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Now that's nicely done

Very nice and very impressive collection for the year Roman Mad Steve

Plastix Thanks man I'd say you can probably get away with doing 80% brushpainted, but it is difficult to do the bodywork etc with a brush. You could always just do those with a rattlecan. I wont tell anyone, promise Mad Steve

Beefy Gravity Colours do Hemi Orange (and it has a picture of the general lee on the bottle ) and I'm pretty sure that Zero do the same colour. Mad Steve

Great Dave. I love the Big Lizzie, but the Dapol railway stuff is brilliantly done. It bought back so many memories. The Service Station was the first model that I built for my first layout maaaaaaany moons ago Mad Steve

I always look forward to seeing your models Plastix, because they are just so amazingly painted Well done old chap Mad Steve

Very nice selection there Dave Mad Steve

Wow Kallisti, what a wonderfully varied output you've had this year. I love the Eagle and the Agememnon oh and the fire engine, oh and the Centaur oh and the SPV.... But the Hurricane Diorama . You can actually see the 'oh my god' moment in the animation of the figures Spot on old chap Mad Steve

They look great Steve. I love the first SAS Jeep

It came out in the Kamei Escort 3, Turbo street machine(?) and the XR3, and yes they are pretty hard to find and expensive. (I have the Revell XR3) I don't know how good the AMT kit is. I'm just put off by the pic on the box, but hey, its an XR3 and rarer than hens teeth in model form Mad Steve

Well I have had a bit more free time this year

Very nice indeedy

Evening Chaps Steve, I checked out Scalemates to see if they are the same kit and they aren't. The AMT comes in the one version, Revell's comes in 3 different ones Mad Steve

Well.... what a year this has been From wife being diagnosed with, and beating breast cancer, to me being retrenched and my girls asking who’s that old man cleaning the house? Working away from home the past 11 years, I actually like being a stay at home dad now😊 Anyhoo, onto this year’s victims( as you can see, like other years, I stuck to one theme ) Airfix Supacat Jackal & Quad 1/48th This was started a while ago, and finished this year. The Jackal has the PE set from Airfix. Loved the kits, especially the Quad. Both finished in Tamiya Acrylics Trumpeter JGSDF NBC Detection Vehicle 1/35th I wanted to start building Armour again, and decided on modern Japanese stuff. Bought a whole heap of JGSDF kits during the year, built exactly one. Finished in Tamiya German Luchs 1/72nd This was a mojo build. Lost the will to stick for a while, so I dragged myself kicking and screaming to the model shop, forced myself to buy something I don’t normally build and voila… Likewise with the JGSDF I thought 72nd scale Bundeswehr vehicles would be fun too, bought heaps of them, built none of them… I quite like it, was loads of fun to build. Finished in Tamiya Acrylics. I have been an abject failure this year in bringing wee plastic bikes into the world, but in my defense, one was a big one 😊 Tamiya Kawasaki KZ1300 1/6th This was a grail kit… I have wanted one ever since I saw them in the window of Beatties in Birmingham yonks ago. It may be 30+ odd years old but it still is to today’s standards and it is mahoosive. Its finished in Tamiya TS 37 Lavender, and It pains me to admit, but the colour doesn’t suit the bike (my opinion) so now I’m looking for the Z1300 too 😊 Tamiya Kustom Katana 1/12th I love Katanas and love building them. This one is a slight custom, has a 4 in 1 exhaust, wheels come from a YZR 500 and front mudguard from a Hayabusa. It’s not immediate noticeable from the pictures but its actually painted in three types of Black. Semi Gloss, Matt and Rubber Black, from Tamiya. Ducati 1199 Panigale 1/12th This was from the Panigale Buddy Build that was on again, off again, on again… you get the picture. Just about every Panigale I had seen built was red, and I didn’t want mine to be red. Its finished in Tamiya Chrome yellow, Rubber black and Gloss Aluminium. Hobby Design PE set was also used (well most of it, part of the chain is still stuck to my cutting mat😊) This is the best bike kit Tamiya have ever built. Period. Cars fared a bit better… Revell Shelby Mustang GT500 1/12th What a whopper 😊. It is an excellent kit in that it builds up very nicely with no issues, but it fall’s down in the amount of detail that is missing, and could have been added, especially in this scale. It took ages to get the body smooth and proper for paint but I am very happy with the end result. Finished in Gravity Ford Grabber Blue and Tamiya Semi-Gloss Black. Moebius 52 Hudson Hornet 1/24th First time building a Moebius kit and I am very very impressed. They are fully detailed and all the bits actually fit together, (unlike some other American makes 😊). The grey is actually one of the AS colours if I remember correctly, or Haze Grey, something like that, and the white is Racing White. Can’t recommend these kits enough, really fantastic builds. Tamiya Aston Martin DB9 1/24th I love Tamiya kits and love Aston Martins. Finished in Tamiya TS Metallic Forest Green. What you can’t see where I spilled Acetone on it on the right hand side, so it wont be long before Mr DB9 will be getting an all expenses paid weekend trip to the Dettol Spa, where after it will be painted Titanium Silver. Tamiya Mazda MX5 1/24th There was quite a hoohah when this was released and rightly so, it is an excellent kit. Finished in Tamiya TS Mica Blue. It was supposed to be painted in Metallic Red, but I bought the wrong colour. Tamiya Honda S600 1/24th This is a beautiful kit, it really is a lovely car and it builds up fantastically, but I seem to have had a problem with the fitting of the engine, so I eventually removed it. Finished in Tamiya TS Pure White with Matt Red interior. Tamiya Mercedes 300SL 1/24th This took months to build because of the mojo bum out I had, but I decided to climb into it and finish it and I think it turned out quite nicely. Matt Red Interior and TS Semi-Gloss Black. Hobby design PE set was also used, well most of it. If I may brag just a little bit, at our yearly model car show this year it won Best Classic Factory stock, Best Production Car and was a runner up in Overall Best of Show 😊 Tamiya Honda NSX 1/24th Another new release, another fantastic kit and another ‘ah poo it doesn’t look right’ This kit actually went into the Dettol bath twice because I didn’t like the colour and I finally settled on Zero Grigio Scuro, (which is actually a Ducati Colour), but I was trying for a Matt Metallic Grey… I still like it, love the shape but I realise now the shape doesn’t lend itself to matt colours. Oh well, live and learn. Heller Bugatti T50 Barn Find 1/24th I must admit, I am not a fan of Heller car kits, so when I was added to a challenge at our yearly model car show I was well pleased ☹. Everything was going fine until I tried to get the bonnet to fit and it was about 2mm too short, so it went onto the shelf of doom until I was overcome by a desire to shove it under a tarp. Tarp is tissue paper painted over with diluted white glue, then various shades of Tamiya Acrylics to make it look dusty. I actually like the way it came out 😊 Italeri Iveco Turbo 190-36 1/24th I used to build a lot of trucks, but haven’t built one in about 10 years, so this was the first. Nice kit, finished in Tamiya TS paints, and decals from various other kits. Italeri Volvo FH16 Globetrotter 1/24th Second truck on the go, still not quite finished yet. Finished in Tamiya TS 41 Coral Blue. The nearly but not quite shelf was, at one point, actually cleared. Left unchecked however, it seems to have spawned into..... - Aoshima Lamborghini Sesto Elemento - Aoshima Lamborghini Aventador Lp700 Roadster - Aoshima Pagani Huayra - Italeri Tecnokar 20’ Container Trailer - Tamiya Kawasaki H2R (about to start on the carbon decals) - Airfix Jaguar XKR GT3 - Airfix Tiger Moth (red one)(Yeeeees a wingy thing) - Airfix BE2c (Yeeees another wingy thing) - Tamiya JGSDF Type 90 (glued the wheels together) - Meng Renault FT17 (no, still not finished) Thanks for looking chaps, all comments are gladly appreciated. All the best for the New Year and a Merry Christmas to you all Mad Steve

very nice indeed Mad Steve

A modern pink pig?

Morning Chaps Tomathee, for me, the kitchen counters way was the cheapest option (i Know it doesn't look like it but they are there under all that crap)... I went to the local hardware place and bought whatever the standard length is that they came in, I think its 4m odd. couple of metal legs for it and some anchor bolts and you are a for away. Add a couple of pieces of 1x2 to put on the wall to hold it all up and ta daaa... a work bench. Take photos when you've built it, it'll never look that clean or empty again

Morning Chaps I must say this is a splendid thread and some really good ideas have come out of it, especially the Rattlecan Dispensomatic MkII. Most of the time people are sharing threads about what finishes to use?, how do you do this or that? and a lot of the time chaps are looking for more simpler answers to things like, how do I make a paint rack for my rattlecans, What if I dont have an MP-44 to hang my lights off? Nice to share things that make life easier... Mad Steve

Now there's a mans man, a manly man "Now where can I clip my LED lights onto?, oh I know, My MP-44 will make a suitable mount" Mad Steve

Only one Mike Been waiting since I basically started building cars for one of them, so might have to have a couple, or three, or four

Afternoon Chaps Does anyone have a link that shows us pics of the car models, Sci Fi and all the other stuff on display at SMW last weekend? There's like looooads of photos of planes and boats and stuff, but not really any of the cars and other stuff. Mad Steve

I wish mine was that dirty

Afternoon Chaps All these people, like Roman, above redesigning and rebuilding there modelling spaces.... And all these romantic panorama shots of beautiful clean rooms (including the dusky skies of Denmark from Hans ) Good god man don't any of you make a mess ? I cant even be bothered to clean mine up No, I tell you what it is... It depends on the state of things, sometimes it just needs a mini hoovering and a tidy up, but once in a while it needs the Hazmat suit and the bin bag brigade. You start cleaning and, "Hey, I wondered where that bit went'', or "Ohhhh, Id forgotten about that" and there you sit, Hazmat clad, Bin Bags flapping in the wind, continuing on the thingie you'd forgot until shock and horror you hear the wifes car coming up the drive and you realize 5 hours have passed by Cleaning is for wusseys, its more manly to have a mess Mad Steve EDIT... To illustrate my point

Morning Gents Tim, a lot of the Italeri 1/9th scale are reboxed Protar kits, among others. Some of them are good, some not so good but mainly because they are such old kits, but they still build up into nice kits Mad Steve

Morning Chaps I'm trying to understand why you would want to thin decanted rattle can paint? By the time you have decanted it and all the propellant has bubbled away, you should have a happy airbrush ready pot of paint that doesn't really need thinning. I've tried decanting both Tamiya paint right through to those el cheapo cans that you can buy from hardware stores etc, and none of them have needed thinning. Its just a question, I'm interested in finding out the reason behind it. Mad Steve