Mattlow

Beautiful images. My fave is the tenth from the bottom, close up with wet head and a mouth full of sand 'eels'). Went there last year and was bowled over by the sheer numbers of birds. Watching the gulls mugging the puffins on final approach and on the ground was fascinating. Did you have the chap on the boat doing the commentary with his cheese noshing herring gull Matt

Thank you! I shall investigate this approach.. So it is painting rather than stippling... I'll be very pleased if I can get close to your results.. Matt

Lovely result on this one (as always with your work). I do like your attention to the little things... Paint-wise, is there anywhere that you describe your approach? I am always impressed with the subtlety of your mottling which Is at least on a par with airbrushed finishes. How do you achieve the subtlety? Thanks for sharing. Matt

This is, as others have said, a beautiful build. WNW will get you some of the way, but it takes a lot of skill to get the most out of their plastic - something you've done to a high degree.. Thanks for sharing. Matt

You might be better off asking for the decals in the wanted section... Matt

Interesting; I knew that some Fw190D’s did that but hadn’t heard the same for 109’s. When the antenna wire was attached to the opening part of the canopy, there was a lever on the left hand side of the canopy frame which slackened the wire. This allowed the pilot to open the canopy - especially important if the wire went through the DF loop. On the 190sthe slackening was due to a fixed length, untensioned wire attached to the canopy. Earlier 190s had a tensioning system which kept the wire taught even when the canopy was slid back.. Your 109 is a beauty. I've followed the build and it's great to see it finally complete. I do like your approach to weathering... something to try. Matt

Lovely result. I've followed your builds and the attention to detail has really paid off. Looking forward to the enigmatic yellow 11... Matt

Lovely work and finish... A labour of love.. Matt

That looks really nice, especially as this is (I believe) the rather old Revell FW200, not the much more recent kit. How did it go together? Did you do anything like re-scribing (assuming this kit has raised panel lines)? Transport version retains the elegant lines of the Condor. Matt

That's nice... Brrr, made me shiver, even though it's about 25 degrees here at the moment.. Matt

Very nice. I assume the Airfix kit is now the most accurate in any scale. They do seem to be pulling a lot of nicely done, interesting subjects out of the hat these days.. Matt

Nice work for someone coming back to the hobby (even for someone who had never left).. I like the very low contrast between the RLM 70/71. Italeri kit looks pretty good. Which is a good thing as I have their JU 87G stashed away... Matt

Yep, like Hook says, every single SH Ju 87D Stuka has an Academy Ju97G-2 kit in the box... Apart from the D-3, which has a short span G-1 Academy kit... Great thing is that you can do another Academy kit with some of the other spares. Three styles of U/C, bombs and racks.. Also, last time I looked, Dave Coley's Emporium were doing the Ju 87D-5 Axis users (or something like that) for £9.99 + p&p... Very good price, I snagged two. Obviously, you'd need to source Ju87G decals... Matt

Nice work on a bit of a 'meh' kit. Assume the quarterlights should be clear as on most 109Es, but I suppose could have been overpainted (some were).. Matt

Nice pics.. interesting.. Thing that struck me is that there's a main gear wheel and part(?) of the gear leg sticking out of the cockpit of the aircraft in the first image! Suppose landing accident, gear leg shears off, recovery crew chuck it in the cockpit to be dragged off to junk yard..? Matt