PanzerWomble

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

I think Frank was on Malaya in 1933 ...I've a some pictures from the era and also his service history. Everything is getting packed up for the move, but if I can find it over the weekend I'll let you know more. Frank did 29 years in the RN ....my father (his son) completed 42 years , fifteen as a WO1 which is now virtually impossible to do. Started as a stoker , then artificer then FCMech . Mainly carriers . Tough men both of them

Able Seaman Francis K**** Photo taken when he served with the Fore Transmitting Station Crew aboard HMS Conqueror in 1914. A Transmitting Station (in Royal Navy parlance) is a room deep within a large ship where calculations pertaining to gunnery are worked and from which orders, ranges and deflections are transmitted to the guns. Joined as a boy sailer aged 16, in March 1914 , served in Conqueror throughout the war . Completed 22 years as a CPO in Dec 1938 .....recalled to service December 1939 . Further 5 years at sea , retired again 1947 as a WO1 . Spent all of his career involved in gunnery. Extracts from the book on which my father collaborated in which his history is told in more detail / THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID 1918. 'The Finest Feat of Arms' Paul Kendall SPELLMOUNT 2008

Off to see on my longest followed bands at one of my favourite venues , given all my icons are dying off and Dave Brock is no 84 ....bless him Back in the day ....I'd have been completely faced about 5 hours before the gig .....tonight I won't even get a pint in as I'm driving .

Subtle cammo, nice one . I do like PZ IIIs , such a wide range of subjects to do from invasion of Poland , Russia , North Africa to Normandy .

Love the detail going into this build - the the sea looks good too . My grandfather was on board HMS Conqueror at Jutland. Captain's report at the time reads "The enemy was first observed at 6.25 p.m. and at 6.31 p.m., fire was opened on one of the ' Markgraf ' class—rough range, 12,000 yards. This ship quickly disappeared in the haze, and fire was shifted to a three-funnelled cruiser (probably the late 'Maravev-Amurski,')—rough range, 10,000 yards — shortly afterwards this ship dropped astern and passed out of sight.

Sorry to hear about the eyes , good luck next week . I like Takom's models , but their tracks aren't great IMHO . I don't know if metal ones are an option at 1/16 . For me - I find the drilling and pinning less bother than trying to glue guide horns or tiny pin ends.

More reasons to visit 😀, I was thinking HMS Unicorn , which I got to walk around some years ago . Used to be a great little Indian restaurant in the town as well .

A large bridge , quite a cute town centre and a no Interesting old wooden ship as well , least last time I was there 20 years ago

If you don't mind Harv , i thought I’d tag my news into the bottom of your thread. As off June 6th …yup D day , we will have left our home at Wheelers End cottage and moved to a bigger house in Brize Norton. So we swap Chinooks at nearby RAF Benson for Globemasters at Brize . Hopefully leaving enough time to unpack and do my F 4 for the wet GB