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Not sure if any one has any tips. Second of two Tamiya kits that I have broken the front body pillar. Does any one has a way worked our of supporting this whilst cleaning and scribing before assembly?

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but I find it very important. I'm not quite sure on the details so I'll just copy+paste the details from the museum announcement. Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre are set to close permanently following Cornwall Council's decision to no longer support our museum and therefore evict us from our site without viable alternatives being offered. We would like to over-turn this decision and for the owners of the site - Cornwall Council to provide an alternative location within the proximity of the airport as they had originally offered. CAHC was created by local people, is privately funded, pays commercial rents to Cornwall Council and is becoming nationally recognised as an aerospace site of excellence, yet Cornwall Council have failed to recognise the cultural, educational & heritage value of our museum. • The Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre (‘CAHC’) is a unique, popular, growing, tourism, heritage and education centre. • Situated at Cornwall Airport near to the new Spaceport project, it is locally owned and operates with no support from Cornwall Council who, as owners of Cornwall Airport, are its landlords. • For 7 years CAHC’s owners, staff and volunteers have worked night and day to create something truly unique and very special for Cornwall. The result is an award-winning, top-rated visitor destination and major aerospace/STEM education centre with industry and education collaborations within and outside Cornwall. • Cornwall Council have terminated CAHC’s lease and given a deadline to vacate the site by 31/3/23. • With 20+ airframes of all sizes and thousands of exhibits, suitable alternative locations are few and need to be at or adjacent to Cornwall Airport and costs of relocation would cost hundreds of thousands. • Cornwall Council committed to assist CAHC to relocate their operation but have since refused to make good on these commitments. For more than 10 months the Council have refused to even discuss relocation proposals and funding sources. • With no options for relocation and with Cornwall Council refusing to help, the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, the only aerospace museum in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset will have to close forever. • All of this amazing amenity and opportunity will be lost. Jobs will be destroyed. Valuable and historic aircraft of all sizes will have to be scrapped because of the prohibitive cost of road transport. The opportunity to inspire and educate Cornwall’s future generations will be lost. 60 dedicated veteran and retired volunteers will lose a vital part of their lives. • Cornwall Council should be welcoming this unparalleled opportunity for Cornwall and, as a crucial part of the Levelling Up agenda, the Council should be encouraging and nurturing the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre in its bid to provide the County with a National quality aerospace destination and centre for learning – at no cost to the County. Instead Cornwall Council is destroying it. Thank you for taking the time to read this news. We are all devastated, but we will still work to find a solution or, if not successful, to find ways to preserve the aircraft and exhibits. Here's the link to the petition: https://www.change.org/p/save-cornwall-aviation-heritage-centre I honestly think this is quite horrible of the Cornwall council, the museum seems to be a very popular and impressive attraction, I have not the faintest clue why they want the museum closed. Let's hope that doesn't happen... Thanks to @Adam Poultney for bringing this to my attention.

I started my monogram tomcat and everything was going well , until I got to the fuselage parts , for some reason when I extend the wings it splits the join In front of the wings meaning I can’t move them without it all breaking please help!

Hello All, I mostly model aircraft and railways and am utterly clueless on ships... I am hoping to build a model of the ship my Grandpa's was on; HMS Dianella which was a Flower Class Corvette. I have managed to find a rough service history and two or three photos via Google and the Imperial War Museum but other than knowing enough to be fairly sure none of the Flower Class kits are quite right for me, I have nothing which helps me know where to start. Are there any good reference sources which would help with drawings or good photos from a few angles? I expect with the nature of the subject that there will not be anything on the Dianella specifically, but with it being a fairly mass produced type of ship I guess that there will be some guidance on what the ships tended to look like if made at certain yards between certain dates? Thank you in advance for any help on this. (and for letting me into your mystical watery section of BM) 😉

Hi I am normally an aircraft modeller, however I thought I would like to try IBG's Bedford QL Refueller. The kit is posing no problems, however I am trying to make it like the QL in these photos. These photos were taken by my dad in 1957, at RAF Benbecula, while he was posted there following his trade training as an instrument fitter. The photos show the vehicle to be a variant with only two booms, whereas the IBG kit has three booms. I have cross referenced the IBG kit with Airfix's 1/76 kit and I have noticed that the plumbing is different as well as there being two comes near the rest of the tank. Could anyone identify the specific type of QL is in the photos and confirm that it does have the two comes and and different plumbing than what is offered in the kit? If possible, could anyone please provide either photos or scale drawings of the type? Many thanks.

I opened the above today with the intention of having a look through the kit and I don't know how it happened but I started it..... Now this is the TK Maxx deal (with bits for the car door swapped for the bubble top) and my intention had been that this would wait a LONG while till I was in a position that I felt (skill wise) I was ready to tackle it. No going back now.....🙄 Anyway, this isn't really going to be a WIP but more a quest for guidance and help..... So, got as far as I want to go at the moment (need to take a step back and THINK about this - better prime and paint the progress so far). And the question (for the moment!) is I would DEARLY welcome any advice from those who have built this (deviation from the instruction steps, when to paint, what to be careful of) before I ruin a perfectly good massive box of plastic that until today sat happily minding it's on business on top of a bookcase 😁 Thanks in advance! Ian

Hello gang, my next project is Lukgraph's lovely Dragon Rapide. I've never built resin before, but it looks reasonably straightforward (famous last words!). I have a question regarding its rigging. Photoetch is supplied, roughly of the form of an attachment tab for each end of a wire, plus (obvs!) the wire itself. The instructions are silent on how the wires connect to the wings. I could surface mount them, but I don't know how good that would look. Does anyone with a history of Lukgraph biplanes have any experience or insight they could share? Thanks in advance, Mike

Hi guys, I broke one of the wheels of my 1/18 UT Models Porsche 911 GT1. I have a wheel insert from S.M.S., that I want to use to make a rubber mould. Do you think it's possible to make a mould with this insert ? And can you explain how to do it ? : Any help and tips are welcome. Sincerely Pascal

Hi All This may be a long shot but I'm trying to find details of the Thunderbolts my dad flew in Burma, he was on 79 Sqn for a very short time, then 34 Sqn to the end of the war. I have his log books but he never recorded the aircraft serials just the Sqn letter. My only reference is the RAF Thunderbolts book which is good but unfortunately doesn't help with my quest with the possible exception of one 79 Sqn aircraft with the code "Z" which he has in his log book, but there is a problem, the Aircraft is silver, my dad always said he didn't fly a silver Thunderbolt, I had a look through the book and there is no record of 79 Sqn losing an aircraft with the letter "Z" so is this the same aircraft in his log book? He was only with 79 for a very short time, so did he just forget? There is one photo in the book of a 34 Sqn aircraft that my dad supplied (I think he's on the wing?) which we know the details for, but it's not one he flew, so if you can, help! Another question that may be easier, if the silver 79 Sqn aircraft does turn out to be right then, were the RAF T-Bolts painted silver or polished metal? Thanks John

ok so having got to grips with the forum etc I have tried doing some simple research here on Su85s (the Russian self propelled gun) and found I keep getting 0 results... yet I know I've posted my own article about my build (maybe the forum doesn't show my own threads to me?) and can't imagine in the history of the forum no one else has built one or even discussed one? Is it jist me? Help :-) steve

I've taken it into my head to make amends for my Vietnam GB PT-76 fail by converting the (essentially identical) PST 1/72 BTR-50 into an OT-62B by kitbashing it with the venerable ACE kit. The latter is a bit short on fine detail, so I was wondering if any of you fellows could point me towards some decent references for this type.....I'm hoping to build the version with the 7.62mm MMG/82mm RR turret. One of the things I'd particularly like to find would be some detailed shots of the 82mm T-21 "Tarasnice" Recoilless Rifle as mounted on this turret. I should probably add that I've already found the walk-around for the captured Egyptian example at Latrun, but this vehicle lacks many of the features I'm interested in: http://www.primeportal.net/apc/andre_patschke/ot-62_topaz/

My A Model Jetstream 31 has just arrived and I have a look at it and as far as I can tell it looks good. Interestingly this boxing contains the underfuselage baggage pod for the planned Jetstream 32, although there is only the markings for the Economist machine. However I want to convert this to a RN Jetstream T3 and am seeking some help from BMers. I have got some pictures of the T3 and know that it has eyebrow windows, but the issue is the underfuselage radar pod. Does anybody have any 1/72 drawings and placement details of the pod please that I can make a pod. I wonder if any of the aftermarket providers will do the pod (and decals) for the T3? Freightdog?? Thanks, John

By (un)popular demand I've added this as a poential third model if I manage to complete one of the other two entries (Fuji Fokker D-VII I'm looking at you...). It's the VEB Mi-4 (Hound if my memory of my Observer's book of Aircraft is serving me well) in the archaic scale of 1/100. So... in a rather compact box, what do you get? Some rather nice artwork.... The english translation of the instructions.... The decals - not to be used!! I'm intending to do a simple USSR version in green/blue... Fuselage halves - rivets ahoy, so will need some sanding. Plastic is silver, but rather brittle as per most VEB kits of this vintage... Blades... The other parts, or possibly the bones of a brontosaurus. Not sure yet, although VEB have kindly decided to include half a windmill in there! Clear bits... My kit probably dates from 82... The goodies, starting with the glue.... and... this little gem Wrapped in greaseproof paper, it may look like plastic explosive (honestly) but is actually... Plasticine noseweight. You have to love this!! When was the last time a kit manufacturer included the nose weight, with a quantity that would sink the Warspite? Alas, this will be going on my nipper's ceiling, so the plastique won't be being used, but will be banked for the next tail sitter!! Watch this space. Maybe* *space watching not guaranteed to materialse into kit-building. Terms and conditions apply.

Apologies, as this has been asked a million times before................. Looking for the correct, ( or near as dammit), colours for a GR5 and GR7, project in the near future! I usually use Humbrol, and Xtracolour, but was wondering if there are any Tamiya rattle cans that I could use ? Regards Steve