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Good day, ladies and gentlemen! It's my next model. I chose this color because the model showed weapons that actually weren't there. This sealed the fate of this model as a “What if?” The prototype of this aircraft actually fell into the hands of the Americans as a trophy. But it was not put into operation. And yes, I know this is mid-WWII paint job. But the trophy was received at the end of the war and therefore could hardly have been painted like that.

Another 109.....☺️ Just finished the Eduard Bf 109 K-4 in 1:48: Add Brassin wheels, cockpit, exhaust, trop tank and prop. Decals of the "white 6" of III/JG 4 are OOB.

Here’s my Tamiya Cromwell offering. Built basically straight from the box, with added netting camo. Finished in Vellejo acrylics, except for a little oil and pencil lead. Thanks to everyone who stopped by my odd little thread !! All comments, and criticisms welcome 👍 Lee.

Hi all, The Airfix 1:72 Me-410 is finally complete! Started back in November '23, I got bogged down through Christmas and New Year, but here she is! Apart from the decals for this specific 410, everything is out of the box. I never make things easy for myself and this was very much the case when I saw this scheme on the Xtradecal sheet - I knew I had to attempt it! This is a fantastic new tooling from Airfix of a subject not very well covered in scale. There are signs in the kit that future variants may come (the A-3 Recon version would be very welcome)! As previously mentioned I slightly modified the kit to have the standard closed bomb bay doors to make this machine a true Me-410A-1 rather than the kit's A-1/U2 (or /U4). Hataka paints were used for this build for the majority with Mission Models US acrylic paints being the saviour to allow me to pull off the Wellenmuster camo using the re-fillable paint pen (see previous updates for details on this). These are some of my favourite photos of the build to upload now, but if the interest is there, I will upload the rest for everyone - let me know in the comments! A massive thank you to Phoenix Scale Publications for providing this sample at SMW'23 - this will be a full build article in a future issue! See you soon for the HobbyBoss 1:72 U-2A reveal!

This is my Airco DH.9. Estonian Air Force operated 13 of these planes from 1919 to 1933. Wery nice resin kit from Ardpol

Academy's 1/48th F4-J is an interesting kit, loaded with detail. This boxing of the model allows you to build one of two schemes, both from VF-84 "Jolly Rogers" from 1972. The kit includes a very nicely appointed cockpit, some impressive surface detail, and a nice choice of weaponry. I'm not too sure about the multicoloured parts, white, black & grey sprues, very "Matchbox". The upper fuselage is produced in one piece, so no seam along the spine to deal with The intake trunking is reasonable for the kit. I added a set of resin ejector seats left over from another project, but everything else is out of the box. Painted with Tamiya acrylics & lacquers ( metallic colours). Thanks for looking Angelo

Hi All, Today has been mostly about the cookie! I started off the day looking at photos of MM199 and realised that I'd omitted a small 'Q' on the nose: I knocked that up on the Silhouette, as well as the 'Merry Xmas Adolf' on the cookie. Here's the 'Q' in place on the nose: I made an educated guess on the colour - too dark for white, so I chose to match the code surrounds: And here we are unmasked: That'll do pig! Next I preshaded, painted and highlighted the cookie, and forgot to photograph it so here it is masked up for a red stripe: Aaaand a green one: So here's the result: The green stripe is gloss, but there's a couple of stencils to add so the whole lot will get a flat coat. Here's the stencil in place - damnably fiddly to pick out the text but it looks to have worked: Here we are sprayed with white: And here with the mask removed. There were a couple of areas requiring touch-up, which was taken care of with a sharpened cocktail stick: I'll live with that! Here we are in the bomb bay: Not too far to the finish now, so I shall probably wrap this up tomorrow! Thanks for looking, Roger

And so now the final photos of my falcon. Don’t be surprised by the bolder colors, as this time I used my new cell phone, which has an excellent Leica camera. So that’s it, a good year of fun in the Star Wars universe. Now I’m looking forward to my next project with a real ship. Of course again in this theater.

this actually needed to serve as a mojo restarter.... I definitely needed one! and it did! I even built a complete MiG-25PD in the meantime also! a record the actually brand new, and already long sold out! Azur / Special Hobby Super Mystère B2 or short SMB2 WIP: I added BAM models 625 liter fuel tanks and Sidewinder pylons in order to no have her too naked... absolutely fantastic kit, with a slighly very flimsy landing gear.... hope you like her! leave a comment thanks, Salut, Werner

Hey All. Just posting my most recent kit, the MENG Jagdpanther G1. This has always been one of my favorite WW2 vehicles and with good reason, it was a serious weapon on both fronts and had the Germans made more of these, the war may have gone another way. Of course, I'm glad it didn't, but one still has to respect just how powerful and effective this tank hunter was. Built on the Panther chassis, and with a seriously powerful and effective long-barreled 8.8 cm Pak 43/3 L/71 gun, it was a "sniper" on the battlefied. The MENG kit was just fabulous. It had several options for build outs and excellent detail and stress free build. This is the only MENG kit I have built and trust me, I would build another in a heartbeat. I did it in a rather later war camo, but that's how I wanted to present it. Everything was OTB except the metal tracks which were a nice add on for sure as the kit supplied tracks would have taken me forever to build. Plus, I like metal tracks whenever given the opportunity. Especially for a Panther as the sag is the best part. Just beautiful. Weathering was basic pigments, some oil washes, and some add on foliage and camo netting. Nothing over the top. Excellent kit and if you are a Jagdpanther lover like me, a must have in your stash. Hope you enjoy it. Please comment, criticize, and share any thoughts you might have. Cheers, Graeme

I was given this model by a friend who didn't have the time to build it and, even though it wasn't my chosen scale, couldn't wait to get on with it. The kit is pretty good out of the box but couldn't resist adding a few extras, some of which will never really be seen, but I know that they are there. Kitsworld - Operation Chastice Decals, Seat Belts and Instruments Panels. Eduard - Resin Wheels and Mask Set (God send for this amount of glazing) All went together pretty well and nothing that caused any headaches. I bought a watch a while ago which was dedicated to the Dambusters Lancaster and chose the markings to match this, P/O Les Knight's AJ-N. Pretty pleased with how it turned out and has spurred me on to add a few more 1/72 builds to the stash, like I really need to add any more 😂. Painted using Vallejo and Xtracrylix paints, glossed with AK Gauzy, weathered with Flory Models Grey and matted down at the end with VMS XXL Matt. Last bit of fun was adding the aerial wires but survived that and now safely in the display cabinet. Hope you like it and, as always, comments and critique welcomed. Pete So here she is in all her glory:

In 2016, I was looking for an ways to celebrate the anniversary. This year I completed 20 years of working as a Makita service/repairman, I am still in this position today. So I took up and designed such a scheme for an airplane, which very theoretically could fulfill one purpose. Since this plane has also served in Estonian civil aviation, maybe one day I will make another one, but as it once actually looked in this role. Kit from Toko and it's pretty good. I made smaller details and cabin windows myself. I hope this approach doesn't surprise you too much!:)

As one that doesn't normally build wingy things, after Santa had been to the Grandsons house, I had no choice but to venture into the aviation world and was ably helped and 'supervised' by him to build this. Straight out the box, painted with the supplied paints, although thinned with water and no weathering ...... Personally, I found this enjoyable, albeit fiddly as I'm not used too working at such a small scale and the Grandson seems happy with it ...... phew! Keith 😁

This has been a really enjoyable build, in part because I've done less cock ups that needed correction than normal! A lovely kit although needs a bit of additional detail inside. That said, not much can be seen so it probably doesn't really, but that's modellers for you! Most noticeable mods are the St. Paul bay window modification to the waist guns, although one of the guns should be in a forward pane to create a staggered layout, I only noticed after gluing the damn things in! The other thing I've chose to omit is the armoured cockpit panels (for fear of ruining them!), the windscreen is not the right one for the real aircraft too. I've tried to weather it as it appeared in later photographs when the bay windows were fitted and armoured side panels for the cockpit. Paint was MRP Super Silver mostly over the MRP black primer base, with some other colours mixed in such as MRP Duraluminium. Some after market bits too, the Eduard bomb bay doors and some Plus Model resin wheels. The build is https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235134024-hasegawa-172-b-24j-kentucky-belle/ The real aircraft: And the model: I've made a few colour assumptions looking at the photo's, although looking at other builds, some have painted differently. Not sure if they had other references to hand that may draw a different conclusion, but I've painted white rings around the nacelles and the H on the tail in white too. I redid the grass on a base I use for some pics too after inspiration from some of the builds on here with amazing bases, something i want to do more of. Sorry for all the pictures! Cheers Neil

Thank you Gents, very kind Will do - next time Hi Pete - I use a jewelers awl and do each one, one by one...I have a few templates to help with spacing.. The saga continues with skinning the floats - these are covered in symetric rivet patterns and rather than do panel by panel, I did pairs of panels for each float. I would say over the course of a few days I did ~5k rivets.. ..here are two pairs with about 1200.. ..again these were only lightly burnished to retain the oil canning seen on the real one - also any panel overlaps on the real one were copied.. ..once complete, I started the struts - I used a 3D extrusion to sheath the brass rods I set at the beginning, and then used ali foil on the floats and fuselage so I can fill to them and it will all unstick cleanly with a matching mating face.. ..it can all be seen in a jig I had to make so I can get everything aligned properly & the yellow sponges apply enough upward pressure to hold them in place without distorting the position.. ..the forward upper strut mounts have these odd tails, maybe to deflect water.. ..these were made by embedding stiff wire into the strut and filling around it.. some of the mounting stubs are a bit short for my liking, but they can't intrude into the cockpit or they are as long as they can be before they cross each other hopefully when mounted with JB weld they will be ok.. ..skinning these is going to be problematic as it won't be easy for one thing, and they would need to be a perfect fit when assembled so I haven't quite figured out how I will do it all yet.. TTFN Peter

While looking through the many excellent entries into this deservedly popular GB I noticed that there was something missing, that being the omission of anything built in Italy. Now with Italy being one of the big players in WWII I felt that something needed to be done to rectify this so I started to have a look around as to what is available, and to be honest its not a huge number of designs to choose from. Plenty of single engines aircraft and a fair amount of tri-motors but not a lot of twin engined aircraft, we have some fairly old (but still very buildable) kits from Italeri in the form of the Fiat Br.20 and Caproni Ca.311 and 315 and I was just about to click on one of these when I stumbled upon a much more modern kit of the Caproni Ca.311 by Special Hobby which comes with etched brass, resin pieces such as the engines and most importantly a mask set for all that glazing! And all of this came for the princely sum of £22 delivered, so a couple of clicks later one on was on it's way to Minion towers. So lets have a look shall we. Starting with the very nice box art; The contents of the box, you can see the bag of resin with the engines in it, the balck coloured mask set and the very nice looking decal sheet. And part of the reason for the mask set, the extensive glazing which Special Hobby have dealt with very cleverly by producing the fuselage halves in clear plastic; The kit comes with 3 schemes, 2 of which are in a very tight mottle which scares the hell out me in 1/72 and the other in a much simpler scheme with larger mottled areas and can be seen in the picture below; Even that one gives me reservations as I struggle with this kind of thing in 1/48 never mind 1/72! I will have a go at one of those though and if it is beyond me I will cobble some marking together for one flown in the solid green over grey scheme that comes in the Italeri kit. I probably won't start this one for a little while as I want to get Mabel's Mossie closer to the finish line first and there's also the Baby Boomers GB which I have committed to that I need to decide what to build for, that may also end up being a WWII era twin. Thanks for looking in and as usual all comments and criticisms are gratefully received. Craig.

Hi We have a lot of information and photos about the Fleet Model 60K Fort from Carl Vincent. @Carl V. We have selected 3 models. Unfortunately It was impossible from us to get the only kit ofthis aircraft (Classic Airframe) so my father has just done them from scratch. 1) Fleet Model 60K Fort 3562 at Rockcliffe in the summer of 1941 2) Fleet Model 60K Fort 3563 at Rockcliffe fitted with skies 3) Fleet Model 60K Fort 3609 of 2 WSwas The three models togethers. Cheers Santiago

My first project for 2024, the Bronco Chaffee Light Tank in British service. Finished out of the box in the markings of “Chieftain”, C Squadron, 5th Reconnaissance Regiment RAC, 5th Infantry Division, Germany 1946. Brush painted with Vallejo paints and weathered using the same company’s model washes. Intent was to have it used but not abused. Prototypical Bronco - lots of little pieces with not so easy to follow instructions, but actually pretty fun to build (must be getting used to them). Build thread can be found here: Ventured out into the heat of the front yard (38 Celsius and it’s only 10:30 in the morning) to take some photos. Feedback welcome!

When I finally surfaced today I thought I'd better get on with something or I'd just spend the day staring at the bits that need done. So, as I listened to an album of "Desire" outakes, "Oh Mercy" and side 1 of "Darkness on the Edge of Town" this happened. I'm going to have a cuppa while listening to side 2 and then will go and get some fresh mottling on the bits that need it followed by some EDSG. Not before flaming time too. Thanks for looking, Cheers, Alistair

Just finished my second go at Airfix's sublime Sea Vixen FAW2 (actually 3rd if you count the one I built using the FAW1 conversion that didn't end well & didn't last long on the display shelf!). OOB apart from a pair of resin seats & a resin airbrake bay - far more detailed than the kit offering but utterly wasted unless you pick the model up! Decided to go wings spread on this one - the fit is good but not perfect but a little PVA in the gaps, smoothed with a wet finger hid most of it. Xtracolour paints as usual for me. I applied the kit markings for XS577 of 899 squadron from HMS Eagle "March 1975" according to Airfix which can't be correct as the Eagle, Sea Vixen & 899 NAS were gone by then! I also omitted the shark mouth & the flower decals beneath the tailplane (which I believe was some kind of "disbandment commemoration?) as I didn't like them & surely 577 flew without them at an earlier stage. Anyway, an enjoyable build.

This is a 75mm miniature from a 3D printed series called Undercity Exiles painted with a mixture of vallejo game colour and citadel acrylic paint. Its the second miniature I've done and I had a blast painting this, tried to paint with the light direction in mind starting with the shadow/midtone colour and building up my highlights from there. I had a go at an OSL effect with the rear jet shining on the tyre and used some fluorescent magenta to create the visor effect and fluorescent blue for the engine glow through the side vents. Here's a link to the WIP Thanks to everyone who commented and followed along, always appreciate any interest in my projects. Here are the final pics, I included on with a mug so you can see its size:- IMG_20240210_154755230_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_154857777_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_154811677_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_154827710_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_154930169_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155059256_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155142044_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155203848_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155228110_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155306336_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155330629_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155602771_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_155758990_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20240210_160005113_HDR by Nick Frost, on Flickr Thanks for looking, any comments and questions welcome

Hi folk's another build for the Twins GB was HB's easykit TU-2,simplified in a lot of ways but as I've said many times if painting is your thing ideal as it only takes a short time till it get to that stage,brush painted took about five hours over a week.many thanks for lookin in.

Hello all, Here is my entry for this GB - Tamiya's 1/48 A-1H Skyraider marked as BuNo 139768 of VA-25 'Fist of the Fleet', flying off the USS Midway during the Vietnam war in 1965. Delivered to the Navy in 1956, this Skyraider served with VA-42 and VA-122 prior to being transferred to VA-25 in July 1964. On the 20th June 1965, this aircraft was piloted by Lt Clint Johnson and was credited with downing a North Vietnamese MIG-17 along with Lt Charlie Hartman. 139768 was passed to VA-115 in 1966 and forced to ditch in the Gulf of Tonkin due to battle damage in March 1967. Kit: Extras: I'll be adding a Quinta cockpit set, Quickboost resin cockpit piece, New Ware masks and Aeromaster decals. I've seen a few images of Spads carrying MK.81 250lb bombs, so I retrieved a few old Hasegawa examples from the spares and will add these to some the kit supplied ordnance (of which there is a lot!) Reference: Been wanting to do this one for a while so looking forward to getting started (need to get that Catalina under way first though!). Dave

This model has a very special story to me. I can't remember when anymore, but it must have been a long time ago when I got my hands on this MPM on ebay. It seemed expensive at the time, but much later I found out that I got it cheap. As time went by, the ever-increasing price of this model caught my eye again and again. At that time, there were two variants available in 1/72 scale. Either this MPM, or a much older Revell. The history of this Revell kit is, of course, as fascinating as a movie, where the molds was passed between different manufacturers and finally, during its last shift, it sunk at sea along with the ship that carried it. And perhaps thanks to this Revell kept its market price high. But also the price of MPM kept rising and I was happy that I still have the box shelf I got at a reasonable price and I had no plans to build it right away. Some time later, however, I heard that my friend, a true master modeler, is also looking this MPM. He knew I had it, but as a gentleman, he never asked if I wanted to sell it, probably not wanted to put me in a difficult situation to say no to him. Sensing this, I offered to find it for him myself on ebay. I had also bought things for him there before, since he didn't have a account there and I was happy to help him. But he also put a limit on the price, so we agreed that if I can get this model for 60 euros, I will buy it. Later it turned out that it was a rather naive price, because even after a long hunt and many lost battles on ebay, the price always rose much higher. My friend waited calmly until fate intervened. My friend died unexpectedly of a rare disease just before turning 50. After the first shock wore off, I felt sad in addition to missing out on what a great model could have been born out of my MPM box, if I had sold it to my friend and not hunted it down for him on ebay. Although I didn't plan to build my own, I build it right away and it was finished in memory and honor of my friend who never got this model. That was all before modelers got the happy news and a great new model from ICM. What has become of MPM prices after that, I don't know. The model has been completed with Kore resin parts. Hope you like it:)

Hi all, enjoying this GB so far so picked up another kit- something I've never built before. Managed to pick up the Hasegawa Heinkel 111 in its North Africa boxing. Not sure which scheme I'll be building yet, I cant actually find the instructions online but I do know they have the option for Rommel's and Kesselring's personal transports in Africa- I think a canopy mask will definitely be needed here 😅.

And we're done! There are more pictures in the gallery. Now I can get on with the builds I actually planned to do! Regards, Adrian

The thing is, I can't see any evidence that the caps were painted over on the likes of the Boston, although they may have had circular markings, which I am not going to attempt. Anyway, the P-70 is now built, and all decals applied except for the tail serials. I messed up the white numbers beneath the cockpit (don't ask) and so had to find replacements approximating the size and style, if not the same numbers. I also added the propeller warning lines underneath the cockpit. I still need to paint the propeller blade tips, that's just bare plastic at the moment. There was something nagging me since the beginning with the Boston decals: Everything that should have been red was rendered brown, almost invisible against the dark earth. So I had to find yet more replacements. Once I've tidied up the camouflage - especially the wavy demarcation between the upper and lower colours - I will add the undercarriage doors and propellers. Once I

Second wheel done this morning and I took some pictures this time in case anyone is planning to have a go. The base is a 1/2 inch thick piece from a bargain pack of balsa. It's part of a bargain pack because it is really hard and dense, which is bad for flying models but good for this. The threads. I used the slightly thinner one on the right: Weaving the wires. The red arrow shows the sequence (don't worry, you will end up back where you started). You need to tie a knot (clove hitch works) on its pin for the first thread and I just glued it to the base to keep it tight when I got back to the start. The axle has been rubbed with a soft pencil to coat it in graphite, because you don't want the hub to stick to it. The hub is a short length of plastic tube drilled out to the size of the axle. I pre-coloured it with a Sharpie to get rid of any white and the bottom end was liberally covered in superglue before threading on the axle so that it would hold all the hub ends of the threads in place when the axle is removed. Now for the top side, same again except wrapping the axle above above the hub. Having the pins lean outwards is important so the outer ends of the thread stay low. After the weaving was complete I added three extra pins around the rim to help align the top piece: If you were really picky (I'm not) you could actually weave from twelve new pins in between the first ones. Now apply superglue to the upper layer of threads to stick them onto the hub: And apply superglue round the edge of the rim (you want the glue to ooze out not in) and the threads: Add the top rim (curved side up!!) and squeeze hard to get those rims tightly together: Cut the threads outside the rim, wiggle a scalpel blade under the rim to get it off the tape and remove the wheel from the jig. Then slide the wheel off the axle using pliers or tweezers to push the hub (tapering the ends of the axle will help here): here they are with some PPP (I keep mine in a jar because I got fed up with unblocking the tube) to clean up the rim join: I applied more superglue to the hub ends and re-drilled them to make it a bit more secure. Note I've put a dab of red on the inner hub so I know which sides are inside. Sanding and painting next! So-o-o... Once you stop experimenting and have a sound jig, I reckon about an hour per wheel. It might have been a good idea to pre-paint the inside edges of the rims grey, but we will see. The main problem that I see with mine is that the hubs aren't exactly centred. Four contributors there: 1. Eyeball lineup of bottom rim vs axle, should have checked with callipers 2. Misalignment of top rim (hence three inner pins the second time around) 3. Hub is a bit loose on axle to prevent sticking 4. Hub is pulled by thread tension I thought (2) would sort it the second time around but it didn't quite. However, because they are conical (yay) putting the narrower side at the bottom doesn't look too bad to the casual observer. It's all a bit insanely small but I'm hoping it will look good.

Hi all Poss the last iodate before finishing . Repeat code letter in three places on front, these were squared off style so on the larger one I didn't have the appropriate type so adapted a round one. These need to be white too So painted white Undercarriage doors, legs and Rocket rails added Still a bit too clean underneath, more to do Thanks for looking in Chris

Fellow Modelers, Below are photos of Renwal’s Classic 1/200 scale (25” length) SSBN 608 Ethan Allen U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile nuclear submarine. I built this model in 1995. It was always a dream of mine to build one of these very old kits into a nice display. Renwal issued this kit (and three nearly identical others-George Washington/Thomas Jefferson/Andrew Jackson) around 1962, and although tens of thousands have been sold over the decades there are very few finished builds posted on-line. Revell also issued a smaller 1/260 scale Ballistic Missile cutaway submarine kit around the same time, but I have always liked the Renwal model better. The fit on many of the kit parts is poor and some of the smaller parts are way out of scale. It is also highly inaccurate, as Renwal had to guess at what most of the interior looked like. I mean seriously, the Control Room is the size of a basketball court! However, to me the cool factor of this kit is a 10 out of 10. The cutaway presentation has always reminded me of educational displays you see in museums. Several of the modifications I made are listed below: >Plastic “piping” replaced with small diameter wire- >Cut out sections from the control room floor and bulkhead for a better view of the lower decks- >Scratch built chairs and tables- >Added photo-etched ladders/radar screen- >Ballistic Missile made from “Stuka” airplane bomb- >Many of the decals came from the Revell cutaway submarine kit- Also attached are a few construction progress photos, as well as great looking box art and instructions from the original issues. I hope you enjoy the photos. [url=https://postimg.cc/gr2GpMdy][/url] Until next time... Phillip1

While waiting for paint dry on the Ki-45 and the latest round of filler on the Canberra I’m building in the Frog Squad II GB to set up, I made a start on this MPM P-70 Nighthawk which will be finished as “Dusty” operated in New Guinea. The sprues: Lots of parts as several versions of the A-20/P-70 are catered for. So far I have cleaned up the fuselage and wing halves. Little or no flash, but quite large sprue gates and the plastic is very hard. Dry fit is good but the wing attachment tabs are about .5mm thicker than the slots in the fuselage and required thinning. The tailplanes have been assembled but are camera shy and have gone into hiding. Thanks for looking. AW

This project is still in the formation stages. I have used the Italeri boxing of the old ESCI MkII Escort. The body has been replaced by a resin item from Richie Griffiths. The V8 is a spare from the Revell '32 Ford 3 Window Coupe. The kit gearbox has been grafted on to avoid serious bodywork mods to fit the auto box. Seats and dash will be resin items. I've also decided to replace the TE27 wheels, which were my first choice, with some Minilite style rims and tyres (I think they were from Renaissance) Lots of work to do on the suspension to get the desired stance. Will also need to do a lot of work on the exterior details like bumpers, etc. The grille has been opened up to allow some proper headlamp bodies to be fitted. Not decided on a colour yet, open to suggestions lol. Atb, Steve. This is how it currently sits. Need another session of filler primer and wet sanding to get ready for paint.

Here is my Connie model depicting a South African Airways example in use during the fifties. For a kit dating from 1985 it went together quite easily partly due small amount of parts, unlike today's models that is sometimes 'over engineered'. The finished product nevertheless represents a good example of a real Connie. Various shades of kitchen and Bare Metal foil as well as locally produced decal by "Le Voss " finished this most enjoyable build that took longer than normal because of the foiling process. Cheers, Etienne.

Thanks Chris, There almost wasn't any reveal as the pinned wing came off along with the last piece of masking tape. There may have been some unprofessional language used but I've managed to get everything back together and it looks OK. Anyway masking off. There are a couple of touch ups needed and I'll have a look at the resealed joints in daylight to see if any blending is required. Thanks for looking, Cheers, Alistair

For @heloman1, Revell Hunter converted to a GA11 And I'm likely to join this GB with a Revell RAF Hunter FGA9. And for @Jb65rams, and @PhantomBigStu two copies of the Revell Scorpion. Then for @UberDaveToo, my Italeri Hustler. And for @Enzo the Magnificent the Mighty Deltic!

I present the Anatra DS Anasal (F312), from after the company folded, released under the "Red Star" label: The pilot is from a WWI set. I'm not particularly happy with him, so this is just a guest appearance: I replaced the struts and wire wheels; the WIP has all the grisly details! Thanks for looking, Adrian

Thanks lads, Matt coat has been applies. Thanks @Hamden, and @Thom216. As I said Matt coat applied, will see how that turns out. Winsor and Newton. I am going to leave that well alone until tomorrow when I shall do the undersides. Simon, sitting fingers crossed.

There has been some more activity here, now all together in its major assemblies which is where it will remain while I fettle the bits that do not fit quite, which is a fair proportion of them. Once this is done, getting the wings attached promises to be a bundle of laughs, they are essentially butt joins, the tabs do little to locate them or help set the angle, they are so loose. Steve.

And started. The plastic is pretty hard, but seems to work well with my usual cements. The hull is a flat pack affair that went really quick with no dramas. Academy have engineered it such that everything lines up well. This however is not so good - rather deep injector marks on the rear faces of the sprockets. Greenstuff should sort that out. Idlers were straightforward. Adding the axles and suspension was so easy - this is quite a change from the Bronco Chaffee! In no time at all, here was where I was at (sprocket and idlers are dry fitted). While that dried I started on the top of the hull which required some large got pieces to be added. I used some Mr Hobby Cement I had buried at the back of the draw - worked well for these big flat surfaces. Ran some Tamiya Extra Thin Cement along the edges to finish. So far so good.

Good morning dear model building friends. Thank you everyone, I am honored by your comments. Last night the last clear coat was applied after a year and two months. It’s done, my falcon can finally take off. The plate had to be placed on its back one last time to be able to do the details at the top. But this time carefully supported on a foam. Then off to the airbrush cabin. So as far as this huge structure goes. All parts finished painted. And one last picture of the finished record without her falcon. So, that concludes my construction report. I’ll take some decent pictures of the model this weekend and then present them to you. It was a great pleasure for me to embark on this journey with you into a galaxy far, far away.

Now..fuselage halfs glued, squezing, and it bubbles up nicely, yes tight fit, and work around the whole fuselage, glue and saueeze, patience here. small scrap pieces of plastic card and CA glue to fix them in place while curing doing this way, none or very little putty will be needed, thin piece of plastic card is needed here. cured, no seam line here, just used fine wet paper and polishing sticks and restored panel lines. and yes, assymetric panel lines. this raised panel line will be gone. so preppin. takin the size. tape and graphite pen does the trick here. making a template to rescribe the missing panel line for the hatch. Ritz Ratz latter. and done, polished belly with a new scribed hatch panel line this will do just fine for me. looks like it might be a cool model in my glass cabinet later when done

@robgizlu, @Jeff.M - as you see, I am very good boy (or I try at least ;-))) and I'm listening to the advices of the wisers. What I did? I removed boat platforms with CA remover and cleaned these. Then I just sicked PE parts with 0,2 mm plastic sheet, painted and washed with dark brown wash. And painted shells yellow. I also added grating imitation on bridge-extention. It is just PE-fret painted with light wood colour. When I watched @theskits62 fantastic Round Class trawler I realised it was perfect boat's platform reproducing: However 1/72 and 1/350 models are quite different worlds. My interpretation is not perfect but good enough for me. And finally once more detail: adding front support under pom-pom platform was very difficult and tricky. That was a reason why I bought a new tweezer, quite specific shape. And... finally after a few attempts, I succeeded! Hope more soon. Best regards, Michal

Some more mottling and the first layers of Burnt Metal on the collector and exhaust. More shortly. Thanks for looking, Cheers, Alistair

Engines fitted. And I know that comparisons are being made with the Italeri 210, so here are both together. Showing the wing sweep difference.

Morning folk's,the dry fit showed no issues and that was true when assembly began,interior painted in the suggested RLM dark gray decals added and tape belts give it a busy look for the scale,engines were a great fit no issues and not a drop of filler needed.I added a fishing weight in the nose but pushing the U/C into place it still sat on it's tail so pushed blue tack in with some lead shot before adding the nose panel and worked a treat.

Main landing gear compartment. I used the Aires 7083 set and, as always, getting it into the wings is extremely difficult. After having thinned the resin and the Airfix wings to the maximum limit, in some places even too much, the pieces did not fit. I therefore had to resort to an extreme solution: eliminating the contours from the wings and then redoing them in plasticard and copper sheet. Some pictures: Now all the contours will need to be further refined. Ciao!

Undoubtedly Giorgio This way I've seen you guys produce miracles with 'wine bottle foil' on models, so I hope my working out gets, I dunno, close to the heights of oeno-platery seen here so often. The first attempt, that distorted arc at the front was formed around the nose of the 'Army Lynx' but as that is about to return to the bench for ancilliarisation I have decided to make a dedicated forming buck with my five quid spare fuselage which has already sacrificed its rotor head and subsequent bits and bobs and is due, sorry Crisp, to become a paint mule. 'bye.

All small parts and loose parts are stored in sorted box...ready for assembly later. wings in place...no fuzz, perfect fit and no gaps. thats it, massive posting uh, lol. started this build in November 2023 till now, updates later this upcoming week.

Well here goes. The wheel halves have been chamfered and the roundest ones have been marked with a red dot so they can go outside: So here's the setup. Twelve pins set up around a circle using schoolboy geometry, a brass axle and some double sided sticky tape to hold the wheel in place. Then weave the thread around: It's escaped: One 48-spoke conical wheel later: I rushed through this one just to see if it would work. It's not perfect and I need to make the other one tomorrow morning.

time for some paint on them engines done...and wash. note them small blobs of wash, they will be removed and or adjusted. more painting. and weathering, not done yet. almost there. added gentle with light pigments not done yet. and done, added some dark blue subtle.