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Glad to see you are keeping at it Ced. That's the best way with such kits. I have every confidence you'll soon knock it into shape! So, Wells-next-the-Sea. We plannimg to head up that way after our sojourn in Norwich in September. Some walking and bird watching is on the cards. T.

I'd be happy to oblige, what exactly would you like to see?

Depends on the pasta https://www.ambrosia.co.uk/products/ambrosia-macaroni-400g/

I'll be honest, I don't know who wrote it.

A quick update on these, my first time working with 3-D printed resin figures and found them to be very delicate - I managed to break the foot on one of the poor fellows, a quick fix with some superglue though thankfully. The train crew released from the sprue with their loco. And with a bit of paint added, after giving them a bath I sprayed them with Humbrol 33 from a spray can and gave them an overall coat of Humbrol 96 RAF Blue with a paint brush. Finer details were Humbrol 65 Light Blue for their shirts, Revell Aqua 08 Matt Black for the boots, hats and ties and Revell Aqua 35 Flesh. Just a few minor tough ups required and a wash to bring out the detail and they'll be good to go, just need to repeat the process for the next loco crew. Thanks for looking 🙂 Lewis

Preview of the decals: https://www.specialhobby.net/2025/07/sh72529-p-40e-warhawk-tigers-and-sharks.html I am happy that there is tiger head scheme with red bordered national insignia as well. It's also one of the schemes in Eduard's 1/48 Royal Class.

The shows are shod and the chassis has a bod! I nearly had a coronary when I saw the seam between the upper and lower body just behind the rear wheels - I was reaching for my putty when I realised that the bumper covers that up. Whew! Prior to adding the body, Revell have you add the rear view mirror and a decal for the dome light. I painted the mirror frame silver, but left the mirror glass in the kit chrome. No one will notice. I had to spread the sides of the body shell quite a bit in order to fit it over the chassis, due to the inward curving lower doors and rocker panels. I was cringing for sure. Not to worry though, she snapped right into place - the fit is superb. Revell's engineering has certainly shone on this kit so far. All of the remaining chrome bits have been stripped of the kit chrome and the now red bits are in the process of being sprayed gloss black in anticipation of Mr. Color Super Metallic 2 Super Chrome Silver 2. (From now on, I'll just say Gunze Chrome. Er, GSI Creos Chrome.) Once the gloss black is dry, I'll check for any sink holes and stuff like that. I don't see any when looking at the bare red styrene, but the gloss black will accentuate anything. Stay tuned... Cheers, Bill

I take it we can add your name to the list then Rob? In the rolle of the GB's official Keeley correspondent. 😉

Sno can show you how to throw a super charger under, ok through, the hood. Please continue!

Many thanks Jörgen, and as you already concluded yourself, that's a lot of words for someone who's at a loss for words 🙂

Written by Enid Blyton?

Yes, that's something I'm looking to copy 👍. Might need to find some 1/48 ammo boxes. I think it was safer there rather than at risk of any residual flames 😁: I think the hatches for the loading of the fuel are at the rear of the top plate of the trailer so might need to keep them clear. Loading of the nitrogen gas bottles is from the rear:

A bit of an expensive day yesterday, firstly from Waterstones; The Lee Childs short stories - well, if it;s Jack Reacher, it;s a safe, undemanding read. Murder on the Marlow Belle - this comes into the "cosy murder" category of books like the Thursday Murder club. We/ve seen two of his books filmed on tv, and they are pretty decent books which turned into decent films. So this one will probably be a decent book. Then on to HMV: Each of these is for a book in the 33 1/3 series, none due to be published before January next year, but may as well get them now. And finally from the big H; The LF Bird Dog and the Italeri "Whirlwind" for my Austrian Air force project. The LF Bird Dog has quite a big PE fret, but the Italeri Whirlwind doesn't have PE at all. And finally, I succumbed. For some reason I've been taken with this model ever since it first came out in 1/350th, which looked like a thumbnail - then in 1/144yh it was a bit bigger so I bought one, and then I saw the announcement that there would be a 1/72 version, so here 'tis.

Thanks Chris. It was fun. Thanks Keith, Most kind. Cheers, Alistair

Phwoar, the canopy sections with the insides modelled too, wow, they look phenomenal. Chris

This has been around a while, a minor virus;

But can it actually get to 50kph on a level road? Perhaps going down a steep hill with the wind behind it

Ref seatbelts, there is a post on Retrorides which states there were two options: "a static belt with the upper point on the C-pillar, or an inertia reel with the upper point on a flexi pivot hanging from the roof". I could be wrong but it looks very much like the inertia reel is mounted on or near the inner sill as you would expect, with the socket on the transmission tunnel. I think they just look odd as they hang a long way inboard from the pillar. The high level static ones will have an end piece that you pull to tighten, like an airliner lap belt.

What a fantastic result! Looks great and I do like the clean finish. A super build to follow too .... good work Alistair! Keith ☺️

'Five came back' was a good series.

Thanks Steve, that's very helpful. I think the mods for the engines and tail gun position should even be within my modest skill set.

A car program on German television made a crash test of that horrible Citroen Ami.When one of these things crashes at 50Kmh the persons in it have zero to no possibility to survive the impact.Being a micro car it does not fall under the same rules as normal cars so crash tests are not necessary.They do not need any safety structures on the carosserie. Saluti Giampiero

I agree that mistakes like that have to be addressed, but in my experience with Amazon, any issues that I had as a seller on their platform fell on deaf ears. I hope that you will have more luck.

You can also find it on Youtube indeed. I think it was on Netflix at some point as well. Maybe it still is. It was also mentioned in the documentary 'Five came back', which is also worth watching. Edit: just noticed the artwork below is also AI, and also doesn't make much sense. What a silly time we live in.

You have made a good start Woody. Concerning the different coloured interiors, from photographic evidence I have seen it would appear that the first two production aircraft XB259 and XB260 had green cargo hold interiors, these aircraft were retained by Blackburn for trials. Blue and white interiors were applied to the RAF aircraft. Strangely though your photos of the flight deck of XB259 shows the blue and white used on the RAF machines interiors. If you decide on the camo scheme just bear in mind that the kit painting guide camo pattern is not correct. The camo pattern applied to XB259 is also not accurate. Regards, adey