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Some nice F-5 footage here

Very nicely done. Please keep them coming, especially if they're all that good.

Both duly added chaps!

Worked on fuselage seams, then applied primer Rick

Cheers Craig!

Well displayed, well build as well and very nicely painted 👍👍👍 The Revell kit is a nice one. cheers, Jan

I do admire brave people and the "more brain (and elbow grease) than money" approach (I tried an Airmodel vacu formed 1/72 Ta 154 a long time ago and decided against it ("Never again.")).

Looks amazing! I like the display base and plaque as well.

Kind of. Here I didn't follow any rule, just the basic colours with some add on whereever I thought will do.

Looking good. The BritModeller rebuild of the IJN continues a ship at a time.

Thanks Trevor The model for me is too expensive just to put it together in a few hours. It helps, to check out this forum for ideas and inspiration.

All the parts that need to be built for the lower hull interior are done, now on to upper hull interior. Have also started to contemplate the mod for the upper hull. It's not an exact match but if it was on one vehicle there is a possibility others did something similar

Thanks. I might invest in a proper background once, but til then this must do. 😉

Here are two pics that shows the main differences between early an later updates. Hope that helpd?

Thanks. I had no idea there were so many variations over the years. Seems like Denmark really appreciated their Drakens and tried to keep them up to date. I shall ponder what to do with my build now.

Time away from things can be invaluable, I paused my Taiho build repeatedly otherwise I'd of ended up botching it in all honesty. Shokaku is gonna look great, glad you've picked her up again,

Yeah I have tried for a while to get the parts but I think I’ll either scratch build or 3D print. Yours is looking ace by the way. Looking forward to more. 😇 Johnny

Here are two more Tigers done. 37) DH Havilland DH 82 R5259 Australia 1941 RAAF 38) DH Havilland DH 82 ) 202 35 No. 25 Elementary Flying Training School (Southern Rhodesia), Belvedere Airport, Salisbury RATG (Rhodesian Air Training Group Cheers Santiago

Packing in wings trimmed and smoothed down 20g of weight glued in nose Cockpit done, using some spare 3d decals for straps, imperfect but this will be lid closed, so I think it will do Instruction has zinc chromate for inside of intake; any idea if that is correct? Chris

I just want to bring this topic back up to ask, would Sheffield have had her wood decks stained or overpainted dark grey? Or maybe just the forecastle but not the quarterdeck?

Oh cool! Will definitely be following

I glued the tail and booms, although I broken apart the fins to work on their surface a bit I used 3 mm wide tape and cover with it the fins with some 0.5 mm gaps between, smeared on it a Tamiya putty After sanding. removing the tape and again gently sanding there will be ribs-like rise strips (I hope).... To be continued Regards J-W

A little bit more to report this week, although progress could have been better. But I'll start with the bit which does at least appear to have moved forwards. First job was to get the glass into the body. It seems a bit weird that there is one bar across the headlining which joins the front and rear windows, but that's the way AMT have designed it so I'll stick with it to avoid issues down the line. Unfortunately, it also seems as though the part was a bit flatter than it should be as the bar was sitting a couple of millimetres below the headlining when first installed, fortunately easily fixed with a bit of tube glue and holding it in place until stuck down. Once the it was stuck by the headlining and those circular holes at the rear (you can see I broke one off by trying to flex the part as a first attempt to get the glass to fit on its own) I went around with some UV resin which seems to have got it set good and solid. Incidentally, the kit also comes with some very dodgy green tinted windows which I definitely was not going to use, but I did paint over the bar stuck to the headlining to minimise its visual impact as you can see. Fortunately, it shouldn't be too visible, and certainly doesn't catch the eye when the interior tub is fitted. That's another one which is an odd fit as the main glue point is at the rear only - to get the front set you need to glue the firewall into the body then run some glue (Extra Thin in this case) down the joints to get it set in place. There is also a slam panel to go in at the front of the engine bay, but I'm holding off that until the front bumper is ready. Speaking of the front bumper, this is just a nice easy lump of chrome which needs a bit of painting and then it's ready to glue. Sounds easy right? Well it would be if there wasn't a massive misaligned mould line running along the each side of the bumper. I forgot to take a before photo but this is what it was like after sanding and filling. You can also see that the attachment points were on the front of the bumper at the bottom so, since I was ruining the chrome anyway I thought I'd get that sanded smooth too. Anyway, once the filler was dry, it was time to sand it back - as it was going to be a chrome finish I took the sanding down to 12,000 grit to make sure I had a smooth finish. Well, I say smooth, but as the final photo shows there was still a noticeable lump where the seam was... and this is the better side! I ended up foiling the lower part of the front bumper, not to mention the sides as there was a noticeable difference in finish between the foil and kit chrome. Once the foiling was complete, I sanded back using 8000 then 12,000 grit Micromesh before finishing with Novus 2 and 1 to get the best finish I could. While not perfect, it's probably as good as I can manage and hopefully once I have the recessed and headlights painted any imperfections and differences in finished will be much less noticeable. And that's as far as I've got this weekend. Thanks for looking.

Just the chromework to sort and then the final assembly, Dennis. Regards John

Thanks for the link! And nice work on the Draken so far 🙂 The drakens were updated in different stages. The plane you are doing is from the early updates, pre WDNS. So the lumps on the wing tips and weird shape on the nose as well as the chaff/flare dispensers on the side air scoops near the tail and the tail hook was not present at this stage. The Draken updates is a bit tricky i admit!