Gimme Shelter

A bit of fun - MPC's Mean machine burning it up through the cartoon desert of Hanna-Barbera driven by those dastardly duo - Dick and his side-kick Muttley.

Brilliant diorama - I can feel the cold just looking at it - very nice indeed - you have really captured the moment and climate there

She looks great - very nice French touch there too. Fancy having a crack at the 1/72 alternative ?? That's a real nose-job of a kit

keep it moving on in 2024...

Another fine work of art there - and looking forward to seeing it for real at the club. A real model show crowd pleaser in the making.

Some progress pictures dating across the last few months. windows installed kit assembled Green Stuff used to create forward facing cockpit window area to correct the kits clear part - still work to do to correctly profile the front end for drooped nose pose. elevons removed engine nacelles inside painted black slimy Russian green added to interior of droop snoot nose cone windows masked primed sanded re-primed investment in 1 box of Swann Morton No 9 Chisel head scalpel blades used to remove the huge raised panel lines still in the process of removing panel lines in readiness for next sand down and prime ready for first top coat unless you're a fan of the TU144 you probably wont be the slightest bit interested in the progress of this astonishingly horrible kit but here you go just in case... That was fun wasn't it..... this kit really did fall out of the bottom end of the late 60's

that is looking ultra brilliant and that canopy is superb - looking forward to seeing the next stages once its been weathered up and ready for club night - no pressure....

nice update. If you run into any unexpected issues upfront with the visor/glazing, I have a spare set of window and visor decals from Draw Decal that you can have as a 'just in case' option. Good to see the progress and I've just worked out that the engines cover up the majority of that underwing seam line joint too. Looking forward to seeing more as and when it happens.

you know where I'm headed Matt, straight onto that 1/72 Concorde link of yours...... no pressure !

wow - looks pretty amazing so far

wot, no SST updates - Concorde was never delayed by a 767 !

That is looking very good

76's played a big part in our family for the last few years of Dad's command in BA when he went from long back to short haul - his retirement flight below back in 1998, City of Frankfurt out from LHR and the same back home that evening, where the flaps jammed at 5 degrees. He hated the tail fin designs of the time....

keep calm and '67 on.... enjoying this from the onset.

I hope your petplan policy covered the accident - brilliant modelling

Will you be replacing each of the centre upright leg pillars with a spring loaded upright rod as well? I seem to remember the legs each had a visible external spring around the middle upright leg pillar

How excellent, we shall be a lucky model club having this on the display table next year. Very much looking forward to seeing this Mr P

coming along well - I've just watched one of the real things fly over low this afternoon

Hi - I've dropped back in to your build here for another look today - I have this kit and shall hope to assemble in in 2024. I've been looking for 3rd party replacement decals for my kit as mine look potentially dangerously unusable. I recently saw a built model of this kit at IPMS Abingdon's 2023 club show - the modeller had adapted the front end to display her droop snooted - I'm very tempted to try the same - being so basic, there is little to destroy in the conversion process and lends itself to vast improvements up front. Looking at this 1/144 Nitto kit up against my VBP Plasticart 1/100 kit of the same (i.e. the prototype), I can see that both kit manufacturers built their moulds on areas of assumed detail without access to the real aircraft to have taken accurate dimensions and detail from - in particular the engine nacelle shape and finite underwing location.

Yes, its the Doyusha kit of the Prototype - I have blagged some prototype decals from F-Decal too for it. It's expensive but if you remain alive and sane after completing your 1/72 Concorde, I thoroughly recommend you have a crack at Modelsvit's 1/71 TU-144 - it's a serious kit and would look great against your Concorde of the same scale

Thanks for the update there - she's looking really great so far. I'm still waiting for my boss to return some 3D printed parts so I can get on with starting my 4 kits - I guess the longer he takes, the more I can procrastinate and use as an excuse to defer taking the deep dive and starting mine. I've just bought Modelsvit's 1/72 TU144 to stand alongside one of my if-ever-made 1/72 Concordes. In the meanwhile, I'm building both the prototype TU144 and Concorde in 1/100 scale as an in-between project. Please keep us posted on your progress

Indeed indeed - we live a stones thrown from where the old Martins Pool was located - sadly now a small housing development but where I learned to swim myself in the 70's. And California is still there - recently re-developed for the next generation and the old racetrack is still visible in places when walking the dog.

now thats a very nice '76

interesting - I wish I had known - the plastic certainly would be of better quality. Admittedly, when I found the kits tubes of glue and paint (albeit them unusable) it reminded me of the old LS Models gun kit I used to build back in the 80's which came with a tube of glue and grease

they had exploded in the box - but they were there!