BillF67

Nice build. Way back, in the dim and distant, I regularly used thread for whipping small cable looms together to keep them tidy. I always drew the thread through a block of beeswax to (a) firm it up a bit and (b) prevent furring. Might be a solution?

And your point was, Graeme? Maybe next time you could build an aeroplane? Much more refined than an airplane😜

Sorry, off topic, but while you can, Slow Horses is a goody - but if you’ve read the books, remember this is for TV so very heavily “sanitised” although still enjoyable.

Love it, AND on its proper stand. 👍👍👍

Read all of the above. Agree with some, disagree with some - doesn’t really matter which way round as it’s all personal. What REALLY got my goat? The portrayal of the RAF pilots. How cliched was that!

Nice. I was lucky enough to see one arrive and depart a local air day a couple of years ago. Got a walk round inside as well. Great fun!

Well, it’s missing its wings and both engines and the one propellor is pointing in the wrong direction and is a bit too big. But apart from that, nice job😵‍💫

Haven't seen a b4st4rd file used in anger in 50 years! Informative and enjoyable as ever, Bertie.

Wot? No feathers? Nice job.

The Macalain machine rolls on! Bravissimo👍

Oh go on, I’ll go for it. Mant years ago, Inpact produced a range of Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines kits - 6 of them Still occasionally popping up at a price! BUT - no Dixon Flyer! How can this be? I’ve tried making the Fiddler’s Green paper model but it’s, shall we say, interesting? So come on, manufacturers, the clearest example of a gap in the market you could ask for! Get designing😎

Excellent, and rigged!

Hmmmmm🤔 Pretty sure basic training involved weekly pay parades?

Mister Shine, him Diamond!

How about you eat the kit and submit dinner for RFI?

Don’t see the problem? All my aircraft look like this - aren’t they supposed to?

Bertie, I have a few of your list that I’ll not be building. If you’re interested drop me a PM.

Ah, rope making. Did a bit in a previous life. 3, 5, 7, 9 strand. LH or RH lay, Regular or alternative twist. Got taken to the rope winding shed in Portsmouth as a treat!(?). Fascinating subject. I remember making a small manual machine to do some shortish lengths - pain in the derrière doing it by hand!

Oooerr matron😱

Just out of interest, without going too far into profit margins and the like, how many units of a kit would a company expect to have to shift to make it viable? Assume new tooling.

Okies, you’ve shamed me on my own thread😞 I’ve actually done a bit more to mine, and will be able to post after Christmas. I could trot out a load of excuses but actually, I lost my enthusiasm for building anything. I did a “short term” 1/144 display and wanted a Mosquito to go on it (no reason - I just like Mossies) so I obtained one and started building. I should have searched on BM before I started. What a dog of a kit. I am a relative beginner (even though I’m over 70) and I had nowhere near enough skill to make that little beggar. It now languishes, badly made and incomplete, on my work bench, a sad reminder of my lack of experience and ability. it put me right off, I can tell you. On the one hand, I want to move on and finish stuff and/or start new things. On the other hand, it sits there, mocking me. What I should do is put it in the recycling bin and move on. I’m just about there. How can a little bit of plastic do this to me, a man who faced the Russian hordes on the North German moors with nary a thought of failure? Go figure. New Year, new beginning, starting with finishing the Control Tower dio. Merry Christmas, one and all and may 🎅 bring all that you want. Bill P.S. It was/is a Mark 1 1/144 scale Mosquito. I’m sure that in expert hands it will make a delightful little addition but they aren’t MY hands.

OK, I've finally freed myself from the wreckage of KoP - I can only assume you forgot I was in the bilges, swabbing? - and I’m on board for another white knuckle build. Looks like a winner, matey.

No hope. No matter how good a job the designer makes of a kit, someone will spot that the 139th rivet from the end of the 10th row should have been dome headed, not countersunk, the Arctic White call-out should have been Antarctic White, the chocolate bar wrapper that Brian Trubshaw left underneath the seat hasn’t been included (but it will turn up on an Etch sheet aftermarket, no doubt). It’s a matter of perception. I really don’t mean to start a heated thread with this as different people have different ideas on what constitutes accurate. I know from my own time servicing various aircraft types (Hunter, Buccaneer, Jaguar, Tornado) that each aircraft was subtly different but I’m happy by and large with the majority of kits I have. “As long as it looks roughly like what it’s meant to be, that’ll do for me” - MEDIOCRITAS

Lovely group of models. To my eye (so very subjective!) the 112 as an aeroplane (not your model) “looks” wrong? The proportions just don’t seem right. I’m sure others will disagree🤪

Again, superb.