3DStewart

I don't know the ins and outs, but if I was given a 1 year extension to a lease by a Landlord to give me time to find somewhere else, I would assume I would be homeless at the end of the year and get serious about moving.

Is this a re-boxed PM kit? A nice build of an almost good aircraft!

His recent seller feedback has nosedived. He currently has just one item listed, which is rather poorly described with a misleading photo, as you're not buying a completed kit.

When I worked on my uncle's hop farm in Kent they were hop vines. I've never heard of hop bines. Maybe it's a NZ term?

I would guess I've got about 150 unmade kits. I used to have many more, but I imposed a do not buy a kit until you have made/sold/donated/junked two kits rule. That's been quite effective as it allows me to still be bedazzled by something new, while focusing on a slow reduction and being realistic about what I am not going to make. It's been quite beneficial as I no longer have a compulsive urge to buy kits.

That's a nice looking Oscar, and some Japanese planes were notorious for paint peeling, which you've simulated well. One small point, the rudder was fabric covered, so you might want to re-touch the paint peeling on the port side.

Can you omit propellers etc, balance them and glide them? They look great, It must take a lot of skill to get those complex curves looking so smooth. How do you make the wheels?

Other search engines are available. I sometimes double search with Google and Bing and if I really want to be left-field I add in Yandex, though I appreciate the latter may be currently out of favour for other reasons.

No, they accepted my word. Note that the replacement sheet is nicely in register, but some of the colour density (especially yellow) is weaker than on the original sheet.

I had a nice surprise from Heller today. A year ago I bought their 1:72 kit of the Safir, which had very out of register decals. I made an online request for a replacement, but heard nothing. I was disappointed, but given the relatively low value of the kit pursuing is wasn't a priority for me. To my surprise, today a letter dropped through my letter box from Glow2B, Germany with a replacement set of decals. I don't know what caused the delay, but I'm impressed they didn't forget. Thank you Heller/Glow2B.

Your right, until they are irretrievably disposed of, there's still some possibility of a resurrection, but this decreases as time goes by and better kits get released. I have two levels of kit purgatory. The Box of Doom, which is kits I've lost interest in, and the Shelf of Hope which is for kits that maybe aren't being actively worked on, but don't have any reason not to continue with.

I'm currently working on a 1:72 Arsenal VG 33 that went into the box of doom sometime before 2008. My last completed model (late 2022) was an Airfix 1:72 Vigilante that went into the box of doom about 2003. It feels good!

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I hope it will be successful, but I think the odds are against it. If it's a direct follow on it's very unlikely to be successful, not least because in real life Basil F would have retired. If they put the character in a different setting it might work on its own terms with a new audience, but anyone who knows the old series will inevitably be disappointed. But maybe JC is a comic genius and can pull it off? The reboot of Dr Who a few years ago did work, although it seems to have lost its way recently.

Use a 3D printing service. You send your CAD file; they send back your parts. Depending on size and speed of service, this starts from about £10. And you don't have the bother of having to clean up your printer after use.

I suspect that over the next 30 years the grim reaper is going to be taking a full harvest of kit collectors, which seem to me (I may be wrong) to have the same demographics as avid kit buyers and stashers. If you have the strength or youth to survive then I expect prices will drop. It seems to me that prices of old 1:72 kits seem to be cooling already.

I watched it on Amazon Prime and was rather disappointed. It has it's good points, but I thought it was too slow, with too many intense pauses in the dialogue, odd lighting and what seemed to me a bad colour cast for much of the film. Even the aerial action scenes didn't seem convincing with ridiculously tight combat formations and flak that was both fantastically intense and ineffective. And being Hollywood the Mig pilot expends about two planes worth of shells and hits nothing, while the Corsair hits first burst. Yes, I know some pilots were rubbish with their aiming and you could get lucky bursts, but I suspect the Migs weren't given to rookies.

From what I've read there was a tendency for all pilots to dismiss the qualities of those aircraft they fought against. Maybe that's just an emotional survival instinct. Formal evaluation reports tended to be more measured, although it usually pitted their latest variant against a captured example which wasn't necessarily current.

Delaying shooting it down makes tactical sense. Monitoring and capturing its comms and sensors would be a beneficial thing to do, so the more it transmits the more you might find out.

I wonder whether copyright still exists? My understanding is it depends on when the creator died or when it was first published.

He wasn't the founder of Airfix. That was Nicholas Kove. Mr Ehrmann was the former Chairman of Airfix Industries in the glory days of the 60s and 70s. Those of us who took up modelmaking in those days have a lot to thank him for.

If the grid went down it would be horrifying, Britmodeller would switch off!

I like this a lot. I'm not familiar with the kit. How did Airfix handle the tracks?

The forthcoming 1:72 Hawkeye looks nice. The new tooling emphasis seems to be on 1:24 civilian vehicles. Not my area, but I wish them well and hope they are very profitable, as that's the best guarantee of new moulds in the future.

If you've posted in an area called 'Ready for Inspection' you must expect the possibility of faults or defects being mentioned. However, when giving feedback I'm always mindful that it's a bit crushing to mention something that can't be corrected without major rework or scrapping.