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Awesome !

Ok the Jags stopped sulking .....it's the Jag honest . The show needs to move on as they say , so all in one chunk..... fill sand fill sand ad nauseum . Primered ...bit more filling and ok , bored now ..so PAINT . Gets the 1970s RAF Grey / Green "rollover cammo" scheme Come to the end of this and my nice new Hardup 'n Steenburger decides to play "spitty spitty paint" nonsense so parked it for tonight .

Entirely speculation on my part but the following would line up in terms of age, date and hobbies . https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands-islands/6535247/motorcyclist-taynuilt-a85-man-52/

Nice save Carl !

So start to finish in 24 hours . Still don't get braille scale though .Sorry - Crappy pix on iPhone not proper camera set up . Cheerz all PW

I blame Martin ....on another thread he suggested One idea crossed my mind, but it is kinda silly. "Your first model, ever." So got me thinking back to probably 1974 . My first kit experience was either a 1/28 Camel my Father brought back from one of his transatlantic trips on HMS Bulwark or this Frog Bf 110 . it's 50 years ago...I'm not sure .... I'll go FROG. I have a distinct memory of this weird plane with the aeriels , and dad spraying it with a tin of grey car primer in the garage after I / him had built it. It took me a while to work out which model , but certain it was this one . Oddly there are still many of these knocking around , and not reboxed ones ; the original ones from Rovex Triang in Margate. So buy a 50 year old model I did....... but not for 39p . Inside it's ok , basic details not a lot of surface detail but no warping or much flash 50 year old decals ....noice ! This is it for instruction steps ....take note modern Airflups people ....KISS Did a bit of scribing and riveting just for fun Builds up ok Needs a bit of a file, scrape and fill but far less bother than the Jaguar ( no..... that will get finished before the deadline ) My memory re-enacted ....spray it in car primer ! Funny how little things stick in your mind . I was six ! base Paint n decals

A labour of love rescribing that one 👍

Calm down - I'm a qualified spark in the UK so have been - there done that . Looking at your pix I can see the water pipes sticking out , just couldn't see any wires or back boxes per se . Observing it would look different in the UK...and clearly it is .....a similar UK site you'd see the wires hanging out . Maybe the heirachy of the trades , sparks get paid more than drywallers/plasterers , so drywallers have to do the mucking about . Gas fitters get more than everyone Not suggesting Aus has yet to get over the novelty of "wall gas" at all. 🤣

No electrics is Aus ? UK - you'd normally see 1st fit electrics poking through the plasterboard at the point where you're at now . The plasterer's work around the back boxes so you're not endlessly guessing where the wires are.

Would be better - 9 inches or so long . Here's one to hunt for - 1961 1/24 Frog kit 🤣 Kit Form Services in the UK make one as well . Price though at £270 , they were shutting down but in the end sold the business on last year i believe. https://kitformservices.com/products/bac-bloodhound-mk2-1-24th-scale-tq229

There is a lot on info regarding this online , Bovington painted theirs wrong in the 1960s and every other musuem/ tamiya copied assuming they knew the right colours. Short answer TLDR is the tanks were sent to the Middle East from the UK on ships painted in the standard Khaki, and repainted at the dockside before issue in Stone ( more beige than "sand") and Naval Grey ( both in stores for the Army and Navy ) with some of the Khaki left showing ...and then went off to give Rommel a good pasting

Whistlers .... I think AFV Club did one ? I bought one a while ago but it go lost in the post so I never got to build it . I have a love of six wheeled vehicles ..or as my mate with a Stalwart once said .. The Joy of Six ...

Wowsers thats a real blast from the past . Nice job on an old dog of a missile👍 ....see what I did there ? Sort of think you'd expect Takom may end up re releasing . The army had a very similar missile -they called it Thunderbird , here's one on display near where I used to live - without the boosters , looks like an overgrown Firestreak . The Virago is 1:1 for scale .

Magical work, and glad you had a chance to pilot the real one . Nice one Mike !

One hopes it wont be Large Scale Models ......ladies a bit more petite perhaps ...

Sod the models where's the hot tub for the pool party ?

Just dammit .....another really nice fella gone ...very sad news.

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I think given Airfix's recent crowdpleasing releases of UK cold war stuff: Bucc ...Seaking .....Gannet............and Kitty Hawk's demise taking out any competition ....if they have not spotted a huge market gap to fill with a nice 1/48 Jag ...well they'd be daft. Plenty of aircraft at Cosford to go scan as well . The downside is it will be Airfix ...but still gotta be better than the 1994 tooling .

Not a big cat but a scabby dog .....fill ...sand ....fill ...sand ....reveal coat of primer ..more fill ...thin wing edges which are scale 3 inches thick