Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Skin fade, nostril wax (wibble) beard trim & beard dye (just to confirm I’m not vain)🫣face pack, ear flame, hot towels - form a queue ladies 🤢🥴🤣 100
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I’ve just read TV’s Alex Churchill’s Substack - a spot on read for me with my short attention span - I’ll look differently on my Bath Olivers next time I’m having a late night snack! (FYI I put marmite on mine) I know! 😬🤢…. Sign up to Churchies Stack and find out how these two images are linked 🍪💎⬇️ 031
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I love a retro build, a kit from back in the day that I couldn’t make my pocket money stretch to …..much A10 prototype goodness 1/72 Matchbox 🩶 130
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 24/01/2026There’s an old mill by a stream ‘Nellie Dean’ Gertie Gitana during 1914–18 war she was a ‘forces sweetheart’ and often entertained the war wounded. Buried in Wigston Magna the home town of her husband, impresario Don Ross. The lyrics of her most famous song are on her memorial 022
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Just a couple of mill short to buy and do up the grade II listed farm house and out buildings Wigston 🥲 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Gertrude Bell, a heroine, visionary a strong woman in WW1 forging new nations in the Middle East! (She really should be a household name!) her life chronicled in ‘Over The Top’ magazine a Great War Group publication 💜🤎🧡 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Graphic novel describing the life and times of Admiral Von Spee! Featured in the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social publication ‘Over the Top’ - it’s for younger readers! But shhh - don’t say it’s good for grown ups explaining complicated stories in bite size bits! Drawn by moi! 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Exciting times here in the midshires - Salient Points & OTT publications from The Great War Group have hit the door mat! They represent a lot of hard work from a lot of people - superb reads for all history buffs! Check this webo for details!⬇️🙏❤️🖤 www.alexchurchill.co.uk/great-war-gr... 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Socials for GB News! 🗞️ 📺♥️ this mornings paper reviews from Mike & Dawn! 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The Great War Group publication OTT - (it’s for kids …but it’s so good even grown up nerds can read it) this month, features the unbelievable WW1 story of Sgt York the all American hero 🙏✅✍️🇺🇸 sign up, subscribe & get stuck in! Drawn by moi! 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Available in all good book shops & lots of bad ones too! oh & Amazon- The history of WW1 a lavishly illustrated (by me) kids book - by TV historian Alex Churchill if any little people are working on projects about the conflict, this book is a perfect reference source. Fiercely accurate but fun! 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Just to confirm not my cat! He’s taken a shine to me and pops in to visit! 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 17/01/2026So I think Ai has done me out of a job - thank goodness I’m old! …. 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 12/09/2025More nerdery 1/72 scale recent builds using kits from the 70’s reminds of being a kid, I can now afford the models my pocket wouldn’t stretch to! Airfix Mig 17 & a Matchbox Armstrong Whitworth Meteor 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 12/09/2025That time the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference came to the Midlands! Good times. Here’s to the South West conference this year not so much ‘ay up me duck’ more ‘Alright my lovverrrr’ in Brizzol 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Please subscribe to the @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social , directed by T.V’s Alex Churchill. ‘cough’ especially the magazine for younger & young at heart readers ‘Over The Top’ featuring graphic novels bringing history to a new audience! 073
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 11/09/2025In my capacity as the weird cat guy, just been wounded 🩸🩸🩸with a claws out swipe from Blackbee Panther! 🐆 - I was only going for an ear scruffle! 🫣 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Going peak nerd with plastic models! ‘As my dad encouragingly said as a kid, “you’re wasting all your money on silly bleddy Airfix’es” you got that right dad…. Missing the memo on bringing up kids 😸 Recent 1/72 model builds 🙏✅🛩️ in your face dad! 120
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Very proud to be a part of the Great War Group! The only organisation that would have me as a member! Here’s the never before 🫣 told story of Mabel St Clair Stobart - please subscribe to join! 🙏✍️ 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Pudding cat, disappointed in my parenting efforts! …. C+ for me be better if there was ‘more sliced ham! ‘🫣😂🤗😍 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Work in progress look out for the exciting graphic novel being published by the Great War Group! @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social The life & times of Ataturk! 🇹🇷🗳️ words by TV’s alexchurchill.bsky.social 📺colouring in by me! 🖍️✏️ 142
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Henschel 123, an Airfix retro build, I first made this kit way back in the day, in the 70’s! 🥴. Very nostalgic to build it again. 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Narvick The podcast! Junkers 52’s on skis, Alpine soldiers, dive bombers, torpedoes, exploding battleships - please take a listen 👂 👇🏻🙏⚓️💣💥 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6kvMz5… YouTube: youtu.be/MbaQ2SgJUOo Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the��� Acast: open.acast.com/public/streams… 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Very much discouraged as a kid to build models - which makes me more determined to build as a so called grown up! Especially Airfix 1/72 Belgium 🇧🇪 x3 colour camo - Fouga Magister 020
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Happy Easter 🐣 . April sunshine & apple blossom 🌸 in the midshires 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I love an unusual prototype! FW 189 with the gongola removed & an armour crew compartment installed 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Feeding time this morning - I was tearing up the ham into kitty sized pieces & feeding her - I was clearly taking too long fashioning a bit, my hand was head butted & hissed at! - ‘hurry up sunshine, there’s a Hungary cat here!’ - humans are so annoying! 000
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Slow progress with little pudding, I went for an ear scruffle, 😦 backed off ears flat to her head hissing not at all happy! - deli ham & packets of Felix & being patient is the way😍 - I think with the food she’s looking healthier A trip to the vet is still a ways off! 🥲🐈🙏 210
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Slices of ham from the deli, Dreamies, expensive sachets of food, his own bowl! …. I haven’t seen him all afternoon so been out round the garden with a packet of treats, to see if I could see him …. He got me! The little puddin 🥰 100
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Currently feeding this little waif - battered & dirty, very timid can’t really get anywhere near him! … I know it’s a him as he’s still intact! ..already emotionally attached & worry when he doesn’t show! Cats! 🫠 But better than people! 🐈 120
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Springs in the air! First day in ages no frost on the windscreen! 020
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 20/03/2025As a man very much of the jet age ✈️ the homestead is preserved in the late 40’s it’s only old once the original Terrazzo floor, hardboard clad stair case, & 70’s pattern stair carpet with a worn Persian runner. Not everyone’s taste! 🤓 & I get hammered for it! 🥲 but I like it! 010
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Illustrations for the @GreatWarGroup OTT magazine - amazing women of WW1 impossibly brave, driven & resourceful, some ultimately gave their lives for their respective countries! Louise de Bettignes- Emilienne Moreau - Mara Hari - Mabel St Clare Stobart! 020
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Very excited to receive at Smith Design Towers the latest copy of Salient Points with the junior magazine ‘Over The Top’, literally jam packed with fascinating WW1 articles & a graphic novel sign up here 👇🏻💣 greatwargroup.com 020
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 11/03/2025In a bid for redemption…. I think 💭 I may have left it too late, and it will take more than a few Easter cards for the local church! 🤣🤫🪺🙏 020
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The Side Show Derby …. @alexchurchill.bsky.social 😂🫡💙 100
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Nigel’s talks are always really entertaining & informative - sign in ! 153
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Do forgive me clipping this image out from the AC’s subbo - totally blown away with some of the images especially this one! 120
Smithdesign @smithdesign.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Such sad news, a true genius & sound track to my life. ‘Back to Together’ RIP Roberta Flack 😪 010
