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Okay you guys, I'm gonna need some help applying for this one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/world/europe/queen-elizabeth-social-media-manager.html
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Torn between the desire to do 1/700 ships and the desire not to do something that looks insanely difficult and frustrating.
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I feel the need to tell you all I actually built something today, in fact that’s not accurate! Somethings!
they are nothing special but I got them buttoned up... not my finest work but fun!
I’m back in the game!!
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Today in 1940, the Luftwaffe launched Adlertag, the beginning of Unternehmen ADLERANGRIFF.
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I don't suppose anyone knows of a source for the Airfix Lancaster B.II? They seem to have become rarer than hen's teeth.
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It sometimes feels like every recent Airfix 1/72 new-tool kit is like HMS Hood: splendid to look at, but with a hidden flaw*:
Typhoon: too short, rear fuselage too slender
Hurricane: Incorrect canopy framing, erroneous fabric behind the guns
P-40: too tall canopy
P-51: Incorrect tailplanes
Bf109: Canopy framing again
Spitfire 22: Nothing comes to mind
Blenheim: Nacelles too portly, Bolingbrooke details
Harrier GR3: Too short tailfin
Wildcat/Martlet: Some sort of endemic shape problem
Fw190: Who cares, Fw190s suck.
Lightning F.6: A right bitch to put together.
I mean, obviously, their track record might be pretty good if you were to compare it to other manufacturers' clangers in the same timespan. But Airfix makes a large proportion of the kits I want to build, so I feel it more.
* I know the loss of the Hood was the result of a confluence of factors and had little to do with a design flaw per se, but bear with me here.
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Spitfire 22: the nose may be just a little slim in width
Wildcat/Martlet: the spine is too shallow - apparently the Smithsonian did Airfix no favors and sent the prototype dimensions - it's on BM somewhere.
Tell me more about the Bolingbrooke details on the Blenheim kit, an Alaskan based RCAF Bolingbrooke is on my list and this 'flaw' could work out well for Cookie.
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What's with all the Yanks, my fellow Britainlanders?
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Too tired to accomplish anything beyond continuing to age. Have turned 33, feel considerably older in my joints.
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If you could only visit one of the three aviation museums in San Diego, which would it be? Have a work trip there in February.
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I have decided to dishonour myself and do something I swore I would never do. I am going to build 1.35 armour models.
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Winston Thomas is eight pounds and two ounces, and looks like a garden gnome.