JohnT

Time. I rather enjoy modelling but until I win the big prize on the lottery (or buy a ticket first even) and employ folk to do all the jobs I get at work or round the house I never have enough time to start a load of builds far less get one as far as the shelf of doom these days. I expect most of us are in the same boat.

David deadlines or not that’s very welcome news and happy to turn to other subjects in the stash meantime while looking forward to whenever the releases are. The Victor backdates are more than welcome

Great to see the care and love going into the most beautiful bomber ever built On reading @Jonny post I had a moment of dread. No Mossie? No problem. Just use a P-38 Lightning and an American story and you can sell the movie in the US. Perish the thought.

Still the best looking aircraft design ever (sorry Vulcan lovers)

Both are good but it was the finish on the barrel that caught my attention first. Since you asked I have looked again this time looking at the carriage and you know you could enlarge the whole thing and plonk it down at a historic site and it would look the part

That finish looks great to me. Made me think of the numbers of times I’ve been to castles and seen that finish on the cannons sitting outside on the walls Nice one

Well that would be fewmillion Aussies offended then.

Just bravo Encore ? What next? Cant decide if the modeller beats the photographer or vice versa. Very smart either way, very smart.

That cheered me me up this morning but personally I’m waiting for therm in 1/32. Where is Tom Probert when you need him Meanwhile that Yermolayev thingy looks a bit like something the designers at Heinkel and Junkers drew up on the back of a wine list at the end of a night out on the booze. Heinkel canopy, front end, wing plan and fuselage, Junkers for the gull wing and tail

Wouldn’t disagree with a word there Mike. My mental stumbling block is just why is Luft 46 so successful and kitted so often while other subjects that you’d think would be on the shelves aren’t there. I know model companies will produce what they think will sell and separately that the hobby surely is big enough for Luft 46 to thrive as well. To attempt an example I find it odd that - to rake an example - HK Models produce a 1/32 Mitchell in two versions but not the Marauder and nor does anyone else. Yet they do the Do335 in all versions. Now here I accept they know best and better than I but I’d have guessed a 1/32 Marauder would sell well in the US market and tolerably well elsewhere. Yet there seems little appetite for it? Here is to hoping that the hobby continues to expand and that the “ holes” get filled PS I’ve got one too but it scares me but not as much as the 1/32 Vac I bought in a weak moment - stupid brain burp?

I’ve had it explained to me as a popular niche and not so small niche market which is quite lucrative. Personally I’d rather see manufacturing effort going into some kits that are only now seeing the light day and some still not even in the shadows of night in respect of unkitted mainstream IM plastic EG 1/32. Marauder, Dornier 17, Boston, decent EELightning, Jaguar etc not forgetting Come on where is that Spey Phantom ?? 1/48. Halifax, Stirling, Hampden ((FM doesn’t count ), the list goes on But as always each to his own though I sometimes wonder why no thriving USAAF / RAF / Italy/ Soviet/ Japanese 46 kits?

You are telling me ! - My sixteen year old's bedroom is testament to that

Get better soon and back to Zeppelin fondling when you feel more like it. I suggest a retiral to bed with good book and hot drink of choice. Personally I’d avoid alcohol but a hot (a third squeezed in) slice with a tablespoon of honey and a touch of sugar always works wonders for me and Mrs T

fantastic photos and thanks for sharing

Thats the one - thanks. It must have been a "moment" when they spotted the Sea Harrier at first and not knowing what it would do. On the roundels - dont worry - no one will notice - Shhh

Draken; Viggen ; Tunnan and Gripen all in 1/32? It’s getting a bit ABBA esq and is going to cost a lot of Money, Money, Money

I seem to recall a photo of the 707 taken from a Sea Harrier (?) escorting it off the premises before the British Gov said do it again and it gets shot down. Meantime reverting to the models what a lovely collection and a super theme. Always think the recon boys are pretty courageous given what they fly and how they can get roughly handled.

Nicely done there. Especially the digital camouflage paint job. That scares me almost as much as those green Swedish paint schemes and maybe rigging so hats off to you. Also well done for persevering with the AM to get what Trumpeter should have moulded first time out the box. Still it’s all the more satisfying to get it done right I bet. One for the display shelf there proud front and centre

Exceptional whiffery there and the best part is that it neatly ties in with that essential British military equipment seen on all British AFV’s since namely a boiler for the tea ️

Nicely done General Sir - and not a pooh-pooh in sight over it. I do like a good dio

Couldn't make up my mind to "like" button or "laugh" button. I'd never heard of those before so today's been a school day. Fascinating. Thanks for showing it and sharing. PS - it does look like Dougal . Next task is to find a vehicle that looks like Zebedee or Ermintrude

Police stopped a car leaving the scene after seeing the back of the car full of packets of them. When challenged as to where the driver had acquired all the biscuits which the officers said they suspected they had been stolen the driver replied "They fell off a lorry"

Its very much car specific but latterly quite a few rubber bumper cars were converted back to the earlier chrome finish. A quick look on the MG Owners web site trade adverts will usually show retro kits though I confess its a few years since I looked there so it might have changed. You certainly could get both wire wheels and also chromed wire wheels to replace the rostyles though other work was required as well. It was doable though. Also chrome bumper and other mods abound so a modeller could for example build a specific car that had been "retroed". Mind you when I contemplated it my MG enthusiast friend who had been there warned me off the wire chrome wheels. They look magnificent when clean. Just be prepared for a few hours each weekend in and out with a toothbrush and wash up. Its a bit like aircraft modelling then - check your photos

Just a teensy bit off topic but a good true one. In the 90's I happened to casually look at a printed set of sales particulars for a house my firm was selling when they had just arrived back from the printers as I thought the house looked nice. I spotted that the featured "newly installed modern white bathroom suite" actually had been printed as the "newly installed modern shite bathroom suite" instead and had been missed in the proof reading ! I suppose w is near s on the keyboard or maybe it was a critical comment after all

Sorted - thanks Funny you see what you expect to see at times and not what’s there