Sailorman

Nice to see you back here Heather!

60 years ago I watched as someone was given an Airfix "Evening Star" as a present. I was green with envy! I came across one a short while ago and built it last month. It was actually a lovely little kit.

I'm referring to the blue banner saying off-topic ..................... It seems I removed it from our forum but may have inadvertantly removed it for all!

Ratch, I have an option to delete the off topic post ...... I think! Would that work and would it delete it on all the fora? What do you think?

You get a list of forums on the right hand side and buy clicking on the word AIRFIX at the top of the list you uncheck all the different forums. If you then check the one you want you will get just that one.

Actually, It appears there is a 15 minute deadline for editing. It makes sense because if you go back to edit over and over again the thread ends up not making sense.

I'm not yet sure how it works here ....but on sites you are only able to edit until the next person posts. The minute the next post goes in you are unable to edit. I need to find out whether that is the case here.

Marto don't you see these dots?

All looks fine to me Jeff. A very interesting build. Keep the posts coming.

Click on the little 3 dots at the top right of your post and you will find the buttons you want there.

Don't try to paint 5 individual stripes on each wing. Paint one whole white section the full width of the striped area and then mask off the 3 white bands and paint the two black ones.

Nice build

Ratch, I sent you a couple of messages yesterday.

I can see two in your post of around an hour ago. It shows 2 photos of Jamaica. One is a Starboard aerial view and the other a stern view

The important thing is to ensure the bit connecting the part to the sprue is well supported on the underside so that you are cutting against something firm. Also be sure to place your finger on the part or it will fly off and be claimed by the carpet monster!

At the foot of the window when you are writing a post you'll find a paperclip near the text "Drag files here to attach or choose files..." Drag your photo there then submit.

Drag files to the bottom of the post window ..... where it says "Drag files here to attach or choose files

It's up and running now!

Here we go!

I built the 1:600 Acadamy kit. I built that one because it matched the scale of the Airfix 1:600 kits. I don't remember whether the 1:600 one came with rigging thread. I wouldn't have used it even if it did. I prefer using stretched sprue to rig the model. Right click on the image and select "open in a new TAB"

I've always gone by the principle that if you want to improve look at someone better than you. Having said that I wish Airfix Modelworld had more marine related articles. There are so many planes and tanks. I also miss having drawings. The Airfix Magazines used to have loads of scale plans for one to refer The original Airfix Magazines changed a lot over the years too. The first magazines - early sixties - used to include a number of articles - monthly round ups and very little modelling. They were very heavily into trains and balsa as a modelling medium. They moved more towards kits and plastic in the late sixties. I also subscribed to Scale Models. They too were very diverse and interesting but in time moved very heavily to motor vehicles and motorcycles. That's when I gave up buying it. It seems all magazines develop over the years. I suppose different editors have different ideas about what to include.

What I'd really like to see is a 1:144 Orion + Artemis ....

If it's highly detailed why remove it? If people handle it you are asking for it to be damaged. I don't think it will be easy to pick up without damaging it either.

Beautiful!

Nice build. The base does set it off.