corsaircorp Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Kind of a mess ?? Nope, regular to me, while you find what you're looking for, where is the problem ?? I used to search for my stuff only when SWMBO has cleaned up the whole thing. But I'm Lucky enough, she did'nt dare to even have a look in my modelling cabinet. Really like the bunch of Spits, you have another Castle Bromwich for a near future, let's go now ! Glad to see you back, and congrats for the white ensign ! Sincerely. Corsaircorp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyTiger66 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 If, at around nine years old, I had opened an old box in a relative's cellar and found those contents, I may have quite simply passed out ! Even now, There's at least a full day of box fondling, runner and resin ravishing, sprue stroking, instruction inspiration, photo-etch fancy, titillating transparency and decal delight in there. As Hamlet once said to Ophelia "Get thee to a Spitfire!". He intended that she finished her Gauntlet first, of course, with haste . Best regards TonyT 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amblypygid Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 With only four 1/72 Spits in the stash, I feel utterly inadequate! That is a box of delights, PC... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 I almost hate to mention it, but that's far from the extent of my 1/72 Spitfires. No further work done today, as we've hit that point in the pregnancy where "do you want to come with us to get ice cream?" is secret code for "I can no longer catch our hyperactive shout-goblin, and I feel guilty about getting dessert for myself unless I stuff a whole soft-serve ice cream cone down his throat, so I need you to chase him around for the forty-five minutes it takes for the ice cream to melt". Sadder and wiser, I know this now. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 26 minutes ago, Procopius said: I almost hate to mention it, but that's far from the extent of my 1/72 Spitfires. There's no shame in having lots of Spitfires in the stash. No shame at all. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 That is a most attractive colour scheme on the underside of that aircraft in your hand PC. It reminds me of those muted prewar British tourist posters with that small number of colours: I believe this one shows @CedB on a recent cheese hunt. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 Reminds me of Frank Newbould's work, which I'm a big fan of: Your Britain - Fight for it Now [South Downs]. © IWM (Art.IWM PST 14887)IWM Non Commercial Licence 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 interesting, I recognised the building in the background, it's Belle Tout lighthouse on Beachy Head, a bit of searching and found this http://wwww.pillbox.org.uk/blog/216730/ Hope of interest 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 6 hours ago, TheBaron said: I believe this one shows @CedB on a recent cheese hunt. Still no news of the prizes though 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 23 minutes ago, CedB said: Still no news of the prizes though It's the taking part that counts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
825 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 13 hours ago, Beard said: There's no shame in having lots of Spitfires in the stash. No shame at all. Oscar Wilde once said you could never be overeducated or overdressed. If he had lived until 1940 he would also said you can never have too many Spitfires, in all likelihood. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 25, 2017 Author Share Posted July 25, 2017 Well, I felt super lazy, so I only did a tiny bit of masking around the starboard elevator and hoped for the best: 20170724_203702 by Edward IX, on Flickr Amazingly, it worked! 20170724_203809 by Edward IX, on Flickr I've also masked off the radiator or whatever: 20170724_203825 by Edward IX, on Flickr So that soonish. Current state of the stash, loathsome in its immensity: 20170724_203903 by Edward IX, on Flickr 20170724_203932 by Edward IX, on Flickr 20170724_203919 by Edward IX, on Flickr There used to be a lot more aircraft in the display cabinet, but I gave many to Winston, and he's made short work of them. He does like "awapanes", though, and waves to them when they fly by now, so it's just sowing the seeds. 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 This is turning into a very nice little model! Martian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Nice repairs PC - I second Martian, she looking very smart Impressive stash too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 I do like what you're doing with that aircraft PC. Those stash photos. Now don't pretend that you didn't post those knowing that each of us was going to zoom in and squint at all the lovely detail those photos. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 (edited) Top stash. I love the fact that it is organised - there is a (small but perfectly formed) Naval section of Seafires, Stringbag, Hellcats, Tarpons/Avenger etc. Just the one helicopter, though (a Merlin). I assume the rest of your rotary wing goodies are in the Annex... Edited July 25, 2017 by Ex-FAAWAFU 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 25, 2017 Author Share Posted July 25, 2017 9 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Just the one helicopter, though (a Merlin). I assume the rest of your rotary wing goodies are in the Annex... Oh yes! Three Whirlwinds, three Wessexes, two Sea Kings (one Revel AEW.7, one new Airfix), two Lynxes, another Merlin, a WAH-64D, and some Vietnam War-era US stuff. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amblypygid Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 20 hours ago, Procopius said: There used to be a lot more aircraft in the display cabinet, but I gave many to Winston, and he's made short work of them. Greater love hath no modeller... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 13 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: ...I love the fact that it is organised - there is a (small but perfectly formed) Naval section of Seafires, Stringbag, Hellcats, Tarpons/Avenger etc. ... I noticed this as well and agree in the broad sense, but am curious as to where your Sea Furies and the next Wyvern (because one is not enough) are stashed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Winston's very own model shop! I have a Spitfire in my stash too...just the one....like everything else....one of each.....140 times.....nearly all WWI though.....apart from about 6 BoB types.... Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 3 hours ago, Procopius said: Oh yes! Three Whirlwinds, three Wessexes, two Sea Kings (one Revel AEW.7, one new Airfix), two Lynxes, another Merlin, a WAH-64D, and some Vietnam War-era US stuff. Good Man! Martian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 15 minutes ago, Andrew said: I noticed this as well and agree in the broad sense, but am curious as to where your Sea Furies and the next Wyvern (because one is not enough) are stashed? I don't have any more Wyverns, even though I like the aircraft and thought the kit was pretty nice too. I have one Special Hobby Sea Fury, but don't really feel up to wrestling with it. 15 minutes ago, limeypilot said: I have a Spitfire in my stash too...just the one....like everything else....one of each.....140 times.....nearly all WWI though.....apart from about 6 BoB types.... I have a lot of Roden SE5as and Camels, but I've built them before and am perhaps understandably reluctant to do it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 I masked around the radiator grille and sprayed some Alclad burnt exhaust. 20170725_194719 by Edward IX, on Flickr I have to say, my cheapo Master G-22 airbrush has really grown on me. It was probably made using only a hammer (and that was only used to beat the child laborer fabricating it), but it really does have a nice precise spray and has held up well, with very little overspray. It's so easy to control, I find myself turning to it again and again. I still need to mask and spray the green for the cowl and for the upper wing. 20170725_194712 by Edward IX, on Flickr Then we'll need to glosscoat and decal and puzzle out struts and rigging again. Been ages since I rigged a bipe. On Friday, I shall go and see the greatest love story put on film in my lifetime, by which I mean of course, Dunkirk. It may well be awful, and I'm emotionally prepared for it to be so (it certainly looks a little historically dubious -- Spitfires flying across the channel on the deck? Lone 109s?), but this is the first time since Battle of Britain something so close to my heart has had a major theatrical release, and the first time in my lifetime. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 That's pretty exceptional feathering there - I shall have to check out the airbrush, although I suspect it's the artist, not the brush. My dad was in the King's Own Scottish Borderers at the time of Dunkirk, and was therefore one of those evacuated from the beach on the night of the 31st of May/1st of June. Right up until his passing, his only comment on the subject was that he was still annoyed he'd lost his pipe lighter in the surf. He would have been 24 years old at the time . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, John Laidlaw said: That's pretty exceptional feathering there - I shall have to check out the airbrush, although I suspect it's the artist, not the brush. My dad was in the King's Own Scottish Borderers at the time of Dunkirk, and was therefore one of those evacuated from the beach on the night of the 31st of May/1st of June. Right up until his passing, his only comment on the subject was that he was still annoyed he'd lost his pipe lighter in the surf. He would have been 24 years old at the time . Was your father with the 52nd (Lowland) Division? Do you know if he was still with it in 1944 during Walcheren? Incidentally, and not to digress, but are you going to Oshkosh, John? I'm headed up tomorrow to (hopefully) see the RAF A400M. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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