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25 years airline and Instructor Pilot in real life 👨‍✈️ Modelmaker. Erstwhile writer of paranormal action and suspense thrillers. Not here for your politics or religious views, thanks.
1/32 F-104G Starfighter, Royal Netherlands Air Force. Italeri kit and Dutch Decals used. Built for a former KL Starfighter pilot and commissioned by his son (also a pilot), my work colleague and friend 😊 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
1/72 B737 progress continues... trying to get it finished by Christmas. Primer is on, using Halfords automotive filler primer to cover all the many sanding abrasion marks, there was a LOT of sanding involved! #histscalemodels #scalemodels
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
B737 progress continues in 1/72...wings, flaps and slats attached. This is a big ol' beast! #histscalemodels #scalemodel
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
1/72 B737 progress: I'm using the aftermarket 3D-printed flaps set from LACI. They are a bit warped as produced but should fit ok. Cutting the flaps out of the kit wings was nerve-wracking but I had to do it differently to the instructions to ensure the wings didn't warp. #histscalemodels
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
B737 build is cracking along... wheelwell interior and fuselage completed. This really is a limited run kit! Fit is generally okay but parts need a lot of preparation and the windows are terrible. Much putty will be required 🫤 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
#histscalemodels Time for one more build this year I think! BPK 🇺🇦 1/72 Boeing 737-800. It's a big, short-run injection kit, should be a lot of work but an interesting build
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Two finished in a month! This is some kind of record for me 😊

Lockheed F-5E Lightning (Italeri 1/48) and Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space vehicle and VMS Eve carrier ship (Revell 1/144)
#histscalemodels #scalemodels
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Looks like Darth Vader without a helmet 😅
October 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
#HeaviesGB B-24 interior almost done, added crew figures from the kit.
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
1/48 Monogram B-25J Mitchell updated to represent US Navy PBJ-1J "Devil Dog" from the Commemorative Air Force, 2015. Top turret deleted and airframe and radio fitted to modern standards with VHF aerial, landing lights and red beacon. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#HeaviesGB #histscalemodels PB4Y-1 Liberator is plodding along. Built up the waist gunner interior using Metallic Details photo etch and Browning 50 cal guns. Also showing my take on the interior colours: Dull Dark Green, Interior Green, and Zinc Chromate sidewalls which will get aluminium bracing.
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Belated start to my #HeaviesGB entry but we're off at last!

New nose section has been un-warped in boiling water, and almost fits the fuselage 💪

Old supercharger sections have been cut out of the engine nacelles and new ones prepared

Gear legs have been installed in 'up' position with hinges.
September 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Ready to go #backtothefuture
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Spitfire XVIe is finished! 1/24 Airfix kit with Buchon Models resin conversion for E-wing and low-back/bubble canopy. Decals for 349 (Belgian) Sqn RAF, Fassburg, Germany in Spring 1945. One of the best kits I've ever built, luckily I've a few more in the stash 😉 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Weathering complete, just the details to go. Spitfire XVIe, Airfix 1/24 Mk IXc converted to XVIe low-back version. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion is nearing the finish line now... painting and decals complete, just weathering and finishing to go 👍 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Thanks Ian, I used blu-tac sausages with cling film to mask it.
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
1/32 Revell (Italeri) Mirage IIIE, French Air Force Escadrille de Chase 3/3 50th Anniversary commemoration, Nancy-Ochey 1993 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
1/24 Airfix Spitfire XVIe conversion getting towards the decals stage: paintwork complete and gloss coat on #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thanks 👍 I used white tac and cling film (excuse the photo, I masked the wrong colour before I took it! 🤣)
September 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Still building the Airfix 1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion of the IXc kit for a worthy groupbuild over on the other place. Paint on, just the leading edges left to do. #histscalemodels
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hey where's my #HeaviesGB people at? Just got the kit down from the stash, 1/48 Monogram B-24J to be built as a US Navy PB4Y-1 based at RAF Dunkeswell, 1943.
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Alien Earth is soooo cool. Loving this series! Especially good to see Tyres from Spaced as Engineer on the doomed ship 🤩
September 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I know it says Facebook, but X/Twitter has definitely caught up now 😒
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This appears when I try to access messages!
August 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM