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  1. Hi all – here’s my second completion for the year, the Eduard 1/72 Hellcat. I painted this one in the markings of Hellcat Mk.1 JW-321 from 804SQN, HMS Archer, Op Meridian, January 1945. I used the H-Model decals, set HMD72013. I will confess upfront I know virtually nothing about these aircraft, so I built the kit out of the box, using what options I could see from the line drawing and photos of the aircraft in the decal instructions. If I had a tip for this build I would recommend the clear panels at the back of the cockpit be glued to the fuselage halves before they go together. I glued them in after the fuselage was closed and had all sorts of trouble getting them to fit properly due to interference from the head rest. This meant that the sliding section of the canopy didn’t fit properly, which I then made a mess of trying to attach…. Otherwise I can’t recommend this kit highly enough – fit and detail is excellent. I followed the Eduard instructions for the colours – Eduard calls out a number of gunze paints for the camouflage (the H-Models instructions don’t give paint numbers), which I used, but to my eye they seem quite a bit off based on photos of other models that I have seen. Oh well. I also realised after I took the photos that the gear doors are backwards – I have since fixed these….! Weathering was done with oil paints and pastels. With all of my mistakes on this one I am glad just to have something off the bench. Cheers, Brad C
    33 points
  2. Hi everyone, Just found time, so I hope you don`t mind seeing some shots of my latest effort My attempt at AZ`s 1/48 `Lily` Finished to represent an aircraft of: 8th Sentai, 3rd Chutai, Burma, 1942 Built mostly from the box contents except for the nose gun barrel which I lost somewhere along the road Added ignition harness from wire, aerials, seat belts and................. pitot tube. Wasn`t too bad a build, a big improvement over their Vengeance which was the last one of theirs I tried. Hope you enjoy,thanks for looking Cheers Russ
    18 points
  3. My latest completion the Airfix 1/72 Lightning F6, almost completely OOB the only addition being a Pavla seat to replace the kit item, the kit went together without any problems, finished as a Lightning from the Lightning Training Flight, I chose it as I have seen the real aircraft thundering down the runway at Bruntingthorpe a number of times always impressive and LOUD. anyway enjoy C and C welcome. IMGP7889 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP7886 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP7890 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP7881 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr IMGP7885 by Phillip Wilmshurst, on Flickr
    15 points
  4. Here is my "what if" Thunderbird Mustang. The kit was much fun to build. I used Warbird Decals, MRP white, Testors MM Insignia Red for the spinner/touch up and Tamiya X-22 & MLT for the clear coat. This is my first go at using such a large decal set...made some mistakes but learned some things along the way too! They were a little tricky but several applications of Solvaset and the use of a hairdryer made them comply. I decided not to use a panel wash as the kit panel lines seem to show up just fine as is. Thanks for looking!
    15 points
  5. Hi folks, finally took the the photos with the tarmac done. This was for the Mig 29 go held here. Finished with gunze paints, scale nuts decals, Cold War cockpit and f-4affordable refueling probe. tarmac custom drafted by Thomas Ng ....and I finished it off....thanks tom thanks and regards mr b
    15 points
  6. Ready for inspection is my 1:72 Italeri Dakota Mk.III, this is the first time I have built a larger aircraft, and I hope it will give me confidence to tackle the Halifax and Lancaster which are currently tucked up in my stash. So to the build, the kit went together pretty well, the fuselage halves are a bit of a pain to line up, but otherwise the kit required only a little amount of filler (which is always a bonus). The underside is brush painted, and the olive drab from a trusty rattle can (thanks to my lovely other half!). I should say I got an airbrush for my birthday and am growing in confidence with it, so hopefully my next build will be painted that way. Anyway back to the Dak, the decals caused me to sweat a little (and have a few beers!), but with the help of micro set, they soon were in place. I'm pretty happy with my first 'big' build, and more importantly I have discovered new respect, and love for the handsome looking aircraft. Thanks, Michelle.
    11 points
  7. After the great Photobucket debarkle of 2017 which has left many posts void of images I have decided to upload a few of my old builds for you to enjoy. Starting with Revell's 1/32 Typoon MkIb. I re-scribed all of the panel lines, made my own wingtip lights and added HGW seatbelts and finished off with Montex paint masks. Hope you like it.
    11 points
  8. Airscrew(s) done (apart from a little weathering on the blades, plus a matt coat):
    11 points
  9. USAF must have been thoroughly impressed by sporadic successes of Luftwaffe jets using unguided rockets against US heavy bombers in closing days of WW2. Otherwise they would have never developed this monstrosity! Luckily for us the Cold war never turned to Nuclear one and Scorpions never had to engage Soviet TU-95s over the Arctic, where the majority of F-89s spent their careers. I’ve never considered Soviet leadership to be so dumb to send unescorted fleets of heavy bombers with nuclear bombloads across the Artic only to be shot down with unguided, guided and nuclear air to air rockets by radar guided F-89s, but apparently the USAF brass thought differently. Anyhoo, the Revell/Academy kit rates about 3/5 in my book and I definitely won’t be building another one in this life. It looks OK in the box, but if one really wants it to shine, one should invest in Pavla’s cockpit and canopy upgrade set. This one was done mostly OOB with some minor additional work. Its quite a survivor this one as it nearly ended in trash not once, but twice! Luckily for us Revell’s customer service is great and I got additional parts mailed pretty soon. And here it stands! Red was airbrushed with Revell acrylics and metal was dry brushed with Model Master metalizers of various shades. Just for the sake of comparison I’ve placed some of my other models in order to easily comprehend the size difference between them. And they called it a fighter!?! Josip
    10 points
  10. Thanks for that Johnny! I gotta tell you that I'm like a kid two days before Christmas waiting for that brush to arrive - if it don't come Monday I'll be fit for nothing! You've probably mentioned it many times in your own thread but do you use an Iwata yourself? Thanks Ian. Humbrol shareholders can look below and slaver at the anticipated dividend.... This is the phone from the first flat that Mrs. B and I ever had together in Belfast back in 1990: we've moved six times since then and it continues to work impeccably: During quiet moments I've been known to annoy our offspring by picking up the receiver, listening intently for a few seconds and then bellowing 'They've sighted Bismarck' in my best Kenneth More voice: Commiserations on the car btw. Nothing more frustrating... For your delectation hendie: One bit of good news is that the bootsstummel in the kit match the aircraft plans extremely well shapewise - here they are slathered in Humbrol filler. In fact, whatever other flaws there may be with the kit in a few places, Matchbox seemed to do a damn fine job getting it to the correct dimensions and shape regarding the major components. The wings too received a good pasting: All of the ugly filed away and sanded down smooth: Same on the wings: My nan and grandad had bath tiling just like this: A few more dabs of filler needed here and there in a few places as you can see, but we'll leave it here for today: One final thing before I go: having pretzeled my main bench lamp a week or so ago I'd ordered an LED replacement which arrived a couple of days back: Being clip-on and with a flexible stalk (it also has a USB lead so you can either plug it into a mains adapter or a laptop) it is perfect for clipping to the bench to illuminate detailed work. You can also flip it between tungsten and daylight colour settings to match it with other lamps for taking photos: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074SFJN1M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 What I really like is the circular opening in the centre of it into which you can stick your camera lens to take photos, basically giving a cheap version (£10) of a photographer's light loop (like one of these): Have a nice evening all! Tony
    10 points
  11. Nigel, Keith: well you could guess that on reading that I simply had to go go and whip some tape off to check how it had turned-out! What do you reckon? Did it stay in? Oh yes! A little gentle cleaning needed around a couple of parts of the circumference but having subjected that glazing to some relatively heavy taps with the blunt end of the tweezers , there's no sign of that shifting any time soon. As to clarity, the shot below is focused on the background grid rather than the window itself to give an idea of how much can potentially be seen through it: Pretty clear I think you'll agree? I'll mask that back up ready for later painting but feel pretty happy now that this process is capable of producing decent results in situations where kit windows are a bit too thick for your needs. That makes three of us curious about how it will pan out now Jaime and Keith! I have to say that both myself and Mrs. B liked it a lot Jaime - not more than the original, but differently, if you know what I mean? Clearly the improved technology of making images gave Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins the ability to create an even greater sense of scale and multitude than the original has been able to craft, though seeing the near future as such an ecologically-wrecked and enduringly-sexist dystopia is a deeply bleak and uncomfortable experience. It also felt like a very 'European' film in its sensitivities and shifts of meaning -I don't know did you sense anything similar? I also liked the fact that both Twitter and Facebook had apparently ceased to exist after the 'blackout'.... Let's look at some doors then: One on either side of the motor gondola, with some rather elegant asymmetric framing to build on their inner surfaces. Here's the blanks, just prior to puching-out some holes for the windows: The easiest way to maintain an identical structure on each seemed to be to glue the blanks side-by-side with double-sided tape and then mark them up with a pencil prior to adding some of Slater's thinnest hair-like plastic rod: These were oddly satisfying to build, reminding me somewhat of that irregular framing you get on stained glass windows: à propos of stained glass and aircraft btw, if you're ever up the Purbeck end of Dorset and have a spare hour or so, it's well worth seeking out a tiny hamlet inland from Lulworth called Moreton. Not only is T.E. Lawrence's grave there (here's the view looking Eastward from his resting place): ..but during 1940 the windows of St. Nicholas' church there got blown out by a stray bomb from a German aircraft, to be replaced many years later by some absolutely sublime engraved windows by Laurence Whistler. I guarantee that you have never seen the like of these as you look through the windows and see the glass engraving superimposed upon the surrounding landscape. One of them is a memorial to an RAF pilot shot down and killed during the Battle of France, hence the vapour trails and downed aircraft you can see here: End of digression.... Here's the doors trimmed down now and primed: Windows still to make and mask, plus some hinges and handles, probably from brass. More on that in due course. As I can't do any painting at present, I've been prioritizing gluing-up some of the larger components,especially with a view to critiquing surface detail. Firstly - the bootsstummel (wing stumps), those sponson-like 'water-wings' that flare out from the lower fuselage on some Dorniers: More nipples than an Anne Boleyn lookalike contest and little to distinguish panel lines from raised detail. Such things have no place here! The wings glued as well, complete with panel troughs in the wrong places: These two most definitely require some remedial action also. I just went a bit mad and glued everything that wasn't nailed down tbh: Next stop: Fillertown. Population: me.
    10 points
  12. woohoo! the postman just arrived the folks at PPD are just brilliant - 3 days after ordering I have the PE... ..and I have LOTS of sanding in my future today ..back later.. TTFN Peter
    9 points
  13. The undersides are Life color, a blend of german and israeli blues ! Almost everything has been modified, filed, puttied. And this was my first ICM, the engine is in, that just make the thing worst. The caption read" For the Bolchevik party" Every MiG of the 6 IAP assigned at the Moskow defense sport a different message ! This one is fitted with a radio gear Ok gents, Let me know what you think of this one ! not an easy kit at all, but I managed to finish it ! Thank for watching and have a nice modelling time ! Sincerely. Corsaircorp
    9 points
  14. Here my new Model: Mengs`cement-free P-51D Mustang. A nice kit with only minor issues, the bigges one is the canopy in open position wich is not close enought to the fuselage. Add some Eduard PE parts and used the Cartograf decals OOB. Hope you like the result
    8 points
  15. <airliners.net pic removed> See below for reasoning. Здравствуйте! Представляю вашему вниманию новейшую модель. Маленькая помощь: Ту-114 Россия (сообщение НАТО: Cleat - «Клип») - это турбовинтовой пассажирский самолет с длинной дистанцией, спроектированный в СССР в 1955 году на базе бомбардировщика Ту-95. Произведен в 1961-1965 годах на заводе № 18 в Куйбышеве. Всего было построено только 31, серийный самолет. Что касается строительства, то от меня кровь сильно пила. Но ... несмотря на суставы (и, может быть, школы), конечный результат я доволен и смотрю на шкаф, он замечательный - вообще, мне не стыдно из этого! Во время строительства некоторые трудности пытались показать на фотографии.Крылья, учитывая предстоящую стрельбу в полевых условиях, обеспеченную 2-мя проходами от крыла через фюзеляж в крыло. Я особенно хочу отметить в комплекте Windows: хорошо отделить их от литника было невозможно. Так что Windows - прозрачный пластик из-под детских игрушек и еще что-то ... Съемка, как вы знаете
    8 points
  16. Hello folks , these are the 72nd scale kits from roden with trademark poor fit and decals . I rather foolishly used the roden lozenze decals and they proved difficult to work with ! I left off the underwing lozenze for the D.VII Regards , Basu Roy
    8 points
  17. Base coat of EDSG is on! This is my home brew EDSG - 6 parts XF-24 Dark Grey, 2 parts XF-54 Dark Sea Grey, 1 part XF-50 Field Blue; subsequent coats will be that mix with varying degrees of lightening to break up the large expanses of the same colour. However, it's a start and I am very pleased with it: P.S. a cheeky shot with the airscrews in place (not glued) - an impression of monstrous power!
    8 points
  18. That would vertainly make an imposing line up with the 48 Vulcan there too! Hope you can get over next year Col , be great to catch up again Been working on the wings on and off this week with the deadline approaching. In the end I used some 72 scale Skymodels lines and stensils and have started on the weathering. All the weathering so far is using the trusty soft pastel and two types of brushes, the smaller one with the bristles cut right down to almost a stub so that I can work the pastel in to the panel lines and bring out rivet lines, then the larger one to brush any excess away in the direction of the airflow. I've tried to replicate the muddy footprints that tended to build up on the wings and upper fuselage. The next step is a dusting of matt varnish (Alclad flat cote) then the exhaust stains will be airbrushed on followed by some final pastelling to blend it all together. A final matt cote will seal everything in. The exhausts have been painted too but not fitted yet. Hoping to make a start on the undercarriage and turret this weekend too around domestic choirs Underwing without any weathering or varnish on yet. Apart from the exhaust stains, it will be kept quite minimal Photo's appear to show more grime around the hatch and turret on the fuselage with the grime extending out along the wings so this is what I've tried to create. Cheers
    8 points
  19. Right, i havebeen progressing with this im and off I also have a 1/48 P-38 on the go so it’s been fork tail madness at the bench. Most of the sub assemblies of the Venom are together. The kit kit has been ok to build. Just a bit of filling required which can be minimised thus far with careful fit. Here is the fuselage and wing assembly top. There Are sink marks in the wing from the support ribbing for the wing section joiners. Typical of 70’s plastic.. underneath I opened up the shell ejector ports and added in the wheel well inserts.. and drilled out the cannon ports I’ll add in some blast tubes later. I made up the engines assembly and cut off the tail pipe and replaced it with a bit of brass tube thus save sanding the seam on the jet pipe. finally I added some rib work to the rear fuselage section as the kit part has none. Here it is all dry fitted up... more tweaking and sanding to come.. cheers plasto
    8 points
  20. Just because I can, and while I am waiting for things to dry fully on the main airframe, we have our first transfers (stickers / decals - they'll always be transfers to me!). 12 LOCK / UNLOCK marks, plus 3 of the 6 blade marks - the other 3 blades have only just had their yellow tips painted, and anyway I thought it would probably be easier to position the LOCK / UNLOCK marks without the forward set of blades glued in place. On, on Crisp
    8 points
  21. 7 points
  22. Hello Dears, Whatever the odd, I manage (at least) to finish this one ! I really liked the MiG 3 since she look like a racer Aircraft, very nice little beast ! Seem to have been efficient too, with people like Pokrishkin at the command ! BUT ! there is always a but ! The ICM kit is not easy at all, adjustments were ... Erm How can I say .. one better the question ! I tried to make my best, but it has been a Murphy's law build. Anything that could possibly go wrong has gone wrong ! And those biiiiig arrows, what a pleasure ! I must confess that the kit has been really near to be test flyed !! I sweared a lot ! I used Vallejo color for the white, I'm not really convinced, must give these paints another try ! An eduard photo etched hjas been used since the interior was To be continued in a few minutes
    7 points
  23. Here's my take on Matchbox's Supermarine Stranraer. I thoroughly enjoyed building this one. Box stock, with nothing added. Brush painted with Humbrol colours. I left off the footprint walkways on the wings as I thought the carrier film was certain to show on the silver finish. I can live with that compromise. The struts nearly drove me to distraction and it's best not to look too closely to the amount of superglue on some of those struts. At some point I'll have a crack at the second colour scheme the kit came with, the camouflaged version. The first picture shows the plane on a picture frame, bought for pennies at a boot sale, with a bit of railway scenic material applied over the glass. Not exactly correct for a seaplane, but it looks OK to me for the photo. The inlay gives a sort of Deco feel to things. The camera flash on the second picture highlights a bit of the superglue lake around the struts. Must try harder... Tony.
    7 points
  24. PK-80 Sd.Kfz. 173 Jagdpanther in 1:76. Abandoned due to lack of fuel by an s.Pz.Jg.Abt "Unbekannte" in Irgendwo, Germany, early days of May 1945. Almost OOB build and what a joy this was . Brush painted with Tamiya and Vallejo acrylic paints. Thanks to Arniec and Enzo Matrix for the show! Best regards, V-P
    7 points
  25. nice work again. I've been following along on my phone while on my whirlwind tour away, so, forgive my non-commenting. I hate using the phone at the best of times, and judging by the recent spate of injuries incurred by BMer's, had I tried to inject a cellular response in the proceedings, I'd probably have fallen off my phone, got gravel rash, trapped a nerve, and sprained a tentacle. Sometimes it's best not to tempt fate, especially when you're hitting four states, three hotels, 6 am flights, and finishing up the week with a Friday 13th (thankfully, NOT the movie!). As it was I survived the week almost intact, with the exception of discovery of a flat battery as I attempted to start the car and drive home from work at the end of the day/week/travel. (Chrysler ) Anyhoos I am interested in seeing the results of your experimentation with powders and paints. I've never been able to get any results with preshading (I'm much too clumsy and impatient). Should be interesting. However, the anticipatory mouth-waterer for me at the moment is to see what you do with your little stumps. They look ripe for sanding back and scratching all over. There's all sorts of carbuncles sprouting from those things by the looks of it. Proof that there is a heaven then
    6 points
  26. More progress, here we see the primer down and a layer of silver in key places ready for some salt chipping, which in the event I forgot to do, some preshading and RLM 76: To show how the pre-shading works, up next is the first past with RLM 84 and then the second pass which evens things out a bit whilst still keeping panel lines distinct - its hard not to go too far here and lose the effect, but hopefully there is no need for a high contrast wash here. The same process is followed on the wings for the Grau-Violet and DunkelGrun, the rivets look a bit prominent here but that may lessen after the varnishes have gone down With all the main colours down it's time to break out the montex masks and do the crosses and squadron markings; swastikas will come from the decal sheet Weathering has begun with pastel work, I won't be breaking out the tamiya smoke until all this is sealed with gloss varnish; rivet highlighting is all being done by pastel at this point to keep things low key
    6 points
  27. This was planned for the Made in Britain II GB, so continuing it here ... First the Vokes filter, gone ahead and glued it to the wing bottom, but normally this should be done after the wings are attached to the fuselage - yea, unconventional me. I noticed some open gaps (circled red above) right where the wing leading edge meets the filter. So to fix that, wedged a length of sprue inside the filter to spread the walls a bit, it helped. From test fitting, also noticed there was a step where the back of the filter joined the faring that is molded on to the wing underside. Sheet plastic and some sanding fixed that. Now for some real gaps: The wing roots on this kit are a problem, but oddly I didn't have this much fuss on an earlier Sword kit of their Spitfire V. Needs major dihedral to eliminate that space, so trying this for the first time, and added some plastic sheet along the whole wing root: It still required a bit more sanding for a finer fit, but here's a shot for test fit: Pilot and cockpit details in place. Also adding a trio of scratch built recon cameras, the side fuselage one is already in place - though can barely can make it out in the photo: regards, Jack
    5 points
  28. Here is my conversion of the revell 1/72 ju 88 c-6 to a g-6 using parts from john (aims models).paints used are all extracolor sprayed using a badger 200 g .marking of the ju 88 of 13/njg 3 that crashed at elvington 4 3 1945
    5 points
  29. Before i make a short break to visit friends, here the Crimson Test Tube, a Navy jet in full polished color! 3 speed records but lost Mach 1 race against X-1. I love it. As in April/May 1947, before cockpit conversion. Cheers!
    5 points
  30. Ту-22 - машина "105", изделие "А", изделие "Ю", (по кодификации НАТО : Blinder [5] ) Ту-22 - машина «105», продукт «А», «с» (НАТО: Блиндер [5]) - советский тяжелый сверхзвуковой самолет большой дальности, разработанный Туполевым. Построен в бомбардировщике, ракете, разведке и помехе. Предназначен для замены флота Ту-16. В дальнейших удачных вариантах Ту-22 были заменены различными сериями Ту-22М, Ту-22 в вариантах разведчиков, амехи эксплуатировались до начала последнего десятилетия двадцатого века
    5 points
  31. Hello everyone! This really not a true work in process, because it's already completed! But as it was primarily used by me to try out Colourcoats paints from Sovereign Hobbies, as well as other experimentation, I felt that this was the correct forum, vs. the RFI forum, to discuss the paint and other items. To begin, the kit is the Academy 1/72 A-37B, a small little jewel of a kit -- WITH A LOT OF TINY, FIDDLY BITS! It,s appearance seems quite accurate, save only that the kit seems to be missing what I would call the rear tailpipe pieces. That is, the wing just ends, whereas on the real aircraft there is a fairing, looking somewhat like a brass ferrule is shaped, and it is not there. Other than that, no real problems. I didn't spot this until way late in the game, so I didn't fix it either: Next, I used the appropriate Pavla cockpit set for this model, mainly to get the retractable screen guards for the intakes. They also feature a nifty "sandwich" style of I.P. construction -- and MORE fiddly parts: I used the Mk 82 bombs with fuse extensions from the Hasegawa Weapons set #1, and I got a set of M260 Hydra rocket from CMK, (I think) with six of the little seven rocket type pods frequently used on these aircraft (and OV-10A's). Lastly, I used the drop tanks from the Hasegawa A-37A kit, as they were fatter, and looked more realistic. I just had to add the welding beads or flanges with fine plastic strip and liquid cement. Weapon load: Other than that, I just articulated the elevators, and drilled out some ports and the gun tube. I added the clear lenses to the front of the nose, but you can barely see them. Also added the .005 wire whip antennas shown. I also used a new (for me) masking procedure, advocated by Metodi Metodiev over on ARC: LINK This was a rear trial, as this tiny plane has a camo pattern with small over-spray, and a lot of colors in close spaces. The pics will show how well it worked. And as I said earlier, I wanted to try out the Colourcoat paints, mostly to see how they compared to the Humbrol of old. I must say, I was very pleasantly surprised! The Vietnam era camo colors I tried were outstanding. First, they cover very well, in a thin coat. Some touch-up was needed after the masking (my fault, not M.M.'s system!). I needed to thin the paint down to an ink, and airbrush at around 5-10 p.s.i.. They thinned down to almost water, and the pigments stayed together in the fluid medium, whereas when I tried this with my Model Master paints, I ended up with "sand and water", as the paint pigments fell out of suspension. Later, after gluing some pieces on, a little brush touch-up was in order and the Colourcoats covered with no discernible brush marks. GREAT STUFF! Needless to say, these will become my go to paints for the Viet Camo jobs in future. Alas, the price in the U.S. of $5.55 per tinlet precludes my use of them for everything else. Without further ado, here are a few pics of the model. There won't be a posting in RFI for this one. That's all folks, 'til next time... Ed
    5 points
  32. Thanks Benedikt You're quite right - a mix of trepidation and excitement, great stuff! Thanks Keith To be honest, most of it is a bit boring to watch and I'm not sure I'd do the 50 minute flight again... and I'd hope for better weather so we got some loops in! I'd advise anyone to 'go for it'. You might get run over by a bus tomorrow. Hopefully not, obviously, but I'd rather have a Spitfire flight than an extra weeks nursing care - horrible thought! Where was I? Ah. Gosling. As Martin says the nacelle location pins are useless: Untitled by Ced Bufton, on Flickr ... so I chopped them off, chiselled the location flat(ish) and had some sihrsc action on the wing joins. This still leaves me with some shimming work to do on the nacelles: ... but, hopefully, I can also use this to improve the look of the vent things on the top. Hopefully! I'll also need to have a look for some reference images, but they seem few and far between. Any help appreciated, especially close ups of the nacelles!
    5 points
  33. The weathering is now complete and I am quite pleased with how it looks, the main work involved was the addition of some exhaust staining and some dirtying of some of the white camo paint. Here's a picture of how she looks at the minute; And a close up of some of the exhaust staining; One of the best parts of being near the end of a build is when the canopy masking can come off, it really brings the aircraft to life. The engines have now been fitted into place and here's a couple of pics of them before the cowls were fitted; And with a cowl fitted; I have also fitted the wheels and mudguards to the undercarriage legs; And these have now been loosely fitted to the struts which were fitted earlier in the build; When dry I will get the front legs properly aligned on the bulkhead in the nacelle and fixed in position. Next job will be to try and fix the previously removed barrels to the MG-15's followed by the painting and assembly of the propellers and then fixing a strange looking device to the top of the canopy which I'm assuming is some kind of aerial as it is in place of the DF loop aerial. Not sure if it should be painted or left clear as I can't find any decent close up pictures of it and any help here would be greatly appreciated. Feels like it's getting close to the end! Thanks for looking in and as usual all comments and criticisms are gratefully received. Craig.
    5 points
  34. Ok I’ve been asked to post these by a fellow member. This is Academy’s T-33. I built this kit when i first got back into the hobby in 2014. Its not the best work still needs harness’s but I figured why not show it. I built the kit to represent a generic S.A.C. Hack aircraft circa late ‘60’s or early ‘70’s. Hope you like it. The only real problem i found was the lower rear fuselage. The wing to Fuselage joint and the seams were a bit troublesome. The Decals from academy just vaporised when they came into contact with water. So I pulled a hodgepodge of decals from my files and came up with this scheme. Most of the decals are monogram from the F-80 kit and The original Pro-modeler F-86D kit. The SAC Band and Badge came from an old Microscale F-84 thunderstreak sheet from the 80’s. Its good enough for my tastes And its not perfect by any shake of the stick. But comments ...questions ?
    4 points
  35. Finally got this one finished. Constructive criticism is welcomed. Tried out some more oil effects on this one, building up my skill with the medium. and now, some pictures just to drive home the scale of the thing: Hope you like!
    4 points
  36. Ready for inspection is my 1:72 Italeri Dakota Mk.III, this is the first time I have built a larger aircraft, and I hope it will give me confidence to tackle the Halifax and Lancaster which are currently tucked up in my stash. So to the build, the kit went together pretty well, the fuselage halves are a bit of a pain to line up, but otherwise the kit required only a little amount of filler (which is always a bonus). The underside is brush painted, and the olive drab from a trusty rattle can (thanks to my lovely other half!). I should say I got an airbrush for my birthday and am growing in confidence with it, so hopefully my next build will be painted that way. Anyway back to the Dak, the decals caused me to sweat a little (and have a few beers!), but with the help of micro set, they soon were in place. I'm pretty happy with my first 'big' build, and more importantly I have discovered new respect, and love for the handsome looking aircraft. Thanks, Michelle.
    4 points
  37. Here is another of my occasional 1/48 builds, the Eduard Messerschmitt Bf109G6. A lot has been posted online about the accuracy of this kit and building it alongside 2 other 109s the difference in size is instantly apparent. As a 109 fan I was rather disappointed initially but once I started building that disappointment all but vanished as the kit is a delight to build with superb detail inside and on the surface so it's portliness is forgiven on this occasion. Other than sand off the strange bumps at the wing root everything else is OOB including the strange undercarriage leg angle. I painted this one as Major Franzisket's aircraft as the other decal options all have some issues, several were ERLA built G6s so should have had the extra cowl bulges on the right side but Eduard didn't include them and one of the options colour schemes is actually a mixture of 2 aircraft from different factories. I've gone a bit overboard with the weathering as the photos I've seen showed this aircraft to be very clean, I'll put it down to artist licence. Duncan B
    4 points
  38. 14 Oct. I have finally made a start on this using something I ' inherited ' from SWMBO to remove the moulded detail from the cockpit sidewalls in preparation for the Aires set. It's actually a manicure/pedicure set but is more controllable in speed than my Dremel and it rotates in both directions if you should need to. My new tool tool proved to be ideal for the job so I'll keep it. I wonder what she'll want in return! Below is a before and after photo, it took me ten minutes to achieve this result. I have also given the Aires cockpit parts a coat of Xtracrylix interior grey/green, unfortunately I had not cleaned the frames either side of the fuselage bottom properly and the paint finished "frothy" so I had to wipe it off. The try/green looks a little pale to me but as everything still needs to be weathered/dirtied I'm hoping that the eventual shade will be satisfactory. I also noted from cockpit pictures that the grey/green extends behind the seat, unlike on earlier marks. In the John Dibbs book there is a whole chapter devoted to MH434 and while studying the pictures closely I discovered that there were no slots for the spent bullet/shell cases on the wing undersides so I will fill them in before joining the wing halves. You can see from the above sprue shots that there are in fact two cannon ejector slots on each wing to allow for an "E"wing version, so I would have had to fill a couple anyway. anyway. That's it for now, thanks for looking and feel free to comment Cheers John
    4 points
  39. OK. We will see. God I hate it when someone says that - sounds just like dad when I was about 6
    4 points
  40. Very nice work over the last few weeks Steve. I am in awe at the quality of the etch you have produced, and in such a short time too. May I suggest for annealing - place the MDC etch between two heavier brass sheets, clamp if necessary, and anneal those. The heat should transfer readily enough, and a solid sheet either side of the MDC will hold all the zig-zaggery in place. With such fragile etch, I'd be afraid that any heat approaching the annealing temperature will just frazzle the etch if no support is provided.
    4 points
  41. Thanks for all your contributions guys, you've really made the memories come flooding back, and that's my favourite clip too Steve. I have one MH434 story for you before I post the first actual build update. In the mid '70s I worked at Heathrow and lived in Windsor and one year we saw advertised a ' low level dogfight ' as one of the attractions of the regular steam engine rally at nearby Bracknell. I went with an ATC friend to the event which was held in a largish field surrounded by tall trees. When the time came, a Spitfire and Sea Fury popped up from behind the trees, the Spitfire was of course MH434 flown by Ray Hanna and the Sea Fury was flown by Ormond Haydon Baillie. The dogfight lasted for about 15 minutes with the Spitfire consistently lower than the Sea Fury ( OHB being no mean ' daisy cutter ' himself ) sometimes appearing to be lower than the surrounding trees and my friend muttered something about hoping that there weren't any CAA display inspectors watching. Presumably there weren't as we didn't hear anything on the grapevine. I also love K5054s screen saver, there is a similar picture in John Dibbs' book Spitfire: The Legend Lives On, but flown by Mark Hanna on that occasion. Cheers John
    4 points
  42. The first coat of gloss black is on, it's a big area to paint with a brush! John
    4 points
  43. I remember these very well. I still have the original Heyford 'Masterbuild' advertisement and am sure there were ones for the Privateer, 1/32 Tiger Moth and Flower Class Corvette. Matchbox did produce a kits only catalogue from their earliest days to somewhere in the late eighties / early nineties. Here is a link to their Catalogues - http://www.matchboxkits.org/index.php?cPath=28&osCsid=lg27n7ud9a1tujtccpv6a67eu6 These are all listed within the excellent Matchbox.org website. Cheers.. Dave
    4 points
  44. Hello Jaime, thank you. They should arrive in a day or so. I've glued the ailerons, and the folding portion of the trailing edge to the lower wings. If the wings are going to be folded, different trailing edge parts are provided with the kit. There are are seven main parts to the engine nacelle. When assembled, this is mounted on the fuselage at a 3 degree angle. Airfix have highlighted this in the instructions in case the modeller thinks it's an error. I belive this was to counter the yaw created by the prop wash over the rudder. The engine nacelle. With the nacelle mounting struts in place, and the oil cooler hole at the forward end, I think it looks like some kind of space dog. Good boy, die for your country. I might dry fit the fuselage and wings together over the weekend, to get some idea of how big the final model will look. Thanks for looking, Joe.
    4 points
  45. I've got the chassis rails together with the scratch built cross member and the brass bar at the front, i had to fit the front and rear axle and part of the prop shaft to help square it up, I've test fitted the fire wall, that needs some cut outs now, and the body work is only taped in place, I'm going to cut the wheels off to make what i hope will be more convincing brake drums, and so i can have the wheels at an angle, the black lines at the back there are where i will be removing the molded top of the fuel tank, i'll make a new top to fit the seperate bottom part, I'm still working on the front engine mounting cross member, excuse the photo quality, poor light and number 1 dauaghter has my camera Test the fire wall for fit with body work My cross member fitted and the black lines mark the area to fe removed Above is the lower part of the fuel tank, ive glued some card on top to replace the bits to be removed Cheers Glynn
    4 points
  46. I got some job done on the Jp after the base was finished. I sanded away the empty tool racks, filled the slots for those american jerrycans supplied in the kit and added front mudguards made of thin aluminium. The wheels got painted and the suspension assembled. While I'm writing this, the thinned and sliced crew hatches are glued and setting, as is the barrel cleaning set tube that got relocated to the back of the engine hatch. So all it needs now is more paint and tracks! This will look a bit hybrid-like, with features of late and final production variants. I comfort myself with the thought that in 1945 Jerry scratched together what ever he could, with whatever parts... V-P Edit: one hour later the Jp looks like this. Maybe the primer red needs to be painted over, behind the wheels.
    4 points
  47. Thanks Keith Thanks CC I hope you get the chance for a Corsair flight; we should all chase our dreams. Thanks Benedikt - feet on the ground is a sensible attitude! Cheers Johnny - go on, you know you want to! The video is here! It's 50 minutes so a lot of boring flying along the coast, albeit with elliptical wings in view. It's 360o video so you need to view it on YouTube but you can move the view around by dragging the mouse or with the control on the top left. I've asked for the original file so I can edit it but in the meantime here are the highlights: 2:20 chocks away - look left to see Andy going through the signals. The hands open/close are checks on the radiator flaps 2:56 taxy, zig zag; can YOU see in front? 4:45 Power check Waiting for Slingsbys 5:58 Line up 6:29 Take off! Look right or behind to get a sense of the acceleration. 7:54 Lars closes his canopy (note the gap at the back) 9:00 not rain - clouds! 13:00 Portsmouth, Queen Elizabeth in the distance on the right 16:18 Cowes on the left 18:00 I have control! Look down to see one hand on the stick 19:55 stay out of the clouds! Look forward and you'll see them brushing the canopy 20:20 You have control 21:30 Needles and white cliffs - look left and down 22:39 Needles low level 31:00 Portsmouth (again) 32:15 Barrel roll #1 - the Spitfire smile! Look backwards 33:10 Barrel roll #2 37:00 that is rain - forward view 38:00 Arundel under the left wing 40:00 Tangmere? Ahead on the right 42:19 Airfield in sight (just) on the right 43:00 throttle back 43:45 Lars’s canopy open 44:45 sweeping approach 45:20 touch down 45:45 hit the bumps 49:08 shut down Enjoy!
    4 points
  48. Just a few joyful moments with some paints resulted a finished baseplate: Me happy 😄. V-P
    4 points
  49. Well, here its been a beautiful day so I popped out and took some photos of my latest builds . . . . ED564 ED553 JB141 EE139 ED583 . . . and here is a photo of the actual aircraft I hope you enjoy these as much as I love to build 'em Ian
    3 points
  50. I don't agree about the Hunter being a toxic subject; plus we are talking about modellers buying them and they still like the Hunter. Incidentally, Mark1 Models are about to release four Hunter kits in 1:144 scale; two will be single seat versions and two will be two-seat trainers. The single-seat variants are the original Revell 1:144 sprues being re-released with two kits per box. More important, and exciting perhaps, are two kits of the two-seat trainer variants although only one kit will be supplied per box. They are being advertised on Hannants future releases. Mike
    3 points
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