Please use the buttons at the left to navigate around the site (if you can't see the buttons try this link to restore the Navigation Bar) Website News and Updates: February   70th Anniversary of the Channel Dash & surrender of Singapore I'm feeling a bit of Deja Vu here, with another superb new mould Airfix naval aircraft kit occupying my attention for the first few months of the year. Last year was the Sea Vixen, this year it's the fantastic new Airfix kit of the Fairey Swordfish. Most appropriate too, as this month marks the 70th anniversary of one of the Swordfish best known operations, the ill-fated attempt to stop the Channel Dash.   And then a kit that I first built about 40 years ago, the quaint Airfix Roland C.11 Walfisch. Just as much fun as I remember! January 2012   Happy New Year! So here we are at the start of another new modelling year; and my New Year's resolution? to keep on building models like mad! To start the new year off then, here are a few things that I completed in December. First up is a rather nice Hobbyboss Rafale B in Tiger Meet markings. And to follow, an Italeri T-62 tank, built in a hotel room. I fear there may be many more of these "deployed builds" in the coming year. December 70th Anniversary of the sinking of HMS PRINCE OF WALES and HMS REPULSE   Finishing the year in much the same way as it began, my main model this month is a conversion of the old FROG Sea Vixen into a representation of the 3rd DH110 Prototype.     Then another helicopter; the Italeri kit of the Bell AH-1W Sea Cobra used by the US Marines.     Nearly finishing off the year, a very small but marvellously detailed BW Models kit of the Daimler FV702 Ferret Scout Car.   And finally, another WW2 70th Anniversary build - a Brewster Buffalo from 453 Sqn RAAF that fought against the Japanese invasion of Malaysia and Singapore, 70 years ago this month. Thank you for looking at my model collection; over the last year, the website has received about 4,000 visits each month (with around 40,000 hits). I hope that at least some of you have found it interesting. Please have a very merry Christmas and accept my very best wishes for 2012. November 70th Anniversary of the sinking of HMS ARK ROYAL   Another Lynx joins the pack, this time a German Navy "Tiger Meet" Lynx Mk.88A, using an Airfix kit and the decals left over from last month's HobbyBoss kit.   To mark the 55th Anniversary of the Suez Invasion, I have modified an old Airfix Centurion tank into one of the 6RTR Centurion Mk.5 tanks landed to support 3 Cdo Bgde at Port Said in November 1956. October   Winter is with us again ? well... not really, as it seems to be unseasonably warm and sunny here in the west country. Work is taking its toll on my model building activities, but I hope to meet up with some of you at the forthcoming Fleet Air Arm Museum Model Show at Yeovilton on 23 October, where I hope to be displaying a comprehensive set of Lynx models, to celebrate 40 years since its first flight. First Lynx then: with the Airshow season in the UK well and truly complete, here is one of the stars - the hugely impressive Royal Navy Black Cats Display Team Lynx HMA.8, using the HobbyBoss kit. And an old kit of a very successful WW2 RAF Trainer - the Frog Miles Master Mk.III. September     This month's modelling starts with the re-released Airfix kit of the Handley Page Hampden medium bomber from 1940, but which also participated in the heavy RAF raids on Berlin that took place 70 years ago this month.     And another AFV, this time the very petite JB Models Alvis Saracen armoured car from the 1970s. August     First off, I have been working on an RAF Jaguar GR.1A from Operation Granby, the first Gulf War, in a rather fetching shade of desert pink.     And in the background, another iconic British tank, the Chieftain Mk.2. July     The Airfix 1/48th Sea Vixen is finished at last!   And whilst working on the Sea Vixen, I have built another AFV, this time a Stryker IFV of the US Army June     The Sea Vixen continues apace, but as a side distraction, I have started the month with a quick build of the Revell 1/72 Challenger 1. as used by the Queen's Royal Hussars in Bosnia.   And on with the Sea Vixen. Into the final stages now, with the outer wings and first coats of paint applied.     Last, but not least, I have built the ancient Airfix Ju-88, in its current release. Still the same old kit, but some very nice decals. May       70th Anniversary of the sinking of the Bismarck & the Battle for Crete Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the trapping and destruction of the BISMARCK by the British Home Fleet and Force H from Gibraltar, I have built another Swordfish, this time the Airfix Swordfish kit in the markings of an aircraft from 810 Sqn HMS ARK ROYAL. This aircraft was flown by Sub Lt AWD Beale, with Observer Sub Lt C Friend and TAG L/A K Pimlott, during the critical action against the BISMARCK on 26 May 1941. The torpedo launched by this crew is known to have hit the BISMARCK amidships. .... and after 4 months, my Airfix Sea Vixen finally nears completion! I have also, finally, managed to take some better pictures of my Seafire collection! April     Another What-if aircraft joins the fold; this time the Lippisch P.13a coal-powered Ramjet interceptor.     .... and continuing my build of the Airfix Sea Vixen. March   Concentrating on the Airfix Sea Vixen this month. And what a lovely kit it is. 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