Sailor.

The project takes it's first childlike steps... the last time I built this kit was the year England won the World Cup!

When we were kids, if you didn't burn half the kitchen down you weren't doing t'job properly. Me and our kid sat there surrounded with pots of paint, turps, glue and a candle burning next to the bog roll we used to wipe our paintbrushes on. Trick was to knock the candle over onto the turps soaked bog roll while yer brother wasn't looking and hope his hair caught fire... things were different back in the sixties, you had to make yer own entertainment!

Have to smile at all the 'elf and safety warnings and the wearing of 'proper' PPE to build a tank model... don't forget to ask an adult to help if you need to cut something with a sharp knife! 🤪

There was a time Airfix kits came with a little card, you could fill it out with details of the broken/missing part and post it off to them. They'd then send you the part. An e-mail to them might produce the same result?

Yesteryear: I seem to be spending more time there than in the real world these days. Saturday night's swirling mist of Tetley's Best Bitter fumes revealed a vision, that takes me back again, maybe never to return! Neil Thomas is a ruleriter who I believe was cloned from the DNA of Donald Featherstone and Charles Grant so his 'One Hour Wargames' rules are nailed on, for mi' next braynwave. Using the OHW book's unit stats, two units will be created, one British the other German. The units will all be Airfix models from the dawn of time, painted as we did in the sixties... British. One Infantry Company (British Infantry Combat Group) Two anti-tank guns (6pdr. and carrier) One Artillery Battery of two guns (25pdr. and Quad) Tank Troop (Churchill and Sherman) German. One Infantry Company (*) Two anti-tank guns (Stug 111 and SDKFz.234) One Artillery Battery of two guns (88mm Gun and Tractor) Tank Troop (Tiger and Panther) (*) Them vintage Airfix Germans with the drainpipe bazooka thingy and that little anti-tank cannon? That should make a nice collection of the crapest looking figures and vehicles still in existence. When they're done we'll fight all the OHW scenarios in order (there's twenty odd, I think?) and find out who really did win WW2 in yesteryear!