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I like that. Very, very nice! Great job.

Nice! Is that the Airfix or Tamiya kit? Yeah, yeah, I know...

Looks absolutly great Nick! One thing I would like to mention, if I may. On a recently moving vehicle, wherever the wheels run along the inside of the tracks you would expect to see minimum rust and shiny-ish metal. The wheel tyres would simply rub the rust off.

Out of curiosity I just had a look. It's still at £99.99

Certainly looks like it's been through the war. Nice job.

What shop?

What scale?

Perhaps he's trying to bomb the "Olion" with empty tanks? Y'know, save ammo or something...

I like that very much!!! pardon my iggerance. Is it 1/72 or 1/48?

Ooooooooh!!!!!! SUPERB!!!!!

I am SOOO jealous!!!! Fantastic job!

Hi Buccy Mad, was this the program? http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/calculatorfc_1.htm

Very nice Dave! Lovely, lovely job!

No, they aren't "Coal-burning"... It just the crew up having their first fag of the day.

Nice paint job, especially on the waterline.

Indeed! I flew to several places on the Vic 10. A long time ago now of course. Ah memories... like the CrabAir "stewardess" on a Vic 10 who insisted on sniffing our bottles of coke (on the way back to the Falklands, via Ascencion, circa 1982 iirc) in case we'd "infected" them with Vodka. Hilarious!

I'm not into Sci Fi stuff but that is superb and well worth a compliment! Very well done sir.

Wow! Very impressive! How did you do the blue line on the "Cheat line"? That looks like murder to do, far less so neatly. What is a "Cheat line" anyway? I've seen numerous references to it but I'm not sure what it means.

Once the parts were together I just scribed the top aileron gap all the way through and ALMOST all the way though underneath, then reversed for the other wing. All you need then is a bit of pressure to lower one and raise the other. It doesn't need much pressure as there is only a very thin bit of plastic left holding the parts to the wing. The elevator just needs the same on both sides. It works quite well. I hope this shows what I mean:

Some lovely kits there guys guys. The rebuilt job is very, very nice! Well done! I very much like this particular Spitfire model.

Fascinating stuff BigVern. I might have to attempt a second scratchbuild at this rate. (No pencils or candles this time though).

"Stalk Aerial (long pole at the back) mount is wrong shape and the pole was not fitted to the mount in that fasion" Oh b*gger! I couldn't figure out what that was. I thought it was some kind of warning light like you get on a tank or recovery lorry. Y'know, the yellow rotating light. I think I'll just shut up now. I'll stick to Tamiya kits.

Thanks BigVern. I knew it wasn't particularly accurate but it was my first ever scratchbuild and done from internet pictures like the one above. I had great fun trying to figure out the dimensions. I just wanted a model of the Bloodhound which is a fantastic looking piece of kit. Here's the build in its "naked" state. The white stuff is bog standard styrene, any other plastic is from a CD jewel case. The cables were taken from a dead computer power supply and the metal grills from something that was supposed to stop fat splashing in a frying pan. On the missile the boosters are pencils (nicked from the kids) and the engine cone is a candle as I couldn't figure out any other way to make a cone. The missile body is a Balsa cone glued to a whiteboard marker pen, whaich was all I could find in the correct diameter. It was a fun and challenging build and I was truly amazed at how big the beast actually was. It easily dwarfs a 1/35th Challenger.

Flamin' Nora!!!

Absolutely brilliant!!! I love seeing kiddies doing this kind of stuff.