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  1. Nev
    Loftis models? It closed down a good 10-15 years ago, the old boy who ran it retired. There was Hewins in Grimsby town centre (behind McDonalds) but that closed down a few years ago and is now Grim Dice Tabletop Gaming. My missus is friends with the owners wife, is now a shop for RPGs, wargaming and card games that all the kids play these day, got a nice little set up in there with some gaming tables and stuff. Nev, near Humberside Airport.
  2. Nev
    Gorgeous paint job, looks really nice.
  3. Nev
    Lovely paintwork, and I do like to see USN birds in full lo-vis. Yes, the CAG birds are pretty and all that, but there's something about them when they're all grey and dirty
  4. Nev
    Wow. First of all, fantastic job on the paint scheme, you have a very realistic "patchy" and weathered look. Secondly, as others have said, it looks great with flaps down and gear extended, very dramatic!
  5. Nev
    Lovely kit, and nice weathering. Looks great for an 72nd kit.
  6. Nev
    Very nice, would've assumed it was 1/48 if you hadn't said it was 72nd.
  7. Nev
    They're both absolutely gorgeous and I think you've got the weathering spot on, nice and dusty and faded by the desert sun. Particularly on the Caunter scheme, it's very easy to have too high a contrast between the colours and it looks quite jarring, but yours are wonderfully blended together.
  8. Nev
    Wow, what a paint job!
  9. Nev
    Absolutely gorgeous! A superb rendition of a classic kit.
  10. Nev
    Wow, that is a stunning finish. Pilot looks great too.
  11. Nev
    Very nicely done. Those Tamiya kits are great for cutting your teeth on, they go together great and have good detail without being over-complicated
  12. Nev
    Wow, great pics of an aircraft I have never seen before.
  13. Nev
    That is one very nice model, with a neat little backstory too. You're right to be proud of her, she's a corker.
  14. Nev
    Lovely tail markings. I have this kit in the stash, bought as a nostalgia piece as I remember building it as a kid in the early 80s - IIRC I bought that kit on a day out at the Manchester Air + Space Museum
  15. Nev
    Wow, would never have known that was brush painted if you hadn't said.
  16. Nev
    So my Snowspeeder is done, and it's fair to say I'm very, very happy with this. As happy as I am with anything I've done. The Fine Molds kit is a little cracker (and I mean little). Painted with Artic White from the excellent Hataka "Orange Line" Lacquers and weathered with Flory Wash "grime", Tensocrom "smoke" and a little bit of oils. You know how I said it was small? Here it is on top of a YF-23 in the same scale....
  17. Nev
    Wow. Just wow. I could live to be 100 and never build a model that good.
  18. Nev
    Great story, and lovely model. The weathering is nice and restrained.
  19. Nev
    Cracking models and a cool base to display them on. As the others have said, that last pic is the money shot.
  20. Nev
    Well there's something you don't see very often! Very unique.
  21. Nev
    Lovely job. I think this is one of the best "Specials" the F-16 has worn in its 40 years of service.
  22. Nev
    Long nosed Spitfire, SEAC markings.......I love it Great job on the weathering too, not too heavy.
  23. Nev
    Having built an AModel kit before, I know how "challenging" they can be to put together. You don't build and AModel kit, you wrestle it into submission. Fine job on yours!
  24. Nev
    Long nosed Spits and SEAC camo, what's not to love?
  25. Nev
    Lovely model. I read Phantom Over Vietnam as a teenager in the 80s and it remains one of my all time favourite aviation books (along with Firebirds by Charles DeMoulin and First Light by Geoffrey Wellum). As noelh describes, it is quite technical in parts but I enjoyed this as it goes into the detail of what being a fighter pilot involved. I would describe it as 1/3 technical, 1/3 war stories, 1/3 philosophical musing over the nature the Vietnam War. I must pick up the Academy kit, I have long wanted to build the "Superbomber" he describes in the book, an F-4 loaded with 24 x 500lb bombs used for CAS>.
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