Paul821

I actually required the war department version, or the pigeon loft, for this build but neither seem available for a reasonable price. So I have purchased the London version but will use the instructions for the WD version to adapt it. More once I have started the build.

Vintage Classic release(s)?

My contributions to GB's this year have been shameful, in that not have been finished. Here I am proposing to join another. My contribution will be the Roden B-Type bus. My requirement is for a ww1 bus but neither the military bus or pigeon loft version seem to be available at a reasonable price. Therefore I have purchased the civilian version and downloaded the military instructions from Scalemates. I should be able to complete this in three months.

For painting card buildings etc I do tend to use these but the main issue with kits is colour matching. As long as I stick with one manufacturer then I known that their olive drab, will be an approximate match to the real thing. I am just about to get into RLM colours and they are a mystery to me, let alone colour match them..

Recently a localish model shop started stocking the Humbrol drop bottle acrylic paints. I had ceased using Humbrol paints when my usual shop stopped stocking them and I had issues with quality. I thought the quality must have improved.... The paint in both the bottles I purchased was so thick, even after shaking, that the amount coming out of the dropper could not be controlled. I'm my time away from Humbrol I got used to painting with Ammo Mig and never had issues with them. After this experience I won't be buying Humbrol again. PS: I am primarily a brush painter

It's been based at North Weald at times this year so is local to you.

Sorry obviously something went wrong with my resize Engine used in East Anglia in the 1940's more specifically the years of the second world war. I don't regard either of these are being in East Anglia, for me it's Norfolk & Suffolk - although I am of the opinion that parts of North Essex and Cambridgeshire are in East Anglia.

Prompts me to say that yesterday I added to the part of my stash reserved for this. GB and that does not include the scratch built card elements. I also need to find a suitable kit of an engine for 1940's East Anglia.

Bump as this is tomorrow. As per @Mjwomack 's comment little is known about the show but one of the people behind it is Gary from Model Behaviour, which is my LMS. Could be an interesting show but Cromer is one of the few places that is literally not on the road to anywhere as it is on the North East corner of East Anglia. You could ombine a visit to the show with a trip on the North Norfolk Railway as it is their gala weekend.

Our local toy shop shop a Children's Foundry Kit. Two Mould halves, sand , a smoothing tool and a ladle. The ladle was to melt your lead in over a gas ring. Yes - my father did buy it and he have hours minutes of fun using it. I suppose it was an early version of 3D printing and perhaps society will view the various chemicals used with 3D printers as we now see chemistry sets, foundry kits, lead soldiers etc..

I started this thread with a question but it has turned into a thread about remembered shops so I thought I would add to these, with come supporting info. The first Airfix Magazine in my collection is April 1963, and it contains 7 adverts for manufacturers (all Airfix or paint) and only one for a shop "Wood Green Model centre" with a wide range of manufacturers listed and "mail order a speciality". At that time my source of models was a newsagent/toyshop located in a parade of shops in Fore Street, Edmonton. The parade was notable in that it had a plaque stating that the first bomb on the London Blitz" had fallen there and destroyed the Alcarraza cinema. One thing I did remember was that on half-day-closing the shop was open but they could only sell tobacco and not models! Also at that time we would made a trip into central London for a birthday/Christmas present buying trip to Gamages and Bassett Lowke (both in Holborn) A year later BMW Models of Wimbledon and Beatties of Southgate were advertising as retailers. Around this time I moved to Harlow and were had two toy shops (Dyers (I think) and Kings that stocked Airfix and a sports shop (Richard Blank) who again only stocked Airfix. For Frog or Revell you had to go to Hancocks in Epping (an electrical seller, with a sideline in kits) or Bishops Stortford to another newsagent whose name I forget, Ten years (1973) on the main advertisers in AM were Bridge Models of Walthamstow, Earnest Berwick of Kettering, BMW, Model Toys of Portsmouth. So to answer my opening question, I guess the change from Toy to model shops was during that period. At that tome my main interest was model railways and I bought few kits. Working in central London at the time provided access to Beatties in Holborn, although a move to Reading meant back to Woolworths for my Airfix kits. It seems that by 1983 the Golden age of shops was drawing to a close (or just the circulation of AM) as only Berwick remained of the old shops and one new one called Capital Model Supplies had appeared. This was also my low point in purchasing models for career and family reasons. That's the end of my Airfix Magazine collection until it's new format. but obviously we had the growth and fall of Model Zone. For many years now various branches of Toymaster, in East Anglia, have provided a supply of kits. I also have two reasonably local model shops in both the kit side of the business is supported by other hobby activities,

There are many life events that put GB's and modelling into perspective and sorry to hear that one such has come your way. Hopefully you are getting the support you require to enable a full recovery. A bit like asking a doctor "will be able to play the violin?" after being in hospital my question would be "will I be able to complete vac form models?" (For those not aware this is an old joke). Just follow Doctor's orders and hopefully you will be back to lead us in the Railways 200 GB next year.

and now complete. The soldering iron is required to melt the locating pins for the underframe in place, experience showed me that it was best to cut the pins down and use CA glue. the card interior is cut, folded and glued in place. The side and end panels have to be cut and folded. Once the top of the sides are coloured in - you have a complete model. The tops are rough - you have a sandwich of outer layers of card with a metal interior, so I gave up on cleaning the edges. Here is is with another from the same series and a Bachman wagon. The final home for these will be in the rear siding on my layout and are for show only - at a distance of about 2 foot they are effective as a cost efficient means of getting weathered wagons. I actually need a rake of 14 so some way to go - I seem to remember there's a suitable GB set up for next year,

Fir some reason the quotes are at the bottom! The bottom one must be the bit of the clue you refer to. As to Daily Mirror cartoons if it's not Just Jane or Andy Capp, then the only one left is "The Perishers"

The e-mail I received said "We are looking at each product individually", so price changes will vary." Since Airfix started they have relied on the Series system for pricing - I wonder if this means the end of that after all these years. I can certainly see some kits in certain series having a different market value to others, depending on the competition but there are some, usually older moulds where the price is either at the correct level or even too high.