This is a very overdue update of my blog, since about March I'd been feeling slightly off colour health-wise - I carried on doing my renaming's and renumbering's until the beginning of August. However in August I got very ill and have been under the Doctor's care since then and it's only in the last week I finally got a diagnosis and treatment began. Lyme disease just in case you want to know.

So signed off work and needing something to do (and when I was able), I started building (or finishing off - in one case) Aircraft model kits..

First off was a Hasegawa 1:72 Scale Harrier 2 Plus that I started building in 2001 (I quite possibly helped in the construction of the real thing in my days at BAE Systems at Dunsfold)

Then it was a new kit for me, Airfix's Harrier GR7A/9 kit - which took me an age to build (and even longer to apply the decals)

Next up was the Harrier GR1 - again an Airfix kit and a fantastic kit to build.

Then I thought I try and get back into trains and started of with a S15 which decided to have an electrical failure partway into the weathering process and because I couldn't concentrate enough it's been put to one side for investigation and rectification. Undeterred I continued with trains and completed another N15 - 30801 Sir Meliot de Logres (only Sir Galleron to go and that will be the final batch of N15's modelled by your's truly - and yes I have the donor and plates)

After that I went back to planes and built this (yet another Airfix Kit) a Bristol Blenhiem.

Another loco was renumbered (and is still to be finished) and then I started on a 1:48 scale kit...

The seriously impressive Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk1 (tropical) - I posted this first photo in a Hornby thread (more parts than the original 1:48 scale Hurricane kit) and this afternoon I had got to this stage with her.

She's now in the paintshop, as the loco I was working is now out of it and back on my workbench for final weathering and finishing.

That's all for now TBG