Fazzman

Thanx indeed! I've got nearly seven years' worth of 'em.....pick a card, pick any card!🤣🤣🤣 The worst bit is that I'm an aviation artist and haven't been able to paint anything since busting my neck a good few years back. "Grrrrr" is an understatement.... Joking aside, I'm really hoping that someone can locate that 'dams Raid trials' article...

Thanks for that very useful info gentlemen. Not only am I pretty new to posting here but I'm struggling to function after having had some pretty serious recent surgery with a long hospital stay! (Hope that doesn't make you feel too bad😉👍!). Added to that, I have to admit that I find navigating my way round the gigantic site very hard going on a mobile phone.....plus I'm old!! 😉🤣

Can anyone help a poor old soul modelling who is trying to locate a 'previous build' conversion article of the Matchbox kit to the Dambuster Upkeep/Highball version? I remember seeing it here back in 2016 but cannot find it now after many months of trying!! Can any kind soul find the article at all as I'm ready to convert a vacform 1:48 Wellington into said 'Dambuster Trials' Wellington X. Many thanks....and finger's crossed!

I'd like to know if this build got completed... probably not as it appears to end here....!?

Soooo true Noel. Oh for the Airfix of the 50s, 60's & early 70s when you could buy a DH Heron, an HP Jetstream, a Bristol Freighter, a Britten Norman Islander etc etc.... As you say, from now on I'm afraid it will only be the cottage model industry that will produce those vital civvy airliners nowadays...sniff...

Yes, that's so very sad.....😔😔😔

Yes, as an ex-civvy aero-engineer and airline lover, I totally agree Rob. Maybe most modellers started out as young'uns watching war films post war, and the stories just got 'ground in'. It would be interesting to know the general percentage of military to civil preference though no doubt the bean counters of the model industry have already done all that...or maybe not?!😉🤔

That's a shame, though I respect your military preferences. I must've made a whole squadron of Dambusters over the years, not to mention B-17s in addition to hundreds of others... Your Williams Bros' C-46 sounds a joy. You certainly can't beat scratch building a decent interior to be viewed through those open doors! Sounds like a gem! One of my more giant scratch builds was to convert the old 1:32 Matchbox Venom into a Vampire. Luckily I used to work for the makers, so actual original blueprints weren't a problem! We also used to have three kites in my old training college so I spent hours photographing them inside and out to enable me to scratch new wings and super-detailing the cockpit and upward-hinged equipment bay down to the pipe clamps! Not sure whether my eyes would allow me to do that nowadays! Anyway, my quest for that AIM/Transport Wings 1:72 Trident 3b continues....

Don't suppose you have a trident in your collection Moggy?!!

Such a shame when you used to work on them!! 🤞🤞for when one comes along.......🙏🙏

I keep searching the 'net for that AIM HS Trident 3B but they allappear to have left this earth!!🙄🙄

Many thanks to Procopius and Homebee for sharing that truly sad information about Mel Bromley's passing. I've seen a few S&M staff at shows over the years though oddly enough I don't recognise him from the photos. I seem to remember always speaking to a younger chap with jet black hair, even in more recent years (thus allowing for Auld Father Time). I hope his business continues forth for all our sakes.... So sad. I'll continue my quest to locate that elusive 1:72 Trident.... Thanks again chaps.

I've just found this thread after nearly ripping my hair out in anguish through trying to find a 1:72 Hawker Siddeley Trident (I'm an ex-Trident engineer)?! Seeing this getting spoken about in this thread (albeit 6yrs ago now), I just wondered, are we any nearer in getting one...or, alternatively, has ANYONE got a 1:72 Aircraft In Miniature/Transport Wings copy they don't really want?! Please help to make a very old man happy😉!

I can see why Neil! That was one classy and thoroughly absorbing build....and it was a de Havilland! What more can one say?!

I might be getting on for a year late on this conversation (sorry!) but I've approached Airfix a few times over recent years, suggesting they produce an H.S.Trident in 1:72, especially given its unique place in history with regard to the development of automatic 'blind' landing systems, as well as other innovative designs that today are commonplace on the world's airliners. Airfix certainly didn't indicate to me that it was a ridiculous suggestion, so never say never! I note that Authentic Airliners released a brand new and accurate Trident in 1:144 a few years ago, with talk that a 1:72 version could be coming... I'm keeping my fingers crossed!