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  1. Hi, This is my latest build, a RNoAF F-16 MLU. I used the Eduard NATO Falcons kit, i.e. Kinetic, together with decals from Vingtor and a PJ pilot in the office. As Eduard is adding resin and PE to the Kinetic kit the build is more or less OOB, just some wiring added. I have added a decent amount of weapons from the kit and Hasegawas Weapons set to make it look like pictures that I found on the web taken at Souda Bay, Crete, during the Libya Air War. I always wanted to make a Norwegian F-16, but it is rather difficult to get all over one tone grey schemes to come alive but I gave it a try. She is painted with Gunze and Aclad II where needed. Hope you like it Cheers /Fred
    5 points
  2. Hi. Heres the QE with artwox deck and WEM PE, plus a few extra bits. Plus a couple of close ups. Hope you like. Cheers foxy
    4 points
  3. While I have not made much this year, here are a couple from my shelf that were completed earlier in the year. Truth be told both were 95 % complete for a year or so and just needed a few bits'n'bobs to finish them off. The first is a Hobbycraft Sabre picked up for next to nothing at Tates Toy Kingdom on Pakington Street in Geelong almost 10 years ago. Brush painted with Tamiya acrylics, kit decals used (although they weren't great).
    3 points
  4. Hi, This is my attempt at Meteor NF14 WS840 'H' Hotel of 264 Squadron. It is the Xtrakit in 1/72 scale. This model seemed to fight me all the way for some reason and more than once it nearly took an early flight into the bin..... so much so I was just glad to get it done. Anyway, here it is.... Cheers, Russ
    3 points
  5. Not fully satisfied with the painting I've done some rework, sanded the registrations off and resprayed white in that area, then using the Frisket Film masks this time, despite the fiddlyness of them. Took several attempts to get them in place, good job I cut several copies!, once in place I gave them a thin coat of white to seal the edges and left it to dry, then sprayed the red on top, left a couple of days to dry. Used another Frisket Film mask for the underwing registration, this one went into place first time, Have I got this sussed or was it luck? Maybe 50:50 Gave it 2 coats of gloss black Time to go to work, Thanks for looking Mark
    3 points
  6. I don't know if you guys seen this built model yet, so I though I share a link to a truly inspirational built model... http://www.network54.com/Forum/110741/message/1383762974/summer+in+bastia Have fun and I hope the mod don't mind me posting links of other modeling sites Mike
    2 points
  7. This is the ancient Aurora kit, re-issued by Monogram in the 90s. It's actually pretty good plastic, with plenty of detail to work with. The opening doors, bonnet and boot bring their own issues, but the end result is rather nice compared to today's buttoned-up kerbside kits with aerodynamic under trays. As you can see, there's a fair bit of work to fine-tune the kit into a more accurate representation of the original classic, which is a truly beautiful, and very purposeful looking GT car. The windscreen is still not right -- it should be more upright, and the base is much more semi-circular, not the large rectangular cut-out Aurora gave us. Personally, I think all the shape issues in this area come from placing the firewall to make room for the operating door hinges, which mean that it's too far forward. The engine is nice, and a bit of time with wiring pays big dividends. Many thanks to Skip Jordan who has been nudging me to give this a try for a couple of years, provided invaluable reference resources, and acted as chief cheerleader along the way. I'm now going to go away and build something from a state of the art kit, out of the box, before I even THINK about tackling the Singer 911 kit-bash... bestest, M.
    2 points
  8. Hi all thought i would post some pics of the completed Bruma yacht by Mantua (great kit by the way) she is plank on frame construction with laser cut parts so she fits together well easy build took about 3 months. there is one tip i would give people the kit comes with enough planking to build her in lime wood or balsa i stupidly decided to do the first planking in balsa (as its easier to sand and shape then do the second planking in lime as its harder and stronger)DONT DO IT all looked good when i took the pins out next morning everywhere i had sanded the balsa thin the lime had sprung (being no as pliable as the balsa) had to strip the whole lot off and start again with the lime (lucky the kit comes with plenty of planking) so lesson learned only use the same wood for planking both skins. I did use a bit of artistic license she is supposed to be all white but after the trouble i had with the planking i thought i would show it. so there she is what do you think.
    2 points
  9. this is the Acadeny kit, foiled, with resin wheels, wheelwells, gunpack and seat, and pe cockpit, engine and other bits meant for the eduard kit squished into it, also has metal legs and pitot and uses Begemot decals and stencils. all panel lines and rivets cut through, ( a week of my life I will not miss ), so a Lifecolour wash and artist ink would take. all protected with Alclad light sheen. As a ground trainer I have no idea if it was flown or even airworthy (i dont really care either :-P ) but it would have been clambered and rained all over. I wont bore you with any more details. There are more(and larger) pics available if you click them on my Flikr account. My version of pop stars - the rivals interceptor style. Just shows what a magnificent brute the Lightning was <3
    2 points
  10. Hi Everyone, well after a long absence im finally back modelling again, at the recent SMW Show I was knocked out by the HMV Stand with there paper ships(as some of you will have seen by my thread in another part here), so after some deliberation I went ahead an ordered the supply ship. This arrived in record time from Germany, the model consists of over 32 sheets of printed parts, 30 sheets of insructions and I also ordered the laser cut set for it as well, this makes a grand total of over 7000 parts,all of which have to be cut and folded I have been working on it for the past two weeks doing just a bit at a time, so progress is going to be very slow, as apart from the amount of parts all the instructions are in german. The Hull is built virtually as a real ship, and the parts fit really well, the finished model will be just over 27 inches long so not a small kit, so here are a couple of photos of where im at, sorry there are not more of the hull build ,but I only got my new camera yesterday, so hope you like it so far. More when I have something more to show, Dave
    2 points
  11. Personally Im waiting to see if Terrain Safe, the OP, gets a reply to his email from the editor. We've had, and I've said my bit on, the current mags' quality and qualities. I think the reply, if its forthcoming, and what it says will be at the crux here. Jonners, maintaining an open mind ( not hard when you've an empty head)
    2 points
  12. The 'damaged' hull was made solely of paint and pastel chalk powder, I dared not trying to produce dents and bruises on the hull side.
    2 points
  13. The rather heavy weathering is part of the 'what-if' story. If interested, please find the rest in the what-if section.
    2 points
  14. Hi yes I think the neighbors might well think I am mad as will likely the Cessna that flying over at the time and can be seen in the last pic... I will admit to being a big child yes I have picked them up and made the noise I have even gone to the lengths of making a big Airfix one with lights and sounds that's how tapped I am about Vulcan's.... As for the Neighbors its delightful entertainment listening to the arguments they have 24/7 when making models.. at least I think they are arguing ! If they are not arguing the baby is crying and if that's not having a paragraph to its self their chickens like to practice their singing... All good stuff. I just wish I had an Olympus Engine in the cage down the garden to go and start up when I felt like it. The world would seem a better place then. Cheers Rob
    2 points
  15. All, After a long hiatus , I completed this model .I wanted to build this model and pose this inflight. This build was mostly OOB except some styrene sheet bits addition to cover the wheel well and the seated pilot. Duplicated the camo scheme and decals Cam Ranh Bay Soviet airforce unit marking of Dolphin. Flogger experts please let me know if I used the right variant for this marking. Used photoshop to remove the handle from the inflight pictures. Please let me know how you like it Regards Vivek
    2 points
  16. Lower or Jackyard fitted out with jackstay, stuns'l irons and raised then lifts and braces, and before I forgot it completly the main topmast stay... busy. There's a one and a half hour lag between getting a fire going downstairs in the barn and when my 'lair' gets warm enough to work in. The stove really eats into our firewood supply too! Whinge moan. So here are the pics. There are a lot of blocks, most of which I have to make as the commercially avaible stuff isn't really small enough...So you drill lots of holes in a 2mm strip of wood and then start carving blocks... I should add I spent a good few hours dismantling my dremel 'work station' and cutting away bits of plastic and tightening screws before it would drill a truly vertical hole...mutter grumble plastic rubbish.The ones in the pic were done (and rejected) before that... Lots of belaying pins - these are commercially available brass ones, 5mm long - just about OK. The real fun bit is making little coils of rope for them...a real test of resolve. The lower fore yard. Slightly wobbly jack stay...won't be noticible with a sail laced to it, I hope. I find I'm working with ever finer threads as some of the lines in real life would only be about 15mm diameter.... My old flytying vise comes in really handy for doing fiddly bits of lashing etc. - that's a brace pendant in the picture. Here she is at the end of todays session... still a long way to go. Ta for looking.
    2 points
  17. Hi Here is my next one, The Spitfire MkIXc From Eduard... Decals Xtradecal... I used Gunze Acrylics ....end put on Brassin wheels from Eduard to.... This is the MJ216 Spitfire MkIXc from the Empire Flying School based at Hullavington between 1946 and 1949... I'm wondering about the serial numbers, Xtradecal don't have it one decals sheet...is that because the plane don't have it in real ? ...if anyone know more about that.... Cheers Yoyoal.
    2 points
  18. Look what's back on the bench..
    2 points
  19. Well have been a bit busy at home this week, but me misses has some very good idea's for the hammocks seadog mate. Heres some more on the progress so far. The stern netting from scalewarship fixed. The centre netting and railings inposition. Now for the foreward netting I have glued some plastic strips to secure the netting. Next is an overall picture showing some little of the rigging started. As we are coming nearer to the dreaded day ' for some', it will be a belayed time for this project, but hope to show more soon. Cheers foxy
    2 points
  20. Hi all, this is the 3rd testshot built model. As the upper half is only loosely attached to the bottom (not cemented in order to keep the interior visible) there is some slight gap between the fuselage halves. No need for your worries when assembling the model properly with either plastic or super-glue. The clear parts are made from ugly bluish rubber-like stuff, again, youĀ“ll get correct crystal clear parts in the kit.
    2 points
  21. Norman Wilkinson, I believe, was responsible for 'razzle-dazzle'. There was a fairly recent book, "Churchill's Wizards", by Nicholas Rankin that covered British military deception 1914-45 and was a good read. The idea was not to conceal but to deceive: "The object of camouflage is rather to give the impression that your head is where your stern is", John.
    2 points
  22. If you can paint an engine... I expect your figures to have individual teeth and scratch build zippers.
    2 points
  23. This has been an extraordinary build. Why some magazine would not run a featured article on this I do not know. Perused a couple of them today and your quality to detail far outshines the ones in the mags. Great build.
    2 points
  24. I haven't updated this thread for a week or two because I have slowly been working through the scratch-building of the main bomb-bay and it has taken a while! Here is the blank canvass I had to start with - the roof structure of the bay was already in place as this forms the main cabin floor: Each individual part of the bay's structure was carefully measured and cut t size from plastic card; special attention was paid to keeping all of the cross members and longerons the exact same depth to ensure everything had a nice and uniform look to it: They were then added to the bay piece by piece, built up slowly over many evenings: Here is this process in progress - the centre section is complete here with its deeper crossmembers: And after a few evenings' work, the bay was complete: If the truth be known some of the lightening holes are probably a little large in places and no doubt there's a detail or two missing, but to my non-expert eye it looks busy enough and passable. Later on I'll no doubt add a few more fine detail parts here and there, but for now I'm sick of the sight of plastic card and my fingers are sore from cutting literally hundreds of pieces to the correct size and shape! The wing bomb-cells will get the same treatment now, but they are far less complex and shouldn't take anywhere near as long... he says hopefully Until next time... Tom
    2 points
  25. Here is the first one i found. She's a fair bit further on now than what this pic shows
    2 points
  26. First one has to be the glider tug from RNAS Fulmar (Lossiemouth) for me. My dad told me a story of one flight in it over Bennachie heading back to base in a stiff headwind. As he climbed to clear the hill he looked down on the peak then pressed on. A few minutes later he looked back over the side to see he was still over the peak. Indicated airspeed matched to headwind speed equalled hover. He still has the prop hub with a clock in the centre after a bad landing shattered the blades and he was 'presented' the remains as a memento of the incident.
    2 points
  27. This Airfix kit is not easy... I packed into it NeOmega resin cockpit - fit not so bad actually. Decals are from Model Alliance sheet for 41 Squadron, Coltishall 2005. Used also Paragon wheels and exhausts nozzles ( excellent stuff, I need it for my next Jaguar BTW... ) Time for photos:
    1 point
  28. Revell 1:72 BV-222 V-2. RAF scheme. One of two "Captured" at end of war and tested by both RAF and USAF. Ours was tested by Eric "Winkle" Brown as written in his biography. I did a complete two tone splinter followed by an overall white which unfortunately all but obscures the splinter!!! This is a cracking kit, the fit is amazing and i understand Revell are 're releasing it. Thanks for the kit Andy.
    1 point
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  30. Hi All, This is my Hasegawa F-4J Phantom II. I did originally buy this plane with the intention of doing a F-4S with Ferris Camouflage, but when I realised that the wing slats were totally different I rethought my plan of attack. The F-4 is quite possibly my favourite aircraft, and I remember seeing this particular colour scheme in a book I had as a child. I can't quite recall which brand the decals were, but they were excellent. Everything else on this build is out of the box. Unfortunately I sold this model before moving overseas. I was going to load it up with Mk. 82s but seeing I was selling it I thought I would rather save the TERs for my A-7 project! Thanks for looking. Now to do that F-4S...
    1 point
  31. Now you're talking! I've been waiting for a update on this one and wasn't disappointed, well done! /Erik
    1 point
  32. No problem. I await your results with interest. Cheers, Tom.
    1 point
  33. That's where i've seen them, thanks Jens. Antony
    1 point
  34. F-16.net is probably the best F-16 www out there, unless Lockheed have one hidden away some place. Regards, Gerard
    1 point
  35. it seems that it fits very well... next photos later
    1 point
  36. Morticia: Ce que tu racontes, Willis ? Gomez: Tish! That's French! Bill, whose preferred version of "The Odyssey" is "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?"
    1 point
  37. That's my kind of modelling! I love weekend builds and look forward to seeing this one develop because I have a couple of RAF/QATAR ones picked up for a song recently.
    1 point
  38. 3rd testshots of the modelĀ“s parts. Still not 100% perfect, but already the best stuff ever produced by our company.
    1 point
  39. Thanks for the comments all, much appreciated A couple of updates as the decals go on.. The decals are very nice indeed - I masked and sprayed the wing stripes, but tbh, I wish I'd used the kit decals now - I think they would have been better.. Thanks, Guy
    1 point
  40. GS Hypo cement is good, won't fog like CA and dries completely clear - it is stringy though.
    1 point
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  42. Here's my attempt at the 1:350 Academy HMS Warspite. She's always been one of my favourates, ever since building the old 1:600 Airfix kit as a youngster (I still remember the box art, and impressive look of the ship), I also got hold of the 'Ensign 4' Queen Elizabeth class many years ago and always admired this classic class, and recently after reading up on Warspite's history have been even more impressed with what this mighty capital ship acheived. I managed to get hold of an 'Anatomy of the ship' book for Warspite which was a great reference but also made fascinating reading, and also read Ian Ballyntine's 'Warspite', which is also a very good read. I've gone for her 1942 stint in the East Indies with the early two tone camoflage, which was post Puget Sound refit, but needed minor back-dating from the kit's 1943 appearance mostly by omitting certain 20mm mounts. The kit was bought at SMW (Telford) along with what was then the new Pontos full set of wooden deck, complete photo etch and various resin replacement parts. The build went well, lots of additional time required for all the extras in the Pontos set but well worth it, and finished with a bit of time spent weathering and adding L'Arsenal resin crew figures. She took around 12 months of slow but steady building, but overall I enjoyed building her.
    1 point
  43. Hello all, here is my take on the Airfix Type 45 Destroyer. I had an easy job deciding which name to choose, I did not want to do the obvious (Dragon art, Daring), so as I got it as a Christmas present in the Diamond Jubilee year, Diamond it was! It was a very enjoyable build, I learnt some new tricks, but my biggest issue was building the model out of sequence. I had a number of reasons for doing this; I had test fitted the hull sides and found them to be quite flexible, and I felt that trying to add them to an almost completed deck and superstucture would be courting issues. I also thought that once the superstructure was built up it would be awkward to paint with a brush, so I prepainted a lot of parts. What I forgot though was that the sides of the ship are sloped inwards towards the top, and various bulkheads needed slotting in below the top of the sides (if you know what I mean!) and were consequently wider than the opening. The final reason was that as I was adding photoetch, I did not want to mangle it up due to misplaced fingers and thumbs whilst trying to fit the hull sides! I had a few warnings from fellow BM'ers about build issues and was guided to various sites, so, forewarned, I was able to overcome some of the fit issues others had encountered (thanks to all who warned me). However, I did not manage to get all joint lines tidied up by a long chalk. If I were to do this again, I would go by the instruction sequence, it would give a greater chance of having the joins cleaned up properly. One thing that must be done on this ship for anyone building it:- get rid of the lugs at the bottom of the superstructure slabs that fit to the sides on the deck. I found that the lugs were way too big, and the parts leaned outwards giving the impression of being more like a tulip than a ship! They fitted easily enough without the tabs. The etch set from White Ensign was great, the instructions clear enough for me, but I did find a couple of railings that were not mentioned via illustration where they should go. They were for vent superstructure platforms. A bit of checking of images on the net showed that these platforms are on some of the Type 45's and not others, and I also found a couple of pics of Diamond with and without the platforms. Currently, my version is in the 'without' stage. Enough chat, here are some photographs: The biggest area that I was worried about was getting the radar arrays on both masts right, especially on the foremast. It was very tricky getting them square in front-on view and when looked at from above. Oh, and getting the RHIB mounted properly on its etched slings. I had fun with this one, but I know that there are areas I could improve on if I revisited one day. Thanks for looking, Kind regards, Ray
    1 point
  44. Some "nearly finished" pics of the PE and the now complete stand. I sprayed a bit of black primer on the PE nameplate, then sanded it off with some sponges, until it was ultra-shiny. Then I coated it with Klear to keep the shine. Looks alright I've also re-painted the hangar doors a lighter shade, as the painting instructions seem wrong here, suggesting they're the same color as the deck, although it could just be a trick of the closely spaced horizontal lines on the diagram. Next job is to build & paint the helos, and add some figures here & there to give it a bit of life
    1 point
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