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James' "Shed"

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"I'm off for a potter in my shed, love"

Purely metaphorical the shed is our small back room which I have all to myself :grin: We moved into the house 3 1/2 years ago, before which I lived in a pokey flat with poor light and not a lot of room to model, so I still get a buzz about having a whole room albeit small. Workbench, reference and display cabinets all occupy this space from which I can monitor the local cats digging up my garden.

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Firefly for this year's SMW CBK Boxart display http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=197;
My very long term Matchbox Wessex HAR2. http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=240;
A little conversion review coming to a magazine near you soon.
and for the very eagle-eyed something sporty on floats that I've been tinkering with when the mood takes me.

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Reference, not big on military history so focus in on modelling resources, many SAMs, Warpaints and a lot stuff on X-planes and prototypes :roll: I decided to have a policy of not keeping whole mags just for one article and so these are cut out and stored in binders.

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Two cabinets from Argos will probably be full by the end of next year so what then, stock rotation?

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Very tidy set up James - more display space needed I fear however!
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Cheers.

Resin kits are in the big box with the red lid. Vacforms at the end of the shelf. Everything else is in the loft in boxes.
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Nice setup James 8-)
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Nice little black number on the bench there, James....! ;-)
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And my little black number is complete, ready for a night out over the town :grin:

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I love me the Defiant. One of these days I'll get to building mine someday. I think the nose job on my Messer-Spit has got me ready to take that leap
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Cheers Dirk.

I've a had a few days away from the bench attending to other important things. Did some filing of resources though that had piled up. After fiddling with the canopies on the Firefly I decided to start on a little project that's been hanging around at the edge of the desk for a few months. Even though I've got plenty of other things to tackle I needed that buzz you get when you start a new build. So the lucky model will be and here's a criptic clue to the kit and the scheme:

Lucifer container holds a tiny insect, sounds like it will be all right!

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JamesPerrin wrote:Lucifer container holds a tiny insect, sounds like it will be all right!
No crossworders here then?
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Matchbox Gnat?
Would ya like to learn to fly? Would ya? Would you like to see me try?
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How about a Mosquito with a devil nose art with two merlins sounding more than allright? I´ll get me coat.
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A Northrop Flea, from the Norwegian manufacturer Satan Cage?

I hear they play Death Metal when they're not running new moulds :lol:
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A very nice Defiant. It's very black isn't it? Very black...

Black.... BLACK!! BLACK!!!! BLAAAAAACK!!!!

I don't want to die!!!

They wait for me in the forest!!!!

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Well Flack got the kit right MB's Gnat in XM693 all white scheme (groan)

http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=638;

@Bluesteal I've done that joke too ;-) :lol:
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Oh, not a Fairy Firefly then...
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