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Nice Martin. I'd say you can never have too much of the Ammo stuff. The Oilbrushers are great. I got the bulk set for my birthday from the missus and have been playing about with them and they are very easy to use and work well with the odourless thinners.

Great progress Trigger. Love the pics before and after the gloss coat on the cowl. Great physics lesson in the difference between diffuse and specular reflection. (Sorry, I know it's sad, but I'm a physicist and I can't help it! Forgive me!)

Thanks for the explanation Ernie. Love that it was just simple cock-up and they left it!

Nice Ernie. Never seen the stars'n'bars with the star segmented like that. Does it represent something specific?

So cool that they built and flew them. Plan seems to be to fly back down via many of the countries they missed on the way 'up'.

Brilliant Cees. You do have some interesting items in your living room!?

Looking great Cees. Love the wear on the floor.

Great looking result. As has been said the weathering is lovely and subtle.

Nice Rob, the 'Smoke of Scotland' is one of the nicer whisky cocktails. It definitely needs a 'heavy' Highland malt like the Lagavulin, just don't think it would work with something light like a Speyside Balvenie. The rust primer looks cool as well!

Yep, Mr Levelling and Vallejo are not a good mix, a bit like Gaz's Glenfiddich and Coke mentioned elsewhere. (Apologies for thread creep) Looks like a good recovery though Rob.

Yeah, most find single malts an acquired taste, including many Scots it has to be said. If you're struggling with those you definitely don't want to try any of the really heavy Islay malts such as Laphroaig or Bunnahabhain. Bloody hard to say and worse to drink if you're not a fan. They have a very iodine like, seaweed flavour and smell much like TCP disinfectant, if you know what that is.

Gaz, don't ever come to Scotland and admit you put Coke in the Glenfiddich, someone will chin you!

Just astonishing. I can't believe how well you make those joints disappear.

Love the guy diving in there. Do wonder if the carpet monster claimed the upper torso and that was the fix?!

Looking lovely and worn there Jeroen.

Wow, looks stunning with the rivetting.

I know they were struggling for resources by the end of the war but the quality of that timber and it's treatment is pretty remarkable. I've seen timber constructions a fraction of the age of that which have deteriorated far more rapidly. The Germans always could do 'build quality'.

Best nose job I've seen in a while Ernie. You could earn a fortune in Hollywood doing those....

Nicely chewed. I have a Jack Russell (not the one in my avatar, but her nephew) who is good at that sort of finish but generally not on the parts you want it on!

One big celebration this week is at Bayeux cemetery. Was there with the kids in 2015 and it's really powerful. The kids were actually quite upset by it as it has a fairly big German section and many of them were Hitler Jugend, so only 16-18 years old. My kids were 14 and 17 at the time so it really came home to them that these kids who were dying were the same age as them.

Cool photos. The Imperial War Museum has a new book out of original colour photos to celebrate the 75th anniversary. Available on iwmshop.org.uk

Nice lateral thinking solution!

If it was aerodynamic you'd have to putty all those sequins on the bodice, just like P-51 wings!

That driving seat sits at an interesting angle! Presumably the driver had a permanent crick in their neck.

You certainly have plenty of patience Rodolfo. As Jeff says, I think I'd be looking for Friul or R-Model options. You do wonder what the kit designers are thinking when they put the injector pins in these locations.