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Thanks Mr Ratch, for your most kind comments. Thanks also for sharing the pics of your own, a wonderful diorama

More progress today - the base received what I suppose you'd call a 'pin wash' - albeit in a larger scale! I felt the gaps between the stone setts was a bit too prominent, so I brushed in some thinned black oil paint, and then wiped most of it off. I then stuck the big rubble pile on where it needs to be: I then set to work hiding the gaps between rubble and base, where they were most noticeable: Then just to smooth out the pile adjacent to the ground I applied my old favourite, some "ground-up chinchillas" (OK, chinchilla dust for the uninitiated!) over some PVA: A bit more work on the smaller rubble pile - just a couple of dark washes and some dry-brushing in a pale stone tone: Finally for today, I made some pockets for the Denison smock, from a small amount of 'Grey stuff': Hopefully some more progress tomorrow Thanks for watching!

Steve, you are living MY dream, right there - you even have my age! Well, I am a little way behind you Welcome to the madness that is BM by the way - every day is a school day on here

When I realised you were looking at the BBMF Lancaster, I remembered I had some photos from a visit to the museum at Conningsby, Lincolnshire, back in 2016. A great place to visit, by the way. They had on display there a 1:24 scale model of the aircraft... now THAT was a beast : I think you mentioned you were toying with the idea with having your model with an engine 'out', or at any rate uncovered? On the day I visited, they had it in the hangar with the engines exposed. Notwithstanding other people may well have better photos (photography ain't my thing, especially with the rubbishy old phone I was using at the time), I'd be more than happy to share the least rubbish of mine if it would be of help.

Bagging a seat in front and centre for this one, looking forward to seeing it develop

Superb work

This looks interesting, I'm in - arriving fashionably late as per...

Doesn't seem to apply to me, unfortunately

Wow, looks like you've returned to the hobby with a bang! Great work, looking forward to seeing this develop further

Thanks Jim, much appreciated. Yes, Milliput is a 2-part epoxy putty, which stays workable for about 30 minutes after mixing, and sets hard after about 12 hours ( less if placed on a warm surface). If you were to try repositioning a leg or an arm after that, it would very likely splinter or crack. Having said that, you could theoretically minimise the damage by cutting away the Milliput at the joint, with a sharp scalpel or similar, then repositioning and of course re-applying new putty. I have today taken delivery of an amount of Super Sculpey, which is 'oven bake', so at last I will get a chance to try this alternative out at some opportune moment.

Thanks Evert, very kind of you

First covering of Milliput on the arms:

Thanks John, much appreciated. Cheers Simon, most kind. I guess I am ok at the moment as I have space in a display cabinet. But at A4-size, it's something of a luxury I won't be able to afford soon! So, more progress today. The Denison smock-wearing individual now has a beret, again from Milliput: The wall got a little more abuse, as well as a vandalised propaganda poster : The footpath section was sprayed with a stone colour - not sure how accurate that is, but it looks ok to me: The base-plate was also air-brushed with Tamiya NATO Black: I also air-brushed the small rubble pile with some appropriate colours: Putting it all together for yet another dry run: All in all, I am quite pleased with the day's proceedings Thanks for watching

Looks a nice little kit, that, and you've done it justice with your attention to detail. Like it a lot

Looking very nice is that! Well done Arlo, keep up the good work

A bit more build-up on the legs and the body, as well as prepping the arms to receive the first Milliput covering - hopefully tomorrow:

Nice work!

Thanks Glynn, to be honest I am winging it to some extent, but luckily it's starting to look the part. Cheers, Stix, most kind of you. More progress today. First off, I had a go at painting the exposed brickwork on the wall using some GW 'Vermin Brown' : A bit 'brand new' I guess, but I was expecting that - some toning down with paler colours would hopefully see to it. Time for the air-brush to get an outing! While I was about it, I had a rush of blood to the head and made a start on painting the big rubble pile: Still a bit of work to do here, with dry-brushing/sponging of black etc to imitate dirt/grime etc, but I am quite pleased with how it's looking now. I then decided that the base should have some kind of gutter where the path meets the road. So I chopped out a whole row of setts and replaced that with Milliput, scribed to indicate smaller setts arranged at right angles to the main road setts: I also figured that one side of the wall was a bit plain and uninteresting, so I broke open my pack of recently acquired 'rubble piles' (more plaster castings) and chose a reasonable piece. It needed a bit of cutting to make it fit, but with a quick wash it looked ok: As you might expect, the temptation to do another 'dry fit' proved overwhelming: I also added a beret (Milliput) to one of the Airfix figures: Also, I figured the Denison smock worn by the other Airfix figure needed elongating, so once more with the tissue and diluted PVA: But apart from that, I haven't really done anything today Thanks as ever for watching, and of course your comments

More progress today. First, the building walls received their first coat of paint - well, a wash really. I used a watered down Games Workshop 'Bleached Bone' colour, which was quickly absorbed by the plaster: I'll pick out the brickwork in due course, but I think it looked ok. I then had a quick look at some reference photos, whereupon it occurred to me that there should be some kind of pedestrian access along the wall. So I set to work scribing paving slabs on to a thin piece of scrap styrene sheet: Needs painting and fixing to the base, but not too bad: You can't see it, but I've glued and pinned the two sections of wall together so as to make it more stable when the time comes to fixing it to the base. Thanks for stopping by

Excellent, love the mud splattering effect

Well earned indeed! Good work there

Looking really good - I am very much enjoying this build and history lesson combined

You're most welcome, hope you get a result from your enquiry

Wow, excellent! Darn you people with your WNW kits and the skills to make them! Must... resist...

That's fantastic! So much going on in that dio Well done sir!