[Salty giveaways - share the Sea Dog love here.]

2 hours ago, paul-muc said:

I have an Airfix SR.N4 Hovercraft in 1:144, bags still sealed, decals yellowed. I'm sure that I will never build it.
Same conditions as before, EU preferred.

Not my subject area but that’s an amazing opportunity for somebody!

[Amazon Bargain topic]

On 1/26/2023 at 1:19 PM, trickydicky210 said:

Airfix A05135 Supermarine Spitfire XIV 1/48 £20.85

 

I just picked up one of those to build as a Mk XVIII (cheaper than the actual Mk XVIII kit with the same plastic!)

 

Airfix's Vb is under 20 quid right now too.

[Are those things under the wings of this USAAF Spitfire bomb brackets?]

Bingo! Thank you.

 

5 hours ago, Ed Russell said:

OP is The Impatient Virgin II assocoated with Lt James Montgomery but different to WD-A which is in the Eduard kit and some decal sheets.

 

Eduard offers both possibilities - The Impatient Virgin is one of the options in the Per Aspera Ad Astra Dual Combo, and The Impatient Virgin II is in the Vc Profipack. I'm planning to build the latter for the I Feel Deserted GB later this year.

[Are those things under the wings of this USAAF Spitfire bomb brackets?]

Just now, Aeronut22 said:

Some Spits carried Mustang fuel tanks on those points.

 

That's interesting. I've managed to turn up a few pics of such planes and the tank mountings look sturdier, you'd have thought they would need to be to take the weight of a full tank. Still, who knows what the erks (or their American cousins) managed to bodge up in theatre? 

 

Likewise they look kind of flimsy for carrying bomb, and I don't see anything that looks like a mechanical release.

 

Bit of a mystery.

[Model Shops UK]

I've recently moved to the Newark, Notts area and find myself spoiled with not one but two LMS's, the one at the Air Museum that I've visited a few times, also Access Models in the town itself, I nipped in last weekend and they have some nice stock at decent prices (must... not... buy... more kits) and the guys who run it are really friendly.

[Are those things under the wings of this USAAF Spitfire bomb brackets?]

Thanks all. I suspected they were for bombs. AFAIK apart from late marque Seafires only IX's and XVI's ever carried rockets (and not many at that), it's well documented that Spitfires carried beer kegs but that was RAF IX's, here we're looking at a Vc (Trop) in early 1944. I wondered if they would carry US ordnance rather than British bombs @alt-92, it being a USAAF Spit? Or was there even any difference?

[Salty giveaways - share the Sea Dog love here.]

5 hours ago, 2996 Victor said:

@TonyOD hope you don't mind me muscling in here

 

I don't mind at all Mark, quite the opposite in fact. Nothing like sharing the love. If anyone has a spare saline/maritime/canine kit they would like to give someone else to build for the GB, this is the place to put it.

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat Part 2]

Day 21 roundup...

 

Can we really be three weeks in already? And also on the second chat page?

 

Quick update tonight because I'm just in from a belter of a Chinese and I'd like a quick tinker with my Seafire before I turn in (no, @Bertie McBoatface, that is not a euphemism.)

 

Couple more turned blue and excellent additions to the gallery today, namely @Touvdal's Wildcat (first Sea Dog to turn in two completed builds, I salute you sir!) and @Louise's elegant and unusual blue early Seafire. Just the one new build to add, @danbuoy's fleet of Matchbox 1/700 warships grows from three to four with his Narvik class destroyer.

 

Going into the third weekend of the GB we stand at:

 

147 builds

104 underway

10 finished

 

Have a great weekend of modelling and whatever else you're up to shipmates.

 

Cheers

Tony

[Built like a battleship, but didn't fly as well : Blackburn Firebrand TF.II]

This is looking great!

[Grumman FM-2 Wildcat, 1/72, ARMA Models. ""FINISHED""]

Lovely result, and I do like those unusual markings.

[A Pair of Seafire Mk.Ib in 1/72 - One finished. One in progress.]

Well the bluey looks like a million dollars. I hope you manage to get the other sorted out. FWIW I just brush paint Klear on and it seems to do the trick.

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat Part 2]

[Are those things under the wings of this USAAF Spitfire bomb brackets?]

..and if so, what kind of bombs would they carry?

 

 

Thanks

 

Tony

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

Day 20 roundup...

 

Tonight's quick update... after the initial frenzy of activity the maintenance of the Build List has become much more "manageable", though I believe there has been only one day since launch that at least one new WIP hasn't found its way onto the list. Today @PeterB has added to his existing two builds a rather nice looking Cougar, and it looks like another Kriegsfischkutter will be along shortly, as well as @Lifeline's (probable) Sea Cobra, which is a purposeful looking machine and no mistake. Keep 'em coming, shipmates!

 

Today's numbers:

 

146 builds

104 underway

8 finished

 

Cheers

Tony

[Operation Calendar Double Build: F4F-4 Wildcat, Arma Hobby, and Spitfire Mk.Vc, KP, 1/72]

I envy the neatness and sense of order about your builds Mark.

[A very small wind farm diorama]

33 minutes ago, Mjwomack said:

Need a half-decent day to get to the coast to do some field work- not sure that's the right phase in this case but you get the idea!

 

 

From here Skegness would be the obvious destination. Where's your nearest offshore windfarm?

[Airfix 1/72 McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 - Finished]

Great progress on my favourite jet

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

1 hour ago, Lifeline said:

Is there any limit on joining GB?

 

Nope. Plenty room on this ship. Welcome aboard!

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

1 hour ago, danbuoy said:

Will see if I can fit it into this GB, but I've already got 3 on the go, plus another couple planned,....

That’s what I’m talking about!

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

Day 19 roundup...

 

First in a couple of days because of "real life" duties (vastly overrated if you ask me). There's a steady flow of new WIPs boarding HMS Salty Sea Dog, todays being a Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 (you wait for ages and then two turn up at once) - welcome aboard @Zack - and following the completion of his remarkable little Kriegsfischkutter, along comes a third build from the man who, frankly, is making the rest of us look bad, Mr Jon @Faraway with his Admiral Class minesweeper.

 

Today's numbers:

 

145 builds

103 underway

8 finished

 

The chat thread is now galloping towards its 40th page, after which it will reach the end of its natural life and a second chat thread will be begin. I understand this is quite unusual, however the fact that after only a couple of weeks live the GB has generated over 4300 individual posts is testament to its popularity!

 

Quick reminder that I still have a few kits going free gratis and for nothing, if anyone fancies building a 1/72 Hasegawa Dauntless, Airfix Hudson or Smer/Heller Corsair frop me a PM.

 

Cheers all

Tony

[USS Admirable AM136 Admirable Class Minesweeper (1/350 Black Cat Models)]

4 minutes ago, Ray S said:

I presume at your pace it will be done by the weekend? (only joking)

 

You know what, I wouldn't bet against it!

[KFK Kriegsfischkutter (1/350 by ICM) - Finished]

5 hours ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

More good advice.  I think we need to collect all these all these aphorisms in one place and call it "Britmodeller's Fount of Wisdom".

 

See also "you can't polish a turd... but you can throw a load of aftermarket at it".

[Airfix 1/48 lynx HMA 8 *finished *]

Well, this is certainly shifting along!

[Vought 'Salty Sea Dog' Kingfisher ‒ In the GALLERY now!]

Great work on the Kingfisher. And that is a splendid little graphic you've come up with!

[Bell XFL-1 Airabonita, RS Models, 1/72]

20 minutes ago, 2996 Victor said:

Sprues washed ready for priming

 

That's enough for me to turn it green!