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Thanks for that John. Trevor

Thanks for the info regarding the NeOmega cockpit fit issues. I have the same combination of parts to build an S2A which I have recently started. Did you have any fit problems with the intakes and wheel wells? Trevor

Nicely done. Trevor

Nicely finished Bucc. Well done. Trevor

I've not seen an MFH 1/43 build, so I shall follow this with interest. Great choice of subject! Trevor

Nice car, nice model! Trevor

Hi st george Can you explain the two-fingered gestures between liney and pilot mentioned earlier in the thread, and seen in the short video clip? Trevor

Very nice, indeed. Trevor

When was "your" L photo taken? It's not the same frame as "my" L (XV778), which has soft edged demarcation between green and grey. Just goes to show how important one's research can be. Trevor

Welcome aboard from someone else who resides in Lincolnshire. Trevor

Glad the pictures were of use to you. It brought back quite a few memories sorting through photos and my old logbooks, as you might imagine. With reference to the two-finger gesture between liney and pilot, I suspect that it is some kind of Harrier specific marshalling signal. In my ground crew incarnation a few years before, I was an airframe technician on the Buccs of 237 OCU. To tell the pilot to rotate the bomb bay prior to shut-down, we linked the fingers of both hands and made a rocking gesture left and right, a bit like rocking a baby. Perhaps a former Harrier ground crew type can enlighten us? Trevor

Finally managed to find my logbook for that period and I have the same serials as you, except that T was XV798 (not 789). The following pictures were taken on 26th December 1984 when we were airborne with all four Harriers. From left to right the codes read VTOL. This is O, close up on our starboard side. As you can see, no 1453 Flt emblem. This is L, on the ground after the sortie. The 1453 Flt emblem is present plus, just below the windshield, the pilot's name, in this case F/O Meade (who I met again in the late nineties when he was leader of the Red Arrows). The external tank is in the old colours, whilst that on the port wing was dark green all over. The aircraft is fitted with the standard load of sidewinders on the outer pylons and Aden cannons on the fuselage. I hope these help. Apologies for the poor quality of the air-to-air shots. Trevor

Gotta love an old-skool MotoGP machine! Nice work, well executed. Trevor

Mid-afternoon today, parked near the market square in Sleaford was a very nice red Dolly Sprint. Don't recall seeing one in that colour before. Trevor

I've never applied gloss over the decals on my models. It makes them look unrealistically too glossy, IMHO. Mind you, I mostly build cars from the 60's and 70's, before the era of super shiny 2K paint. Always apply decals to a gloss finish though, as described by Steve above. Trevor

That is very nicely done. Trevor

Classy! Well done. Trevor

Thank you Chris. And at Laguna Seca that year it had massive cantilever front and rear wings. Anything for downforce! Jackie Stewart's win at Mid-Ohio was the eighth and final Can-Am win for Lola, which is why I did the conversion to that configuration. Trevor

Wow! That looks good. Well done on the workmanship, and the dedication required. Trevor

Thanks very much Keith. Glad you like it. More Can-Am cars in due course. The stand is a short length of 2 x 1 timber with two pieces of wire coat hanger, bent in two places. The ends go into the wood, and the horizontal parts are fixed into the axle slots. A bit of PVA glue to hold it all together. It makes an excellent handle whilst airbrushing, painting, and applying decals, etc. Trevor

Here is another of my Can-Am models. It is based on the Marsh Models kit (MM30) of the L&M Lola T260 at round 2, St. Jovite. I modified it to portray the car as seen at round 5, Mid-Ohio. The car evolved almost race by race in an attempt to provide more downforce. Despite all these efforts, Jackie Stewart described it as "a bloody beast to drive". By the time it got to Mid-Ohio, the wing had been moved rearwards a considerable amount, and the front wheel arches had been enlarged to overcome damage at previous races caused by the front suspension bottoming out. This is the body as provided in the kit. This is the modified body with the engine cover extended using plastic card, and the wheel arches enlarged with plastic card edges and filled with Milliput. The radiator inlets also had to be modified, using plastic card, to conform with the revised shape of the arches. I added some additional details in the cockpit, plus the front tabs which were made from pieces of spare p/e steel cut to shape and fitted into slots cut in the sides of the nose. The main colour is Revell 04 white enamel, with the remainder painted with Humbrol enamels. Most of the decals are from the kit, but the sponsor decals are mostly aftermarket items, mainly from the Microsport Can-Am sheet. It was a bit fiddly to build at times, particularly the p/e chassis side pieces which have to fold under the resin body - not easy to achieve a clean fold line. The red stripes have come out with a pinkish tinge due to the lighting used when taking the pictures. In reality, they are bold red. Apologies for that. Trevor

Some more cracking builds. Great stuff. Trevor

Top notch, the pair of them. Trevor

Beautiful model, well done. Trevor

The T7 and T8 Hunters that we had on 237 OCU in the mid-late seventies definitely had LAG undersides. The Buccs were being painted in wrapround in the hangars whilst I was there but it wasn't until some time later (after I was posted away) that the Hunters changed to the wrapround scheme. Trevor