Kenneth ONeill

Old joke - Some people swear by Citadel paints; the rest of us swear at them.

Nice built. Of course, the usual issues with "rubber bands" are part hidden by the return rollers on the P IV.

Try Airfix Tribute Forum, for an archive of instruction leaflets. Note that this will not solve the problem of sourcing a suitable size motor and connectors.

I agree with Heather about small quantities of metal stock shapes. I'd also recommend going to your LMS if you have one, at least for the first order, so you can see exactly what you're buying, and make sure that rod (and thin tube if applicable) fit neatly inside larger bore tube.

Agreed with Heather. Incidentally, I'm guessing that on Britmodeller you mostly hangout on the Aircraft/WW2 and reviews forums. Do you mind telling me what your posting name there is so I can look out for you? Mine is Paws4thot, who has been my on-line alter ego since about 2_000 CE.

Nice. And in "small World syndrome", my best friend's grandfather was a carpenter for John Brown's and worked on the ship.

This "feels wrong, making lighting suggestions to you", but have you tried putting diffuser heads on the lights, or maybe bouncing them off the ceiling?

Well, the "additives" you mention in Essex (anywhere in SE England actually) are soluble lime and calcium salts from the rocks your mains water runs through/over to reach the water works or reservoirs. This is normally called "hard water", and yes I'll agree it's better to use deionised water for acrylic paint thinner (and also for car cooling systems and lead-acid batteries). We mostly get "soft water" in Scotland, which can be almost identical in analysis to deionised water.

"I use the deionised variety, because It seems to work better with aqueous acrylic media rather than tap water." Might I suggest that an indication of where you live is relevant here, because "tap water" is a chemically different thing here in the Wet of Scotland to in London for example.

Thirded; the CAD files can be shared, but the (CAM?) tools need to be different because the materials and assemblies are different.

Thanks Dominic. That agrees with my thoughts, based on having an unbuilt kit and destruction leaflet literally beside me.

Well, I read through the instructions (steps 48 to 59 inclusive), looked at sprues C and E, and the rear cylinder blocks C3 and C4, cowlings C7 to C10 and collector rings C5 and C6 are all handed, as are the exhaust stubs E32 and E33, so I'd not be surprised to find a built-in asymmetry.

Philip, Airfix have done 2 versions of an Eagle, 05015, for an A/B version (single or 2 seater), and 05028 for a E "mudhen" (2 seater only) variant. Since you don't state which kit you're building, I don't see how you expect anyone to help you.

Or, indeed, a common boxing of the 2 with "The Sea Shall Not Have Them" tie-in.

Cheers (although Tamiya's kit is actually of the F1 prototype retrofitted with airbrakes (correct for as displayed but wrong for an in service F1)).

I think it's still worth doing; I'm not aware of any other kit of an Meteor FI to FIII with the RR Welland engines (The F4 was the first Derwent engined variant).

Airfix did a fairly basic WW2 control tower in 1/72 scale, presently not in the catalogue. Try searching places like E-Bay.

Or try Amazon...

Great work. Ref the "Ready for Battle" set itself, I got the whole set (4 kits plus paints, glue and hairy sticks) for 2 quid more than the Hurricane alone.

Some of the old PSL modellers' guides, notably the ones that cover soft-skin conversions of the 3 RAF vehicle sets, After al, each one of those sold represents 25 to 50 possible sales of a vehicle set

Faith, Hope and Charity were Sea Gladiators in period normal Mediterranean camouflage; The 4th one (B100dyator) was field modified and never properly documented that I know of.

Matthew, that could be a policy decision by your network admin. My account isn't remembered either, and I know that's a policy decision.

Not "that much" later; for example Douglas Bader, Ian Gleed and Bob Tuck had the codes "DogsBody" grinning , IRG and RST by mid 1941.

I've just proposed a whole range of cold war airfraft support vehicles, including a crew bus.

1/72 Handley Page Hampden, as being the only WW2 period RAF medium bomber to not have a new(ish) tool. V-bomber resupply set(s); split it a bit and you can get separate bomb trains for physics packages, 1_000lb bombs and Blue Steel, an aircraft tug, a bowser and a crew bus. Some of them will work for a whiff of a TSR2 in squadron markings as well.