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🐌🪖Couple of hours noodling in the autumn sun! Just a tickle here and there. Started on the rear and ordering some accessories. Forgot the decals😅 That AK track rust is really good imho. Likely too many updates? #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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bluepapaca.bsky.social @bluepapaca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, I hope he’s happy now! Fuck tRump!!!

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never verified it but James May stated that because the cockpit was so narrow, it took 60% more effort to exert the same stick force in a 109 than a Spitfoire!

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🐌🪖It’s in one piece! Now the bits I love-stowage and just fiddling about dabbing and finishing details. Relatively restrained this time? #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🐌🪖Trackfest More brushing and dabbing than I care to remember. The images are a bit bland But one almost finished. Just needs a bit more steel highlighting and mud. Thanks all! #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(September 1917.) A worker lying inside the barrel of a naval gun cleaning the rifling at the Ordnance Works Coventry. #WW1 #HISTORY

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surely it is time for the authorities to take this Fairford terrorism case out of the hands of the police & pass it over to Nigel Farage, Richard Tice & Isabel Oakeshott etc. These people have the expertise & skills to have this all solved & explained to the public by tonight.👍

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐌🪖thinking about the tracks. Black undercoat but what do peeps use for the base colour coat. I have three AK colours and they are all bright. (gun metal, steel and new steel)? #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🐌🪖More Churchill. Right side wheels done(ish) Building up the turret. Old plastic, so a tow wire broke into three-bodge fix. Too much grubbiness? The water oil is great for wet streaks, fresh muddiness and mellowing rust powder! #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🐌🪖Doing the the otherside and the front. Trying so hard to keep it understated. Love the dry and damp contrast. Did a little mud flicking for the first time Very much WIP😅. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Talking of 3D printing. Now you can buy chicken wire instead of raiding you local University textile design dept...at a cost! rt-diorama.de/product/ultr... #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya #scalemodeling #3dprinting

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

25 September 1944. British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands. The Germans took many prisoners. It meant the Allies had failed to cross the Rhine. The river remained a barrier to their advance into Germany until March 1945.

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the one hand fighting Nazism abroad on the other….

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

25 September 1980. Led Zeppelin star John Bonham, one of the greatest drummers in rock history, died (aged 32). His untimely death led to the break up of the group. In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No 1 in its list of the 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Latest piece. It’s bad enough that Chinese leadership mocks the US openly in the White House, however the real problem is that they did this once before and then went on to help Iran rebuild its military. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/its-not-th...

phillipspobrien.substack.com

It’s Not That Xi Insults Trump Once...

It’s that the Chinese are actively destroying the US global position while the US president bows and scrapes

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Christine Keeler and the not Arne Jacobsen chair.

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🐌🪖The Churchill progresses in relative proportion to its speed! Water based oil & dust for the crew walking areas. Adding tidemark down the side. Sponged worn paint then damped down. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How can this be so moving but it is

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

War film guilty pleasures? Has to be Fury or Furry for me. So many mistakes, layers of cheese and daft plot - but Tiger!

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And yet the allies later trusted Stalin....

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not sure they are due much or any sympathy

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Such a clear evening and morning!

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Kate @kateretired.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by world events? Find a dog, any dog. 😂🥹❤️

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of my absolute favourite buildings - it's appartments. Designed by artist Bjørn Nørgaard in cooperation with the The Craftsmen's Association of Denmark. #denmark #copenhagen

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The work of madmen and dictators wannabe or otherwise.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 21/09/2026

A thousand-drone raid! Bomber Harris would be so proud to see this. Yet another fascist attacker who entered the war with a rather naive delusion that they'd bomb everyone and no one would bomb them sowed the wind and now reaps the whirlwind.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jean Veber, ‘The Somme, 20 September 1916’, lithograph, 1916. Source: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Drawing: shell cratered landscape in which five soldiers in a trench watch as one fires a machine gun.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rarely is 🇩🇰 in the global news but had to post this

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Danes and USA have reached an agreement about something that was never going to happen anyway. Now the toddler is happy again. #usa #denmark

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone mentioned that they liked the rust on me Churchill Blimey Charlie-Ian Dooley, Weathered models FB The last image looks as near as damn it real! #scalemodels #scalemodeling www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ynn...

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Many of the apartment facades in Copenhagen are ground-floor shops and apartments above. Workers apartments and workshops behind. Then behind those, warehouses. Raw materials were imported & stored, worked on then sold in the shops fronting the streets. Often completely hidden.

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My Happy Place @goodnrg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Five minutes. An eternity in today’s short attention span. However, I encourage each of you to watch & listen to this start sequence of Spits & Hurricanes @ Duxford’s Battle of Britain 2026. Simply brilliant. 🙏 🛩️ #Aviation #Avgeek #Airshow #Duxford #Photography #Warbirds #planespotting

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Social media companies have had years to behave in any kind of responsible manner. Now they have to be treated like kids👏🏻. Next up AI? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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EU announces plan to restrict social media access for children

Under the plans, only children over 15 would be able to set up their own social media accounts.

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A legendary moment in time. Heroic failure.

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Famously lasted long than the actual war. Watched the entire series whilst living in Toronto. Amongst the five ad breaks in each episode.

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Pete W @pete-w-1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In 1933 the Nazis established the Reich Culture Chamber to promote the Aryanization of German culture, and to ban degenerate art. So, this is another nazi-level bad. On the other hand I predict the art that Trump personally chooses will be unimaginably awful, so bad as to transcend any parody.

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Ian Miles @smilo998.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🐌🪖Added some stowage, mostly to the turret and trying not to over weather. Pigment washes and water based oil. Much more to do. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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