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If that were to happen, my models would be a long way down the list of things I'd be worrying about. It does prompt a question I'd never really considered before. When it comes to making a claim, would the insurers just take me at my word when I give them a long list of kits plus airbrushes, compressor, sparybooth, paints, tools etc or would they insist on receipts? I'd guess replacement cost of everything would be well over 5k.

There's a lot of other good programmes on Apple TV too. We tend to rotate through the streaming services, subscribe to one of them for a month or two, watch all the stuff we want to see then cancel the subscription and move on to the next one. IMO Apple is the best of the bunch.

Is it suitable for use as a witch detector?

If you can successfully get past the fact it has next to nothing to do with the books, the 1986 Biggles film is a thoroughly enjoyable action/adventure film that stands up quite well against other far more popular films of the same era with equally silly plots such as the Indiana Jones trilogy, Big Trouble in Little China and Gremlins.

I use Culture Hustle mirror paint, ludicrously expensive at £30 a bottle but I use it sparingly for things like oleo struts, mirrors and the backs of landing light lenses to simulate reflectors. https://culturehustle.com/products/mirror?srsltid=AfmBOoo9W0rbHnI-9XYY4hjbnt84ufdSCSo1PE28sXscZhj4lIJ1meyY

St John's, Canada's easternmost city, is closer to Poland and Brazil than to Vancouver. If the current rules of royal succession had been in place 200 years ago, Queen Victoria would have been succeeded by her daughter, Victoria II, she in turn would have been succeeded by her eldest son Friedrich - better known as Kaiser Wilhelm. The fax machine was invented 30 years before the telephone.

Over 90% of 'special' schemes on military aircraft look awful, with the worst of the bunch being the various hideous Luftwaffe tiger meet schemes.

They're working to the same timescales as HS2 😁

The 1/72 ICM MiG-29 is exactly the same, it also came with an extra little annoyance, an incorrect weapons loadout. The kit includes 6 missiles for the 6 pylons, 2 each of the Alamo medium range and Aphid & Archer short range AAMs. A MiG-29 can carry all 3 types but not at the same time, it's either 4 Aphids or 4 Archers, never two of each.

A lot of these are issues with badly tooled/moulded kits, but also worth a mention are kits which are in many ways excellent but have odd, annoying quirks or omissions. An example is the Eduard 1/48 MiG-21 (probably my favourite kit) where the forward airbrakes are moulded as part of fuselage, modelling them with airbrakes open necessitates cutting them out of the plastic. Especially irritating as the rear airbrake on the same kit has separate parts for open and closed and on a parked MiG-21, it's common for the front airbrakes to be slightly open.

Another vote for the Iwata Eclipse (the HP-CS model is probably the best all rounder) if you can stretch to the cost. My first airbrush was an Iwata Neo, it was ok but the Eclipse gave a noticeable improvement when I upgraded to it. Crucially the Eclipse is easier to clean. Bear in mind If you do decide airbrushing isn't for you, the Eclipse holds it's value quite well if you ever want to sell it on. As for compressors, for a sub £100 compressor I don't think you can beat a Fengda AS-186 tanked compressor, currently selling for £84 from Amazon.

If wikipedia is to be believed, 561 were built so it fails D1.1

That was my immediate thought, that and the Ford Trimotor are the only two aircraft I know of off the top of my head with engine mounted instrumentation, but both have already been kitted as mentioned.

I think it was either a Matchbox Red Arrows Hawk or an Airfix Spitfire, 1/72 of course and in the mid 80s

No, I did once bin a kit in the early stages of building it though, it was an Amodel I-16 where the flash was so bad that in places I genuinely couldn't tell where the aircraft ended and the flash started. I do have a couple in my display cabinet which I'll have no qualms whatsoever in binning when I run out of room, though that's a while away as I'm not exactly a prolific modeller.

The version of that joke I've heard has that swapped around.

This thread's a good place to start: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235024356-show-us-your-modelling-space-stash/

A few things I've noticed in film and TV land: Falling down a flight of stairs only has two possible outcomes, either you're completely uninjured or you die - nothing in between those two extremes Doors with electronics locks have a major flaw - if they're locked shooting the keypad will unlock them, if they're unlocked shooting the keypad locks them. If you're planning a bank heist, assassination, hijacking or other nefarious activity, the best place to discuss it is in a bar/diner where at least 10 random people could potentially overhear your plans.

You can list other stuff and a lot of people do, the only real snag is it's still thought of as predominantly a marketplace for clothes but that could easily change if Vinted marketed themselves better. eBay's steady trickle of seller unfriendly changes really is a golden opportunity for them.

I can see Vinted becoming bigger than eBay for private sellers in the not too distant future. They're already the far better option for second hand clothes, no reason why they can't expand into other product areas.

Indeed, and setting aside accuracy for a moment, for a model of an aircraft with a monochrome scheme such as this, stencils are important from a purely aesthetic perspective. On the ICM decal sheet, the red stencils just in front of the intake are basically irregularly shaped red blobs, not even recognisable as text. Thanks, think I'll go for the Foxbot ones in that case.

Hi everyone I'm currently working on a 1/72 ICM MiG-25 RBT, an enjoyable build so far, the one aspect of the kit I'm not keen on is the stencils, the black ones are passable but the red stencils are very poor. There are two AM options available from Begemot and Foxbot but I've never used either brand, can anyone with experience of both decal brands advise which of the two is likely to be the best option?

tbh if I was looking at spending well over £300 for a compressor, I'd spend the extra £50 or so and choose a tanked Sil-Air 15A over the smart jet pro. For sub £100 compressors I don't think you can beat the AS186.

It's far worse for cheaper items. The flat rate is a 75p then 4% on top, effectively this means a £100 items has a 4.75% price increase but a £5 item has a 19% increase. Bear in mind this is per item not per purchase, so if you buy multiple cheap items from the same seller at the same time (e.g. 10 different model paints) you're hit with multiple flat rate charges.

To make it worse, the fee is in the form of a flat rate plus a percentage of the selling price so impacting low price items to a far greater degree.