Mike

Be warned though Dan... I had a dream last night, and you'd applied a blue filter to the front of your Bradley, and it'd reacted with the paint & screwed the colors up beyond all recognition. How sad am I dreaming about OTHER people's models?

Nice work Paul

Looks good in camo... Nice work Tom

Pick me up one of the spare Jags please? I'll let you have my postcode to send it to

Is that what Xtraxrylics calls German Tank Interior Cream (XA1818)?

You're gonna get SUCH a Chinee burn when I see you next!

Andy Mullen uploaded a few to his webspace & linked them here. Have a look at his topics from ages ago, and they should be there

Dammit! I caved in... Exhibit A

Thanks for trying Paddy... you really need a tripod & unobstructed view for shooting in those conditions, don't ya? Cool to see her though... I have a soft spot for the Wyvern, but wish the idiots had saved a Turboprop version for me to drool over

After Jen posting her thread showing her new base, I caved in & had a shufty at these lovely looking bases from French company Mark.58, available in the UK from Modelsforsale.com. They look impressive on the site, but when my chosen one arrived (28cm concrete), I was amazed at both the detail and the color, which VERY closely resembles real concrete IMHO. Lifting out of its cardboard box & foam liner (good to keep for transporting), I was surprised by the weight & sturdy feel of the base, which feels more like porcelain than resin. It also has a strengthening mat moulded into the base, which would probably come in handy if you ever dropped it Anyway - I thought about laying on a primer coat, but couldn't bring myself to do it, as the color of the base was so good already. Instead, I applied different mixtures of Tamiya Flat Earth and Flat Brown to the joints and crack lines, which looks quite effective to my untrained eye. There is a section of groundwork to one edge, which has a texture that could be painted up to look like either grass or gravel/mud. I painted mine with an undercoat of the aforementioned Tamiya browns, and then laid some various greens over it, highlighting with lighter & lighter shades. Looks ok to me, but your style may differ. I added a couple of oil stains using a weak mix of oil paint & white spirit, dabbed on & allowed to spread as it saw fit. I used a couple of different colors & stregths to give a bit of variety, and added a little extra variation to the concrete color of the slabs with some CMK pigments. Total work about 90 minutes (mainly painting the joints), and to me it looks great, and required little skill on my part! All that's left to do now is to paint the edge of the base to hide my goof with the green paint And again with one of last year's completed models, the Dynavector Scimitar Well worth the asking price, and I'll be getting some more as funds allow Sample courtesy of Modelsforsale.com and my pocket.

M$ Windows? Don't wake them up Al! We don't want to go over all that again

It's a lovely aircraft, and you're doing a great job putting her together. I have 2 waiting for me to get round to them

Lovely job Chris... those politician figures are great - really natural poses & well painted. They really set the dio off Where'd ya get 'em from?

Thanks Paul - was that the one from Aliens, with all the overdone ridging on its head? That one never really appealed to me, but the dog's hind legs of the Alien from 3 did for some reason

Excellent!

Oh no, he had me deliver it the other night! If you'd arrived on time, you'd have seen the exchange take place

Is my Polyfilla coming in handy then Dan? I thought you were gonna post up grovelling thanks for me decanting you some into a jam jar? You miserable git!

Play Misty for me? Oh, and some new photos of the Wyvern prototype would be cool. Do they have a Sundy by any chance?

Smashin' work Marcus... I love that Shiny Two scheme

Ummmm.... toffee?

None of that vinyl rubbish here Mike... toffee colored injection styrene was the order of the day here

You did... Caz washed all the dust & cobwebs off it so it could go in the cabinet

I think you might sell one or two of these somehow John

This has been languishing on top of my DVD case for a few years now, having been one of the last models I made before I moved out of my parents' house. It's a styrene injection kit, about 9" tall, and was painted using Humbrol enamels, and highlighted by applying 6 or seven lighter shades in succession and blending each one with a thinners dampened brush before it dried. VERY time consuming! He's endured 2 falls in recent years, one caused by Mai the Psychotic kitten knocking it the 7ft to the floor, snapping one ankle and the tail off. The more recent fall was a natural disaster, and I can't remember what the repairs were. The base is clearly crap, and I didn't have the skills or the patience to do it justice, and kind of planned to build a nice 3D walkway with piping & stuff to set it off. I bought a house & had to rebuild that instead Anyway - on to the pics

Have a look on Google... all I did to bring up those lot was searched on Kamov KA-25, and then added Walkaround - maybe try further down the results pages?