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That is a brilliant piece of work. As a complete novice in CAD, would it be rude to ask how many hours went into it?

I bet Jesus's old man felt the sam 12 hours later, I realise I've posted a reply to a topic on entirely the wrong forum. A senior moment as a result of having too many windows open and too many beers!

Meanwhile, the perpetrator is quietly watching, alternating between gobsmacked and thoroughly bemused....

It didn't end up yet. Life leapt up and got in the way. So far, I've mated a new nose with the back end. And then I got sidetracked back into full time employment. I thought I'd done with all that time consuming nonsense...

Rest assured, I help to make sure that many thousands of litres of Glenfiddich get sent south for the sustenance and succour it provides to those of a micro modelling disposition.

Meantime, I'm working at Glenfiddich and I'm partial to their Balvenie Doublewood on occasion. General, your micro modelling skills are well worth a toast!

Andy - your seats by themselves are stand alone works.

Wow, those seats are almost as good as mine...

Lovely work Andy. This build, with your attention to the areas I'd overlooked, is looking much more like a Buccaneer

I also remember early mornings hand pumping fuel from 45 gallon drums into an Auster that we had as a tug, and I had a few memorable flights in that too - when the glider pulled off I got to fly it back. Great fun, pulling tight spiral turns on the quickest way back down. My memory may be playing tricks with the Chipmunk though, I'd guess 1971-72 or thereabouts.

Talking about Chipmunks, If I remember correctly, the Fulmar Gliding Club tug at Milltown in the early 1970's, which I spent a lot of time trying to follow on the end of a rope, was the same machine as depicted by the Airfix kit decals at the time, WP896 , although in a different colour scheme - silver and dayglo if memory serves. Prior to the Chipmunk, a Tiger Moth was the tug, but I never had the pleasure of a tow from it. Aerotows in an open cockpit T21 are still vivid memories though! Am I right? was the Chipmunk WP896? .

I've researched the Buccaneer and it appears to me that it's one of the most thoroughly documented aircraft on the internet. On top of that, the help and enthusiasm from everyone involved, from modellers, ( General Melchett in particular) to those who keep the real thing running at Bruntingthorpe, ( Colin Robinson) has been invaluable. Much credit to all the real enthusiasts!

My first flight in an aeroplane, a 5 minute trip at an air display at Lossiemouth in 1971. My dad couldn't understand why I'd spend all my pocket money on it when I was due to go on my second ever flight in an aeroplane a week later - Piper Aztec G-ATLC. My dad had the use of the company aeroplane to go from Kinloss to Isla and on the return trip I got a shot of flying the aeroplane. I don't think the company directors in the back enjoyed it, but I certainly did. My first solo in a glider, a T21 at Milltown in 1973. Hang Gliding through/over the Cuillin Mountains in Skye Gliding log dated 23/5/96 Bocian, 'P2 - Aerobatics with 'name of instructor'. 23/5/96 Bocian, 'P1 - Aerobatics without 'name of instructor'. The same instructor (a Tornado pilot at the time) later taught me how to beat up an airstrip at a height where beat ups need to be performed along the strip rather than at an angle, because there are likely to be fences and farm animals in the way at the sides. I never had the nerve to get quite that low, but my first attempt sticks out in my memory. I really can't pick one flight as the most memorable, but on May 6th, 2006, climbing to 16,200 feet in wave over Ben Rinnes in an Astir, and being convinced that I'd turned the oxygen on properly was worth a highlight in my logbook. I suspect hypoxia prevented me from exploiting the conditions and climbing to the point where I wouldn't be around to remember the occasion! 23,000 feet on a dual flight, in an ash 25 over Elgin a couple of days earlier was pretty stunning too.

Very nice work Andy and it's given me some ideas for the future...

I'm in Rothes - and although the Buccaneer garage is handy for reference, I can only really access the underside.