Max Headroom

Oh my word! I love all this 21st century stuff. This will be The Business once completed.

Hello again. I suppose over the Easter break everyone has had ‘jobs’ to do. Mine (I was told) was to sort out the garage and make room. Fair enough, I have old half built models and boxes with empty sprues that I never quite got around to throwing away. So I spent a couple of hours culling and this morning the Council recyclers took away the excess…. One result was that it kick-started my modelling mojo again and so I unearthed the Frankenspit project. However before I continue working on Franky, I’m also introducing the parallel Eduard IX build, as some of its spares will end up here. There was something I noticed and made me wonder That’s a massive difference in dihedral. Which one (if either) is right? One thing I needed to do before adding the rudder and tailplane was to look at the tailwheel, as the III had a retractable assembly. A bit of cutting around got me this. The Eduard sprues have a spare retractable tailwheel and doors which will find their way here, once I’ve bodged an anchoring point for the wheel. Now before you wonder, yes there is a problem with the photos. For some reason there are ‘error’ and ‘forbidden messages cropping up. Hopefully the links will still work, albeit manually. I’m off to the admin area with a hammer to see if I can get the pix to work….. Trevor Edit - I posted elsewhere with one of the photos and it worked! I came back here and re embedded the photos and now it works!! Weird

Hmm, my Flickr is playing up too, to the extent that my whole post won’t load. Testing 1 2 3….. But is now working! Odd Trevor

This for £13.99 second hand at Oxfam online Mint condition too. Trevor

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Being a pedant (I said pedant, not peasant!) you can make an XI with the conventional windscreen - if you do warbird PL965 http://www.hangar11.co.uk/spitfire.html BTW - the entry hatch engraving need filling in for an XI (ok for a X though). Trevor

makes a scary nightmare

Welcome back to modelling mania. You never left, but rather had a ‘pause’ Trevor

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/lorry-spills-mcvities-biscuits-over-derbyshire-road-12582680 Trevor

Her cockpit appears to be gutted and the engines are also absent. No doubt, time expired components will be fitted in due course. Trevor

The base kit is the Hasegawa Vb from the 70’s. Revell then produced a new set of ‘A’ wings to make a Va (in the 90’s?), which I believe were then also used by Hasegawa. Trevor

Playing devil’s advocate here, but this is a messed up Landy in Duxford Needs more than T-Cut methinks. Also in the collection (didn’t take a photo) was one of those armoured patrol vehicles from Afghanistan. Very much had an axleotomy thanks to an IED Trevor

Always fancied doing a Slovak Insurgent Air Force example. May actually get round to it one day. Trevor

A Chinook yesterday evening. Obvs not Bravo November Trevor

3D printing? Witchcraft. All of it is witchcraft I tell you. You’ll upset the carpet monster….. Trevor the sage

Page 1 of a Hendie buildI’m sitting on the burst couch with the popcorn Trevor

Flak is an awful thing isn’t it! Trevor

I built a pair of the really old KP S.199’s in the early 80’s that I picked up in Brno. It’s no shake and bake and to be frank if there was no modern kit, the nose would be a cut and shunt onto a modern tooling Gustav. The stickies were bad then and I guess nothings changed. Trevor

Given the 25% rule doesn’t apply I have a couple or wrecks in mind! Trevor

Count me in! Trevor

I’m intruiged. I must have (!) an incomplete kit or leftovers that I can wilfully neglect. Baldonnel early 80’s Trevor

Cor! I continue to be blown away by your attention to detail. Surprised you’re not cross eyed by now. Trevor

Interesting scheme. I’m in admiration for you working in this scale. Trevor

proportions which means that

I say leave it alone but explore it thoroughly. I remember Bob Ballard musing whether to take a bottle of wine from the Titanic wreck when he discovered it. Apparently, if he had done so, he could have claimed ownership. Maybe a token item needs removing and then to be ‘gifted’ to the appropriate authority? Trevor