JosephLalor

XTC: The Big Express

Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine Grace Jones: Living My Life

I believe BS381c/241 Dark Green would pass muster

I'd like to come in with a 1/48 Revell, ex-Monogram, F-84F, please. I fancy the Luftwaffe option. Maybe the XKit RF-84F as well, though I'm not too sure what I would do about the rather empty camera bay.

I have KP's 1/48 Marchetti kit myself so I'll be following this. Looks as though the parts are all there for the turboprop version as well.

Very nice model. The name looks as though it got vertically transposed somehow. I think Golden Gate Bridge also flew in Channel Air Bridge livery; I remember it being illustrated as such in the old Hippo book of World Airliners from the early '60s.

Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Thanks for that warning; I've never got that far with that kit!

Looking at my partially completed NF.11, I think the idea was that the nosewheel strut would fit by a 'semi-butt-joint' in a shallow rectangular recess near the front of the bay, and the main gear struts would fit into a similar recess, about 9mm x 2 mm, at the outer forward corner of the main bays.

Salute from me Enzo. I'm not down for the Draken GB, but I have a couple of kits that are probably a bit far advanced, so this is a good excuse to get another.

I'm up for this one too, I've several F-86D and K kits

Given that it's just an inch long, if you hadn't said it's a pike I'd have called it a Short Sturgeon myself.

I'd like to take part with a DHC-1 Chipmunk or Fairey Flycatcher perhaps. I probably have a Hawker Hind or a Bristol Bulldog lurking somewhere as well. Now that I think of it, here's a good excuse for breaking out a Matchbox Siskin.

Please add me. P-51K probably.

Cracking stuff. I had the opportunity to learn this from a Stanley Holloway 78. It was written by Marriott Edgar, along with the likes of 'The Lion and Albert' and 'Sam, Sam, pick up tha musket'. For some reason I particularly like the line that goes 'Noah cruised round flying his pigeons...'

Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels

Truly splendid pieces

'Intoxicated staircase' springs to mind, which epithet was applied to the Sopwith Triplane I believe.

The counter stern makes me wonder if it was a conversion from a merchantman.

Thanks for the Kilmer poem, it's the first time I've seen it beyond the first line. Ogden Nash had a shorter version, something to the effect of: I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed until the billboards fall I shall not see a tree at all Another occurrence of 'Things fall apart' was in the first stanza of The Second Coming by WB Yeats: Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction while the worst of full of passionate intensity

Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out; I expect it'll be pretty. Reminds me that I've had the main airframe components together on mine for about 20 years if not more.

I'll be following this one. Placement of the undercarriage parts and the interplane struts will be 'interesting' unless there are marks on the wing surface. I wasn't aware of the Horsley until I saw a photo of one in the games room of what was then the Electricity Council staff college at East Horsley in Surrey. That was in 1988. I gather that the house was previously in the Sopwith family, and before that it was owned by the Byrons.

Hi Edward, I think you and Mr T are right, thanks.

I seem to recall there being a novel in which the protagonist was called Bill the Space Marine, and he had a left right arm and a right right arm (or was it a right left arm and a left left arm?), transplanted from a dead comrade.