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Fully with you on that! Please, please, Mr. Airfix, we don't ALL build WW2 'planes! I would like to see some of your veteran and vintage cars re-issued. Years ago, the Airfix Magazine was full of up-grades for the Model T Ford. Are you missing a trick by not issuing perhaps a Model T van, Black Maria, Model T for the desert, ambulance - all these and more were in the old magazines. It would be great to see the wonderful Mini you used to do, and the Morris Minor. They would sell to non-modellers who are fans of these cars.

I have just completed the re-issued Beach Buggy. What a lovely model! I did not buy one when I was a kid and it was new on the market, which for years I was annoyed about, but having built one now, I am glad I didn't! Some of the parts are incredibly fiddly, and it's not always clear from the instructions how parts should go. Any chance of after-sales doing photo-etch replacements? But for all the fiddling, it is a lovely, pretty model. I may be forced to build another one.

Actually, Chuffing Billy, you have it slightly wrong. The ship Time Team were involved with, was the "Grace Dieu", Henry V's great ship from about 100 years before Henry V111's. I believe it was pretty vast, and was never a practical warship. Posting this on the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, 25th. October.