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That is a b***** good idea Mike Alan registering interest in tiny scale versions

If only there was a Res Kit kit for we 72thers

I dont know how much help this is but I have sent you a few 'plan type' images to add to your computer, even though it will not lighten the load in mine I used this extensively when I knocked up mine Good luck with the search, I love the Austers.

I am a huge fan of the Swann-Morton Brassie Colin, and although I own one of the new fangled stainless steel looking one, with finger grips already, I dislike its grip and general feel. It doesn't grip the blades as well as the brass one either. And yes I have more than an adequate number of Swann-Morton cut and stab tales to relate on some dark night when the wind howls round the winter eaves and the coals settle in the grate.

I did think somehow that Vancouver is a long way away from you Billos, not sure how but I must have picked it up back in the day. And not suggesting you should but I'm just popping it out there in case it reaches suitable ears of someone who may be better placed to see more. We will survive the search too.

Yes Terry and I think I did forget to mention it, good though, no? Could be a nightmare to mask then paint though.

Yes I have seen it before Billos, many useful clues but still no definitive Harbour Air truck chassis guidance, but I do expect to be as close as is possible when the model is done. If you know anyone handy for Harbour Air operations that could take a few snaps of the front, waterside end it would be very useful though.

There was a song wasn't there? "Never going to give you up..." No Billos not giving up on it but I do have to reclaim my garage from its recent 'killed motor car' trauma or the place will become a no go zone. Massimo I don't have any pictures of the truck empty but there are photos of similar ones on line and I am going to build on those, like for example. Always hoping photos of the Harbour Air truck empty turn up before I finish Fording the Studebaker. Pretty Caravan? Nice shot of the un- Hot Wheels wheels. All these pictures have clues to work with and have to do, sadly I cant stroll down to the Harbour Air facility to take candid shots of the at rest truck I want. But clues abound, OK Massimo Ciao

This took my eye the other day so... Still dainty actuators but what a delightful moulding and will rely upon perfect masking or else. But look the screen shape is right, Airfix, move along boys.

Dammit, my red one wont be unique after all They look great

What Marvin says, get physical and let your own demons loose on it, you might be surprised. Oh is that all*? And the rest just remember even badly stalled items can teach lessons * not proud but honest, I have stalled builds from way further back than THAT. I WILL get back to them, really.

Looks good getting better Ian More proof that I will never find it worthwhile owning a printer

Not a bad shout but I did find when I used Sellotape years ago that the glue is always sitting inside ready to catch random items, with decal film there is only clear inside, nothing particularly sticky to worry about. But certainly better than horrid little mis-shapes causing heart ache and soggy biscuits.

You are beating it Ced, obvs, but you have to expect it to fight back sometimes Have you considered doing this I know this version isn't shining brightly but all it consists of is a small piece of clear decal film which can be covered at will later but leaves a clear window in horrid places.

It seems you had a little oopsy, so what? Nothing to a man with a plan, and a printythingy. The update has convinced me I will be OK using Blue Angels blue, that colour looks identical doesn't it? No more guess work then because the Yellow I will be using has passed my own aspirational checks, it was only the blue giving me cause to wonder.

Yes but still not happy with it G Working on it

To be honest this is turning into a massive pain in the situpon but I think I am getting a Ford truck out of that old Studebaker. Next dreadful moment, mix up a bit more white Milliput to improve the detailly bits. Unmodified other side. You know what we say in the motor trade, don't you, "a bit more P38 and that will buff out nicely!" Hmm maybe I should mix up some P38... The screen looks better this time But.

Me? I'm loving it, fantasy land modelling at its finest

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Certainly useful for me Jeff thanks. Similar for Beaver too?

Bitten Colin? Surely a mere scratch But I have discovered how to purchase the Otter turbo nose from Alaska, via an email hidden within the Khee-Kha website's elliptical purchasing loop. Postage rates are a bit punitive but... I have ordered a Turbo Otter nose from Lars, parts reasonable but as Alan knows it aintntnt cheap to post from there to here

I love that step! No that doesn't mean that I don't love the rest of this genius build, but the checker plate step is wonderful. Those refuelling ports, they look similar to Wessex ones, I wonder...

Tailplane alignment alert tailplane alig... I think I will be far better off with that ancient Frog Skua than you with this one Ced, ouch.

I wish I could have joined you (and the sorely depleted Brum IPMS branch members) at Cov Ced but the failure of the Midget in France played havoc with our plans. (Lara the Midget MG should be home by early July, guess who has unexpected muckanickal work to do?) The Barra has raised an interest in WW2 style aviating, this intrigued... Who knows? Could happen later this year. (Probably won't though)

Its been a bit of an odds and sods weekend so far and whilst working the Beaver I also got some glue on the back of one of my extended tail Italeri Wessexes, in the interests of closing a project down. This is a transmission deck project I started before Alan made it all so much betterer, scratchbuilt gubbinses proliferate up top To be honest Alan's bits are a humungous improvement over mine but I like to have something bubbling away elsewhere when the 'big' project sets me stressing... Yes the Beaver's front screens are wrong again...