BMFA Indoor Scale Nats. 2026. Walsall UK

[TheLurker]

1,2 You can never have too many photographs (or models) of Hawker Hurricanes. I've misplaced my KS list so can't tell you whose it is.  If you know please say.

3 I don't know what it is nor who built it, but it's lovely crisp piece of work.

[TheLurker]

1,2 Tim Horne's Stinson Voyager(?).  Lovely, innit?
3,4 A No-cal twin Catalina from one of the Dutch contingent. I only saw one flight, duration wasn't great, but the flight pattern was good.

While I think about it.  I owe Tim an abject apology for jinxing his entry in the air race.  Sorry Tim.

[TheLurker]

1,2 Anonymous Fike/Tailwind for Pistachio I think.

3,4 Pete Hall's Santos-Dumont 14bis.  A difficult subject at any scale, but Pistachio?  Nurse!  The screens!

[TheLurker]

1,2 Nick Peppiatt's Pistachio Lippisch Storch from about 1995/6.  Yes, it does fly and very very well at that. I've got some newsreel of it, but it's so small it gets lost in the background.

3 Mats Johannson's Stampe.  Gorgeous wee thing.  There will be more snaps of this.

4 Some peanuts.

Back soon. The dinner gong has just been struck.

[TheLurker]

Burp! Oh, excuse me. Now where was I? Oh, yes.

1,2 Richard Crossley's Grumman Duck.  Again, no apololgies for repetition, just pray I don't stray into deviation.  One for older listeners there.

3,4  Bristol Type 138 High Altitude Monoplane.  Don't know who built it. Sorry. Too many models, not enough time to make notes.

[TheLurker]

1,2 I didn't get the builder's name, he was sitting with Mr. Flack, but a nicely built VMC Sopwith Tripe.

3,4 Gary Flack's Pistachio Westland Wyvern.

[TheLurker]

1,2 Gary Flack's FW-190D

[TheLurker]

As promised, some more of Mats' Stampes.  I think he may associating with the plastics crowd you know.

[TheLurker]

1,2 Dave Crompton's Jodel with some rather nice engine detail.
3,4 Ben Pallister's Grumman Bearcat

[TheLurker]

1 - Side view of Ben's F8F
2-4 inc.  Richard Crossley's FIAT CR-42 Falco.  Note the detail on the propeller.

[TheLurker]

Last from me

1 - John Cooper's Hawker Hart.  I think he said it was the West Wings kit, but my memory is not to be relied upon these days.

2-4 Again no apologies for repetition.  Γιωργο's utterly gorgeous Batboat. The control cable runs are all as per the prototype and the wheel "retract".

[Andrew D]

I think this the Fardell Comper Swift but not sure which class it was in wether it flew ...kit scale ??

I think that could be David Cowley's Swift.  It flew very nicely...

[Jmk89]

Again, no apololgies for repetition, just pray I don't stray into deviation.  One for older listeners there.

Just a minute, who are you calling older... oh, me...well perhaps I'll admit that...... Anyway, I think you've all done very well (for the slightly younger viewers!)

[SP250]

In Squirrelnet's post 31 the "not sure" model is Doug Hunt's Veron Luscombe Sedan. 
Thanks all for putting these photos up of  great models and a reminder of a superb weekend.

John M

[Squirrelnet]

Lurk's film of the flying on Sunday is now on Youtube