Rickpadwick1801

Hello Everyone, Here is my last finished kit post for the moment. This is an Airfix 1/72 Royal Air Force Hawk in a Charity scheme. I cannot remember which charity this kit was depicting. I built this Hawk as inflight with the landing gear retracted because I wanted to get a display stand for it, but cannot find one. I contacted Airfix to get the stand components from more modern Hawk kits which mount in the exhausts but the price seemed quite expensive for them and I said no to them. Here are the photos. All the best, Rick

This one has my name all over it as I have a Shannon class boat at Selsey near my home and I have a Severn class lifeboat in my completed stash (needs some repairs before I can post some photos).

Thanks. Originally, yes I did but it became a bit more of an issue when it reacted with the primer I used on the kit even though it was a Tamiya primer and didn't look great. When I built the 2nd version of this kit to avoid decal issues, I used a Revell dark blue acrylic paint which I hand painted onto it. I still have the original kit in my storage tub for spare components which I'm going to finish eventually. Thanks again, Rick.

Evening everyone, I'm nearly finished with posting all of my previous builds now, but here is another one. This is an Airfix Eurofighter Typhoon. Here are the photos. All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, Here is my build of the Airfix 1/72 Red Tails P-51 Mustang aircraft Lollipoop. This was a very fun little build, hand painted with Humbrol acrylic paints. Here are the photos. All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, Here is my build of the Revell SR-71 Blackbird kit. The Blackbird was the fastest air breathing aircraft in the world, capable of Mach 3. It was a very simple build and paint job. Hand painted with Revell paints. Here are the photos. All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, As I am a massive Trekkie, I even like the Kelvin Timeline movies (Star Trek 2009, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond) and knew when the model of the USS Enterprise from the films became available that I would end up building one. This is the Revell 1/600 scale kit of the USS Enterprise and she is one of the biggest starships I've built. While the design of the ship is still slightly strange and isn't one of my favourites, the kit is a very nice one. Here are the photos : All the best, Rick

Thanks very much. Nice, the Trafalgar class are very nice looking boats. I prefer their looks to the Astute class. I regularly go to Portsmouth and like to try and be there when interesting ships come in or out of the harbour. I actually saw a US Navy Los Angeles class submarine in the harbour years ago.

Evening all, This is one of my all time favourite Star Trek ships....the Constitution class refit starship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A. The Constitution class refit was first revealed in Star Trek The Motion Picture and has always one of my favourite starship designs. This kit is the original AMT kit from the 1990s when Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country was released and went together fantastically except for a minor issue with the warp nacelle pylons which was resolved with an application of a much stronger glue. The only thing missing on this kit is the main registry decal (NCC-1701-A) on the upper saucer section surface. I can fix that as I have a spare set of decals for this kit. I'm not sure if this ship is painted the correct colour for the hull or whether I should give her a repaint by removing the decals and then repaint her before redecaling the ship. What do you think ? Anyway here are the photos (the display stand needs a coat of paint as it is an off white at the moment). All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, Here is yet another couple of simple builds that I've done over the years. These are the Vostok 1 booster and capsule which took Yuri Gagarin into orbit for the 1st time and the Soyuz booster along with a Soyuz capsule similar to the one which took British astronaut Tim Peake to the International Space Station. Here are the photos : Vostok 1: Soyuz : Soyuz & Vostok : Soyuz, Vostok 1 and Space Shuttle Enterprise : I would love to build the Apollo program's Saturn V Booster and the Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) booster as well, but they are big rockets. All the best, Rick

Evening All, Here are some new photos of my space shuttle stack which I took with all of the other kits I've built in the past.

Hello Everyone, This is another of my previous builds and it is one of my favourite subjects i.e. Real Space....in this case it is a Revell Space Shuttle Orbiter kit built as Discovery OV-103. Discovery was the orbiter which carried out both Return to Flight missions after the Challenger and Columbia disasters in 1986 and 2003. This kit was again hand-painted with Revell acrylic paints like several of my other builds. Here are the photos. With my Academy 1/288 Space Shuttle Enterprise stack and a great book about the 1st space shuttle launch I would have loved to have built the larger space shuttle stack, but it is massive and would not fit easily in my home office/man cave. All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, This one is another previous build, but this one has a link to my non-model life as it is a replica of my actual car I found this in a model shop in Hove just before it closed down permanently and decided to do it as a replica of my actual car. Here are the photos. All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, Here is my version of one of my favourite cars. I mixed up the colour schemes for this one, using a Matt Black base colour with the blue decal stripes from the Silver version of this car. This would be my dream version even though I do wish I had done it as Gloss Black rather than Matt Black but it still looks amazing. I've loved this car ever since I saw the Knight Rider 2008 series and the Need For Speed movie. Here are the photos All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, Here are my two Tamiya motorcycles in 1/12 scale, a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R and a Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa (1st Generation). As I work with motorcycles during my day job, I really enjoyed building these two. The level of detail on these is amazing. Here are the photos. ZX-14R GSX1300R Hayabusa I would love to build some more Tamiya motorcycles if I get the chance to get my hands on them. All the best, Rick

Very nice. I've built 2 Tamiya bikes myself and I'm still shocked at how detailed they are.

Thanks Jeff, That was a long time ago I built this one, I would love to do another Titanic and see how much better I could make her now. I promise I will be getting back to the Type 45 destroyer build soon. Thanks Bjorn, I loved building this kit years ago and she has been in pride of place in my display cabinet since I got hold of it.

Thanks Keith, I always loved seeing 558 at airshows. I've got a fair number of pictures of her on my facebook (but unfortunately I lost the full resolution copies of them when my backup drive packed up). I really want to go up to the airport she's at and get up close and personal Cheers, Rick

Hello Everyone, This is another of my previous builds. This one was part of the F-14 Tomcat II Group Build in 2014 on this very forum. This is a Revell 1/144 F-14A Tomcat in VF142 Ghostriders from CVW-6 aboard USS America in 1976 decal scheme. The F-14 has been one of my favourite planes since I saw Top Gun and is one of the planes I always wished I had seen at an airshow. Here are the photos. I really want to build the larger F-14 Tomcat that has been released by Revell after Top Gun Maverick came out. I'm hoping to get the kit set with the F-18 Hornet as well this year. All the best, Rick

Hello Everyone, This is another of my previous builds. This one was part of the F-14 Tomcat II Group Build in 2014 on this very forum. This is a Revell 1/144 F-14A Black Tomcat in Vandy One decal scheme. The F-14 has been one of my favourite planes since I saw Top Gun and is one of the planes I always wished I had seen at an airshow. Here are the photos. All the best, Rick

Thanks. You are very welcome. Thanks very much.

Nice work, I really want a kit of this particular aircraft.

She looks absolutely fantastic. Such a beautiful ship. Nice size.

Hello Everyone, Here is yet another Royal Navy warship (I think I need to get some different warship kits built ). This one is another submarine, this time the HMS Astute. This kit is a 1/350 Hobby Boss effort and is my first example of that particular manufacturer's kit along with first use of photo etch parts. All the best, Rick