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Em, you did look in your slippers, didn’t you? 🤔

Great result, you really got the exhaust pipe colour. I suspect I just painted mine black, back in the day

‘fighter jet’? Gloster were clearly ahead of the game 😀

What a fantastic thread. I think my first kit was an Eagle Spitfire from a fishing tackle shop in the highlands where we used to live. Moved to Dunfermline in the 60s where Woolies did Airfix with the big board with the Sunderland on it, and most of my pocket money went on series 1 bags. @albergman might remember the names. Souness had the Frog kits and the Canberra and P1 made their way home. There was one shop by the Glen gates, that had the Revell fighters, the Coop toy shop had the Frog box scale kits and exotic stuff like Lindbergh with the see through boxes. The Model & Hobby shop had the newer Frog kits and Triang railways as well as fishing tackle. Later, I used to get a big Airfix kit at Christmas, but never the Lancaster, despite my dad being ground crew on them. My gran, in Coatbridge, bought me the Merit Swordfish floatplane in that odd tinny plastic which I started at hers and managed to get back home to finish. All shops and models gone now, apart from some bits in the spares box. Don

I was amazed, not only by the whole Zeppelin display, but also how amazingly small and intricate the models are. I don’t think I truly appreciated how tiny the gondolas, propellors and rigging wires are from the photos on the thread. A great piece of work. Don

Hope your surgery goes ok, I had anchors put in my right rotator cuff and had to spend 6 weeks in a sling. I managed to train my left hand to raise glasses, etc after a while. Physio afterwards was worse 😀

Thanks, I can see the ones on this page now, but not the older ones. Probably an IPad issue. Nice set up you have there. Don

Hi, can’t see your pictures, I’m afraid. Don

I was taught to drive on a Series II ragtop, only had the brakes fail on me once, luckily there was a wall to stop me.

Nicely done with the weathering.

I think this is version 2, I built both, back in the sixties. Looking forward to see how you get on. Don

Grob Tutor, as some days on Flight Radar it’s the most numerous RAF aircraft flying… Only slightly tongue in cheek, it would be nice to have modern kits of the current Air Force, as well as the recently out of service.

Very nice, hope your planned diorama will be kitten/cat proof! Don

Excellent modelling of little known subjects that deserve a bit more prominence.

To return this thread to its title, well, nearly, I arrived in the south of Bavaria to be greeted by - https://das-festspielhaus.de/en/programm/zeppelin-das-musical/ Has the writer been making notes on this thread? Don

Hendie, lots of intricate work there, I know how time consuming that sort of thing is in 2-D CAD. I am afraid those blade roots in the final image jumped out at me, I hope they do look ok once printed, but there seems to be too much of a kink in them for a wood carving. I am confident you will get it right in the end. Don

Re Milk Machine stickers, is that a young @perdu choosing his favourite? Mine was the strawberry. Sandals and brownie camera too! I had that fashion once 😎 Don

Coastguard Sikorsky S92 just flown round, from Humberside, via Lincoln, according to ADS-B, now heading southeast.

Mark I was more concerned with sorting out the Quarries than the buildings, but I'm sure you will sort them. Regards Don

Just caught up with this, great work on the quayside stones. Nice to see a reference to a publication that I was involved with, I'll let Historic England know a builder is using the data in his work 🙂 Don

Belgian AF A400 heading northwest just now above the murk. Distinctive noise.

Sad to hear this news. I wonder how many others found this site through the Dalek thread? Don

Saw a bit of this 1950s film this morning, good images of Hellcat drone targets and Loon missiles as Glen Ford tries to make a diy missile submarine behind the Admiral's back. Lots of jeeps charging about as well. Don

Cargo 747 causing wingtip contrails to form as it did a sharp turn to line up for EMA this afternoon. Clear blue sky, but I was driving so no pics or ID.

Alexey Warplanes of the Second World War - Flying Boats https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31005163657&searchurl=an%3Dgreen%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dflying%2Bboats&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2 One of the few sets of references to be had back in the 1960s. I meant the view the pilots would have for landing. Don