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Hi all and here's what I got done last year. Lots of fun, tried to challenge myself with some armour and different schemes/finishes. Most were built OOB except where noted. I think the T-38 is my favourite given how basic a kit it is. Thanks for looking and here's to a happy new year with lots of modelling! Cheers, Dermot 1/72 Revell F-14D backdated/converted to the model 303 prototype first flight.. 1/35 AFV Club M-18 Hellcat with Value Gear Details - first 1/35 armour in about 30 years! 1/72 Hasegawa F11-1F Tiger Even more ancient 1/72 Hasegawa T-38 converted to a Dryden Flight Research Center NASA Talon (ish) 1/72 Hobby Boss TA-7 converted to an EA-7L with Wolkpak wingfold and scratchbuilt ECM pods, aftermarket decals. 1/72 AMK Delfin - lovely kit, shame about the decals! 1/72 Hasegawa Kfir converted to Argentine Dagger Revell 1/4000 Easy Kit Star Destroyer with fibre optics by Captain Jacks Lighting and heightened sidewalls. 1/72 Fujimi A-4 Aggressor 'Fake Mig' 1/72 Revell Strv 122 Swedish Norbotten Regiment 1/72 Airfix P-51D 'Maverick's Mustang' 1/169 Revell Easy Kit Millennium Falcon in DHL scheme 1/29 Revell Easy Kit Snowspeeder with enlarged cockpit windows, open airbrake and repaint. Revell_EasyKit_Snowspeeder_3 by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

Hi everyone and hope you had a good Christmas with some kits under the tree! Here's what I got finished for this year, a couple didn't quite make it but hope to finish them soon. All are 1/72 except one! Bandai's Poe Dameron X wing for a 'Movies & TV' group build. Was fully repainted but otherwise OOB. Bandai_1_72_Poe's_X_Wing (5) by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr Italeri's Mk Vb Spitfire finally finshed for the KUTA group build. Aftermarket decals for Wing Cdr Brendan 'Paddy' FInucane of 154 Squadron, July 1942. Italeri_1_72_Spitfire_Mk5b_Finished (2) by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr Matchbox/s Lysander for the Matchbox GB and finished in Irish Air Corps markings to celebrate their centenary this year. Matchbox_172_Lysander_Irish_Air_Corps_done (8) by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr Tamiya's 1/35 Schwimmwagen for a Military Cars GB on the IPMS Ireland forum - my first 1/35 kit in about 30 years!. OOB with stowage from Value Gear. Tamiya_Schwimmwagen_ (7) by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr Back to 1/72 for a Trumpeter AS-90 for the Ground Attack GB. OOB with you guessed it, more stowage from Steve at Value Gear! 1_72_Trumpeter_AS-90_Done_ (7) by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr No stowage next, Sword's U-125A Guardian for the Turning Japanese group build. Sword_U125A_JASDF_8_0722 by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr Airfix Lynx HAS-2 for the Falklands 40th GB. I had also started an Argentine Dagger but that's on the shelf of doom. Airfix_Lynx_HAS-2_Done (20)R by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr AZ Models Martynside F4 Buzzard in Irish Air Corps markings. Learned a lot on this one about rigging! AZ_Martinsyde_F4_Buzzard_6 by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr Trumpeter F-107 Ultra Sabre for the Century series GB. Trumpeter_F107_Super_Sabre (10) by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr And my last finish was this Italeri F-5F Aggressor OOB for the F-5 single type build. Italeri_172_F-5F_Aggressor_8 by dermot.moriarty, on Flickr And that's yer lot! Thanks for looking and hope 2023 brings all you wish for. Happy modelling. Dermot

The second of my GB entrants. I may use the box scheme unless I can come up with something a bit more interesting. How brave am I feeling Ok spoiled for choice.

It's a very soggy day in Aberdeenshire today and therefore one purpose made for model making indoors! It has taken me far too long to get around to having a more formalised presence here on Britmodeller and hope to share some of what we're doing both in the UK and internationally. 13 months ago I read on Facebook that White Ensign Models were to cease trading. This came as a shock and huge disappointment. I've been making models since I was a child with both my father and grandfather but had only fairly recently got back in to it properly after a break where starting careers and family got in the way. I'm quite clear on what happened after that Facebook announcement but how it all happened is a bit of a mystery and somehow I ended up owning my favourite paint brand. We started the new company immediately but it took us some time set up properly. I dislike chaos and wanted to do things properly. Colourcoats was relaunched at the Scottish Nationals model show in Perth in April 2015, the first commercial order was dispatch to the USA shortly after and our shiny new webstore opened for UK Mainland customers in June. I mostly model aeroplanes and ships myself, and soon after getting Colourcoats up and running again, I realised I could no longer obtain most of my favourite naval modelling products in particular, so we have thus far reinvested everything we've taken into improving that situation in the UK, and now offer White Ensign Models again (now imported from California), Pontos Models and new-start Infini Model both from South Korea. More is on the way this quarter. We're just rolling out colour boxsets at the moment which are proving popular already, happily. The Colourcoats paint range currently comprises: Colourcoats Sea. Modern Naval The Great War United States Navy Imperial Japanese Navy Royal Navy Kriegsmarine (German navy) Regia Marina (Italian navy) Colourcoats Land. Australian Army Imperial Japanese Army Army for Defence for Israel United States Army Red Army (Soviet) British Army Wehrmacht (German army) Regia Esercito (Italian army) Colourcoats Air. The Great War Armee de l'Air (French air force) US Army Air Corps / US Air Force / US Navy Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Royal Air Force / Fleet Air Arm Luftwaffe (German air force) Royal Australian Air Force Regia Aeronautica (Italian air force) Royal Netherlands Air Force