At Sea

£13.50 in Sainsbury's right now... £/word better than a free bible at a hotel.

YES!

Shame it's not 1/72. I have a SAC collection planned in 1/72...

YAY!!! I built the bi-centennial one as a kid, which was hastily re-painted after the Lybia business into a service scheme. Would like to get a couple for the stash as non-eBay fantasy prices.

On Christmas day, between lunch and the Queen everyone will have to go onto Airfix's webpage for a live broadcast where they announce the New Tool Vulcan in 1/72. Because that's what I asked Santa for and I'll be very disappointed if it doesn't happen.

Found this review, which sums it up. https://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/modcol/kit_modcol_72202.shtml Probably still have one, faults and all as it's better than no B-52 in my collection.

Hi, I saw this is coming out soon and as a fan of the B-52 and the early silver over white SAC scheme I thought about giving it a go. Thoughts? Anyone built one? Any major flaws? Any decent aftermarket? The other question is does anyone know if ModelCollect are planning a complete B-52 range? Because if they are I'd like a C and D as well. Going to need a bigger cabinet...

Lovely. I'm reading Max Hastings' Vietnam right now and this has jumped right out of the book! The subject, the weathering, the look, all are spot on. Top work.

Stunning work, and what looks to be a very thoughtfully engineered conversion. We modellers are a funny breed though, I'm setting out to convert a Revell F.3 in 1/48 to an F.2. Contrary b'tard's the lot of us!

Yes, exactly that. But I don't paint the whole wing, off the aircraft, only the sweep section. It means that the camouflage, weathering etc can be all done to the whole airframe at the same time and make life easier.

That was quick! Looking at my unbuilt Typhoon it appears to be similar to many Jet kits in that once a few sub assemblies are together you very quickly have an aeroplane! Looking forward to your progress, I'm planning to blank my intakes with home made FOD covers.

Late to this party so apologies. My technique on Tornados is to: Paint the wing the desired colour, in the case of Tornados Sea Greay. Then "de-tack" the masking tape by sticking it on to a surface first a couple of times and then masking the inner wing. Next I build the kit up. Once the fuselage / wing gloves are done I sweep the wings forward and back and draw on the tape very carefully to mark the area to be kept grey. Then using a new blade cut along the outer pencil line and remove the excess tape, leaving the sweep area grey. Once finished the final coat, gloss, decalling and matt coats I then remove the tape from the inner wing, this is the reason for "de-tacking" it as you can carefully pull it out of the wing glove , if it tears as long as it's not visible from out side that is okay. In the case of mine I added the wing seals after painting, but the process is the same if I were to have swingy wings.

I'm very tempted for that reason alone to WIFF a Typhoon in 92 colours 'just because'. I think that some chequered bars either side of the roundel and a snake on the tail would suit it brilliantly.

Stunning project and though you are building the 'Film Bridge' the memory of the atrocities carried out on Allied POW's must be remembered and this is a great way to do that.

I watched it... ...one of those you kind of wish you hadn't in an 'ignorance is bliss' kind of way. Tenko it is not! It is however a good film. My dad's Godfather was Lt.Col with the JAT IX Regiment in Burma. It was all very close to home and those gents really did live under the most intolerable strain given the consequences of captivity.