🐌🪖...turns out, there was time for more. Small box under the turret, turret hatches painted and on. Fortunately, a small Father Christmas was on hand to deliver supplies. Merry Christmas all. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

So far Christmas viewing has been: The Deer Hunter The Dambusters Where Eagles Dare The Eagle Has Landed and to lighten the mood... ...Hannibal, the Series😆 now,where can I find Apocalypse Now! Yours...?

🐌🪖Last work b4 chrimbo! Happy Christmas and holidays all! #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya ##FestiveTankChallenge2025

Looks very harsh in that light but progress on the turret. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

🐌🪖-As everyone is doing it...The Pak 40 and trailer snuck into 2025, finishing touches added. The battered Kubelwagon and now Brit some Armour with the Cromwell-WIP. Humanising the Cromwell coming along nicely #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya #miniart Happy Christmas all!

Started on the turret, going to try and wire up the light and place it in front of a hatch. No more now because I need all my paints with me. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

🐌🪖Base paint done. With Tamiya Fine surface Primer & TS-2 which looks very green here. I like the colour of the naked plastic! Not perfect but they were sprayed in a shed at 7deg & drying started with a hairdrier......not bad. Some tidying up to do. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

🐌🪖Progress. Wheels on and base painted. Barrel camo trial fitting and 6 more track links done😆 & tools first paint. Next up, finish adding bits to the hull and tackle the tracks. Nice kit, very Tamiya. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

An interesting what if.... Mark IV with a Panther turret! From yotsuhen on the instas. (Possibly impractical, turret ring size etc) #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

Some great images taken on board the destroyer HMS Cossack during anti-submarine and torpedo exercises in 1940. She was lead ship of the 4th Flotilla under Captain Philip Vian, seen here in the front right corner of the bridge. Note the Lewis guns for anti-aircraft defence. 📷 IWM A 1594 🧵1/5

Progress! I cannot resist bashing stuff about & having trawled the IWM site for Cromwell photos, they were!😳 Cannot really go any further without painting stuff first, not steady enough for make then paint. Great kit. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

Progress on the Cromwell: tow ropes done, front glassis, and hatches, rear radiator grill and spare fuel cans rack.😅 #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

they like to grab onto symbols, flags, poppies and the cross without showing any of the values associated with any of them.

Beginning to think, a Comet would have been better. The locking mechanism is 200 pieces of PE less complex!🤣 #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

America has fallen

Everywhere you look now, people are talking Rejoin EU, Customs Union, Single Market, Erasmus +, etc etc. Let's demand a real say, and demand our future back! Or... we can let Putin, Trump and Musk decide our future through their stooge, Farage. 🇬🇧👇Comments to sign now 👇🇪🇺 #RejoinEU

Boxes went well, inc threading 0.3mm wire thru the hinges... BUT gluing fasteners was very messy- Green Stuff glue & pipette / piece of wire delivers too much glue. What do others do to deliver glue, the size of the piece to be glued? #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

such a sad little man. Awarded to himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_Y...

turned out well, cool diorama too.

First successful Cromwell storage bin from Aber-PE, well on the way anyway…. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

Here’s Albert Steptoe MP stating what would be called ‘The bloody obvious.’ He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed is he? 🥹

On this day in 1939, while allied with Nazi Germany, Russia invaded Finland. Roughly 11% of the country was eventually occupied by Russians, and since 1947 has remained so.

VW Polo, The Yellow Peril VW Transporter/camper Dave Power Prepared Fawd XR 4x4 Subaru Impressa WRX STi Race prepped Audi RS4 B5 but the bikes.....oof

Hours of fun coming up up: Aber PE storage boxes Hobby Boss tracks-might have been a mistake there! 6 pdr ammo boxes And A catalogue from 2014😆 #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

For the Cromwell. Love an ammunition and boxes. These are "openable" too. Any idea when the 6pdr "late war" boxes (top left) were introduced? #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

"because Russia would not be held accountable for war crimes, they could continue to do so with impunity. - Anne Applebaum

is it not possible to buy old fashioned gauze? Perhaps in the UK but Scandinavia (Denmark) has gone full modern. Anyone know where to get it in Europe. Wanted for....dreadlock camo! #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

Walking disaster and man-baby. #trump

so why are people on twitter....consumer power hit tesla, then again liberals are buying Tesla's again🤷🏻‍♂️the chinese, not so much

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian military from the "Tivaz Division" discovered and destroyed the positions of the 🇷🇺D-20 howitzer gun and the 🇷🇺Giatsint-B towed howitzer

With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

God I miss modelling currently.... #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya #miniart

French military personnel have boarded Russian shadow fleet oil tanker named "Boracay". Vessel is suspected of being a launchpad for drones that forced the closure of airports in Denmark last week.

Who’d have guessed? Nigel’s ‘honest, decent, honourable man’ has admitted taking Russian-linked bribes💰

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

❗️A 🇳🇱Dutch Air Force F-35 fighter jet with the marking of a downed 🇷🇺Russian drone that flew into 🇵🇱Polish airspace on September 9-10

Follow this bloke on the instas, enviously good work, look at those tracks #scalemodels #histscalemodels

Afternoon coffee!

This is a remarkable podcast about a remarkable series of events in Afghanistan. The battle of Jugroom Fort. Royal Marines and Army Air Corps soldiers risk it all for a fallen comrade. Give it a listen... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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