Having a steampunk week.

I have bought quite a few Empire of the Dead models from Jim and Tori at Rochester Models including this little beauty: an Ornithopter.

I guess that ornithopter has become a generic word for an animal kingdom-based flying machine but I am a career zoologist so I must - pedantically - insist that this is a dragonfly: an Aeshnacopter, if you will. :)

This is a great model that comes with alternate heads that can make it look very different. I opted for the Prussian-look to match my IHMN North Star Society of Thule.

A word about West Wind's customer service: I lost one of my wings and as this is an expensive quality model wrote to West Wind asking if I could buy another.

A few days later two arrived in the post - two because they are matched left right pairs and I hadn't specified which I wanted.

Not finding an invoice I rang up Wendy Cooper who declined further payment - all part of the service.

Now THAT is customer service!