PanzerWomble

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One of those rare breed of men , genuine steely eyed missile man . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno

Gave me wood ….🫠

Drilling out fruil tracks 😀😀😀😀yes i know that one well BTW Paul I saw a tutorial a while ago about using very small dress makers pins instead of the brass wire , which is what I do these days with those tracks…makes them a lot more sturdy when you are done

I've only had a little play , seems ok to me . Solid in construction even though t must be 15 years old . Bit like the DeWalt/ Makita power tool dichotomy .....I have the Proxxon drill and transformer so went that direction 😀 ...oh and the hot wire table ....see these obsessions breed. ..and I'd buy German over Chinese tools most days of the week .

Oh dear ...the Womble is butchering a Coarsehair...I know nothing about them so making it up mostly .

My Proxxon addiction continues ....goodbye old toothbrush hello new to me sander ...

No wonder this plane looks so odd, Martians made it ? Or is this look just the result of hours painting wood grain panels?

The flying dining table ….looking good Martin

Not so blingy

Absolute cracker Hubert !! Worth the wait !

I hope those sandals went to charity as well ?

I admire your dedication to the detail , that lil destroyer I did a couple of years ago I did as a tip my toe in the water with 1/350 drove me nutz....the full Hood is a long way off which I feel may have to wait until I retire 😀

Not so much whats on the bench but the bench itself after a bit of a re org with new shelves adding valuable real estate. Paint and tools are all in the drawers , stash and completed are elsewhere . 72 inches of workbench and thats it , so stuff that doesn't turn out helpful isn't kept around . My office doubles up for working from home as well as glueing plastic together . Just need a friendly cat to keep me company like Carl .

Wowsers , yes had me fooled into thinking you interspersed real with scale photos 😀 You may have come across this website before , it's written by a German pilot, Hubert , who flew them from the start of the program , fascinating stuff. https://www.916-starfighter.de DC+107. https://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/dc107.htm

Nice Emil !!

The Ugly Aircraft Group Build ...? Prizes for the most gopping .

I feel you're being a bit selective here transatlantians ...😀 Supermarine, Hawkers and de Hav made some very comely aircraft .... Blackburn ....who knows what they were drinking in the design office ..

Tis sad ...realised recently it is nearly 10 years since Lemmy departed. he came to my home town in the mid 80s after Sabbath . The local council and newsrag whined about his bat biting and lasers and refused to liscence the gig . Sadly he never came back .

Nice one Hubert , thats a huge project you've handled well there , wrestled that resin into something of beauty .

New Cat Carl or new bench companion ? I've picked back up this ICM Ju88 from the SOD . I don't get on with ICM kits, dunno why , moldings are good , fit is generally ok , but something about their engineering doesn't click with me . Which is a shame, as I'm sure it's just me . I binned their 1/48 HS 126 a while ago , with the faff the wing caused me, just terminal loss of interest . Finally got this into initial primer , should be on a downwards slope to a completion hopefully

I may adjust 🤨 Fun fact about the film , all the Germans were played by German actors apart from Robert Shaw …who absolutely wasn’t based on Joachim Peiper …honest

After the RAF turned Tirpitz into a submarine , the ship's aircraft and other 196s were run to death as hacks, finally mostly being grounded for lack of spares . After cursory examination by the Norwegians after the war , considered obsolete and worn out , they were towed out in Trondheim Fjord and sunk in Sept 45. Ones still there 55m down . This was just a paint mule to try out odourless thinner chipping with Atom paints in all honesty , as I hate braille scale . The kit is ...so so for the size, probably not much better than the ancient Airflups thing . Laterz PW

Yeah yeah yeah tell me how bad the 1965 film was, but aged 10 it sparked a lifelong interest in the battle, many trips and many hours of research later . The film is terrible , it was only luck they had snow in the early part of the filming to make it vaguely look like the Ardennes So , Takom M47 , resin figure , just a bit of fun for me . Laterz PW