Paul821

Yes Rosebud/ Airfix/ Dapol makes up about 40% of the builds here. However we don't have any Battle of Britain Pacific's, Drewry shunter, wagons or GWR Prairies yet, if anyone fancies one The Model Centre have some at 40% off in their black Friday sale. https://www.themodelcentre.com/black-sale?scale=111&slug=black-sale&manufacturer=854

As only 232 members have voted, that is less that 1% of those signed up to Britmodeller. With 37,565 potential votes out there everything could change, or we could just allocate those votes to "none of the above"..

Cannot get to the December auction itself but I am hoping to get to the viewing on the Thursday. For those not in the know KSK is Lacy Scott & Knight who hold 4 auctions of Toys and Models a year in Bury St Edmunds.

There has been some delay in builds over the last week as I have been involved in Poppy appeals and leading a remembrance day service. Still have to be at our war memorial at 11:00 tomorrow morning and then the post poppy admin of getting boxes back from collection points and counting the money. Some progress on all fronts, in this build. When the image was taken the platform had just been sprayed with a protective covering,

Some movement here as the models are now in the paint shop.

This is not dead, it's just been on the back burner while other entries in this GB have taken priority. No images but I have now prepared that track. The next job is to solder the drop wires to the rails for the power supply. I then need to build this: https://www.smartmodels.org/shop/p/rail12a-n

This week we only welcome one new member @airfixpeter with his Q Kits LMS 10001 pioneer diesel. An interesting entrant as Q-Kits used the system of moulding in Resin which 3d printinng seems to have made redundant. On obscure(ish) kits - no one has started a MTK kit yet.

As Peter Snow learnt to drive a steam loco on the J-94 at the Colne Valley Railway for this TV series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8763654/ Count me in, it gives me a year to lay my hands on a Kitmaster/Airfix/Dapol kit https://www.scalemates.com/kits/kitmaster-26-060-saddle-tank-class-j94--182042 Even if I cannot get the kit there are a couple of other railway related items I could fit in.

Having volunteered for a few days this summer on a P-47 crash site https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9n9elg0do The dig is to be shown on TV on Tuesday 25th November in "Sandi Toksvig’s Hidden Wonders" it's on More-4. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sandi-toksvigs-hidden-wonders Thus I have a renewed interest in the type, however it's nearly two years away and to a scale I have not modelled in since those first Revell issues of the 1970's, so I might give this one a miss.

Written before Airfix's pre-announcement of a new 1:24 kit. There are a couple of possibilities for that release below the 40 mark.

@Billos You are certainly counted. Your combined build is the least of my statistical issues there are a number of people with builds containing multiple items: from @Beardybloke 's A 1930s Parcels Train in N Gauge to a working layout being built by a certain @Paul821 and others of this ilk.

Stats have been updated at It's good to see lots of activity, by others if not in my builds., but there are a number of stalled builds out there. No one new to welcome over the last week, in fact our train has shortened by 2 wagons. @Bengalensis has put his Evening Star into the shed that is the gallery The other "loss" is more of a technical nature in that @Billos has merged two builds into one. I don't mean that he is now building 4-4-0-2-10-0 loco, rather than as these are concurrent building they are in a new thread.

My vote has gone in for this GB. As my modelling at the moment is all WW2 home front focused I thought about building the blackout. However I do have a suitable railway item.in mind.

As we are near the start time for the Bunfight I found the need to refresh my memory as to the actual proposed content of some of the GB's with cryptic titles. As I went through I thought it might be worth with sharing my notes: Apologies to any proposers if my precis mis-represents your proposal. · Bomber Command: Aircraft from the total time period of Bomber Command up to the late 1960's · Build A Nice Kit: Take a nice* kit and build it as directed by the instructions. · Call up the armour: Armour and ground forces of any era and any military. · Cool Cats and Furious Felines: Anything with a cat in the name/type. · Ground Forces Mega GB: Armour and ground forces of any era and any military. · Les Français d'Outre Mer: French marked and operated/operationally active subjects that were based in, or long-term detached to, any part of the world that is not Metropolitan France. · Long Distance Martime Patrol: long distance patrol aircraft. · Muscle Cars: Any two-door family coupe with four seats standard or 2+2 arrangement, and a powerful engine. · Nineties: Any items in use during the 1990’s · Not Your Usual Colour Scheme: any item not in its “usual” colour scheme. · One Man's Islands: Item relating to a nominated island (each island can only be build by one person) · Paint It Black: Anything which is 50% or more black-painted · Post-war Four and More: Anything with four or more engines depicted as it was at some point after WW2. · Rescue and recovery: anything involved in a rescue or recovery role. · SEAC/CBI: Far East Asian conflict from 7th July 1937 and go to September 2nd 1945. · Self Propelled: Any designated self propelled gun, case mate or converted chassis. · Sharkmouths: Anything with fierce teeth · Starships - Real Space and Sci-Fi: Any space faring vehicle from sci-fi or reality. · Stick and String: Subjects that are predominantly wood/fabric construction from the dawn of aviation up to the 1930’s. · The Specialists II: Recon/AWAC’s/ECM/EW, Nightfighters, Tank Busters, Ship Killers. · The Weather: Anything with a tangible link to the weather. · Top 10: Any from Me109, Spitfire, M4 Sherman, P51 Mustang, FW190, F4 Phantom II, Pzkpfw IV, Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Pzkpfw V Panther, T34. · Two Seaters: All two-seater aircraft, vehicles, and vessels · Worst Kit In Your Stash: A kits from your stash that is bad by design, manufacture, storage, damage, missing/broken parts or previous bad/unlucky events