Niall

One tip - When marking plastic card I use an 0.5mm propelling HB pencil, this is far more accurate than felt pens.

Pictures are missing from first 3 and 5th posts.

The photos are not clear. Are the edges of shield on the left hand figure curved or straight? If straight they are 1st century AD, if curved they are 2nd century AD. The middle figure's shield is clearly 1st century AD. Not sure what the 3rd figure is.

On cutting off 3D printed supports, cutting them with a sprue cutter works for blocky parts. For fine parts I cut the supports close to the base plate with a razor saw, then cut as close to the part as possible with sprue cutters. This reduces the risk of breakage to almost zero. This is the method I used on my prints like this Sky Sabre fire unit in 1/300th scale.

The teardrop unit is a radio direction finder aerial. it looks like it was "salvaged" from an aircraft as ship ones were usually 2 vertical rings at right angles. It would be used to give a direction to a distress beacon.

A couple of points - The quad .303 is actually a quad Vickers .50cal. The class had 2 twin Lewis guns on the bridge wings, which are missing in the kit! - look at the photo on the front of the instructions.

Sorry to point this out now, but the RN covered or turned over name boards when ships were at sea during WW2.

These ships operated in the North Sea escorting coastal convoys, so the sea colours should be more green than blue. One other thing, the author Nicholas Monserrat was the 1st lieutenant on 1 of the batch 3 ships and captain of the other surviving batch 3 ship. He wrote 2 articles on his experience with these ships(along with his experiences as an officer on 2 Flower Class corvettes) in the book "Three Corvettes".

I saw a report that the army has recently trialled the AMOS 120mm gun mortar system on a Boxer hull. I have seen that a resupply vehicle, on a Boxer hull, is part of the RCH155 system. On a suspension lock, the RCH155 has a 3 plane stabilised gun which is supposed to allow indirect fire on the move!

I can't remember where I saw it but there is are apps for mobile phones that lets you use it as a scanner - Place the item to be scanned on a turntable with a ruler and take a video of it turning. Found this on google(There are others for Iphone) - not sure if it is the software I heard of. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.polycam&hl=en_GB&pli=1 On scaling up/down this is easy, a few click with a mouse in the slicing software, but if the item is at the minimum thickness that can be printed, it will be too thick when scaled up and wont' print if scale down.

The reason for using clear plastic for aircraft is - Mask the windows/canopy paint the airframe around the cockpit/cabin with interior colour and the rest black Then paint the aircraft exterior colour.

I would also add the 18 Ramage books by Dudley Pope to the list. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/dudley-pope/nicholas-ramage/

According to Fauxhammer on Youtube the water used to clean water-washable resin cannot be disposed of down domestic drains.

On making tarmac roads, I've seen fine wet and dry sandpaper used for the texture, with a wash of grey paint. On preventing warping, don't use material which dry/set by evaporation, like Polyfilla and plaster, so use car body filler and casting resin.

Just found a second video on the 25pdr which shows more about the 25pdr on the same You Tube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVzIrudkxAg

There is a video of blank charges being fired from two 25pdrs at a military show here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsvq2DjU_Tc

White Ensign provided similar benches on their HMS Warspite PE set.

Gecko models are to follow up their release of a 1/16th scale universal Carrier mk2 with a mk1. Link to a description - https://armorama.com/news/gecko-1-16-scale-universal-carrier-mk-i

I have to agree to differ, but accept that moderators are in charge and what they say goes. I used block capitals because I was annoyed (more because of other matters in my life nothing to do with Britmodeller). Sorry for any offence.

I totally disagree with this! Putting them in the 1/16th scale AFV section is where they should be as its where people interested in them can find them!!! An announcement that a product is to be produced later this year should be in the thread I posted it in and is not a unsubstantiated rumour!!! In the case of the Haya Centurion IT WAS ALREADY AVAILABLE WHEN I CREATED THE THREAD!!! Apart from the M113 all of the others you have moved are now available so also not a RUMOUR!!!

I've just noticed my thread on the AHQ 1/16th scale M113 kit has been moved to the Rumourmonger section. Why was this done? It is not a rumour but a reference to a planned new release! 2 other threads in the 1/16th scale AFV section of mine gave similar information about future releases, of the AHQ M10/M10 Achilles and the Gecko Universal Carrier mk2 - neither of these was moved to the Rumourmonger thread! So could it please be moved back to the thread I created it for?

Here is a 1/350th scale LCSL3 class vessel model. it is 3D printed apart from 2 generic PE ladders from my own design for the Cruel Seas game. It was printed on my 2K Geeetech Alkaid resin printer. The model is a 1 piece hull, with separate weapons, 40mm directors, Carley floats and the front 2 Oerlikon tubs.

I've heard of Inkscape but I have not used it. The way I did my designs was to do the entire design with not etched parts in black, front etched in red and rear etched in light blue. I copied this to 2 layers and made the unneeded parts changed to white, so I had a full pdf, 1 red parts pdf and 1 light blue parts pdf.

I've used PPD to make PE for me. I used Serif's DrawPlus for the design, unfortunately they will not use that software. so I had to send a PDF of the overall design and separate PDF's for front and rear etched parts. They will do 1/4 etched parts so you can have detail on both sides of the PE. Serif do a new vector drawing software to replace DrawPlus but I've not used it and don't know if PPD use it. Photo of 1 of my designs for the Revell 1/72nd scale Flower Class kit that PPD make for me -

Its on pre-order in the UK from here for £119.99 - https://fieldsofglorymodels.co.uk/products/andys-hobby-1-16-scale-m113a1-a1-acav?currency=GBP&variant=41824453755012&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google Shopping&stkn=428f89bdcb3a&gad_source=2#