Tim Vincent

@tavincent.bsky.social

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Model maker. Photographer. Somerset Cricket fan. Classic car and motorsport follower.

James Grant (Love and Money), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Bernard Butler (Suede etc) at the Wiltshire Music Centre
Queuing to get into Model World Live at Birmingham NEC.
Exterior view of All Saints' Clifton
Airfix 1/72 Sikorsky-VFW CH-53G, painted in overall Olive Drab. Folded rotor hub from ResKit, scratch-built blade supports.
S-Model 1/72 Ford M151A2 'Mutt's, in MASSTR and Winter Verdant MERDC camouflage patterns.
Freightdog Models 1/72 scale Westland Wasp HAS.1. Painted in overall RAF Blue/Grey with hi-viz markings as XT786 (320) from HMS Amazon, 1975-1977.
Matchbox (AMT) 1/25 scale 1950 Ford Custom Convertible. Dark Burgundy metallic paintwork, black and white two-tone interior
1/25 scale plastic model of a 1950 Ford Custom Convertible, built from the AMT/Matchbox kit, with kit options of side-pipes and '60 Buick rear lights, and with a 1958 Lincoln MEL 430ci engine from the spares box. Painted in dark red metallic (Holts spray can) with a two-tone black/white interior, and baby moon hubcaps. Front left quarter view.
1/24 scale plastic model of a 1985 Ford Mustang SVO, built from the Monogram kit, painted black, with a grey interior. Front right quarter view.
Seven 'big' Austin-Healeys.
Marc Chagall stained glass window in All Saints church, Tudeley, Kent
View from the South Downs way.
Radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, with aerial mast behind it.
Japanese garden at Tatton Park, Cheshire.
Dornier Do 17 wing section, recovered from Goodwin Sands in 2013.
Model of RAF Defford
Chinese Streamside garden at RHS Bridgewater
Westland Scout AH.1 XT636 (G-CIBW) of the Historic Army Aircraft Flight (HAAF)
Freightdog Models 1/72 Wasp HAS.1, with spare floats and frame from the LF Models Scout kit, depth charges from Air-graphics, paint from Xtracolor (X13 - BS381C 633 RAF Blue/Grey) and decals from the kit, Model Art Decals and my spares box representing XT786 (320/AZ) from HMS Amazon 1975-77. Front port quarter view.
Queue of people outside Malmesbury Abbey
A picture of the waxing gibbous moon, taking at 19:24 British Summer time, showing the blue sky background and the moon 3 days before full moon.
XS743 Beagle Basset CC.1 at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection
1/72 scale plastic model of a Westland WG.13 Pre-production Army Lynx, made from the Matchbox kit with main and tail rotors, and cockpit interior from the Airfix kit. Painted gloss dark green and dark earth, as shown in contemporary photographs.
A lilac tree in a completed wooden planter, 75cm square and 65cm high.
1/24 scale plastic model of a 1961 Ferrari 250GT California Spyder, built from the Academy Kit (labelled 'European Classic Car'!), finished in Metallic Steel Grey with a black interior. Front left quarter view.
Exterior of Great Chalfield Manor, a 15th century manor house in Wiltshire, owned by the National Trust.
1/24 Plastic model of a Ferrari 250GT Short Wheelbase Berlinetta (SWB), based on the ESCI kit with aftermarket wire wheels, decals and other details. Representing chassis number 2731GT, as raced at Le Mans in 1961. Painted silver metallic with #20 race number.
Nick Mason's Ferrari 250GTO at the Goodwood Revival, 18th September 2005
a 1/24 Plastic model of a Ferrari 250GTO, chassis number 3757GT, owned by Nick Mason. Made from a combination of the Revell and Gunze Sangyo model kits, with aftermarket decals and seatbelts, and scratch-built engine details (ignition leads, fuel line). Front right quarter view, with bonnet (hood) raised.
The (tiny) box of the Freightdog Models/RotorCraft 1/72 resin kit of a Westland Wasp HAS.1, with 'Warpaint series No.110 - Westland Scout and Wasp' by Adrian M. Balch, my prime reference material for the build, in the background.
1/24 scale plastic model of a 1994/5 Jeep YJ Wrangler hardtop, built from the Tamiya kit with additional scratch-built engine detailing. Finished in metallic dark green with a light brown hard-top and tan interior. Front right quarter view with hood open, showing engine detail.
1/72 plastic model of a Leopard 1A5 Main Battle Tank, built from the Revell kit, painted in Revell Paints (65 Bronze Green, 84 Leather Brown, 06 Tar black), weathered with various AK/MIG products, white metal figure from, I think, S&S models
1/76 scale plastic model kit of a Centurion Main Battle Tank (MBT) Mk5, built from the Airfix kit with barrel and front storage box from the spares box. Finished in Deep Bronze Green.
1/72 Italeri Plastic scale model of a Breda-Nardi NH-500M (licence built Hughes 500) in the colours of the Italian Guardia di Finanzi - yellow fuselage.
Revell 1/72 scale plastic model of a Leopard 1A5 tank, as used by the Bundeswehr (German Army) in the 1990s. Painted in NATO 3-colour scheme of Bronze Green, Leather Brown and Black. Front right quarter view.
1/25 scale plastic model of the Indy 500-winning McLaren M16C, driven by Johnny Rutherford, built from the AMT kit. Painted Papaya Orange, with '3' race number. Helmet (with the Texan flag) placed forward of the steering wheel. Overhead view with engine cover and bodywork removed.
1/72 plastic model of Westland Lynx AH.9, serial number ZG885, based on the Airfix Army Lynx kit with modifications, painted medium sea grey with olive green camouflage stripes. starboard side view.
A 1/24 scale plastic model of a 1982 Volkswagen Golf 1.6D in the markings of the West Berlin Polizei, in white with green doors, bonnet and boot.
1/72 Scale model of a GKN-Westland WG.61b Wildcat, a fictional Lynx derivative, based on plans in Westland Aircraft and Rotorcraft (Jeremy Graham/Ron Smith, publ. Tempest Books) and using parts from Airfix (Army Lynx nose, cockpit and interior, Navy lynx nose undercarriage, Composite main rotors, old-tool Sea King tail boom), Italeri Merlin (crash-worthy cockpit and cabin seats, engines, main landing gear), HobbyBoss (main fuselage, cabin floor, bulkhead and roof) and Revell (EC135 Fenestron tail). Rocket launchers and decals from the spares box. Representing ZG898 of the Army Air Corps in an equally fictitious (but hopefully plausible) desert/arid colour scheme of Medium Sea Grey and RAF Desert Pink (both from Xtracolor)
Airfix 1/72 Westland Lynx - fuselage halves, unpainted