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John the Stonemason

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Stonemason & Historic Building Conservator. Yorkshireman in the Cotswolds, Liberal. Crazy about history and scale modelling. Slava Ukraini!

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/10/2026
Growing up next door to an aggressor, you don't take freedom for granted. As a young Latvian shares, Ukraine isn't just fighting for itself—it’s breaking a cycle of occupation so the next generation across Eastern Europe can finally live without looking over their shoulder.
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The brilliant Paul Whitehouse promoting the water referendum petition - this one - please sign and share petition - this is the correct link petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Aw man that's awesome Mark,I love a Sea Fury and I too am a contender for the worlds slowest Modeller, I love it, but work takes presidence, also I'm a bookworm and have an alotment. I've an R.A.F Be2c on the bench atm. I'm really enjoying the build, but don't expect it to be ready anytime soon.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hi mark, thanks! It wasn't bad for it's age, my hero at the moment is Greg of Greg's Models on Youtube. I wanted to try an older kit like Greg, to advance my skills. This one took a lot of Green Putty but was happy with the fit. Paint wise, used Mr Color red over grey u/c, Humbrol 60 as h/light
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
They do Mathew, the originals were pretty much blobs of plastic. Would have loved to replace the propeller too as It's not great, but had no options but to make the best of a bad job.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Thanks Paul!
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Completed Airfix 1/72 Fokker DR.1 a mould from 1956! The Airfix WW1 challenge and what a challenge, spent a lot of time filling injector holes and cleaning parts, but actually went together well. Changed pilot for a better one and changed the LMG 08's for Master-Model ones. #Histscalemodels
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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died
Cover of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just completed the rigging of this Airfix 1/72 Fokker Eindecker Eii. The first aircraft to have a synchronised machine gun to fire through the arc of the propeller. Starting what the British press termed the Fokker scourge of 1915/16. Wonderful little kit, went together very well. #histscalemodels
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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"How to read 2000AD for Americans" by @zackquaintance.bsky.social, writing for @comicsbeat.bsky.social (5/20/26): www.comicsbeat.com/how-to-read-...
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How to read 2000AD for Americans
As the UK's classic weekly comics anthology makes it way into comic shops stateside, we have 3 tips for How to Read 2000AD!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
youtu.be/byd5PRryi_Y?...
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Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by 2000 AD
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Spinning plates is an analogy I use to describe my job as a Construction Site Manager, so many hats to wear (another one). One broken plate can lead to a great deal of trouble or someone getting hurt.
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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
‘Der Tiger’ trashes Fury. I watched the German-language version. The plot is a bit thin, but attention to armour detail, fairly believable tactical behaviour, & a hard anti-war frame that also confronts war crimes without collapsing into pathos. #AFV #Amazon
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I will never understand why James Cameron decided the waste the second half of his career making films about these godforesaken jungle smurfs.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Tomohawk or Kittyhawk? They changed the name after P40-D I think. Anyway it's on my list. Just finished reading Derek Robinson's 'A good clean fight'. Put me in the mood to make one. Anyway lovely build.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thanks, it's faffy, but if you look closely at the photos of the original Frisco Kid (my second post), the real nose cone wasn't exactly perfect.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
*limeworks
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Emphasis is usually structural first and foremost. Weather resistance next. Also, trying to prolong the life of the original stonework using sympathetic conservation techniques, usually lifeworks, indent repairs using a (as near as possible) match of the type of original stonework and lime mortar.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
3mm masking tape around the bottom of the cone adjusted until straight and made a little loop of 6mm tamiya tape for the crown and just sat it on top.Spent a wee while adjusting everything until it looked right. More 6mm tape bellow the 3mm and bob's your uncle.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Thanks Stef.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Hi Dave, I'm a trained Monumental Mason, but work in Historic Building conservation around Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
A few more pics inc the original.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Finished Airfix 1/48 P51D 'Frisco Kid'. Great kit. Thoroughly enjoyed making this. Used Mr Color Super metallic2 for the chrome finish. Highly recommend, nice paint with no thinning required. Tried to get the weathering to match original (pictured) not sure I achieved it. #histscalemodels
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Outstanding.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Reform huge gains are not to be underestimated but that's a very telling little strip.
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Now, his statue is in the Rood screen of St. Albans Abbey as one of the seven martyrs. Carved by the late Sculptor Rory Young helped by his assistant, my wife.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sikh Indian Army soldier, Berber tribesman, and camel all Masterbox all pre-weathering. I've a mind to do a Wadi diorama. I've got a Tamiya Fiat 508 staff car that I'd like to add also, make it a bit October '43.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tell me about it. Binned a Gecko K2y Ambulance last year. Over engineered and massively confusing instructions. Also sprews have quite heavy jointing to parts, trying to clean up a 1.5mm wide radius arm after removing it from the sprew made me question my life choices. Never again.
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Philip Low @brainking.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#UnmaskingMusk
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 22/12/2024
Who’s made my naughty list this year…? Anyone I missed? Tag them below
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I worked for Sam Smith's briefly in the 90's at his Quarry, Banker masonry, and if there wasn't any, I'd sort random rubble in the Quarry bottom for £5 a tonne. From what I could gather about him then he was a fucking loony, wouldn't have numbers on his drays so he couldn't be audited for wealth.
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Blending flesh tones is really hard when you start. It really comes down to practice makes perfect. I'm still on the low slopes, but getting better. I recommend VMS Varnish HD Matt for matt coating, it's clear out of the bottle so no milky residue.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Merry Christmas, all. ❤️🎄🎅🏽 (And no. I did NOT whiten my teeth Hollywood stylee! 😂)
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It is, very nice, as my avatar suggests.
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Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
28th-28th Nov, 1942. Victoria Cross action of Flt/Sgt Rawdon ‘Ron’ Middleton. He was pilot of a 149 Squadron Stirling on a mission to bomb the Fiat works in Turin, Italy. The aircraft had already struggled to reach 12,000 feet to cross the Alps, leaving barely enough fuel to return to England. 🧵1/8
(4-engined Stirling bomber on a frost-covered tarmac airfield dispersal, dwarfing the aircrew in flying kit standing underneath next to a bomb trolley)

Crew of a 149 Squadron Stirling at Mildenhall, January 1942, while their aircraft is being bombed up.
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Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM @uk-tank-markings.co.uk · 26/11/2024
WW2 British Vehicle Markings Deciphered - a thread 🧵 Using the Tank Museum's Comet as an example, we can see the following: 1 - Arm of Service Flash 2 - Bridge Classification 3 - Formation Insignia 4 - Serial Number 5 - Tactical Sign 6 - Vehicle Name All explained in turn below... [1/10]
A photograph of a Comet tank, from a front-quarter angle, showing off its various markings.
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SteveDeeGreen @stevedeegreen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Old project - I'd made some retro Dredd uniform bits for a friend to assemble a late 1970s era 'Dredd Action Man' @graemeneilreid.bsky.social creatred some great box art gnreid.co.uk/action-man-m...
Faked action man figure of the comic character Judge Dredd, with retro box
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tamiya Pkzfw IV Ausf. D I made last summer, the aircraft flying over our house at the time gave this video an added mileau I quite liked.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Few bits and pieces of this year's modelling that require dioramas.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Had a Gecko kit, k2y ambulance. Awful, awful plastic. Brittle as anything. Went in the bin eventually, which os unusual for me. Wish I'd bought the Airfix kit
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I had a very British trump in bed this morning, essence of Roast Beef with a hint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord. Probably smelt better than himself too.
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John the Stonemason @masonsterm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
First diorama: Tamiya mid war German machine gun team with IF8 Infanteriekarren.
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