Spitfire

Beautiful job, that looks ever so impressive. Cheers Dennis

Without braving the cold in the loft I would have to say my Airfix 1/24 scale kit boxes, two or three Typhoons and the Hellcat or my 1/350 ships Cheers Dennis.

They look great, certainly solves the chrome finished area painting job Cheers Dennis

Nice one, looks good Cheers Dennis

Sounds like a plan to me, taping the fuselage halves together is definately the way to go. Cheers Dennis

Arrived yesterday my first kit purchase of 2021, just waiting for the Whirlwind now Cheers Denns

That's horrible, but looks fixable, just walk away for a while and come back to it after a bit of thought, don't rush it. Cheers Dennis

I'm on the painting stage of my PCM Tempest and starting to clean up parts on my Fabric wing Hurricane. I nearly gave up on the Tempest but persevered and it has come out great. The problem was that I have got used to Hasegawa and other modern kits and going back to the test fit, sand, test fit, sand, repeat routine was a bit lengthy and boring. But it looks good so far which is good as I have lots of their kits which when they came out were really welcome as they made kits of subjects that had hardly figured in 1/32 scale. Cheers Dennis

Nice to see it getting "dressed" looks great Cheers Dennis

Looking good, this is the kit that got me back into modelling in the 80's and I still haven't built one, and I have three in the loft, plus a BII conversion kit. Cheers Dennis

I use Xtracolor as my main paint but I also Colourcoats, they work just as good as Xtracolour but give more of a satin finish rather than the super glossy finish of Xtracolour, I use the Xtracolour thinners on them just as I would use on Xtracolor. Cheers Dennis

Looks like you could cock your leg over it and ride into the sunset, very realistic. Cheers Dennis

I only bought three kits this year which is disappointing but I have a very large stash so I have a good selection to choose from, of the three the IBG PZL 11 is the one that I have had on my wish list for a long time as I am interested in early WW2 stuff so that would be my choice. Cheers Dennis

Remarkable lady, there was a recent run down of her career in the series "The Spitfire Factory". Cheers Dennis

That looks really great, we used to have a Mosquito based near us and I always used to admire it, sadly it was lost in an accident. Yours definately does it proud I must admit that the black undersides look better to me. Cheers Dennis

That looks grand, the interiors look just right and the figures really enhance it, top work Cheers Dennis

Great choice, I have a couple of them in the stash and the plan was to build them when I had "honed" my skills enough to do them justice, they are still waiting ! Cheers Dennis

Found an old thread from HS dated 2008 in which Bruce Archer said the following. Steven, There was a mod center in Conn. All of the FAA Corsairs had British belts, either the Sutton as stated, or the "Q" harness. Not US belts. This is what my research is telling me. Also with the advent of the Corsair IV, the clipped tips were added at the factory, and not the mod center as the rest were. Just another bit to show Corsairs are not as easy as everyone thinks. And the Corsair III was used on ops. Cheers Dennis

Great detail photos, a treasure trove for modellers Cheers Dennis

Built this one from the same boxing as above around 1994, updated it with new paint and decals in the noughties, it's a bit dusty now but you can see the wing tips . Cheers Dennis

The detail on that kit looks great, I have never seen one "in the flesh" before and I am impressed, should be an interesting build. Cheers Dennis

Must get round to building that VII sometime and a Pink Spitfire as well, nice builds you have there Cheers Dennis

My credit card wants this one Dennis

Not in the same class as you guys but after my heart attack five years ago the first thing that I wanted to do was start cycling again, when I retired in 2005 I decided that I would need to get some exercise so made sure that I went out cycling Monday to Friday in place of the exercise that I got at work. I only did 8 miles a day on roads but with my monitor I kept the heart rate up throughout, after the heart attack and cardiac rehab I restarted riding and have kept it up ever since, I've always thought that the cycling probably helped me survive the heart attack. Cheers Dennis

Yes they use ten parts when two would do, I did build their Staghound which came out well, I even built Maquette's Valentine IV and XI which were challenging and you cannot go wrong with the Tamiya kits but for some reason the A13 finished it for me. I only built British and Commonwealth subjects and wanted to build a BEF collection. Maybe one day I will go back as I do have an extensive armour stash and reference section. Cheers Dennis