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Bodge Deep

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  1. depends on what it is I cleaned my WW2 astrodome (from an AVRO Anson) with T-Cut... took out the scratches and generally cleaned it up a bit, but i know it can be reactive with some platics. But i didn't use cloths i used my hands to get a better finish. Done many a scratched watch face with t-cut and thumb!
  2. Woah there hang on... A MiG-17? Are you a bond villain? Coool collection, welcome
  3. I got Ken Smalls The Forgotten Dead about Op' Tiger at Slapton in a charity bookshop for a quid the other week. His crusade to erect a monument to the men who died that night in the form of a DD Sherman he negotiated the purchase of from the US government and brought up from the seabed. A very good book about a very interesting man and a very worthy cause oh and it was signed
  4. Welcome to the Sanitorium Lance Quite a lineupyou've got... pics pics pics Looks like we're gonna have to extend the club carpark into Jacks topiary garden after all oooh he'll be as mad-as-a-wasp!
  5. Take Jacks... he never uses it!!! Welcome
  6. Congratulations AJ Never mind the Sherman variations you'll soon be fluent in Waybaloo and Night Garden As for the sleepless nights, crying and nappies... it won't seem so bad once the baby is born
  7. "Woooooooaaaaaaaoooooaaaooaoaoaoooaaaooaaaaoooohhhhhh camoflage you know he was an awfully big Marine" I knew i'd heard the story somewhere before
  8. Pretty well stripped Is that an LST in the background of pic 3?
  9. Hi Welcome Sounds like you're gonna be in demand round here! That's a helluva truck... park it in the pre-war, post war, tracked and duck pond area of the car park!... if it'll fit
  10. When you remember a Centurion as a Rank, not a Tank!
  11. I dunno... I've done loads of school visits and the M1 and .45 always get a "wow cool" but the typewriter always seems to fire their imaginations
  12. The single most impressive peice of equipment in the arsenal as far as kids are concerned!
  13. ISTR seeing a photo on here a while back of a Panther/Panthers in French service on a range post war... sure someone'll post it up again
  14. Welcome Mark The Chevy sounds great post a pic, we'd like to see it. I'm sure there'll be some Chevy knowledge and spares to be routed out within these hallowed halls... Just park up in the clubhouse carpark with the American vehicles (follow the oil trail)!!!
  15. looks nice...

    but a boisterous 2 year old and 4 year old and nice models dont mix at the moment... just ask my lovely 1/48th scale b17... now stationed in... the bin :(

    cheers for the heads up though

  16. Somewhere I've got a the US WWII songbook which i'm sure has the engineers song (probably different from the UK one). I'll dig it out...
  17. Specsavers working door to door now are they?
  18. Aahh Christmas morning So what's first job... is it on the road so to speak?
  19. I like that idea... good thinking that man!
  20. Hi Phil Welcome from another Cumbrian (Kendal)
  21. So there'll be a permanent memorial to the Sherman Tank at... Well, wherever it comes to a standstill!
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