Recent content by fastmongrel

Use the RR Kestrel 400 to 450hp V12v as the medium tank engine for lighter/smaller tanks like the Valentine chop some cylinders off to make a 225hp straight 6 or a 300hp V8. For a postwar 45 ton tank use a land version of the RR Griffon. RR are going to be too busy doing its proper job of...

I was always being beaten by Stan Stephens tuned bikes. Now I know why he was an underhand cheat. I want all the cheap chrome plated plastic crap trophies that were stolen from me.

It's just north of DB601

Bristol aircraft designs and speed don't seem to go together. Bristol could talk a good top speed but never got any where near the paper speed.

F1 can be the most tedious procession but last year was interesting for the first time since Moss and Fangio went skinny wheel to skinny wheel and driver safety consisted of putting out your cigarette before climbing into a fuel tank cunningly disguised as the drivers seat.

HMS Hermes was laid down in 1944, launched in 1953 and completed 1959. Has to be the longest gestation of any warship.

I have hammered an AF or Whitworth ring spanner or socket onto many a damaged or rusted metric bolt. Sometimes that odd tool that's sat in the bottom drawer of the tool chest for years gets you out of a deep hole.

An octuple pom-pom is a considerable weight around 20 tons with ammunition and water. Probably going to need a lot of strengthening if mounted at flight deck level.

If we're listing flat car engines don't forget the mighty Jowett Javelin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jowett_Javelin

Volkswagen would like a word with you.

The Taurus is a bit of an oddity as far as I can tell it's problems in the Beaufort don't seem to have affected the Albacore apart from early teething trouble which seemed to be sorted quite quickly. What exactly was the problem with the Beaufort installation. Was it too tightly cowled or did...

Make sure your wearing a mask and doing it outdoors the Dremel will create a lot of dust that you don't want in your lungs. Or in the house. Razor saw is your friend Zona and Tamiya do nice solid saws Zona SA35/150 35-150 42tpi Razor Saw https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0006N736K/

The P40 did get a Merlin (actually a Packard v1650). Look up the P40-F and L variants. It always suffered from being a year behind its contemporaries a P40 from the Mediterranean theatre in late 1941 would have been a killer aircraft over Britain a year earlier. Not that it was a bad fighter...

That was an Air Ministry decision to reduce cost or rather stop cost growth. The Government via the Treasury would still have the same control of the money supply wether it was an RAF or Navy contract.

Good idea I thought of doing something similar when I started. I don't know if you have built a resin kit before but make sure you have a good quality razor saw to cut the resin. You can sometimes cut it with a scalpel or craft knife but the resin can be brittle. Put some masking tape over the...