Procopius

Congrats PC, line up a few easy builds for him before the Amodel stuff.

Congrats PC - and to Mrs PC, who did all the hard work..

Late as usual Hullo Winston T, congratulations Mel and PC!

You are not alone friend. We are here to help you through this difficult time.

Only kidding PC. Dare say there's a FV107 Scimitar kit in my stash as well ;-)

A WITCH! BURN'IM!

Whatever keeps you building. I build some armour on occasion to remind me how much simpler life is on the aircraft side. Also, beware of individual tracks and don't paint them before assembly. (Don't ask me how I know that!)

Fit Snorkels.

Unterseeblitzen!

That ruins the decals, Pete.

Doh!

I take it that the newly weds are not Britmodeller members?

I have never been able to shine my shoes like you do since I was in uniform... Impressive!

True story: those shoes are the shoes I ran away from home in and are pretty close to twenty years old now. 

Quality lasts for ever...

I think his wife must be the forgetful one!

Seriously

NO

Keep it, feed it

And enjoy it

They're OK really

Ish

Five?! You do know what causes it, right? Buy a TV.

I haven't built a Revell kit in years but I'm glad to see some things are still the same.

it amazes me too that they consistently managed to get something wrong in the instructions.

And yet people moan at Airfix just putting the humbrol paint numbers within their very clear new style instructions.....

D&D...cor - that'll be 1982 then. RAF basic flying training - in desperate need of a distraction from the misery of nearly getting binned from the course every time we flew - bunch of us sat around in the evenings drinking beer and playing D&D. Not cool. But fun

Debs! Squarehead! I have all the Traveller reprint volumes and most of the later editions as well as 2300AD!

I think all this may deserve a thread PC.

You have the Vietnam GB starting in September as good excuse to do it

Just do it man You know you want to.

Dragonborn, that F-105 is much too clean to be a RDAF jet.

..aarrgghhhh!!!

Tom -- you may be everything I aspire to be.

Jason -- My personal favourites are FO2 and FO:NV, heaven knows what that says about me.

Stosh -- I'd say that's accurate.

Falke -- At least it's not drugs. Unless they're using Psycho or Mentats in-game.

Thank you for the compliment. Been treading the wastes since leaving Vault 13 all those years ago.

I've swapped it for a 1/72 B-29. Result!

If you order a Hasegawa 1/72 Phantom and get a 1/48 one instead can I have it?

Only if you promise to stop building Fw190s.

I'm guessing my money's safe, too...

Just so long as the hovercraft is not full of eels.

I know that Airfix aren't into 1/32nd, but imagine if they were to release a 1/32nd UK Phantom! That would indeed be unique, AFAIK there has not been an IM kit of the UK versions released at all, and the conversions if you can find them go for incredible money.

Happy birthday old bean!

Cookie is wise, as usual.

Happy Birthday dude, and if you are worried about getting old, remember it's better than the alternative!

I am going to thoroughly enjoy this weekend whatever happens.

Wasn't the weekend an English invention so that MP's could catch the train for church at the country house?

Locked

oh no, I've got one of them in the stash!

Hockeyboys law; If it looks good & feels right, carry on regardless.

ChrisL's observation: If the kit doesn't already have shape errors it will do once I've been at it with glue and sanding sticks.

Hornet must be the one near San Francisco then

Midway all the way PC. The Balboa park one is really well done, but it's small like Dave says. The USMC museum has lot of old cold war jets parked outside, really neat, but again, pretty small.

Having been to all the aviation museums in San Diego,I can give a good overview , however with your tastes surely you would want to go to the one with a Spitfire. The Aero-Space Museum has a Spitfire SL574 with an interesting history. If you go make sure you look at the leading edge of the stb wing.Also if you do the Aero Space, make sure you do the restoration tour in the basement. Its extra, but worth a look.

Well I'm English and I prefer Haddock, also contrary to stereotype, I'm also a southerner that likes mushy peas

Eat Captain Haddock?

How rude!

Yes that was the plot of one of those unsuccessful 'adult' fan-fiction Tintin stories...

Women? Although not all women are beautiful. And no woman is a Spitfire. I see the dilemma.

SEAFIRES...

Yup, third shout for Seafires, anything that can look good and be bounced of a carrier deck gets my vote.

Pat, this is the exact problem I've had as well!

I had that problem, thin them with Mr Tamiya X-20A.

I used some humbrol acrylic on prillers Fw190 with this method.

(Then they go on pretty much just like tamiya)

Oh, oops.

P.S.

(Get a 250ml pot!) waaaaaaay cheaper!

which yanks?

I get to be both, go dual nationality!

Try hyperscale.com & get into their premier site.

I wouldn't say that.

Well of course YOU wouldn't, you modest devil! But I've seen your work, and I've seen mine, too.

Having already gone all out on a couple of the Airfix XIX I've no desire to get another. There's an old KP IX that can give up it's rear upper fuselage section and a couple spare canopies from a Tamiya Mk.I that may prove useful though. Someday. Maybe. Heard good things about the Eduard/Aeroteam kit so perhaps all is not lost in your quest for a 21.

I hope you're right, the F.21 is my favorite of the final Spitfire marks.

I cross kitted the XIX and F22 from Airfix, really pleased with the result

Either your Boston or the Mitchell would be good.

I looked at your list - indeed I checked it twice - I think the Nimrod would be nice. You can file away the excess bulges in the front, and then rustle up some BOAC decals, and be in business.

I actually was looking longingly at the Nimrod last night, Mike.

Chin up, mate! Look at me, on my second dose of cancer and I'm happy as a bleeding lunatic! Perspective, governor!

How about some Stephen Crane?

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;

Round and round they sped.

I was disturbed at this;

I accosted the man.

“It is futile,” I said,

“You can never —”

“You lie,” he cried,

And ran on.

I do love Stephen Crane. Excellent taste in verse, Bill.

My father-in-law thinks its cool, but my mother-in-law, the real driver of my wife's opinions, thinks it's a huge waste of time. I don't get how a grown woman can be so controlled by her mother, but I ran away from home, so.

Women love 2 things' themselves and their mothers, so marry an orphan.

You can pick your friends...........