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1/32 Wingnut Wings Shorts Felixstowe F.2A early. Great Yarmouth, 1918. So... here we go. It started as a thread where Mark and myself were supposed to be joint building. Mark never started his, I started mine, I continued the build thread for a while but in the end the commitment of a build thread was too much for a build at this level for me, so it fell by the way side a bit. However... 8 months later. 4 bottles of whisky. 80 metres of monofilament fishing line. 300 Bobs Buckles. Around 50000 swear words (wish I'd put £1 in the jar each time I'd said one!), 8 sheets of Aviattic CDL Decals, 2 sheets of Aviattic Woodgrain decals and one incident where I left the radiator on whilst I had the flu and came back to find all the rigging had come out. But I've finished it. Absolutely delighted to have finished it. It was an incredibly enjoyable and rewarding build from the start - but ultimately challenging. It's a true reflection of the skills of the team at Wingnut Wings though. Kit is mainly out of the box with the addition of Bobs Buckles for the rigging, 5 Gaspatch Vickers RNAS Guns, an HGW seatbelt set and a lot of Aviattic decals. The display box arrives next week and this will be firmly stored away - but as of now, I can relax and build a few smaller ones for a change. Time to rest and have a beer! Chris

Hello Britmodellers! 👏 Finally, I’m finished this excellent and well-detailed kit from Zvezda. I’m not planned to post the pictures in RFI and even the WIP sections, but it can be interesting for some of us. It’s not a Class A build... Let’s look! The starboard side: And the port side: The front view is good and the disadvantages is not so noticeable: Hats off: The other side: Zvezda provides us a very detailed engine compartment OOB: The main rotor is very detailed, too: The belly has a nice details, I like how it looks slightly weathered: Let’s take a closer look on the aft side: And the nose section: The navigation lights are from the clear parts. The starboard: And the port side: That’s all for now and there is a WIP thread, for those who interested: Thanks for looking! 🐈

Latest dio from the tc production line. The FGR2 being from Airfix while the `J` is from Academy, both in 1/72 Scale. Thanks for looking.

Ready for inspection is my Airfix 1:72 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat. I have built it straight from the box, with the sto-wings folded, the only deviation from the instructions is that I have used Vallejo acrylics (my personal preference). This is a cracking little kit, no flash really, lots of detailing, and it went together with relative ease. I've really enjoyed building this aircraft, and intend to build some more in the future. Thanks for looking.

Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! Today I want to present you another model from the new Ukrainian manufacturer “Clear Prop”. This is the model of the first put into service monoplane aircraft, the father of the famous “Zero”. The model was developed by a professional modeller, therefore it is quite complex and interesting in assembly. Everything is detailed in this model, so it does not need any aftermarket. It also has photo-etched parts and resin parts as well. Very detailed color instructions, a large number of color options. The model has a fully riveted surface with a riveting pitch of 0.6 mm. Navigation lights are represented by transparent plastic. In those kits that you will get - there are brass antenna mast and Pitot tube (I built the pilot version when it was not yet on sale). I was presented with this model at an exhibition in Kiev.

Revell 1/48 Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress (04297) B-17F-10-BO was built by Boeing and on 15 July 1942 delivered to the 324BS 91BG at Bassingbourn. Her crew named her “Memphis Belle” after her pilot, Lt. Robert J. Morgan’s girlfriend. She was reported to be the first USAAF bomber to survive 25 missions in Europe following her 25th mission on 17 May 1943. However, B-17F-25-BO “Hells Angels” of 365BS 305BG flew her 25th mission out of Chelveston on 13 May 1943.

More finished builds! Here's yet another 1/72 Tamiya built in FAA colors for the aircraft of Lt. Wally Knight flying from the HMS Victorious, British Pacific Fleet As for the kit, it is obviously one of the great Tamiya WW2 kits which is virtually flawless. One of the only issues is that the frontal stub of the fuel tank needs some shaving off so that it will fit. Not sure if this is only a problem when you use the open flap cowling piece, the kit offers closed flaps too. The kit was built almost entirely OOB, the exception being Eduard's excellent Super Fabric seatbelts. A few millimeters of the wing tips was cut off given that FAA Corsairs had them clipped. Vought FAA aircraft were painted in US equivalent paints, which officially were ANA 610 Sky, ANA 603 Sea Gray (Extra Dark Sea Gray), and ANA 613 Olive Drab (Dark Slate Gray). In order to provide a slightly different shade to my usual use of Gunze H71 for Sky, I used the new AK Real Models RLM 76 late war variant, which is very close. ANA 603 was represented with Tamiya XF-24 (equivalent to FS 36118) while ANA 613 was Gunze H52 to give it a brownish tint. It is possible that the Olive Drab was actually OD 41 which should be slightly greener but whatever. For some reason I was a bit unhappy immediately after spraying but after weathering and a matt coat I am actually very pleased with the result. I also should mention I used Microscale liquid mask for the camo pattern. It was the first time I used it and it was great. Just need it to fully dry so it can be properly removed using kabuki tape (there was no damage to the lower coat) Decals came from the Skymodels set which provides the shoddily painted "T" version of this aircraft which I find amusing. The decal is a bit cartoonish but I like it anyway. Being Cartograph, they were very easy to apply. No stencils were used as I rarely see them in FAA Corsairs, only the black wing panel was used from the original kit decals. Weathering began with Humbrol Dark Gray panel line wash, followed by some black streaking to the flaps, and hard pastels for the engine and gun stains. Some raw umber enamel was used for dirtying up the lower fuselage. I think this has been my favorite build of the year so far. Enjoy!

Some pics of my 1/72 Whirlwind. Its the original, poly bag, Bliek kit in rather hard and brittle plastic. I gave it a cockpit using an Airwaves etch tub and instrument panel and scratch built everything else under the canopy, some wingtip and landing lights from clear sprue and scribed panel lines ( need to improve my skills in that respect). Anyway thanks for looking.

Hello all, Here is my recently completed Tamiya Spitfire MK.1 (the new tooling) in the markings of 19 Squadron during the summer of 1940. The build is part 1 of 8 of my RAF 'QRA through the years' project and the build thread can be seen here. The kit is OOB except for the decals and a paint mask which was used. An absolutely brilliant kit which was a joy to build. It's also my first 1/48 Spitfire (shame on me!) but despite this I'm happy with how it turned out. The base is from Coastal Kits and the patch is from my own collection. Thanks for looking. Dave

Ready for inspection is my 1:72 Airfix Armstrong Whitworth Whitley GR. Mk.VII. This is a straight from the box build, built with gear down and doors open. The only variation is that I have used Vallejo acrylics in place of the recommended Humbrol. The kit went together with relative ease, and has a nice amount of detail. Thanks for looking.

"This was the last airplane in which the pilot literally got into the cockpit and wrapped it around him. The smallness of the cockpit, the close proximity of all controls, the reasonable clear vision above, to the side, downward and to the rear, and the overall smallness of the airplane gave the pilot the sense of being a part of the flying machine and being able to feel, see and easily command all of its flight requirements." Boone T. Guyton (Naval aviator and Vought test pilot) Sometime in 1932/33 aboard USS Saratoga... ... the leader of the 6th section of VF-1B 'High Hats'... ... ligns up his Fox-Four-Baker for take-off. This Entex Twin Wings model, built in 1977, is a revival of the 1958 Aurora kit. It was meant to be an F4B-4 but as I wanted it to represent 1-F-16 (BuNo. A-8911) I did a first basic conversion at that time. Not satisfied with the result I've undertaken two refurbishments since, the most recent one in conjunction with my P-12 project here. After many improvements over the past 40 years it's hard to remember how rudimentary this model had once been. Suffice it to say that there was no detail whatsoever, just an ungainly engine, a floor and a seat, and a massive bonnet with no troughs for the machine guns. But in the seventies we had not much choice in quarter scale and I was happy that at least a token of a golden age fighter existed! Since the fuselage is a little too wide I fabricated optional weather covers to shutter the cockpit aperture. The extra width, however, helped to fit a figure into the confined space. Like Boone Guyton put it: A plane wrapped around the pilot. With considerable scratch-building and a few aftermarket items (engine, wheels, tail, ailerons) I hope that my model has now become a fair reproduction of Boeing's grand old biplane. Thanks for your comments, Michael References Boeing P-12, F4B, Aero Series No.5, Edward T. Maloney, Fallbrook, 1966 Carrier Fighters Volume 1, J.V. Mizrahi, Northridge, 1969 Navy Air Colors Vol.1, Thomas E. Doll, Berkley R. Jackson, William A. Riley, Carrollton, 1983 The Official Monogram US Navy & Marine Corps Aircraft Color Guide Vol.1, John M. Elliott, Boylston, 1987 P-12 / F4B in Action, Aircraft Number 141, Larry Davis, Squadron Signal Publications, Carrollton, 1993 Wings of the Fleet - US Navy & Marine Corps Aviation 1919-1941, On Target Special No.8, Peter Freeman and Mike Starner, Arlington, 2009 F4B - P-12 Scale Drawings, William A. Wylam, New York Act 1 and Act 2 together - the eternal twosome... Click here to read the P-12 story

Hi Folk's just scraped in on the final weekend of the Trainer's GB.Managed to build this in a couple of week's to replace the failed RAF Vampire.Now the Provost has never really set my pulse racing as an aircraft in fact I can't remember even bothering with Airfix's original way back but I have to say this little kit is a beauty for seasoned modeller's to beginner's you have to have a go at it you can almost build it without glue the fit is so good,she's a tail sitter even with a big fishing weight just aft of the cockpit so beware already on with a second now.Thank's for looking in.

Finally the cat is finished, hope that you guys like it as much as i do, cheers from Italy

Finally I have an operational computer again. I still have some uploading of stuff to do but at least I can show you what I have been up to during my enforced absence. The most important thing is that we have a complete airframe. This has been cleaned up and now only needs a good polishing to get rid of any scratches. I was not happy with the extra windows so I removed them and added some new ones. I also decided that trying to keep the stringer detail on the fuselage was a losing battle and removed it and replaced it with some light scribing. The stringers are almost invisible in many pictures so it is no great loss. The canopy has been fitted and sanded and polished and I will adapt an Eduard masking set for the Italerii kit to do the framing. There is a bit of lensing but I wanted to use as much of the kit as possible and so used the kit part. The other obvious change is that the engines and props have now been painted up and the engines cemented into the cowlings. When doing the pictures I noticed that one of the yellow prop tips is a bit larger than the others. It will be a simple matter to correct this. I have also primed the undercarriage assemblies. The pile of bits to add to the model seems to be shrinking rapidly so I guess there is a small light at the end of the tunnel. If, and it is a big if, I can avoid screwing up the paint job and avoid any other embuggerances that life throws at me, this is one model at least that will make Telford. Thanks for looking Martian 👽

This time model from WW II times, I generally avoid model aircraft with a propeller. I definitely prefer modern aviation. However, from time to time I make a model for someone to order. I present to you such a model F4U-1A Corsair model from the Tamiya skal scale 1:32 This is one of the best models I've built, all the elements fit together without a problem. Model made straight from the box with one addition from yahoo. I invite you to watch, I hope that the model looks good.

An older build, which may offer some encouragement to those currently struggling with this kit. It is worth the effort, but an aftermarket canopy is strongly recommended as the kit parts are quite rustique. I‘m sure one can even do more improvements (such as wheel well detail, which I didn‘t) but here I focused on the cockpit and exterior. I decided to do things the old fashioned way and scratch whatever was possible plus brush painting. Paints are Humbrol 147 for the underside and a Testors blue for the upper which I don‘t recall the number. Seat and canopy are aftermarket (TrueDetails and Falcon).

😄 80 years from now in a secret Jurassic Modeller's Park on the Isle of Wight, scientists of dubious morality revive the Slatersaurus. It escapes and lays waste to Southampton in a highly linear fashion. Oh wait...postwar urban plannners did that last bit already. Just Giorgio! Bodywork on my Skoda needs some attention too Rob. Wonder what an Anson tribute finish might look like? I'm frightened to go look now Johnny! 🙈 Far too kind as always Benedikt. 🤘 Pur-lease. I prefer the term 'voodoo priest'.... You're hyperventilating now Ced. 'Tis just a common-or-garden pencil rubber! 😄 (useful though as a big dense soft thing for weight without causing damage) Invasion should always be an inclusive affair Adrian. Adrian & Simon: Yes I had thought about. Just as I thought about how I gave away the bulk of my shore fishing gear two months ago and stupidly neglected to salvage any of the spare line... As Adrian and Simon have both noted, others materials for said task are available also! 😄 As a male stripper I have to: A good reason too to read Craig Mazin's script for Chernobyl and reflect on what is currently happening in our free countries Anthony: I shan't discuss this strand any further due to the ban on political opinion in this forum. https://nofilmschool.com/Download-the-Chernobyl-Script-PDF Eileen's Emporium. Where would we be without it? All my soldering supplies come from Eileen. Is she a real person, like Mom from Mom's Robots in Futurama? Kind of you- as always - Chris. Week has been busy in a futile fashion up until today; meetings and paperwork of supreme pointlessness that leave the spirit thirsting for creative activity of any kind. Any of you who've ever been involved in work that requires you to to liase with people from various different departments will recognize that half of any committee is invariably made up of individuals who have no discernible skills beyond sitting on a chair at meetings. I often fantasize about bringing lighter fuel and a box of matches to such gatherings but then that sort of thing generally gets you a reputation for being 'difficult' these days... First up today then - a commerical warning to fellow modellers. Thought I'd discovered a great source of ultra-cheap Washi tape in China, right up until the moment these were delivered: Photos on Letter5bay misled one into thinking they were of a standard size. One were well pizsed off to discover not: (Standard size the blue one on the right obvs.) Small amount of tape on the reel and the adhesive backing is aspirational rather than actual. If it looks too good to b. true, it is.... One pleasant result of escaping meetings for a while by going to lunch with a dear friend on Wednesday was poking around in the local homeless charity shop and finding one of these for €20! Aside from a bijou tad-ette of glue needed along the front strip, it's perfect as a main workbench (including a lower shelf to finally keep the compressor out of harm's way). It's already had a workout in getting final shaping done on the starboard nacelle so that the wings could be glued into place. Call me a maverick but I glued one onto either side: As on previous occasions I used Araldite both in terms of adhesive strength and in simultaneously acting as an excellent carvable filler that sands down nice and smoothly: Before attaching the wings, it seemed prudent to make sure that the brass nacelle fitted properly and matched the port original, as well as checking out the radius arms for the undercarriage: It was so long ago since I seemed to have dealt with the undercarriage that I had to stop and think why I'd made one of the radius arms slightly longer than its companion: I don't know if you can make out from the above photo but the reason that one got made longer than the other is that I'd been clumsy hollowing out the rear of the starboard nacelle that it fits into and removed too much; on that one, once the radius arm is fixed in place, the missing rear of the nacelle can be rebuilt. The rounded rear apex to those nacelles will also need modification on top and bottom of the wings either side as the real thing looks a tad more sharply 'beaked' at that point. Right then, that glue can cure overnight and we can carry out a damage assessment tomorrow to see if any further filling alonf the roots is required! Do have a lovely evening all of you. Tonight's viewing chez Baron involves an episode of The Thick of It followed by Fair warning: no fecking anecdotes about where you were when Armstrong stepped off the ladder. I cannot emphasize this point strongly enough. Chin chin til next time.!🍸 Tony

Just put all the steps etc on work in progress so hope someone gets a bit of inspiration like i did!! Thanks for looking!!

Ferrari 312T3 British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, July 1978 The 1978 British Grand Prix was, for me, one of those exciting camping weekends that I still remember well. We were there at Clearways and saw that opportunistic move made by Carlos Reutemann to overtake Lauda and win the race. These are a couple of photos taken during practice: The model is from the Tamiya 1/20th kit. I bought the kit around 1980 and has been in a number of attics waiting to be built since then! The decals had yellowed desperately over the years so they were replaced by a set from Indycals which worked very well. Decals were provided for the white areas but I wondered how on earth they could be made go around that much curvature, so I painted the white using Halfords Appliance White straight from the can over Tamiya white primer. It needed some intricate masking before spraying the Tamiya gloss red. The kit wings were chrome finished which looked slightly ridiculous so I sanded this off and used AK Extreme Metal Polished Aluminium to finish them. The wheels are also chromed but I managed to tone them down using some dark grey wash and a coat of Humbrol satin varnish. Anyway, here is the final product. It looks the part except for the usual issue with these kits which is the difficulty in getting the bodywork to fit snuggly. Chris

This was my oldest 'stalled' project--or 'shelf queen'--having been started in 2014, assembled to about 90% completion (including canopy on, masked and primed)...then stopped for reasons I can't begin to remember. The inspiration dates back to a color photo of the same a/c in the late lamented World Air Power Journal, published shortly after the conclusion of the Gulf War. VAQ-137 'Rooks' were part of CVW-1 flying from USS America (CV-66) during Desert Storm, the only EA-6B squadron to operate from both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. In addition to regular ECM missions, the squadron's aircraft fired 30 AGM-88 HARM missiles in support of Coalition Forces. #622 was credited with 7 of those launches. Super Scale did a sheet of three Desert Storm Prowlers in 1/72 scale shortly thereafter, and fortunately this aircraft was one of those covered. After breaking out the kit several weeks ago and getting going again, the project was pretty smooth sailing. Various mixes of Tamiya acrylics did nicely for the patchy/weathered and spot-repainted look common to USN aircraft in the modern 'all gray' era. The Super Scale decals were slightly over-large in places, but for being close to twenty years old, went on like a dream with not a single crack, split or dissolve. (Whew!) Only aftermarket used was the Super Bug resin cockpit (which was gorgeous and easy to use, with probably the best-cast seats I've ever seen) and a pair of HARMs from the old Italeri US/NATO ordnance set (w/scratch-built launch rails). My only real difficulty arose after removing the ancient masking, which had ever-so-slightly etched the clear surfaces in spots to a fine haze, and left rough and crackly frame lines. (I know, I know...I actually do know better than to leave it on for so long!) A little judicious buffing and some Future took care of the haze. As to the frames...fortunately one of my 'old dog' tricks--learned the hard way through the years--is to spray up some decal stock in the various colors I use, against this very possibility. I managed to cut strips and restore the frames to something close to decent without too much trauma. The canopy actually has a slight copper/smoke tint applied, though it doesn't show up that well in the finished shots. Photos of the original a/c depicted show the 'real' tint to be fairly inconspicuous, just appearing to darken the canopies a bit. I followed that pattern, not wanting to obscure the lovely interior, since she was to be finished and displayed as 'buttoned up.' Last note: I must have scavenged the kit's drop tanks for some other project, at some point. The loadout depicted should have a fuel tank on the port inboard pylon; until I can find a replacement, I added an extra ALQ-99 pod on that station, just to 'fill it out' for the pics. Enjoy!

Update #3 Not a heck of a lot done today as I took the missus to see "Rocketman" and will hopefully be cheering on Queensland's own Ashleigh Barty to her first Grand Slam Tennis final appearance - Go Ash!! The Canberra wheel well sidewalls and ceiling got a splash of silver paint and once dry were assembled as shown. I'll add a light wash later on in the build, so will leave them bright and shiny for a little while longer. Cheers.. Dave

Hi all, here my new Eduard Fw 190 A-8/R2. Built it out of the Kit "Reichsverteidigung". Just a great model with lot of details. Add the Brassin-Löök instrument panel, Brassin pitot and the PE exterior set by Eduard.

Just have to weather it up now for a dusty environment. this is a nice kit to build with lots of detail in the cockpit and i used kit decals and good old Humbrol enamels for the paint scheme. still think that Humbrol has the best Azure Blue out there.

Hi all: I'm new to this subforum of Britmodeller. As I said to a partner, I usually make models of airplanes but I really like any thing that flies, be it real or fictitious. And here I am with this great Bandai kit. It has a spectacularly small and perfect detail, as well as the adjustment of its parts. I hope the god of the models makes the Bandai decide to make kits of aircraft, would be very welcome, I'm sure. COCKPIT The exterior part of the cockpit comes exquisitely detailed, like the rest of the kit parts. Even so, I decide to detail it with some cable. For this I use part of the black staple to obtain stretched plastic of two thicknesses. The instructions indicate neutral gray for both the interior and exterior of cockpit. I consider it correct and apply Tamiya XF-53. I paint both the cables and some details with different shades of gray, red and yellow from Vallejo MC, varnish with Tamiya gloss and apply oil to highlight details. The final finish I give it with satin varnish of Vallejo Model Air. To the back inside I paint some details with light gray of Vallejo MC. I apply oils to highlight, I put the decals and finish airbrushing satin varnish from Vallejo MA. The command post is very well reproduced. And the pilot is no exception. It is molded in black plastic and when it receives a hand of gray primer it is possible to perceive all the good detail it has. It is enviable for a figure in 1/72 scale. Only the gloves and the upper pockets of the pants are missing. I am not at all happy with the result of the pilot's painting and his "office". On the one hand, I have felt very uncomfortable painting a completely black figure, both bright and matt. All the good detailed work in the molding of the figure goes unnoticed, especially the detail of the helmet that in addition to black is bright. And on the other hand I should have been more attentive when it comes to removing the excess oil before varnishing .... Unbearable on my part. As the one who has no excuse is because I do not want to say that, although it had been a magnificently painted piece would have been a useless job because being black and locked in a cabin so tiny and almost without giving a ray of light it will be virtually impossible to differentiate if it was good or badly painted. Or even if you will see the cables that I bothered to add. Sometimes the satisfaction of knowing that "that" is there, even if it is not seen, compensates, but this is not the case. PAINTING THE OUTSIDE For the exterior of the ship I tried to create a mixture of bluish gray. In the screenshots I took of the movie "The Empire Strikes Back" the Tie Figther are seen in a bluish gray color, unlike the light gray of Star Wars. However, I have been able to observe in some photo of the real models used in the filming that they had a somewhat intense blue color, and I would say with a point towards green. I have chosen to paint them as I saw them and I see them at the moment when I see the film and for that I have made a mixture of Tamiya paintings. For the mixture I used 3 parts of white XF-2, 2 parts of light gray XF-66 and 1 part of neutral gray XF-53. For the cockpit glass and some details in darker gray I opted to use Tamiya XF-53. Regards.

Left to my own devices all day has been great, another one completed. Hellcat flown by Lt. Alexander Vraciu, VF-6 USS Intrepid, February 1944.

Ready for inspection. My first gallery on Brtitmodeller. This is Lockheed F-104G Starfighter on Matchbox kit PK-28.

Morning all,glad to say she's done so will get her in the gallery tonight.

Blimey, I might be on the wrong GB here, the 24 hr GB might have been this ones natural home. From nowhere, this one's not far from finished! The plane got the basics fitted and glued last night. That didn't take long, this is no Tamiya kit. This morning saw me rubbing down any seams and then polishing the airframe with some of my ever diminishing supply of S n' J Polishing Powder. Long gone now, I love using it for a really bright finish. A bit of detailing with paint and a slice of yellow transfer got the bombs looking OK. The very basic undercarriage got a bit of paint detail as well. The Canopy was finished with a Molotow chrome pen. Not exactly period, I know. Call it artistic license. A quick bit of masking and the anti glare panel was done, in an inaccurate matt black. It's fine for the box artwork though and that's what I'm following here. The temptation to add a couple of transfers was a bit too much for me. They went on beautifully, not bad for sixty year old transfers! I'm now left with a bit of remaining detailing to do. I left the gun barrels off as the polishing process would almost certainly have knocked them off. Sprue replacements will sort that out. A bit of a wham bang thank you ma'am kind of a build. It's startled me with the speed it's come together. The early P40 is not far behind this one either! Onward and Upwards. Tony.

Frog F292 Junkers Ju88A-4 B3+PM, II/KG54, Totenkopf Geschwader, Russia, Winter 1942. The F292 Junkers Ju88 was reissued in 1971. It was the 1964 kit with changes to allow the fitting of the Spin-A-Prop accessory and new transfers. While the model looks like a Ju88, it does show its age, and some of the changes made for compromises along the way. With its shortcomings compared to modern kits, and not actually needing a Ju88 for my collection, I elected for a quick build, in the manner of Saturday afternoons of yore. The colour guides and transfers allowed for a simple scheme, and I chose the Russian Front 1942 winter scheme for something a bit different. I've tried to retain as many of the original working features as possible. The model has been built wheels up and mounted on the stand because I don't do it very often and it looks quite effective to my mind. Painting is a mixture of Humbrol enamels and acrylics, with some gentle weathering by powders just to give the flat colours a little life. I hadn't intended to complete the build so quickly, but it just went that way. It seems I may have been able to claim the pole position in the Gallery! WIP thread is on this link:

This is the latest in my BA Negus fleet. It's the Authentic Airliners kit with 26 Decals livery and AA cabin and cockpit windows decals. Halfords Appliance White and Racking Grey also a mix of Tamiya X3 Royal Blue and X16 Purple for the belly. Bare metal areas are Mr Metal Color Aluminium. Although not a difficult kit by any means this one has taken a long time mainly due to my procrastination and having too many other projects on the go at the same time! I have displayed it on the apron attended to by a couple of engineers due to problems starting the engines. The passengers and crew have all boarded and are ready to go. Hopefully they can get the problem sorted or the flight might miss it's slot! And here are a few 'with something else' shots! Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. As ever I look forward to any comments and criticisms. Cheers, Ian

Hello all - I started this kit a few nights ago but have only got round to posting tonight - I’m going back to 1/72 land after a brief jaunt into 1/48 - which I thoroughly enjoyed but I have a large stash of aircraft in the smaller variety so I reckon I’ll try to get as many of those finished before buying any more kits - that’s the plan in any case 😇. Here’s the kit - the new tooled Il-2 from tamiya - I bought this from a supplier in japan as I couldn’t find it anywhere else - took about 2 months to arrive but I was v happy when it did. I love Soviet warbirds - so utilitarian - brutish and gnarly. I want to build a load of them but this is the first on the hit list. Not much in the way of aftermarket- some resin wheels and a canopy mask. Starting this off - begining with the fuselage. This went together nicely as you would expect from a tamiya new tool... With that complete I got into the pit... which I’ve just about finished... sorry I neglected to take pictures. Forgot I was Wip ing 😌 I added some eduard seatbelts - after gluing into place they got a coat of tamiya panel line wash - brown. The instrument panel was quite nice - the decal went on nicely - I painted on some details and then put on another wash after a gloss coat. The fuel tank was painted black and then I dry brushed on aluminum- followed by a panel line wash. The rear section has some nice detail but is still pretty sparse. After the initial coat of tamiya xf22, I dry brushed a lighter colour - base coat with added white. Then picked out some details with a few more colours. There was a pretty big seam line on the floor of the back section- so I added some wire to cover this up... So a quick dry fit to make sure everything was on track... Fit is very good. I’m enjoying this immensely so far - hopefully things continue in this vain. More to follow shortly - thanks for looking in !

Lotus 72C Oulton Park Gold Cup, 22nd August 1970 This is the Ebbro kit straight from the box apart from the addition of Tamiya seat belts and Tabu decals (how could anybody finish this kit without 'Gold Leaf Team Lotus' writ large on the sides?) I was 19 years old in 1970, and hitch-hiked to Oulton Park with a friend to see this event. It was a significant meeting on 3 counts - 1. that it was the first win for a Surtees F1 car, 2. that it was the first race of the first ever Tyrrell, and 3. (although no one knew this at the time of course) it was Jochen Rindt's last race as he was killed at Monza two weeks later. Chris

from the fantastic 50s NATO v Warsaw Pact in Europe GB: still time to vote gents if you'd like by the way!!! just learned recently that MiGs were based in Austria in force once!! around 40-50 MiG-15s were based there in the 1950ies! MiG-15bis Soviet Airforce 59th Air Army Wiener Neustadt West Airbase ~1950-1955 Trumpeter 1/48 Master pitot and canons Cold War Studio fin correction Some PART PE some some contemporary photos... I'd really like to see a photo of an Austria based MiG-15!!! so if you have any hint on where to find one..... thanks for stopping here and leaving a comment! Werner

My first Gallery pictures just went up. Hooray! An out of left field build that I certainly didn't see coming, it's given me a proper boost to crack on with more! Here's the current backlog on my bench. Steady progress being made on all of them. Happy days. Hows things looking on your bench? Tony.

390P Republic P47 Thunderbolt 1959 This one's the first issue of this kit, from way back in 1959. It scrubs up well for a sixty year old! A straight out the box build, everything sort of fell into place on this build. All the parts fitted very well, not that there was many of them in the first place. The polished metal finish is S n' J polishing powder rubbed into the bare kit plastic. The product is no longer available unfortunately, I like it a lot. I'm also rapidly running out of the stuff. It's a bit delicate, fingerprints mark the finish and need re-polishing. It also dulls down a bit over the years but that makes it even better in my opinion. It can take a re-polish if you are careful around the markings. It will stain transfers at the drop of a hat. The transfers performed faultlessly. No cockpit detail is provided with the kit. you can't see a lot in there anyway. Ditto wheel wells. nothing provided, bar an outline. I painted the wells black and had done with it. All in all, a highly enjoyable build. It only took a day from start to finish as well. That's a good moral booster for my further contributions to the Group Build. Here's the model...

A happy hour or two in the shed today see's this one finished. It looks like a Thunderbolt to me. I'll add to the gallery in a minute. Tony.

This build was actually finished the week before IPMS nationals at Telford. It subsequently made it to the LSP display table but due to extensive building work taking place at Phartycr0c Towers, I have not been able to take any decent photographs, even these are a poor show ith half my living room in shot. Anyhow, following the purchase of a MENG 163 and a discussion around replicating the box art the plan was to produce an in flight B17 diorama including the 163, To that end I obtained a crew and proceeded to produce a rubbish in progress thread. Well this is the result, a little photo intensive i know but there is no way I could get the whole thing in with any success so you have lots of bits. Ladies and Gents, "In Peril"

Hi all; I've just completed an Airfix Mustang. I'm really enjoying these "new" Airfix kits, there's more in the pipeline. I know I buggered up the D-Day stripes... doh. Comments and advice welcome though. The full story of the build and my reasoning on some of the markings is in the build article here: Making-History.ca Cheers; Mark.

This is Grumman f-14A Tomcat. Very old kit Revell/LS. 1/144 Scale. Decals VF-1 Wolfpack, USS Ranger. pic upload

Yes, there are other differences and you are right about the engine: the S used a later J79 variant with a variable geometry nozzles using different and longer feathers. You can see these sticking out more behind the airframe, but unless when comparing two pictures side by side this is not always clear to see. The same nozzle was also retrofitted on all German Gs as part of a smoke reduction program... and it was in essence the nozzle used on the F-4E and J and derivatives. One other difference is in the centre ventral fin: this on the S is very slightly smaller, as the leading edge has a 45° angle with the fuselage instead of the approx. 30° of the G. Easy to correct on a kit. More difficult to correct can be the intakes. These are very slightly shorter, some source say they are a bit bulkier, in any case they have an access panel of different shape. The Hasegawa 1/48 S does not feature the correct intakes (but they are in their 1/72 kit) but the Daco set IIRC does. Seat was always the Mk.7, in a variant built for Italy. The S introduced two further hardpoints under the wings to be able to carry 4 missiles... practically never done. The S could also carry two extra pylons under the fuselage, often known as BL-22 pylons. These could carry one Sidewinder each and while are often seen on aircraft at static displays were considered for war use only and stopped being used very early as they kept the missiles very close to the ground, resulting in damaged seeker windows. The S was used in two subvariants; CI for interception and CB for ground attack. CI aircraft had no gun as the room was used for the equipment needed by the Sparrow missile. CB aircraft had the gun but when used in the nuclear strike role the gun was replaced with an extra fuel tank. CB aircraft had a radar-altimeter close to the fibreglass panel under the front fuselage. This meant moving the landing light to behind the front wheel well. CI aircraft retained the landing light in the original location but those updated to ASA-M got the radar altimeter and had to move the landing light... Antennas changed with time and updates. In any case all CI aircraft had 4 very small teardrop shaped antennas on the rear fuselage. These are moulded in place on all 1/72 Hasegawa Starfighters, can't remember about the 1/48 kit. There may be a few extra details I forgot, in case I'll get back to you

Thanks Terry I have sanded down the epoxy putty and glued the sponsons on to the fuselage halves:

So, the lights are painted and glued along with the other small things. The clear coat are dried and I can call her finished: I’m glad to welcome you all to an RFI thread: Special thanks to you, guys: @corsaircorp, @Silenoz, @The Spadgent, @Ex-FAAWAFU, @USS_ESSESS, @bbudde, @phantom61, @TANK63, @Hook, @Alan P, @Beazer, @badger, @Terry1954, @James G, @StephenCJ, @Fulcrum Guy, @Andrew, @bentwaters81tfw, @MikeR! Thanks for looking!

Hi all: Well, after some problem with Flickr you can give start to my intervention in this Build Group. INTRODUCTION.- To build this Spitfire I will use the following: - Spitfire MK IX by Eduard, Profipack Edition. - Eduard's Cockpit. - Eduard's engine. - Eduard's Wheels. - Eduard's cannons. - Eduard's photoetched ailerons. The plane that I want to represent will be the one belonging to Flight Sergeant Vladimir Nedelka of Esc. 310 in the RAF Flight Field of Appledram, located in the south of England and about 3 km from the town of Chichester at the beginning of June 1944 and that during the battle of Normandy he had the mission of fighter-bomber. I found a photograph of Sergeant Nedelka dated May 1944. The plane still does not have the invasion bands. About Sergeant Nedelka I could only find out that he died in 1986 and that he therefore survived the war. Here I show you the photo I found of him. THE COCKPIT.- It is the only thing I had built before starting the group built and I have been authorized to intervene in it. Therefore, even being the first day of the group built I present it already painted completely. Before starting with the interior, I made some holes in the sides of the fuselage in order to introduce the wire antenna. I have made them with a 0.2 mm bit and I have incised internally with a 0.3 mm one so that when I introduce them, they have less opposition to entering since surely the thread that I use is elastic and therefore not very rigid. In the side pieces of resin have measured poorly and are longer; of the order of 0.4 or 0.5 mm with respect to the stops that the internal part of the fuselage presents. I have several options: cut the piece of resin on the back, to fit between the two stops, or remove the rear stop. I decide for the 2nd option, which is easier for me and I am not in danger of deteriorating the piece of resin. There would be a 3rd option that would be to remove the front bumper but that would be a mistake. It would make the settings on the front panel and other vertical elements misaligned. The 4th, which would be to remove both stops and place it by eye, would cause not having any really exact reference in both half-faces which would also be problematic at the time of a precise adjustment of the front panel and other parts of the vertical structure. The adjustment of the resin parts with each other and with the fuselage is practically perfect and does not need readjustments with sandpaper. The base color was: 50% H-312, 50% H-53, both from Gunze. Except that and the pilot's chair, which has been a mixture of brown and red from Gunze, I have painted everything with Vallejo MC colors. At the sight I have put the crystal using transparent acetate and added the power cable. After applying Tamiya glossy varnish I have paneled with oil and I have sealed it with the same. The final finish has been matt opal varnish of Titan. Regards.

It’s kind of the point of this classic GB. We are building 50-year-old kits, and not really expecting them to match the latest high tech ones on the market. It’s a celebration, if you like, of childhood and where we’ve come from, the heritage of kit makers over the years that have brought us to where we are now. It’s up to each builder to do what they feel they want to do with the kit they have. With time and effort, and a mild turning of the odd blind eye to shortcomings, many of these ancient kits can be made to look something special. In other cases, as I found with the Ju88 I just completed, it’s probably not worth the time and effort of bringing up to near modern standards. I built it for fun. It looks okay, and I am happy with the way it turned out, and that is sufficient for me.

Thanks Gents - I've had a go at some stick chopping The gloves are unpainted so they're 'flesh', honest! White gloves required eh? Thanks Ben Ah, a Skyray, I'd like one of those, one day Rear stick chopped: Into the small parts drawer to find something for the console: This'll do I reckon:

F-15DJ Eagle 202 Squadron, 5th Wing, JASDF 1/100 Ben Hobby kit, built OOB. Finished using Humbrol enamel paints. The build thread is here. Cheers Cliff

So, finally the Stbd side painted and overall light coat of washed out grey to tone things down, Turrets painted after adding front vent doors and rear doors, Ladders to be added yet, and may yet add rivets. Have made a different antenna fr'd of funnel more akin to a Yagi type. Long way to go yet. Port windows came out ok as did my armoured ones which I scratch built in the upper aft superstructure. So to now make various wooden deck boats, carly floats Oerlicons, plank the wooden area's finish the aft .5 vickers mount and observation room on superstructure.... the list seems to grow rather than diminish!!!!!!!!!

This is the Hasegawa Mitsubishi F-2A. A very nice kit with good fit and fine detail. I struggled with the colours but in the end went for Xtracrylix RAF Azure blue underneath and Hataka US Navy dark sea blue on top. If anything the underside is a bit on the light side but I'm pretty happy with it. z20190605_202525 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr z20190605_202515 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr z20190605_202503 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr z20190605_202451 by Derek N.Ferguson, on Flickr

This 3D Blitz Model Pilatus is my latest completion. I used a set of Matterhorn Circle decals for the markings and with the exception of some foil belts on the seats and the scratch built aerials everything else was as it comes in the box. It's a bit photo heavy so I apologise in advance and thanks for your patience. Swiss Airforce Pilatus PC-21, A-107 by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr And a final photo alongside my 1/144 scale Patrouille Suisse F-5. by John L, on Flickr

Lots of little jobs getting in the way of modelling but I've managed some progress. What decals their were, are on. Now they're dry, they don't look too bad and I think they'll look even better once a satin varnish is applied...hopefully. The black decals were a fail, just wouldn't come off the backing paper. So, out with the masking take and the black markings airbrushed on. Next, I need to apply a Satin coat, add the little bits and then think about adding the rigging onto the lower wing. Stuart