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Hello All, A while ago I built Sea King "Old 66" for the Helicopter GB. For the Vignette GB I went on to build a base incorporating the Apollo 11 command module to show a moment from the mission recovery. I didn't manage to get any decent pictures of it because of time/weather/travel, but I grabbed some today and thought I'd put them up here. Well it's space AND diorama AND aircraft... I photograph outside, and the moving rotors in the first shot are not a fancy effect, but the wind gusting in my back garden! The Sea King is 1/72 and the command module is 1/96. The scratch build WIP for the command module is described here. Thanks for looking, Adrian

Dear All For many of you of a certain age and born in the UK, you will remember those immortal words from Rabbit Leader in the film Battle of Britain. Here we have the Airfix 1/72 Spitfire Mk1 Spitfire. I put some effort into filling and sanding the deep panel lines on the fuselage and adding some rivetting. Then we have resin exhausts and wheels from SBS and a sliding cockpit hood from Falcon (probably). It wouldn't me without an Eduard PE cockpit. The markings are from Xtradecal. A flight from 92 Squadron including this aircraft escorted Churchill to Le Bourget Paris in spring 1940. I wanted to do the May black and white under wing markings! When Airfix made their new 1/72 scale Spitfire they were very much in their deep panel lines and thick plastic period. But the shape and fit are OK. It seems slightly more meaty than the Tamiya 1/72 Spitfire but I don't know which is more accurate? I would post more photos but Photobucket is so slow these days! Hope you like it? Andrew

Hello All, I have been plodding along with the old Airfix Thunderbolt, vintage 1963. It's quite a decent kit for its day and it was fun to build, but there are plenty of better Thunderbolts out there now! Here it is: WIP is here. Thanks for looking, Adrian

Well, it's been a long haul but I'm finally calling this done, Tamiya's 1/32 F-4J finished as ZE352 74 Squadron RAF 1988. I bought the kit originally to do an FG1 conversion but with a kit being announced shortly after receipt decided I didn't need the pain of all that cutting and filling. As we all know the UK J's were delivered in a funny colour so I wanted to emulate that but also wanted to do a scheme that was a bit out of the ordinary, ZE352 in 1988 seemed to offer this, she was bit worn and tired, had a replacement panel in RAF Barley grey and some zap graffiti, so this is what I was aiming to achieve: I added some aftermarket - GT Resins F-4J cockpit and seamless intakes, Eduard exhausts, Yellowhammer decals and used some old Reheat ejection seats that I have had for ages as I wasn't so happy with the GT ones (detail was a bit muzzy). Painted in Xtracolour X127 for the Flint Grey and some assorted greys from the paintbox for the rest. I apologise for naff pictures, I'll try for some better ones if the sun ever comes out again. These are from earlier in the build; The hot section was painted with AK Interactive True Metal paste and some Baremetal foil. The red lines are to emulate the RTV sealant commonly seen. All comments good and bad welcome. Dave

Old good Hasegawa kit with resin exhausts, gun barrels and PE seatbelts from Eduard. Markings for the 6 Squadron, Xtradecal sheet used.

Having been on a bit of a Bristol theme lately (oo`er missus) I decided to have another go at Airfix`s Blenheim Mk.I, having had trouble with the cockpit canopy on my first attempt at this kit. I`ve always been interested in the Greek Campaign,....having served in the north of the country myself in the early 90`s,....so decided to build one of the aircraft flown by the brave Blenheim men in this hard fought campaign. I have always wanted to build an RAF Blenheim Mk.I based in Northern Greece during 1941, preferably as a Mk.If fighter variant with a gun pack and with small bombs mounted on Small Stores Carriers on the rear fuselage and with its desert camouflage and large fuselage roundel and fin stripes, this one ticked all of the boxes. For anybody interested in this subject I can heartily recommend the book "Blenheim`s Over Greece and Crete" by Brian Cull,....it is excellent and brings to life the bravery of the men who flew these machines; Here is the subject aircraft that I chose from 30 Sqh; For anybody who is interested here is the WIP over on the escellent MTO GB which has some brilliant models on it; And,....finally,.....Here is the model; The model was painted using Humbrol enamel Middle Stone and Dark Earth with Polly Scale Azure Blue undersides. Cheers, Tony

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Hi All, Kits: Gloster Gladiator J8a Airfix My first ever attempt to rigged a 1:72 scale kits, still learning. I almost lost my sanity doing it however I am happy with what has come out. Sharing here my latest built. Thank you Regards

Some photos - first, a small chunk of plastic cutlery found its way onto the end of the starboard wing: After frantically sanding and polishing in hopes it would go away, a lens appeared, containing what looks like some sort of light bulb inside: I hope if this happens on the port side, the Genie is smart enough to use a red bulb! Now, about those props from Quickboost. Have a look at this photo, and we can play the "find two rather silly errors" game. First, the propeller blades. The long one is as provided by Quickboost (and which incidentally won't fit in their jig). The short one is the correct length, based on a 13' 1" diameter propeller in real life. Second, note the diameter of the peg on the bottom of the propeller hub. Think that will go into the guide hole in the jig? You're right, it won't! It's not even close. This all tells me that once this product was designed, no one tested it - they just put it in production. Can I work around this? Of course, but come on guys - really. All right, I know you've been waiting for this part. She's blue! Since this is Testors gloss enamel, it will be curing for a few days before I dare handle it to any great extent. I'll take the time to work on some other portions of the model. I had a closer look at the rockets (Tiny Tim?) from the Mauler kit, and most of the fins are broken. I wish the resin guys wouldn't try to reproduce scale thickness in a material that has no strength, it just doesn't work. I found some injection moulded rockets in an F9F Panther kit, and perhaps I'll use those. Anyway, I'm liking how this is progressing, although I suspect there are some more Aires/Quickboost gremlins waiting to bite me. Cheers, Bill

Hello modellers! Here now the Huey´s companion - the Matchbox AH-1G Cobra in 1/72 scale. Origially I hadn´t planned to build another as I already have presented one here and as the kit used had an unusable canopy caused by a casting defect. But it was fellow Britmodeller Luis Alfonso and his son who talked me into the project and as it was an opportunity to construct the long planned vacuforming machine, agreed to start it. As I didn´t want to change the turret, I looked for an early machine with only the minigun and a not too complicated markings scheme. I discovered “Patricia Ann” a Cobra of “C” troop, 7th Squadron, 1st Cavalry in Philip Chinnery´s “Vietnam - The Helicopter War” and after some internet research Luis Alfonso and me found out that it´s a very well documented aircraft (even with video sequences) with an interesting history. Serial number 67-15447 survived service in Vietnam, was later modified to F-standard and is today on static display in Mark Illinois. As the Matchbox kit is a very basic kit with deep trench lines, I filled these trenches with stretched sprue and later rescribed it. The cockpit was completely reconstructed from styrene sheet and got two pilots from the Revell Nato Pilots set. The tail rotor was shifted to the port side and additional to the canopy a clear nose part had to be vacuformed as cover for the landing lights on this particular machine. The inboard seven shot rocket launchers came from the Esci/Italeri Huey kit. Nose art and Cav patch on the tail were self printed. Painting and weathering was the same as with the Huey as I built both models parallel. BTW: Have added some WIP pics! Mario

Hi everyone. Here's my recently completed 1/72 F/A-18a in a Canadian finish. Built OOB as a test bed for some of the great techniques I've found here on the boards. it was great way to get back into the hobby after a long break. Academy's kit was perfect for a newbie like me. Previously only building amour, I've now been bitten by the aircraft bug Hope you like it. Any feedback or suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking. Jurgen

Just finished - the huge MiG-152A in 1/72 scale from Modelsvit....... Twin R11F-300 powered MiG-152A fitted with two dummy K-9 missiles. Looking like a 1/48 scale fuselage fitted with a 1/72 scale wing - the E-152A was assigned the ASCC Reporting Name 'Flipper'. The fins on the real K-9 missiles were painted black to make them look like Sparrow missiles. Twin exhausts and massive ventral fins. Big MiG pair from Modelsvit - single-engined E-150 (left) and twin-engined E-152A (right). E-150 and E-152A compared. WIP photos are here. Ken

Hi everyone I finished this Spitfire MkVb a couple of weeks ago for the current MTO group build so thought I should I also post it here for those who havent made it that far down yet. Finished in the colours of American pilot John Joseph Lynch of 249 Gold Coast squadron based on Malta in the spring of 1943. Extras were a Freightdog DH prop, Eduard seat belts, Master gun barrels and i used an old set of Montex masks for the national insignia, the sqadron codes were home made masks from Tamiya tape. First all of the markings were sprayed. Next, these aircraft were delivered to the docks for shipping in dark earth, mid stone upper over Azure blue camo more suitable for North Africa and were subsequently re painted in a dark blue similar to US Navy sea blue on route to Malta. So this is what I tried to copy here. A bit of free hand airbrush practice with Gunze Aqueous paints. Then the sea blue was applied trying to leave it a tad patchy. And the finished model after a dark panel line wash, a very thin filter of Tamiya flat black and red brown to dirty things up a bit in places, dust pigments and some AK Interactive fuel stains. And some oil stains using black oil paint on the underside. The Azure Blue is Vallejo. Thats all folks, questions and comments welcome. If you havent had a look yet then do take a look at the MTO GB page as there are some interesting subjects there. Thanks James

Hello folks , this is the RV aircraft kit finished as an Indian Air Force airplane . The kit goes together fine as long as putty is applied along every seam . The surface is festooned with rivets and I decided to try my hands at NMF weathering - think I went slightly overboard . A downside is the kit doesn't includes any armaments , I had to salvage the R-60 missiles and the UB-16 rocket pods from other kits . Excuse the skewered pitot tube , it arrived in 5 pieces and it was an infuriating experience trying to align them .

Hello everybody I present you my last model, a Swedish JAS-39C Gripen based on the Revell kit. It's a little disappointing kit for me compared with other Revell models like the Tornado, the Mig-21F13 or the Hunter at the same scale. The shape and size are quite good but the engraving is not very fine and the adjustment not very good. I've used for my model an Eduard photo etched sheet, a PJ MBmk10 resin ejection seat, resin wheels, a Maestro model access ladder and personal modification (flaps for example).

Hello, Here is my ASF-X Shinden II by Hasegawa in 1/72. Finished yesterday Painted mostly with Mr. Hobby and weathered with Tamyia paneliners and pigments. Finished in japan camo and markings.

Dragon kits and Mig resin figures, 1/72 scale. Built by a friend of mine.

After a build of 5 months I've finnaly finished this V-bomber, which I've converted into a tanker. Because white is just white this bird was one big color experiment, to bring "life" into the white......enjoy! The kit Different shades of grey to break the white. Preshade And the final result! Dave

Good day all I rescued these two from the shelf of doooom where they had sat for a good many years. First up is the Airfix FR46. There is much debate out there on this so I opted to put in cameras (very nearly put in a wing fold!) The read that it didn't have cameras so deleted them but may be mixed up with the Lossie version in an earlier kit. I ummed and erred but plumped for OOB version of 1892 NAS at RNAS Culham. I used the eduard cockpit set and model master acrylics. She is shown in a very clean state as I read that they were used by the CO of that squadron but that may also be erroneous! Next up is the Airfix LIII kit bashed with a Hasegawa Vb. I used the fuselage of the Hasegawa with the wings and hook from the Airfix kit. An entertaining effort if nothing else! She is from 887NAS from HMS Indefatigable. Straight OOB (es). This was also used a bit of a paint mule. I had bought a new (cheap) airbrush and was experimenting with freehand camo. All was going well until half way through following the light pattern I switched to the dark! So cam is a little 'non-authentic' or artistic license! I used both the kit decals and they were poor. The FR46 had a couple of smudged rounds. The LIII stencils disintegrated and I used what I could. Luckily the big ones held together. Enjoy and thanks for looking

Wait, wait, wait, WAIT! I'm pulling the e-stop on this thread. I decided to IMDB some of these extremely hot actors y'all keep talking about and JoAnna Lumley is freaking Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous! Its..... I can't. .... the words just won't ..... I don't understand anything anymore.

So, all masked! 20161121_204213 by Edward IX, on Flickr AND PAINTED! (And partially unmasked.) 20161121_210250 by Edward IX, on Flickr Fully unmasked, including the maskol (first time using!) on the refuelling probe, and the inevitable masking failures: 20161121_212427 by Edward IX, on Flickr Dabbed some Mr Surfacer 1000 on the nose, will smooth back out, then respray with Alclad White Primer, sent by god to reward us for all the little good things we forgot we did: 20161121_212852 by Edward IX, on Flickr It looks...okay. Akan isn't the best or most cooperative paint and it would have been crisper if I'd used Gunze or Tamiya. 20161121_212859 by Edward IX, on Flickr I'm sorry Debs, but speaking from my own experiences, at least, it's better to be alone than with someone who's violent. And at least with yourself you're never at a loss for interesting company. It's on Youtube as well, so I watched it while waiting for the paint to dry. I liked it a great deal, though I only know of Jason King from Alwyn Turner's excellent book Crisis, What Crisis?, a wonderful survey of 1970s British pop culture. In general, I like all the desiderata of 1970s Britain, simultaneously in worse and better shape than 2016 Britain (Britain is always worse off and better off at any given point in time than it is at any other given point in time, but since we know it made it through the past, it seems less scary than the present), which is either why I so desperately want to be liked by all of you, or why I like all of you so much despite (in general) the age and cultural separation between us. Sweet Fancy Moses! I think most of it goes over their heads, though. I'll know soon enough. As a boy, I had a terrible crush on Ace from Dr Who. Now I'm old and creaky and Mrs P pretty much rings all of my bells and is a fair sight more attractive than me (or Ace, honestly, sorry Sophie) and so I don't have much in the way of celebrity attachments. I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE [GUV]

You'd need some Velcro gloves to hold onto him...

Well the lady is still around I'm pleased and in no small way relieved to note, my Hansom Cab got a commended from the judges, I lost the pair of big seats somewhere and delivered a canopy or two for an Auster if Debs decides to play with the Airfix baby And I came away wishing I'd put the Auster in the comp, just for the craic but the club stand got first dibs And since I got back into the swing I seem to have become embroiled in the Wessex STGB Anyway, some work is underway on smaller footprint seating for the driver and his buddy Further work ongoing on the undercart struts with new wheel bearing forks being carved Some of the bits can be seen in this montage I took for the STGB far right on the bedraggled old faithful mouse mat is the tail pylon with its little stabiliser winglet next in is a wheel fork and the oil cooling fan and ducting left of that one of the new forks between the mat and the fuselage is one of the type44s ready to be painted and tidied up a tad more that is the definitive canopy awaiting fixing when the innards are all in and nailed down some other odds and sods await fettling and the big ugly thing to the left used to be a Matchbox HU5 which has volunteered to become a HAS being adapted, we can ignore Walter in here I'll try to get some decent work done next and post a pic or two

Having built the 72 scale one last year, when the 48 version was released, it was a no brainer to get one! It is typical short run quality in respect that there are no location pins and plenty of dry fitting and fettling is needed, but the detail is very nice and includes resin exhausts and ejection seats. To overcome the lack of location pins, I added some plasticard on both halves to act as tabs making assembly easier and the joins stronger... The intake assembly is complete. This was quite fiddly as you have to ensure that when everything goes together, it all aligns centrally or else it's going to look a little drunk on completion! The cockpit rear bulkhead has been busied up a bit using brass rod although not much will be seen once the bang seats are in place. As people have mentioned before, the wing to fuselage profile doesn't quite align near the front of the wing, so some fettling has been done to improve the joins. TonyOT also gave me some advice to reinforce the fuselage between the wings to enable pressure to be applied when fitting the wings, so I'll use some large diameter plastic rod to beef the interior up. Quite enjoying working in the larger scale, the old eyes are particularly pleased with the decision!!! Cheers Neil

This is Revells , finemolds Millennium Falcon. I think this is probably my all time favourite model kit. I have built quite a few of these , but this one i built without any mods other than adding LEDs. I also added washes to certain parts , which is a change for me. I decided to add the clear plastic parts instead of the frames. Again this was a first for me on a falcon model but i really like it. Im actually kind of sad its finished , i enjoyed it so much! So hard to take photos of it. It tends to wash some of the weathering out.

Hi All, I hope you don't mind seeing another Mig-21 completed from Eduard. For me it was a first time trying the NMF on a plastic model. I used Vallejo's metal range paints. (Note: I'm absolutely aware that all Hungarian Mig-21Bis was painted grey, so you can take this model as a "what if" before you start hammering me in the comment section ) Thanks for all improvement comments / recommendations in advance

Gloster Gladiators of the Royal Air Force first saw active service on 'Air Control' operations during the Arab Revolt in Mandatory Palestine. 33 Squadron, based since 1935 at Ismailia in Egypt, began to exchange its Hawker Hart light bombers for Gladiator fighters in February, 1938. 80 Squadron, a Gladiator unit based at Kenley, was embarked for Egypt in April, and arrived the following month. These two units were the total fighter strength of the RAF in the Near East, and while their presence had been intended for protection of the Suez Canal from Italian bombers, should war come with that country, a more immediate employment soon was found for them. The distinguishing characteristic of the Arab Revolt which commenced in Mandatory Palestine in late April, 1936, was the degree to which at the outset all elements of Arab Palestinian society cohered in a unity of purpose. The most visible element at the start of the Revolt was a general strike, and a wide-spread refusal to pay taxes. The Mandate authorities considered these things far more important, and far more dangerous, than urban riots or the emergence of partisan bands in rural areas. The Mandate authorities managed, by a judicious mix of political manouvering and military force, to break the strike and restore order in urban areas, but only damped down violence in the countryside. Among the political manouvers was establishment of a Royal commission to look into causes and solutions: The Peel Commision report, when it came, pleased neither Arabs nor Jews. The killing of a District Commissioner in Galilee in September, 1937, followed immediately by the outlawing and deportation of leading Arab political figures, renewed the violence of the previous year. The activity of the partisan bands in the countryside escalated quickly, and was on a sounder footing than previously it ever had been. By the summer of 1938, armed Arab bands were collecting taxes and running courts in many places, and the situation in Mandatory Palestine was considered quite precarious by both military and political authorities. Major reinforcements of soldiers, police, and aircraft were provided the Palestine garrison in the wake of the Munich Crisis for a renewed effort to break the insurrection. A flight of Gladiator fighters from 33 Squadron, and another from 80 Squadron, based at Ramallah, were an important element of the aerial reinforcement. Aircraft could do little to influence matters in the urban areas, where the Arab and Jewish 'hard men' engaged in tit-for-tat murders by bomb and pistol, but in the countryside, aircraft had throughout been the most effective battle arm of the Palestine garrison. Very early a system known as the 'XX Call' had been set up, in which RAF wireless staff accompanied Army operations, to summon air support if contact with any large number of partisans occured. Aircraft were always waiting on five minutes notice for take-off, and there was no part of the country which could not be reached in under half an hour. The system proved so efficient that often operations by ground troops were, in effect, simply bait to draw out Arab bands in the hills so the aircraft would have opportunity to attack them. The Gladiators, with four machine guns, had far more fire-power than the Hardy and Hind machines already on the scene, which could only bring one gun to bear at a time, and strafing had proved already to inflict more casualties than bombing in such operations. The Gladiators came to specialize in what were called 'Air-Pin' operations. Efforts to disarm the Arab partisans in the rural villages had foundered on the ease with which approaching troops could be seen coming, and when they were seen, the partisans could quickly disperse in flight, carrying their small stocks of arms and ammunition. In 'Air-Pin' operations, Gladiators appeared over a village before ground troops were seen approaching it, and persons deemed to be fleeing the approaching columns of soldiers and police were shot from the air. These operations greatly increased the quantity of arms seized and arrests made, as well as casualties inflicted, not all of whom, certainly, were actual partisans in arms. The 'Air-Pins' were not completely one-sided, either. At least two Gladiator pilots of 33 Squadron were killed by rifle fire, and their aeroplanes wrecked and abandoned. By the end of January, 1939, the dominance of the Arab rebels in the countryside had been broken, their activities in Palestine coming to amount to little more than occasional sniping and murder of persons suspected to be collaborators with the Jews or the English. Political concessions to the Arabs promulgated in May, 1939, including severe restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine, helped hold the peace, though bringing increased trouble from Jewish gunmen. By then war with Germany, and probably Italy, was clearly in the offing, and the reinforcements given the Palestine garrison, including the Gladiators of 33 Squadron and 80 Squadron, were back at their normal stations in Egypt. This model is of a 33 Sqaudron Gladiator, L7620 SO*O, as it appeared early in 1939; it was photographed in flight as part of a formation over Jerusalem. It is marked with the code letters assigned 33 Squadron at the time of the Munich Crisis; this was not common (it is the only machine in the photograph to carry them), but it is not too unusual, there are photograps of at least one other 33 Squadron Gladiator so marked, and also of 80 Squadron Gladiators bearing the early letters. I do consider the marking of these letters at this juncture to indicate a more than usually sharp ground crew tending the machine, and so have held weathering to a minimum and given the machine all its proper functional stencilling. L7620 was passed on to the Greek Air Force in December of 1940. The Airfix 1/72 Gladiator is a great kit. As someone who mostly does open-cockpit subjects, I cannot get over how sweet the fit of the canopy proved to be; after only a very little sanding fore and aft, the thing was practically snap fit, and just to see if I could, I painted framing before attaching it to the fuselage, and the result you see. One does need to take care with mating surfaces, especially those of the struts, and cowling/engine assembly is a little tricky --- I found it easier to assemble this as a separate unit, rather than trying to put it together on the nose (the attachment of the motor to the nose is about the only poor fit I found in the kit). A bit of pre-scoring, and a hot blade, is the best way to deal with the 'X-jig' incorporated in the interplane struts. I put in the full complement of braces for the motor, and put in a reflector sight and supporting frame, and added damping rods in the rigging; otherwise the kit was built as is. Codes are from a Fantasy Printshop sheet, serials are from an old ModelDecal sheet, roundels and stencils from the kit decals.

All finished!Aftermarket used:-Aires resin detail set, which included cockpit, flaps, cannons, engine, forward nose bay & PE.HAD Models PE trolley, from an airfield set.Tamiya German WWII Tank Maintenance Crew & accessories.White Eagle Polish decals.Last piece of the puzzle was a 1/48 Airfix Gloster Meteor engine stand, for the display VK-1 engine.Paints used, Vallejo Model Air, Vallejo Metal Colour, Alclad Aqua Gloss.Weathered with Flory's Dark Dirt wash, and Tamiya Weathering Master sets..Display base is supplied by Coastal Kits Display Bases.Untitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on FlickrUntitled by ian gaskell, on Flickr

Thanks mate, there are some very interesting schemes on that sheet and I don't think I will be limiting myself to just the one I got the wee fellas painted and settled into their new home: I made an assumption and issued them with tropical kit. Next I have to paint up the tailwheel, install it and the instrument panel in the fuselage and then I can join the fuselage halves... I've got the day off tomorrow so hopefully will make some progress. Cheers, Stew

HI all - I finally managed to take some proper RFI pics of this build. For the build thread - this will explain all http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234981173-north-american-fj-3-fury-148th-esci-with-added-elbow-grease/ But here she is on the catwalk, looking shiny. All comments welcome, as ever. I have to say that one of these in FAA colours with Suez stripes would look amazingly cool as a WHIF - but after this build - one is enough!

Dragon kit and Zvezda figures, scale 1/72.

Kit wings options CADs V.P.

Hey look! a model aeroplane. How novel. Oh and, ahem, my favourite... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLLucZBEuh4&list=PLcKqtuh3mqsPVNI5pEbCWqPivop4BoFKv Jasper Carrott & Robert Powell at their finest.

Hey! That's not a 70s-80s TV show! What's happening to this thread!

Good taste there Debs, Until PC posted that pic, I never had Mike down as having quite such a profound chest rug ! 'Adonis of the Month' ! He was a genuinely nice bloke too. I met him (only at a fan thingie) and Ed Bishop, in 1999. It was very sad indeed when they both passed a few years later . He could, and would have made a great James Bond. Mind boggling really to think of the direction the franchise may have taken had it been him and not Sir Roger . As a wee 10 year old I freely admit to having very improper thoughts about Gabrielle Drake, another of the UFO crew that still looks great in a big yellow space helmet ! ATB TonyT

Easy - they were being chased by Rileys... like when being chased by a bear you don't have to be fast, just faster than your mates. Joanna Yumly. When the girls were small Mrs B talked me into a 'Teddy Bears Picnic' because she was going to be there. Of course I thought of all the possible outcomes. We were mid-picnic when the flowers bloomed, the air became more fragrant and suddenly there she was in a floaty dress and jaunty hat remarking on how cute the girls were with their teddies. She spoke to Lottie at some length about Edward (her Teddy, sorry PC) while I just led there, sandwich mid-way to my open mouth, speechless... Oh, and nice masking PC!

Hello! This is the Amodel Albatross which I finished this week. The triphibian was equipped with skis so It could land on snow more than six inches deep, in case you were curious. All brush painted with humbrol mainly, some Vallejo along the way. I have an airbrush now and just learning on it - would have made quite a lot of this a bit easier I suspect! For various reasons I spent a good deal of time detailing the interior, although predictably little of it can be seen even with the door posed open! It's a great little kit and surprisingly small, even for this scale. Quite a bit of sanding and rescribing to get it done but one of the more satisfying builds of the last year. Looks the part, I reckon. Bit of a rough finish in areas but I'm happy with it. Thanks for looking!

Hello, I would like to present my latest completion. 1/72nd Italeri Ab212 with whirlybirds "G-BALZ" conversion set. Built as part of the Huey group build but I missed the finishing deadline by a couple of days. WIP can be found here http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235006740-bristow-birds/&page=1 Also, please check out the gallery for an array of excellent Hueys. Presented as G-BALZ as she was around the late 70s early 80s. Operated by Bristows helicopters around the Brent oil field (Stationed on the Safe Gothia, and probably Sumburgh) thanks for looking

Finally got around to taking some photos of this stubby little fighter I finished last week. A bit of a delay due to a huge earthquake and a dose of torrential rain rocking our little corner of paradise. Surprisingly given the shake not a single model was damaged Anyway... Built pretty much fully OOB (aside from a set of prepainted Eduard seatbelts) from the new tooled Airfix kit. All in all a decent kit, the main fuselage and wing bits were molded from noticeably nicer plastic than normal for Airfix. It's a shame they didn't use it for all the bits. I had a few issues with some blobby and short shot undercarriage pieces which required a fair bit of cleanup / reconstruction to be usable. Overall though the fit and engineering is good as everything comes together pretty well (even the aforementioned undercarriage surprisingly enough). The kit was airbrushed with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics with Vallejo Metal Colours used for any metallic bits. RFI thread here for anyone interested. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235010933-stumpy-airfix-172-wildcat/#comment-2539014 Onward with the photos then. Cheers for viewing

Not the 1/48 one but the supposed 1/110 £6 one. Let me say that again , £6! What can you buy these days for that? I wasnt expecting much but its actually a little gem. I would say that it is VERY close in size to the 1/72 FM/Bandai one. Detail is lovely , but the pilot is way oversize. I just left him out. I just slapped it together and painted it white/grey.

brilliant! thanks Dave .. I was looking for shots like those to help confirm some theories... I have done a little more, this time the first panel under the wing at the wingtip where the pitot is fitted.. I drew out the panel, cut out the hatch where the pitot is mounted and started riveting... ..once complete I added a small brass tube inside where the hatch is so I can mount the pitot fitting.. ..in a nice little diversion from constant panel work, I started to make the pitot mount itself from a thick sheet of aluminium I got at Telford - I cut the shape with a cutting disc and left a 'handle' so I could hold it in a chuck while I shaped it... ..made the pitot tube from brass rod and prepared the parts for assembly.. ..and assembled - it has a brass pin to slot into the tube in the wing so I can put it on at the end... ..finally the hatch was made by using tape to get the shape, later, fastening screws were simulated and a cut-out where the pitot mount goes through the panel.. ..and the finished parts in place.. ..thats it for today TTFN Peter

Hiya Folks,.....finally finished this one too and thank to everybody who told me to finish it in a desert scheme,....I`m really pleased with it and I`ve got the fighter variant that I wanted; Having read Martin Cull`s fantastic book I just had to build a Greece based Blenheim Mk.I which served in the same mountainous area that I did many years later. Having snapped the canopy on my first Airfix Mk.I by trying to add it afterwards,.....it was so much easier to add the canopy parts to their respective nose halves and then to join them together,....although it is still not perfect and a weak joint. Cheers Tony

Aside from the fact that the 1st series of Ashes to Ashes was set in the year before the Audi Quattro was released in the UK... Got to love Philip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt. Debs who has both series of 'Life on Mars' and all 3 series of 'Ashes to Ashes'...

Hello All, Let me present you the great kit from AZ Models of the 1/48 scale Zlin Z-50LS in the Hungarian "Aerotriga" Aerobatics team livery. Thanks for looking and all comments / recommendations welcome

Well, it's finished. I'm moderately happy with it overall, and this was my first attempt at weathering silver. I didn't try out different shades of silver for different panels, so there's something to do next time! More images in RFI. Thanks for looking, Adrian

Looks good to me PC, with very few touch ups required... I'm talking about Joanna of course... oh, and the Flanker

Ah 'The Persuaders' AWESOME title tune! How about:Randall and Hopkirk (deceased): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo3lTbYFK6A

Icelandair's TF-FII 'Fandis' leased to British Midland Airways (bmi) in 2005 to supplant the A330 fleet on the Manchester - Washington route.. Welsh Models 757-200 with Bra.Z RB211s and a mix of S&M, DrawDecal and Flying Colors decals. Build thread here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235005779-boeings-mid-range-maestro/

That's not Stingray! This is Stingray!

Space 1999? Pah! UFO is where it's at: