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Out now - downloading

well done mate - great story

Perhaps not suitable for the calander but one for the old timers The lesser spotted formation flying Dogz

Last harrier flight from aircraft carrier http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11831207 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11830094

superb - a whole new level !!!

Hasegawa 1/48 FGR1 phantom Aries wheels Eduard cockpit set Tamiya paint and Halfords white Kit decals My solution to the intake problem - photograph sized to fit and put onto plastic card and gaps filled - not truely seemless but cheap and effective

Good news Hope the new treatment works out for you S

Sorry to hear the news Jim. Hope they can work on your treatment and get you what you need Take care and best wishes

I use one and it seemed to help, at the price it was worth the punt However there are many more variables in the system including your local exchange and especially your ISPs servers. Any problems I have had were primerily down to virgin.net servers however they seem to have got their act together and are good again S

Take care Jim, hope you feel better soon S

Here is my attempt at the Tamiya 1/48th Swordfish It was a MK2 kit and I know they didnt carry torpedos but I didnt like the look of the rockets so armed it as I wanted and I think itlooks better Apologies for dark photos , I get some more when the natural light is better....so that will probably be next June here in Scotland Apart from the kit I used Tamiya Etch for the wires Eduard etch for pit Xtracolor for paints Humbrol acrylic white spray Promodler wash I enjoyed making the kit and it had few problems apart from my own doing The bottom wing sags -they should be straight and I didnt notice until I checked my refrences after everything was set - I just trusted Tamiyas fit as nearly everything else was almost snap fit-it would have meant too much work and lots of flying etch wires to put right so Iv left it I had trouble getting a neat finish where the struts fit into the top wing. I didnt get a good finish with the humbrol spray and I found it difficult to work with the xtracolor white, I used this to touch up areas and it needed a few coats to cover anything and get a neat finish and it had a yellow tint over the humbrol The wire etch was difficult to glue and to get a neat join

Heads up - Tuesday 8pm bbc4 wellington bomber Tuesday 9pm bbc1 first light geoff wellum story Sunday 8.30 bbc1 battle of britain more here http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/schedule/battle_of_britain may come to iplayer for our colonial friends S

If its just for IL2 I would wait and save my pennies until BOB comes along as I dont think that the newer graphics cards will enhance this significantly my machine is nowhere near top spec now - dual core pentium with an nvidea 8800GT card that I bought second hand from a friend- and I can play perfect at full resolution 1680*1050 on my 22" monitor at high fps However when online I use the resolution the game is optimised for; 1024*768 I like nvidea , I have used both ATI and Nvidea and the only real difference I found was that the nvidea was brighter and sharper out of the box but with all the available tweaking options both drivers offer Im sure I could have set up the ATI the same way with a bit of effort.

nice !!! I was just going to post this and you beat me to it - also see this related article , http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10989709 and there are links to the iplayer as well with interviews of veterens

@Snacko No mate , apart from the dark promodlers wash to highlight the panel lines and the gears, plus a bit to dirty up the wheels, its very clean. The area behind the seat could probably benifit from drybrushing to bring out some detail but Im rubbish at this so left it alone. I probably should have preshaded some of the panel lines and would do so if I made a production one but the good thing about this "what if" is that I can call it a fairly new plane and get away with it I have just bought the Osprey book on painting techniques to help me improve on this area and its good so Ill see how I get on with my next kit

Here is my Revell 1/48th Eurofighter- I have done a harrier and have a A-10 so didnt want to build a plane grey scheme so went for this WHIF -decals are from the kit and Model Allience Dragon Hawks The kit decals were a pain - slid off in 2 secs in water and then wouldnt stick to kit so I had to use future to settle them down - the hawk dragon went on ok until I tried to make one last adjustment then I ripped one so had to hand paint the face Paint is humbrol grey primer and Tamiya black- future for varnish and pro-modlers black wash. dont know how long the pit will stay open as its very delicatly attatched and so cant see it lasting long

Not often you will see me praising mods but thought Id highlight this one http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,3594.0.html?PHPSESSID=8735e1b332a4835add3a9fe43d0d12ac It allows you to change any plane or loadout for any mission - QMB / Single / campain by dropdown boxes in the game So you can fly a mission with a 109F4 and if you dont like it, restart with a FW 190 A6 or spitfire etc simply put the download into your MODS folder - not JSQME and it works fine S

very neat work - well done

Looks to have been a great time - Hopefully Ill make it too one year

here are some archieve programes and broadcasts http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/battleofbritain/

The BBC is commemorating the BOB with a series of programmes - see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/battle-of-britain-season/ Im looking forward to "First Light" film as it is based on one of my favourite autobiographies S

Hope everyone has safe journeys and has an excellent time- look forward to seeing the pics As usual Im working so hopefully there will be some good stories and pics to cheer me up S

when we can find 11 decent players ...............................so might be a while

Oh BTW it was England playing USA last night mate not GB. Scotland has its own team as do Wales, Eire and N Ireland Great result for USA just have to look out my algeria and slovenia flags now

very nice I was in sidmouth on holiday once as a teenager - isnt the FAA ,museum near you? I remember going there, they had a concorde on display s