Beggsy

Coffee and a fiancee who's willing to sort out all the food and chores for a day helps a lot! Thanks @emily

Here's my Eduard Avia S-199 in 1/72 scale. A couple of issues cropped up with the kit, but most could be solved with patience. A hard thing to do on a blitzbuild!

It's 2:30 AM and this one is complete! Managed the superhero option, pretty chuffed about that given how complicated the kit was. Anyway, here's a few photos, I'm off to bed!. Maybe I shouldn't have stayed up this late with work tomorrow today 🤔 Pleasure building with you all!

17 hours in and we're oh-so close to completion: Just need those decals to settle in a little and I can give it a final clear-coat, a touch of weathering, and attach all the bits and pieces. Also, you can see in the photo I decided to do up both canopies. The "closed" one fits well enough that it doesn't look out of place when not glued. This will allowe me to swap between the two.

Lots of painting done, just waiting on the clear coat to be cured enough for decals.

That's right! Progress at 9 hours: Progress at 9 hours and 2 minutes thanks to spray-can primer: Took quite a while to build up, lots and lots of small parts, especially the wing trailing edges (a flap, an aileron and a lower radiator door to position on each wing, plus photoetch radiators). In good news though, I've fully painted and assembled and weathered the landing gear. Hopefully I won't get finished with the main paint scheme and find another detail I have to build.

Working on assembly now. While some parts are drying, here's the result of the first painting session. Looking good so far!

Hello everyone! I was browsing the hobby shop last weekend looking for something to build today. Eduard's S-199 stood out on the shelf and I immediately thought "Profipack edition? That's no good for a blitzbuild. Not with all that pre-painted cockpit detail, and pre-cut maks for the canopy and wheels.......hang on a second!" So here we are! Starting at 8:00AM Sunday. Already wondering if I'll regret the time taken for some of these photoetch bits that I could have easily ignored. Off to the spray booth!

On the topic of that airplane, I'm currently building this kit and realised the instructions and box art show it without the white leading edges. Is that true? I've never seen a Boomerang with the white tail but not the white leading edges. I've only seen a couple of photos of A46-117 and none show the leading edge clearly enough to tell either way.

Except for F/A-18 kits of course!

CAC CA-17 Mustang Mk.20, A68-1. The first locally assembled Mustang here in Australia. Built from the Airfix 1/72 kit with aftermarket decals.

OK, here's the result! 16 hours and 9 minutes after starting (assuming I don't have to wait for the decal setting solution to finish doing its thing), I present Mustang A68-1, the first CA-17 assembled by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Fishermens Bend, Victoria. I used decals from Red Roo Models and took A68-43's tail number, with the centre of the 4 cut out to make a 1. Reference photos I looked at had visible stencil data, so I used all of the ones Airfix provided. The CA-17s were assembled from kits supplied by North American (unlike the localy fabricated CA-18s) so I figured the stencils would probably be the same. My research also pointed to A68-1 having none of the Australian local modifications, making it easy to produce straight out of the Airfix box. Anyway, here are some quick photos from my phone, a gallery post will follow. As always it's been a pleasure building along with you all. Goodnight and good luck with your builds! Beggsy.

OK, all the stencil details are done at 11:34PM. Might just get this done before midnight! So there's a Mustang fresh from the factory, before customisation. I guess I'll have to reveal the final scheme next! All that's left is a few more decals and painting the gun barrels.

The prop spinner is about the shiniest result I've ever had with these paints. The main airframe is now sitting to let it's landing gear set. All airbrushing is done and it's not even midnight here. What is going on!?!?!

Oh she's a beauty allright. I love the Vallejo Metal Colour range. Almost as good as Alclad, but in acrylic form.