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Absolutely fantastic! Even though I was born 5 years after Mike passed, he’s my ideal of a racing driver. I read about Britain’s first champion when about 8 then some years I found originals of Challenge Me The Race and Champion Year in a secondhand bookshop. Whenever he turns up in others writing it’s clear he was a character and absolutely respected as one of the greatest drivers.

I thought seeing a StugIII on the A34 was odd. But our trip to StDavids is enlivened by seeing 40+ Evel Knievels!

Possibly this should be in “Armour” but I just saw a Stug III heading south on the A34. Nicely finished in 3- coloring camouflage with no weathering. I assume it was on a low-loader but I couldn’t see from the N-bound carriageway.

If you go back to the 30s, the early Skybirds 1/72 (wood) kits seemed more civil oriented, with just a few famous WW1 types in the range. But as the clouds gathered, the mix changed. Consider also that as an example, the 009 Society is around half the size of IPMS and only represents a small proportion of railway modellers, virtually all of whom model “civil”. Or in the US it used to be said that car modeling predominated. Certainly there seem to be more car model than IPMS shows? But to get back to your question I think it’s a self-feeding cycle that would take some breaking: if (say) 80% of kits offered are WW2, modellers can only buy that 80%, so then the manufacturers follow that 80% and round and round we go.

Built this back in the day. In memory it came out really well, I remember masking the stripes was a nightmare. This was the car I invented colour + clear coat in 1979(?), I could brush a decent Matt yellow orange and red between Airfix and Humbrol enamels in those days

It may be 50s technology but it’s standard late 70s / early 80s Tamiya. My “Holiday Buggy” has it as do all the cars including the XR311/Cheetah in the period Tamiya RC Guide I have!

3-hole bricks are made by extrusion; that process has been around since mid-Victorian period.

It definitely wouldn’t be a Ranchero as that’s a Ford model, the car-pickup equivalent of the Chevy El Camino; as opposed to the truck type pickup in the photo. Or just “truck” in Americese. That said even the “little” Ranchero looks massive on Cornish lanes, I followed a 61 model a couple of years ago - at least everyone heading the other way had to move over.

Apparently there’s been a large fire at Old Sarum, burning down one of the First World War hangars. BBC article It isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last troubled Graded building to burn at a Bank Holiday weekend.

I recently bought new Halfords primer, white and grey. Definitely not as good as was, seems less idiot-proof, hard to pin down exactly what’s wrong though. instant recognition is the name! Old (perfect) cans - “Primer White” On silvery grey can with orange hazmat info New (suspect) cans - “White Primer” on all orange can Also the new lids are appalling!

Wonderful model. It’s the epitome of those 1.5litre F1 cars. I always love that sometimes there’d be that “prova” plate to make a GP car road-legal!

In the 1980s a local farmer I knew thought these were brilliant. Miles more useful and comfortable for most light farm work than his LandRover. He was annoyed when getting another became impossible.

Over the weekend; A beautiful brg Stag, a red 924, an early (proper) 911 in avocado and most amazingly a 928. The amazing thing not being the 928 itself (though lovely) but rather that there were 2 adults in the back! Admittedly they did look a bit cramped in there!

Excellent weathering. Especially getting the pinstriping to look suitably worn in tune with the (lack of) paint!

Ref earlier discussion, 6w RRs are a thing, Carmichaels converted them. I think they also made fire engine versions and similar. As to cut down body RRs, most of the ones I’ve seen have been green laners, even before action their paint jobs aren’t great and the body mods functional rather than aesthetic; such as cutting all lower front body work in front of the arches, and removing everything behind the rear axle, sometimes on the same vehicle.