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  1. For a 25 year or so old kit it really stands up well in a number of areas whilst also showing it's age in others. The detail in the cockpit, weapons bay and wheel bays is as good as any new release that has come out in the past year or so; however the fit of the parts is very 1970's and the panel lines are raised. Rather than rescribe the kit I built this old gal in the manner of the day when she was released and built up any panel lines that had been lost during the sanding of the not to well fitting parts. Construction was completely out of the box, which just showed hoe well detailed this kit is. The main colour was finished in Lifecolor UA041 FS16473 ADC Grey and I am very happy with their rendition of this somewhat elusive colour. The Eaqle Strike decals performed flawlessly with Microset and just a little Microsol being needed over some of the more prominent raised panel lines. Weathering was kept to an absolute minimum with just a light highlighting of some of the panel lines and minor fading to some of the panels as the F-106's were quite possibly THE best maintained planes ever to have served in the US Air Force. So here we are, hope you enjoy the pictures... Thanks for looking.
    5 points
  2. This is the second of my many adversary TA-4s. It has been a WIP for a long time but I finished it last week. And with its "sister": Jens
    4 points
  3. Just finished Airfix's latest, and what a superb little kit it turned out to be. No fit issues, a little filler required here and there, a nice cockpit and a wonderfully thin canopy. It captures the sit-up-and-beg look of the real Vampire T.11 perfectly, and the method for attaching the wings and booms has banished all memories of misaligned tailbooms on other Vampire kits permanently. It will not be the last Airfix Vampire that crosses my bench, that's for sure. Hmm... Norway... Kit built out of the box with addition of masking tape seatbelts. Painted with Vallejo Model Air (first time- very impressed) Aluminium and varnished with Alclad matt clear lacquer. Decals by Bright Spark.
    4 points
  4. 44-13691, G4-A "Passion Wagon". Pilot: 1st Lt. Arval J. "Robby" Roberson (6 kills), 362 Fighter Squadron, 357 Fighter Group, September 1944. Aircraft painted with British paints Dark Green and Medium Sea Grey. After Roberson left 357 FG "Passion Wagon" was flown by his wingman, 1st Lt. Charles E. ‘Chuck’ Weaver, who added another two kill markings to the fuselage side. Later the airplane got a fin fillet and was reassigned to 364 FS and coded C5-V with name changed to "Gypsy", but still with Roberson's pin-up girl. Kit: Airfix, 1/72. Fin fillet removed. Drop tanks from Revell P-51C, decals: Kits World.
    4 points
  5. My latest work, excelent and acurate model. Link to WIP pictures http://www.maketarskikutak.com/index.php/topic,15521.0.html. I hope you like it .
    4 points
  6. I've just finished this on Friday after getting it at Telford 2012. I had no idea this was on the market or due out so was very pleased to see a pile of them and a built one on display on that stand. Like a western gun draw the cash was out and I was well chuffed. Anyway I got started straight after the Heritage JP3 build whilst in the groove. I was quite impressed by the cockpit although there are a couple of anomalies but hey ho its a 1/48 JP5 that's mass produced, I really didn't like the side panels I'd prefer it if it was molded rather than a separate panel. The kit itself fly's together and I had no real issues at all, except the canopy was quite cloudy but came up nicely with Klear, I nearly took the plunge to polish it but it didn't need it. I had a big issue with one wing join, one was fine the other was miles out standing proud and took a lot of sanding then rescribing. The seats are a very tight fit together when you get them in and with the throttle box as well it's all very snug (probably like the real thing) and you have to be careful that when the seats are drying that they don't get encouraged to point inwards towards each other before the glue is set. I've now found out the instrument cowling is wrong for an RAF version but this can easily be addressed if you want. I hand wrote (with my artist pen) the MDC on then Kleared it to seal it in. Gloss appliance white and Revell aqua red and Xtracrylix LAG with a blob of metalcote for the exhaust. I think the MLG is way too big as compared to the Heritage JP3 they are a million miles apart and the Heritage one looks right with comparison with photo's. I'd like to measure the JP5's real wheels and tyres to see what they should be. I did cut 1mm off all 3 legs as otherwise it looks like its on stilts. I put in the nose lights with the crystal jobbies from LittleCars but then the clear bit wouldn't fit from the kit, so in the mean time I've put some clearfix on it but I'm coming back to fit the lens. The seats are ok and you obviously cut off the extra bit from the headbox if you want an RAF version. Walk panels matted off and I left off the air intake one as its way out of proportion, so painted it instead, apart from all this I enjoyed it.
    3 points
  7. Right my swear box is full on this one... but for £18 (thanks Debanhams) wasent so bad real *cough* ive tried to add more details on the interior but i fell there should be more its just sooooo big and my patience started to flag. so here it is in all her glory... Introducing my Spitfire Vb. Thanks for looking
    3 points
  8. I would like present to community my latest finished model. Model was inspired by photo of pink-coloured Spit of No.16 Sqn. This is "light" conversion of ICM Spitfire Mk.VII. Short list of additions and corrections: - camera window was cut out, camera immitation was made and installed inside; - rivets was added; - locks on engine compartment panels was rescribed, as there was missing a lot; - elevator "dropped down" as it should be when control stick is not locked; - exhaust pipes sustituted for halvanically grown from REXx aftermarket company. Model painted with two tones of pink color, with following postshading, wash and weathering with artists oils and AK-Interactive.
    3 points
  9. hi guys!! this fw 190 d-9 "Red 3" of the "Jagdverband 44" was flown by hauptmann waldemar wübke at ainring airfield as a member of the famous "sachsenbergschwarm" in april 1945. the "doras"where delegated as "platzschutzstaffel" to protect the taking off an landing phase of the me 262 jetfighters at munich-riem airfield. to make the d-9 clearly visible to the ground crews of the aa-gun protection the planes where manually painted to have a red underside with white stripes. the platzschutzstaffel of jv44 is also known as "galland's flying circus". it's a great kit and it was really fun to build this model. Best regards Stefan
    3 points
  10. Latest of the bench is the new Airfix 1/48 Spitfire PR XIX. This is a peach of a kit .....totally shake and bake. It's OOB except for the decals which are MA (the codes were a bit miss registered so I had to go to the spares box) and the addition of a boat antenna under the rear fuselage. A big thanks to Gingerbob and Miggers for their help with the dreaded cockpit colours. It's meant to have 4 spoke wheel hubs but these are not included in the kit. ( WWII machines had both the 4 spoke wheel hubs and boat antenna ..... why did Airfix not include them like wise the wing black walkway lines???? ) A really enjoyable build...... so much I bought another two to do. Hope you like. Please feel free to comment in any way Thanks for looking.
    2 points
  11. Here she is, finished over two months, which puts me on target to complete 6 models this year.... There are some things I'm not happy with, but rather than correct them I am going to make sure I overcome them in the next build, whatever that might be........
    2 points
  12. This one is almost straight from the box apart from the addition of some of the CMK resin set which replaced the gun bays, cockpit and nose gear retraction leg. Other than that it was pretty much straight out of the box including the decals, which represent the subject of the box art, F-84G Thunderjet FS-271 of 508th SFW based at Turner AFB in 1956. I know that the gun bay cover should be hinged at the front, but for the purposes of the photos this was left unattached and I think that the ladder should be zinc chromate yellow, which I'll re paint at some stage before she goes into the display cabinet. Other than that I am quite happy with the way she's turned out and welcome any comments, good, bad or down right ugly!
    2 points
  13. Let me present to you the next model from my series of soviet aircraft of World War II. I consider it necessary to note that this aircraft (prototype I-200) was actually the brainchild of a talented air constructor Nikolay Polikarpov (not only Mikoyan and Gurevich). In 1939 Polikarpov was sent on a mission to Germany. In his absence, the plant manager Pavel Voronin and chief engineer P. Dementyev separated from the part of CB (Constructors Bureau) units and top designers (including Mikhail Gurevich), and organized a new experimental design department, and in fact - the new CB, under the leadership of Artem Mikoyan. Remarkable is also the fact that Artem Mikoyan agreed to become the head of the new Bureau only on condition that his deputy will be Mikhail I. Gurevich, who unlike Mikoyan, almost the only "advantage" which was consanguinity with Anastas Mikoyan, was indeed a competent professional designer. Kit from Hobby Boss is typical "easy kit" with very poor cabine detailing. But this kit is better at this moment among other MiG-3 in 1/72 scale. I had to mill the entire cabin and primitive imitation to acceptable thickness of wall less than 1 mm. Cabin made entirely of an additional set of resin parts from "Goffy Model". Also used rubber chassis from the "Elf" company. Shields chassis also is resin. Added wiring rack, re-did the pitot tube, rods chassis plates, indicators of the harvest, guns and exhaust pipes. I distinguished the landing flaps, hatch radiator. Dashed off a fairly long riveting. Wasted a lot of holes of air intakes. Antenna cable out of the nylon thread. Sliding canopy - squeezed again (because the native canopy has nonscale thickness). Landing light - is rhinestones. The navigation lights on the tail made from stretched clear sprue. Stabilizers of rockets (named “RS”) was made more thin. The prototype is selected from "air war" № 115. HB offers another aircraft of the same IAP and boring "white five" owned russian ace Alexander Pokryshkin. Colored with acrylic Tamiya, varnishes Tamiya X-21 and X-22. Washing with MIG. The numbers on the tail fin painted in black marker by hand. REFERENCES: 1. War in the Air 115 - MiG-3 2. MiG-3. The first high-altitude tactical fighter (Bear A. Khazanov, DB) 3. "Soviet fighters" (Voronin, P.Kolesnikov) 4. Samolot Mysliwski MIG-3 (Piotr Bartoszewski) 5. Magazine "Wings" № 8 M-Hobby
    2 points
  14. Hi all, Some 56 Squadron added, more to add later. Brian.
    2 points
  15. Latest completions for the wifes growing collection. She has a thing for the old stuff, so if she spots a kit she thinks looks 'nice', she buys it and I have to build it! Anyhow, Airfix 1/48 Spitfire XII and Italeri 1/48 Spitfire FR.Mk.IX
    2 points
  16. Was delivered 20/02, started building 22/02 and finished today. Bit of a record for me! The model almost builds itself. As I was building it with the lid closed, I used an antique set of Extratech belts. The cockpit is more than adequate if closed up. Regardless of what Brett says on HS, you cannot pose it canopy open using the kit canopy unless you do a bit of excavating to the inside of the canopy. That's what I did when I built the Mk XII. I drilled out the exhausts replaced the air scoop with one made from sheet copper and fitted a monofilament whip aerial and that was about it. The MSG was Gunze and the PRU was a hombrew of 4 parts XL18 Medium Blue + 1 part XL66 Light Grey plus a couple of drops of Tamiya clear blue and clear gloss was added to brace it. http://img10.imageshack.us/i/p1110017h.jpg/'> Dave
    2 points
  17. Hi all!! Here comes my Bf 109 E-7 "Trop" from Revell....but actually it's a Hasegawa-Kit. My model shows the "Yellow 13" flown by Hans-Joachim Marseille at the beginning of his participation on the africa campaign. Later he flew the famous "Yellow 14". The fit was great so the assembly was easy. For painting I used colors from Gunze and Revell. The camouflage spots on the top of the wings and the fuselage I made with a paper template. The antenne wire is made of pulled sprue. At last everything was sealed with matte clear coat. Hope you like my "Emil"?!
    2 points
  18. Hello all Thought I would share with you my experiences of the new Airfix Vampire. First, it is a good kit with some lovely detail and panel lines that although seem a little deep actually look fine under a little paint. I built it pretty much OOB except for adding some seat harnesses from lead foil, seat top ejection pull handles and a few antennae around the place. After finishing it I saw some pics of the Duxford machine on which my chosen scheme seems to be based and found I had the wrong configuration of pull-handle so don't go copying me! Construction wise it's a little smasher with almost self jigging boom alignment - be sure to follow the assembly sequence though otherwise you'll never get the booms into the wing. I chose (in my infinite wisdom!) to leave the main gear legs off until after painting then found out why Airfix suggest fitting them when they do! In the end it was all recovered by a little careful trimming of the locating blocks at the top of the legs - no harm done! Airfix mould a number of protuberances onto one half of an assembly which presents challenges to not knock them off during the rest of the process. I managed to keep them all there until part way through the decalling I managed to remove the fin mounted pitot. I replaced with a small section of stainless tube. In retrospect I should have just removed it at the off and planned to replace it anyway - but I like a challenge! I painted it with Alclad Aluminium and Precision Paints Fluorescent Red-Orange and yes, it fluoresces! Decals are fine with stencils aplenty and all behaved well with a little Sol. I would love to build another and when I find a scheme that does it for me I'll have another on the bench! Anyway, enough waffle, here she is, I hope you like her!Sorry about the picture quality but I seem to have mislaid my tripod in the move so these are hand-held so no depth of field. Comments and critique very welcome. Cheers all Rick
    2 points
  19. Hi Guys, Here is my first helicopter for many years, Italeri's superb 1/48 Wessex. I managed to acquire all 3 of the Revell offerings but never built one as they really don't capture the look of the Wessex. This kit however does justice to the Wessex, the long serving workhorse of the Royal Navy. Construction was pretty much from the box. The PE provided a good touch but I did find the guide pins for mesh round the main rotor were too low when using the PE. I built them up with some thin strips of plasticard which worked well. I lined the interior cabin with tissue coated in dilute PVA to represent the waterproof bag used on the rescue machines and added a few red first aid rescue bags and some wiring in the cabin roof. A few other bits were added to the cockpit and cabin. I used the kit decals and found them good. Only 2 'RESCUE' signs are too small and a walkway for the tail is too big, otherwise they were OK and went on well. Aerial wires were done with Aeroclub elastic Eze-line. Overall it took less than 2 weeks and was a very satisfying build. Cheers Colin W
    2 points
  20. Finished her off this afternoon, complete with NI fit armour and Night Sun... Built totally OOB with the only addition of the antenna wires... Build thread is here
    2 points
  21. Yeah, i could put it in the lounge and look at it when I get made to sleep on the sofa
    2 points
  22. LOL... seven pages on a £8 1/72 kit... I've not bought one yet but intend to at Southern Expo... I will have fun building it and will happily display it at shows and won't give a thought about accuracy... IMO, there is no such thing anyway at least not at these prices. I love when some builders buy a kit then buy resin cockpits/intakes/etc, PE parts. vacform canopies, white metal undercarriges and after market decal sets..spending twice what the original kit cost.... they do make for wonderfully insightful WIP's... long may such model builders continue... but it's not for me personally... but is someone wants to super detail an £8 Airfix Vampire kit I will be the first to cheer them on. Our hobby needs all extremes of modeller from the novice to the master, so less bickering and more building is what we really need...
    2 points
  23. I thought this was BritMODELLER so use your skills and don't expect perfection from an £8 kit. If you can't use your skills to overcome the alleged faults perhaps it time you took up another hobby. From my point of view its a little cracker and well done to Airfix for it.(The last one I built with my Father was chunks of balsa and a plan in the 1950's) Not really a rant but just to show you how far we have come in our hobby.
    2 points
  24. Well here she is. Finished. Base Kit - Revell 1/32 Westland Lynx Mk88A Paints - Mr Hobby grey primer Grey - Tamiya grey primer Green - Mixture of Vallejo Air - 094, 096 (35%/35%), 010 (15%), 016 (15%) Blades - Tamiya AS06 spray Tamiya gloss and flat varnishes. Flory black and dart dirt washes. Figure - base figure from ADV/Azimut-Modell, head from Hornet. Modyfied to represent British Army Air Corps. Scratched helmet, nav bag and 'go-pack bergen' (milliput). Scratch built (predominantly moulded and resin cast using Sylmasta products): Nose, Skids, Exhausts, Interior (seats, instrument panel, rear 6 man seat, rear bulk head, harnesses plus all the other gubbins inside), GPMG mount, Fast rope Frame and mount, mesh intake guards, various antennas. Enhanced detail on IRJ, main and tail rotors, cockpit and cabin doors and a few other bits and bobs. And not forgetting the thousands of Archer rivets I applied! Build thread here. Without further ado; Yep, that is a scale map of South Armagh! Main head detail including 'Bonk', bonding leads (yellow), spectacles on lower blade root and bonding strips on blade roots. (All these bits are on the upcoming Eduard PE sheet release thankfully) Fast Rope Frame made from bits of alloy tube and plastic strips. Rope is a scale tow rope copper thing. Perfect scale and nice and flexible. I think my weathing of the nose panel lines is a bit too heavy so may wipe some of it away to reduce. BriteStar IR lamp and footstep fitted to right skid. Made using plastic strips and bits of PE. Enhanced tail rotor detail with teeny tiny little bolts fitted to the root of each blade and bonding straps at the blade roots made from tiny bits of wire. Intermediate gearbox area drilled out, gearbox scratch built and placed inside then mesh covers applied. Cant really see the gearbox but I know its there.... I made my own decal sheet as some of the markings weren't on the main Revell sheet. I'm quite happy with how the 655 Sqn crest has come out. Scratch built the ice accretion meter (black prongs just under cockpit door) then realised the Revell kit actually has it. Having looked at them, I'm glad I made my own. Scratch built armoured seats and weapons on the side of the seats. Incorrect for the period this model is set. Late 90s NI 655 Sqn aircraft in 'Role 1' for duty down South Armagh. At that time we actually carried HK53's and not the SA80 Carbines as I've fitted here. I made the seats and weapons for my InAccurate Armour Lynx before I lost interest in that bag of crap. I drilled out the hydraulic reservoir inspection windows and build little reservoirs inside then right at the end of the build, used Humbrol clearfix to create windows over the holes. Excellent GPMG from Live Resin Yep, they really are that dirty. If Lynx aren't leaking, there is something wrong and the fluids are empty... Get your bloody beret off on dispersal!!! "Yep, 1, 2, 3, 4 blades, good to go......." The full gambit of scales. L to R: Fujimi 1/144 (WiP), Corgi 1/72, Airfix 1/48, Revell conversion 1/32. Now, whos going to release a 1/24? This is my second Revell Lynx and it really is a very nice kit with very few vices. My dream kit has always been a good large scale Lynx. AA failed drastically at that but it was the only player in town until Revell released their kit. This conversion was quite straight forward once I'd overcome making the various masters for nose and skids etc. You may be pleased to know that I'm in discussion with a renowned company who wish to make this conversion set. Lets hope we can get something out in the near future. As I mentioned a bit earlier on, Eduard are about to release a whole host of PE sheets for the interior and exterior. Quite a lot of common detail can be used on most versions of Lynx and I'm looking forward to receiving it. Thanks for looking Tony
    1 point
  25. Another (I mean after the AvantGarde Model Kits Kfir - see here http://www.britmodeller.net/forums/index.php?/topic/234925006-148th-iai-kfir-c2c7-by-avantgarde-model-kits-expected-late-march-2013-sprues-pics/ ) 1/48th IAI Kfir C.2/.7 from Kinetic (with decals design from Isracast) - ref.480476 Source: SAMI V.P.
    1 point
  26. I've always wanted one of these but can't shake the idea that the 1/72 version is a bit big, so here's Pit Road's boxing of Trumpeter's little LCAC: I got one (actually two!) for a bargain price in HLJ's sale at the end of last year. This seems like the ideal opportunity to make it, although I realised I have a couple of 1/144 Gundams lurking in the cupboard too. Maybe later... For a relatively small machine the box is quite full. The parts are laid out much like their ship kits - one piece deck, structures built up from separate walls, and lots of fine detail. I'm quite looking forward to the cutting and sticking, I'm not sure yet how much to leave separate for painting and decalling since there are quite a lot of markings to consider. Does anyone know of any suitable vehicles I could load into it? Will
    1 point
  27. How do chaps, All done and fit to be seen. Comments welcome, Regards, Steve
    1 point
  28. I finished this Alconbury F-5E almost a year ago but I only got to photograph it today. It's the AFV Club kit with TwoBobs decals. Paints are from Xtracolor. Jens
    1 point
  29. Hi all, just thought I`d show you some pic`s of my very latest effort: Hasegawas RF-4 Phantom in 1/48 Built from the RF-4B kit, as I couldn`t find a `C` version and done as `Snoopy War`s Hell` from the 11th TRS, 432nd TRW, Udorn, Thailand circa 1969 Apart from after-market decals it`s mostly OOB exceptions being; home made seat belts , rear view mirrors, detail on rear cockpit stbd side and ECM pod from Hasegawa weapons set Had to cut a few lumps and bumps off the kit but most of the `C` bits were on the sprues took a while to get finally finished for some reason. Hope you enjoy looking at Cheers Russ
    1 point
  30. This is my B-17 its was a bit of a pig to put together lots of filler and flash and had a few mishaps with decals i dint put the camo patter on and i think the flaps are the wrong colour, i will say some it looks better than the one i built when i was 13 (in 3 hours:shutup: ) Thanks for looking
    1 point
  31. lovely finish on a pretty little jet well done Glenn.....
    1 point
  32. Superb Jens! Makes me want to go and watch Top Gun again!
    1 point
  33. For decals try here, http://lifthereserbia.wordpress.com/ , Lift Here Decals from Serbia.
    1 point
  34. Very smart - especially like the job on today's deserty one! cheers Rick
    1 point
  35. http://framework.latimes.com/2011/06/13/memphis-belle/
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  37. Great looking adversaries! I love these schemes on the A-4s and you've done a great job on these two
    1 point
  38. Two brilliantly executed 'family sized' models.
    1 point
  39. nice scooters well done Glenn.....
    1 point
  40. Heavy panel lines or not, I shall be adding one to the list. My grandfather was an apprentice at Shorts, before joining RAF B.C. as a Nav. He also trained on the Stirling before moving onto Lancs, so it's an essential purchase as far as I'm concerned.
    1 point
  41. useless at high alpha im sticking with a delta
    1 point
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  43. What I want to know is how does Nobby manage to make everything look so even and regular. If I tried his Milliput trick, adding details by pressing an object into the putty, I'd get all the way around and then find I didn't have quite enough room to get the last depression in...and leaving it out leaves a notable gap. Come on, Nobby, tell us how you do it...please??? Was convoluted maths involved - 2 times pi times the radius divided by the length of the widget used to make the impressions? This is doing my head in!
    1 point
  44. I love this Sunderland, I think the chipping on the paint is very authentic and that includes the damaged paint on the aircraft markings too. Too often a model will appear with excellent wear and weathering that still has clean undamaged markings , totally unreal I think You can take Alan's (LDSModeller) advice seriously, he knows these aircraft better than I do, my love for them is from my father flying in Sunderlands in the latter years of the war, in/from Wales. (Always said he was chief tea maker onboard, he made a super cup of tea, my dad) And welcome here after being with the Russian modellers who are often incredibly good I hope we don't let you down bill
    1 point
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  46. Just took a few pics outside to check the glossyness! lol and in case anyone was wondering, there are chickens in the background....
    1 point
  47. Just a quick update......... RBF tags and FOD's added (one more on main UC) ....
    1 point
  48. Scale: 1/48 Kit: Tamiya JS-2 "Stalin" Built as: 7th Independant Guards Heavy Tank Brigade, Berlin, April 1945 Painted with: Humbrol rattle cans, Citadel washes and Tamiya/Revell acrylic Build thread : http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234935301-late-entrant-tamiya-148-js-2/#entry1249219
    1 point
  49. Had time to do a bit of modelling this week I've finihsed the undercarrage, flaps etc. Just got to do the canopy now (special thanks to two people on this site), FOD guards, RBF tags. Then looking forward to the next project. My gourgeous wife bought tickets to go to Duxford this weekend and I took hundreds of photo's (modelling type, now I know what to look for) When iI sort them I'll upload to online storage for download.. Anyway nearly finished
    1 point
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