PanzerWomble

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I look forward to sitting down and really enjoying this one , probs look to take a few days holiday when the wife is away for sheer uninterupted nostalgia.

Great set up , and if you make something you really hate , it will be easy to launch it over the Proxon and down the stairs with a satifying bang.

Looks great, nice job on the lozenges !

Well Chris your wish is my .... Done , couple of quick bench pix . Puff pix later . Overall - smaller eyelets were better , one lower wing broke off nearing the end ( at least historically correct) so drilled both and used metal pins . Went too fast with the fuse oils , which smeared and had to be re done . The decals as I guessed were kaput , so this is a parts bin special in terms of markings. Liked the resin and PE guns better than the weekend edition . Still it's just a test piece . Got a Roland to do at some point, and then maybe onto 1/32 . And that flipping U Boat .....

Thanks Denis . In the end I had a go with some future , but they were stuck to the paper so hard they just weren't coming off . Too lazy to make masks for the project so just used spares box stuff. I might get some of the above and have a play though for future reference .

Got a decal sheet from 1812 ....was hoping it had survived but they are fragmenting badly . My first though , spray with varnish to try to hold them together a la homemade printed decals, but open to any better suggestions . Most of the ones I need I can find in the spares box but a couple are subject unique. Anything that works appreciated

Arrived today courtesy of a very generous Ernie . Thank you so much , I built a Devastor in my youth and always loved the yellow corrugated wings. I shall endeavor to to this one justice later in the year.

Sneezing is the danger ....

Yes going to do oil paint woodgrain , partly why i went with this colour scheme .

Bit further

Again ............a subject left ignored for years ...I suspect Airfix will clear up on this one as the only 1/48 released for 60 years.I bought one and I'm not even that invested in the subject , just want to build something new

So beautiful , so aggressive if only it had been Blackburn not Bristols ....it would have looked like this ...

This is a good point . WNW were innovative because they had Jacksons money behind them , a vanity project you'd call it in publishing . But the models sold, and sold well , and now command high premium so people will pay silly money to build a Felixstowe in all it's glory . Equally plenty of companies got off the ground doing subject others left alone , Bronco's endless variants of early British armour (who knew that would sell) , ICMs odd aircraft and trucks ...even Eduard ventured into unknown territory (at the time) with all the 1/48 biplanes. Odd / not done sells , look at all the folk lining up to build Gannets and Buccaneers - at £50 a pop Airfix are cashing in , and Revell whose 1/32 Hurricane is a beauty by all accounts ..£30 , sadly be in the bargain box by summer . So Kotare , maybe consider stuff you can do superbly , which is long overdue , and clean up . Starters for ten ...a decent Lysander , anything FAA , Spey Phantom , a Beaufighter ....and thats just British stuff . Don't do another flipping FW190 ...do a 189 ....B&V 141 ..Heinkel 115 ...go silly ! There's a whole forum dedicated to grown men playing "daddy I want a new pony" so no wish to bring that crap here , but Kotare could break the mould and clean up , they've got the pedigree for it . Or they could just churn out all the old favourites and hope people will pay the premium , which to be fair seems to have been Tamiya's 1/32 strategy , but didn't lead to a variety of interesting subjects.

Yes I believe there might be a vehicle specific thread I should be posting this stuff on ....😳 sorry !

Want to sell it ?🤣 One of my first bikes was a rattle canned F1 , bought of a mate with a blown gearbox ...did my first "strip down a rebuild" in a student flat in Leeds on a budge of ...50 pence ? One of the lecturers took pity and sold me a spare NOS exhaust system for very little . LTT934P still on DVLA database, I wonder if it's sat in pieces somewhere. EDIT - Hawkwind ...Pink FLoyd LPS and full ashtray ....I miss the 90's ( 1991 maybe ?)

Much the same , been riding nearly continuously since 21 , my preference has always been air cooled bikes of the 80's ...within my limits and less likely to hurt myself . ..plus no point trying to road race on a40 year old FJ1200 so I can go at my own pace. The middle aged preening at bike cafes these days is something I avoid ..

That turned out well , nice one 😀

Still meh 🫤