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Thankyou for your kindness and warm welcome, it has been fun to meet and greet. A forum has been set up in the UK, and many old friends have joined that did not agree with the other forum, but came from the original forum. And so I will be joining them. Again, many thanks and good luck. Cheers Mike.

In the UK, if your last name is Smith, you become Smithy, Jones becomes Jonesy, and Scott becomes Scotty ( as in Star Trek) and if you ask too many questions then you become Nosey...

Take a piece of wet n dry auto sanding paper, fold it it half and run it along the seams, that will remove the mould marks.

I use a set of leather punches for the thicker card, punching out onto a block of vulcanised rubber - but have to do it in daytime - the neighbour thought SWMBO and me were having 10 rounds untill I showed him...

So now that I have sorted out the thermal blanket issue... I thought I would start on getting my next project underway. Having obtained drawings and loads of photos I dug out my MENG Chieftain Mk.10 and started cutting plastic... And build the personal ride of Mathew Newell (Photo via M...

Really good, but leave the drivers hatch 'popped' it adds character....

Every time I watch one of your builds I learn more and more about the Sherman that is not in the usual published books about how to model a Sherman. A true education in how to model a Sherman.

That is because we were taught the alphabet by the Romans who in turn were taught it by the Greeks, and then we had those people from Scandinavia come across and mess up the whole of our teachings and we got Geordies, who are the decendants of wayward Scots who escaped over the border... And on...

Really good, that is all I can say, really good....

I'm in, having read the book 'Heavy Metal' A tank company's battle to Baghdad. by Capt Jason Conroy USA, and 'Thunder Run' by David Zucchino have the kit on the bench now ready to go in the next few weeks... But I will watch and learn from you, and steal any ideas and solutions... Will you be...

Whoa!! hang on a minute!!! this decal, deekal, came from across the Atlantic and slowly worked its way into the lazy Brits language who were too lazy to keep calling them Transfers.... Transfer - as in transferring the image onto the subject through the use of water, and only clean water, none...

Used to go watch the 111E/F and EF from Upper Heyford and Lakenheath with the trusty camera and ran off many a roll of film on them. Good to see a build of this iconic aircraft, well done.

More... And here it is removed and trimmed, now for the rest of the kit. I will be painting the vehicle before I add the tissue 'thermal blanket' in NATO Green, and then once the 'blanket' is fitted this will be in a desert sand colour... Cheers Mike

So back on with the build after a little detour, will be bouncing back and forth between this and the Tiger... I had been trying different thickness of tissue to get a workable solution for the thermal blanket that the Barracuda is sewn onto. Previously I had used a two-part putty -...