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  1. Old Collingwood
    Glad I could help Mike, will look forward to seeing that. OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    Hi Mike, yep I used the one Coastal Kits base it was sent to me from someone, it was used in my Airfield dio with the mosquito and spit with vehicles and figures, they are a thick rubber type material and really well made - easy to trim to size you want also. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    It looks perfect to me just as it is - please dont spoil it You know the saying. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    Very very nice - fidly but Sooooo.........delicate, got to be so careful how you handle that thing. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    Or as Lou said above, thats another good reference for most things. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    This site might be of use to you have a look they do have update sets for your Hurricane in there - OC. http://www.relishmodels.co.uk/index.php?target=products&mode=search&subcats=Y&type=extended&avail=Y&pshort=N&pfull=N&pname=Y&pkeywords=Y&cid=0&match=all&q=Hurricane&x=8&y=6
  7. Old Collingwood
    We are all equal here - just different levels of it - one thing we share (well about Twenty actually) Humour, whit, love of food, humour, more whit, oh and cant foreget food, mixed in with that some building.😉☺️ OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Warm welcome to our little piece of paradise, you have chosen the right place to share your work. OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    Yes thanks Phil. OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly Phil, hope all is good with you and the family. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, so it begins - starting with the cockpit/instrument panels, with the kit are some pe panels and not bad looking either, I did however order the pe update set from Airwaves, but to be fair I had not looked at it for a good while - well years to be honest, and I found they were some considerable size Way too big to fit, I had to look at the packaging to make sure they hadn't sent out the 1/32 scale ones, nope 1/48 but for a different kit not the Italeri - but I was able to do a bit of "Cut and fit" using a mixture of both. The front panel I will sand slightly around the edges. I started with the panels as I said these fit perfect, thay have the cut outs for the dials - so I thought paint black behind all over and stick the pe panels down to this, so I decided to use the Vallejo Primer (Black) and instead of trying to glue them down after - I stuck them down onto wet paint then forced dried them - "Yep they stuck" but I will dab some gloss clear coat into the dials after painting the face of the panel, this should help secure them, I then started fixing down the side panels - I have no ca glue at the moment but "No worries" as I used my revell pro plastic glue, I have found if I get it warm it melts the pe down onto the plastic and it does stay there ok. So its a start. OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    Most welcome Denis. should be enough Hot Dogs to go round I think there is a crate load coming☺️ OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    With me its just plain bockwurst in a soft long roll and fried onions - no sause or mustard ..........yummy. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    Now were talking.........Yum scrum. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Give these guys a look over - they have some great stuff - basis etc. https://www.coastalkits.co.uk/newstore/ OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    Looking very smooth Bob. OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    Got any Hot Dogs and Onions ? love them. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Thanks Jack. OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Welcome EG. OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    Hiya Ken, it will be the Gloss Black Royal Navy one as in the photo above, as this is the exact type we saw together. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    More than welcome Mike. OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Lou, taken from someone elses description I quote - It was used from 1938 up until June 1940, half white half black, for observation of friendly aircraft from the ground. Remember that there was no country-wide ground control radar. Radar only worked looking out to sea, or at higher altitudes, initially only being placed on coastal sites . Tracking over the land, friendly or enemy, was down to the Observer Air Corps. It was replaced by Sky undersides, but in November 1940 the black wing was reinstated. I'm not sure when it finally disappeared, possibly not until the introduction of the Day Fighter Scheme, with undersides of Medium Sea Grey. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    Giving my figures a small break and changing subjects I have decided to drag this out of my old stock, its been sat in the cupboard for a couple of years - but I decided it would make a nice pre christmas build. The history behind this build is - where the admiral and myself used to live , we were on one of our first walks through the countryside when all of a sudden a low fast jet blasted over our heads just a couple of hundread feet above our heads, it really impressed the admiral and was the first fast jet she had seen. So on with the pics of the kit and an internet photo of the actual Jet. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    Very very nice - would love to see more if you fancy doing some more aircraft. OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    Now that is looking Very nice - its a very convincing cockpit indeed. OC.

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