Hullo from London

[Miko]

Hey! Good to have you here

Looking forward to seeing the mossie go together, take your time, no pressure, but it needs to be done by next weekend! Ha!

Miko (currently only a theoretical modeller until in get my modeling 'studio' sorted, pretentious? Moi?) Ha!

[Tim Marlow]

Welcome Neil. Glad you got your restart in the Salisbury shop. That place was my go to for a long time until I moved away at retirement five years ago. The guy running it is a decent bloke who took a second job to keep the shop running when times were a bit leaner. Funnily enough that shop is also in the same place as the first model shop I remember from when I got started in the hobby at about ten years old.

[JayCee]

A warm welcome from m too.
John.

[Scratchbuilder]

Neil,
Welcome to the forum.
You will find a whole mine of information here, all you have to do is ask even if it has been asked a hundred times before you will get a reply or even directed to a similar build when your question has already been asked by another member.
And sometimes we even go totally off topic just to break up the monotony as we have done over the last few days with the 'What has disapeared' topic...
Please join in on any subject.
Mike.

[Bri62]

Welcome Neil

[Del640]

Welcome aboard!

[The Smythe Meister]

...... Funnily enough that shop is also in the same place as the first model shop I remember from when I got started in the hobby at about ten years old.

WHAT?!!.... They actually HAD shops when you were 10 Tim?!!!:astonished:

[Tim Marlow]

WHAT?!!.... They actually JAD shops when you were 10 Tim?!!!:astonished:

Yes, the thatched roofs and open fires gave them a quaint feel. Got better when glass was invented though.

[Scratchbuilder]

Yes, the thatched roofs and open fires gave them a quaint feel. Got better when glass was invented though.

Bit like the cave I lived in, once Dad got the dino digger round to put in a window we could all look out to see what the weather was doing....

[Tim Marlow]

Bit like the cave I lived in, once Dad got the dino digger round to put in a window we could all look out to see what the weather was doing..

Don’t need one in Somerset Mike. I think it’s rained every day since I moved here….

[Scratchbuilder]

Don’t need one in Somerset Mike. I think it’s rained every day since I moved here….

Talking of rain and the outside - SWMBO has been busy in the garden talking to the flowers and fruit trees, mowing the lawn and generally cursing the slugs and other crawlies. So last year I built her some benches to put the large pots on and stop the dogs scoffing all the fruit, but she could noy get around them to trim the grass down as the fence I put up for her to stop the dogs.........
So yesterday she was full of it with a new power washer to clean the patio (this will eventually be my job as mechanically she has no idea, just like direction) but it came without cleaner so I ordered her some cleaner and a pair of flat grass trimmers......
Today it is like a hurricane outside......

[rtfoe]

Hi Neil, a warm welcome to you from the far east. The banter has already started...you'll soon get used to it. BTW Doug I'm still waiting for the long cool Dane to appear. :tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Richard aka Wabble

[Mr Bowcat]

Welcome aboard from another Londoner. Where abouts in the fair city are you based?

[Guest]

Welcome to the friendlist forum I've ever been a part of!

It seems there is a few of us 70's modellers who have recently refound the hobby, that's really cool, I wish you all the best!