying to sell 2....... prices may vary

I suspect if I wait a few years there will be a Vintage Classics reissue. Not like I haven't got a 100 other kits on the shelf to do in the meantime !

Cruel but funny. I have found a new master to learn from....

Haven't seen anyone having a good moan about kit prices for a while, so felt obliged to write something. I can completely understand why brand new kit prices have shot through the roof (shipping rates, Red Sea, energy prices etc) but why would an already-manufactured, already in the country box be subject to the same inflation ? If anything, shouldn't prices fall over time as the kit gets older and the box gets tattier ? What's sparked this moan-fest ? Well I can't help thinking that when an 80s 1:72 Airfix thingymajig is being offered for more than a 1:48 brand new Revell thingymajig, that someone somewhere is slightly taking the wee .....

Presumably a different sort of "mark up" had been applied !

Thought I'd better grab one of these before Ukraine nicks them all And an LF Scout to keep an eye on it !

Decided I needed more Targets in my life : And also a target that bites back :

That's a crap excuse !