The hobby week - 29 April to 06 May

There wasn't a weekly update last week as I was away.  I returned on Saturday and got straight back into things.

Painting/modelling  

  • I finished the Newline Designs Sepoy regiment.  This is the last of three regiments of the first Anglo-Indian brigade.  For more on these click here.
  • I've been sorting out my Burrows  & Badgers collection and working on warband rosters.  I'm ashamed to say I started collecting these lovely figures in 2016 and they've never had an outing.  Cruelty to animals is what it is, keeping them in a box all this time.  I shall atone for this soon if all goes to plan.

Research & Reading

  • While on holiday I spent a very pleasant 1/2 day at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton.  A quite amazing place with a bewildering array of exhibits.  It's one of those incredible places built up and run by the dedication of volunteers and well worth a visit.  I'll try to do a report on it in the next couple of weeks.

Incoming!

  • While at the  Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum I picked up a few books.  They cost just £6.50 the lot.  There was a great selection of second hand aviation books to be had.  If it wasn't for lack of storage space I may have come back with a car full.

  • The blue book in the bottom left which cost just 50p is called Britain's Wonderful Air Force.  Although there's no publication date, there is a lovely inscription in the front "To Howard, from Mum & Dad, Xmas 1942".  The book is fantastic, I can just imagine a young lad being absolutely thrilled on opening this on Christmas Day and spending many a happy hour poring over it and trying to spot the many aircraft detailed in it.  It's pre-Mosquito and Lancaster and over 300 pages of period information.  What a find.

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