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Hi Richard Re your control caravan I've been scratching around for reference material without much success.......and then a light came on. There is an example of the control cabin bit perfectly preserved and currently in use not far away - I just hadn't made the connection. Will get some detailed ph...

Two weekends running! Once more the famous three sallied forth (or possibly fifth - we are old) this time to Brampton's excellent St Ives show. Compared to last week we had a little more space but a completely different corner layout. We also tried to ring the changes a bit with our displays, I got ...

Mike Terry and David Hart had a good day out in the Fens at this small but very friendly show. We were able to show Terry's fantastic displays to great advantage as you will see from the attached photos - the Concorde / Red Arrows formation is, incidentally, flying over Terry's house! Spalding, sept...

second that - riggings one of those things I've never really cracked - in any scale let alone ours! Lovely job sir !!

The SIg had a great day out at Stafford yesterday. Huw, David, Tim, Emma and YT managed to show nearly 250 models (a record we think - possibly more as some of Tim 'n Emma's dioramas counted as one but had several models on!) Emma's delightful buildings attracted a lot of interest, and it was notice...

Inspired mostly by the the work of Tim 'n Emma I've had a break from the usual stuff. Full disclosure. I found a damaged 'Gundam' type model I'd built years ago at the bottom of a box and thought I might give it a refurb. The 'head' had a full rebuild - I had it figured as a 'sighting and sensor' un...

what a superb display! - space limits at 'ordinary' shows rarely give us this depth of specialist coverage on a particular theme and it's a joy to see them all together. And what a setting - I gather the museum has had some improvements in recent years - I was last there maybe ten years ago and it w...

It seems that ' don't drink paint' is too simple a message nowadays. Bought some Gunze paint the other day to find an annoying little tag taped to the jar. There are pictograms which suggest that it's corrosive (no wonder the GPO won't touch it) but when you unfurl the seemingly endless tape you fin...

very nice work Tim - I like the story behind each build and the suggestion of 'manyana maintenance' (not) going on at the MiG !

June 5th A really great show to see back on the calendar - better yet Rob Sullivan gave us some extra space and the SIG rose to the challenge with gusto....we won 'Best Display' - and they don't muck about up their either - proper solid glass trophy it is too ! This is proving a bumper year for us -...