PanzerWomble

Nice Emil !!

The Ugly Aircraft Group Build ...? Prizes for the most gopping .

I feel you're being a bit selective here transatlantians ...😀 Supermarine, Hawkers and de Hav made some very comely aircraft .... Blackburn ....who knows what they were drinking in the design office ..

Tis sad ...realised recently it is nearly 10 years since Lemmy departed. he came to my home town in the mid 80s after Sabbath . The local council and newsrag whined about his bat biting and lasers and refused to liscence the gig . Sadly he never came back .

Nice one Hubert , thats a huge project you've handled well there , wrestled that resin into something of beauty .

New Cat Carl or new bench companion ? I've picked back up this ICM Ju88 from the SOD . I don't get on with ICM kits, dunno why , moldings are good , fit is generally ok , but something about their engineering doesn't click with me . Which is a shame, as I'm sure it's just me . I binned their 1/48 HS 126 a while ago , with the faff the wing caused me, just terminal loss of interest . Finally got this into initial primer , should be on a downwards slope to a completion hopefully

I may adjust 🤨 Fun fact about the film , all the Germans were played by German actors apart from Robert Shaw …who absolutely wasn’t based on Joachim Peiper …honest

After the RAF turned Tirpitz into a submarine , the ship's aircraft and other 196s were run to death as hacks, finally mostly being grounded for lack of spares . After cursory examination by the Norwegians after the war , considered obsolete and worn out , they were towed out in Trondheim Fjord and sunk in Sept 45. Ones still there 55m down . This was just a paint mule to try out odourless thinner chipping with Atom paints in all honesty , as I hate braille scale . The kit is ...so so for the size, probably not much better than the ancient Airflups thing . Laterz PW

Yeah yeah yeah tell me how bad the 1965 film was, but aged 10 it sparked a lifelong interest in the battle, many trips and many hours of research later . The film is terrible , it was only luck they had snow in the early part of the filming to make it vaguely look like the Ardennes So , Takom M47 , resin figure , just a bit of fun for me . Laterz PW

Been a while Fun build of the old tool repopped by Revell . Built up nice, still a reasonable fit for the age , ignored the raised panel lines and the mickey mouse missiles , closed the air brakes, metal probe and painted most of the markings / used Microscale decals . Built the Hasegawa version in 1/48 back when I was very young, & not an aircraft we ever saw in the UK . Odd clean build for me as I have not seen many pics of them looking anything other than immaculate . Pretty Century fighter. Love the Snoopy !! Laterz PW

Incredible details Kevin . Poor old Scharnhorst, sunk on Boxing Day with so many lost. Didn't stand a chance , just a last throw of the KM surface fleet to try to prove a point before Donitz took over .

The Thou is 46 , my Merc is 43 and my "young" FJ1200 currently going through a full frame up restoration is 39 ..I just love pre digital vehicles ..wife's 4x4 is a mere 16 years old and has to have inspections, pay road tax and other costs . Over 40 years old they are exempt from all that expense in the UK . We are thinking about trading it in for a crew cab pick up when we retire for European caravan adventures, but not something a big as a RAM

Been busy with the "classics" hence less modelling. W123 had it's entire fuel injection system rebuilt from tank to injectors ..that was learning curve on old Jetronic fuel injection systems . and the '79 GS 1000 has also had a lot of work of the suspension , brakes and electrics ...and repainted it red because .....I can . \ Last Friday it was black

On the bench ...a nostalgia build ( I built the Hasegawa F102 when I was 7/8 or so ) and an old tool from Monogram 1980 ..(two things I have decided not to do in '25)😐 ..however TBH this is a peach compared to the Trumpetah Flogger I binned mid build last year because is was such a doggy fit I gave up . Century series rock . \

Cremeweiss is the offical colour for interior of panzers ....aka RAL 9001 ...ATOM do one , AMMOMIG , AK interactive , Mr Paint MRP-A023 as well, but not Tamiya . Of a dab of yellow in any matt white.

Have you finished it yet ?

Pesky relatives taking up oxygen ....and other resources oh you mean plastic ?? And sold a built 190 in 1/48 to a guy in Austria . TBH too tied up with 1:1 cars, motorbikes , landscaping , health issues and crumbling relatives to do much modelling , however my 2025 re focus has moved towards :- 1/48 aircraft ( not jets ) and 1/35 armour , and giving up on any offerings from Airfix , Revell , Trumpeter, Zvezda and stuff tooled before 2000 . Life's too short for me to waste time on what I call "nostalgia builds" - crappy old toolings that rarely produce anything decent . Bit like plastic figures , they're generally not as good as nice resin, so less is more . Vignettes not dioramas etc .Just my perspective . Paints more towards ATOM as they have interesting chipping properties by reckon a bunch of Tamiya XF's will still be knocking around . Had a play with Mission , but apart from being expensive and not readily available in the UK, reckon Atoms did the same . Also cleared out stuff bought on a whim, and replaced it with more 'interesting to me' stuff . Laterz PW

Nice one Gus , not a 'fishbed' at all but a rather great looking interceptor !

Just dammit, that's such sad news . I really liked Harv , when I came here Gaz and I had a long running chat thread with him , often discussing young ladies (to cheer him up a bit when he was down !) A sweet guy , gone too soon .

No -one want them ? No dramas will bung it all on Eflog .😀

The IBG kits models the tyres at 45psi, they should be 32 ...jus saying ...🤪 I did the IBG R100 Artillery version a few years ago , loved building it, and it still is on my shelf . It is on my profile pic just noticed There is a nice set of videos showing them in use from the 1940s

More missiles and bombs than you need , I've used a couple but otherwise all there . First to PM me a UK address you're welcome to the lot. PW

That is a lovely rendition Hubert . Winner, Winner Camel Dinner!!!! . I love all the details , and the feel of the 'between the wars' Saharan expeditions . One of my favourite films is the English Patient and this has the same vibe to it . I guess I'll have to say 'nice pole too" 😀

Yes I'm trying them out as Alclad here in the UK is now really expensive and they are quite soft.

I like these Profipacks , bit more to them than the Weekend Editions