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Your army is fantastic, it must have taken forever to paint them all and such gorgeous paint work. Actually I have made an onager, the much smaller artillery piece but it's not in 144th. An assault tower was also mentioned, well when my son was about 5 yrs old I built him a castle. I should have lef...

The story started about a month ago during those dreadful gales that we had recently. We had this gorgeous false acacia tree growing at the bottom of our garden and it started to lean badly. I very reluctantly had to have it felled (real tears here) but I told the lads to leave enough for me to put ...

A lovely model I particularly like how you have got your backgrounds to look so right.

As you say a lovely shot, I do wonder how the wings would have been constructed. They would be required to handle the thrust of those four massive engines mounted at such a distance from the wing mounting point. But then Barnes Wallace knew a thing or two.

(144 in 144) Late in the year 1144, Joscelin II allied with the Ortoqids and marched out of Edessa with almost his entire army to support the Ortoqid army against Aleppo. The trebuchet is in 1/144th scale, the throwing arm could be up to 50ft in length, this one is 48ft this approximates to the leng...

The stand looks so simple now doesn't it. I believe the photo pretty much shows the SIGs membership at that time. It does show all the exhibitors for that year

cal and Kent.jpeg It was at my first Telford, in fact one of my first ever model shows I exhibited my Short Calcutta and Short Kent on the Between the Wars Aircraft SIGs table. David Hart saw them and suggested forming a 1/144th scale Special Interest Group. David knew the ropes so in no time the g...