Old Collingwood

And them hoofs on that metal floor disturbing the concentration while playing cards and Battleships. OC.

Yep, they are waiting for some wheels to be shipped over by horse and cart but have to go though the fields near - yes you guessed it Waterloo then they can carry on with the building of the chopper - there is a mixed bag of soldiers inside sitting it out playing cards - French Infantry, KGL snipers , British Infantry and even a few cuirassiers but without the horses - the horses are in one of the aircraft hangers sharing some freeze dried hay and condensed water pelets, OC.

This looks very interesting mate - good practice if you ever fancied building a whole scale castle. OC.

Thank you Denis. OC.

Evening all, right the Wokka needs power - please find fitted One engine glued and filled, the other one is on the other side but needs filling around the gaps. Perhaps I should call it - "The Time Machine"😉 OC.

Yep Afghanistan I believe. OC.

Liking the look of that mate - very nice paitwork. OC.

Found this on the net today (not my pic) shows what we were talking about. OC.

Thank you brother.🤛 OC.

Another nice build under your belt Greg, looking forward to stage Two as I have seen quite a few of them and her sisters. OC.

Well said - its a true testament (I know I havn't spelt that right) to our fine forum we are a family and we stray when food is on the table or mentioned - some of us can smell it even when offline or on another site, lets say its fuel for the brain to keep our build - building - keep building (bet that doesn't make much sense)☺️ OC.

I decided to show my bucket list of all the kits I would either like to do or have because of a special reason to me and the admiral, so here goes - 1/350 HMS Warspite Battleship, because both myself and the admiral loved the look of her - built. 1/350 HMS Trafalgar Class Sub, because we used to see them by the coast where we used to live - built. 1/72 Black Pearl, built for the admiral as she loves the films - built. 1/48 RAF WW2 British Airfield Diorama, built in my late farthers memory as he used to work on various airframes during the war - built. 1/48 Royal Navy Seafire, my farther also used to work on these - built. 1/48 RAF CH47 Chinook, It was the first military helicopter the admiral saw with me - building. 1/48 Royal Navy Hawk, It was the first fast jet that the admiral saw with myself on one of our walks - In my old stash to be built. 1/48 RAF Hurricane, my farther also used to work on these - future project (perhaps next year). 52mm Battle for La Haye Sainte (Waterloo) diorama, used to playfight with the Airfix OO scale when I was a kid - on-going project. 1/350 Type 42 Destroyer HMS Edinburgh, we used to see her a few time where we used to live - another future project late next year as its not in production yet but will be. 1/35 Scammell Commander Tank Transporter and Challenger 2 latest up armoured Tank, we used to see these go past us on the way to one of the ranges (superb sight) - future project. 1/18 Lotus Esprit Turbo (With Full body kit) I very nearly purchased one of these years back in a mad heart over head moment - future project (I have not come across one of these in kit form. 1/48 French Navy Super Etendard (SEN) + 1/48 French Navy Rafale, because we used to see these over a Two week period on a range near to were we used to live - future project. 65mm Englsh Civil War figures, because I wanted to join up as a reinactor when I was younger - future project. OC.

Awsome work - really nice. OC.

No problem at all mate, I completely agree about the pre-work that needs doing first - it helps having kits of this size - more space to work on. OC.

Some good progress there mate - coming along nicely. OC.

Good day all, more work on the rear rotor housing - I decided to completely fill in those horrible Huge panel line gaps and sand them flat. OC.

Thank you Denis, yep its taking a bit of fiddling to get it to look right - getting there though - bit by bit. OC.

After doing some google searches - that part in the rear rotor housing just visible is some kind of Gearbox unit? OC.

Royal Sovereign would make a Grand Kit.😉😀 OC.

Very nice rope work - that serving looks just about perfect. OC.

Yep, its one of the flaws with it - shame really as everything else is about right with kit - takes some fiddling with the fit, but gets there in the end. OC.

I'm the same with flying - ok if I dont look down out the window and have been ok when going through clouds as the obscure the ground - have flown in a C172 (4 seats) then a B707 (180) then a B737 (130) and last a DH Dove about 10 seats I think, the dove didn't help at the pilot said one of the engines had a slight miss-firing problem at the time (my face then)😵😨 OC.

Evening all, more progress - not much content but some good improvement, I painted the inside cover of the rear fuselage rotor area, then it was glued inplace and then a few gaps were filled and sanded, then on the same general area - the kit makers decided to make an acess cover panel lines be engraved - but in true life the gap would be about 2-3 Inches wide, so I had a go at filling the gap with my vallejo filler - hopefuly this will look ok when primed and painted. OC.

I was once asked to do a bungy jump - I replied "Not on your nelly" OC.

I couldn't have done it as I suffer from vertigo when high up, I can't even look down from a high building, I was up the top ramparts of a castle the once and nearly got stuck as I froze from looking down over the edge. Nope can't do hights. OC.