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Now confirmed. Emma, Tim and Huw currently planning to display.

She looks really smart. Aside from the cockpit detail, do you think the PR kit is better than the Revell?

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20240125_085400_0249.jpg A good show and not quite as frigid as previous years - although we did get buffeted by hurricane force winds as we left and one of Emma's dioramas shed several small figures - so next time the Christmas market appears, they wi...

This is a small gathering, more like a club social than a show, with free entry to the general public - a few groups will there from different parts of the modelling spectrum but no traders. They are hopeful it will be successful and they may run a full show next year. We'll be there with a small di...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20240102_220714_4188.jpg Germany, 1939 - the early model Emil Bf-109 E-1 appears in mid-1939 and quickly becomes one of the most potent weapons in the Luftwaffe. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20230910_112911_1291.jpg After having a goo...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20240101_214110_0585.jpg California, Christmas 1941. With war declared and fears of a grand Japanese fleet attack on the West Coast, every fighter aircraft available has been called into action, which meant even uncrating these strange Vultee jobs whic...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20240101_214106_6788.jpg Somewhere in North Africa, mid-1941, an SAS jeep and LRDG truck travel across the desert sands... https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20231205_073456_6806.jpg The idea for this scene came about when I saw the lovely ...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/sharing_images/Resize_20240101_214053_3569.jpg April 1918, in the dying light of the day a pilot in the newly named RAF chats to his mechanic as he awaits orders for another night flight to intercept the bombers flying from Flanders and scourging the people of London https:...

Superb little build

What you might be seeing is the scratch build collections. Several of our members do a mighty fine job of whittling wood or mashing plastic parts into rare, prototype or even purely fantasy creations. These do as a result usually have solid canopy areas which are typically painted gloss black as the...