Stevepd

I'm in the process (nearly finished) of putting my 1/32 kits in sturdy plastic boxes into the loft, as others a spark has just said "too much". As others photos of their lofts which they could start an online model shop!. My stash is only 1/32 which I think is 10 kits. I'm currently building the 1/32 Italieri Tornado I purchased from you maybe a year ago. After that the Tamiya F-14 which I'm seriously considering will be my last one. But I see your occasional sales and think ooooo, but resisted to date

5 x Revell Tornados 2 x Revell Hawks

I've just recently built this kit and it does offer the Alconbury option. As mentioned thought not a lot of decals on it unless you do a pre-80 aircraftwhere it has a badge on the fin. I'm sure I put it on here......

Mine was a 1/48 Percival Provost. I built the 1/72 Matchbox kit as a kid and then the 1/48 was released some years ago. Great I thought, just do it. We'll I must have brought the Friday afternoon moulds and it fought me all the way. The canopy however was the turning point. Shocking kit and I was disappointed. Secondly the 1/48 Airfix Chipmunk. Again the fit was abysmal. I gave it to a modeller in work who'd recommended the kit to me and had made his. He made it but did say it was va very different quality to the one he'd just built. Knowing me, if its a small scale than 1/32 I just can't generate the enthusiasm to push through and model it into a finished kit. If its 1/32 though I have a completely different minset and will take a break and come back to it. I've never thrown a 1/32 kit away. Shameful I know.......

YES, just what I need for my Tamiya build

Hey mate, looks very well indeed. I'm at the early stages of mine where I'm about to offer up the front section to the main body. Any pointers as I'm going along?. I won't say much but could the canopy be closed do you think?.

I think the only bladed items are the Royal Mail top corridor. There's a few smiling knives up there. Seriously, another reason not to use them. The company my wife works for has boycotted them last year and use other means and carriers.

Frome model centre is also my local. I too have been in there for paints and had a peruse when I was in. However they had hardly any paints, let alone the colours I wanted. I put it down to bad timing. So some weeks later I went again and the situation was the same. Flippin heck, so I ordered them from Scotland and they arrived the following day (perhaps lucky). As above I think their pricing is out of touch with modern day shopping and cash is king. When they've attended the Salisbury model show 2 years ago, everything was top dollar and in my circles those who visited their stall purchased nothing. I've chosen not to return anymore rather than have a disappointing visit. Order online and a "man in a van" delivers it. I too have fond memories of childhood model shops, but the hobby is unrecognisable to today's hobby. It's not only the kit quality, endless accessories and AM we could only dream of, it's not only this but how we source them has modernised. Steve.

A fellow modeller asked my advice yesterday on the airfix Spitfire 1/24 scale. I told him from comments on here, it's a good kit. However I told him for roughly the same cash not to rule out the 1/32 Tamiya and Kotare offerings. I'm unsure if hrs chasing a particular mark, or just wants a Spitfire. Thoughts if you had that amount of cash, which would you go for.

I grew up under the circuit pattern of Boscombe Down. Parents tell me I had my first kit at the age of 5 and none of us can remember what it was. My Dad & grandad worked at Boscombe, so perhaps that sowed the seed. I love military aviation and in particular BD aircraft. Back in the day when there was loads of different types in bright colours, roll on the school hols. I hated football and was that kid that got picked last, always in goal. I'd spend the period leaning against the post watching the aircraft in the circuit. Occasionally I'd see a ball whizzing past!. I made kits as a kid. Zooming forward. I build models to replicate memories. Evey one I have built has a memory associated with it, so I build memories.

Could any of our Begium friends translate the text. There's not too much..... https://www.tracksandwings.be/post/un-alphajet-d-exception

Don't you hate him

Hi folks, I'm looking at starting my 1/32 Tamiya kit and have all good intentions of doing it as a Jolly Rogers aircraft (done a millions times before, I know). However I'm looking at some of this ResKit AM stuff but I'm lost on which Sidewinder model would have been used (around 1979). I found the Aim-54 would be an A model. Any info would be greatly received. Steve.

Well I've also just discovered this having no idea how I missed this. I have the Tamiya 1/32 kit and your build is inspirational (albeit I know a different kit). Ihere in the UK, I'm sat outside having coffee at about 6 degrees Celsius engrossed in the posts. My wife thinks I'm mad and making her feel cold looking at me. Having managed to get the Tamiya kit for £55 GBP, this gives me scope for AM additions. Keep the progress coming please.

Could be a anti-corrosion (for the 2 different materials) solution applied after assembly. Those lines look pretty man made with those straight edges.