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  1. Not interested in building the Hastings, but very kind of you to consider other modellers...........I know there are a fair few kits out there of the hastings and many of those modellers I am sure will appreciate your generosity 

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  2. 11 hours ago, Kingsman said:

    Hodges & Taylor is hard to find.  I have seen them advertised for as much as £1,350!!!  WTF?  I think I paid about £60 for mine.

     

    As an alternative, the 4-volume Warpaint series by Dick Taylor.  These went OOP but were reprinted. Unsure of current availability. Try Tank Museum shop or Bookworld. You need all 4 to cover the whole story, but that includes colours and serials as well as markings.  Although the markings section is less comprehensive than H&T.  They are also full colour whereas H&T only has a couple of colour illustrations.

    Volume 3 is the one your after......chapter 3                Formation signs...........I find it ideal for formation signs(and variations).........World war 2 is covered, but I use it for British army formation signs after 1953 as we still had them then in far and Middle east

  3. As mentioned earlier with the Glass Fibre brush..........be careful of the bristles/hairs..........you cannot see them, but you will note that they are there, wear rubber gloves when using it.........I only use it when I have to and "reluctantly" as a last resort.......if fingers are damp, the hairs get onto you skin and its like endless splinters...........or a rash......I generally only use it when building large brass kits where the solder has weeped out..............try not to use on one spot to long as it blunts detail and takes crispness away

  4. 2 hours ago, Black Knight said:

    One type won't do all

    I use this type for figures. The handle comes off and it can be screwed on to a table-top stand

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    For stable work, such as filing or heavy work the handle comes off and mine has a square base allowing it to be mounted in a bench vice, which comes in quite handy

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  5. 22 minutes ago, Red Dot said:

    It is easy to say that,  but if the PR guys are doing model manufacturing alongside normal jobs, then have you thought that maybe they don't have time, money or even access to all these facilities?

     

    Andy 

    If what you say could be true and they maybe doing it alongside there jobs, they cannot be good at there jobs?  Failing to check there work throughout the stages seems to be the fault here, shoddy workmanship.  As seems to happening on this subject I concur that this review has saved me money and lost them a sale

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  6. 42 minutes ago, Karearea said:

    The hook will most likely be up as well. 

    Ideally drop the hook?  That kit is a tail sitter?  If you gauge your weight wrong your a/c  will tail sit, dropping the hook means it has a strong chance of preventing this and you end up with  3 wheels on the deck.........................all my Gannets have dropped hooks and works brilliantly

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  7. I remember the time when the best option was to buy from China as popular kits of the time were 25%-50% cheaper than UK kits even with postage, the only problem I remember was the time it took in shipping?  4-6 weeks....but that market has long gone and there prices are catching up with UK

  8. I have been modelling for years and constantly have to keep buying new drills......only break .5 and below - all the time(at least 30 years plus).  I have tried all makes of drills, diamond, etc, you mention it, I have used/tried it......anything below .5 is going to eventually break, if it doesnt, it either goes blunt or bent........impossible to see the tips to resharpen, even purchased jewelry drills.....tried everything.  You just have to accept, those small drills have a limited shelf life........I just write off to various Jewelry  shops and buy bulk drills.....10 x .5   - 10 x .4 -   10 x .3................have many duplicates now of the sizes that do not break......being so fine, they are a welcome prize for the carpet monster......I have a special mains miniature vacu-cleaner, just to hoover the carpet about once per month.

    Theres no way around this problem, accept you will loose fine drills and buy in a bulk supply

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  9. Sorry Neal, but unless your happy with it that mesh is completely wrong???   That hole was open to the elements..................if you check the video I sent to you, when Greg compares the 2 x Rotordyne kits alongside each other, the Revell offering is more closer to the real thing than Airfix..................just to the rear of the intake hole is a bulge(I suspect its there to deflect and block air and to force it into the hole to the Rotor tip jets)...........check out the video and stop it at 1:14, he actually rubs his thumb across the part missing from Airfix kit.........you will see what it may look like and decide which way you want to go

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  10. 3 hours ago, 71chally said:

    With the wing fold, there is a bit of a work around if you have the Airfix kit and you either build that with the wings spread or are willing to sacrifice the parts.

    The Airfix kit comes with a complete set of extra folded wing parts, these in modelling terms are essentially the same between the AS and AEW marks so could be used for the AEW kit.

    The inner wing fold detail between the two marks is a bit different so would require a bit of scratch work.

    Bit of a fiddle but certainly do-able.

    Did Fairey use the same wings for the AEW3 as the AS1..............I know the fuselage is a completely different aircraft

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  11. 8 minutes ago, Dave Swindell said:

    All but one, he's only sellig through Models For Sale now.

    Think you will find his stock is not being restocked once its gone................been watching that site for months for various gannet bits that I need which are  sold out ............type in gannet to his search and everything is sold out - has been for months...............same as alleycats site........sold out months ago................I hope I am wrong, but the bits I am waiting on, at 76 I will be dead long before they arrive  :(

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  12. Having checked Alley Cat site over the past 6-9 months.....I am of the impression, once the stock has gone, thats it.............All suppliers of Alleycat you will notice; as there stock has depleted, its not been replaced..........I did hear somewhere that the owner of Alleycat had some illness and not able to produce at the moment....................He had an ideal opportunity recently to sell 1/48 extras for Airfix Gannet, but no stock available and its not been replenished 

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  13. Please remember, not everybody will allow Facebook anywhere near there computer..............there are many on this site the same as me..............thanks for adding to the Hobby with these new kits, just bought your Hornet in 1/35.............only kit available  to the hobby now others have been discontinued

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  14. 39 minutes ago, spruecutter96 said:

    Have to agree with Texan Tomcat, above. This is Telford level parking and admission-costs and I very much doubt it will have even a quarter of the level of model-making relevance as SMW. 

     

    I have a feeling that I won't be going. 

     

    Chris.  

    I agree with Chris.........I stopped going to SMW Telford sometime ago due to cost of outlay before I even got to the display area..................This is the same, only more expensive............Can find better things to spend my £27 on.   Your £27 out of pocket before you even buy anything

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