Notty

Hello and 5hanks. No unfortunately no WIP, my building activity is too sporadic and unpredictable and I generally get into a trance and am finished before I realise I’ve started!

Hello, I think I just searched random photos, but tbh I didn’t got for accuracy just added a few for scale and interest

Thank you. Like most of my builds, I display them on my limited surfaces for a while then sell them to make space for my next projects

thanks- actually the loo roll was a kit part!! It’s a busy kit, the only thing you need to add (I couldn’t be bothered) are boxes of food and sausages hanging from every pipe

What a superb idea - and masterfully executed, really convincing. 👏🏻

Thanks very much! Rod super easy to bend with a hairdryer

Needing a change I made a sub for the first time - HMS Vanguard. Try as I might I couldn’t get it looking particularly interesting (see pics at the end) but I’d also bought HMS Astute and was determined to make something a bit more dynamic. I used the foam base with epoxy resin sea method, and found a ridiculously detailed SeaHawk helo resin kit on eBay (extreme decaling!) I probably should have had the copter approaching from the rear but thought the relative movement looked more interesting with it meeting head-on. I had many many goes at weathering it as seen in reference pics returning from patrol filthy but I was never happy so toned it all down. Hope you like it. and this is my build of HMS Vanguard, same scale and make, which inspired me to do the dip to get something a bit more interesting.

Hello, it was this one: https://www.whiteensignmodels.com/p/WEM+1350+Type+23+Frigate+Trumpeter+PE+35167/15946/

Possibly. I made 2X KC-135’s so have a spare, and I’ve just ordered the Academy B-52H! Also have the GWH Victor Tanker but I seem to have bought all the remaining Revell 1/144 Tornado GR1s in the world, otherwise I’d try 2 tonkas refuelling off that as well.

You are very kind. I don’t do comps, but it is actually very transportable, as the rods are push-fit into the base and attached to the ac with v.small magnets, as is the KC135 to it’s boom.

Yeah I get it. Trouble is I need to be able to remove them, and the only way to make thinner ones stable would be to glue through the holes as the cork/sand layer is thin & weak

Thanks! Actually I wish there was a way to give it some impression of altitude and disrupt the ac shadows. I tried some cotton wool clouds on the base but didn’t like it.

Inspired by a superb exhibit at Telford this year of this same B-1b kit (highly recommended) flanked by a couple of Revell F-15e’s, I loved it so much I had to do it, but with I added a KC-135. 3D printed pilots for the F-15’s and Rise144 nozzles for those and the Lancer. This scale challenged me and I don’t think I’ll ever get over stencils in 1/144! Homemade boom extension. Thanks for looking.

Kits world decals, 3D printed pilots with a 3D printed T55 I did some gbu-12 style surgery to for interest. I placed some small magnets inside the bodies so to easily attach and pose on the stands Thanks for looking.

That’s beautiful. I’m an occasional LN visitor too, and those birds look mean. You’ve captured the look perfectly