Well that fossil has come along nicely! Great work. I like seeing these old kits built to such a high standard.

I'm so dense sometimes, David. Knowing where you work I should have guessed 'Brexit', and the shambles it has become for pretty much all involved, would have pushed your clientele into a long (I won't say orderly) queue - good luck with that - it could run for decades...

As to the 'contraption' (Tom's apposite label) - it looks great! I love the riveting - sow's ear, meet silk purse!

Great tree. Taking the kids to The Grinch today - and the house is creaking under the pressure of hidden presents! Love it!

A lot of my work is in Westminster, you’ll be familiar with the phrase ‘lunatics taking over the asylum’...

My money is still on you lot coming to your senses over the next 90 days. That ECJ ruling that you can independently revoke the invocation of Article 50 sounds just like the typical British way of "muddling through." Fingers crossed. Now if we can put the dotard on notice next month...

I don't know David, having a fling with a whirlybird and having it end up as a "Fatal Attraction" ...just because she's an older lady and a Dog. What do you tell the Mrs when applying decals (The Glenn Close type of model) and that bowl of water and X-acto blade slips and you end up at the Surgery? I did it for Love...no it was Lust. Modeling Lust. B.B. King sang " The thrill is Gone" which is modeling speak for "Shelf of Doom". Been there done that and laughed at by the Mrs.

Keep going, chin up and knock out this bird with a beautiful finish. You can't go wrong with the "Classic's ".

Thanks, Tom. I need the encouragement!

They call the Phantom "Double ugly" and the Buccaneer " The Brick".
Engineers like to say form follows function...the front of helo looks like a Dragon fly to me. David, by building this model your passing on the good word of modeling, ignorance is bless and hope springs eternal. Perhaps the bird looks more like Pop Eye's Olive Oil. You got to give Airfix credit for not only making a kit but, showing a little history, educating the young and old on British aviation.

Where did you find that camo scheme? I found an article on this thing (in which a pilot remembers it was as horrible as it was) and all the photos have it in silver on operations. Just curious, this looks better.

BTW the author wrote that the Belvedere was the only RAF flying machine to have armor plate behind the pilot to protect him from the airplane (the forward engine had a tendency to come to pieces without warning).