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Martian

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  1. Best take that up with @Greg B then; this is the sort of thing that happens when you go prodding sleeping Martians and ones that are suffering from one of your disgusting Earthling bugs to boot. Fractious of Mars 👽
  2. If we don't get that 1/16 scale Haunebu that I have been badgering Airfix about for years, I shall scream and scream and scream until you are all sick and then use my 1/1 scale Haunebu to reduce Margate to a fiery wasteland! As for my tentacles Mr @Greg B, you leave them out of this. They are a Martian's own private kingdom and I shall defend them with @Mike's life! Provoked of Mars 👽
  3. Have you tried MIG Ultra Glue for the canopy? It's a sort of a PVA on steroids and should do the trick. Helpful of Mars 👽
  4. I'll pass that one on to Mrs Martian, she's a Dorset girl and proud of it. Lights blue touch paper and retires to a safe distance. Sir Coward de Martian 👽 Martian
  5. This is going to look gorgeous when it's finished! Impressed of Mars 👽
  6. That video had to come up sooner or later and, quelle surprise, it had to be you CC! I suspect @general melchett recognises that lot from when he bottom burped for the England "Gentleman's" First Fifteen. We await further enlightenment.... Martian 👽
  7. I believe baked beans washed down with some of Lady Melchett's effluent wine was the preferred fuel. I think he may have already done so. At least, judging from the way he was walking during our last visit to Melchett Towers. Martian 👽
  8. Talking about bottom burping fixtures: it is not a widely known fact that all 92 clubs of the British Bottom Burping league made a essential, if somewhat smelly contribution to the war effort during WW2. In foggy weather, they lined up alongside runways with an member of the airfield's ground crew beside every individual team member, carrying a lighted taper and were used for fog dispersal. The system was known as FIDO (F$*t Intensive Dispersal Odiferous). I understand @general melchett was called out of retirement to head up the organisation. Martian (Purveyor of Interesting Facts to the Universe Since Earth Date 13.12.1961). 👽
  9. Sounds more like a bog standard Oxford United vs Swindon Town match rather than the Harrow vs Crystal Palace picnic. Although as the actual Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire on 30th November 1936, perhaps the General could now shed some light on this mysterious event? Martian 👽 Of course I am sane! Wibble, wibble, barf, barf, nerr bong. You need my Sister-in-Law, Rachel, she's a certified pyromaniac and somewhat worryingly, spending Christmas at Martian Towers. The Poole Fire Brigade have consequently had all leave cancelled over the festive period.
  10. Not to mention anything that escapes his trousers; "pretty ugly does not even begin to cover that apocalyptic eventuality! Martian 👽
  11. I am given to understand that the Harrow vs Crystal Palace fixture is, in fact a bottom burping contest so breaking of the wind is actively encouraged in this instance. Martian👽
  12. Thanks CC, Mrs Martian was Granny Brockhouse as her hair colouring and style was very close to that lady I shall, however pass on your kind remarks to the Memsahib. Martian 👽
  13. Sorry about the silence over the last few weeks, life just seems to have got in the way. I have not however been idle on the Zeppelin worrying front however. The "Afrika Schiff", the L.59 has grown a set of tail feathers: I was talking to @general melchett the other day and he suggested that I put up a comparison picture to illustrate the difference in size between the ship and a standard R Class hull. By lucky hap, I have an R Class on the bench that I am planning to finish in the later raiding colour scheme of grey and black so here is that comparison shot: I have been trying to get the outriggers on the R Class a bit finer and have managed to solder a set from 0.3mm Albion Alloys brass rod. I think that this is about as close to scale as I am going to get and still retain any strength in the structure. I have also been constructing a set of outriggers for the Q-Cumber Class ship that I am building in 1/350 scale and have added some of the very fine secondary structure. Whilst this is accurate, I am not at all sure that it brings much to the party other than giving me a harder task painting them and will probably not be repeating the exercise in future builds. I think that this really is a rare case of that awful phrase "Less is more" being true. What do you Guys think? In other more worrying news, I was watching Police Interceptors who were in Lincolnshire last night and the programme featured them attending a rave party in what looked suspiciously like the grounds of Melchett Towers. I became further concerned when a scene was shown with someone wearing Regimental hot pants and sequined boob tube being bundled into a police van, screaming "I didn't do it! It was Darling that was dishing out the pills, honest Guv"! I was further concerned that this was shown before the nine o'clock watershed, I mean, impressionable young Martians might have been watching all this! Fortunately the magistrate for Much-Snivelling-in-the-Swamp is one General Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett so our beloved General might stand a chance of being acquitted. Well. that is if he is up to facing Lady M, whose beautifully manicured croquet lawn was trashed during the rave and whose fish pond was drained and used as a gigantic punch bowl Thanks for looking. Concerned of Mars 👽
  14. Try making a sentence out of the following words: "needs Raspberry to Blower go Specsavers the to, Helpful of Mars 👽
  15. Just in from our action news reporter, some more pictures of Telford, including the special guest stars, the Brockhouse sisters. In the final image they can be seen still arguing about that Zeppelin, even though there is a chunk of the real one, the newspaper front page and a large model of the ship in question behind them. I don't remember my Great Aunt Hilda being that stubborn! Embarrassed by the fracas, the Martian tries to look as inconspicuous as possible! If it weren't for all those Earthlings dressed as Earthlings I might have got away with it! The display was very well recieved at the Bugle Call show at Nailsea yesterday and we hope to be attending again next year with an even bigger and better effort. Thanks for looking. Martian 👽
  16. Having recovered sufficiently from Telford, I have spent most of the past week doing some more Zeppelin worrying. My "Q-cumber" Class is proceeding well and is nearly at the stage where I can start soldering brass, as is another R Class that I have on the go. I plan to finish the R Class in the later war back and grey scheme although I have not yet decided upon which ship to do. I will also be making an S and T class ship at some point as I want to cover the "Silent Raid" of 18/19th of October 1917 when a combination of wind direction and speed, cloud cover and radio silence combined with the result that the British had no idea that the raid was taking place until the first bombs started dropping. However, the same conditions resulted in the Zeppelins' navigation being way out and five of the eleven ships that took part in the raid were lost due to either fuel shortage or anti-aircraft fire over France. I will get some pictures of the Q and R Class ships up when I have finished the soldering, I am hoping to make a better job of it this time round. I have also begun work on the L.59, the "Afrika Schiffe" which, in November 1917, took part in a long distance attempt to re-supply the forces under General Lettow-Vorbeck who were still fighting the British in East Africa. Unfortunately an inaccurate Reuters report stating that Lettow-Vorbeck had been defeated, led to the ship being recalled. Lettow-Vorbeck however continued to hold out until the end of the war. The L.59 was specially lengthened for the mission and this involves another cut and shut job using twoMark1 Models R Class kits, this time adding six frames to the R Class hull. she will be longer than the L.70 that I recently completed. Larger flying surfaces will need to be scratch built and a set of later type of gondolas taken from the redundant parts in one of the kits used. Here is where we are at with the hull lengthened and frame lines re-scribed. Much sanding and polishing await my exhausted tentacles. Thanks forlooking. Martian 👽
  17. Well, I was wrong she did get a commended much to my surprise. Corrected of Mars 👽.
  18. Bait taken, hook, line and stinker. Sorry, I meant sinker, I get a bit muddled with your Earthling languages sometimes. Muddles of Mars 👽
  19. It's the Bide a Wee Home for "Resting" Melchetts actually; however, the drift of the name is essentially the same. The Graf can currently be reached at: Bide a Wee Home for "Resting" Melchetts, The Dungeon, Melchett Towers, Abandon All Hope Road, Much-Snivelling-in-the-Swamp, Wibbleshire LN66 6WB* *Visits from the Phantom Raspberry Blower by special arrangement. Helpful of Mars 👽
  20. Indeed, the family resemblance is uncanny to the point of being disturbing. Worried of Mars 👽
  21. We are mulling this one over. The event is attractive, the logistics of getting the display there less so. I am going to sleep on this one for a few days before deciding. Undecided of Mars 👽
  22. Those pictures were taken by Mrs Martian on her phone. A friend took some on a proper camera but I have yet to receive them. In the meantime however, try this linl{ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25066120362978886&set=pcb.6945810038840149 Taken by a fellow Zeppelin enthusiast at the show. Helpful of Mars 👽
  23. Clearly silliness is still alive and well north of Hadrian's Wall! Unsurprised of Mars 👽
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