Raiden 1:285th Aircraft now available!

[Leon]

Just a quick note, I've been looking at the current $/£ exchange rates tonight and I've adjusted some of the pricing on these new Raiden products to make them cheaper, so a £2.95 aircraft has been reduced to £2.50 instead.  Hopefully that makes them a bit more attractive to the European and Aus/NZ customers.

[Orcs]

Just a quick note, I've been looking at the current $/£ exchange rates tonight and I've adjusted some of the pricing on these new Raiden products to make them cheaper, so a £2.95 aircraft has been reduced to £2.50 instead.  Hopefully that makes them a bit more attractive to the European and Aus/NZ customers.

Brilliant - Just don't tell Dave , he will have a fit,       or M'lady she was planning a week in Bali for you both, now it looks like she will leave you behind.

[Leon]

... or M'lady she was planning a week in Bali for you both, now it looks like she will leave you behind.

I don't think there'll be many holidays going on in the next few years!  We'd planned to go on a Norwegain cruise next year which would have been our first proper holiday together in 18 years, but we're not as keen on the idea after the Corona outbreak.  Maybe a weekend in an isolated cottage instead...

[Orcs]

I don't think there'll be many holidays going on in the next few years!  We'd planned to go on a Norwegain cruise next year which would have been our first proper holiday together in 18 years, but we're not as keen on the idea after the Corona outbreak.  Maybe a weekend in an isolated cottage instead...

Yes , I think you may be right there.

There are people in our office that are still planning long haul holidays for this year.  I can't decide if they are optimistic or completely mad.

We were planning to go to California next year, but we are now looking at nice cottages in south wales, found one only 4 miles from Techno. If we book that one  hopefully by then I will be able to meet him for a pint. 

[Leon]

There are people in our office that are still planning long haul holidays for this year.  I can't decide if they are optimistic or completely mad.

We were planning to go to California next year, but we are now looking at nice cottages in south wales, found one only 4 miles from Techno. If we book that one  hopefully by then I will be able to meet him for a pint. 

I'm sure people will be back on the planes as soon as they can but it doesn't feel at all safe to me.  There's going to be a variety of travel bans in place in certain countries, as we've seen with Greece this past week, so who knows where you could even travel to without restriction.  Holiday cottages in the UK are going to see a huge surge in business and prices will go through the roof as a result.  Hopefully there's a sensible approach to it and the holiday homes keep the pricing reasonable on the understanding that more tourists means more money for everyone in their local economy.

I think 4 miles might be too close to Techno though, you'd be able to hear him shouting at the sheep from across the valley...

[Orcs]

Very true, but it might provide some entertainment and I might even learn to swear in welsh !

I hope the prices in the UK do not surge, as may places are already unreasonable eve outside school holidays. Even when my girls were small (youngest is now 21)it was as cheap to go to Europe with Eurocamp than go in the UK. That way we had better chance of good weather and a different culture to experience.

It will also encourage more people to take flights abroad thus increasing the risk of another surge.

[Leon]

Hopefully it's all kept reasonable as it's the only holiday most of us will be getting for the foreseeable.  I suppose we could all buy caravans and go park up in the middle of nowhere instead.

[Raider4]

I hope the prices in the UK do not surge, as may places are already unreasonable eve outside school holidays. Even when my girls were small (youngest is now 21)it was as cheap to go to Europe with Eurocamp than go in the UK. That way we had better chance of good weather and a different culture to experience.

A forlorn hope at best. As with you, we found it cheaper to go camping in western France rather than Cornwall or the Mumbles. Better amenities for the price as well. In the UK you get offered a sloping field with a single toilet/shower block leftover from the war, and you're somehow expected to be grateful for this.

[Orcs]

A forlorn hope at best. As with you, we found it cheaper to go camping in western France rather than Cornwall or the Mumbles. Better amenities for the price as well. In the UK you get offered a sloping field with a single toilet/shower block leftover from the war, and you're somehow expected to be grateful for this.

Now there is only the two of us and we are looking for a little more comfort we have found if you want a fortnight its often cheaper to go to the states than Europe

[Techno]

I think 4 miles might be too close to Techno though, you'd be able to hear him shouting at the sheep from across the valley...

Me ?.....Shout at the sheep ?.......Nah !
I do curse them, when I can't find them, though....They're very good at hiding behind walls. Sods.

Only got two left now...and they're pretty ancient for sheep....Got to sort out their yearly haircut soon. That's always a joy.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

For them or you?

[slugbalancer]

There are some strange entries in this list. The Martin MB5 (which never got into production) or the Boeing P26 and some real oddities in the German WWII section.

Many aircraft that were too late to see action and those that never made it to a production line can be used if the war continues past 1945.  I've got a whole group of aircraft that come into that area.  It's the death knell of the prop aircraft.

The MB5 was a wonderful aircraft.  Killed off by the turbojet.

[fsn]

For them or you?

Buy two, get one free I think.

[Techno]

Neither, Will.

They get stressed.......and so do we.

At least we don't have to bring them over the road, this year. We'll just have to wait until Dave, (the shearer) arrives and then his dog can drive them into the barn. (She's rather good at that .......Thankfully )

Buy two, get one free I think.

No.....Once these two have died, we won't get anymore, Nobby.......If we need any of the fields grazed down, we'll borrow some.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Stands - drill a hole in the underside and cut a short peice from a paperclip and superglue into hole. Get an unused cotton bud, and art board or similar glue some more from the paper clip onto the art board cover with filler, after gluing a peice of the cotton bud tube onto the paper clip. Use the cotton wool bits on yet more bases as markers for shell bursts etc. This wont work with B52's or Vulcans.....I have tried

[slugbalancer]

For stands I use these plastic stands from Brigade models.

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Accessories/Items/ACC-001.html

I glue magnets to the top of the stand and one on the underneath of the aircraft.

[Last Hussar]

F14s, 16s and 18s, but no opponents.

Though with Trump in charge maybe the Swedish stuff...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I glue magnets to the top of the stand and one on the underneath of the aircraft.

I used to do that, but my magnets sheared off after a cold snap.

[fred.]

Mine didn't even need the cold snap to come off the flight stands (they do seem to stay on the aircraft better, perhaps as they can be counter sunk a bit). A tip I found later was to coat the magnet and top of flight stand with PVA to hep seal it all together.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I drill the stand, pin it, drill a hole in the plane, next to the magnet works well.