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Personally, I prefer building jets in 1/32 but they are large and at my rate of progress they take a long time to complete. My display case currently has F15C, F16C, A7E and Mig-23 and a solitary Spitfire XVIe. I'm only a few years younger than Dale so I also grew up on WWII movies, books, Commando comics, etc but I lived just across the water from RAF Leuchars as a kid so seeing jets everyday I think is my biggest influence. Most of my wish list are also jets, ie Viggen, Gripen.

Annealing will also change the colour of certain metals, particularly titanium. Quite often used for jewellery such as earrings. An old friend of mine was the chief jewellery technician at our local art college and told a great story of a student who came back one summer thinking he'd got a great deal on a load of cheap titanium for making stuff. Turned out it was useless as it was 'aviation grade' and was treated in some way that meant you could do what you liked to it but it wasn't going to change in any way!

I'll second Neil's vote above.

Hope life settles down a bit for you Dale!

Seems a bit extreme! Didn't look too offensive?! I'm sure you have a plan though.

Lovely job weathering a grey airframe.

Nice Eddie!

Nice finish!

With a back-end like that it'll be interesting to see how much weight it needs up front not to be a tail-sitter!

The Videoaviation stuff is lovely and as you say well worth checking out. I used their Mk 82s on my SLUF and the quality was great, nice resin and no flaws. Delivery from Italy to Scotland was very quick and reasonably priced as well.

All the best Dale. Hope everything settles down quickly and it helps with the recovery.

Looking great. Had the riff to Aces High going through my head as soon as I saw the first image.

I'd say that's pretty impressive for a first try in 30 years! The polyfilla effect for the render works great.

I don't know much about drums Dale but you obviously know quality as Sakae have always had a top end reputation. I thought they'd gone bust but looking online after your post I see they've been resurrected. Always good to see companies with that sort of history managing to stay afloat.

Nice work Kev. The ruined building looks great - did you scratch build it?

Thanks Rob for the info. Just as a matter of interest how do the AK paints smell when you spray them. I've heard a lot of good things about them and they do seem to have a good range of colours but my wife can't cope with anything too smelly. There's lots of interesting stuff out there on the psychological effects of different colours on mood, etc. Stuff about painting prison cells yellow or pink to reduce aggression and making areas where you don't want people to linger very vivid fluorescent orange. Not sure what this means for the turquoise cockpits? It's not even as though the Soviet cockpits had much glazing so the crews could stare out and avoid it.

Local version of this has the pigs livin' underneath! Is that the same in Texas?

Nice minimalist set up Dale. Love the shiny finish

These AMK kits do look sublime but I just can't get into 48th scale. I do wish they would scale them up. The AK paint makes a good match for the Soviet 'barf green' so must remember that. I have used the Citadel paint for that in the past but it goes 'off' in the jar very quickly. Nice start with this Rob.

That to me is the clip I would show to anyone who didn't understand the genius of Python

Saab Viggen = Jonah Lomu.... lots of power and a tiny bit of subtlety

Bit of oversharing there me thinks!

Lovely work again Cees. Given this is 48th scale the detail is outstanding.

Very sad and condolences to all. Tragic to lose their lives helping others so far from home. As Jeff says, something must have gone seriously wrong. C-130s are generally pretty much bombproof in terms of reliability.

There are advantages to living in the frozen north of Scotland sometimes. The most venomous things we have around here are bees, wasps, both summer only, and one of my wife's sisters!