Best laid plans, etc....
So retirement so far is 80110ck5. Popped up to Upnorthshire to see Mum as soon as ‘support bubbles’ were allowed, had last visited in mid-March just before lockdown. She’s not been in the best of health so it was a timely visit. She spends a lot of time snoozing so it was a good chance to crack on with my 1-week GB entries.
Anyway, planned to see her again on the 6th of this month to take her to a medical appointment, etc. Well I unexpectedly had to head up a week earlier and still there. Not expected to be home for another week, need to get stuff sorted out for her in the home.
Took modelling stuff to pass the time, including potential ‘prototypes GB’ stuff. Anyway....prototype ‘Spitfire 25’ can’t progress much as I left some key bits at home, some plodding with a ‘Hawker P.1104’ factory mock up, and reasonable progress with a ‘FrankenCOIN’ mock up that appeared at a 1970s Farnborough display.
Will get round to posting GB threads when I get home, but for now:
‘Spitfire 25’ - wait and see!
‘Hawker P.1104’ - scrap Matchbox F-104 plus mostly leftovers from an old Airfix Harrier that haven’t gone into the still-to-be completed ‘P.1154(ish)’.
‘FrankenCOIN’ - bits from a Heller Bobcat Harrier T4, still more from that Airfix Harrier, bits from a Spiteful, a scrapped KP Spitfire fuselage and a pair of engines off a scrapped FROG Me262. A case of plastic, resin, glue, filler, sand to shape! I think it’ll have to be Hawker Siddeley, which means it can’t be later than 1976. As I went to the 1974 show, it’s probably going to be that one.