Me and the Farmer - part 2

Here is the completed model poised to take to the skies above the Gnuston Heights.  It's rough but it's ready...

Me and the Farmer - part 1

To balance the strengthened 1/72 Israeli airforce I dug out this venerable KP MiG-19.  Like most KP kits it was quick but mildly horrible to build.

And the title?  That's this week's musical link

(Another) Israeli Skyhawk

In preparation for the Gnuston Heights game next month my rather nice Skyhawk has been joined by another.  I'm not sure what make the original is - Fujimi perhaps - but this new model is the venerable and rather basic Airfix kit.  Whatever it's shortcomings though, it goes together well - not bad for a kit originally released in 1958!

Going through the Mill

I have a load of photos from a trip to the Netherlands last September - here are the first of them.  The small town of Mill lies a few km south of Nijmegen and was the scene of a 2-day battle in 1940

This pillbox was part of the Peel-Raam Line built in 1939.

This particular bunker contains mannequins in Dutch uniforms crewing a machine gun.

Not all of the dummies were inside....

Nearby is a relic from a slightly later campaign - a splendid Ram Kangaroo.