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  • Birthday 02/17/1970

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    Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England
  • Interests
    Model building, Oil painting & Astronomy

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  1.    AJohnson reacted to a post in a topic: Bristol-Fairchild Bolingbroke Mk IVT by realworkingsailor - Kitbashed from Airfix Blenheim Mk IV - 1/72
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  16. AJohnson
    Congratulations Alan, a fine looking ship!
  17.    Dave_E reacted to a post in a topic: Bristol-Fairchild Bolingbroke Mk IVT by realworkingsailor - Kitbashed from Airfix Blenheim Mk IV - 1/72
  18. AJohnson
    Welcome to MSW!
  19.    Canute reacted to a post in a topic: Boulton-Paul Defiant Mk 1 by AJohnson - Airfix - 1:48 - PLASTIC
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  23. AJohnson
    Well that came Real nice!
  24. AJohnson
    Thanks Alan, the turret is finished and I couldn't resist dry fitting it into the tub for a sneak preview. 🤓 Painting up next, final sanding and filling done and some panel-line pre shading. I had a minor disaster and near flirtation with the carpet monster when one of the undercarriage struts pinged-off into the ether, only to be found by standing on it! 😖 All fixed now though. 😁 Thanks all for looking in.
  25. AJohnson
    Looking great Alan as usual! Love how these WW1 ships looked.
  26. AJohnson
    Wow Andy, I struggle with prop tips and you doing a whole bird in it (yellow) 😆
  27. AJohnson
    Congratulations Kevin!
  28. AJohnson
    Agreed, the cockpit detail is outstanding in 1/72!
  29. AJohnson
    Next instalment, completed the gun turret structure, this was a fun bit of the build and consisted of about 20 parts on its own. Shame it is all black and buried in the aft cockpit , so most of it will be hidden. The turret glazing is only temporary and I will probably use the optional glazing that has the doors open, so you can see at least a little of the interior. The fuselage and wings went together no problem and only a little filler required around the wheel wells and wing roots. Everything has had its first coat of primer, (AK rattle can) just a few small areas to sort before pre-shading and then painting starts. While that is underway I will also set-to masking the clear parts and assembling the undercarriage. Thanks for looking in.
  30. AJohnson
    Congratulations Bob!
  31. AJohnson
    Really looking forward to seeing this project develop.
  32. AJohnson
    How are you keeping Dave, hope you are well? Maybe like me you have retreated indoors out of the cold garage until things warm up! I have so stopped building Sparkler for a bit, just pootling about with little plastic kits to keep my hand in. Looking forward to seeing you back on Diana when you can.
  33. AJohnson
    I have started a nice easy "Non-ship" build while I am waiting for the garage to warm up and I can return to making sawdust with my HMS Sparkler build. My health has not been brilliant this last couple of months, so being out in the cold garage is not appealing at the moment. I got this one off FleaBay reasonably priced and intend to build in OOB with the exception of some P.E. seatbelts. This might be something of a quick build, as I have started it this weekend gone and it is just flying together -just what the Doctor ordered! 😁 I have built Airfix's 1/72 version of this and there are many similarities between the kits, and both go together well. I won't say anything about the Defiant, as a great discussion on the Defiant was included in Andy's @realworkingsailorexcellent build log of the 1/72 version here:- https://modelshipworld.com/topic/33924-boulton-paul-defiant-mk-1-nf-by-realworkingsailor-finished-airfix-172/#comment-965615 I'm going to finish mine in the colours of No.2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron, based at Hatfield Woodhouse, South Yorkshire in September 1940, for no other reason it was based in my home County of Yorkshire and the squadron code "KO" were the maiden initials of the Admiral! A few pictures of the kit contents and the progress made on the cockpit. I have now moved on to the mini-kit of the gun turret.
  34. AJohnson
    Andy you are making great progress. I have built this one a couple of time, once as a NF Mk.1 and then. Mk.IV the first was fine as the bomb bay was closed up for the gun pack, but as you have found my Mk.IV I did with open bomb bay and found the same issues. Lots of surgery and filler! 🤣 You are over the “hump” looking forward to seeing your Bolly take shape! 😀
  35. AJohnson
    Welcome to MSW from North Yorkshire,

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