goldhammer

Patience grasshopper, patience.  I keep seeing the end of the box under the desk, and have to keep fingers from reaching......lol, so I buried it under 3 new kits

 

LOL!  Had to bury it.  I still couldn't trust myself.  LOL!  I've open that kit about 5 times since it has been here....yeap, all the parts are still there.  LOL!

Bish

Glad to see you got your hands on it Boddy. Nice to see Kenya on the list.

Well, now that the warm up acts, Commonwealth Games and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, are finished, we can all look forward to the main event in 10 days time.

 

10 days!?!?!  Gheez.  LOL!  Can't wait to get it started!

OK, I'm ready now. I received this from my wife today. Luckly I put the PE inside the box before I left Boise. It will probably be a couple months till I get to it though.

I'm going to do Sub-Lt Tony Beale's Ark Royal Bismark attack scheme. Beale's torpedo struck the Bismark admidships port side, which hit the torpedo belt and reportaliy did little damage.

Good to see you got your hands on it Steve, will be looking forwardto seeing that.

I built this little kit some time ago and got another one to see if I can make it better by enhancing the cockpit with some creative painting.

The red colour is the inside of the doped linnen. I rebuilt a left bottom wing for a Tigermoth last year at work and found some of this red/brown linnen on the aileron bellcrank box....might even have been from WW2 :-)

I also added straps from lead foil.

 IMG_20180427_182556 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Oh darn you are correct, I was to quick off the mark....I will wait for the official start before I continue.

Theuns

Theuns

Oh darn you are correct, I was to quick off the mark....I will wait for the official start before I continue.

 

Theuns

 

Umpire, this person is cheating...

Theuns

Oh darn you are correct, I was to quick off the mark....I will wait for the official start before I continue.

 

Theuns

 

lol, i think you can be forgiven. At first i thought you had accidentally posted it in teh wrong thread as i saw your other one. But i guess its only me that does that

It is our way of rebelling against the imperial "masters" ;-)

Theuns

Theuns

It is our way of rebelling against the imperial "masters" ;-)

 

Theuns

 

And this is just the sort of chaos that ensure's when we give the colonies some slack

Bish

 

 

Theuns

It is our way of rebelling against the imperial "masters" ;-)

 

Theuns

 

 

 

 

And this is just the sort of chaos that ensure's when we give the colonies some slack

 

Yes, becoming extremely wealthy in there own right and able to self govern with a puppet head of state.. Is that what you meant?

damouav

 

Bish

 

 

Theuns

It is our way of rebelling against the imperial "masters" ;-)

 

Theuns

 

 

 

 

And this is just the sort of chaos that ensure's when we give the colonies some slack

 

 

 

 

Yes, becoming extremely wealthy in there own right and able to self govern with a puppet head of state.. Is that what you meant?

 

Yes, that sort of thing.

How dare you

He he he

I took no offences at anything said apart from the word "colonies".

However, more to the point, 39 hours to go till we can get our builds on!

At least you guys didn't get some so upset you decided to start driving on the wrong side of the road like our new best friends the French back in 1776...  

damouav

He he he

I took no offences at anything said apart from the word "colonies".

However, more to the point, 39 hours to go till we can get our builds on!

 

 

Yes, my error, i should have said 'and Dominions'

Useing Kiritimati time, which of course is also a member, we have just under 35 hours to go. So better than you thought.

Bish

 

 

damouav

He he he

I took no offences at anything said apart from the word "colonies".

However, more to the point, 39 hours to go till we can get our builds on!

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, my error, i should have said 'and Dominions'

Useing Kiritimati time, which of course is also a member, we have just under 35 hours to go. So better than you thought.

 

We could always reenact the French Revolution and put All the Royals to the gallows...

I still don't have my decals for my build, but the speed  I build that shouldn't be a problem.

Theuns

Oh darn you are correct, I was to quick off the mark....I will wait for the official start before I continue.

 

Theuns

 

Lol... I love it.  The anticipation is making me anxious too!

Well, the UK had to send 250,000 troops here to SA to come put down the "silly little uprising" when the Boers decided they wanted to rather keep their own gold , here they were met by the best horseback mounted marksmen and the African climate didnt help the UK troops either ;-)

The empire was never the same after that LOL

I had two great grandfather who became "guests" of her magesty on St Helena. My Grand Parents were bitter about it for the decades after...when my dad brought home "rooi nek" (afrikaans for red neck - slang for british) girl it was unheard of! Lucky for me I grew up afrikaans and english so have the best of both worlds and even as a "half blood" became the grand parient's fav LOL

Theuns

Theuns

Well, the UK had to send 250,000 troops here to SA to come put down the "silly little uprising" when the Boers decided they wanted to rather keep their own gold , here they were met by the best horseback mounted marksmen and the African climate didnt help the UK troops either ;-)

The empire was never the same after that LOL

I had two great grandfather who became "guests" of her magesty on St Helena. My Grand Parents were bitter about it for the decades after...when my dad brought home "rooi nek" (afrikaans for red neck - slang for british) girl it was unheard of! Lucky for me I grew up afrikaans and english so have the best of both worlds and even as a "half blood" became the grand parient's fav LOL

 

Theuns

 

Well they sent 10s of thousand to Australia in the 18th century which they couldnt wait to see the back of, know we cant get rid of them out of the country quick enough...

But enough pom bashing, let us focus on the build off!

No offence intended Bish.

None taken damo, bit of banter is good for the soul

Okay, so I’ve finally gotten underway on the Hawk 200, and I just have to say, “What the hell, Matchbox?!” If you look at the enclosed photos, you’ll notice the right fuselage half has alignment pins to fit it to the left half of the fuselage; a good number of them actually, seven in all.  That’s quite sufficient for such a small plane.  However, if you look at the left fuselage half, you’ll notice there are NO alignment holes to match to the pins!  Not a single one.  Is this some kind of sick joke or what?

https://pin.it/76qhxt3c4d7hue

https://pin.it/aqhg4csbxq47jk

Some ones keen. Don't worry, we kick off in 3 hours anyway.

4hours 5mins....

As its now well into May 1st on Kiritimati, which is noit only the land on earth to see the new day but is also a member of the Commonwealth, you may now begin.

lets have another cracking GB as you made the RAF one.

Hey! If it's alright, I'll join with Airfix's 1/72 Folland Gnat T.1, British markings. I might also build a Matchbox 1/72 Folland Gnat from the Pakistani airforce later, but I'm not sure yet 

Glad to have you on board Brynn. Look forwrad to seeing the Gnat.

Ok Brynn, got you added.

Just making a start on the MiG and hopeing the Aires resin set, designed for the Italeri kit, fits.

Since we have our host's blessing and he is only 8 hours ahead, got started on painting the interior of fuse and pit.  Pics coming as I progress, pretty bare inside, as fitting for a 60's Revell.