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TORNADO GR1 17 SQUADRON RAF BRUGGEN REVELL 1/32 After being brain washed completely by club mate & Tornado Sig leader Airfix Andy, I got the bug to build one of these beasts. Picked up last year (before the re-release) came complete with a genuine Pargon resin flap kit. Also harmed in the making was the Aries cockpit set (lovely piece & fit) some Aries cans & a metal pitot tube. I decided to re-scribe the sides of the rear fuselage, front under nose & intake tops using some 32nd scale drawings as the kit is strangely lacking any detail in those areas. Main wheel wells had some improvements done, all oleo legs were detailed & strengthened as well as the front being shortened some what. Canopy was detailed internally with mechanism & demister pipes & modified on the outside to improve side shape. Other refinements were to area below front canopy on anti glare panel, shortening of the front "antenna" thing on the tail, adding of the APU & making longer ram for the canopy prop so it opens higher. Finished with Vallejo paints and a mixture of kit & Xtradecals in 17 Squadrons colours. As always I build m models to convey the look & feel of the subject but don't profess it to have nailed on accuracy. Pleased to pick up a highly commended for it in the 1/32 & above class at the Northern scale show the other week, hope you like her. Cheers Mac l [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url]

After a dog fight over the English Channel, Squadron Leader Rif Raf finally puts one over on his arch enemy, Luftwaffel Fighter Ace Weiner Moldy. After belly landing in a field, Rif Raf gives a victory fly past & waves his German comrade a gesture of er.............."goodwill" Finally got round to grabbing a few piccy's. Built this pair of Chrissy pressies last year as my "escape build" when I needed to get away from more serious modeling matters. Great little kits that use the same basic fuselage with different tails, wings, props etc.Scratch built the wheels up on the Spit & fitted some dummy blanks under the 109 as its almost impossible to see under the wings, I re-modeled the exhausts etc on the 109 & decided not use the Super charger that comes with kit, drilling some gun ports instead.109 decals are as the kit apart from the swastikas, Spit Roundels were masked & painted on upper wings & fuselage as I didn't have any spares of the size. Got an old school van on my bench to do & I'm after the Barons Funfdecker or Lucky Pierre if I can lay my hands on them unbuilt or otherwise. Anyway on with the pics. Cheers Mac [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url] [/url]

Built OOB, rigged with Ethicon stainless steel and painted in MM enamels. All decals are from the kit. [/url

Latest of the bench. This is the standard Hasegawa kit with the Airways conversion. Not as bad a kit as some people make out. Something a bit different. I tried to get the importers of Hasegawa to sell me a decal sheet so that I could get the stencils and black areas behind the exhausts, but no luck there. So had to be made up by hand. Not totally accurate I know, as I found that every aircraft seems different. Please feel free to make comments ...good or bad. Edit. Just noticed I have not put the windscreen wipers on .... I have now .

Hey folks! A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be given a friends, Dad's of old, dirty but mostly complete 1/72 built kits that he didnt have enough room for anymore. One of them was a Blenheim, after alot of research I figured it was a Mk.1 which was possibly made by FROG which had the remains of a wasps nest all over and inside it. Here is a pic of how it looked when I got it: Anyway after being stripped, soaked and washed down I rebuilt it, applied more decals and tried a matt clear coat which dried cloudy so I applied pearl clear and she came out looking alot better than I expected! So without further ado here she is: C&c welcome as always!

Just finished this one. 1/48 Hobby Boss A-6E built OOB. I used a variety of paints and the decals are from Afterburner. I used Ammo by Mig products to weather it

I wanted to play with some Precision Ice and Snow before using it in a diorama that is probably more ambitious than my skills will allow. Some pictures on the interweb of HMS Tireless in the Arctic ice gave me the inspiration to butcher Airfix's Trafalgar Class sub, and experiment with a few different icy textures. Figures are from WEM, which I tried to bulk out a bit with PVA, but still look very flat. It was a fun little project, so I hope you enjoy a slightly different presentation of a modern sub. Cheers, Paul

Hello friends Back with another British aircraft, the Hurricane Mark I. This is the new Airfix kit, and what as surprise it was when i start working on it, a really good kit, recomended! I hope you like it, thank you for looking Best regards from Portugal Vitor Costa

Hi everybody! This is my next model. I chose the color scheme of this legendary aircraft, which refers to the period of German troops landing on the Greek island of Crete in May 1941. The operation called "Mercury". Because I did not have ready decals - all the markings and letter codes was made from paint using airbrush.

Well after a few weeks I finally finished this little bundle of fun. Having started it straight after the Airfix F.2, it was a bit of a shock to the system to have to do some modelling with it again! But anyways.... It was finished in Alclad again, with Humbrol paints here and there. I didn't add anything except some yellow trim around the canopy. I went with the kit decals, produced by Eduard they are very thin but superb...apart from the spelling department.."keep clean of intakes". I was half tempted to get another sheet with more choices but I was put off by the fact I'd have to get another sheet with the stencilling on, so I didn't bother...which was actually a bad move as the instructions weren't that great on stencil placement, plus there were indications for some that weren't even on the sheet! Maybe when I get the T.5 I'll invest in some... It went together fairly well, the odd bit of filler here and there, mostly around the nose and resin jet pipes . There was no one-piece intake ring so you have to be careful with scalpel blades and such. I decided also to leave any missiles off as the ones included are not that great, but there are decals included for them which could be used on another good set. The etched parts which go on last were a bit fun...if they ping out of the tweezers that's it, they're history. One curious addition was what looks like a small pitot behind the aerials. I couldn't find any ref pics that showed it, just a couple of maybes, so I put it on anyway, but it may be wrong. The Alclad was great to work with again, but when I do the T.5 I'll do it in grey or camo, cos I'd like to portray that weathered too; probably leave the Alclad til I do an F.1. I added two Airfix Hawk pilots, changing their positions and colours a little to add some variety And here we have my English Electrics! All I need now is a 1/72 cooker and loco

I recently managed to finish this one ,was 1 of 2 but had a disaster with the other and was beyond saving. I did start this 1 long time go and had some fit issues, and few bits got lost and broken, I gave up and it went into the pile for spares, but managed to replace parts and tried to start again and did have some major fit issues I stuck at it. I'm not 100% happy as missed some bits with filler but happy with the paint etc. hope all enjoy comments welcome its done in the experimental peanut 2 scheme as tried back in the 80's

I built this some years ago; it was one of the first half dozen kits I did after taking up the hobby again. I had seen the kit numerous times on the shelf of my local shop while bringing my daughter in for school project supplies, and as one of my youthful desires was to have made a Roc out of the then current frog Skua, I always gave it a good looking over, and finally took it home. When I opened it, I had no idea what I was getting into, but not much by way of standards to compare it to, either, and thought it a fun time, though I thought using photo-etch for the part of the wing where the landing gear would retract was odd and wholly unworkable, and I made my own pieces out of plastic sheet for that. Interior and bomb racks i scratched, and I vaguely recall a lot of fiddling with the undercarriage elements, too. A few weeks ago I took it off the shelves and gave it a bit of a dusting, and thought I still rather liked it,. So after I made a few small repairs (antennae and pitot tube, that sort of thing), wife took a few photos, and here the old girl is.....

This is the old Tamiya kit, built about 10 years ago. I went for the clean look on this, no weathering, just a teensy bit of drybrushing to highlight the details. Odd.

I got talking to Mel at S & M models at the Milton Keynes show about his Oldmodels decals and before I knew what had happened I'd bought a Viscount. Realising that I really wanted to do an old Northeast machine from my years watching planes at LBA I found myself making my first airliner for 20 plus years. I take my hat off to the chaps and chappesses who do this as a regular thing the skills needed differ from making military aircraft and certainly from mine. However she looks ok from 'spotting distance'. Decals by Two six Happy memories hanks for looking.

Made for a GB elsewhere, this is Wolfpack's new 1/48 T-38A Talon. Built as it came out of the box, it's a pretty decent kit but has the odd fit issue and some vague instructions in places. Finished as N864NA of NASA, it was painted with a Humbrol acrylic spray and final coat of Halfords Appliance white. The decals are very nice and go on beautifully.

Well, I was talking to my mate Chris yesterday and the subject of the BV 141 came up, with Chris saying he'd quite like a 1:48 one, shame there isn't one. Aha, I said, I think about 12 -15 years ago I built one. An HiPM kit if I remember correctly, It's in a box somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. So here is an 'oldie' from my collection, built somewhere around the year 2000. As I remember the cockpit 'nacelle' halves were moulded in clear plastic, and there was a fair bit of resin & etch in the kit. So this is what I found, still undamged after all these years; It's a big ol' bird, Fw-190 for comparison; Odd looking thing isn't it Cheers John

To get the bonnet assembly to fit on the chassis I had to sand a rebate step at the bottom of the radiator: I then did a fit check with the exhaust to see where a hole had to be drilled in the new filler: Here it is: You may ask why I didn't just cut off the exhaust pipe - it is all very hidden under there. Well I just felt this gave a neater solution. I then smoothed over the bonnet filler from my pot of Squadron green stuff (and added some thinners to it as it was starting to dry out). A bit unnecessary but it will make me feel better: I then tidied up the A pillars: I think I need to extend the steering column so I will look at that next.

See build HERE As a model I'd give the radio body 9/10, cab 6/10 and chassis 3/10. But overall big thanks to IBG, I have now ticked off one of my top 3 modelling wants.

brought this revel box set some time ago and was put in the to do pile . its the box set that also includes a mustang which is still under construction!!! had nothing but problems through the build and as soon as seemed sort one thing out something else happened, but stuck to it no matter how close it got to being stamped on lol, a few first for as trying to improve my skills, I tried to detail the undercarriage and cockpit, and after the decals were to thick I airbrushed the stripes, made few lilt mistakes but was first time and am happy with the completed bill considering the fight it gave me

I think the Hi-lux some of you may have seen. The other was meant for the 'Close Contact' diorama but replaced the pickup with the Merc. Hope you like the pics. Still need to do a little more up here and there but it is practically done. Sorry for the bad quality pics. I am waiting for my new phone to come. My present one, has a scratched glass on the front.

Thanks,Stew,if the panels were a better fit it would have been nice to have the internals in place but now I have started the closing up stage I am happier to have the airframe complete and it is starting to look like a Hurricane! Here,s the progress from my day off work yesterday.one of the panels needs a little persuasion to stay in place(hence the peg) and the gap along the wing leading edges looks awful but when closed up for a dry run last night were a really nice fit bending into the correct shape for the fuselage join,also the gun bay is now in place.

1/48th Monogram AV-8b Harrier VMA-311 Desert Storm Mainly OOB except for some Eduard etch in the pit and Superscale decals Perfect plastic putty used as filler but kit was very good fit Primed with halfords grey and hand brushed Tamiya paints Vallejo matt finish brush painted The colours for this scheme are open to debate but I recon its close enough to the picture here http://en.wikipedia....into_combat.jpg

Wotcha playmates A quick update followed by a couple of photos. Progress continues at a steady pace and I have almost completed the MiG-28 build. The decals are on this and I have added the probe on the nose using some micro tubing and fuse wire as well as the two blade aerials underneath today. It has also had a couple of coats of satin to seal everything in and now just needs the probe painting and the missiles adding to complete. I haven't plucked up the courage to start weathering the F-14 but have had a look at the advice available on this site and will give this a go later in the week. I am a bit concerned about screwing things up at this late stage so I think that I am just going to keep this light for my first attempt - less is more as they say. There is still a surprising amount to do on this yet, with the few ancilliaries that are on this aircraft almost complete but still needing to be fitted. I should have the acrylic rod to support the aicraft in flight mode in my grubby mitts towards the end of the week and then it is a matter of figuring out how to bend this to support the F-14. Anyone know what the angle of dangle is for a negative 4G dive? ....... and finally a few photos of the nearly finished MiG. Nose probe fitted Decals and satin coat on Thanks for looking in guys (ooops that's not very pc is it) and gals.

Go on bulldoze the lot,stick a thousand homes on it with all the attendant traffic,noise etc,she,ll soon wish the whole B****y U S air force was back!

Hi Here are some pictures of my recently completed model of Tarangus 1/48 J 32B Lansen nicknamed Lansen Sport. I've used every aftermarket item available from Maestro Models for the Lansen and quite a bit of scratchbuilding, mainly in the wheel wells, landing gears and cockpit plus a full length engine intake. The Tarangus kit requires a bit of TLC but can be made into a real good looking model IMHO. a full wip can be found here (in swedish) http://www.ipmsstockholm.se/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3276 More pictures can be found here: http://s836.photobucket.com/user/flarpen/slideshow/Sport%20Lansen/Finished best regards Johan Elvin

Here is one that I think belongs on Britmodeller purely because of the subject. Only the British could have designed the venerable Bristol Beaufighter. This is the ancient Revell 1/32 version. I have converted the tail into the later Version and scratchbuilt an interior. It is roughly to Beau specifications but Also used some artistic license to make it a bit busier. I have been working on and off on it. The rocket blast shields have been Scratchbuild. Almost ready for paint. I hope you like it. I know I do, these Old kits are still fun to build. Cheers Cees

Hello, here are some photos from my McLaren M19A, Denny Hulme, Watkins Glen 1971 (Practice), Model Factory Hiro1/20th John-w

Well here we are another hornet completed. This a hasegawa F built with the dream model Growler conversion set. decals are from the two Bobs sheet. Fod covers are made from lead foil, I forgot to give the canopy a dark base coat so the frames are a bit translucent so i may pry it off and paint the inside black. The photo's arent the best I may take some better ones when I get chance.

This kit is really showing it's age now. The intended completed diorama build shall depict the 737 cleaning up over the Algercerian/Gibraltar Bay with the Rock below and behind it, way back in the 1980's after BA retired their Trident 3 fleet. I have a very comprehensive set of 26Decals for this build which includes a multitude of options in both BA and British Airtours liveries, and also the 1984 experimental blue belly and silver top fuselage livery which did not get incorporated. I have seen a lot of negative talk about this kit on the web but in honesty, apart from the sink marks and a badly fitting windscreen, it is not bad considering it only cost me £3 a few years ago. This was the Air France / BA optional livery boxed kit. I intend to get this finished over the coming weekend - thanks for looking in for those interested. Thank goodness for Decal windscreens as the plastic part was a bad fit So here is an interesting comparison of scale in 1/144. This shows just how big a Boeing 777 RR Trent engine of the same scale is compared to the diameter of a 737 fuselage. This was a dry fitting of the Minicraft 777 RR Trent engine from a future build. Both items are placed adjacent to each other - no optical illusions here thanks for looking in - bye for now - John

This is the biggie I built recently and finished it in time before the D-Day GB. Basically the original Italeri C-119 Boxcar and Leading Edge Decals to dress it in. I opted to model 70's style and leave all the rasised panel lines but reduced them by going over the parst with wet and dry during and after assembly. The markings are for 20119 of 436 Squadron in the late 1950s. I tried Alclad Airframe Aluminium but it was crass! It dried in a very dull and grainy finish; nothing at all like the previous bottle of the same colour I used in the past! Have gone right off Alclad now unless someone can tell me why my newest bottle is such rubbish!! Anyway I was lucky enough to get a jar of Testors Metalcote Aluminium and this worked very well. I also used a bit of Revell Acqua Silver airbrushed, for the upper halves of the booms and lower fuselage to represent the protective coated areas. Though this isn't discernible very much. Halfords appliance white did the top, the red gave me grief as it wouldn't dry but got this sorted and white decal striping for the main cockpit glazing. (Why spend hours masking?!! ) The serial last three is quite appropriate for the type. Load me!!! Incidentally, the nose extension/radome comes with the LEM decals as a two part resin extra!! EDIT: Unit number amended!

The Air New Zealand 787-9 is now finished , using my own made decal Richard

Tim'sTopTip: I found some yellow walkway decal in my spares. Very thinly sliced - and apply with some Klear.

Photobucket reset so a quick catchup. First canopy fitting. And the seals I sweated over. Now up onto the undercarriage. And from underneath. And a full rack of pylons.

Blimey, I don't know what's up with me two completed models in less than a month. I picked up hasegawas diamondbacks history boxing in the modeller.com sale, and seeing as im partial to a cag scheme i promptly started on the ride of captain Michael Mcnellis. After following Hase's colour call outs the top surface seemed way to dark so a mist of fs36375 was shot over it to tone down and give what i think is an acceptable weathering down of the scheme. Drop tanks are in the paint stage but most people know what a Rhino looks like with gas bags on. comments welcomed.

It's time to custom mix Tamiya paints for the bottom blue-grey colour: The bottom of the aircraft is now painted. I will probably do one more pass.

Again the Tamiya kit, done about 10 years ago. I wasn't quite as good at the whole weathering thing (not much changed there), but it came out ok, and it's survived the years with dignity. Odd.

Hey, don't get me wrong, nav lights are very important. Every pilot knows that if he looks to starboard he will see a green one and if he looks to port he will see a red one, and all he needs to do is to keep in between them and he will get to where he wants to be .

Thanks for comments guys, did a little more this afternoon, (turn away if you are squeamish): Out came the saw and dremel to do this wing thing.. had to grind through one of my bulkheads. I had to cut large bits of fuselage away to enable to fair the wing in to conform with both the fuselage and the wing centre section... it is do-able but crickey there is a crapload of form work and putty going to be required, I am gonna have to clear the bench cos I'll nee all the space I have to jig the whole gubbins up, align the wing forward and aft, up and down, square to the fuselage reference lines and with the right incidence, oh boy this is fun...

I glued on some 0.8mm brass rod to the steering wheel and drilled through the bulkhead to get this: Well that is as about as far as I got tonight, I have club committee meeting tomorrow so progress will be limited I am afraid. So its bye from me, Nigel

Well, here are the pictures of the Command version from Sunday at Duxford - just before it rained again. Now, I couldn't get the interior as it was populated with the owners family but the fundamental differences are fairly clear. The reflectors are for use whilst traveling to & from Shows and not a standard or post-war fit. Note the original b&w picture as there is a chimney at the right rear corner!!! You might also want to peruse here

Not had much time to get much modelling done due to family life getting in the way, here is a little update as to what I have been doing All the little bits in post 50 have been stripped back from when I put the primer on too thick and are now ready for repriming. Been doing a bit more PE, first picture shows the external boat housings (not sure of the correct name), PE ladders, railings and boat winch thingie attached to both sides. Excuse the shiney glue marks. Turret number 1 finished and ready for painting

Hi folks,here,s today,s progress the gun bay completed, builds up faultlessly although a much simplified version from pictures I referred to on line I still think it looks busy enough for my standards and looks good slotted into place,next step is getting the major pieces assembled.thanks for looking.

Hi Pascal and giemme, Thank you, as always, for your kind comments. Pascal - yes this is my absolutely first 1/48 kit. Many, many years ago I did build some (I think) either 1/32 or 1/24 kits but they weren't very good. I remember I tried one of the bigger Spitfires but just found it too much to do. 1/48 seems like a good compromise scale allowing just a little bit more detailing than in 1/72. I still like 1/72 and intend to build more in that scale. Giemme - yes I have got to pick up the courage to do more weathering - as I've mentioned before - I'm always a bit nervous that I'm going to mess up what I've done so far - even though this started as a practice kit - I've grown rather attached to it now! I took a photo on Sunday after I started applying some of the tufts of grass to the base. - it still needs some more layers of different colours to bring it to life. Hope you have a good evening. Kind regards, Stix

thank you for your interest today's work

- Discovered in my doc, extracted from the first volume of the for long gone IPMS France magazine "La Vitrine du Maquettiste". Could be helpfull

Nearly there couple of little things to do Beefy

I now have a AC 1/48 Meteor NF13 read for this one if it gets up, else it'll go the the STGB, though a Israeli Mozzie would be nice as well....or a Wyvern!

Fantastic model also is an aircraft that seems to me the most beautiful on any scale.

Wow modelling marathon today , im exhausted! I got the dihedral i wanted though. Wings are now fitted , tailplanes just dry fitted. Tomorrow will be filling , sanding and boxing in the UC bays. See you all tomorrow!

Thanks I've given it a filter which has evened out the shade differences and added some light and dark post shading so it looks more like a well used Cat now. I've also painted the exhaust nozzles and weapons.