Lusitanian

Not a single mention of this on a site called "Large Scale Modeller"?? Wow.

Great looking Hurricane! Did you not have issues with the leading edge of the wing root? Every single build on YouTube complains about it. Thinking about getting one to do this with it:

There’s no such thing as “early” and “late” F-4Cs. Like all aircraft, the F-4C underwent progressive upgrades through its production run. And changes were retrofitted to in-service aircraft. What you need to know is, what’s the tail number, and what’s the time period you’re wanting to model it? And you need photographs of the airplane at or near that time to verify things. I’ve done a LOT of research on F-4Cs, so if you have specific questions, fire away and I’ll try to get you a solid answer.

And in every case I’ve seen, they’re laser printed and thus totally transparent. If you apply them over anything but white, they’ll either disappear or color shift beyond usefulness.

FWIW, thanks to the French government’s new policy toward small businesses, BAM Models has closed up shop.

I have done all of that multiple times. I’ve paid the required (ridiculous) tax and ‘fees’ and I have the proof the money came out of my bank account. CTT says “ask Customs”. I’ve emailed Customs three times on each package, including the tracking number, and I have yet to receive a single reply. I simply won’t buy anything from outside the EU any more in the future. It’s not worth it.

Usually not long. Try Portugal. I’ve had a book from the UK sitting in Lisbon since October. All I get when I ask about it is a deer in the headlights look.

Next time you may not be that lucky.

It’s always a good idea. People die of influenza.

It was stated that the 2024/25 flu vaccine would be less effective than normal because of some new strains that had popped up after the vaccine formulation had already been set and production started. Get used to that going forward. Microorganisms are starting to adapt faster than we can catch up with them, both viruses and bacteria.

Besides being ridiculously huge (how big is your house?), and yet another "standard" scale (not sure what's wrong with 1/32 for aircraft), that 1/35 He111 looks silly. I wouldn't strap on an airplane that was that wrinkled with the intent to fly it. A museum piece that's 80+ years old might look like that, but not a newly built in-service airplane.

Luckily I have not gotten it, but loads of people I know are sick as crap right now. I had a nasty sinus infection that hung on for about 3 weeks of technicolor goo coming out of my face.

Pensacola, Florida has had more snow this winter than Anchorage, Alaska. Meantime, the storm that left snow on the Gulf Coast is now battering Ireland and Scotland with winds that are almost unprecedented as storm Éowyn. A friend in Glasgow said he’s never seen it that bad there earlier today. I saw an eastbound Emirates A380 yesterday evening that was showing a 766 knot ground speed. It’s almost as if the climate is undergoing some kind of a massive change or something.

Somewhere someone told me he was about 6’7” tall

All of the F4H-1/F-4Bs that the USAF borrowed from the Navy had the buzz numbers on the belly. By the time the first true F-4C was delivered in 1963, they had stopped using them.