Rob G

is often fatal ( @Admiral Puff - your 5, my 3, saved you from a penguining. )

Negatory on that, Ghostrider.

bus, next stop Huddersfield (Or is it Slough?)

Except that you don't, because the business goes bust somewhere around Day 22.

named after Nordic... things

are closed for winter

My absolute favourite WW2 type (despite the plethora of completed Spitfires in the cabinet), so I will break my own rule and put my hand up for this GB. Add me to the list, old bean! Now, all I have to do is decide which kit to build...

It would depend on which strips you have and their flexibility. You'll be the best judge of that - try a test run with something that's not mission critical. Using Evergeen PS I'm currently (slowly) working my way through adding fuselage frames to the tail wheel well of a 1/48th F4U Corsair and have found that pre-forming the strip by pulling it over the edge of the desk / under a ruler makes a huge difference to how easily it lays in place. Tamiya Extra Thin cement brushed liberally on to the mating surface of the strip seems to soften it a bit too. The hardest part is keeping them all parallel...

and a soupçon of

and triples the cost

Meanwhile, in Lower Wibblethwaite

That's because Wikipedia (for all its usefulness) is hardly a paragon of either accuracy or minutiae.

bet the farm on

The only references that I can find (admittedly not any text books) that have anything to say about the relocation of the step state things along the lines of "slightly relocated" and "moved a small amount". With luck, you'll be able to get some definitive information from your book - please let us know the result!

That little mistake results from confusion caused by language differences, I think. A bit of digging found a photo of the illustrated trailer, in use on Hawai'i (filling something into the nose wheel well of a C-54) and the caption on the photo states- War Theatre #22 (Hawaii) Maintenance. Print rec'd 10 Oct 1949 from Hdq. Military Air Transport Service, Andrews Air Force Base. Which is where it all falls apart- the photo was taken on Hawai'i, but issued by MATS HQ, at Andrews. I imagine that the Miniart guys haven't grokked the subtle difference between location and issuing authority. Language difficulty. For those interested, here's a link (ignore the website's commentary, it's wrong too, as the C-54 didn't enter service until '48): https://www.themodellingnews.com/2023/08/preview-miniarts-135th-scale-us-army-g.html?m=1

many, many rude names

If you've been happy with the performance of what you've got, why not get another one?

On that note, a serious question. Why do you Poms insist on fooling about covering sheds with a material more suited to making fancy berets than roofs? Surely you are aware that there's such a thing as metal roof sheeting now? My uncle was always 'working on the shed roof' when I spent time there a decade ago, and he never had an answer apart from 'That's what goes on a shed roof." Absolutely nuts.

Hmm... I was a yoof wif good taste and only builded models of airyplanes. Guess I'm excluded from this'un. (Nassty, nasssty tankses!)

- load up, load up

The Zvezda kit is big. Yep, so are the Airfix and Italeri versions, coz that's the size that Herkybirds are. The Academy/Minicraft C-130s are half the size, but nowhere near as nice as the Zvezda. I haven't seen too many gripes about this kit on the interwebs, so it should be a fun build (although I'm sure that there's something that someone had a whinge about). Enjoy.

there's always a fly

How about the UN, who, while armed, are meant to be the opposite of war? Just asking, not joining.

elephant in the room ('tis easy - 109s are ugly. I always preferred Kurt's fighter to Willy's.) (Umm... that didn't come out right...)

It's odd that the Arma Hurris are seen as expensive - here, the standard kit is on par with the Airfix and Revell kits (the Arma costs $5-10 more, depending on where you buy it, for context $5 buys you a good quality small coffee). The Expert kits are of course more expensive, but you pay for whatever extras are in them. I can sacrifice a coffee to buy a really nice kit, and I really should make a start on mine.