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A frustrating evening with the #JFFCancerResearch triple build. The positive- the Bearcats rudder repair looks good. The tail feathers are on the Corsair - but they keep drooping despite the tape, hopefully they’ll hold ok. The less said about the I-16s cowling the better 🤬

@Y16052450 Good work 😀 Glad to see it’s not just me that has multiple builds on the go!

英軍機大増産😍 もう少しで完成🌌

A few photos of the finished Blenheim I - having built the I and the IV I can say I definitely prefer the kit for the IV. I found the cockpit glazing on the I a real pain.

@Rheumatoidman @Airfix That’s looking great - love to see spitfires in something other than RAF markings 😀

Manufacturer: @Airfix Scale : 1-48 Model: Spitfire MK IXe Paints : Model air acrylic Decals are on !! No 5 Eskadrille, Royal Danish Airforce, 🇩🇰 1947

Good progress on the #JFFCancerResearch builds this evening. Corsair fuselage together and wings on, Same for the Bearcat. The tiny I-16 is currently about 90% elastic bands!

As you can see - the Bearcat has suffered a bit, as well as the missing gear door and bent rudder it looks like moths have been at the instructions 😂 Not much to this kit so it’ll go together quite quickly. I’ll make a replacement gear door out of something.

I’ll continue my scattergun approach with a triple entry for #JFFCancerResearch These are all bargain bin kits - Corsair has no box, Bearcat is missing an undercarriage door and decals, also has a bent rudder, the I-16 looks like someone has run over the box.

@ww1pen Thanks 😀

@BHobbystuff Awesome. This is a really special project.

Delivered the layout to dad this evening - he was surprised and happy to see some of his trains again 😀 I’m calling that a success 👍🏻

@CastlesofImagin Thanks, he was very happy with it - job done!

@BHobbystuff It's nice how you were able to recycle some of his trains. That's awesome.

@Rheumatoidman Thanks, he said he hadn’t expected to ever see his trains again, his face lit up when he saw it.

@BHobbystuff So glad your Dad likes it, it’s a fantastic piece of work and you put a lot into it well done 👏👏👏👏👏

@Gliderpilot44 Nothing like easing your way into it! Looking good 😀

My first real attempt at aircraft. I’m not trying to be cocky, but I am rather chuffed at this beastie.

@Dr_TheHistories Vikings? Or the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu? (KLF)

In 1941, a strange report came from the skies above the English Channel during WWII... A Spitfire flying on patrol from RAF Manston was diverted to an area near the Goodwin Sands to investigate what was believed to be an enemy vessel. The young flying officer later reported that what he saw did not look like any modern ship. Instead, he claimed it resembled a Viking longship! The pilot made a firing pass, but the vessel did not change course. According to his report, it continued steadily across the sands as dusk began to fall. Another aircraft was scrambled and a Royal Navy launch headed to the area. Both the naval crew and the pilot of the spotter aircraft later reported seeing what appeared to be a long, narrow vessel in the mist and gloom. The spotter aircraft flew low enough for the pilot to say he could see what looked like men rowing the ship, dressed in what he described as Viking-style clothing. No wreck, vessel or explanation was ever found. Whether it was an illusion in fading light, a misidentified boat, or simply one of those strange wartime sightings, the story has remained one of the more curious tales connected with the waters off Kent. A ghostly invasion perhaps... or just a trick of the sea and the evening mist. © MedievalHistoria #drthehistories

@NWBroJaneway This is why I never buy any of the named character models, my armies are insignificant in the scale of 40k - the chances of any of the big names being anywhere near them are pretty much zero. All hail the nameless hordes that die in service of the Emperor.

40k used to be a vast universe full of Your Dudes. Your Dudes wouldn't kill Abbadon, they wouldn't drive off the Nids from our galaxy or destroy the C'Tan. They wouldn't move "the narrative" forward. But Your Dudes had victories and losses through playing the game that felt personal to you. And Your Friends Dudes did as well. And Their Friends Dudes did too. This all connected up. This all made the universe feel vast without endless corporate lore dumps and marketing videos. This collective universe of fanon through engaging with the wargame via modelling and playing felt more real than reading about Rowboat having a fight with Mortarion and winning the indomitus crusade. Because Your Dudes didn't do that. And Rowboat doing it means Your Dudes, the custom army you made, the fanon lore you created, none of it really mattered. Because really the main character of 40k isn't Your Dudes anymore. It's the official characters. And Your Dudes will never be allowed to have a spotlight in your own games again. This shrinks the universe from the collective imagination of the fans to whatever GW make and approve of themselves. And this is poison to any Wargame. No game lorelets will never understand that 40k was once a wargame with supplimental material. If you weren't playing 40k you weren't engaging with the universe. But now GW caters to those people and will die after they are abandoned.

@TankerModelGuy Love it! Great aircraft and a great build 👍🏻

DONE! Tamiya 1/48 scale Douglas A-1J Skyraider 56th Special Ops Wing 602nd Fighter Squadron Thailand, 1969

Slow progress- I’ve painted the rock faces a basic grey as a starting point. Washes and dry brushing to come.

I’ve added some AK ‘rough texture’ to the rock faces on the layout - added after I’d painted the brown so I could see where it was going on.

Replacement roundels onto the Blenheim IV also added the walkway that I’d missed to the I.

I tried to sort of the wrinkly roundel - didn’t go well 😂 I’ll dig some more out and try again!

A bit more progress on the layout - I’ve attached card to the exposed edges of the polystyrene and painted it black, also given everything a coat of “earth” colour.