6 intrepid members and one partner made it to the show.
The show was busy with plenty of clubs and people in attendance.
A few traders seemed to be missing, but those in attendance seemed to be doing a brisk trade.
Many old faces were greeted and seen, it was good to renew old friendships.
Thanks to, Dave M (and his partner) Bob, Neil, Tony and Chris W for the chat banter and excellent company throughout the day.

Quite a number of years ago, I used to build helicopters, talking to Chris on the Play Modelling Day rekindled my interest. I have always liked the earlier types. Must have been something to do with watching Whirlybirds as a kid.
So here it is.
The decals on the tanks were rather difficult to conform to the shape on the curves.

It seemed to me that Neil suggested it would be nice to have some Falklands War Models at the May meeting, so as a change from biplanes, I thought, here goes.
As luck would have it Andy had a Falkland War set at the last meeting, he was giving it away, so whats not to like.

I did build one of these in 2009 and this seems to be a much worse model than I remember.
So I tried to look at what I had done then. This involved getting out a really old computer - with a disc drive as I had saved all my notes on a disc. I may subject you to some of that as I progress.

During the Falklands conflict Pucaras were based at BAM Malvinas [Port Stanley], BAM Condor [Goose Green] and also at Santa Cruz and Pebble Island on a grass airstrip. The runway at Port Stanley was not long enough for the FAA Skyhawks or Mirages.
There are captured examples at Duxford and RAF Cosford as well as the North East Aircraft Museum.
The transfers are for A-522, this Pucara was stationed at Port Stanley and was left at the end of the conflict and it is now in the NEAM.
Instructions seem clear and well presented. No details are given in this Falklands pack about the aircraft; a map of the island is included and transfers for all the aircraft.
I have been forewarned that it is very difficult to get this model to sit correctly, it is apparently very tail heavy. Canopy is provided in a separate plastic bag.

I just visited a model shop in Malton, it is on the Lanes, Chancery Lane, Malton, YO17 7HW
They had a good stock of Airfix, Tamiya, Revell and some smaller suppliers.
They did have some different ship models as well.
Worth a visit if you are in the area.
Here is their website as well.
www.thelanesmalton.com

A bit like Big Kev, I decided to do something with the less saleable kits.
So here is one from the Don Pryde collection.
Unfortunately the parts had been stuck together with masking tape, many years ago by the look of them.
There are one or two kits like this and maybe I will see what I can do with them as well.
Don liked Jets it would seem, there are a few Phantoms in the collection.
I decided to see if I could do something with this 1:72 kit, possibly build it and then attempt to sell it, all proceeds going to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance of course.

The first job would be to try to remove the glue from the tape.

As you may now the club has some pre-owned kits on offer.
The first requests are in, if there is anything you want then let me know.
All the members should have received the list by now.

Rather than have the individual models all over the place I think I will now group them in this thread.
Here are the one I have already built.