Markh-75

All it needed was a simple personal message asking me to please remove unwanted emails in buy and sell; I would have done this and apologised. Instead of that I was VERY heavy handedly given a severe punishment that did not match the misdemeanour, I was given a 1 month and 31 minute suspension, made a restricted member and denied the use of Buy & Sell AND given a warning point that "will never be removed"! Does this seem like suitable punishment to you? Watch out anyone using buy & sell, one mistake and you will be hung drawn and quartered! dear oh dear oh dear!

Want me to leave? I'm just waiting for the admins to open the door, then I'll leave. You're the admins, you do it! Come on then! Dont worry I wont come back.

Used to be that I respected the admins. Now? Nah.

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I'm glad to be leaving britmodeller, its run by people who are supposed to me men; but theyre not. A little bit of power and their tiny minds went power crazy in their little kingdom, they became Bullies, Cruel, Heavy handed, manipulating, controlling. You're not running a modellers forum, you're running a regime in which everyone MUST bow down to the admins, Oh, the admins. A bunch of little hitlers; I dont need a place like this, I can carry on with my models in my own time - I have plenty of it. I dont have to conform to anyone, I dont need britmodeller to make models! It would have been good if it was run by normal people but it isnt. I have NO beef with any other fellow modellers (in fact I thank you for your supporting and constructive comments to my posts of my builds); just the so-called-admins of britmodeller. Rule with a rod of iron! What do you do if your kid spills his milk? Punch him in the head??😂😂 Nah, I dont need to be here at all now, but thanks for helping me to see it for myself! You can keep the money if it means so much to you, its money miss-spent now anyway, glad it wasnt a fortune! Time to go unless you would like me to hang around and embarrass you further? Members of britmodeller; please be careful, the admins here rule with chainsaw and axe and poison keyboard! Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!😂

I forgot to remove a couple of posts in buy and sell for which I was dealt with very severely, sledgehammer to crack a nut. I have tried to contact admin about it but they are ignoring my emails and personal messages. That’s why this is public. It’s severe heavy handed mess and victimisation.

As no admins have bothered to reply to my emails or personal messages I am forced to reply in public! If I am not to be restored to Gold Member where I belong; I have paid a contribution to britmodeller, then I MUST be refunded and my account closed. I have been forced to going public as no admin has replied to any of my emails or personal messages. a 1 month and 31 minute suspension, a warning point that will never be lifted and banned from Buy & Sell; made a restricted member is a very heavy handed punishment for a simple case of forgetfulness. I have served the suspension but I don’t deserve the other excessive punishments. my position in britmodeller is now untenable and I wish to leave. I was forced to go public. No choice.

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Apologies folks, I was just a bit overwhelmed by the loss of the Stearman, I hate when stuff like that happens but thankfully it doesn’t happen much. I know it’s only a plastic model, but I’d taken a lot of time and effort on that and in the end it broke up.🥴 The Kingfisher is safe and out of the way in the cabinet for now until I’m feeling better, I have not been very well for about a month with the onset of colder weather with a chest infection and other symptoms. once I’m feeling better I’ll be able to complete the Kingfisher. Thanks everyone.

I have nothing to do anymore now and I couldn’t make a model to save myself, I’ll stay in bed today I think. Find something else to do tomorrow. It’s just grim when this happens. I’ll take time out I think until I feel better.

Thanks for trying to cheer me up. When I’m hit like this though, it can be difficult to get me out of it.

I asked for the whole build of the Stearman thread to be removed because I feel such a big flopping failure, I won’t attempt to make another. I didn’t want a lot of talk about a model that no longer exists so I had it erased. I spent a lot of time on that model only for it to break up and I then crashed it into the bin.

Thanks, but A lot of my models get overlooked. I thought I’d done pretty well right up to the Stearman, but that came to nothing when the wings collapsed. It was just a rubbishy little kit. it’s gonna take a while to get back to modelling after that. It’s just fate, it lets you go so far and then reels you back in because I was obviously getting ahead of myself.

Wing floats are fitted but that’s all. Haven’t bothered to paint the stays so, as yet it’s not finished.

Thank you .

I do the very same thing as you with pegs, I kept four halves to use to wedge and support, my this is coming along nicely, you’re certainly winning this battle! You’ll have the Japanese off those islands in no time!👍😎

Thank you Stuart! It’s turned out very nicely indeed and I’m really very pleased with it.👍😀

Yes I liked the Matchbox kit, had one about 30 years back! great to build and paint.

I'm still here; wasn't able to do anything on the model for a couple of days, wasn't feeling great one day and it was out 37th Wedding Anniversary on Weds, but after watching a documentary on TV this morning about the B-24 liberator, I though I ought to go and do something. Here is wot I WILL say; I HATE doing decals that are long thin straight lines, in any colour! They never work out properly and no matter how long they are left to dry and settle they still go 'wrong'! I'd sooner just add the lines by fine black pen with indelible ink later on. I spent an hour getting the lines to fit properly and did finally get them on; I left them for well over an hour and a half before heading back to put the roundel on top of them on the top of the wing, carefully put Decal-set on and applied the decal; it slipped under one of the lines! Can you believe that? The lines were actually featured on the later version of this aircraft but I thought I'd see how they looked. They did look okay until they started shrivelling and bending again; so I took 'em off. Never lost my temper once! I WAS able to get the red line fitted around the main float without too much hassle! Its the warning/danger line for the propeller, It did have to potential to go very wrong but I kept it in control and finally finished all the decals on the Kingfisher AND the Stearman! I'm always a little apprehensive about decals but I can do them okay, once I get into it I just need to take my time with them. I now have all the decals fitted and varnished with Klear and started painting the struts for the wing floats; as the model is in dark blue plastic I felt it would be better to paint them before they go on. I lined them up in a bulldog clip and painted most of the two sides before taking them out and painting the end I couldn't get earlier. I've used a different grey for them just to prime them for now and I'll see how they look tomorrow. The little mounting pins/stubs are all at an angle because they are all at an angle from the wing towards the float itself. I went around and cleaned out the holes in the wings and the holes in the float but I think I'll fit a line of masking tape on in front and behind the line of the holes in the floats to stop glue and paint from getting onto the floats which are all painted! Here are the struts, all primed in a lighter grey for now, depending on how they look tomorrow I'll paint them with the top coat. I kept these on the sprue and trimmed it back, I needed to make sure I still had the part number. I'll have to think how I'll assemble these and fit them to the wings! I reckon I'll fit all the struts into the floats first and then gently 'encouraging' the other ends to meet the holes in the wings. Its like two struts going into one hole in the float so I think its the easiest way! I used a small drill bit and then a thin needle file to make sure that the parts and the glue go into plastic and not paint. The holes on each float have to accommodate two struts each, I'll dress the ends once the glue has set using PVA. Its getting closer to completion so I'm just being careful and doing it all in stages. Hoping to do this tomorrow, get it finished.

Good film, rather sad at the end but I suppose it did happen like that alot. WE will never know the actually hardships and persecution that the people of Europe went through under the Germans, other than watching TV and reading in books: the young boy who was traumatised at the start of the film; it was especially hard on the children, they were exposed to things that children need never see or experience. Good story, well written.

Or you could change to using Colourcoats paint mostly. Faster drying and minimum odour! I love the Colourcoats paint, goes on beautifully and dries beautifully too, deep and rich!👍😎 Yes I still use Humbrol or Revell enamel paint as well as Colourcoats ,but if possible I try to use Colourcoats for main colours. Maybe I’m just so used to the smell of thinners, paint and glue now that I don’t notice it anymore. I certainly don’t discredit those who do suffer from the condition, that wouldn’t be fair or decent of me. I have asthma myself though I have it well under control but I can still be a bit wheezy in the colder weather so I know what it’s like to be short of breath. That can be bad enough in itself.

I hadn't really noticed you werent around tbh but I'm glad you have it all sorted now and have returned! Long live Chris's new computer!

In the words of Spock; Live long and prosper. She did, and has.