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  1. Hi Gents, Here are a few pictures of my F4F-4 wildcat. I used Cutting Edge decals and model master paints. Thanks for looking. Rod
    3 points
  2. Hi folks one of thats been hanging about forever and never getting completed.This is the Classic Airframes 1/48 Gannet painted with Xtracolor enamels and dressed in Xtradecals representing one of 825 Squadrons machines based at Culdrose in the late fifties.I remember seeing dozens of these at Abbotsinch Naval Air Station in the early sixties awaiting the scrappers torch,sad thing is some of the aircraft there were only two to three years old.For photo's have a look at Neil Airds web site Prestwick Memories and follow the links. Ian
    3 points
  3. Thanks guys! Only a few parts left to paint: the rear gun and the bomb racks. Everything else is ready for final assembly, so I should have her finished up soon! Did some staining and unmasked the clear parts - my favorite part of the build because it really comes to life!
    3 points
  4. Hi all, Welcome to my hangar build. I noticed a build of this on this forum and decided to give one a go myself, given that I have space to accommodate it. The hangar is from GPM and is available in a few scales. The kit is laser cut cardboard. Firstly, here are the parts sheets: We then start cutting out the parts, starting with the roof. The general construction of the sheets appears to be a 3 ply system with card in the middle and a thin paper on each side. The laser cutter annoying hasn't quite managed to make it all the way through the card as I had to run the knife over every part in order to remove it in a clean way from the sheet. I found there was always a bit of clean up required where retaining tabs were left by the laser cutter to allow the parts to be held securely in the sheet. The two halves of the roof frames where glued together using PVA (the same throughout the build) After a lot of repetition the roof framing was assembled. The kit is not perfect, the two interlocking halves where the roof frames meet the perpendicular frames have been miscalculated. So car must be taken to glue the interlocking sections on a flat surface Decided to add further support to the centre and outer ends of the roof. This has firmed everything up. They we made from offcuts of parts sheet. With the roof framing largely complete, I decided to spend the drying time cutting out all of the other parts required and cleaning them up. As I wanted to make a reasonably big diorama, I obviously needed a decent sized base board. I bought a sheet of 15mm thick 1220mm x 610mm MDF. I will probably trim about 200mm off the length. I then began to work out spacing (still don't have a clue where to put things) and started to glue the hangar floor onto the MDF. The hangar floor has now been glued in place. Here is a preview of the roof framing and floor. As for concrete colour for the floor, I was thinking of XF-54 with a splash of the flory concrete wash. Attention could now be turned to joining the half sections of the corrugated front and rear of the hangar. Again this was done using PVA. There was a significant gap on the back of the halves which were glued together using a bit of paper. This has given the join quite a lot of strength. Couldn't resist roughly assembling some sides of the hangar. The original plan for this hangar was to convert into a 1/24 small single aircraft hangar to house the 1/24th spitfire that im building also. However the wingspan is a little too big for the hangar, and there's doors to go on aswell. Now the painting can begin. For the exterior, I am using XF-16 and for the framing, I am using X-14. Will probably do the interior walls white. I did some test spraying on some offcuts of the same material and found that as long as the area wasn't flooded, then there was no effect on the cardboards surface at all and so I decided to paint directly onto the card. I applied Klear to the exterior surfaces after painting as the alloy paint had a tendency to rub off onto my fingers and pollute everything I touch. Ran out of paint at this point, despite using a 50/50 mix and only really giving it a reasonably light coat. You get the idea anyway. I managed to find some of the same card material in hobby craft for a not so reasonable £5 a sheet. One sheet should do the rest of the diorama, however I got two just in case. These will be scored to create large concrete slabs to simulate how it would have been laid. I decided to carry out a complete strip down of the airbrush for cleaning and because im so strong, I managed to snap the thread on the needle pointy thing. So I have today managed to re-mortgage my house in order to pay for a replacement part! Moving on... Here is a sample of the idea I was playing with in regard to the concrete effect for the hangar floor/apron, leaves a lot to be desired I feel... Today I have finally laid down the large sheet of card, cut to shape and scored lines in the entire apron area. I am now sure how I want the diorama to look. Joins were unavoidable, but these hopefully can be blended in when I have some paint on there to see how bad the join is. I also began the task of cutting the see through plastic sheet that came with the kit, and sticking them to the backs of the window panels. Hard to see on the camera, but I have left these the natural colour of the card as there is little burn marks on the corners which pass as rust very nicely. These are not yet glued to the exterior because the interior sides need painting. Annoyingly, it seems GPM haven't been generous enough to supply the actual amount of clear plastic I need to complete the operation. I am now left with pretty much the entire rear side of the hangar without glass. I will have to source a similar material next time I am in hobbycraft. L.E.D's have been ordered along with appropriate resistors and as soon as they arrive, the soldering can begin. I may have to purchase a 3mm hole punch in order to get a clean hole in the cardboard roof. There will be 18 lights in total. With the new airbrush part here, I could now move onto painting the interior sides white. Took 2 pots of paint to do this task. The previously windowed panels could now be glued onto the exterior sides. The blue framing was also glued to the interior sides. Painting has resumed on the roof framing. The scorch marks from the cutting has left some nice rusting effect on the painted frames.. Finally the roof is done and painted! Been really struggling with cramp in my hands recently and this build has just about pushed me over the edge purely down to the size of the thing. Think its a carpel tunnel thing... I then turned my attention to the base. I started by roughly painting where the yellow taxi lines would be located. The yellow was then masked with 6mm tamiya tape and the curves were formed. Black was then sprayed next to the yellow. At this stage, I decided to pre-shade the entire base. The 'inside' area in which the hangar would sit on was shaded lighter, infact more of the dirty grey. 2mm jammy dog tape was 'piggy-backed' along the tamiya tape covering the yellow in order to protect the black outline. The right taxi line will stop roughly 1/3rd the way into the hangar. The line on the left is a parking ramp/apron for the upcoming learjet 35 model. Next the huge task of painting the base was started. This is basically XF-54 Dark Sea Grey in a 50/50 mix. I didn't make a particularly neat job of spraying it and this has worked to my advantage where the colour seems to be broken up with the pre-shading and areas of white showing through from the board. And the concrete a little closer. I then removed the masking tape. There are a few areas where the tape has lifted the paint but these will be repainted in no time at all. Half decent result I feel. Will probably look at post shading the yellow areas of the slab joins later. Its now time for the electrics part of the build. The components arrived almost a week ago now. The L.E.D is a 3mm white diffused ultra bright along with a 470 ohm resistor to enable the L.E.D to work on a 12v circuit. Not much equipment needed for the job. just a standard soldering iron would suffice, except I need a higher temperature one for other hobbies of mine which involve joining brass. Decent flux is a must in my opinion. Ok so we know it works. The black L.E.D mounts were first installed into the roof support. This picture shows the messy and not to be seen top side. And a little neater underside. The L.E.D will be mounted in this to give a clean look. Another component I am using to aid the build is Vero wire. Its quite good stuff when you look at the specs of this stuff, its actually quite useful. Although it looks like bare copper wire, it is actually insulated and so you can bunch multiple strands together of either the same or opposite polarity and it will not short out. The method I used to join the L.E.D to the wire was to simply wrap the wire round the legs of the L.E.D and solder. The heat burns off the insulating coating, although I must stress that you should have ventilation when you do this as it releases apparently bad fumes. Finally one side of the hangar is done. It takes so much time that i've lost count of how long. The wire gets very messy towards the end of the line. The L.E.D's have been wired in such a way that should one fail, it will be the only one which goes out. I decided to add some extra card which will be painted, to hide the wiring when viewing the hangar from the bottom. A start has also been made on the main power supply wires and to install the extra card along the central light strip. I bring some good news and then some bad. Firstly, I decided to roughly assemble the hangar and test the lighting. As per usual, one of the L.E.D's stopped working. Can't be bothered to rectify the issue. Couldn't resist getting the Hawk out... And all when it was going so well. I took the hangar apart again to paint the white areas on the roof framing and placed the hangar on the floor. I then stood up and went to go into the kitchen and got my foot tangled up in the framing and tripped. This is the result.... The hangar was repaired using superglue and PVA, the repaired area is on the left. The sides of the hangar were next to be glued into place. There was some modification required to enable the back of the hangar to be joined to the roof framing. Finally found myself up late enough to switch off all the lights and take some pics with just the hangar lighting on. Im contemplating installing some sort of taxiway lights in the yellow strip to liven things up. The strips of card that go around the base of the hangar have now been installed and painted. The baseboard was then given a good coat of flat varnish. Decided to get some fake grass on a big roll. This would be very long for 1/72 and thought it would be ideal for the grassy areas of the hangar. Ever heard the saying "measure twice and cut once".... Light shot. So back on with the 30 mile drive to hobby craft.... k with the 60 mile round trip over, It was now time to crack on with the roof. To no great surprise, I almost cut the board too short again and only realised this mistake just before the cut. I picked up some German Grey XF63 with the idea of lightly overspraying the already black board in the hope to create a patchy look. I did in the end, darken the XF63 with some flat back and roughly sprayed the board. For those wondering how I managed to keep the very edges down while the glue was drying, I simply used some reasonably heavy blocks of steel. Theres probably 1.5 - 2 kg of weight on the edge of the hangar and there is no flex of movement at all. Don't think we've seen a rear picture yet... And finally we have a roof! I did also pop into maplins and bought a switch to control the lights. Not sure where this will be located as yet, I may even try to integrate this into say an electronics hut which could be physically moved, resulting in the switch being turned on. I also want to install a fence at the back of the diorama and also start making some fixtures and fittings for inside the hangar. I do want a 1/48 figure, preferably sat in a deckchair or something aswell for a little idea I have. I decided to make a start on the fencing, which I was keen on installing to try and give this hangar the look asif it were poked away in the corner of the airport. I used some frying pan splash guard and cut this into strips 5cm high. The posts were made from 1.6mm dia brass rod. These were cut into 5.5cm lengths, the extra 0.5 for the holes being drilled in the base and so the fence can stand up without glueing. The fence was simply superglued together and the ugly glue marks only being visible on the back of the diorama. The grass sheet was laid and holes made for the fence posts. Decided on red as the colour for the fence. Also added a gate. The fence was then installed into the base after the grass had been trimmed flush with the end of the baseboard. Couldn't resist a few pics with the aircraft I have. I decided to just crack on with the doors. Here they are in raw form. The doors were then overlapped to give the staggered closed effect. They were pre-shaded and given a coat of the same blue used for the framing. The doors were then glued in place. Meanwhile I created the runner from some card. This was then glued into place. Probably should have done some pre-shading underneath the runner. And finally added a side door. Few updated pics. I will look into installing a few flood lights, maybe two on the front and two on the side of the hangar. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, just hiding the wire is the challenge. Not much more can be done on the diorama itself for the time being as I need to get hold of a few things to complete it. Updates if any will be few and far between so I guess consider it done. Dan
    2 points
  5. ...will portray a Libyan mechanic working on the rocket launcher. Now I am not so good with figures so I am working hard on trying to pant them to look right. I am still waiting for the mechanic figure. As it is the dio is about 98% ready. Hope you guys like it. Pics are not in any particular order.[/size]
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  6. First two photo's the aircraft is landing in Seattle harbour,the rest were at Ketchican in Alaska.In the early sixties the U.S. Army operated a large number of Beavers and Otters in Europe.Many of them visited Prestwick airport where they would take off in a couple of hundred yards and take many minutes to leave the end of the runway,nostalgia is a great thing. Ian
    2 points
  7. Unfortunately the terms of the various nonproliferation treaties were very strict.
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  8. After trying to build two Typhoons simultaneously a few years ago, and failing, I decided it would be easier to build four(!) at the same time. One of the four is the left-over from the first attempt, see this thread on Aeroscale: Tale of Two Tiffies . I am using three different kits: the Pavla car-door, the Brengun bubble-top, and two of the Airfix late-war version with 4 blade prop and Tempest tail planes. The schemes I have chosen are: (Top two profiles by Chris Davey from Osprey's Typhoon and Tempest Aces of World War 2 by Chris Thomas; bottom two profiles by Chris Thomas from 2nd Tactical Airforce Vol. 4 by Shores and Thomas) I have spent several days already on getting the parts to fit together, which for the Pavla kit has been a considerable hassle! The wings and fin have had to be thinned considerably, as have the cockpit areas (and still the resin cockpit doesn't fit as intended). Both the Airfix and Brengun kits mainly need the height of the wheel wells reduced to allow the wings to close properly. In the case of the Brengun, the tops surfaces were sanded to translucency, as well as the bottom edges coming up too. The Brengun has the edge over the Airfix wheel wells, and in detail and accuracy in general, but every part needed some clean-up. The Airfix open gun panels inspired me to open one wing on the Brengun kit, originally intending to use the Airfix parts in the wing. However, on closer inspection 1) they weren't a good fit, and 2) are not accurate enough. So I'll have to scratch build something. All the parts needing silver painting were stuck to sticks and airbrushed, then given a brown wash. I'm onto the cockpit painting now (black above the tubular framework, dry brushed with grey, grey-green below). The Airfix instrument panel transfers look OK, and for this scale, and considering it is really hard to see into the cockpit of the Typhoon, they will be fine.
    1 point
  9. Hi, Here is my latest build. I decided to renovate my "old" Flanker built in 2007 In progress here: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=44533&st=0&p=464100 Nose: Zactomodels Pitot: Master Models Exhausts: Aires PE for bangseat: Eduard Decals: Linden Hill Windshield: Scratch Air Intakes: Scratch It is still far from perfect. But I find it better than the previous one. Thanks for watching! Comments are welcome ;^) Rom
    1 point
  10. Hi, I had an online £5 voucher (with no minimum spend) for Argos a few weeks ago, looking through their kits found a few offers on their starter sets. The A-4 was down to £6.88 with free delivery, so one brand new A-4 kit was delivered to my door for £1.88!! (Is there a prize for the most inexpensive build? ) I had intended to build it OOB representing BuNo 142833 (kit markings) as exhibited in the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, but looking at a few photos I will need to do a little bit of work to match it. I'll have to drop the flaps for starters and there is a brace/collar on the front undercarriage to I'll have to make as well. More things will probably come to light as I find more photos if it online. I've been working mostly in 1/144 & 1/200 since getting back into the hobby so going back up to 1/72 for this feels like I'm in "The land of the giants"! Couple of pics to start off, the kit (which I haven't even unbagged yet) and what it should hopefully turn out like.
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  11. Hi Everyone, I am reading Dale Brown's Patrick McLanahan series of books and would like to create a model of the star of the books, the EB52 Megafortress. Does anyone have an idea how to do that ? Should I start with a standard B52H model kit and scratch build the Megafortress parts or does anyone know of a Megafortress conversion kit that I can buy to create this amazing aircraft ? Cheers, Rick
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  12. First post here (yay!) , so why not start off with a bang? And by bang, I mean gigantic helicopter. I'm not especially far along, I really just started: (if the photos don't work, lemme know) The painted passenger seats, right after I glued 'em on Front seats, painted grey. It's kind of hard to see, since the tape is clear, but I've masked the seat cushion to paint olive drab later. Instrument panel, slightly shiny from being semi-wet. I've yet to put the decal on it, but my local crafts store didn't have any decal setting solution, so I'm gonna apply it with water and prayers. The nicely painted (if I do say so myself) pitch sticks, drying on a Testors cap. I'd like to say that the scratch-marks and weathering on the silver parts were intentional, but it was really just my ineptitude at painting. Anndd the control sticks. I left the handle unpainted, I like it in OD green...(who knows why) Err...this photo came out a little blurry..oops..... That's it for now, more progress soon
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  13. Almost OOB model with RB-Model 23mm gun barrels and Eureka towing line. Polish Army markings.
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  14. Hi Folks,a few Beavers for you,all taken at Ketchikan in Alaska last year.Plenty of Otter ones as well if anyone is interested. Ian
    1 point
  15. No.1 (F) Squadron, RAF Wittering 1970 Airfix new tool 1/72 kit [/url] [/url] [/url]
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  16. A beautiful nightmare! After a disastrous glas shell crash and the truth about my error of wrong decal settings (see WIP thread http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234937136-mirage-iii-cz;-148-hobbyboss/page-4 ) I proudly presents my nightmare Mirage! Enjoy and feel free for criticism!
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  17. I have been giving the spheres a little thought and I have a cunning plan on how I'm going to paint them but that is far in the future at the moment. I could not leave work too early tonight and I made a little side excursion to Maplins to pick up some goodies for my ideas on how I am going to install lights in my Dalek. As a result there was not much progress. I did do a quick check fit on the brace blocks: Here are all the electronic components I picked up from Maplins. My ideas are to have two red flashing dome lights and a blue eyestalk light, LEDs seem to be the obvious answer. You can get LEDs that inherently flash but I wanted something that flashed every 4 to 5 seconds or so and these LEDs can't be controlled so after a long discussion with a very knowledgeable and helpful shop assistant I was directed to this little kit that comes with two red LEDs and the ability to vary the flash rate - its amazing what you can get these days. The other thing was a blue LED for the eyestalk. This requires about 3V so some value of resistor will be required with the 9V battery to avoid having to have a separate power supply. I haven't built any electronic stuff for years so I am looking forward to this task. Following the clearly printed instructions and preinstalled biro marks (yes really) on the part I free hand trimmed the edges, there will need some finessing with my baking tray / wet n'dry combo tool: Thankfully the plastic does now appear to be hardening up in those glue affected areas. I try to push back some distorted areas in the race track: But they just ooze back into their distorted shape. Hopefully when the plastic has rehardened I will be able to sand them into their correct profile: Before I made my dinner, as is my normal habbit, I made my lunch box for tomorrow. I have not yet exposed you to this phenomena but now feel confident enough to do so. Tomorrow, for the main part, I will be having grilled king prawns with quinoa, avocado, spinach, basil and spearmint: I kept the leaves separate so that they are not ruined by the dressing and will mix them at work at luchtime for immediate consumption. Here is the rest: That should get me through the day. For my dinner I cooked an Aberdeen Angus burger (not home made) with pancetta, blue cheese (gorgonzola), avocado and English lettuce served in a cheesy roll (also not home made) with a smear of Dijon mustard: It was very nice. Bye for now, Nigel
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  18. Of course the organised of us, have paints required all ready, a build plan and schedule mapped out, showing photo opportunities to log the work in progress with dramatic shots showing superb detailing. Alternatively we can have a mad panic on the day it starts and not know how to upload photos, find the damn kit in the first place or better find its incomplete despite the numerous times you have checked it previously No prizes for guessing which one i am ! Ps Rich is the rough tough man from the outback really posting about using nail files earlier on in this thread ?
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  19. Here is picture of the shell holder design from a different angle -
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  20. If they ever get around to making another film with Karl Urban (very unlikely, I know), they really need to have Judge Death in it. That movie would properly rock! Here's hoping... Found the vinyl kit of Judge Death at a model show in July and I just had to have it! Thanks for showing us the gear you've produced so far, fella.... they look very cool, indeed. Cheers. Chris.
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  21. Oh yes please, I'm up for this one, my missus has bought me the 1/24th Shar for my 65th birthday in March next year and it would be rude not to...."It's a lot less bovver in the hover".................Smudge
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  22. Hi guys, Here are some pictures after the decals and some panel lines. With the folded wings on but not jet fixed in place. I don't know if the stenciling was on the British version, but I think that if it was builded on the line with the American ones they wouldn't make a difference to both. Exept for the roundels. This is how far I have got sinds the last update. I hope to have her finished next week. Cheers,
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  23. It's a Scottish newspaper that comes out every Sunday, but that's not important right now.
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  24. Awesome model, awesome damage, incredible save! Well worth it indeed.
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  25. Yes but this is not that Airfix, now it is Hornby. A great deal else has changed in production methods, and the new team are getting things togeather. I think (hope?) the different (and wrong in different places) TSR 2 incident has been learnt from. Talking to the Airfix people at several shows suggests that they are looking at each range as a separate thing and not just transferring 72nd scale items into 48th for example. For Airfix I suspect the smaller 48th kits are seen as a transition for beginners on the way to the larger and more expensive kits. They are a step in a progression all the new audience will follow. Everytime they build something and enjoy it they'll want to do it again. Some of the old mould offerings may been seen as booby traps, not because of accuracy but because they were hard to assemble well, somebody who got one of these as an early kit will disappear from the hobby. Ease of build get Airfix the cake, accuracy gets the extra icing from us 'forumites' TM keefr22
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  26. Looks wicked cool, nice save!
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  28. That's impressive progress if you just started last night. That's a months work for me if I'm doing well. I've not seen the Revell kit but it looks pretty good in those pics. Are they all kit parts in the photos? And are the flaps designed to be posed or have you done a bit of cutting?
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  29. Moebiuos kit. No problems with it. Stripes sprayed on and plenty of weathering
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  30. nice build .looks great .paint looks great love the scheme
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  31. I agree, which led to me selling off almost all my 1/48th jets earlier this year. So I have no idea why I have a Javelin on pre-order...!! My main problem with Airfix doing things like the marvellous Sea Vixen (& hopefully to be equally marvellous Javelin) in 48th is that they then either take 20 or more years (Lightning) or never (Seafire 47) to scale down their best efforts to date to 1/72nd scale. As they've done all the work it can't be that difficult to do. Can it?
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  32. Good save ! Really nice build and love the scheme.
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  33. Well folks here is my first post for the forum! My little man was born back in May 2012 and I wanted to build him something to go onto his shelf from his dad Anyway when I saw this kit come along I managed to bag myself one. I finally manged to finish it a few weeks ago and must say I really enjoyed this kit even though the odd decal was tricky. Safe to say it now has pride of place in the little mans nursery and is the only model SWMBO allows on display in the house or is remotley interested in! Anyway hope you like as much as I do? Rich P.S Sorry about images being huge...still yet to get to grips with uploading them!
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  34. Been a busy week so thought I'd take a few snaps to record the progress. Since I last posted, the lower desck has been completed, its roof added and the upper deck added. The figures have been finished and put in place. The wheels have also been attached and the underside weathered using washes and pigments. The underside of the rear deck has been extensively "muddied up has have the wheel arches. I've built up a simple base using an old picture frame with plaster of paris infil, a layer of black emery paper to represent the tarmac road, some milliput to put kerbstones in and then black stained claycrete to represent the tarmac coated pavement. Some leaf litter and grasses have been added to give it a bit more life. The outer panels have been primed, silvered, kleared, hairsprayed, overcoated and then distressed. They have now been assembled around the core and weathered some more. Yet to do: windows need putting in and decals need sorting out. Having some issues witht he decals - the yellow text isn't thick enough to show up over the green paint. I'm goign to try again on the works colour printer on transparency mode to see if I can get it to lay down a thicker payer of ink. So now for the photos - they were taken quickly so alignment is a bit out in a couple of them and the lighting a bit dodgy! This is a seriously dirty bus I think I might have overdone the distressed paintwork on the upper deck panels, but the photos I found really do show the paintwork in as pitiful a condition!
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  35. Really quick update to finish up today: (I'm too excited to stop) Painted the seat cushions in OD and the belts in black and white. Painted the supports for the seats in OD. Put in the pitch sticks (I may weather them and the other cockpit gubbins later), and did a semi-sloppy paint-job on all that button-y goodness in the middle ;D More to follow tomorrow if I get some free time!
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  36. I'll bow to your superior knowledge gained from all those times on the jumpseat. I just thought that after 1500 hours flying the things I might know a bit about them. Obviously not.
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  37. How about a 1/72 Boston you can actually build.....Or a 1/72 Beaufighter you can actually afford?
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  38. How about some early British helicopters in 48th, eg: Sycamore, Belvedere?
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  39. Thanks, I haven't looked into it accuracy wise yet which is why I asked the question ( got some other Spits to build first), but I will take these points into consideration.
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  40. All clear parts covered, defensive guns in place. Note that the dark stripe along the spine is another insert of stretched sprue, a tribute to the poor fit of parts. Now moving over to the 'paintshop' (in case you wonder: it's simply the other end of the table). The model will receive a three-color-camoflage in Tan/green/Black. Thanks to fellow Britmodellers Fuad and Learstang for valuable advice regarding VVS colors.
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  41. Hey Kent Thanks for the comments mate I appreciate it. TBH the decals aren't that bad (the photos make it look much worse than it is) and Tank152 has given me some great hints and tips to try and resolve the problem which in the fullness of time I'm going to try. If you havent built one the Tamiya kit is a dream to build, yes they're expensive, but I've had hours of pleasure building her and I still have a long way to go to finish her, I just hope I can do her and S/L Prat justice! Yours aye Iain
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  42. I think an Airfix Beaufighter in either 1/72 or 1/48 scale, preferably the former, of their later quality & prices that would undercut both Hasegawa & Tamiya by plenty, would blow the eastern brands out of the water, in fact just like the Beaufighter used to do. Steve
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  43. Yeah I know what you mean, I wasn't impressed with the Tomcat, Intruder, F-5, the Harrier, F-15's or the F-16's. However, the decals and the ordinance make it worth the price. Also helps to have a few throwaway models to test new things on. Thankfully Retrowings make lots of bits to improve them too . Ill be starting an EA-6 Prowler and Seahawk soon. Thank you Wellzy, glad you liked them Is there other scales??? Blah... Ill stick with my little jets Kind Regards Dazz
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  44. Two-six is the decal manufacturer, and the paint guide comes with the decals. They don't do the grey/white scheme as far as I know, but do some of the nice anniversary special schemes in 1/72nd. The only white top decals I am aware of in this scale are the ones that came with the kit, and they were showing their age when I got this one, hence the new sheet was purchased.
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  45. Alvis in Canada showed us that the ESCI V-22 and Hobbycraft Dash-8 are a direct fit. Chord and thickness match at the wing-root is in the >90% range...
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  46. Been giving this build some thought, have I got an aircraft that qualifies rather than buy another one. Two reasons, First of all I have too many kits already (don't we all ?) Secondly I live in Scotland and we have a reputation for being careful with money ! Then the answer hit me, my kids recently joined airfix club, and by sending off the vouchers I can get the 1/48 scale Seafire complete with Korean theatre markings for just the cost of the postage - RESULT Now all we have to do is get a few more people and get the build nominated, oh and I need to find an excuse of why we can't find the kids flying hours, "well you know what your mum is like for tidying up"
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  47. As ever, thanks for the support and compliments everyone. Just a quick iPhone photo with the flight deck painted, apart from decals for the numbers, everything else is masked and painted, it turned out to be much easier than I expected, and I'm really happy with the result. I'll now mask this before finishing the details and starting the painting and weathering steps.
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  48. Railings finished off. Various storage lockers, with some 'artistic embelishments' and fitted More to come Cheers Martyn.
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  49. Hi Simon, You`ve picked a beast of a project, but one which can yield satisfying results. I found that I used Flightpath, Eduard, True Details AND scratchbuilding to get an RAF Sentry AEW.1 as none of the detail sets have all that you need, plus Model Alliance ISTARS decs. Here`s my ARC article on the odyssey that is the Airfix/Heller AWACS build. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=...OHIGavE7ybY06nw All the best with your project, an AWACS just sets off a collection nicely, as long as parking space is planned for the beast in advance. HTH, Cheers Ian PS- You ain`t wrong about the cost Simon...ooh my giddy aunt!!!
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