Here’s wishing you all happiness, good health, peace and prosperity for the year ahead! Have a wonderful time this festive season, however you celebrate it! It’s almost time for New Year’s resolutions – and and of mine for 2023 is to finally start to finally get my “proverbial” into gear and devote some time to […]

Amusing Hobby’s Me 262 HGIII has just arrived, and I’ve got to say it’s times like this that I particularly miss my good friend Steffen Arndt. To say he wasn’t a fan of “Luft ’46” would be the understatement of the year – so he would have absolutely loathed this kit! And, but for his

Maybe one day I’ll remember to dust a sub-assembly before taking a photo! But, anyway, it’s high time to show some progress on the new Eduard Wildcat. The partly-completed undercarriage legs are only clipped in at the moment (to make painting easier) but, barring a little clean-up here and there, I think the gear bay

After weeks’ of dry weather and some record-breaking temperatures, we’ve all been wishing for rain here on The Island. Finally, the heatwave’s broken and we’ve had some torrential rain. But, would you believe it, it’s caused a fresh problem – the aged storm-drains can’t cope with the downpour, so our water company has released untreated

Introducing… my 1978 Gibson “The Paul”. Bought new for Christmas that year, and still going strong – probably better than ever now that it’s worn in and we’ve grown used to each other.  I think it’s fair to say I’ve had a mixed relationship with this axe. It was my first “serious” electric – that

What can I say? Between work and catching Covid-19, life’s just got in the way somehow and this poor old Blog’s fallen to the wayside! Anyway, I reckon it’s time to get underway again – and what better excuse than the arrival of a sample of Eduard’s new-tool 1:48 Grumman Wildcat – complete with a

What better way to celebrate the day than a dual-fix of music and modelling!  Caline’s Pegasus pedal offers an affordable way to dip a toe into the Klon Centaur world (the real thing costs an arm and a leg these days!), and I’ve wanted to get Airfix’s 1:48 Chipmunk since it was released last year.

I’ve shunned Chinese kits for some time – originally out of concerns over plagiarism (and basic accuracy in many cases), but more importantly since the oppression of the Uyghurs – but the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought things to our doorstep in Europe and underlined some tough decisions I face as a modeller. I’ve

What a great indie game! The Brew Barons – a Porco Rossa-inspired flight sim/management game with a brilliant 3-D “graphic novel” look. There’s a fully playable time-limited demo on Steam and a link to the Kickstarter page. Having played through the demo a few times, I’ve signed up because I really want to see this

My review for Dora Wings’ Vultee Vengeance is live on Aeroscale: https://aeroscale.net/news/vultee-vengeance-mk–ii Hot on its heels will be their Bloch MB.152. Dora Wings is a small manufacturer caught up in Putin’s unjustified attack on Ukraine. Thank goodness, according to an email from them yesterday, they are all safe at the moment!