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I'd also be very interested to know the answer to this one. I've used an ebay seller in the past who lists their item location as Poland but has a UK address in their business seller info. Also looked at a few other items in my watch list, a Hong Kong based stockist of Akan paints (which AFAIK are not stocked by any UK seller/store) now says they don't deliver to the UK at all.

Brilliant tip, thanks. I too have managed to break a few sticks and guns when attempting to remove them from the sprues of recent Airfix kits with the softer plastic they now use.

Just the one model from santa this year, and given my taste in music it just had to be this one :

The whole of Cornwall has just been moved into tier 4 after hundreds of pirates returned home to Penzance to celebrate Christmas with their families. Apparently the aarrrrr rate has increased dramatically.

It may be more specific than what you're looking for but I found Osprey's MiG-3 Aces of World War 2 an interesting read. It also includes 32 colour plates each showing an aircraft with different markings, including a couple of camo schemes I wasn't previously aware of so particularly useful from the modeller's perspective. https://www.amazon.co.uk/MiG-3-Aces-World-War-Aircraft/dp/1849084424

I'm not usually one for resurrecting 3 year old threads but thought it appropriate in this instance as this thread was where I first became aware of this book a year or two ago. A revised 2020 edition has now been reprinted, UK RRP £45 but available for £25 from ebay. Mine arrived last week and I highly recommend it, definitely one of the better aviation history books I've read.

Thanks scotthldr and 72modeler, FS28915 does look a better match.

Thanks but I think that's pretty much the same shade as Gunze H98. I agree that would probably work well for the dayglow orange used on Luftwaffe and RAF aircraft but it doesn't look right for the X-15, might work if I sprayed it over a red undercoat though.

Hi everyone I've decided my next build will be a 1/72 MPM X-15 A2, complete with the garish white and dayglow red/orange external fuel tanks as per the pic below. Question is what paint to use for the tanks? The instruction call for Gunze Aqueous H98 Fluorescent Orange, but to my eyes this looks too orange, the real thing seems redder, also nowhere in the UK seems to stock it anyway so possibly discontinued. What IS the correct shade to use and who produces a paint of that colour or a close approximation of it? My preference is for Vallejo or Mr Hobby/Gunze paints but happy to consider other brands. Thanks

A Man goes into a baker's shop and asks for two bread rolls. The shopkeeper picks up two rolls with a pair of tongs and puts them in a paper bag. The man then asks for two cakes. Again, the shopkeeper picks them up with the tongs and puts them in the bag. The man says, "It’s nice to see, that you don’t manhandle the food". The shopkeeper says, "Sir, nothing in my shop is handled by human hands.” The man then noticed a piece of string, hanging from the shopkeeper's trousers and asks: "What’s that piece of string for?” The shopkeeper says, "Well, that's for when I need to pee. I pull on the string and my old boy just pops out.” "Great idea," says the man, “but, pray, tell me how you put it back in” “That’s not a problem”, says the shopkeeper… "I just use the tongs"

I asked my phone: 'Siri, why am I so bad with women?' She said: 'I'm Alexa you moron!'

I received a nice little compliment about my driving today. Some kind person had put a sticker on my windscreen saying 'parking fine'.

I told my son yesterday 'Don't look at porn, it'll make you go blind'. He said, 'I'm over here Dad'.

I love that one, you very rarely see stands which can be wall mounted.

One upon a time a young Lysander met a handsome Lancaster and they loved each other very much... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Putin - a Russian chamber pot

First degree murder - a group of well educated crows

A pair of Apaches flew over about 10 minutes ago.

Another West Midlands one: Mr Models 35 Abbey Road Bearwood B67 5RA Reminds me a little of the model shops my dad used to take me to as kid in the 80s with kits literally floor to ceiling, prices are reasonable for a bricks and mortar shop.

Hmm, wonder why it's on the sprue at all then, unless it's not really a tail skid at all but something unrelated and as yet unidentified.

Which would suggest Eduard have a prototype Spit on the drawing board as a future release too

Were any production aircraft fitted with tail skids, I thought only the prototype Spitfire had one?

Cats can safely drink seawater.

You can keep your lager, bitter, mild, or porter, give me a decent wheat beer any day 😎 This is one of my favourites 🤤 :

Ooh, liking the look of this. I too will be going for the BAT 21 look