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Just to mention that, if you're up that way, this shop currently (last Thursday) has one of the best selections of 1/144 I have seen in a real shop for some time, as well as a good bits and bobs selection. Just across the hill from there, West End Model Centre in Colne is mainly trains with a small ...

I've just received a couple of vehicles from Paint & Glue and I have to say I'm staggered by the quality of printing - best 3D printed detail I've ever seen. I would just like them to make the vehicles I need for a diorama I've been planning for a long while. There are four types of vehicle each...

Mike's post has given me a new insight. Hoarding plastic kits is a means of carbon capture!

I used to plug mould canopies quite a lot in my unredeemed 1:72 days but I find it very hard to reach the level of precision needed in 1:144. If I remember rightly the canopy on this scratchbuilt Cutlass is plug moulded (it's a very big canopy for 1/144) but I wouldn't have had a hope of moulding th...

Painting windows black or another colour is a convention that currently runs at its strongest in airliner modelling. Opinions vary but many civil aviation modellers prefer the appearance of black or dark grey windows to that of glazed passenger cabin windows, which often resemble little lenses rathe...

I'd like to make this but it's at the extreme of my range!
David

There is a picture at https://www.flickr.com/photos/harryclaggers/30753196574 of this Constellation which ended up as a bar in Malta. This article https://www.guidememalta.com/en/throwba ... lation-bar refers.

I love to see a coherent thread from aviation history!

The General Electric Fusormak of 1952 made space flight practical, but the Douglas Space Craft 2 of 1959 made it economical. These are episodes in the long career to date (2/26/2035) of the 42nd DSC-2 spaceframe, USAF serial 60-21577. She entered service in 1963 as a VCSF-2, working regularly on fla...

Fantastic display in a perfect setting, Terry.