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Ah, yeah, gidday from New Zealand

Kitchen Modeller

Kitchen Modeller

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Dipping my gumboots back into the forums water as I’m finding myself an ever growing refugee from the bot infested multi level marketing rage bait factory that is Fecebook.
I also sort of stumbled in here by happy accident after asking Paddy about a kit he was selling (sold) on MFH Builds. I was only about a year late…. or about a day in New Zealand time. I’ve been lurking for a few weeks now and I do like the vibe here, so thought I’d say hello, because Paddy asked a question I wanted to answer , so it would be rude not to introduce myself.
Cheers,
Terry
 
Welcome Terry! Yes this is a really good group and all you need to do to join in is post and be a good mate. Paddy does phenomenal builds, and there is quite a diverse group here, but many of us have become friends even across the big ponds. If you want to meet some of us and chat we will be having a google meeting Saturday morning, 9am East Coast USA time or starting about midnight, 1 am your time. There is a thread GOOGLE MEET that has the link.
As to Farcebook, yeah it is a bit of a pain in the can, but then again not a lot of folks are all that computer savvy and that is their only outlet. We do try to be helpful and constructive with our critiques on each other here. Mostly it is just pointing out the things we should have noticed on our own and missed because we are nose in on the build.
 
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Glad we got your account sorted out Terry, welcome aboard! Share with us some of your builds if you would please.
 
Hi Bob, Happy to show some of my builds. If it floats, flies or drives I'll build it. Just to ID what I've put up there's a pair of MFH 1/20 Ferrari, the remaining cars all 1/43. A 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Mk.Vb, 1/32 HK Mossie (Oboe), 1/32 Trumpeter Bf109G-2 and F-14D.
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Thanks. Working on two MFH kits currently. A 1/43 Porsche 917K which will be a curbside once complete, and a 1/12 Ferrari 412P. With the 412P I hit the MFH trifecta jackpot in having not one single unwarped body part except the doors and I not sure about them either! Pictures of 412P are just a lose fit to check ride height. All four tyres touch the bench, so I got that much right. 🙃

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Hi Terry
I think you will fit right in here, we are a small band of people from all over the world who wanted to show our work and chat models, ask questions and have a laugh but couldn't find these options on offer on most forums or face book . Love your wide range of topics and the extra mile you go with presentation, The mossie flying over scale cliffs is a brilliant idea, not seen that done before ...I will try an MFH car with a roof one day but at the moment the vac form glass is an obstacle for me as i know glass in a car needs to be perfect or it looks awful, bit like a real car. clean the wheels and polish the glass , you are 75% there :)
should be able report back on the tubing soon
 
Thanks for all the positive comments everyone. Good spotting on the feathered prop on the Mossie Paddy. It is no accident. This is the aircraft flown by 109 Sqn New Zealand pilot F/Lt Alf Relph DFC. I got some help with research and information from the NZ Bomber Command Association and the only surviving Kiwi Mossie pathfinder pilot who lived here in Auckland, Sqn Leader Keith Boles DFC who was also in 109 Squadron. This picture attached of a typed note from Alf Relph best describes what I tried to depict...
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Port engine damage was kept relatively subtle based on conversations with Keith Boles. Naturally I would have loved to peel one whole side of the engine covers open to show the kit's Rolls Royce engine, but historical accuracy trumps show boating.

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I was standing on the cliffs only yesterday , its a bit cooler on the coast. 100f inland. A sign of the times that there is a permanent chaplin patrolling the cliffs now to talk people out of jumping....
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about 25 people a year jump

They built an emergency runway at RAF Manston for the US bombers about a mile from the coast but first you had to have the hight to clear the cliffs. The runway was extended as an emergency landing site for the space shuttle to 2750 meters but during the war that whole area is pretty flat and open.
 
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I tweaked your typed note to make it a little easier to read Terry. Hope you don't mind.
Also made me take a second look at that photo. Really liked the photo of the engine damage and would love to see a few more photos of that build if you wouldn't mind.


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Those cliffs look beautiful Paddy. How sad though that a permanent chaplain is required, and what a nerve wracking task trying to talk people off the edge. Thanks also for the photoshop HE. So much easier to read now. Some more pix of the Mossie for you below.

The canopy top hatch is omitted on purpose as this was standard practice to ditch the roof canopy prior to any emergency landing. There's nothing like having a Squadron Leader who flew the aircraft tell you how to build a Mosquito properly! 😄
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