PeteinLincs

Mmmm looking Funky!

A great result on both the model and the desktop. Those underside shots look almost like a still from the show!

A mock up of my latest Star wars scratchbuild. Hopefully it will end up as a troop transporter.

Those pliers are commonly called plumbers pliers or Stilsons. Wind a rubber band around the bottle to aid your grip too.

My very best wishes to you both from this side of the pond.

There is only one FV4005 so yes. Have a look for mr hewes on you tube. If I remember correctly the hull is now in primer and they are awaiting delivery of the turret and other parts. I'm not really a tank fan but these guys are always worth watching, no matter what they are up to. The farm is somewhere near Market Harborough BTW.

Great set of pictures, Carl. Many thanks. I love the comments on the spice harvester build and the Cockpit build. I've found quite a few favourites to look at again. I hope the Boys enjoyed themselves too.

There is a big warehouse just outside of Kings Lynn Norfolk called Beers of Europe. They do have Schlenkerla but not smoky george. They do mail order BTW. Have a look at the web site. Use someone else's card! Another big beer supplier I know of is Matthew Clark in Brighouse Yorkshire. But I just checked and they are wholesale only. Surprisingly they don't do smoky george either. Their warehouse is huge, and I've picked up some really obscure stuff there!

As people keep asking to see what I have.... A small Maschinen kreiger display. All scratchbuilt TThis was built maybe twenty years ago. The big Revell? kit I made this wall display to show off small scale Star Wars stuff. It's supposed to be the maintenance trench of a star ship. Two scratchbuilds in the foreground. Thanks for looking.

Fly did one in 1/32nd but it isn't that accurate. On Britmodeller.com a few years ago a Scot in Texas who goes by the name of Hendie on there built a great one from it. He now does printed Wessex bits for sale in 72nd & 48th scales. Epic detail. Oddly the best Wessex basic fuselage is the Frog 72nd scale!

Well this has been an interesting journey, and an education on the Stuka cockpit. Yours looks very convincing, Craig. I know I built that Revell 1/32 kit as a young teen, but by the time the big Airfix one came out I had other interests. (Ahem). Finningley 1977? Crikey! I'd been in the RAF for a year by then, On Wessex at Odiham. I'll keep popping by to see how this one is going. Cheers, Pete

Thanks very much. Most of my modelling is Sci Fi scratch building nowadays. I have boxes full of parts and it's fun to see what I can do with them. I've almost finished a Star Wars Tatooine freighter made mostly from a Revell Fairy Rotodyne. Scale is 1/78th ! A bit small for LSM perhaps.

Ah, beer. After forty years of working on and with Military Aircraft, I wanted a change of direction. So for eight years I worked as a Drayman for a Drinks wholesaler based in Lincoln. I retired last September. What's odd about that? Well for the last twenty of those forty years, I worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. So kind of got out of the drinking habit. However, I do have the odd one, I like sharps Doombar. Brewed on the North Cornish coast.

I recently read a fascinating book detailing the war of an English Vicar who was called up to be the Chaplain of the Derbyshire Yeomanry. They went out to North Africa and eventually to Italy, Seeing some serious fighting in both locations. His services were often in the open air or a tent. Sometimes off the back of a truck or Jeep. He would have been over the Moon to have one of these!

Thank you. I' took some pictures in the mancave today. I'll hold off on posting for now though. In the meantime, if anyone wants to see how I built the machine above, Scoot over to Britmodeller.com and search, Headless Chicken. Sturmdohle Cheers