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wombat

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  1. Must be a 1/72 Ninak...you wait decades then three come along at once...
  2. I built this kit a couple of times as a youngster, and for some reason it’s a strangely satisfying build despite being pretty average even for its time. Yet trying to bag one for reasonable money on eBay eludes me...the superior hasegawa goes for less
  3. Talking of supervision by a terrified parent, if I tell you the extent to which I banged on to the boy about how to safely use a sharp blade with plastic, you will not need me to elucidate as to which one of us promptly cut himself with it...
  4. If you first started making kits at, say age 10 or thereabouts, a 1:72 kit would have looked and felt about what a 1:48 does to an adult...
  5. It’s a good way for Airfix to service its traditional kids market, when the centre of gravity of the overall market is now older, seeking more detail and paying more for it. i built the spitfire Vc starter kit with the boy. tbh in terms of parts it’s really not much different to a 1970s Airfix kit, but more accurately moulded. As you say, there already several “full fat” 1/72 F35s, so why compete directly with those?
  6. Another trick you can do with filler is to use masking tape to restrict where it goes...tape a little either side of the join, apply filler, then whip the tape off before the filler starts to harden. Most of the time it leaves behind a neat strip of filler ready to cure and be sanded....occasionally the whole lot comes away.
  7. What tools are you using? Something like this is a handy resource https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/cut-n-trim-flex-i-file-8575-p15048/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInumSwfOo_AIVTJ7tCh0-WQHPEAQYAiABEgIbf_D_BwE
  8. If you read all three of the books by harrier pilots in theatre (ward, Morgan and pook) its pretty clear that they could have had quite a good three way war going on even if the Argentines had stayed out of it. I recently read the book about the abortive SAS raid and the same theme continues. To be fair it seems to have been a nadir of inter-service cooperation which led to some reassessment and grown up thinking being applied ever since.
  9. So many variables...altitude, airspeed, temperature, weight...AoA might be enough, it might not.
  10. Re an earlier post, be wary of air to air photos and flap positions...it may just reflect that the photo platform is a much slower aircraft type and the fast jet is struggling to match its speed for the shot.
  11. Ward’s squadron (I forget which was which) would habitually toss a 1000lb GP bomb in the general direction of Stanley airfield on the way out to a CAP.
  12. wombat

    DIY paint shaker

    Good idea - I might copy that. Ive previously bodged a diy stirrer...based on a milk frother of the type where the shaft detaches from the handset. Take an old lid, drill a hole just big enough to thread the shaft through, enabling a reasonably good seal on the tin that being stirred, and cut down the frother head to something smaller. Still leaks a little through the gap though, even when packed with damp tissue paper.
  13. I’ve seen many references that say Harts in India had bigger radiators but no details. Is that a visible difference?
  14. I’m reminded of a certain band who like to wait while their audience shout out song titles, until they hear the one they were about to play anyway, and introduce it “By request...”
  15. Not sure if this should be in the WW1 section but that’s partly why I’m asking....when did red-doping of fabric come in? And was it both sides, or otherwise bleed through so as to be the visible colour for cockpit interiors?
  16. For testing an old fashioned bottle of ink is handy, as it’s as thin as water but you can see what it’s doing. Or food colouring in water.
  17. From memory of reading Ward, Morgan and Pooks, the criticisms were three 1) micromanagement of air strikes (reasonable criticism) 2) refusal to believe the performance that Ward’s squadron were getting from the troublesome radar, leading to more micromanagement (surely this could have been established one way or the other) 3) keeping the carriers too far to the east. Understandable how this would be frustrating, but understandable too that the overriding priorities would be: a) Do not lose a carrier b) DO NOT lose a carrier, and c) DO NOT LOSE A CARRIER
  18. Morgan is a regular on PPRUNE - you could do worse than ask there.
  19. wombat

    ASD diagnosis

    The rainbow is taken! its very very hereditary. half of the wife’s family are probably on the spectrum, mostly undiagnosed, which is why I was probably slow on the uptake as only about a quarter of mine probably are! anyway I’ve decided I’ll probably go for it, for several reasons. Got a telephone call with the GP next week to ask for a referral... of course, I hate the telephone...
  20. The RAF helpfully had a standard interior colour during WW2 - Humbrol 78 or equivalent, subject to the usual debates...(except when it was silver, or black...). did the Luftwaffe and VVS have equivalent standardised interior colours or did it vary by manufacturer? And so, what were they?
  21. I can’t imagine achieving close to that from a kit in 1/32 in my wildest dreams. It seems inadequate that what we each do has the same name of “model-making” as it’s simply not the same thing.
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