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Oh, almost forgot to add... a whole load of other stuff I picked up recently but forgot...
Wolfpack 1/48 F-8 Crusader Folding Wing Set
Wolfpack 1/48 F-14 Tomcat Refueling Probe Set
Wolfpack 1/48 F/A-18E/F refueling Probe Set
CAT4 1/48 A-4A Skyhawk Conversion Set (to help turn my A-4C into an A-4B)
MPC/Round 2 1/72 Space 1999 Mark IX Hawk (because clearly the two I already had was not enough)
Eduard 1/48 Ltd Ed 'The Longest Day' Spitfire Mk IX
Zoukei Mura 1/48 F-4S Phantom II
6 enormous bags of compost
Plant feeder
Vegetables and plan seeds (unfortunately the green fingers to make the best use of them were out of stock...)
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18 hours ago, Bozothenutter said:
Woe be unto me....
As a kid I could build a kit out of the box in a weekend, enjoy the hell out of it and be proud.
Now, I research bulges, rivets, buttons and other minutiae.....
I enjoy the research, and the 'puzzling' on how to recreate said detail.
Having ADHD and 'high functioning' autism doesn't help, sometimes it feels like work and I'm my own boss.....
I think I can empathise with your situation Bozo...
I recall the excitement and enjoyment related to just 'building' a kit, especially during my younger days. I remember just being happy knocking together kits from the Airfix 1/72 'blister pack' range and slapping on paint just because.
Detail and specifics only really started to feature as I hit my late tens/early teens, with my interest gradually drifting from just making a model to making it look more like the 'real thing', though I wasn't quite sure why. I never got as far as indulging in PE, WM and certainly not resin before my interests shifted to girls, clubs, flying et al, as much from lack of awareness of such things as lack of funds.
But my inexplicable (at the time) desire to increasingly get my kits to resemble a particular look slowed my build rate right down and shifted my perspective on what I found to be satisfying, with the year 87-88 (my last before the 'long-gap') producing just two models. One of those was driven by a near obsession to replicate a master build that was on display at a local model shop, down to each and every detail - from the detailed cockpit, to the very same decal scheme to the way they blended in as if painted on, to the same subtle weathering and strokes of rust - and that alone took up most of that year. The outcome was a diorama that 'would' have been a competition winner at the time had the size not fallen too short by a few centimeters of what the 'regulations' stipulated
But when I returned to model making I was king of haunted by that build and the need for my new models to meet that 'standard' or better has been hard to shake, while the difference in my disposable income coupled with the sheer range of better and better kits and then the myriad of after market options that just keep adding more, has caused my brain to pinball into a state of almost build-paralysis.
I've since been diagnosed with Dyslexia, ADHD and Autism, with the 'high-functioning' aspects of my particular cocktail being off the scale but which also presented some challenges around expectation management in relation to my own works at least. But the more I've learned, the more I've started to adapt and develop new ways with being happy with what I am doing and how I am doing it - all in very small and graduated steps. One of the approaches I've taken is to balance my 'detail' WIP's with a simple kit on the side - a 'just for fun rather than display' - to just let me indulge myself a little. It's helped me to feel ok about the WIP's in boxes that are being modified to display a high range of detail - to take the time needed and to put some focus and perspective back to them. It's still all very experimental for me (as are all of the other aspects of my life that are adjusting to my new reality) but it helps.
My HKM 1/48 Lancaster arrived this week and while it will sit there in the stash awaiting the inevitable myriad of AM - the 'Big Ed's', the 'Brassin', and much more besides I imagine - I'll be picking up a NOVO Lancaster and just 'build it' as it is. Maybe I'll paint it, maybe I won't. But I know it'll make me feel good and far better about what I'll invest in the HKM kit.
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Mine arrived today
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One of these
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Ten episodes? Oh. I watched two then two more as background noise.
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My loft just cheered!
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Looks very interesting and I look forward to seeing some hi-res images so I can get my beady eye's down into the detail. Meh! points so far - Ejection seat, though I would wait on seeing it up close and wouldn't die in a ditch since the use of AM would fix this. Yey! points so far - ordinance, engines, wing fold options, radar and avionics, inclusion of new ECS pipes. Can't comment on shape to the degree that other's might be interested in but it looks Superbug shape enough to me. Now I just need detail detail detail... to help me decide whether to buy.
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20 hours ago, IT_Man said:
UK RRP is £84.99, I'll collect mine from Models2U when it arrives, they're offering for just over £76 (free UK delivery). Still not quite worked out where I'm going to put it!
https://www.models2u.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p15646_SR-71_A_Blackbird.html
I know where I'll be putting mine. In the loft. With the rest. We scale model
makerscollectors have never had it so good
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Finally had the chance to catch up with this thread and take my time over the excellent content provided, many thanks to you all for your help. I'm going to have another think about my original idea and what might be feasible based on what the stock kit can provide for. I'll have a look and see if there are more options available to do a Speke build in 1/48 instead and perhaps build the Trumpeter jut OOB. Lots to think about. Thanks again folks!
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2 hours ago, NoSG0 said:
True re 3090, though, I would like to try VR once. That I think you need a fairly strong GPU for to get higher FPS. Speaking of GPUs, I read that the GTX-1050 TI is making a comeback. A 4 year old card that looks to be more expensive than it was when initially introduced. Well, I think that there are some folks with high priced used cards on auction sites who will eventually have to drop their prices. I for one will wait.
I hope that you can find a good hotas at a regular price. Just madness. I cant imagine trying the game with an xbox controller.
DCS in VR is literally 'mind blowing'. I picked up a RAZER and VIVE Cosmos combo over Christmas and launched the DCS F-14 sim. I think I crashed about 18 times from turning my head around in 'wow' and from instinctively trying to reach out all over the place to press buttons and pull levers. The other time I crashed was from trying to land on a carrier deck while also going 'wow'. As well as a HOTAS setup I also wish I could have a pair of haptic feedback gloves. But that'll have to be a pipe dream for now!
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So the new release is basically just the addition of 'a missile'. And for that they needed a whole new release?
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Thanks both! That’s an awesome amount of detail. I’m going to go through it and see what I might make of this kit, especially if the metal wings rule out the original idea. I’m looking at some of the Techmod sets for alternative ideas. Thanks again for the above, great stuff!
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Hi Folks
Due to some sad events I’ve just inherited an unstarted Trumpeter 1/24 Hurricane Mk.I and would really like to build it as the aircraft credited with one of the fastest air to air kills, from RAF Speke during the Battle of Britain.
I believe it’s a 312 sqn Hurricane with the code DUP. I can’t find evidence of any specific decals set for this but was wondering if anyone knows whether it is possible to get the correct RAF codes in this scale so I can just create my own version?
Any and all help appreciated!
Many thanks
Nocool
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5 hours ago, Whofan said:
@Nocoolname and also @treker_ed,
I noticed you both have Kinetic's 1.48 Sea Harrier FS.1.
I'm sure you are aware that the May 2021 issue Airfix Model World has a build of a Kinetic FRS.1 converted to an Indian Navy FRS.51, where the builder seems to enjoy the build, and is very happy with Kinetic's model.
Nope! No idea about that, but I also think it’s a lovely kit and have been rendering 1/48 Blue Fox and Blue Vixen in 3D CAD to add a even more to these wonderful Kinetic kits.
I keep hoping that they will ‘accidentally’ produce a new tool Buccaneer in 1/48. Just at the same time that Airfix and Trumpeter ‘accidentally’ produce 1/350 kits of the Queen Elizabeth (R08) and Ark Royal (R09) (...along with a same scale IM Type 42 to keep it company...)
In the meantime my recent purchases have been an array of bits and bobs...
Quinta Studios:
1/48 F-15E Cockpit
1/48 F-18F/G Cockpit
Wolfpack Design:
1/48 F/A-18E/F Refuling Probe
1/48 F-14 Refuelling Probe (just to make my current Hasegawa build even more complicated)
Tamiya:
1/48 F-16 replacement parts for the bits I stuffed up on a current Arctic Aggressor build.
Big thanks to The Hobby Company for saving my skin there in record time! 
And I accidentally just purchased another 1/72 Space 1999 Mk IX Hawk to add to that collection. That makes three now.
But my most important purchase, delivered today, is my all in one electric trimmer. Between the beard and the fact that my hair was creeping into longness when they launched Lockdown 3, I now resemble Tom Hank’s’ even scruffier doppelgänger from
Castaway. So with today’s acquisition I finally have a chance of returning to humanity!
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On 4/14/2021 at 11:26 PM, treker_ed said:
Just been a bit naughty....
Just to aid in my small harrier collection, and noticing that Hannants have just had a large Kinetic restock, I decided to have a perusal. Lo and behold they have restocked the FRS.1 and T.Birds
I now have a Kinetic FRS.1 and one of the T.2/T.4/T.8 (plus masking) winging its way to me over the next few days once they have processed the order. Happy days.
So now to build I have
2 x Kinetic GR1/GR3
1 x Kinetic FRS.1
1 x Kinetic FA.2
1 x Kinetic T.2/T.4/T.8
1 x Hasegawa GR.7/GR.9
The Harrier is definitely a type under-represented in my modelling collection - hopefully at some point this year to be corrected (provided I pull a digit out of the applicable orifice and get building of course!
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(Forgot to say - all in 1/48 scale)
LOL!
In my case the Harrier is 'over' represented in my collection but seriously under built! Mostly due to my habit of trying to hoard all of the extras and then being distracted by other shiny things to build. So far, the following kits remain neglected:
Kinetic:
1/48 Harrier GR.1
1/48 Harrier GR.3
1/48 Harrier T.2/T.4/T.8
1/48 Harrier FRS.1
1/48 Harrier FA.2
Including Model Alliance Sea Harrier Part 1 for the FRS.1 and Qinetc VAAC decals for the T.2/T.4/T.8
Hasegawa
1/48 Harrier AV-8B II Plus
1/48 Harrier GR.5
1/48 Harrier GR.7
1/48 Harrier GR.9
1/48 Harrier T.12 (courtesy of the CMK conversion set)
Including the Airframe decals for the Harrier Retirement schemes.
I have custom lighting kits and engine parts for some along with some nice Brassin and pitot tubes. What I really need now is another 20 of me to get cracking on them (actually, one of me per kit to get on with it and a spare to just stare in terror and procrastinate by playing on the BM site
). I fully imagine you'll be able to complete all of the above before I manage a single one of mine.
Cheers
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Is my understanding correct of the first video above, in that Tamiya have actually molded in clear elements within the grey plastic such as for the Splitter Plate Flooding Door?
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Any further news on the 'G'?
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Another cracking build Dave! Thanks for sharing!
I’m still (quite literally) grinding my way through my first ever Hasegawa Tomcat
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2 hours ago, One 48 said:
You never really notice stencils on a casual viewing of a real aircraft and I've seen Phantoms up close in real life. In 1/72 and 1/48 they can stick out like a sore thumb for some reason but on 1/32 upwards seem to blend in fine? in my experience.
Might skip tiny stencils for this kit especially on a white or light grey camo, but if anyone can do them right, Tamiya can, we'll see? We all model to different standards and fair play too
We'll see indeed!
The French video link Baldwin posted ... OMG, the fit of parts looks immensely good, really enjoy that with recent state of the art Tamiya kits, its sort of appreciating good moulding technology and engineering as much as saving time with filler, sanding and re-scribing ... call me lazy if you like, but I'm honest, heh, have a massive stash and the easier the build that is pleasurable in fit to me, the sooner I can get on to the next one
Totally agree!
I’m a model maker not a ‘plastic’ surgeon!
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5 hours ago, baldwin8 said:
The extra decals in the add on sheet appear to be all the individual numbered panel information 5L 5R blah blah blah that is rarely included in any kits. The basics NO STEP, NO PUSH and WARNINGS are in the kit supplied sheet
Ahhhh.....!
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5 hours ago, SAT69 said:
I don't believe the reference was to a Tamiya EJ. But I wonder who SWS is.
My query was in response to a post with with a different title to the above so something appears to be moving around here. That post made reference to a Tamiya kit but without any further details. Now added as the F-4B as seen above. Might need to screenshot some of these to save my sanity.
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Didn't realise Tamiya were doing an 'EJ' version?
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Hmmm... so aside from the canopy frame and engine detail decals (welcome) the other decals appear to be similar to the data stencils usually included with other kits e.g. Academy?
Lamenting my loss of innocence....
in Chat
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I think it took me a while to get some kind of balance TBH. And I think the most important thing, for me at least, was to agree with 'myself' what good enough looked like. It's not just the sheer amount of choice available these days but also the level of 'noise' around the internet on the rights and wrongs of kits and builds. I'm building for me, not for a museum or exhibition, and so I'm using that principle to help dial back to a level of detail I'm comfortable with. For me its a hobby now, not a mission or a day job, and I'm just about to start an 'almost' OOB 1/24 Hurricane. Almost in that I'm just replacing the decals. And I'm just going to keep trying along those lines. If I get it wrong, for how 'I' feel, I'll try something else.