Today (5th November) I cleared out my greenhouse of the remaining tomato plants (and found a cucumber). I haven’t been watering them for a couple of weeks and the plants were in a bad way with grey mould on many of them. This collection won’t be added to the crop weight for the year, even…… Continue reading 2023 – Last Tomatoes
Category: Hobby
Apple Harvest, Wildlife & Raspberry Pi
A mix of news in this post, some interesting and some not so interesting. Starting with the interesting. We’ve had (what seems like) an increase in the number of Red Admiral butterflies this year and, looking around the web, it seems this is a by-product of global warming (see its not all bad). Red Admiral…… Continue reading Apple Harvest, Wildlife & Raspberry Pi
Airfix Wellington Bomber
All the bitsCockpitAll these bits are hiddenFuselageSide ViewWings BuiltWith UndercarriageWings attachedAnd tailplaneEngine CowlingsBombs FittedSide Guns (should have left these unfitted)WheelsPropellorsMore or less finished for paintingFirst coat of TopFirst coal of undersideGreen topPaintedTransfers – note the letters are wrongFront ViewClose-upLadder I’ve added to my collection of models with the Wellington MKII bought from a local model…… Continue reading Airfix Wellington Bomber
Lancaster Bomber & Re-Supply
A few pictures of the final grouping of the Airfix kits. I’m wondering whether to buy a Diorama base to put it all together. The (unrealistic) scenario is the bomber being prepared for a sortie with some of the crew receiving a fnal briefing whilst the bombs are loaded and some of the chocks pulled…… Continue reading Lancaster Bomber & Re-Supply
Airfix – Bomber Resupply – 2
Having looked at the various options, I decided that the next thing to build was the Bedford Truck. Because there is an Oil Bowser, I decided that I would just make the truck, rather than the water carrier. This was the first model that I got significantly wrong. The rear axle has a hole in…… Continue reading Airfix – Bomber Resupply – 2
Airfix – Bomber Resupply Set & RAF Personnel
Having finished my Lancaster Bomber and found it wanting in some ways. I bought the Bomber Resupply Set and some RAF Personnel so that I could add to the Lancaster and make some form of display. Both arrived safely and seemed complete. The Personnel are of a different plastic to the other models, much softer…… Continue reading Airfix – Bomber Resupply Set & RAF Personnel
Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 1
Watching the series about Hornby and their railway models took me back to my childhood when I used to make Airfix models and it made me want to build something to occupy my time. Now I haven’t made an Airfix kit for over 50 years (the last thing I can remember building was Bismark when…… Continue reading Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 1
Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 4
All that’s really left to do is painting the outside of the bomber and fixing the remaining transfers. Many of the painting schemes assume the use of a spraygun but I don’t have one. I started by “undercoating” the outside of the model so that the subsequent coats would stick properly. I used a mix…… Continue reading Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 4
Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 3
The next part of the build was fitting the undercarriage. Obviously before doing this, you have to decide whether the undercarriage is going to be up or down. I was planning for it to be down so that the display (if I make one) will be the bomber on the ground with bombs being fitted…… Continue reading Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 3
Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 2
The next section of the build was to fit one side of the fuselage to the spars. This involved quite a lot of internal painting, painting some bits “cockpit green” and others “black”. To be honest not a lot of this shows in the completed model so (perhaps) some of it could have been ignored…… Continue reading Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 2