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Ian Miles

@smilo998.bsky.social

🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🚴🏻‍♀️🏍🪑🤓 SWW history toddler, two wheels are best always,

created October 1, 2023

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Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, precisely. Like Miniart for that reason but think I just need more practice to make a Miniart Stug.

2/9/2025, 4:24:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

Another massive advantage of brexit, “The overall number of asylum claims from people who arrived in the UK on a visa or another type of permission has tripled over the past three years.” www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

2/9/2025, 4:22:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad i passed on the 1/16(?)th Das Werk Stug for now thinking it would be easier than a 1/35th Miniart Stug which also not started.

2/9/2025, 3:30:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

We can be thankful the nazi leadership were so stupid! Radar stations, then airfields!

2/9/2025, 3:26:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Any news covered his election or is it 100% farige’s latest bunch of arse?

2/9/2025, 3:23:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Was Melania skipping by chance?

2/9/2025, 3:21:36 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Ask Putin!

2/9/2025, 9:56:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Quite frankly who cares, if Russia had a better offer and did not abuse the countries of the former USSR, they might stick around!

2/9/2025, 9:55:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Quite a balance act.

2/9/2025, 7:22:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes and the black ones!

2/9/2025, 7:21:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Good for you. Not lord of the rings, Harry Potter or game of thrones. Aware that the last 2 are not in the same league!

2/9/2025, 7:20:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

And bum!

2/9/2025, 7:18:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Finland is not pissing about, they remember Russia of old. Shame the rest of NATO is slow here!

2/9/2025, 7:16:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Let me guess, they have not all closed and have absorbed the cost with no problem (hope not to steal your thunder here).

2/9/2025, 7:15:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

You are a humanitarian bombing and destroying the territory as is it “freed”. And from people who don’t to be freed to Russia. A peace prize perhaps?

2/9/2025, 7:10:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

The market should be good as trump dismantles science in the US!

2/9/2025, 7:07:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course not and Trump has pushed India his way.

1/9/2025, 7:11:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

So bent.

1/9/2025, 7:09:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

Huh!

1/9/2025, 7:08:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

So not a hell hole of violence then🤔

1/9/2025, 7:07:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Well done Trump pushing India into the warm embrace of China. What a fool Trump is.

1/9/2025, 7:05:37 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s hope it gets obliterated with som 🇺🇦 suprises. Otherwise that looks like a breakthrough.

1/9/2025, 7:01:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Always admiring of peeps who can figures!

1/9/2025, 6:59:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Solid progress and then a trip to 🏥🙄

1/9/2025, 6:57:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

agh fox.

21/8/2025, 2:16:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Loving the track less travelled ideas.

20/8/2025, 9:50:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Money well spent. The US is often, quick, easy, simple but not great(?).

20/8/2025, 9:49:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

Solid progress, colour testing in the hull, TS2, AK SCC15 and AK Olive Drab. Mucking about with stowage but not fixed yet. Found some real WW2 annotated maps so will have another crack at a map for the commander’s hatch. Really enjoying it. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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20/8/2025, 9:47:28 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Precisely.

20/8/2025, 7:06:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

😆

20/8/2025, 7:05:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

🙄

20/8/2025, 7:03:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Monty Python predicted brexit😆

20/8/2025, 7:02:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Political thriller about Washington? 😆

20/8/2025, 6:59:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh. Trump’s lying again👍🏻

20/8/2025, 6:57:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Occasionally wonder if he is smarter than “we” think because people don’t like him…..then he says something and his blithe stupidity comes back into focus.

20/8/2025, 6:56:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

🙄

20/8/2025, 6:51:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

A replacement for…

20/8/2025, 6:50:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

So next time the US starts a war and wants nato help: Dead soldiers $50 million per unit, injured $10mn Use of airspace $500,000 per day Allies losses to be replaced by the USS with a 10% admin uplift. 🤡country.

20/8/2025, 1:17:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it is likely this one fitted to a Centaur. Does not mean it did not happen but none of the IWM images they have, feature a Cromwell with a hedge cutter. this looks like the image tamiya used, same design. It is a creative hobby, so might not get too pecious.

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20/8/2025, 1:07:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

propping up the evangelical grifter vote?

20/8/2025, 9:41:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

student staples - we woz such sophisticated Manc students in the 80's.....don't you know.

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20/8/2025, 9:39:17 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Had a similar whole pub stops to stare moment in a Masham pub.😆 Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance...

20/8/2025, 9:34:58 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Canadians and Poles 👏🏻 but where's Bradley?

20/8/2025, 9:29:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

In the "good" old days, not on the shelf, in the catalogue you had or recalled by the grumpy shop owner, it did not exist. Now, the internet alludes to beautiful things only to find mirages of stock😆 Besa ammo and boxes. #scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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20/8/2025, 9:20:31 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

the benefit of cannon!

20/8/2025, 8:35:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

or most likely the money ends up elsewhere.....

20/8/2025, 8:32:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

the most surprising appears to be Meloni(?).

20/8/2025, 8:30:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Can someone tell his best friend that please.

20/8/2025, 8:08:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

...

20/8/2025, 8:06:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

the sky fairy is not going to save him.

20/8/2025, 8:04:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

trump's incompetence accidentally becomes useful.

20/8/2025, 8:02:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Or short angry, racists leading the way...Yaxley Lennon! www.bbc.com/news/uk-4895...

20/8/2025, 7:58:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

thanks, except and according to a very peculiar account on here, Cromwell's never used them😩😆

20/8/2025, 7:55:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolute 🎱🎱.

19/8/2025, 10:58:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Ukraine will be a massive asset to NATO and the EU when it joins

19/8/2025, 10:57:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Av you failed to maintain your rollin stock Sir? Looks great, esp the blue colour.

19/8/2025, 10:56:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

He is not wrong.

19/8/2025, 10:54:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s okay then, it is not in Normandy and was one of the lucky ones😉

19/8/2025, 10:51:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s not Christiania is it😳

19/8/2025, 10:50:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Why can’t they use our Union Flag😉

19/8/2025, 7:50:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Human mince.

19/8/2025, 7:49:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Did someone inset a backbone?

19/8/2025, 7:45:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The % of people convicted of abusing their families in both sets of asylum seeker disturbances was interesting!

19/8/2025, 7:43:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

It is not going to be factory fresh. Normandy -> The Great Swan. Hedge cutter. scalemodels #histscalemodels #tamiya

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19/8/2025, 7:10:31 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

The though of an easy life and money.

19/8/2025, 7:07:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Now yogurt. Needs mixing with something to make it useful. In this case Europe.

19/8/2025, 7:06:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for your efforts. A precise and useful summary as always.

19/8/2025, 7:04:25 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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France, Germany and UK playing a blinder. How the EU should be😡

19/8/2025, 7:03:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Precisely.

19/8/2025, 7:00:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Turns out Meloni is the dark horse here.

19/8/2025, 7:00:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Precisely.

19/8/2025, 6:58:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tangental criticism of the EU🤔🤷‍♂️

19/8/2025, 6:58:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Very moving.

19/8/2025, 6:56:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Anders Fog on BBC Ukrainecast. Not bad!

19/8/2025, 6:55:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Noel Edmunds asking how much they would bid

19/8/2025, 6:53:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

😂when wrestling meets TV evangelists.

19/8/2025, 4:10:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance looked like a pug who had eaten a nettle. Poetic😂. More useful analysis. 👏🏻

19/8/2025, 2:57:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

what a cretin. Perhaps a journo will ask him how those Russians got there and what happened to the tartars who used to live there.

19/8/2025, 10:20:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

"I think he wants to make a deal. I think he wants to make a deal for me. You understand that? As crazy as that sounds," Trump told Macron, appearing to refer to Putin. 🤡

19/8/2025, 9:42:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted

Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.

19/8/2025, 9:04:16 AM | 3910 1473 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social)

One day when I watch the film, Gavin takes the Bridge first & XXX Corps reach Arnhem. Final scene:-Horrocks, Vandeleur, Frost, Urquhart and Gavin on the roof of the house overlooking the bridge, Browning lying on the ground with a bloody nose, as armour rolls over the bridge. Poignant memorial.

19/8/2025, 8:54:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure this is the US strategy that the Polish PM saw and praised.

19/8/2025, 12:01:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A modern feat of hairgeneering. 20% hair to cover 80% of head.

18/8/2025, 11:59:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Clever

18/8/2025, 11:54:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good, why the hell should they.

18/8/2025, 11:54:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Interesting idea and he does look great.

18/8/2025, 11:53:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a senile muppet. 🙈 Put two Danish flags on without noticing😩. Very enbarrased. Rectified. Anyone else done somthing like this Also tried to recreate welding✅?

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18/8/2025, 11:51:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putin is mad.

18/8/2025, 11:44:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30 days…..

18/8/2025, 11:43:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻

18/8/2025, 8:17:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

That journo is married to one of Trump’s goons.

18/8/2025, 5:46:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry but written on toilet paper.

18/8/2025, 5:44:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

taking him to Saville Row? Would be better to get a primary school teacher to train him.

18/8/2025, 12:01:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

In the good old days. Digital provided random passwords each 90 days.... Which were then written on post-it notes by users and handily put on their monitors. A great service, I thought😆

18/8/2025, 8:11:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone has to make these points because Trump won’t.

17/8/2025, 10:41:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🇩🇰👏🏻💪🏻

17/8/2025, 10:41:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Generous to call that logistics. What a state.

17/8/2025, 10:40:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like random betting, he can be right (and is) but as always have to work our what is in it for him.

17/8/2025, 10:39:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Miles (@smilo998.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder how much German Taurus is in there. Then again Ukraine seem perfectly capable of making great weapons, just need many more.

17/8/2025, 10:36:14 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When Pepe Le Pew retired?

17/8/2025, 10:34:56 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view