Monday, 17 April 2023

Welling Model show and 'open day', Saturday April 15 2023

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  Welling in south-east London, England, in the borough of Bexley, 'used' to be in the historical county of Kent but is now jus...
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Wednesday, 12 April 2023

From the sublime to the ridiculous - Kotare and Beacon Models Spitfire Mk I in 32nd and 144th scales

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  Here are two 'new' model companies that deserve every tiny scrap of 'publicity' going. Both have opted for Spitfires as th...
Saturday, 11 March 2023

Painting exhausts on WWII fighters - Hawker Hurricane Mk1 R4118, Duxford

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. Hurricane Mk 1 R4118 with a nice new set of shiny exhausts. This for a fellow modeller at our club who told me in no uncertain terms that ...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Book Review - "Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe" by John Buckley

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  .. Buckley's previous work "British Armour in Normandy" was the sort of wonderful eye-opening re-appraisal of the British ...

Hasegawa 1:48 Marseille 3./JG 27 F-4/Trop

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  Another Hasegawa 48th Friedrich finished as perhaps the best known and documented machine of one of the best known Ritterkreuzträger of t...
Friday, 3 February 2023

AZ Model 1:72 Martin-Baker MB 5 - greatest prop fighter and worst-ever 72nd kit !

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  " .. The M.B.5 came online at the beginning of the jet era, and never had a chance to prove its worth. With a P-51 sleekness and cont...
Thursday, 26 January 2023

Wing Nut Wings Gotha G.1 (Grossflugzeug) bomber in 32nd scale by Rod Janes

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  no, I haven't built the WnW Gotha G.1 ....but I do know someone who has.  Mr Rod Janes of the Medway and East Kent Scale modellers clu...
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