the things you do for work

[thedarkmaster]

well haven't completed my usual kit this week for my Empires Twighlight as I have had to do these real world kits for work











































































the only realworld kits i have made in the last 3 years,  and i had to do it for the shop 

[JayBee]

Tim, you are just an absolute show-off. Fantastic work. Well done.

JimB

[Hman]

I like the Stringbag

I have to ask what job do you have that means you get to make models...do you own a model shop? 

[thedarkmaster]

I have to ask what job do you have that means you get to make models...do you own a model shop?

I work for Modelzone mate, we have a new manager ......(Chadders, also on this site.) and we are doing a few models for display.

[PR19_Kit]

Cracking job Tim, love the Irish Hurricane. 

With luck I'll see a real one on Thursday as Mrs. PR19 and I are in Ireland and I'm trying like hell to get into the Irish Air Corps Museum at Baldonel, where they have a real one. Fingers crossed.....

[Nick]

Nice work there on those birds, Tim.

Kit, I doubt you'll see a Hurricane at Baldonnel but you should see a lot more fantastic aircraft IF you can gain access. I pre-arranged it weeks before I went out there. Take a tripod and good camera too. I was there last year and it's all in a dimly lit 2-bay Belfast Truss Hangar like those at Duxford. It was an RAF base first, of course!
In the collection I saw their Chipmunk, Vampire, Anson, Fouga Magister and a pair of towed Bofors AA guns. I then got taken out to tour the active aircraft hangars and saw the government Gulfstream IV, Learjet 45, Pilatus PC-9M, Cessna 172s, AW139, EC-135 and the Twin Squirrel. Pretty much the entire air fleet was at the one base 

[PR19_Kit]

Nick,

I got a phone call from someone at Baldonnell today and sadly they have no staff available as tour guides this week, despite saying that they would do over a month ago. 

Such is life.....

The two CN235s weren't there when you visited then? Presumably they were out over the Atlantic looking for pirates. 

[Taiidantomcat]

Great looking white hurricane! its my favorite, you show off! 

[Pablo1965]

Good work
I like the Hurricanes

[deathjester]

Brilliant work mate!  One of the best things a model shop can do is have good quality finished articles on display, to inspire folk!

[NARSES2]

Look good Tim. What branch of MZ do you work in ?

Was in Brighton yesterday (last day of summer and it was gorgeous weather, so went with a couple of mates) popped into MZ and was appalled. Was about 98% diecast, nowt wrong with diecast but the plastic shared a space smaller then my broomcupboard with the figures 

[thedarkmaster]

Both Chadders and myself work in Derby Modelzone, we are now one of the larger stockists of plastic kits ( in relation to our turnover and size ) but thats down to incrased sales. We are happy to talk to customers about kits and they buy more as a result 

[James]

I wish Leeds MZ sold more plastic kits. I think Cheshire MZ is a good branch but hardly ever west unless it's to see my sister at Liverpool uni. I made a promise to myself I would get down to Cheshire next time i'm over there.

[Shasper]

Lovin' the finish on the Hurri! *drool*