PanzerWomble

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

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 .