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Is that Dr1 tailplane/fin Don? 😁

Twist the knife Graham, get Richard to throw a kit in as well 🤪

Looks very good already Richard.

Don`t distract him Ron, he`s gotta sort the Tempest out first 😝

Sounds like your not using the engine Geoff, i have a good home for it 😜

Looking for a good Magneto type Zenoah 26 preferably but may take a 23cc Or similar KALT version.

On the hunt for a WW1 Bipe/Tripe or Interwar, around 1/4 scale ideally ready to go petrol powered but would consider an airframe that would take one, no Moths or Stampes though. Cash waiting for the right model. PM me if you have something that might suit.

Question on the brown paper covering Richard, do you cover the whole airframe with it including the plastic parts, if so i assume the pva sticks to it ok but what do you do about the roundy bits like the cowl? Or do you just paper up to the plastic then fill and feather sand the join? Tell all or i will bribe Sweep to give me the answer 😜.

Holly thread reresection Batman, did the Vultee get finished Ray? Just picked up a laser cut short kit for the Brian Taylor one and found your thread, a lot of good work but no conclusion!

Very nice Richard, looking forward to seeing it in it`s battle clothes, interested to hear what the weight comes out at once finished.

Looking for a 1/5th scale WACO YMF biplane, ideally petrol ready to go or would consider an airframe i could fit out with a petrol engine or even something part built. PM me if you have something.

Let us know which one you pick and stick a build thread on here, love to see some more foamboard/depron models going together.

Give it a go Daren, it is cheap stuff to use and builds into light fast to build airframes.

That`s the one i am waiting for but expect Richard will get the FW built up first, i don`t know why but the 190 has never sparked my imagination like the 109 does.

Bottom desert scheme from your 5 Richard, got to give you some sort of challenge 😜

Nicely flown Eric, very scale like with a lighter weight model such as this.

Brilliant Richard, you`ll have this built by Sunday evening! 😜 Once we have our kits on the work bench is there a prize for the quickest build from box opening to in the air? Be a good way to blow the Christmas/New year cobwebs away to beat the strip up with one of these Warbirds on January 1st!

Richard, i have a couple of tables at the Buckminster Bring & Buy a week on Sunday, if you want to knock up a leaflet with some advertising/sales bump, contact details and a price i am happy to print them off and stick em on the table to try and catch a few more punters for the kits.

Blimey Richard, super quick action on getting these underway, already told my other half that she is getting me a Tempest kit for Christmas 😉 Watching the proto build with interest......M

No problem Phil, enjoyed meeting people and hopefully persuading them to give foam building a go.

Been a lot of interest Graham, a number of people have taken pictures and made notes. Hopefully inspire others to have a go at building something.

Hi Nigel, no this one is built entirely from foam board and depron, looks like a balsa one but is a LOT lighter. Built from free plans online, there is a build thread in the foam forum on this site. I have built a Cambrian Funfighter 109 as well, there is a build thread for that, i think it is in the Warbirds forum.

10am start this morning.

Had an enjoyable day at the BMFA Model Builders show at Buckminster, Manny had given me a couple of tables to demonstrate and promote building models using foamboard and depron. I think it surprised a number of people how light and cheaply airframes can be built using these easily available materials. Entry to the Builders show is FREE, why not come along tomorrow and say hi, it is also a chance to pick up some of your winter modelling supplies from some of the traders there. I have nothing to sell, just trying to show a different approach to airframe construction.

Plasterboard laid on a piece of kitchen work surface on a flat table, used it for years.