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The first model that I built was the Airfiix Belvedere helicopter just like this one which I built in 1967.

 

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I was seven and we were living in Singapore at the time, my father was in the Royal Air Force and I remember him driving us past some real camouflaged Belvederes at RAF Seletar. I built this model on our bedroom balcony at six in the morning, this is still my favourite time to get up and get things done .

 

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We flew back from Singapore in July 1967, here is myself and my sister going to board our British Eagle Britannia for the long flight back to the UK .

This actual Britannia is now displayed at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, only it is in Monarch colours and all the passenger seats face forwards whereas they faced rearwards on our flight.

My father was posted to RAF Bawdsey, a radar station on the Suffolk coast where we lived for the next four years. It was here that I discovered FROG models because they were sold in our Alderton village Post Office. I built many FROG and Airfix models during this time for my younger brothers and friends as well as myself.

 

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The Woolworths in Woodbridge where we would go to buy Airfix models on our Saturday shopping trips. Woolworths have a very special place in my heart. They were where I would usually discover the latest new model from Airfix. I have very fond memories of Woolworths.

 

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I saw an advert in a comic for the range of Airfix tanks and really set my heart on the Sherman tank so I asked my mother if she would get me one from Woolworths the next time that she went shopping in Woodbridge. I came home excitedly from school to find that she had got me the Stalin tank by mistake, just like the one above. But it was the first of many tanks and vehicles I would build from Airfix and later Matchbox.

 

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My first FROG kit was the P38 Lightning just like the one above, it was a Christmas present in 1967, it was moulded in a sand coloured plastic and my father built it for me and it was the start of my fascination with FROG kits. The artwork on their boxes was exciting and inspirational too.

 

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This is a favourite model of mine, the FROG Avro Shackleton MR3 that I received as a Christmas present from my father in 1973.

 

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I was a member of the Air Training Corps, here we are on summer camp at RAF Marham in 1975 in front of the Vickers Valiant guardian, I am the scruffy teen who needs a haircut and is more interested in the Victor refuelling tankers activity behind the photographer. We were lucky to get a flight over Norfolk in a visiting Handley Page Hastings T.5, one of the last in service, it was TG517 which is now on display at the Newark air museum.  I also obtained my Marksman Qualification on the firing range during this camp.

 

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Motorcycles are another passion of mine and this is my first motorcycle in 1976 on the moors above Whitby,

 

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Aviation archaeology is another of my interests, here I am in 1986 with the remains of Vickers Wellington BK347 which crashed at 2000 feet on Whernside mountain in North Yorkshire in 1944.

 

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A cartoon by my brother Mark making fun of my interest in aviation archaeology.

 

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I also have an interest in exploring airfields and researching their history, this was the control tower at Cottam in 1976.

 

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I loved watching the scooters arrive in Scarborough during holidays in the 1970s, so I painted this picture which formed part of my A Level Art portfolio. This amusement arcade is the one I worked in for two summer seasons, I am the bingo assistant in the red jacket. The scooters were painted from sketches I did of my own Vespa scooter.

 

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I love any opportunity to fly, I took this photo from my seat in a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer.

 

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Here I am with my instructor after a flying lesson in a Cessna 152 at Doncaster airfield in 1990. I asked him if the Cessna was aerobatic and he then proceeded to demonstrate to me that it was !  We looped, rolled and recovered from a stall spin. Doncaster airfield is now long gone, we would now be standing in the middle of a man-made lake and the only Cessnas to fly from here now would need to be floatplanes, and we would be very wet.

 

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I spent a number of years working for Shell Oils, here I am offloading fuel oil from rail tankers into our depot storage tanks.

 

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I later drove tankers for Shell delivering fuel oil all over Yorkshire.

 

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Here I am in about 1998 with the 1/72 Monogram RB-36 Peacemaker which is the largest model I have built. Our model club was exhibiting at Bridlington Spa and the local newspaper took this photograph, unfortunately the Polish Air Force decided to put in an appearance too.

 

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My interest in airfields has led me to recreating airfield dioramas like this one in 1/72 scale. The Lightning F.3 is a converted CORGI diecast model.

The buildings are scratchbuilt.

 

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Reworked Corgi Lightning F.2 in the markings of 92 Squadron at RAF Leconfield  local to me here in East Yorkshire. The F.2 had four fixed guns in the nose and I managed to hollow out the gun troughs despite the metal being very hard.

 

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1/72 Corgi Canberra B.6 which I made a number of improvements on the original model such as cockpit interior, open bomb bay and shortened undercarriage and a total repaint.

 

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Being silly with a Shorts Tucano at RAF Linton on Ouse.

 

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1/72 Corgi diecast Vickers Wellington Mk1c which I converted from the original model by adding a nose turret from the old Airfix Wellington and repainting it in Coastal Command colours.

 

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Ready to commence take-off.

 

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Reworked and repainted 1/72 Corgi Westland Lysander on a diorama depicting France in 1940.

 

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Reworked 1/144 Corgi Vulcan and Valiant V bombers.

 

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Reworked 1/144 Corgi Victor BS 2

 

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One of my cartoons based on the modelling shed antics of one of our model club members.

 

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I enjoy airshows, I took this photo of an Airbus Atlas at Farnborough.

 

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I was a founding member and treasurer of IPMS Bridlington and Wolds Scale Model Club and I designed our club logo.

 

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Our club has displayed models at many shows since we formed back in 1995. this is one of my cartoons which depicts the end of another busy show.

 

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My 1/144 Corgi Nimrod, Corgi Vulcan and WB-50D on our model club table at a model show at South Shields.

 

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The very first model aeroplane that I can remember holding was my dad's Airfix Sunderland when I was about four years old and we were living in Felixstowe, in fact we lived only two miles away from the RAF Felixstowe flying boat establishment which was then being turned into a cargo terminal. I later built a Sunderland for my brother when I was thirteen. I love any aeroplanes which have an association with water, whether they fly from it or operate in its environment. I love the Sunderland flying boat and eventually I built this Airfix Sunderland Mk 3 for myself.

 

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I collect vintage kits  which remind me of happy times as a boy excitedly seeing these kits displayed in Woolworths.

 

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The last trading day of Woolworths in Whitby were I bought many Airfix models in the early 1970s, a sad day for me and the end of an era.

 

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Vintage Airfix Vought F4U-1D Corsair which I restored and reworked from a friend's collection.

 

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I enjoy the challenge of limited-run kits too, this is my Mach2 Armstrong Whitworth Argosy with a BW Models power trolley.

 

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My recent 1/144 MikroMir Blackburn Beverley which I brush painted. I drilled out and glazed all the windows and detailed the interior as I wanted to depict it in the heavy air drop configuration without cargo doors fitted. Scratchbuilt ground equipment.

 

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I made the mainwheel bogies pivot using brass rod so that all the wheels are always in contact with the ground.

 

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1/144 Welsh Models Vickers Valiant B1.

 

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1/154 scale Kader Sunderland. This kit is a scaled down copy of the old Airfix kit, I converted it into a Mk 1 and brush painted the camouflage scheme over an overall silver finish. I then scraped away the worn areas.

 

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1/72 Hasegawa B-47 Stratojet. I detailed the cockpit interior and tried to portray the fuselage wrinkling.

I scratchbuilt the power trolley. In the  background is my 1/144 WB-50D Weatherfortress.

 

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Close up detail of my Hasegawa B-47 Stratojet.

 

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1/144 Boeing WB-50D Weatherfortress which I built by combining parts from two Academy Minicraft kits, the B-29 and the KC-97.

The ground equipment is scratchbuilt.

 

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Reworked 1/144 Corgi B-52E Stratofortress with scratchbuilt dispersal diorama based on those in the UK.

 

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1/72 Revell F-89J Scorpion with extra detail and my own colour scheme as I did not want the usual high-viz red one. I also found a photograph of a J that had both rocket pods and missile pylons fitted so I did the same to mine. When it comes to modelling subjects I am not too concerned about historical accuracy all the time.

 

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1/72 Hasegawa Grumman Tracker. The wings fold and unfold on brass hinges in the wings and the MAD probe in the tail extends.

 

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1/72 Hasegawa Shin Meiwa PS-1. I did much additional work to the kit to turn it from a prototype aircraft, which the kit depicts, into a production aircraft.

 

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1/72 Hasegawa Martin P5M-2 Marlin, I converted the kit into an earlier aircraft with a tail turret.

 

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1/72 FROG Whitley V which was a Christmas present way back in 1973 and which I have reworked and repainted over the years.

 

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I can display the FROG Whitley in flying mode too by using the optional retracted undercarriage parts that were included in the kit.

 

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Original three colour Matchbox kit of the Handley Page Heyford, I scratchbuilt a full interior and the dustbin turret retracts. This is the first biplane I have built since 1976 and depicts a Heyford Mk 1.

 

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Close up of the revolving and retracting dustbin turret on the Matchbox Handley Page Heyford.

 

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1/72 Matchbox Handley Page Halifax Mk.1 built from an original three colour kit.

 

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I do attempt some of the latest kits too, this is the 1/72 Valom Handley Page Harrow. The undercarriage was very challenging to construct as the kit's struts are too thin and weak so I made my own. I also reduced the length of the nose in front of the cockpit to get the look of the subject more correct. My model depicts an aircraft based at nearby RAF Driffield in 1937 which probably flew over our house back then.

 

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Vintage 1950s Lindberg 1/96 Avro Vulcan B1 with a 1/144 Welsh Models Vickers Valiant in the background.

 

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Vintage 1/96 Lindberg Handley Page Victor  which I converted into a production B. Mk 1.

 

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My 1/96 Lindberg Victor B 1 displayed on its removeable undercarriage.

 

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Novo FROG 1/96 Caravelle.

 

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Vintage 1/72 Airfix Supermarine Walrus Mk 1 which I built in 1974 and then redetailed in recent years. This kit is one that Airfix reworked in the 1960s, the original 1950s one had no rivet detail and depicted a wooden Mk 2 whereas this one has a metal hull so would actually be a Mk 1, but Airfix still sold it as a Mk 2.

 

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This Airfix 1/700 HMS Devonshire is one of the few ships that I have built. I love the lines of these County Class destroyers and had to alter some of the faults on the vintage kit to achieve this. I improved the Seaslug missile launcher with the use of fuse wire.

 

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My FROG Focke Wulf Ta152. I do not build many German aircraft because of the complex camouflage schemes which require an airbrush which I do not have, but I was determined to try my hand at brush painting one and this is the result.

 

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1/72 Mach2 Blohm and Voss BV 142. Probably the ugliest subject that I have built.

 

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A cartoon depicting my friend Trevor who had a habit of putting his modelling projects in kitchen cupboards

 

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My 1/72 Special Hobby Boulton Paul Sea Balliol. I made the undercarriage retract just because I wondered if I could.

 

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Valom 1/72 Bristol Buckmaster with Airfix AEC Matador converted into a runway controller's van.

 

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Aerofile Morane Saulnier MS.706 Paris taxies past my control tower.

 

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Reworked 1/72 Corgi Meteor F.Mk 8 within scratchbuilt protective blast walls, just like the ones that The Beatles played about on in one of their films.

 

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Restored original 1950s FROG Hawker Hunter F Mk1 within protective blast walls.

 

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Reworked 1/72 Corgi Canberra B.6 on our club display at Bridlington railway station.

 

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My 1/72 Mach2 Breguet Atlantic with free-spinning propellers. I love maritime aircraft.

 

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My 1/144 Masterkit Beriev Be-12 Mail. A scratchbuilt interior, engines and undercarriage are just some of the work put into this very basic model, must not forget to mention all the glazing too.

 

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I dabble with Corgi diecast models to which I dismantle and add detail and sometimes repaint too. This is my RAF Rescue Whirwind on one of my 1/72 airfield dioramas. I built the control tower and crash vehicles shed from modellers card.

 

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Reworked Corgi Whirwind HAS 7 with airfield crash shed and BW Models crash trucks in background.

 

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Example of what reworked means, scratchbuilt Leonides engine detail and anti-submarine torpedo added to my Corgi Whirlwind HAS 7.

 

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I have very fond memories of the Christmas parties that were put on for the children at RAF bases so I have portrayed Father Christmas arriving by Wessex with presents for the children. The Wessex is a 1/72 reworked Corgi model.

 

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This is my 1/72 Alvis Salamander crash truck. It is a white metal kit which was produced by BW Models.

 

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1/72 white metal BW Models Bedford RAF coach which was a very challenging kit to build but I wanted to build it as it was coaches like these but belonging to the Royal Navy that took us to and from school in Singapore.

 

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A well played-with and battered Dinky Pressure Refueller which I rescued from a toy trader. I replaced the worn out tyres, added glazing and extra details and repainted it in 1950s RAF colours.

 

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My AZUR 1/72 MD-311 Flamant on a visit to RAF Scarborough

 

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My vintage Airfix Beagle Basset on a visit to RAF Scarborough. BW Models white metal crash trucks and oxygen trolley.  Runway controllers van converted from Airfix Matador.

 

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Interior of the Visual Control Room on my scratchbuilt control tower.

 

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I have dabbled with model railways too, this is one of my 1/76 steam locomotives on a working turntable. I always like to include pilot and crew figures in my aircraft subjects and so I also put crew in the cabs of my trains too, I do hate to see ghost trains running on model layouts.

 

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My vintage Airfix Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle with scratchbuilt detailed crew stations.

 

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1/72 KP Sukhoi Su-7 BKL with hand painted camouflage over a silver paint finish allowing chipped leading edges to be portrayed.

 

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I love building the old Airfix kits which I remember from my childhood, this is my Airfix Hawker Siddeley Dominie with optional position undercarriage.

 

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Undercarriage retracted and climbing out.

 

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I have often wished that I could be content with building models just as they come in the box, but this will probably never happen, so here we have my Airfix Dominie with scratchbuilt interior.

 

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This 1/72 Airfix Bristol Bloodhound missile is the oldest model in my collection, it came with the Airfix Lockheed Hercules which I received for my birthday in 1970.

 

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Airfix Bloodhound Mk 1 on its launch pad with 1/144 Corgi Valiant in background.

 

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1/12 Tamiya Dakar Rally BMW R80 GS which I built for a friend, the only motorcycle model I have built, it was fun but I prefer real ones

 

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Exploring the green lanes of Lincolnshire on a BMW 1200 GS.

 

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I love motorcycles and luckily this is a passion that my wife Carol can share in as she also enjoys days out on our V Strom too.

 

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Photo taken by Carol while we were on a tour. Unfortunately she is unable to grasp the need to get closer to the subject which she is taking a picture of, so we also have the socially distanced  Smith family marching to breakfast too ........ oh well

 

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And here she is the master photographer herself, my wife Carol at Ullswater in the Lake District during our motorcycle tour, still smiling despite the rain and being loaded down with luggage, must be facebook time  ............

 

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Well friends, that is all up to now, so happy modelling ( and biking ) everyone and stay safe.

 

Adey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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