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AB602 - Expo Airbrush Deal Look whats included: • High Quality Dual Action, Gravity Feed Airbrush ...
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£15.95

Set includes 1.5/2/2.5/3/4/5mm. Suitable for 6/8/10/12/14 & 16BA Nuts. High quality tips manufactured in chrome vanadium steel, heat ...
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799-20 Expo Professional Rapid Cable Stripper Strips mains cable outer sheath without adjustment! Features: ...
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OO Gauge Painted Loco Crew Painted Manufactured by P & D Marsh in the UK Click on ...
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AB605 Expo Super Detail Airbrush Deal. Perfect for beginners and experienced airbrushers alike. Complete set - nothing else ...
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743-75 Hot Wire Foam and Polystyrene Cutter with Large Y Bow and Knife USES 4 x AA Batteries ...
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A457-21 Pack of 16 Microstixs
Microstixs are disposable adhesive-tip apllicators designed to securely hold and place fragile or small items.
These innovative tools give you the confidence to handle and place fragile items. They are ideal for placing items such as small plastic parts in model kits. They leave no residue behind.
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A252-11 Pack of 10 Resistors
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958-12
Ancorton OO Gauge Loading Gauge Kit
Laser Cut Kit
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£6.99

C8 Superquick Embankment Arches
OO Gauge
Cardboard Model Kit


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AIRFIX BUCCANEER S MK.2 RN 1:72 SCALE

The mighty Blackburn Buccaneer was one of the most capable low-level strike aircraft of the Cold War period, originally entering Royal Navy service in 1962 to counter the significant threat of a massive Soviet Naval expansion programme. Rather than face the crippling cost of building new ships of their own to meet this threat, British thinking at the time was to use their new strike jet to destroy the Soviet ships with a combination of conventional and nuclear weapons. Capable of extremely high speeds at low level, the Buccaneer proved to be the ideal aircraft to keep the Warsaw Pact countries on their toes, even though the performance of the first Buccaneers to enter service was affected by a lack of power from their two de Havilland Gyron Junior engines.

Operating from the decks of Britain’s relatively small aircraft carriers, the Buccaneer had to be tough and its rugged, no nonsense design approach was underlined rather effectively by the aircraft’s manufacture and flight testing procedure. Constructed at Blackburn Aviation’s Brough facility, each assembled Buccaneer was transported by road, pulled behind a truck on its own undercarriage. They would make a journey of around 16 miles down winding country lanes and across bridges with sharp bends to the company’s Holme-on-Spalding Moor facility, where they would undergo final checks and flight testing.

Addressing most of the issues which prevented the early aircraft from realizing their full potential, the Buccaneer S.2 was a much improved platform, boasting a modified wing, increased fuel capacity and a pair of powerful Rolls Royce Spey engines. This new variant provided the Fleet Air Arm with a truly exceptional strike aircraft, which excelled in the low level environment in which it was tasked to operate. One particularly useful design feature for an aircraft which operated mainly over water was the type of ejection seat fitted in the Buccaneer – in the event of a ditching, the seat would still fire even if the aircraft was submerging. As the Royal Navy retired their larger carriers in 1978, their much loved Buccaneers were transferred to the care of the Royal Air Force, who were already admirers of the many qualities possessed by this aircraft and grateful for this increase in their inventory. At its peak strength in the early 1970s, the Blackburn Buccaneer equipped no fewer than six Royal Air Force Squadrons.
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DRY STEPPE

Yellow Brown textured dry soil effect can be used to create the accumulation of medium density dry summer soil. Realistically adds the final touches of variable textured soil to your model. Apply with a brush or tool, manipulate or remove with a clean brush moist with thinner. This effect can used alone or with other enamel earth tones.
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