Blog?
To write a blog or not?
I'm hoping that this will encourage me to build/finish a few more models, especially if I try and update it regularly with progress reports and ideas for other whiffs. Comments and thread drift welcome
I think I'll give it a go, why not what could possibly go wrong?....
So A bit about me, I have worked on Airplanes (various) since leaving home, first for Her Majesty, then Later the Worlds Favorite airline, then much later from a full service airline to The Low fares, made simple airline. and currently a well known cargo airline, Excellence, simply delivered.
Hopefully you lot will be able to work out who I mean.
For me this hobby started with saving my pocket money and buying Airfix kits from the local newsagent. Series 1 of course still in the plastic bag with the Instructions stapled to the bag (had to be careful removing the staples otherwise ripped instructions...) remember Airfix paints in the little glass bottles? G1 was gloss red and I think G8 might have been silver? Later on with paper round money I moved onto the bigger ones, and the airspace on the ceiling of my bedroom became crowded with the likes of the Blenhiem IV, B17G ('a bit o lace') B29 ('Joltin Josie') P51 (fools paradise IV) and many more. I've still got a Boxed B29 somewhere with the wonderful written instruction sheet (Cement pilot (1) and Co-pilot (2) to seats (3,4) then cement locating pins....) First whiff? Not sure, think it was probably Concorde in green and brown, and The swedish marine transfers from the Airfix Vertol 107-II.
No idea why though...
Of course leaving home and joining the RAF put a bit of a stop to Modelling for a few years, but I Remember buying the Matchbox Victor in the NAAFI whilst based at Laarbruch (BFPO43) so the bug never really left. Later on I discovered Airfix magazine with its conversion articles (featuring balsa and talcum powder) Scale Modelling (covered all sorts, planes, cars, trucks, tanks etc) and then of course Scale Aircraft Modelling, with its wonderful Profiles/in depth articles on one type of Aircraft and of course if you read SAM, you read tail piece by Mike Mcavoy and it was reading him that made me realize that whiffing was OK. Of course finding here sometime in 2009 and all the wonderful modelers who lurk here was the icing on the cake, it's all been downhill from there.
Current projects include a Phantom for the in the Navy GB (it's in the paint shop) Flt Lt Pollocks Lightning F.6 (decals stage and has been for a while..) various other Lightnings, a RAuxAF Hunter, Belgian Tornado.... There are many others gathering dust waiting for that elusive spark to finish them.
However my current obsession is an Eduard Spitfire XVI in 1/72 (is there any other scale?) it's the Royal Edition = more marking options and P.E. It's very detailed and quite complex in its make up. There are over 25 parts that go to make up the cockpit including some really tiny etched bits that I've not fitted.
My fingers/eyesight/patience/tweezers aren't that good, and now I've closed the fuselage up you can't see half of them anyway... But I do like the pre painted instrument panel and seat belts, they really do make a difference. I've also been trawling the Web for more info about AVM Robb's personal Spitfire (late version) as that's the marking option I want to do. More on that subject another time.
All in all its turning out to be a very enjoyable project.
Might even add some pictures next time.
Regards
Keith
