Sgt.Squarehead

Been having a closer look at the Beriev.....The wings are very substantial, more oval shaped than air foil in section and there's really not much difference at all in thickness between the leading and trailing edges. With some judicicious application of plastic card plating, much filler and the coarse-rasp, I reckon I can have myself a pusher. As for the cockpit & canopy I'm thinking basic interior and possibly one crew figure (if I ever find them) and fashion a completely new canopy.....I'd like to give this area a sci-fi look, possibly paired bubble or blister type canopies either side of the centreline to give it a bug eyed look. If any of you guys have big boxes filled to the brim with modern aircraft spares, I could really use your help.....In return I can only offer similar boxes filled with small scale WWII AFV bits including (and I know these are essential to every sci-fi scratch builder) plenty of panzer wheels. I'd kind of like to do something 'electrical' to it, but I'm utterly useless at this sort of stuff, I can do the basics, but circuit design is beyond me......My electronics training at college came to an abrupt end when I gave the kid sat in front of me frost-bite of the butt-cheeks with a can of PCB Freeze Spray and some stealthily positioned airline tubing!

They've clearly shot down an awful lot of Zero's but I do feel the ground crew may have gone slightly overboard with the kill markings!

That's a very good idea! I'd be strongly inclined to include film & TV as this would encourage a lot more participants and opens the GB up to those who prefer to work OOTB (like me as a rule). Anyone fancy opening up a thread in GB Chat nominating a British Sci-Fi GB.....Based on what we've seen in this thread, I reckon it would be a popular suggestion. PS - Vogon Constructor Ship anyone?

Reckon about 40%.....This leaves some 'room' for using burnt sienna oils, which always seem to darken Dunkelgelb quite significantly.

Fascinating project lurcher1.....A veritable users guide to diorama products too!

Those are stonking oz!.....Really like your simple late war scheme! The contrast between the green paint and the primer works really well.....Might have to pinch it for a build of my own.

I can see it now....."Mystery Fire Guts ISS Shocker!"

Now there's something you don't see every day.....An Airfix Blenheim with a canopy that fits! Have you offered-up the original part to the cockpit at all? My last one had gaps of over 1mm in places!

Would these builds be eligible for the upcoming 'What If GB', or maybe we should wait for a wider Sci-Fi GB?

That's the very fellow! Was thinking we could either start our own threads or all post in one 'communal' build thread, to keep the theme together.....Not sure how things are done around here. As far as I'm concerned, if you are posting here, you already have.....More the merrier!

Good call on the Tamiya colours.....I use 50/50 Dark Yellow/Buff as a base colour and then lighten it even further for my 1/72 stuff.

My Be-6 is here.....Plan to rescale it to 1/100 open up and rebuild the cockpit (to go with some 15mm sci-fi figures that I know I've got but just can't find at present) and do something different with the propulsion, maybe turbofans or contra rotating turboprops? Really not sure which to go with until I've reread the appropriate section of the book.....All I recall off hand is it had a glazed nose with a laser in it, so we're off to a reasonable start on that front already with the (very) basic kit. On a slightly more expensive note, one of these: Combined with some creative use of 54mm figures, might offer a great basis for modelling one of the more imaginative assassination attempts in sci-fi literature.

Magnificent!

Looks like WE210 to me: Might just possibly be T49: But I don't think so. Now that would make sense.

Personally I still reckon the 75mm L/70 still looks the best Plus it has the added bonus that the Germans actually built one, not sure if they ever got an 88mm schmalturm built?

Strange.....It's still a great model, if it was a Mk.I it would be spot on as, IIRC, a few of these were described as being 'Battleship Grey' in colour.

88mm KwK-43?

Great job on the weathering, the streaking is very well done and I like your tracks too.....But why did you paint it grey? There is a surviving Mk.IV, "Lodestar III", still wearing its original paintwork, at The Royal Museum of The Armed Forces in Brussels: http://www.landships...k_articles.html (Select British/Surviving Mk.IV/Lodestar III - Brussels). See also this thread: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234937834-silly-question-from-a-tank-newbie/

Matchbox never made a Kingtiger. http://henk.fox3000.com/Matchbox.htm This is a Revell original tool.....Quality-wise, it's on a different planet to anything released by Matchbox. The kit has one major fault, the mesh screens over the engine intakes are moulded solid (an etch-set will sort the issue). The Dragon 1/72 Kingtiger kits have exactly the same problem, of the two I'd buy the Revell kit every time, it's half the price and has much, much better tracks.

Dude.....Can't believe you stripped that kit! The running gear in particular was really nicely done.....I think I'd used your image in the past to demonstrate the 'wear-polishing' on the inner roadwheels. Anyhow.....Can't wait to see what you do with it now, knowing how it used to look, this is guaranteed to be interesting.

Your good lady has excellent taste.....You will be impressed! I've got two Hasegawa Wirbelwinds in the stash.....Suddenly they're wargaming kits!

Sounds very sensible to me.....Another reason why the flying-boat and hovercraft appeal to me more than the regular Culture stuff!

Best advice I can give you for the Revell Kingtiger.....Don't trust the instructions for the tracks. Start by wrapping links around the sprocket, then do the long length across the top, after that it should all be common sense.

Let's pore through our stashes and see what we can mould into a model?

Great find!