Whofan

I am unsure what to admire more: your stash size or your life expectancy 🤭

Gosh, you’ve got some lovely work going on there! I have used bare metal foil for “metal areas” rather than painting them, which has worked reasonably well, but I like the idea of using kitchen foil. I assume you are using the thinnest foil for this?

In many ways, I find these “Luft’ 46” builds fascinating. They firstly often show how advanced some of the German aircraft designers could be, they are often nice looking planes - I mean the Horten Ho229 flying wing is a good example, and the Me262 as a WW2 design is a magnificent looking aircraft. Your version apart from being a lovely build, shows just how lovely the lines of the Me262 are, that it could be transformed in this version and still look menacing. 👍

This isn't a complaint about these manufacturers, far from it. I've noticed in the WIP a Fly kit being made, and there's a Sword kit I think in recent RFI's. I was looking at my stash list - I am one of those who lists his stash in an excel spreadsheet and I noticed that I have no kits from either Fly or Sword. I'm a man who's suffered through 3 mistercraft kits, and has a Mach 2 kit, so I'm familiar with the underbelly of the hobby ! This isn't a choice, it's just circumstance, I've had plenty of kits from similar short run companies, KP, RS etc., but for some reason nothing by Fly or Sword has fallen into my hands. I was wondering that at if at some point Ia Fly or Sword kit might fall into my hands, what should I expect? Good quality kits all round, or are they at the mistercraft end?

couple of points here. I'd love to have one of these - if anyone would volunteer to print one I'd happily pay for the resin, postage, etc. Oh, and I never though I'd see Austrian air force decals on an UFO! Now the raptor as pilot and abductor makes me wonder if you've read one of the best sci book series I've read in my life, Harry Turtledove's Worldwar, about an alien invasion of Earth where the aliens are, well, evolved dinosaurs! The whole build and dio are terrific, and I'll be looking out for it at shows to come, including SMW - I think it's a corker!!

@othertales, thanks for posting those pics, that Rolls is beautiful, isn’t it?

It does seem odd, but then I’ve never quite understood the aversion to dairy products or eggs by some vegetarians, as there is no killing of animals involved, milk and eggs being natural products of life.

Honestly, you’d have thought that I had proposed something utterly ghastly when I said it. I just thought it would be fine.

Enzo, I absolutely agree with you about this. I suspect it is because vegans secretly want to be eating burgers, hot dogs, steaks, sausages etc. just like you and me, but haven't the .. errr ... ahem .... you know ... to admit it. BUT - amd it's worth pointing out in capitals - when I made this very point in the comments on an article in the Guardian, I was told, rather testily by someone that the shape is due to the shape of things like burger rolls, hot dog rolls, which is fair enough, but why do they have to be textured and coloured like meat? To which no answer came. Incidentally, the first time my brother in law's boy brought his futire wife to our house for a sunday meal, we were warned before hand that she was vegan. I don't remember what meat we had, but my wife started clucking about getting some quorn steaks or some such nonsense. Startled, I replied - (I probably precis here) "Don't be so damn silly, she's a bl***** vegan! Just do some more carrots, potatoes, greens and parsnips!" I wonder does your wife have a similar death stare that my wife does, and employed when I made that comment? She had the quorn stuff. The story ends happily though - she soon tired of that vegan nonsense and now eats meat as lusitly as everyone else in our families does!

Regarding the wheat, I suspect that some birds who'd been at wheat plants had evacuated their bowels while flying over your garden, thus releasing some seeds they had eaten to grow in your garden. Such precision bombing should be referred to the RAF immediately, and if they can track down the birds they can use them as pathfinders in any future conflict! I am constantly amazed at how accurate the pigeons where I live are - for instance, when they bomb the fiesta - as close a grouping on the roof as you'd ever see! You're quite right about the weather, though I will say that as far as I am concerned we haven't had separate heatwaves, we've had a hell of a long one with no sign of any abatement. Funny thing is I moaned to my wife this morning after we'd dropped the grandson off at school (21.5c at 0835) that I fancied moving to Norway where it would be a lot cooler!

I can at least enter the spirit of this forum, even if I've never got my camera/phone at the ready when I'm in the car! Over the last couple of weeks driving around the Kidderminster area I've seen a lovely white triumph herald, seemingly in very good order, and also a blue triumph stag with the roof down, again in excellent condition.

This is a common scam, varying from antivirus to streaming services. I know which antivirus I use and which streaming service we have so once any such email is received, it is deleted, the sender blocked and reported as spam. Someone mentioned getting more cold calls recently - we’ve been getting the ones with a pre recorded message that once I hear start, the call is cut off. I haven’t had fun winding up a human scam caller for a while, but if I do, I will use the give numbers then say “I’ll get my glasses “ routine, that sounds like a good wind up!

Bill, Commiserations on the Midget - hope all goes well with it. I'm currently building an airfix beaver in Austrian air force livery, so it;s a basic out of the box build, with a few modifications. Mostly cutting off a few of the lumps and bumps on the top of the fuselage. You mentioned a while ago the size of the aileron actuators; they are indeed very tiny! The Carpet monster has taken two of them, thinking about using some brass tube to replace them. Oh, and your point about humongous sink marks on the wings - I second that! And while you won't use them, the steps that go on the undercarriage spats are a real tiny pain! I confess I haven't done anything to the front edge of the wing over the fuselage, at this scale I;m not sure I'll get any great benefit. I also don't like the cowl on the kit; the instructions are a bit vague and it seems to have a pronounced step around the fuselage. All in all, buiding this out of the box as a standard beaver is having its moments! Loving the electric version, hope you can get back to it soon.

There's no doubt but that this is my favourite Procul Harum track of all, despite liking Whiter shade of pale. Unfortunately there's precious little else by them that I do like. Here's one of the best Dylan covers ever, featuring one of the best "rock" keyboard players ever.

Ced, I hope you don’t mind the personal question - did you have a relative who flew in the RAF during the war named Sydney Bufton?

Team Yankee is on a par with Red Storm Rising for me. I must start looking out Harold Doyle's cold war war books again, thanks for the reminder.

I'm sorry Ced but when I first read this comment I thought you wrote " ..... is that pilot a bit big?" So you'll guess what I did - went back about 3 pages to see the picture of the oversize pilot. Imagine if you can what I muttered to myself when I looked at your post again and saw it was pitot!! Hendie, in the grand scheme of things the wing mishap is simply plastic confirming you are human. I'm human too, as I've dropped kits, sliced wings almost in half, cut important bits off kits, glued parts in the wrong places or wrong way round, so I can share your pain. The kit looks fantastic as it is, I can't wait to see how it finishes!!

This will help with Beaver I am currently building in Austrian air force livery. A boring olive drab overall with some dayglo orange panels. Reading you RFI it seems that if I shave 2mm from the rear of the upper wing to fuselage join, I will have the wing in the right position? And the kit windscreen part - I will go and dry fit this quite soon - should then be in the right place, or do I have to cut the front edge of the wing back by 2mm also? Why I ask the question is that you appear to have cut 4mm to set the wing back 2mm. Or is the kit wing actually 4mm too long in the upper fuselage wing joint?

A really super job, and it looks so distinctive in the US livery! Your canopy - is it white or metallic paint you’ve used?

Having made a magma models kit, I can sympathise with you on the inherent faults! Fortunately though, the model has turned out to be a testament to perseverance and skill! It looks very, very good to me! One quick question, what did you use for the ropes on each wing?

Wez, I've found someone who not ony knows about the 33 1/3rd series, but has one of them! The Shangri lLs book is quite an informative book, as you say it shows the aerly punks appreciating their songs.

@Bullbasket John, thanks for bringing the Who in 😄 and your kind words.

This is a lovely IAR-80. Great stuff!

Thanks Graham. I must admit that I first assumed it was a Churchill, which was definitely a “60’s kit, but I did look at scalemates after my original post and found it was indeed a 2011 new tool kit. However, the scammell tank transporter I have is the 1973 new box, the kit originally coming out in 1963 I think. Prices? Yes, I can vividly remember my first proper holiday job at 16 in a shop, I got £3 7/6 a week! You know, I don’t really remember the prices of things from back then, though I do remember paying 37/6 for a Who album in late 1967 - mainly because it had a price sticker on it!

Shame, I’ve always thought a paper round a is - well certainly was a good thing for teens. My daughter had one in something like 1994 or ‘95, but after a couple of rainy mornings not for long! Oh, I think I’d have been devastated too! Yes, I certainly remember having those square bottles, as well as the Humbrol tins! The memory problem is easily explained - at our age our brains are stuffed full of memories, and trying to stuff any more in gets difficult!