2023 February Ping

[lastvautour]

A fairly quiet month for SSM with 10 new topics, 128 new posts, and 106,877 pages viewed. As mentioned earlier, a switch in viewership trends has Russians showing a greater interest in our activities.
The gallery has received 11,195 views for a total of 4,309,875 views overall. I will attempt to keep track of monthly gallery activities. 4,298,680 11195.

Membership has risen to 281. Please welcome Roeland. Some of his projects are shown at http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/SMF/index.php?topic=2122.0 and http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/SMF/index.php?topic=2066.0 .

February saw just two models being submitted with both being from my bench.

1/72 Fairey Battle



1/72 Grumman Goose



Lou

[lastvautour]

A few things on my bench this month.
1/144 Consolidated Canso - fuselage and tail feathers assembled as well as the main wing and engines. Currently working on floats
1/144 De Havilland Canada Dash 8 - block shape
1/72 Lockheed Model 12 Junior Electra - assembled and filler applied
1/72 Lockheed Model 10 Electra - block shape
1/72 Canadair Argus - wing fillets in construction and sanding
1/72 Westland Lysander - block shape
1/32 De Havilland Canada Otter - major components rough sanded. Floats under construction

Plastic - Aurora CF-100 is being refurbished. It will be completed in a similar fashion to my all-metallic CF-105

PS. I neglected to add my completed Digby to the previous post.

[Boomerang]

Greetings All.

BAT FK23 - No real movement.

DH-71 - Still on hold.

I have cut out and bagged all the necessary bits for :-

1/48 CAC Sabre

1/72 Blackburn Skua.

1/48 CAC Ca-6  WACKETT trainer.

These will be progressed when time permits.

Started work  on the 80" RC. AVIA BH-3 .



Cheers

Gordon

[lastvautour]

Nice selection Gordon.

Lou

[Boomerang]

I've been doing a bit of culling and will be dispatching three boxes of plastic kits on Friday.
Sorted through my stash of magazines and plans . Whilst doing this I revisited two shoe boxes of decals that
Belonged to my brother. Mostly 1/72.
So long term I've put together a selection of plans and decals for the Finnish Air Force.
These are Lysander, Buffalo, Hurricane (Mk1 with Fabric wing) and Pe 2.

Should keep me busy into the future.

Cheers

Gordon