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Mark Barnes

@markbarnesn16.bsky.social
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One half of Whinge & Racket on Louder Than War Radio. Arsenal fan. Life on the Essex Riviera, photography, model making, cars, music, military stuff, and so much other nonsense. North London Forever.

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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 4h
A fun day at the Coulson Flying Tankers base at Sproat Lake in 2009. "Philippine Mars" was in for maintenance. I missed out on a guided tour of her, mores the pity. The cockpit section is from the unfinished 8th Martin Mars airframe which got no further when production was cancelled in 1944.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 4h
My kids (now 34 and 31) and I look back with great fondness to the time we spent reading books with me doing voices of characters for them (and me, too, if I'm honest). They are treasured moments. Who on earth would want to miss out on a connection like that?
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 5h
Perfection. Absolutely beautiful.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 5h
This:
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 7h
Thanks matey
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 7h
Tons, Jim; cheers!
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 8h
My son did this dry fit to get a feel for scale. It's big. I don't have a pale blue rattle can, so used this green as a base for a blue wash. Two parts track links are coming on. There is a mask for painting the two sections steel and rubber black. #histscalemodels
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 9h
It's with my Halloween display.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 11h
There is always a mix isn't there!
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 12h
I'm hoping the top will be removable, but if not, the doors, hatches and shell loading thing will be open (it goes across the back of the turret)
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 12h
The Land Warfare hall at DX was a gloomy place, but these things cost many £££ to fix. I was a volunteer with the MV Wing of DAS for a while and am said to see it go. There was a feeling of MVW being an unwanted child at DX at the time. Perceptions may vary.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 13h
Horrendous
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 14h
@mjjjennings.bsky.social This might interest you
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 14h
Serious thinking time on the Meng AUF1. The gun house floor/screens and the gun mounts are light blue. The turret walls and components are white. The gun is green. The auto loader is brown. Shells are three different colours. Plus black,steel and brown for odds. Sort that lot out! #histscalemodels
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. What a great picture. Always pleasing to see Geoffrey Keating's work.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Absolute heresy.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The sky was orange from the fires
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Great work. I don't use an airbrush, either.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More random archive pix. A forlorn looking DC-3S or C-117D, your choice, at the superb BC Aviation Museum at Sidney on Vancouver Island in 2009. I believe it was due to be scrapped. The A-26 Invader is/was a water bomber. The Vickers Viscount was open and my son sat in the cockpit. Fun times.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dennis F8 methinks
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He looks like a shit Eminem tribute act on this clip
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You need a Toyota Corolla
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A stop off in Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada during a period of brush fires. Augusty 2009.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The second shot shows how it mounts. Hope they are of some use.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You should have seen it in 1969
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love it
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Blimey
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is what happens when idiots don't read posts properly 😂
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I enjoyed it. Jessie Buckley is very good.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Top work
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can find you a pic of a LR Pinky sun compass if you need reference for scratch building.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I freed up time to work on the gun breech/mantlet of the Meng AUF1. Meng seem to have reserved all the soft, brittle, in other words, crap, parts for this phase. There is fettling to do and some filling. Hey ho.. #histscalemodels
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can't see anything
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I will confirm. It is an online radio thing. It also gets uploaded to Mixcloud where I think you can download it, but I will check.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Better late than never, here are Whinge & Racket on Louder Than War Radio. Music chat and nonsense from two veterans of whatever it was back in the day. We're recording episode 3 tomorrow, for broadcast next Sunday. www.mixcloud.com/louderthanwa...
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Whinge & Racket: Show 2 - September 13th 2026
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I went trekking in the Jordanian desert and managed to do plenty of damage while I was there.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Too much blood in recent weeks
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did the old Euston to Carlisle Motorrail and then Edinburgh to Euston back in the day. Did Liverpool St to Berlin Zoo and back on several occasions. East German steam trains and armed guards added to the colour.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An excellent article well worth reading, especially if you're a student of AFPU and wartime photography.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is superb.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That does it for me
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ouch!
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listening to the album now. Really nice.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I convince myself size isn't everything 😀👍
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Great fun!
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Eddie Taylor of the Daily Sketch, I believe.
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cheers matey. I need a break from it for a while!
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The hull of the Meng AUF1 is complete barring glass bits. It went together pretty well with only mild swearing viz the headlights in particular. The PE stuff went on well. Meng provide a jig for the fiddly bits. Tracks next, maybe later in the week. #histscalemodels
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Superb
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fun times at Roots Hall where the Shrimpers beat Fylde 3-1 in front of 8,000 fans including 46 from Fylde. Southend scored all 4 goals. The OG was a crazy back pass into an empty net. It was a decent match much of the time. My eldest gt nephew was a ball boy. Family glory. Pub dinner afterwards.
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