bianfuxia

Made by an Australian who lives in Canberra!

I will have a go at this one.

I recently took my daughter to the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra (Australia's capital for those in this GB who aren't from here!). They currently have all the very famous Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly painting sequence up on the same wall so you can follow the whole story. I hadn't seen them in a very long time, possibly since my own parents took me to the gallery years ago I guess. This online resource from an earlier exhibition of them might be of interest...as a reference for your build? 😸 As Dave says Ned Kelly is woven into Australian cultural identity - although I'd say much more so last century than maybe now - and these paintings are probably among the most important post-colonial Australian art? I don't know nuthin about art but I think that's probably right. https://nga.gov.au/media/dd/documents/NedKelly_PrimaryEducationResource.d4b9764.pdf

Some of my 1/144 collection: Supersonic corner. There's a Concorde, obviously, and SR-71 and B-58, some lifting bodies, a pair of X-3s, some random Soviet test types, a paper project for a supersonic Harrier, and the little one far in the back is a non-supersonic test plane called the Hummingbird.

welcome! Welcome and apologies for that oversight! We'll get there. As soon as "post war twins" begins and everyone has a blast, I am sure this will get across the line as the sequel!

Great to see this coming along so well!

Good choices!

Or what they call "coffee"! Welcome aboard! Welcome!

I'll sign up with my Hasegawa kit in the all-black RAAF commemorative scheme. And - if this works - I'll sign my daughter up with her Hasegawa Blue Angels kit. This was a Christmas gift to her a few Christmases back, based on her experience as a 4 year old seeing the Blue Angels with me. I've been looking for an opportunity to build the two side by side; she's always been keen to have her own thread on Britmodeller. So maybe you get two for the price of one - bianfuxia and bianfuxia's kid.

Nice progress mate. These Mach 2 kits certainly seem to live up to their reputation for being hard work!

Do those not seem like very small explosions for a bomb dropped from an F-35?

Welcome each of you!

I did an RFI of it earlier this year: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235153150-ye-olde-airfix-lightning-rolls-off-the-shelf-of-doom/

Great work and this old kit really stands up, I reckon. I recently finished mine after a long time on the shelf of doom and I was pleasantly surprised with how decent it looks. You've done a great job with yours - well done!

Welcome and good plan!