Nigel Bunker
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I'm not saying my mother-in law's big but she's got a job kick starting jumbo jets.
I'm not saying my mother-in law's big but she spent last summer working as a temporary roundabout for the council.
I'm sending the dog to the vets to have its tail docked. My mother in law will be visiting us and I'm not having anything make her feel welcome.
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19 hours ago, WarthogMKL said:
November issue of Scale Aviation Modeller International / Model Aircraft and Scale Military Modeller International will not be on sale in any shops due to the new National lockdown but you will be able to buy online.
I buy mine from my newsagent and he's open during lockdown, like most newsagents. It seems unfair to deny them of revenue they get selling magazines.
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I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.
My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
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10 hours ago, Ray B. said:
I used to live there back in the early-mid 80s, at High Wycombe Air Station/RAF Daws Hill.
I doubt you'd recognise the base now - it's been cleared and new houses built on the site. Tempus fugit.
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Hello Penny and welcome to the forum.
I note your interest in Wycombe Wanderers - I live in High Wycombe so I keep a weather eye on them and am waiting for them to get their first points in the Championship, though I must admit my footballing heart belongs to London N.17.
I look forward to seeing your finished models here on Britmodeller.
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Is it time for the kit manufacturers to do away with the polythene bags they pack model runners in and revert to something like maize starch or paper bags that can be easily recycled? Left over styrene runners can be put in the plastic recycling bin (at least in my area), boxes can go in the waste paper bin and that just leaves the polythene bags which cannot be recycled here and have to go in the general waste bin.
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I notice thisw only comes into force from 1st January 2021 so I shall be topping up my stash before that date to avoid these problems.
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Or the Westland Watford?
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The day I see a made up model kit floating amid the plastic waste in the oceans is the day I shall seriously giving up modelling as it's a danger to the planet. I shan't hold my breath waiting.
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On 9/22/2020 at 5:30 PM, Wez said:
Airfix used to get a lot of grief for its Phantom Rivetter but actually, they were a good representation of raised, dome headed rivets which feature on many aircraft even today.
The trouble with the old Airfix rivets was if they were scaled up to full size, they wouldn't have loked out of place on a battleship.
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I felt in many ways Wolfpak decals were the spiritual successor to Modeldecal in the way that each sheet carried a variety of aircraft. And on the few occasions I had to e-mail Mark he was both polite and responsive.
He and his products will be missed.
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Well more progress made. Engines reduced in length to 38mm and thrust reverser mechanism cover removed. Then a piece of plastiv tube added to represent the part visible at the rear of the engines, which I presume is usually hidden by the thrust reversers on the U125A. Reinforcing around observation windows on both sides sanded off.
Starboard side front two windows faired in with putty.
Port side has theobservation window reduced to regular cabin window size.
Now just undercarriage and aerials to be added, To be followed by priming, filling, sanding, priming, filling, sanding, priming, filling, sanding, etc.
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Well one advantage of being retired is you have plenty of time during the day. After a hunt through my spares I came up with half of a droptank from the Revell/Italeri 1/32 Mirage III.
THe end was cut off and fettled to length. The part was too high and not wide enough so I squashed it with some pliers until it was the right height and width, then the internal edges were chafered so ot would sit on the plasticard fuselage insert which it was then glued to. A little filler was used to blend it in, though this may need reworking once the model is primed.
That's it for now. more information as the job progresses.
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I've started a topic in Work in Progress here on converting a U125A into a C-29 and I suspect it will work equally well for a U125 or any of the Hawker 800 series. Other military operators include South Korea Air Force, Pakistan Navy, Nigerian and Mozambique Air Forces plus a plethora of civilian operators.
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Well this is my attempt to make a USAF C-29 from the Sword U125A.
First step is to make the fuselage as in the instructions, leaving out the extra 4 seat section, having first removed the stengthening from around the observation windows (the two big ones).
Then add the wings and once thoughly dry. cut away the extended fairing and underside radome.
The gaps are then filled with plastic card, that for the fuselage gap rolled until it is the same diameter as the fuselage. Tedious but worth it.
Once glued in place, let it dry thoruoughly and then fair in with filler.
Next step will be to biuld the new fairing. I'll return when I've worked out how to do it.
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Wel you can't use the Airfix Dominie or Matchbox HS 125 kits as the 800 series has different wings, tail empennage, rear fuselage and engines.
I am currently building a C-29A from the Sword U125A kit. As TheJammedKenny! says, the front fairing and the underfuselage radar must be removed and replaced with a shorter fairing. I've done the cutting away and am now rebuilding the missing fuselage. I'll post some pictures once I've worked out how to do it.
Why Sword didn't make a plain series 800 kit then add a new sprue to enable a U125A to be made I'll never know.
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If there was a problem with the internet, such as it crashing or a power cut, my son's standard cry was "Dad, you've got a problem with the internet". Strange how I was always given ownership of any problem - it was just like being at work.
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Plenty of Jaguars to be found at Heritage Jaguar, Cheltenham
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Many years age (in the last century) I accompanied my MD when we were showing a prospective customer around the factory.
"How many people work in the factory?" asked the visitor.
"About half on a good day" replied the MD, causing the visitor and myself to laugh uproariously.
We got the contract.
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The only picture I can find is in "The Secret Years: Flight testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945" by Tim Mason which shows an XP-51F FR409 in three colour camouflage (I am guessing Dark Green, Ocean Grey & Medium Sea Grey as it is a B&W photograph). No mention of a P-51H.
Beaten by Phil - oh well.
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25 minutes ago, scotthldr said:
I believe these a/c were painted in the UK by BAe or their nominated contractor
That is correct - the HS 125 book by Bill Gunston has a picture of a camouflaged C-29A carrying a UK 'B' registration which means it was being tested or delivered.
Also, as in most countries, painting contractors will paint to FS colours, BS colours, RAL colours or any other international standard the customer requires so I think it unlikely they were painted in anything other than FS colours. As note, it is not unknown for USAF aircraft based in UK to be repainted here - I remember when BAe (or whatever they were named then) got a contract to repaint the F-111s in the UK rather than fly them back to the US..
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Thank you Murph and Georgio. I have ordered the decals from Fantasy Print Shop and once they arrive I'll take it from there. I thought the grey looked like 36118 but combining the colour correction on a PC screen along with my colourblindness, the chances of me getting the colour right right are approaching zero, if not less than that.
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I intend to build one of these by converting the Sword U-125A kit. From the pictures I have found, they were in 3 colour camouflage. Now I have found port and starboard side pictures, which gives me the fuselage camouflage pattern, but I don't have any for the wings and tailplane. Does anybody have these, or can they point me towards where they might be found?
Also, can anybody confirm the three colours? I think they are 34079 green, 34092 green and 36118 grey but being colourblind, I'd like them confirmed before I start applying paint to model.
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I remember watching him many times at White Hart Lane after he transferred to Spurs. He was a superb goalkeeper.