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  • Birthday 06/06/1964

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  1. Brilliant. I'll add my recommendation about C1 stuff, it's quite superb.
  2. Superb, every one. I am a sucker for recovery vehicles so I love that M32; but all your 72nd vehicles could pass for 35th or bigger scale they're so good
  3. I loved the 'speed blocks' paint schemes on Kenny Roberts' race bikes and the flat-trackers in the late seventies and early eighties, and wanted to pay homage to those great bikes and riders. In this scheme you don't need a tank badge to know it's a Yamaha. This is actually one of my 'dubious quality' builds, as the speed blocks on the left and right sides of the tanks are ever so slightly different, and that spoils the whole thing for me even though I am really pleased with the rest of the model.
  4. The airframe colour I used is the SMS acrylic lacquer 'British Interior' (PL100), which sprays beautifully. Although 'airbrush ready' I found it was much easier to use when thinned slightly with Mr Color Levelling Thinner.
  5. My output for 2023 is the highest since I restarted modelling in 2009, but it still stands at an unimpressive sixteen for the year. I haven't really gone to town on any of them with extra detailing, though the Virago custom was significantly reworked and the Vosper MTB had some rigging and figures added. Not all of them have been posted here as RFI Topics, but for those that have been the photo title will be linked to take you to the original RFI Post. ICM Benz 1886 Motorwagen 1/72 KP Avia S-199 This is the old mould kit 1/12 Tamiya Yamaha Virago 1100 Heavily customised 1/72 Xtrakit Spitfire F.22 1/72 Arma Hobby Hurricane IIc 1/12 Monogram Chevrolet Corvette 1/72 Kovozavody Prostejov SIAI 260W OO Scale Airfix Mogul 2-6-0 locomotive 1/24 C1 Models 'Spectre' Land Rover Defender 1/43 Airfix Land Rover pick-up 1/72 Airfix Vosper MTB 1/72 Matchbox Boeing P-12. Built as Lesney intended, but with seams tidied and polished and no gluey fingerprints like my 1973 attempt. 1/35 M706 Commando Vietnam diorama 'Somewhere in Saigon' 1/72 Sword Seafire III in Irish colours 1/72 Airfix Spitfire Vc 1/76 Revell (ex Matchbox) M7 Priest with Milicast figures
  6. Good day All, herewith my latest off the bench. 'Orders'. Italy, March 1944. A BK (Battery Captain) of 12 Regt (HAC) RA [Honourable Artillery Company, Royal Artillery] gives preliminary Orders to one of his Troop Commanders prior to moving up to firing positions at Monte Cassino. This is the Revell (ex Matchbox) 1/76 scale M7 Priest with Milicast figures. Some of the Matchbox bases are great, but I didn't like the one with this kit. It was a bit nondescript and the model didn't fit very well, so I made a simple base of my own. This new base is just a piece of foamboard with household filler to provide the groundworks and various commercially available model railway and dolls' house diorama accessories for the plants, foliage and grass. Photos are taken with my phone (Google Pixel 7) so the focal depth is quite limited, but they should give you some idea of the model.
  7. That's something of a silk purse. Well done.
  8. The kit is very nice; and though definitely short run it goes together rather well and the major parts line up almost perfectly. The plastic is quite soft, as befits a short run offering, but the detail is quite crisp and really good for 72nd. The cockpit took some careful dry fitting to get alignment correct and work out just how it actually fitted together as the instructions were reasonable at best in this area, and there are no alignment marks or pins. Apart from that everything was very straightforward. The exhausts need backing plates fitting before the fuselage halves are glued together or you risk losing the exhausts in to the void if you are not careful, but there were no real pitfalls to the kit.
  9. Hi All, this is Airfix's Spitfire Vc; the decent one, not the starter kit. Its a really nice kit and goes together very well, as most of their later kits do. I had no problems with the fit of the wings to the fuselage, a problem some seem to have encountered, and no filler was used at these joints. Stencils are from the kit's decals and the national markings and aircraft serials are from the Xtradecals 'History of 74 Squadron' sheet. 74 Sqn spent the two years from April '42 to April '44 in various locations in the Middle East, with a short stay in Sep-Oct '43 at RAF Nicosia in Cyprus. The model depicts Spirfire Vc 'L' taking off from RAF Nicosia in early Oct '43, retracting the undercarriage and accelerating to climbing speed; heading out on a CAP over the eastern Mediterranean.
  10. Hi All, This is the Sword Seafire III in Irish Air Corps colours. The main colour is the SMS acrylic lacquer RAF Cockpit Green and the decals for the national markings are from the Colorado 'Exotic Spitfires' sheet. Stencils are from the Sword decals, and the only enhancement is a set of Eduard seat belts. Although it lacks alignment pins or marked locations, the kit fits together very easily; though I wouldn't recommend it as a first model. This is number eight in my ongoing odyssey of Irish Air Corps' aircraft.
  11. I have only just seen this, and have two words to say about it. Awe. Some.
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