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This is my first attempt at a ship. I would guess i started building about 55 years ago so quite a miles stone for me :cool: . I have to admit i know nothing about ships other than the basics you pick up on in life so all i can do is apply general modeling principles and steal other peoples...

A few months ago now i wrote to innocraftsman with a couple of comments about their gear. The first was about the lack of a chuck/indexing head and sent them a picture of what i was meaning. About a month back they introduced a chuck/indexing head exactly as i described.... I then wrote and...

Probably one of my all time great war movies was the Cruel sea. It was a prescribed book in English classes at school and the film was just so atmospheric and of the Era. Being in black and white helped and they managed to find authentic British weather and north Atlantic seas. Revel do a RN...

Any idea what this colour is on the engine cases. I come across it a lot on bikes and cars, it looks like a king of graphite maybe ?? Often see it on raw dark alloy castings like gearboxes.

I love the concept of this but putting all that effort into something that doesn’t fly and is never really finished kills it for me. The wood is obviously laser cut which helps. I remember hours carefully cutting out wing ribs that were just printed on to sheet balsa to build gliders. I used to...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1405971928319190 note the shot half way through of a jet pipe ? on a harrier and whats that aerolon doing under the tail :) Looks like a Jaguar jet pipe. Seriously though this sort of thing just wrecks the internet as a source of info

We gave you Prince Harry, in fairness Meghan is one of yours. , loathed and despised by the majority over here, what did we do to deserve this ? they were supplied with no warranty and no returns. From what i can gather Harry is unemployed and Meghan makes pots of jam?, fantastic contributors...

AJS 7R, 350cc single cylinder race bike from around 1959. So here we have a Protar model motorcycle. Founded in 1963 in Bologna by Tarquinio Provini, a famous motorcycle Grand Prix racer , they produced a wide range of motorcycle kits of the era and later branching into GP cars. Sold out to...

Ali Express £40.00 Innocraftsman £325.00 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012938519040.html? https://innocraftsman.com/products/2-inch-universal-precision-sine-adjustable-angle-vise-with-360-rotation-for-grinding-milling-drilling-cnc-machines

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/ukraine-to-send-captured-russian-t-72s-to-museums/

https://www.jadlamracingmodels.com/products/ryefield-models-challenger-3-tank-ultimate-bundle-1-35-model-kit-upgrades?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Midweek+Models+-+A+Chally+3%3F&_kx=3uHtlhuMqeIknwA80SgcyUtOUgb09Tsrvs26-0lX6EU.Wn7bvw Strange because we were always told that...

This is an Airco DH9 from WnW. An odd choice for me as a car and motorcycle builder these days but I was inspired by sandbaggeruk on largescalemodeller and his recent Armstrong-Whitworth F.K.3 . I picked this up on EBay for £100. More than I wanted to pay but way less than anyone else it seems...

A problem i think that effects every country these days is the cost of labour which dictates the cost of all repairs. For many years the cost of restoration of vintage motorcycles has far exceeded the completed values. To make matters worse what might be viable at the start of a project could...

The RAF said today that the first tempest will fly in 2028 with an in service date of 2035. Do others think maned Aircraft will still be about in 2035 ? given the ridiculous costs when even now drones will do the job for a fraction of the price . I know this is not model related although it...

Hot on the heels of my MS11 1968 F1car from MFH comes this. Could there be a bigger contrast in a similar subject? While the method of construction, the detail and the materials differ widely , I wonder if they can compete , side by side on display with 60 years between launch dates? So this is...

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many moons ago i got some 1mm black tubing in a kit, i cant remember what it was but the best way to describe it was "limp". If i said you could take a yard of it , hold it above a bench then lower it and coil it as it hit the bench under its own weight , that might describe how loose and limp...

Looking ahead to a future project i have been looking for pictures of an Airco DH9 . Its a very rare aircraft now and pictures are hard to find. HAC have a flying example but they dont allow downloads etc of pictures from their website however. Its now up for sale and the seller agents have...

https://flyer.co.uk/feature/shuttleworth-pilot-ok-after-triplane-crash/ I shouldn't laugh but the guy was unharmed and its a scene straight out of the film really. what other plane could you land in a tree and walk away :)