Various job obligations in the past meant that my time as a modeller was eratic
and limited, but the CV reads Super 60 with home made McGregor S/C radio
through to a Magnatilla in 1991. Working 7 days a week meant there was then a
gap until 2005 when I 'retired'.  I have been making up for lost time since.

To get flying quickly, I have favoured ARTF (almost ready to fly) lately, although I am
building a couple of the D'Agostini Spitfires the old fashioned way.  Why two you may ask?
So I don't sob if I crash the first one.

CLICK HERE to view my PT-19 Video - LEARNING TO FLY

Anyway, here are a few pics - first the late Fairfield PT-19.

The PT-19 was a training aircraft used by the U.S. Army just prior to WW II. 
PT stands for 'Pilot Trainer' and this model is very smooth to fly.

Pilatus Porter
This is more like it if you fancy something docile that doesn't want to leave the sky.
ARTF from Air Loisir, very light - couldn't get it to stall! An ideal trainer that looks like
an aeroplane but is a bit different.

Tiger Moth 30 from J. Perkins.  A most attractive model, I have yet to fly this.

My Magnatilla photographed in a studio and superimposed on sky

As you may have gathered by now, I am very keen on semi scale and models that
look like aeroplanes. This is the ARTF AT-6 Harvard from Air Loisir that has some
amazing detail in the covering. Panels and rivets are fully detailed and in some
models even the wear and tear marks left by the servicing mechanics are shown!

Rivet detail in the panels.

Single seater Spacewalker. This is the ideal low wing trainer. Thick straight wing making
slow level flight a piece of cake. Shame about the first twin seater I had. It tied a yellow ribbon
round the old oak tree at the end of our runway.

The small green patch in the centre of this photograph is the Croydon Airport
Model Flying Club flying field at Fickleshole, just south of South Addington.  It
is only about 45 yards long, so requires some skill to land in precisely.  The
dark vertical shadows are long shadows cast by the trees, so the photograph
must have been taken early in the morning when the sun was low.