general melchett

Great job old chap, like the body mods....Can't help but love the V-Bomber prototypes, they made quite a stir back in the early fifties. I've also built a few of these over the years, along with the three Frog kits, a lot of fun to be had. Unicraft, ah, wonderful subjects, somewhat less than stellar kits. Good result, especially considering what you started off with... Hopefully catch up with you and a few of the usual suspects at Lincoln in the near future.

I see you've tidied the bench considerably CC, big improvement, downgraded from utter chaos to mere chaos...good man. Everything all over the place and all over the place is everything. Sorry to hear about your health woes old chap, sincerely hope everything will get sorted as soon as possible. I don't even have an original one, let alone a spare. Having said that, you never know, I'll send Bladrick down in his full immersion suit and keep net to sift through the discarded supermarket trollies, soggy dog ends, industrial packaging and unwanted bicycles to see what can be found.

Great job on the Schutte-Lanz, like the snazzy scheme. You're a very brave Martian dealing with PETG, only ever tried one (before discovering SLA printing) and after attacking it with a flame gun, Makita power grinder and a 3/4 inch chisel, it ended up back in the plastic bin bag it came in! So basically the loofah's OK, everything else for the bin... Ah, hindsight....that old chestnut. Would have meant a bit of extra work for your chap but a heck of a lot less for you. Looks to be a good base for super detailing, looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

Hmmm..oddly enough that's exactly what my batman tells me and he should know. Great stuff Pete, as you might recall I had something similar parked on the driveway here at MT a while back....just an outline of ancient rust there now.

Now that is one impressive anti-grav thunderbox, you can't beat the old suck-squeeze-bang-blow system. Baldrick is quite willing to christen it, he's good like that and has plenty to offer.... Oh, I see you've already done the honours...

Very welcome news. Fond memories of flying on three of the four pastel Court one-elevens in the early seventies as well as seeing them regularly at nearby Luton airport. Look forward to seeing what Mark 1 do with it.

I certainly am Kev..... That's very kind of you Bill, agree about Baldrick, at least you don't have to be downwind of him on a daily basis, it's like living in a Victorian septic tank. A fantastic job, as usual, you've really captured the old beast perfectly, as good as any I've seen, now, you do realize that because of this I'm going to have to finish my Airfix B1 conversion, blast it.

I think we caught a couple of his ' educational movies' in the early eighties CC, a bit racy for the memsahib though Baldrick seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself (the only one who does, I might add). Hoozah ....where's she letting you take her? or are you cooking up one of your solar-system renown Martian bumburners for her to endure/enjoy?

Ah, speckled Jim's old drinking buddy, Puffin Billy from Auckland....a colourful character, just make sure he pays the bar bill CC... No need to try old sausage, we're already here...

By a neck...

But a tall tail...

You're thinking of this fella Pete..... They even wrote a book about his exploits, penned by no less than Herman from Münster.

He's busy sunning himself on the Algarve with all those lovely Portuguese birds, CC...anyway, he could always fly alongside rather than take up valuable cabin space. That's reserved for my single-malt and feathery hat collections. Mind you, thinking about it, he'd probably out-accelerate us so maybe an aerotow from him would be a wiser choice.

Apparently it had two Loren, another at the back pushing the contrivance along. Sadly, yet predictably, it wasn't very good, ....but good enough for jollies for myself, Darling, the general staff and the regimental tortoise, Alan. Mind you, more importantly it's got a couple of Zeppelins bunged underneath it! hoorah.

Martian...look here, finally a Bleriot 125, this just has to be done, it'll look a picture alongside the Zerbes. Well done MikroMir, you've surpassed yourselves.....I have my order at the ready.