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looking at the pictures this is the US version with the Harley V twin, we used the Rolls Royce Merlin i think....:vgood: engine..

Hi alex , Welcome back mate :cool:

could it be on the home page i cant access. ?

I recommended someone join here and they say they cant find any sign up page ?

I dont know what happened with my brother, we were no longer in touch but something went bang in the tank (chieftain) and he lost his hearing in one ear and was offered retirement or reassignment so he ended up in the spares R.E.M.E. warehouse. :-)

More importantly thats the RAF's only long range strategic bomber out out service :-(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17wvqgxz9do

Spoke to soon Paul ;-) On reflection i did this wrong. now i am trying to get the doors to fit in their holes.. What i should do is remove the back or the cockpit, fit the doors then re fit the back to fit the doors...so thats what i did. Back of the cockpit removed and doors taped in...

Good luck in this weather, its been 35c in London the last few weeks. I remember going up to see my brother on guard duty with the Blues and Royals. Although he was a tank commander he had to learn to ride a horse as they all do :) All the cavalry regiments are actually mechanised so Tank or...

This would make a brilliant Sledge :-) its a bit boring inside but basic helicopters are so i added a fire extinguisher made from a bit of sprue and some brass tube ;-)

ha ha , i was thinking the opposite, do the bubble first then if it goes south you haven't wasted your time on the rest :) Thanks again Rich. I forgot about modelling madness , i have done about a dozen reviews for them in the past about 20 years ago...

I wonder if the brick layer that built this in my town could help me with this If they put a tab on just one part i would at least have a starting point. AND.......i better mask this up first 🤯 🤣 :ph:

When i finished work and the company i worked for closed i had one of those laser colour samplers which i bought when i was developing a colour proofer machine for printing inks....like an idiot i left it behind thinking i would never need that again :)

This the mix Rich B supplied 5x XF81/1x XF58/1x XF71 which looks near enough to me given the problems with lighting and colour match on PC screens. Its certainly nearer than anything out of the Tamiya bottle. The above sample has a semi gloss clear coat which has darkened it a bit but it was...

Nearly finished .... I put the tail together first just to see if the over size plastic struts would work and i think they will be fine. The trellis is probably too thick but I calculate the actual dia is 20mm and 15mm which to scale would be 0.6mm and 0.4mm and that’s not going to work...

Yea i get using both gives a wider range however in manufacturing you cant switch between the two, half the holes drilled imperial and others drilled metric. Verniers on all the machine tools, lathes , mills grinders etc in imperial, screw cutting set up with metric lead screws and gearing...

its a great shame as during my 45 years in the toolroom we used BSF and BA as std. Towards the end it was becoming " non preferred " by stockists. Eventually we had to go metric on threads and it wasnt just a backward step it was a huge leap backwards. The metric range is a small fraction of the...

This belongs to the army air Corp historic flight :-) its based about 60 miles from me but i am too lazy to get in the car and go and have a look ... The engine, rear fairing, fuel tank, cabin and skids as well as the rota head all seem a variation on a theme :-)..and its Gloss

Thanks Rich , i have the ingredients for that recipe, i will see what the MRP paint i ordered looks like but good to have a back up.

one mistake i made with my WnW builds is the later war stuff as Paul mentioned often only had a turnbuckle on one end so appears in some pictures not to have them at all TBH its another of those things you can over think and turn a build into a nightmare so best to do what looks good to you. I...