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005 by aaron hughes1, on Flickr 004 by aaron hughes1, on Flickr Ive always wanted to do the Matchbox kit as an F2A and prompted to get a move on before the new Airfix kit comes out, here it is. Great kit really just need the ventral tank bulking out by adding a few mms of strip inbetween the halves and the ventral fins reducing in size. Rescribed and painted in Tamiya olive green with Humbroll silver (11 I think )with Xtradecal X72-089

A blast from the past which will hopefully soon be retired to the great display cabinet in the sky. This is the old Airfix Hurricane 1 kit (released in 1980 I think) built as a early production Mk1 of 111 Sqn in 1938. It was built in 1980 and has been one of my favourites, even though it is showing its age. The model had interior detail added, the lower fuselage strake removed and the wings were remodelled to represent the fabric winged version. This was done using thin plastic card for the gun bay access doors cut to shape and then applied to the win once all existing detail on the outer panels was removed. The plastic card was then rubbed down until only just proud of the surface. The ribs were lengths of stretched sprue that were cut to size and stuck to the wing. They were then sanded down to reduce their prominence. The prop came from and old Fury kit (too small) and the exhausts were reshaped kit items. The model was brush painted with Humbrol Authentics and the roundels were from Modeldecals with the serials etc. of an old Microscale sheet. No etch or resin aftermarket, because it did not exist at the time, just old fashioned modelling. Cannot wait to see the new Airfix kit.

I just saw this on a friend's Faceache page and so forgive me if this has been seen before. These photos are from a roll of film that was discovered unprocessed in Montana and the purchaser had the guts to process and see what happened. The photos speak for themselves

Hi all, Hasegawas USN Phantom @1/48 Scale. I think this kit was one of the first new range Phantoms that Hasegawa brought out...raised lines etc.

Dear Colleagues, Let me to introduce my latest work. This is the famous Russian fighter during the Second World War. It flew by Russian flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General (later) Vasily Golubev. The model is made from resin, painted with AKAN enamels. (All of small pictures are clickable).

It might appease your conscience to know that chocolate also counts towards your five a day, as cocoa beans must be vegetables. I also argue that as milk is merely grass that has been recycled through a cow, that is a vegetable as well, so chocolate counts twice.

just finished rebuilding the E100' sorry about the pics' i had the camera set to auto. regards oz!.

After finishing my Jug last week, I was looking round the workshop for a new project and decided that I'd be a good lad and finish off a few that had stalled close to the finish line as it were. The Gripen started as an OOB project, but I ended up adding a few other review items to the mix to spice it up, add some additional detail and generally showcase a few other bits and bobs. The list is fairly short, and included the resin AIM-9L Sidewinders and AIM-120Cs from Eduard, some brass AoA probes and pitot tubes from Master (48075 which doesn't seem to be listed on their site), and a NATO refueling probe tip, again from Master. paint was a mixture of Xtracrylic and Lifecolor, with a bit of Tamiya Smoke and NATO Brown used for the dirt. As usual with my stuff, it's not a show-winner, but I enjoyed the build, and am pretty satisfied with the 3' view Onto the pics: Hope you like, and the build thread can be found here if you have the patience

Finally I have finished this project, that I started three years ago. Today, most people who build Lansens would choose Tarangus' new 1/48 kit. But fools like me are still building this, more than thirty years old, 1/72 kit. I have used Maestro Models' photo-etched airbrakes, interior detalils, air brakes and ladder, plus Maestro's canopy and resin belly tank. The decals (apart from the "39") are RBD Decals' excellent decals. A new wheel well was scratch-built. I also made new panel lines and a few other modifications. I painted it with Gunze acrylics and used dry pastels for weathering, along with some chipping. This was one of the last Recce-Lansens in the Swedish Air Force, operating from F 11 wing, Nylöping about 1977. Perhaps an odd subject on this forum. But a beautiful aircraft that was used in Swedish Air Force for more than 40 years.

This is the next one to hit my workbench, the Airfix Lancaster II which has received great reviews. I remember Airfix magazine and the late great Alan W Hall. It was he who started me on the road to more serious modelling especially conversions and I remember trying the Lancaster II as he explained in the October 1968 issue. Rereading the article I can see there was more to it than was on the page and tools and techniques have moved on. Is anyone still using “plastic wood”, or carving pieces of balsa wood? My first attempt at the Lancaster II conversion has not survived so I was particularly pleased to see Airfix squaring the circle and providing a complete kit after all these years of waiting. Till the next. Mike

Trumpeter SeaHawk in markings of the Indian aircraft carrier Vikrant ( ex Hercules ). Mk.100 version - second part acquired by Indians from the German Air Force. All modeling services, forums and manual instruction indicate that the IN 238 was in the sky at the bottom. I will be insisting on a late painting - white / EDSG . In India, at the monuments and museums survived several Mk.100, and they are all in this painting , I have receipts . Theories allegedly Seahawki of the second batch were repainted to an earlier standard is not supported in the photos. Generally, IN 238 was the most deployed of all indian SeaHawks . Was involved in conflicts with Pakistan and during the war in 1971, fought hard in the bay of Bengal . Finally, as a gift to the government in Bonn landed in a German museum and now to have a look in Villingen -Schwenningen . Unfortunately in the original German painting . Model with Aires cockpit , landing gear CMK and scratching . Few photograf of construction at the end. I invite ...

Just finished this one today, the Airfix 1/72 Spitfire Mk.22, a nice little kit but a bit frustrating in places! as usual OOB, kit decals and Humbrol paints. I'm enjoying a few new tools from Airfix but with this one I found the join between part and sprue to be a tad thick and therefore a little annoying! IMAG1448 by [email protected], on Flickr

Hi Here is my latest hotel build, thrown together over a couple of evenings with minimal tools. I painted and decalled it when I got home. I did not apply any weathering, as I understand that these machines were kept very clean, and Meng's panel lines were visible enough for my taste! I love the lines of these aircraft, so decided to leave it in "clean" configuration. I "fluffed" the canopy fixing and masking, and the large tail decals need attention in places, so don't look too closely! The fit was not as good as I had expected (due to large and poorly-located sprue gates), but it turned out reasonably well for a quick build. Thanks for looking.

Hi everyone, After the last Revell Hawk I made, I swore I would never build another one. This is it.* Built using Eduard cockpit set with Flightpath access ladder and FOD covers. Painted in quite thick coats of enamel black and Zero Clear Coat varnish. Scratchbuilt RBF tags and vortex generators from litho plate and plastic card. Had a couple of near-disasters with the gloss coat, but it turned out alright, smooth and shiny! Decals and stencils were from Alley Cat and are excellent quality. *EDIT* forgot to mention CMK MB10 seats, great product! Oh yeah, and it was built from the horrible red plastic kit rather than the much nicer grey one recently released. Still, for £9.99, who's complaining? All the following pics are courtesy of the IPMS Farnborough website, taken by the photo genius that is Dr Flangemeister! The Flightpath access ladder was a work of art like all their stuff. Didn't quite measure the step intervals properly. Ah well. This was a commission build for my good mate Canberra Fan, well actually for his daughter , who usually works at Valley. It's gonna live in a box till delivery, the darn thing attracts dust like nothing I've ever seen! The price of a shiny finish I spose. Hope you like! Alan *with thanks to Spike Milligan!

This is my representation of Bell P400 Airacobra of 601 Squadron RAF as it might have looked at Duxford when the squadron were presented to the press to show off their new aircraft. Hence there were plenty of photographs taken at the time and not unexpectedly the aircraft look fairly clean. I’ve kept weathering and scratches and scrapes to a minimum as per the pictures. Of interest is that the photographs suggest that the aircraft had recently been resprayed but not very well. I didn’t want to go overboard in that respect as it would look like sloppy painting on the model. As for the kit the only comments to make are that the trailing edges of wings and rudder need attention as they are far too thick. The instructions are clear and the number of parts left over will stock the spares box. Hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Not finished in time for the FAA GB here is my Sea Hawk. Not the best of kits and not my best work but I'm fairly happy with it:- ) Thanks for looking

Revell/Zvezda Mi-8 Hip finished as an East German aircraft and sprayed using Revell Aqua Colors. Hip Finished (2) by Mr_Nemo1888, on Flickr Hip Finished (6) by Mr_Nemo1888, on Flickr

The radio room is now complete. The kit parts needed a little modification, and this started with the rear radio room bulkhead that divides the radio area and the rear fuselage where the ball turret and waist gunners are situated. HK have moulded the ball turret ammunition boxes as part of the radio room bulkhead, but in reality this wasn't the case. Earlier model B-17s had their ammo stored in the turret itself, and later models of the ball turret had the ammo boxes on the turret itself, to enable the ball to rotate freely without the ammunition chutes getting tangled, as they would have done with the HK rendition... The deep apertures on the bulkhead also need filling - this forms the back of the radio stack moulding on the kit and isn't present on the real aircraft: My solution - grind off the ammo boxes and fill the apertures with thin plastic card and replace the ribs with Evergreen strip: I've also added the hinges and handle that were missing from the kit parts. This is far more representative of the real aircraft. Here are the parts painted up. The step on the forward floor of the radio room isn't present on the real aircraft, but HK have moulded one here as the beefy wing spars needed to support the model run beneath this - I didn't want to remove and modify this area as I don't want to weaken the model. Plus this is an 'almost' OOB build... The B-17 also has a bomb strike camera under the radio room floor and this was accessed by a large panel in the floor - this wasn't present in the HK it so I simply added this from thin card. Again I've painted the floors bronze green and added the rubber anti-slip mats from fine sandpaper - I'm still not convinced the floors were left in bare wood due to the slip hazard: And here are the parts dry fitted to give an idea of what it'll look like when peering in the radio room top hatch. I've also removed the mount for the radio operator's gun as I'm building a late war B-17G and the gun was removed in mid-1944 as it had an ineffective field of fire and the position was obsolete. I'll either have to put a clear patch over the perspex or leave it off altogether - I am leaning towards the latter as it'll show off more of the interior detail: All that's been done here is some fine brush work - the detail comes to life with a light dry brushing of Xtracolour Aluminium and the beauty of the HK moulds can be appreciated. One final modification I made was the seating in the radio room. The instructions don't mention a seat for the radio operator at all, so added the supports from spares in the kit - one for the radio operator himself and another for an auxiliary seat which was often found in this area. The seats themselves will be added when I've got a seat belt set, and will again come from spare parts supplied in the kit. Next job will be the forward fuselage where the Navigator and Bombardier were stationed. Until next time Tom

Hello Procopius First let me apologise for the delay in replying. Basically it as the gents have mentioned, The F-4 was (is) awesome, I only know the aircraft from working very close to / with it on the ground (deck), how close.... For a waist cat launch the deck crew were about 25 feet from the a/c in full reheat (about 41000lb thrust), the noise would go right through you. The a/c would be around 23 tons weight, and the waist cat was 75 feet long, it would take 2.5 seconds to cover that distance. The Phantom usually being heaver the the Bucc's would use the waist cat, however they could and regularly used the bow cat. As with all a/c it's the crew who make or brake it, to land a Phantom on the Ark the pilot had a runway area of about 600 feet x 65 feet, (Flight Deck was 804 x 171 feet overall) it never failed to impress me how they did it. See the link below, it might help explain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv8prm4mGEQ The clip below has had it's sound track remover (miserable bu**ers) it shows a launch sequence again it might help explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ThKrI3dG8 I loved being on the Ark, it felt like you were at the sharp end all the time. 1973 (age almost 17) part of the flight deck crew photo 1978 on deck in the sun. Hope this all helped (sorry if I hi-jacked the original thread) RR

In the Double Ugly British Phantoms volume 1, there's a photo of a RAF FG1 with the tail paint peeling to show the red of 892's fin marking.

Love the pre war USAAC scheme. Has an innocence about it, when you know what was to come.

Its a kind of ying / yang thing I have got going. The bad one actually contains cherry tomatoes and blueberries (and half a pork pie, seriously undermining my argument...) so its not that bad really and I should easily get my five a day tomorrow I would also like to point out that my crisps are vegetables cooked in vegetable oil so are practically a health food.

The meeting did not drag on too long and I did get some more done. In addition to the two front fasteners, there are four others on the lower collars. Using my reference photos I marked the front two out but I could not find a good picture of the rear ones. I made a stab at where the rearmost one should be and decided that the second from the back should be equidistant between that and the next one along. I used thin masking tape to measure the length of line: I then straightened this out and marked the mid point: I repositioned the tape back on the collar and marked out accordingly: The marks were then centre punched and drilled in the usual fashion: I have not done the rear hole as the collar may required a little trimming when test fitted. One of the chaps on the committee is a true electronic genius (I am only a rank armature). He had read some of this thread and spotted that I was not too happy with the rapid flash rate of my electronic module. He said that if I took along the circuit diagram he could show me what to change to reduce the flash rate. He indicated these two resistors which if increased to 100K Ohms would approximately slow the flash rate down by a factor of ten. This could then be tweeked with parallel resistors until the desired rate was obtained: This could be a good sub-project for the weekend. How cool is that? I also made my lunchbox for work tomorrow. It is very difficult for a mere salad to score well on the Nigey rating scale. I have made hundreds of recipes over the years as they are good lunchbox fodder but very, very few have scored a ten; this is one of them. It is a salad containing pine nuts, Pecorino cheese, green grapes and not much else but it is delicious. Here I have toasted the pine nuts and put the salad leaves in the box and am adding shavings of Pecorino: Here is the finished salad with grapes and pine nuts added along with the special dressing: It will be dressed and mixed when ready for consumption. Here is my full array of lunchbox treats: That should keep me alive for a bit longer. I will post the full recipe tomorrow in Nigel's Nosh, with all the proper cross linkages. Like so: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234948677-nigels-nosh/page-6 I am still working away on the collar fitting issues but will finish here for the evening. Bye for now, Nigel

Ok ok....... So fighter was maybe the wrong word to use, I didn't realise you lot was gonna get as anal as this lol, So let's add trainers, and RN to the list, they will end up in the collection anyways

LS-8T Revell 1/32

It's the attack of the Nazi salt shaker!

When I was born, the phantom wasn't even on the drawing board! , however that did mean that I was able to see, and enjoy, the Phantom period from beginning to end.

Another one finished... The Kfir from Kinetic 1/48 is a very nice model, good fitting and details, I just add a Master Model Metal Pitot tube and FCM decals for Ecuatorian Air Force. Thanks to my Friend Vladimir Ulianov that provide me a deep research material for this build. Hope you enjoy... cheers,

Hi here is my latest model. its the revell sea king mk41 converted to HAR3. Great kit went together really well. all the parts are in the kit to make it a HAR3A. Used airwaves etching for aerials and bits, scratchbuilt the camera pod on the side of the fuselage. all hand painted. Masked the rear blades and the black area on the fuselage. Used the xtradecal anniversary set for the main decals and the airfix decals for the stencils sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr sea king har3a by gmsphoto1, on Flickr Graeme

For the love of god, why didn't that damned Dalek just fire.....He has Sylvester McCoy square in his sights so what does he do? He rants until the theme music runs and we all know what that means......Another bloody episode with Sylvester McCoy in it!

It's this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob/E-Systems/AlliedSignal_Egrett Cool looking plane! I also hope to see a vast selection of aviation photos very soon?

AH, of course - I will pop him a mess if the man is not too busy.. For some reason I have been ignoring this little detail for some time.. Should be a good boy and check out what I am modelling.. I just built an example of Johnnie Johnson´s Mk. Vb - the one he flew during Operation Jubilee (EP251) which according to "Spitfire 70" from Flypast Special was built at Castle Bromwhich. It was the 4th order (iirc) and was laid in August -41. No idea when the aircraft was built though..

Sent you a PM with the instructions such as they are attached..............Smudge

Simply stunning!

Liking that a lot!

And now for something completely different: 1/48 Bristol 188 and of course, the 1/48 Vulcan! ;^P Regards, Robert

Not all "fighters" EE Lightning - I would wait for the new Airfix one Hawker hunter - revell Hunter 6 and 9 are great models Buccaneer - aifix Jaguar - I know hasegawa do one. Harrier - New airfix ones Hawk - airfix Tornado - Hasegawa do a nice GR.1, airfix for F.2? Euro fighter - Hasgeawa ones nice but expensive, revell ones also very good. Phantom - Fujimi is the best, matachbox builds up well. F-86 Sabre - Fujimi, airfix Javelin - airfix/heller Meteor - MPM cheaper in an airfix box or hannants box if you can find them for MK8 or PR9 Meteor - MK4 MPM or cheaper in the revell box. Meteor - T7 xtrakit or Matchbox Meteor - Night fighter - Matchbox Vampire -Airfix/heller Mk5, Also T11 some new tools comming from MPM Supermarine swift - xtrakit Gnat - airfix new tool Sentinel R1 - Broplan Nimrod - airfix C-17 - Revell Maybe some help instead of trying to define a fighter? Julien

Meanwhile, in FSB..... W

Came out very nice,great job

Was also at Leuchars in the late 80's with the 3 sqns's of tooms. Remember sitting in a landie on the ORP, waiting to pick the brake chutes up that the planes used. Bl***y eejits were able to hit the wagon with the shackle. Leuchars also still has a red line silhouette aircraft carrier on the main pan.

Very nice!

As a Russian history expert once told me, never underestimate the importance of vodka

(i was still in nappies when were operational) Now I feel old... RR

Lovely looking Enterprise!

Thanks ... next :-)

..not for me either ..another 110 modeller with far too many Eduard 110s already in the stash....

And why not? You could equally say that about the Javelin or Valiant or Lightning (or a good number of other subjects...........!!). Besides, the proper Phantom is about the only version not produced about a zillion times already. You can't have a complete Phantom collection without one.

I always find it difficult to understand why all the Halifax kits have been done as specific versions when a little better research and mould breakdown for alternative sprues would allow all versions to be done from one basic wing and fuselage. If they had just left off the engine to wing fairings for a start with separate wing tips and nose and leave out any contentious panel lines for the modeller to add if he's knowledgeable or bothered enough. Separate nose, nacelle and tail sprues would see a lot of happy modellers. John

My Airfix Do17 is earmarked for canarding so I'll be needing a nice new one for a real world build. Paul Harrison

Thanks Bill. Hope that's a big bag of popcorn 'cause this might take a while... Both main gear bays are now done so here's a photo while the glue dries ready for painting;