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As above, I thought this was 1/48

I'd start afresh. I've found that a visit to a model show is like switching a light on.

Absolutely phenomenal

Sorry about your mum, it's just wrong. A great looking model though and keep this one on display.

Certainly the top picture looks like the bomb bay is rotated to open. Unsure on the second photo though.

Well done mate, another top notch build. Looks well in the photo booth.

Hi folks. I've finished this today having started it on the 19th June. It's OOB with the exception of a couple of wires here and there and mesh for the open apertures around the boom area. The seats were give sheep skin effect by using a sponge when it was tackle. A fire extinguisher from the spares box for the rear of the RHS. I edged the cabin wooden flooring with tamiya clear red, which worked quite well. I didn't want to load up the aircraft with a full load, so just chose the gun option only as I quite like the clean look. I scraped out the ammo box holder so it looked more like the real thing and opened up the moulded flash eliminator on the barrel. The stretched wire is a EZI line alternative. It's a single piece and with my razor saw I cut a groove and ran the wire through those antennas and filled the fillet afterwards. Now those pesky intakes. The kit clear parts are the best they could do I suppose with the budget. I tried mesh but it still looked way oversize to thee real thing. Which unless you're up close it melts away. So I've used a cut up tea bag, yep you read right. Up close it does have the holes. Now I know it's going to be marmite but unless I take the notion to make paper machè for guards, it'll do. The rear wheels were set at 27.5 degrees. The blades are correct as I used to overhaul them so have done both variations of the colours and stripes etc.... Not overly weathered. Tamiya paints for the main colours and kleared halfords primer for the darker/shiney head. Followed by a Windsor & Newton Matt varnish. I used Tamiya clear blue for the tints and tonned it down with smoke, but I think it could go darker. The blades are correct and I've done the 2 main differences as they went out of Bay maintenance. The biggest gripe is the instructions. They refer to different number on the sprue, but picture the bit to be assembled and would have you try to fit the orange crop parts on opposite ends to where they should be. So if you have the kit dry fit and check references!. So during this build one of our labradors (Finlay) lost his life to liver cancer aged 8. He'd lie down beside my modelling chair every time waiting for me to move. So he was alive when I started but gone at the end. The modelling was a bit of medicine whilst my wife and I adjusted but equally its not my usual standard as at times I couldn't be bottomed. So a few photo's. This last photo is on my Boscombe Down base. Both the sandy and grey are to 1/32 scale. Steve.

Hi mate excellently done as always.

Well that's turned out rather well indeed. I'm going to miss looking for updates over breakfast coffee (aided bythe time difference of your posts). Nice to see you didn't go mad on the weathering and get all arty. For those of us of a certain age and the youngsters who've watched repeats, thanks very much for this. Tremendous.

There is quite a lot of chit chat about this on the Land Rover forums for the various models. Without blabbing on to much, the summary seems to be newer LRs' have skyrocketed as with this new technology they're a lot easier to nick. London and the North East postcodes have been particularly hit hard, making some a choice to move the car on as it's just not reasonable. Mine went up by £20 this year with Admiral and we have this multicar policy.

I have to say this jet hasn't clicked with me yet. Normally it does when they're about to retire🙄. However the modelling skill and desire to "make it a goodun" is pleasure to follow.

Have you seen this? https://bpag.co.uk/the-day-of-the-j/ https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235122284-it’s-blue-oh-no-it’s-blue/#comment-4626980

https://www.youtube.com/live/YLreti98BLw?feature=share We've got to keep this chit chat in check or Tomcat kits will go up in value and im looking at bagging a cheapie.🤫

And it looks like the anti-dazzle panel does not extend onto the radome one one aircraft.

Sort of. Have a look at this. Tamiya do one as I've used it for spraying a sandy colour to an aircraft apron diorama. https://www.emodels.co.uk/tamiya-100ml-ts-46-light-sand-85046.html

As above, if I win the lotto my wife wants an Aston Martin and I'll have an original RR. The brown looks well. Could it have been used on the mk1 Granada's? (Sweeny'esk). Also just have a check whent the mirrors got moved from the wing to the doors........

What a great result especially in 1/48. You should do a tutorial on the wiggly amps jiggery pokery👋

I'm typing this sat in the garden under cover and it's monsooning at the moment. I hope it is bearable and they have the forecast wrong, especially at the prices to get in. But hey its the UK in summer so no one can predict the weather for what was planned ages ago. Going to make another coffee.

I've only been once to the FoS with tickets as a birthday pressie. I love cars and certain motorsports, but I couldn't enjoy this exhibition. We went everywhere we could to ensure I saw everything. Alas it wasn't for me and I haven't been back. I'll stay at home and watch the iffy TV show with a lot of fast forwarding. Now the Revival...........

What a tremendous build you've done there. Very effective.

I've got the Haynes manual but it only covers the Mk2, 3 & 8. This is what CB is referring to though.

The Hercules has been in and out of my life during our history. I remember during the school holidays spotting at Boscombe Down during a merky day. I could hear the Herc coming into land and out of the merk came this Herc with new pods on the wingtips. I felt like a journalist who'd got the scoop and was beside myself. Needless to say an Airfix kit got made. Now an adult working at Boscombe Down in the mid eighties. I got invited for a jolly whilst they're chucking stuff out the back over Larkhill ranges. Noisy, as it was not an experience I'd had before. Having now joined the RAF and been detached to the Falklands in early 1996. I got a jolly in the resident Herc at the time (non tanker) and was asked to to flying from the right hand seat!. LHS pilot did the rudder and was giving me instructions as the crew were taking trawler/ship registration numbers. It was so surreal and I loved it. On the same flight we got buzzed by the F3 Tornados. The ramp was lowered and the F3 was slowly edging closer to the ramp. There must have been 3 or 4 of us looking back at the F3 and the engine noise was very apparent as throttle movement was heard. You could clearly see the Pilot and it felt like you could touch the pitot tube. Obviously not but even the loads said that was closer than they'd done previously and was a wow moment. Now on a detachment in another country just after 9/11. We were resurplied by Herc (from Cyprus) who'd reverse up to our compound and with engines running everything was off loaded by hand. Everybody on the detachment helped and this came round every 2 weeks. A few years on and having landed at Basra to get the taxi up North to Tallil airbase. Did a detachment there and once that had ended got on a grey cab (round robin) to return to Bahrain or Ali Al Salem to get a VC-10 back to the UK. We ended up doing 6 hours on the Herc as the some aircrew had left their bags at Tallil and we went back to get it. Numb bum definitely. Further landings into Basra which was becoming more established. Luckily we'd filter off once we'd got our bags and got on the green taxi to go North to Baghdad. Some great flying and amazing memories. I'd left 1 week before that Herc was shot down. I had mates that were killed on that trip and we'll leave it there. Now on a 2 week exercise to Romania with 6 Sqn Jags and their MiGs'. We were told we flying by Tristar. In the end we went by Herc. Fully loaded with peeps and kit it was a long flight, some 4-6 hours. We flew into a base about 10 miles(ish) to Constanta. Exercise went well and returned by Tristar. So loads of memories for me but everything comes to an end, as indeed my 24 years in the RAF. I do wonder if the RAF is under pressure to mak3 cost savings and how much they're told/instructed that the Herc is going as opposed to the top brass getting rid of it, if comes across as english.

Not the cylindrical structure on the head, but the flat plates where the blades meet the head arms. Sorry if misinterpreted.🫣

If you choose, the plates with all those bolt heads on the blade where it meets the head should be green, not grey. Didn't know whether to mention or not🤔

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