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  1. Mach 2 1/72 with homemade decals otherwise straight from the box Steve
    27 points
  2. This was actually intended for Lockheed GB But one thing led to another, I missed the build deadline, and finished it several days ago... So here it is.. Hasegawa 1/72 CF-104, OOB beside wires for the ejection seat. I use mostly AK Interactive Xtreme Metal, Mr.Hobby Super Metallic, and Mr.Color paints. Cheers, Mario
    19 points
  3. Hello everyone... I present to you my Revell P-47D in 1/72 scale. I used a set of aztec decals Juicy Jug's. These are for post war Mexican Air Force Thunderbolts. I used two of the national markings and tail flashes to make a World War II version. I like the decals and kit so much that i will be building a few more of the Latin American options on the sheet. The 201st was assigned to the USAAF 58th F.G. In the Philippines. My hope is that it passes muster, a link to the build log in case you are curious ? Please feel free to ask questions, comment, ot give me your thoughts. Dennis
    16 points
  4. A few years back, I dug my one and only World War One build out of the cabinet, and thought, what the heck, take some pics of the old girl for a few grins. It had never been photographed before, and it looks pretty rough in many ways. It is the ancient Testors (ex-Hawk) kit of the Nieuport Type 17 C.1 sesqui-plane built probably around 1994 or so. It has my first attempt at rigging, using fine guitar string. I did scratch-build an entire cockpit, including sidewalls,floor, headrest and instrument panel. The exhaust is drilled out solder and I added some oil filler caps. The bungee cord shock-absorbers are thread coated with thinned white glue. I also made the elevator horns and added the control cables, again from fine wire. The gun sight ring is copper wire. I believe the paint is Floquil Old Silver and the engine cowl is probably Humbrol polished aluminum (just can’t recall for sure). The cockpit sidewalls are painted in some linen enamel. I used the kit decals. The Lafayette insignia of the Seminole Indian was supposedly taken off a box of Savage rifle cartridges back in The Great War. That pilot figure is probably close to 60 years old and originally came with the old Aurora 1/48 Spad, iirc. I added him just to give a sense of scale and of course he still wears the paint job I gave him all those years ago. The base is something I threw together after I got home from work one winter afternoon. My usual piece of “tarmac” just wouldn’t do for this WWI plane. I really would like to have a base that features a dirt runway for some older aircraft. Maybe a project for this winter? We bought a Nikon D3300 DSLR a few Christmases back, and this is the only model I’ve photographed with it thus far, and I don’t really know what I’m doing, lol. I experimented with the macro mode and automatic and one can see why I usually take my pics outdoors. 😉 None of these pics are that great but I had fun shooting them. With a whole lot of trepidation, I’m posting this genuine “blast from the past” (in more ways than one, 😀) and I hope you take a look…just not too close! Of course, you already know comments are always welcomed! Thanks for your interest! Gary
    15 points
  5. What's this? Encouraged by your kind comments I decided to experiment. That's Ced speak for 'have a bash and don't worry if it doesn't turn out that well'. Remember this?: As you can see there are some red lines added to the previous windows template. Experienced Studio users will also be saying "Watch out! That image is in the cutting area!" I didn't notice until I cut the tape: Oh well, it seems to have cut well otherwise. In fact too well - it cut through the metal and the backing (but not the mat, smug) so the bits fell off. I need to adjust the settings, sometime. What will it look like when it's on? As our US friends would say, "Meh". Good enough for the ceiling it is… Find some barrels, glue some holes and stick 'em on and we have a turret in the final stages: it needs a wash and windows and another coat of Night, but I think I'll move on.
    15 points
  6. Frog F4 1/72 with extended nacelles used to test reheat, with homemade decals Steve
    13 points
  7. Special Hobby 1/72 T7 straight from the box With the family..... Steve
    13 points
  8. Airfix F3 1/72 with scratchbuilt rear cockpit, with homemade decals, this was used by Martin-Baker for the early ejection seat trials Steve
    13 points
  9. Hi all! This model of the Hawker Hunter is from Revell in the 1/72 scale. Done some time in the past...really it was a very fast assembly, and a very interesting painting job...it was a very fun project! See the pictures : Regards! Luiz.
    13 points
  10. F196F Mustang Mk II, lightly backdated to a Mustang Mk I. Not the most accurate kit in the world but it was fun to build. Build thread is here. Thanks for looking, Adrian
    13 points
  11. Frogs Vintage Fw 190 A-3 dating from 1959 this was the bagged version,no interior detail or wheel wells,no gun details on the upper cowling so replaced with a spare from the Hasegawa 190,all brush painted as i went full vintage,apart from this and the He219 I havnt built in 1/72 scale for yonks,I may have found a new obsession Been an absolute hoot,Thanks to the group hosts.
    13 points
  12. Special Hobby 1/72 F8 with homemade decals, bombs and rockets from the spares box and scratchbuilt RATO bottles Steve
    12 points
  13. Progress. I thought I'd better see how the turret fitted into the fuselage so those parts were sawn off the tree: We're expecting the usual short-run attributes aren't we and this isn't a disappointment: No locating pins, gates that go over the seam, differing thicknesses of plastic and a curl near the edge of the part. I was ready for all that. I wasn't ready for the fit of the turret top - it won't settle in the hole and will need to be 'encouraged' to sit into the hole: The turret, now butchered, has been painted IG on the inside and aluminium on the outside and looks good enough for the ceiling: More tomorrow.
    12 points
  14. Hi folk's,the madness continues over in the Frog GB,my latest efforts are the Hellcat and Corsair,usual script build'em like we used to back when they were the latest thing hopefully without fogged up canopies and fingerprints in the paintwork.The Corsair is 100% kosher including the original decals,Hellcat's hadn't worn well so replaced the roundels saved the codes.Many thanks for looking Oh and for our "younger" members Frog went bust way back in the seventies so these kits are all over 40 year old boxings!
    10 points
  15. I like a clean lining from time to time Simon - I use it to check the flow on the AB and that's not as easy when the paper's multi-coloured! Try that here today John and you'd have lost the model and your hair! Oops, sorry Crisp, now corrected with HUGE apologies! Thanks Ben Hataka IG sprayed: I'm using it up. The ClearFix has worked fine: So I've done the other side.
    10 points
  16. Hello there guys! I have managed to move on from the shock of re adjusting the sections to fit one and other and onto the wing fillets!....a bit fiddly but got there in the end! This is how I achieved it.................. The first job was to cut to shape a piece of yogurt pot plastic (to save using expensive plastic card)....and glue it on the bottom of the fuselage to make up the bottom section of the fillet and then to place a few ribs on the plate to secure it.... All the wiring and pipes etc were then placed in position.......the cover plate I previously made on the last post is in the foreground of the photo...... The same was then done on the starboard side....... The front plate which was cut from plastic card... was then glued into place after first painting all the detail previously scratched....here are a few photos....... The next task was the hardest part and that was to cut another piece of yogurt pot plastic to the shape of the top part of the fillet and glue it in position....here is the finished construction...... So all I had to do now was to paint the face plate and I attached some aluminum tape to the top of the fillet to see what it looked like. Here then are the wing fillets around the Radio room section complete......... So I am now going to do the hopefully last part of this Radio room section and that is to place the Aluminum tape over the fuselage.... So until then.....thanks guys for taking a look! Cheers Fozzy
    10 points
  17. Hi all here is my Airfix 1:48 Hawker Hunter F.6 I finished it in the markings of a Royal Jordanian Air Force F.6 1966 Extra details added Brengun PE ladder (BRL48018) Quickboost Ejection Seat (QB48550) Cutting Edge Hunters part 1 (48043) Scratch built chocks from sprue and wire Scratch built FOD Guards Pitot RBF Tag Plus base Tamiya paints used throughout apart from the red which was from Revell (cheers Steve 👍) The camo was Airbrushed by hand Ive thoroughly Enjoyed this build from start to finish Thank you to Steve (speedy) for some welcome input with this build Thank you for looking and enjoy
    9 points
  18. Hi folk's,out and about today picked up a box to put this GB's kits in so after taking some pics of the Hellcat and Corsair thought I'd take a group shot of what's completed.What a superb GB this has been(still plenty to go) great builds,great crack and a real nostalgia trip too,Wessex nearly there only the B17 slowly making progress.
    9 points
  19. That's the spirit Ced! Not an unusual reaction in this thread Anthony. I sometimes wonder myself.... I did that foil detailing for the wing fairings as I removed the original kit surface moulding due to them being too exagarrated in term of the lips of the fairings and also the prominence of rivets. You can see in this Belgian Annie that the fairing is a prominent feature that needs to be represented, but also that it blends in to the surrounding surfaces rather more than the original moulding would have had it: If I find my foil is still too graphic an outline after priming then it should be an easy enough job to run some PPP along the edge with finger. Most kind of you - as always - Chris. The concrete foundations have cure well but any further activity on hiatus due to constant rainy weather. Hope you are keeping well yourself sir. Thanks Roger! (It would want to be given the build's been running for over a year now, I was horrified to realize again last evening....) Glad you're enjoying developments Giorgio. Spent an hour looking for my missing ruler this morning: Didn't realize that the back of the tablet was magnetic... Despite this level of idiocy things did get to move forward significantly in that I finally got round to planning out the ribs for the extended underside: Having marked out the necessary height of the ribs (subtracting the width of the card stock that will cover it) I then marked out the boundaries for the added pannelling with Washi tape: The region immediately behind the nose section is actually a removable ribbed panel (which you can see removed here): - whereas the rest of the belly seems to be an elongated run that I spilt into sections in the above drawing purely for the purpose of adding reinforcing ribs where the contour changes as it tapers toward the tail. Once I'd got the respective widths and heights organized it was over into Illustrator to get the rib profiles drawn out to scale: These then got turned into another experiment on the Silhouette in terms of seeing how far I could get something that narrow and curved scored into (0.7mm) plasticard: Using the 'coverstock/heavy' setting and a standard Autoblade it turns out this works rather nicely and need only a light score a couple of times with a fresh scalpel blade to pop free: A lick of TET and these were added into their required locations: Looking at the comparative thinness of these ribs I decided as a precaution to beef them up with the scond set of ribs that I'd cut so that they would gives a larger surface area to attach the outer skin to later: They should be robust enough now. A look at that the correct way up: As mentioned some time back I'm going to be using @limeypilots ballpoint scoring method for making the ribbed panels; need to mock up some paper templates first though before committing to plastic. Not this afternoon though as I'm running Mrs. B over to Birr to collect some work, which should be fun given that the local Facebook page is announcing that the wind has a few trees down around the area in the last few hours. All four of the kittens in a rare shot in which they are not all simultaneously in motion wrecking the house: Found out the collective noun for them at this age is a 'kindle'. 'Maelstrom' would have been more apposite... Better get the Ulster and driving goggles on and go crank up the Lanchester. Take care 'til next time. Tony
    9 points
  20. Update #8 - Finally some paint! Apologies for dragging this one now for so long, however assembly has practically finished and it's now time to apply some paint. I started by painting the underside in what we all know as High Speed Silver. My favourite silver of choice these days is Tamiya's AS-12 Airframe Silver. This comes in an aerosol can, however I prefer to decant it and mix it with Gunze's Mr. Levelling thinner. If there's one thing that silver paint is good for and that's reminding you that your build skills are not as good as you think they are! My initial 'primer' coat did show up quite a number of flaws and I must admit that these did look worse it direct sunlight than normal indoor light. Either way, the joins were not good enough, so it was sand and refill time again until I achieved a better result. It's still not perfect by any stretch, however will be good enough for a classic kit of this vintage. Anyway, here's some photos, two after the initial primer and fix up sanding session and a few more of where I think I'll settle on. Cheers.. Dave
    9 points
  21. Thanks Ben and Bill Yes, I've gotten over my 'I am not worthy' mood, for now. Thanks guys (which, for me, is multi-gender. Gosh, this p.c. is SO difficult!) Nulm oil washed and in with the ClearFix: You can't see the windows yet - they're on the other side. The ClearFix droops and then tightens as it dries so it's been rested like that until it dries a bit. I like this stuff for this sort of job. I follow the instructions on the Humbrol site and it works for me: "A cocktail stick is usually the most practical means of application. Run a small drop of Clear fix around the edge of the window then draw across the opening to produce a thin membrane." It says drying time is 24 hours, unfortunately. I'll put it to one side.
    9 points
  22. Special Hobby 1/72 long-span F4 with Aeroclub PR nose, with homemade decals Steve
    9 points
  23. Waiting for a few touches and the clear coat. After that, it will be unmasked and some details will be added:
    9 points
  24. I wasn't sure where to post this as it doesn't really fit any of the categories! Resin kit with homemade decals and I replaced the kit vacform canopy as it wasn't very clear, scratchbuilt detonator, detour sign and paint pot. Steve
    8 points
  25. Airfix F3 1/72 with modified nose, with homemade decals Steve
    8 points
  26. #20/2019 After the 109 in Romanian colours, my dad built also a Hurricane in foreign service. Hasegawa Romanian Hurricane kit, Eduard seatbelts, in the kit missing early style prop and spinner taken from the new Airfix Hurricane I, missing 5-spoke wheels from ultracast, missing early style antenna mast from the spares box, no ring but at least a crosshair gunsight included in the kit, decals from the kit and RB Productions. Tamiya Flat Earth and Dark Green for the upper camo, camo scheme done with masks from AML. Build thread here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235056037-carpathian-eagle148-hawker-hurricane-mki-romanian-airforce/ Aircraft from Escadrila 53 Vanatoare, autumn 1941, Eastern Front DSC_0001 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0004 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0005 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0006 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0007 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0008 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0009 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0011 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0012 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0013 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0014 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0015 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0016 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0017 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0018 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0019 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr
    8 points
  27. Hi folks! Here are my work on Tamiya Nissan Skyline 2000GTR. The ideia was not make with silver paintjob. There are already many models in silver, nothing against, but mine I wanted different color. Change of wheels, lowered rear and front suspension and some details on motor. Thats all!
    8 points
  28. Afternoon again folks,Grumman Hellcat in FAA colours.
    8 points
  29. Afternoon folk's, Frog's Corsair in British Pacific Fleet colours.
    8 points
  30. Frog Bearcat French Airforce , painted with xtracrylix sea blue finished with Winsor and Newton Satin
    8 points
  31. Four F-16s of Eskadrille 727, Royal Danish Air Force, at Nellis AFB for Red Flag 84-4, Jun 1984. 80-3600, E-600 80-3601, E-601 80-3609, E-609 80-3614, ET614 Esk 727 badge Interception target identification light Thanks for looking, Sven
    8 points
  32. Something like that? Hopefully not for children then. Cheers Benedikt
    8 points
  33. Hi folk's,just blasted this one and the Corsair with matt coat they're drying nicely so later I should get the canopies fitted and possibly both in the Gallery,just starting ten days off so you'll be glad to know you can have a rest from these endless builds and updates modelling time will be scant as the missus is off for the first five and has things "planned" which means shops,shops and more shops none of the modelling kind either!
    8 points
  34. A handsome turret has appeared - the real Ced is back! Fnarr-forecast: sudden gusts and possible damp patches.
    8 points
  35. Thanks for all the encouragement folks . . . Decided I'd earned an easy spell and give my eyes a rest. So I've started on the wood jetty which will feature in the dio As per usual started with a drawing, CA glued the base strips and worked away from that and here is where we at so far Thanks for stopping by Kev
    8 points
  36. No B-29 (or any other WW2 bomber for that matter). But, here it is with another famous Northrop warplane: (P.S. B-29 wingspan was 141 ft. The YB-35 comes in at 172 ft.) I'm just about finished with the gloss black base coat. I've been sanding, polishing, repainting, etc. for the past couple of days and have blackened fingers to prove it! I just finished some touch-up repaint for some areas where I had sanded through the black down to the primer. Tomorrow I'll give it a light sanding and call it ready for the next step. I still haven't decided whether or not to do the "mottling" over the black, but am leaning heavily in that direction. On an entirely different topic, IPMS USA is currently holding its National convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee (just a couple hours away). I decided to play hooky from work today spend some well-earned vacation time and see the show. I have one word for it: overwhelming! The display hall is enormous and the vendor room is about twice as large! I didn't enter anything into the competition, other than my contribution to our local chapter's Group Build: That's mine on the far right (a larger pic is in the first post of this build thread). I'd like to say mine is the best of the bunch, but to be honest this I'd trade mine for this one in a heartbeat! I did pick up a few items from the vendors' area, such as: to keep me from spilling adhesive on my builds 😱 and this, to replace my bad bottle: and finally, this (because I am crazy beyond help 🤪 )
    8 points
  37. Cheers guys, its has been while So a bit more work on the front decks, some improvements made to the old Tamiya kit, Eduard PE and some basic scratch building. Exhaust drilled out and the first baffle added, vertical one yet to add. Yet to add Mr Surfacer to the exterior roughly to represent a bit of rust. Enjoy Dan
    8 points
  38. I've got Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse's fishing series burbling in a separate browser window so this might ramble a bit like them, sitting as they are beside an Essex lake. Bob has pulled out a crossbow. Paul looks alarmed. You're not in the Church of Hawkwind are you by any chance Anthony? Interesting the extent of these industrial microclimates sometimes Benedikt. My father-in-law used to work in a power station on the Shannon where the waste water outflow was several degrees above that of the river and created an oasis for humongous trout. This in turn attracted humungous men from the UK who would sit all day staring grimly into the depths. They would spend about a week doing this before heading back home to presumably tell everyone how different the water in Ireland looked. I may be misjudging them of course. They could have been philosophers. A busy week prepping stuff for work - learning some new software, swearing at my poor housekeeping of archived files and ate lots of bacon sandwiches at the desk. Too distracted as a consequence most of the time to trust myself switching over to the bench for anything involving focus and observation but did eventually in the last couple of days get round to remedying the missing blisters at the wing roots: The Milliput performed at it's usual magnificent best: after blocking-out the main shapes with a wet scalpel, the sweep of the teardrop was rounded down with a paintbrush to incrementally brush out the necessary profile. Important to sweep both backwards and forwards when working on the curves of a tapering shape like this, otherwise you end up with too sharp a point at the rear apex: Update: Bob has now been successfully disarmed by Paul. As I did on the fairings for the Iron Chicken,tape was used here to produce a blank on the aircraft itself : - subsequently scanned-in to produce a master in the Silhouette cutter: Once you've got one side done it's a doddle to use the 'mirror' function to produce it's counterpart on the other side of the aircraft. Usually as well it takes one or two attempts to finesse the final outline due to transferring a 2d shape to mixed concave and convex surfaces. This isn't daunting to do - just needs patience with the sticky and fragile foil which also has a tendency to cling to your fingers and tear if you're too brusque with it. First one on: Followed a few minutes later by its companion: I'd originally intended to remove the blisters temporarily prior to applying these fairings but had forgotten how nicely sometimes foil can conform to such shapes. The end result was I was able to cover them over and burnish the foil into place without any tears (in both senses of the word): Bob just caught a fish btw and is telling Paul how pleased he is. Paul's gone for a lie down as he seems a bit crestfallen by this development. I tend to start right up at the leading edge when applying these foil details as this needs to be bang on in placement where it snugs-in around the root: The foil burnished in around the cabin door opening on the starboard side in manner that I found inexplicably satisfying: I'd been rather dreading doing those regions but in the end they proved relatively straightforward - once you'd spent long enough staring at photos from various angles to get a visual map fixed in the noggin. A few mental rehearsals during the week didn't hurt either. Run out of photos now. Good night. God(s) Bless(ings). Tony
    8 points
  39. Here we go folks, one more done and my first commission build for 25 years Some of you will have seen my first conversion of this great little kit, I enjoyed it and went to town on the detailing, this one was a bit more gentle. This one is for a paying customer so I hope he likes it. This ain't no Diecast. With the first build I did. Enjoy the pictures and thanks for the support- comments and likes throughout the build. For those who haven't yet been bored to death with this build here is the link to the build:- Dan
    7 points
  40. In 2003/4 (!) I started two Heller 1/400 Illustrious kits: one as Illustrious in January 1941, and another as an Indomitable 1942 during Operation Pedestal. I finished neither - partly because I'm a slow builder, partly because I lacked 1/400 Sea Hurricanes for Indomitable and partly because, as time progressed, I fully expected a 1/350 scale new tool kit. I still can't source 1/400 Hurricanes and a 1/350 new tool Illustrious has not materialised (1/200 would be even better), but both unfinished kits continue to wink at me in their cases on my shelf of doom, so 16 years after I started them, and 10 years since I last touched them, I thought I'd try and finish Indomitable at least. It is unlikely that a new tool 1/350 or larger Indomitable will be produced (I'm still hopeful for an Illustrious/Victorious), and the conversion was quite demanding, so I'm not sure I would do it again even if a new tool Illustrious materialised. In the intervening decade, I've discovered more information about both ships and there has been significant revision to Royal Navy WW2 colours. My Illustrious is sitting resplendent in old WEM medium grey 507B and light grey 507C finish and Indomitable in a MS2, grey B5 and MS4A finish. Both will need repainting with new NARN Colourcoats in more likely camouflage colours. Originally, the progress of my Indomitable build was documented on the Model Warships, but this seems to have disappeared years ago, so I thought that I'd recap here before continuing. The main changes to the Heller Illustrious hull, for the Indomitable conversion were: 1. Added scale 6ft above the upper deck, to create an extra galley deck as in Implacables. This involved re-arranging the position of the boat decks aft. 2. Altered the deck and hull contours aft to increase the useable flight-deck length and reduce the round-down. The shape was altered too to produce a narrower and more squared-off round-down, compared with as built Illustrious/Formidable/Victorious. Indomitable as fitted had an extra 50ft of usable flight-deck as per the modifications to Illustrious, Victorious and Formidable when re-fitted in the US. 3. Reduced the depth of the rear gun sponsons. This is a unique distinguishing feature of indomitable. On Illustrious/Formidable/Victorious, the gun sponsons were all the same depth. Indomitable was the reverse of Indefatigable/Implacable, which had shallow forward gun sponsons and deep rear sponsons. 4. Increased the length of the quarter-deck and (eventually) provide eight openings. This is another unique feature of Indomitable, until the quarter-deck length was shortened later in service (1944 US refit/repair) 5. Flight-deck modifications: moved the forward lift scale 16ft aft and increase forward lift width to scale 33ft wide (from 22ft), moved the aft lift a scale 24ft forward. The work in this area is made more difficult by some accuracy problems with the Heller kit. Neither lift is the right size – even for Illustrious, Victorious or Formidable. The forward lift is too narrow (which the conversion to Indomitable takes care of), but the rear lift is too wide. The flight deck shape forward needs to be modified and the catapult and reinforcement plates to port added. 6.The sponsons for the rear HACS at galley deck level were lowered, and their shape modified. The HACS directors were Mk V, rather than the Mk IV fitted to Illustrious/ Formidable/ Victorious. 7. The oversized cut outs in flight deck were reduced and shape modified and the overhang of the crane/boat deck altered 8. The solid sponson for the bow search-light platform was modified as it had an open structure. Here are photos of the basic conversion (with some comparison photos of Illustrious - itself heavily modified from the Heller original) :
    7 points
  41. 🤣 You HAVE to retype that, the other way around! Flobadob, weeeb! Ian
    7 points
  42. And as if by magic … they are done. Pads are left off, they will get added after the tracks are painted and weathered up. Nice sag so i'll be leaving off the side skirts on this build. More later Dan
    7 points
  43. Blimey Well this ought to put a stop to the "I'm not worthy" wibble 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Excellent Ced baby, right on man
    7 points
  44. Cheers. Need to finish this project, so there is first painting.
    7 points
  45. Has anyone realised yet that all these takeaway containers washed or otherwise, just amount to a packed lunch for the carpet monster ? Martian 👽
    7 points
  46. F174 (1966) - Gloster E.28/39 'Whittle' W4046/G The second and last Whittle built prior to Glosters' moving on to what was to become the Meteor airframe. A relatively short lived aircraft, W4046/G's first flight was recorded on 1 Match 1943 and was later lost due to 'aileron failure' whilst testing at Farnborough on 30th July 1943. The Frog kit is an assortment of sizes, the fuselage measuring up to 1/63 whilst the out of proportion wings are closer to 1/72. I've extended the wings as best I could to scale this up to the larger fuselage size. This crazy home-made conversion can we viewed and laughed at in the accompanying build thread. Cheers and thanks for all the encouragement and banter along the journey.. Dave (GB Co-Host).
    7 points
  47. Sorry Benedikt, it was a 1950's and 60's kids TV show called Bill and Ben, the flowerpot men. They were made of flowerpots and spoke gibberish, hence "flobalob". Their friend was a big weed, "weeb", the only recognizable sound they ever made. I'm sure you can find it on you tube, it won't need translating! Ian
    6 points
  48. Hello gentleman. I've made a start of gluing some of the plastic kit parts together. This gives me a chance to see how the model will go together and make a bit of progress at the same time. The fuselage is made up of the main section, and a panel which runs from the jet intakes, to just past the undercarriage bay. The other sections fitted to each half are, the remaining intake section, and the undercarriage bay. As you can see, in the photo above, the tail plane is only moulded on the port side. The starboard section is added separately, along with the rudder. The rudder is held in place by the two tail sections. This is movable after gluing the tail together. I placed the rudder on the port side, holding in place with masking tape while the two halves were glued together. When fitting the tail pipe, there was a gap between the fuselage halves. I thinned the pipe, and the fuselage halves slightly where they touched, and the fuselage halves fitted fine. This photo shows the jet intakes, and undercarriage bays test fitted. The two fuel tanks are also shown. They are assembled from three parts each, and need a little cleaning up after gluing together. One has been started, and the other shows the glue seams. I used Revell Contacta glue for this. I like the way it leaves a bead of glue. Leaving it harden over night, it can be rubbed down avoiding the need for filler. I've glued the main wing sections together. The top is in one piece, with a port and starboard lower half. Like the rudder, the ailerons are movable after the model is completed. The tape I used to hold them in place can be seen at each wing tip. This was to hold them level in case I accidentally glued them to the wing. At least, that why they would be where I wanted them. Visible on the starboard leading edge, is a glue bead that helps me avoid using filler in some places. Thanks for looking Joe.
    6 points
  49. Aeroclub T7 1/72 with homemade decals. Converted from single-seater G-AIDC Steve
    6 points
  50. F273 – Hawker Siddeley Harrier G.R.Mk.1 FROG used the Hasegawa mould to bring us this Harrier jump jet in 1974. I made a start on it about that time, but for some reason it was consigned to the box of doom in the loft. Resurrected and completed for this GB! A 50th anniversary tribute to XV744 which took part in the Daily Mail 1969 Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race celebrating the 50th anniversary of Alcock and Brown's flight. The Harrier is depicted as it would have been after the race when it returned to service at RAF Wittering. A few parts were missing, but all the main ones were still in the box. Had to rub down the copious amounts of filler I'd used and rescribe the panel lines. It was painted (with an old Aerograph “Super 63” airbrush) in Xtracolor gloss enamels. The FROG decals were still good, a bit yellow but OK. Final coat of Xtracrylix satin varnish. It's been great fun. Many thanks to Dave @Rabbit Leaderand Pat @JOCKNEY, and all the others who gave me much needed support. Thanks for looking. The build thread is here.
    6 points
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