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You're a gent, Stew! Your advice is also solid, as, like most kits I buy, it would simply form part of a rude nest of kits upon which I would lay curled up, like Smaug.

https://hlj.com/product/ARF08001

I just got a Sword Seafire from them.

Woof, fifty bucks! Well, I'll save them pennies, I guess.

I'd love to build it (and all of my other kits) soon. Unfortunately I have children.

Does it smell of Earl Grey? I imagine it does. 

Ah but you were more than halfway in love with Britain already, Edward.

Got a link for the interviews please?

It's a pretty great place. 

And for you, Stew? Anything.

Cecil Lewis, WWI ace, Academy Award winner, and author of classic memoir Saggitarius Rising:

Cavalry of the Clouds, with interviews with ace Gwilym Lewis MC (author of Wings over the Somme) and Ferdinand West VC:

1984 interview with T.O.M. Sopwith, a man who needs no introduction:

Thanks mate - I have seen the second one, but not the first or the third so that will make interesting viewing... 

I have two now, but you may have one or both if you wish.

Gratz! I admit my FB feed is filled with various hobby pages I follow, intermixed with ads in every other post it seems. I don't think I have seen a friend's post in a while. I'll scope your feed for the event!

Mr. P, find comfort in the simple pleasures of life.

Having the time to curse the day of your birth simply means that you have too much time on your hand. I haven't been able to do that for longer than I can remember...

I started a HobbyBoss easy build 6 months ago... I rest my case.

Regarding your children, I am interested, as I am running an illegal Tantalite mining operation and child labour is always welcome. You will be well paid for them, and when they are returned to you (did I just hear "the deal is off?") they will be real men! And you will have had time to finish your stash in the intervening years.

What are friends for?

Sterilization, of course, is another option for the long term.

JR

Well unless you plan to build it straight away, I'd wait to see if one turns up in your (our) scale. I can't (won't) believe Eduard, AZ or Airfix won't bring one out in the next couple of years. Also the older Heller kit isn't bad, if you can get it...

Alternatvely, buy the SH kit, I'm sure it is a beauty

I have the 1/72 Academy, which I intended to build in parallel with Academy's Typhoon. They're both waiting for other builds to be completed first.

@Stew Dapple, you handsome man, I believe you're right; Eduard plans on doing something in that line. The Academy Typhoon is a pleasant build but a tad short (I've built two and have two to build, as well as a Heller one).

My dear Mr. P,

this is a fantastic achievement many parents should try and emulate. If you have to swear, or use expletives if the situation commands, do it the English way.

They have a way to make the worst insult sound so mundane. So much better than "cold steel", "blood'n guts", etc.

Well done old chap!

Now I am sure that even under Trump's presidency bowler hats must be available in the US of A. Get your son one, and while you are at it, get another one for you.

Taking your son to school in that attire will sure be remembered for a long, long time.

Anyway, be proud of yourself. And this is coming from a Frenchman who does not eat garlic and does not particularly like wine, red or white... But pink gins are just fine.

JR

That PC is some fine work... with our first she picked up a habit my ex wife and I would have rathered we avoided... especially while laura couldn't find what she wanted in Waitrose, Q small angel of a 20 month old child "what's wrong mummy" mummy: "I can't find your yogurts!" Small beautiful daughter: "oh... (drops head) FFS" (forum rules do not permit me using anything but the abbreviation). She is a sharpe cookie and, as we found out, a very quick learner! 

Looking Ng forward to the pic of him with his pink Gin  

Well done PC!

If you want to extend his 'toff' vocabulary a simple trick is to just use single letters...

"A S" - I understand your point

"S A" - that's interesting.

Rob your story reminded me of one of my favourite, slightly rude, ads along a similar vain. Less sensitive members can find it here.  

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...

Let us hope. eh?

Indeed! it's time things settled down with a more grown up government and media but that's just the grumpy old man in me talking... that sounds wrong... the grumpy old side of me?

Time to let the youngsters take over and find a corner of a local pub to sit muttering in methinks.

Indeed the world is in a mess. OK, let me rephrase that: the world is f....d!!!!

Ced, keep me a stool in that pub of yours!

JR

Just be careful. Some people are dead and do not know it.

It happened once to me...

Hi Mr. P,

After 1 mn of play, nothing had moved, so I gave up...

Should I be more patient in the future?

Greetings from the middle of nowhere!

JR

Much of it is detailed here, chum:

"The outside of the kit’s collector rings feature a cooling air intake and bulged segment ahead of the exhaust pipes that is incorrect for a Blenheim. This feature is apparent on at least one of the extant restored examples, but relates to the Canadian Bolingbroke, and supplies warm air to the cockpit. Fortunately it should be easy to remove with some quick sanding.

"Staying with the engines and the Bolingbroke theme, it is worth mentioning that Airfix seem to have confused the nacelle shape by including some of the Bolingbroke’s more swollen upper nacelle shape, particularly in plan view. I think the effect is possibly due to basing the kit (in part) on a Bolingbroke restored to look like a Blenheim, as the nacelles are too bulged and swollen for a Blenheim, but not enough for a Bolingbroke!"

I guess one factor might be the laser scanning of museum examples that have been restored?

Or, as Cookie says, the wrong plans.

A friend of mine is NOT a fan of modern CAD methods as it allows the designer to create 'pretty designs' rather than using 'stock' or industry standard parts... maybe there's some of that in the Airfix offices too? They certainly seem to be re-using some component designs... yes, I DO mean rubbish pilots!

Gee Mr. P,

TOO MUCH ANGST CAN BE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!!!

This is a warning from the Surgeon General!!! So listen up, Son! (I always wanted to call up someone Son, like the Duke did (not Ellington, the other one).

I tend to disagree with the Bf 109: the extra canopy framing is not actually a frame, but where the sliding perspex join.

Only horses and fools would paint this canopy frame!!!

Oooops! Did I really day that?

As for the FW 190, it does a lot of things, except sucks!

Hell, these kits may be flawed, but they still look good!

Pretty much the same with us...

Long live Airfix!

JR

It's not the good kind of hypnotism, sadly, mon ami. It's more that she can't believe any human voice sounds like that. 

Damn! I thought it was too good to be true!

That is the voice my brain assumes for most of the posts I see here, unless the syntax and grammar suggest otherwise. 

Even though you've admitted to having a mid-west accent, I can't help imagine you having a professor-ly high British accent due to your learned preambles.

Let's hope it is sooner than later. This nonsense has lasted long enough already.

Don't you ever sleep?

About four hours a night. Not my preference, but my ideal sleep cycle is something like 3 AM to 10 AM. 

Living the dream

Good man - I bet you practice the 'eyebrow raise' in the mirror; has to be done  

If my super retentive memory serves me right, you posted watching Magnum P.I. many, many moons ago!

There is nothing wrong coming back to oldies and goldies favorites. I cannot remember though what illegal beverage you were sipping back then!

I have several movies/series I keep watching again and again, not too often though, least my better half starts questioning my sanity!

Good on you, Mr. P!!!

JR

That's what 'weekends' are for - if you need them:

Testify, brother 

USE the Force PC!

there can't be too many Spitfires

I hear what you're saying mate. Interesting times, eh?

Plus I love Shirley Manson. Which made me feel a little better.

It's like a TV show came true. 

Quite a man from the look of him. Will you be building his Morane?

Cheers,

Stew

Heck yes I will!

Chin up Egbert!

Easily solved, perhaps... just look at some of the ones you've built and look on the bright side - there's more to come when life allows

Here here Ced! Your output will increase with time!

Rob

But think of the sense of expectation you cause amongst all those tiny pilots on their sprues, looking upon the face of their Maker.

Cunning on a number of fronts

Ah, the old 'leave the compressor running and nip down the pub trick'  

There's no place like home.

Remember to lift something  heavy at work near the due date so that your back goes, coincident with the onset of a mystery virus. A suborned medical professional is a plus in such situations.

... but it will be warm

True, though I spend most of my time in a series of airless hotel ballrooms.