MikeyJ

I got the 500gb Manhattan DVR recorder from Tesco for about £130, been pretty good so far

All Humbrol enamels.

Yes, youre right. 1/144 scale. Im not used to building 1/144 civvies 🙄

The old Airfix kit, 1/72. nearly 40 years since i built one of these last, thought i'd have another go.

Very nice. Great weathering. I also built this plane in same configuration

Great job.. I thought it was 48 scale at first, the detail looked so good

Very nice looking model. The decals make it stand out.

My rebuilt model of the Pegasus models Martian War Machine from the original (and best) 1953 film of War of the Worlds that I recently completed & Based loosley on the crashed aircraft scene from the film. Complete with DIY lighting which includes pulsing ray gun, steady green front, wingtip torpedo rays and magnetic flux leg emiters and flickering white LEDs where the invisible magnetic legs made contact on the ground. I'm not an electronics whiz so its based on a circuit I found on youtube and modified to use less components and split power to the three set of LEDs so I can use just one switch to power the whole thing. Aircraft is an OOB Airfix 1/72 Bird Dog which I think works well against the 1/48 scale Mars Machine. Base started life as a Ferrero Rocher choccy box.

I have the Hasegawa 1/35 Astaco Neo double arm working machine in stash. Very nice looking kit too, the jibs and grab/cutter are fully posable, tracks & hydraulic hoses are rubber too. very detailed cab interior complete with lady driver.

Thanks all for the comments. Wasnt sure if it would work as it is, but the perfectionist in me would probably have destroyed the plane trying to put more stretches and wrinkles in the tarp. I did notice i'd forgot to add the wing light lenses in the pictures, they've now been added before i loose them,

This is my first ever biplane completed with rigging. The new tool Airfix 1/72 Swordfish "Sink the Bismarck" kit, bought very cheap off ebay as it had missing parts. Turns out the missing parts were the entire cockpit, some glazing and the torpedo, but the plan was just a quickbuild and practice model for rigging anyway. The plan changed when i had the idea to just chuck a tarpaulin over the open cockpit and acquiring a 2nd Swordfish to swap the decals round. So here it is complete with cockpit tarpaulined, keeping the rain out while sat on an airfield/carrier deck...😄 The rigging is 0.5mm EZ line, which looks thicker on the photos than it actually is.

This is the 1;700 scale version. This was an ebay bargain that came with a damaged hull side that was so easy to repair and most of the paints all for under a tenner. An enjoyable build even if it drag on for 8 months. Most of the parts fit perfect the only real issue was the black decals on the front superstructure under the bridge, none of the window openings lined up with the decal ones so painted instead. Added the glazed side cabin gallery railing from clear acetate and gave all the glazing a 'smoked' effect with gloss varnish and a bit of black added.

Brings back memories of a house move we did years ago, i burnt a half built model of Billings Boat's Lila Dan that someone had given me because they couldn't finish it and i was finding it too difficult for my skills at the time. I wish i'd kept it now.

Yes i forgot to mention its 1/72 Parts on this were OK, non warped. Decal sheet looked very good for age as it everything was still sealed up in factory bags when i got it. Most decals came straight off with no problem, but a couple of the longer stripes needed an extra soak and a little gentle persuasion in a small area to leave the backing sheet

This is the Hasegawa kit, from the late 80's i think of an unusual NASA prototype. There wasn't many parts so most of the assembly was just a few hours, and hardly any filler at all.

Built one of these when it was just a GR1, many years ago in my teens. i remember the fuselage having the same fit issues way back then and the chunky sprues, but the swing wings worked great😀

Looks great with the rigging added.

Shallow water and coastal defence I believe, not sure about the carronade but I think the main cannon was a 24pounder

No, not this one its never left the house.

This is something i scratchbuilt a few years ago using free magazine plans: Not sure of scale or if its accurate or not but its about 13inches in length, built from wood plank on frame in clinker style. The cannon barrels were made using rods of P38 car body filler resin moulded in tubes and turned. It could be displayed as it is or with mast raised and bowsprit fitted, but i didn't fancy rigging it at the time. Overall it took about 8 months to complete

Revell Eurofighter in 3 Squadron anniversary scheme. Kit built OOB and not the easiest of kits to build. The decals were from Xtradecal and were an Ebay win, but they turned into a nightmare to apply due to them breaking up, presumably from age or poor storage. To cover the terrible transfers i dirtied the plane up a little using crushed pencil graphite.

These are great little subjects to model. And great for practice for wooden hull construction. I scratchbuilt a 54foot version years ago but with clinker hull, and complete with a cannon and caronade onboard.

There is also the wreck of the MV Creteblock visible at Whitby too. http://www.hidden-teesside.co.uk/2011/10/04/wreck-of-the-creteblock-whitby/

Finally completed this pair a couple of months ago. They started out as an Xmas pressy for someone, but with one thing and another and loss of interest, the build dragged on and on. The Airfix etch set was used and really makes a difference to both vehicles

Made 2 of these as a kid, a Silver USAF one and the F5 Tiger II which wasnt too bad, or its my rose tinted memory...Built one a couple years back from the PM models kit of the Turkish Stars F5, obtained from a stall at Waddington airshow since it was cheap - now that was a really bad kit.