Thanks for the compliment mate! (the twenty bucks is on it's way, alright? )
'Stone the crows' is just a statement of surprise, like 'Bloody hell!' or (in modern lingo...) 'F k me!'
I imagine the expression originated with farmers, annoyed at the crows eating their fresh planted wheat or something...
Todays work.. interior finished and windows in. Got to use my first crack with Future, loving it. Using CA and getting no fog was a plus. Some of the ribbing paint got stripped because I tried using CA to hold the waist gun section in and was blow drying it and flipped the model for a different angle and the CA took its own trail. I get to use the excuse of 'it will be covered up'!