Steve T

Good job I never mentioned that I have Winnie the Pooh in my other Spit !

Thanks Colin. TWS, your pilot is sort of OK, I still prefer mine with Tigger, far more growley!

Question for Colin the Spitfire 'guru', the underwing radiators, on the genuine article do they have a grill to stop unwanted ingress? I have some left over very fine mesh from a car fibreglass repair kit and it would look great if fitted.

Thanks for the info on the decals guys. I was moving other part finished projects to one side ready to start the Spit...then I put my back out last night moving furniture. I think it's just muscular but I am certainly not very mobile today so it's painkillers, hot water bottle nailed to my back and the most comfy chair I can find for a while! Just tropical that is.

And I'm now going for working split flaps after all, well done TWS!

Just had a thought, I want mine to be at least as good as TWS, which is awesome as far as I am concerned. I will lose most of the roundels and lettering, is it possible to get a replacement set from Dynam, I really don't fancy painting in any of that by hand or airbrush! Any idea anyone?

I have one serious personal challenge now! My 'unmodified' bog standard but assembled spit will be savagely butchered and pretty much copied from yours (although I fancy a North Africa desert paint job)! I have a set of E-flites in a drawer somewhere, but I am not going for working flaps, I will just cut out and re-fit for scale effect. It's foam, it can be hacked within an inch of its life and still built back up so 'bring it on'. I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread, along with Ady's Warbirds MKIX build. (Have moved into new man-cave and will post on 'show us yours thread' soon. Despite all the work and time, I don't feel settled in there yet, almost want my old cabin back! Tropical! ).

Sorry guys but I live in a bungalow and so my loft is a dormer? bedroom, still has spiders and cobwebs in so I suppose that's o.k.. No kits though, I'm in the last stages of moving from posh man cave No1 to even posher man cave No2!

This was a story with an eventual 'feel good factor' already, but finding that the scum got 4 years put a smile on my face, longer would have been far more gooder !

Strange post, a lot of the responses do not say what they wanted to be, and what they would have chose in hindsight! I thought Facebook was for general mindless waffle ! I wanted to be an Engineer, became one. In hindsight I was better musician and comedy entertainer. Still doing the music and acting daft but a bit late now for anything more than a bit of fun. Having said that the engineering paid for early retirement and all the music gear so 'hey ho'.

Looks great here too....bright sunshine....5c!......25mph slight breeze.....hello April, looks like I will fly as much as I didn't in Jan, Feb and t'other month....how many times and how loud do I need to sigh?

Putting together (I won't use the term 'building') 😉 an ARTF foamie has never taken more than a day and then maiden, same for the balsa and ply Seagull Epioneer. Having said that they are bog standard, no mods at all. Regretting that now as I take down my Dynam Spit to totally gut and mod as the current post on this forum.👍 Edited By Steve T on 28/03/2015 12:37:45

It makes such a nice change to see credit for good service rather than the usual wingeing and bleating (deservedly) over poor or appalling service. Well done M R W, I shall file that for future use.

Congratulations! Well done and a great result. I sincerely hope all is now cleared, as I said I went through this and it took 18 months to,remove my adverse credit rating, despite the fact I had never owed a single penny. If you are back on track then it's good news indeed.

Look what you have done! I've taken down the standard (silly blue colour) Dynam Spit and I'm going to dismantle it and start all over again. Why not I have nearly almost nothing else to do......apart from all the other builds and trying to find time to fly. Well done, your post has really got me going, good stuff mate!

I thought it was only myself that the met office has a vendetta against. Not a cloud in the sky today, 5mph breeze, 9c. I have a heavy workload around the paddocks and outbuildings, so forget flying today. Yesterday was 'orrible, very cold, regular light showers and generally dismal. I messed about in the workshop inventing jobs to beat the boredom. Some days you just can't win. On a different note, I was approached by the BMFA to see if I was interested in 'helping out' regarding the Center, I said OK.....then never heard anything again! Hmmmm.

I really like the proposed paint job, only problem is it's almost as if I am going to carbon copy your model. I will have to find other registrations from my Spitfire book.

Don't crash on landing seems to help a bit!

Congratulations! Ever upwards from here on and as quoted recently "may all your landings be like a butterfly with sore feet".

Such sad news, his column was definitely one of my favourites. My condolences to his family, he will be missed by many including those of us who read his column but never actually met him.

What a great game it was, both England and France played their boots off, probably the best v France game I have seen. Well done Ireland, it was a great tournament all round, unless you are Jockanese of course!

Agree with Dave Hopkin, RCME can do reviews etc. on models, building tips, carry on doing what it does. BMFA should be telling us about clubs, members, getting new and younger modellers interested and involved, changes to law, what we can and cannot do, that stuff, I'm sure you get my drift.

That was my point, might as well be CBBC's as far as I am concerned. Just trying to help and make it more accessable.

And my copy has fallen to pieces as well !

I think I mentioned it before, half of the mag has readable material as far as I am concerned, then pages of F1B or FsomethingC or CBBC's whatever, I have absolutely no idea what they are other than models, why is it taken for granted we all know all the classes. If I knew what they were I may actually read the article. And the BMFA seems convinced that the majority of us fly Free Flight, Vintage or Rubber, do we? I have a Free Flight and love the vintage stuff but there is a lot more out there. It needs a real shake in my opinion, for what ever it is worth.