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Battle Britain Memorial Flight - Lancaster , couple of Spitfires and Hurricanes . Light Blue propaganda flight . Also possibly the last RAF aircraft types to have achieved an air to air victory over an enemy aircraft . Barring a Jaguar shot down by a Phantom in 1982 ( own goal ) the RAF have not shot down an enemy aircraft since WW2🤣 ....Fleet Air Arm on the other hand . Did you know the RAF famously moved Australia 500 miles West in the 1960's ?

I think both of the RAF's aircraft will do the flyover .....

Will watch it as it is kinda history in the making, but getting into the smoke tomorrow will be an absolute omnishambles with transport and security. TBH since Kahn took over London and started charging £12.50 a day to drive inside the M25 outer motorway ( 20 miles out )....I've given it a pass and it's only 40 minutes away .

Love Skyraiders, they manage to be Fugly and beautiful at the same time . Look really nice completely Vietnamesque beaten up and wings drooping with ordnance. A real bomb truck . Did the Airfix one back in the 80's , might have to have a crack at another in a bigger scale at some point . I like the working wing idea Peter , hopefully it will work for you .

I reckon the only way to tackle a large 1/200 would be to break it down and have a few bouts separated by therapy and normal modelling ,rather than try to do the whole lot in one go . 1/350 was not as big or as easy as I thought it might be .

Cat looks cute |!!!

Thats a real silk purse from such a bad kit . And you've knocked it outta the park . Having had a try myself recently ,not for me - I salute you , it's really good .

Might translate out of the UK .. Selfridges is a posh shop in London , kind of "Karen" bait .

Thats a shame , their loss our gain though 😄 You can build yer Mossie in peace here.

I love the 2019 film Midway . I've watched it a few times and confess I don't know the battle well enough to see any historical faults ( & I don't want to know) , so for me it's real quality entertainment plus I like Woody Harrelson as Nimitz. The sheer brass b@lls of Jimmy Doolittle to launch a bunch of medium bombers from the Hornet as a response to Pearl Harbour in the film is truly emotional , especially as it was a one way trip . Doolittle was 46 years old ....... Tough hombres and a real FU to a hated enemy . Cracking stuff . I'm also partial to a B25 , built a few as a kid , saw a bunch of them sat at Malaga Airport in 1981, was perplexed by this . Suspect they were there for some war film as Spain never used them . Thought it was Catch 22 .....but that was filmed in Mexico ...answers on a postcard to the usual address if you know . So it's a little tongue in cheek I enter this as a "carrier aircraft" for this GB , but I just fancied building one - too many tanks recently . Move it out if you feel fit , I'm not precious . 🤣 Academy B25 .....Scalemates reckons this is an Accurate Miniatures tool from 1999 , looks that "era" to me . Nice big kit. Typical Academy offering ....details a bit heavy , lowish parts count , no extras , PE etc ...though has canopy masks. Clear parts are thickkk , but no flash ...we will see about fit later . Probs going to be OOB, not over weathered ....roll on .

It's the "humour" thread kids ......no need to be Agents on the Spectrum

Yay - go for it Phil ! Have you a particular mossie in mind ?

Boomshaka ...counterattack at Geel . Brief rest after retaking the town .

Yup exactly .....although in the UK is more Makita vs DeWalt ...Milfickee isn't so big here. I went Blue ....all made in the same Chinese factory I'm sure . ... And it's not immature ....the first ten minutes of any job should be spent slagging off the previous contractors work 😳....I learnt that when I did a basic elechicken course.

....I've quite a few now scanned 😄. All mostly post war though I should contact the IWM or the National Maritime Museum see if they want copies. Grandad was a magpie , I've a ranging scope for a 150mm L45 gun , which he pinched off one of these ships whilst at Scapa Flow in 1918,KMS Baden , Emden Frankfurt or Nurnberg . Or possibly one of the destroyers. He didn't say and the type of scope only nailed it to this version of the gun . He also "found" an aircraft compass from a Martin Mariner which came to me last year.

Fun fact , when my Dad was on HMS Vanguard , said when they fired the main 15" guns it often split and ripped up the planking from the decks . This pic from a bit earlier on when he was still on destroyers.

What's the deckchair looking thingy on the fore deck ? It is a ships boats cradle ?

Hundy Bucks for a Trumpy??? .....better be their good stuff, not another over riveted sausage plane .

Buying sportswear in Russia a year into the sanctions