johnny akes

That’s a great result eng, certainly looks like a well detailed kit and much better than one I tried a few years ago (can’t remember now if it was a Revell kit or someone else’s) which was so bad I binned it. Always fancied doing an A-10 since I was targeted by one a few years back on a road through Snowdonia - mine was the only car in sight and I was convinced he took a practice run at me!

If that’s a bad kit I’d love to see what you could do with a good one! Tremendous result.

I'd built the Airfix Valiant quite a while ago and it was interesting to note the advances made by the company in the 5 years or so between the two kits being released (2011 - 2016 according to Scalemates): a clear step up in refinement and build quality, which they've continued pretty much ever since. Next on the production line is the Vulcan so I'm looking forward to see how it stacks up against their much more recent releases. The size & shape of the Victor makes it hard to photograph, let alone display but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Thanks for looking, J.A.

Amazing result, it could easily pass for a 1/48 or even a 1/32 kit.

Here's my recently completed Kotare Spit. You don't get many parts for your near-£100 quid but you do get great accuracy, meticulous research and no loss of building enjoyment. The detail in the casting is exquisite - you can't quite see the raised rivets at the back of the fuselage in my photos for example, but it is there. Of course you could pay a bit more for a Tamiya Spit and get a much higher parts count and a full engine if that's your thing, but it won't be an early version - you pays your money and takes your choice. Both are a joy to build in their own way. Thanks for looking J.A.

Happy Easter folks! Here is my attempt at Revell's new(ish) big Hurricane. Decent enough kit for the price, although some quite clever design in places is let down by the soft plastic as the pieces aren't as sharply moulded as they might otherwise be. Nothing a bit of effort can't overcome though. Thanks for looking, J.A.

Fabulous paint job!

Proper modelling, that. I’m very envious of both your skills and patience.

That’s very impressive, I’ve built the 1/48 version and from your photos it’s hard to tell them apart.

I suspect it was more a case of the WnW Lanc moulds falling into their laps so to speak, and too good an opportunity to turn down. Their first 1/35 kits must have been in the planning stage well before the Lancs hit the shelves.

I seem to remember this issue being discussed previously re Border’s FW190 - I think the difference in actual size between a Revell 1/32 Heinkel and Border’s 1/35 version for example will be very noticeable, with the latter being much more ‘shelf friendly’.

That’s a terrific result Nikola, construction, weathering and decals all look completely faultless. Although I’ve never built one I’ve always had a soft spot for the Corsair, I much prefer its squat lines to those of the Crusader.

Hi All, This is my last one of what has been a quiet year output-wise, ICM's CR42 LW in Luftwaffe service, Italy 1944. A nice, straightforward but well-detailed kit with no fit problems. And to finish off, here's a couple including the figures supplied with the kit which I actually painted quite a while ago: As always, thanks for looking. Season's Greetings, J.A.

Wonderful! One of the best Hurri’s I’ve seen in any scale.

Hi All No way I can find space for the full kit, so this'll have to do. Its WnW heritage is obvious, with quality and detail at least matching Tamiya's Mosquito. Shame that there is no way of displaying the interior though as the double-skinned fuselage means a clear section (as per HKM's otherwise vastly inferior version) isn't feasible. Photos will have to do instead. Only problems I encountered were that the instructions are a little vague in places as to the the locations of some minor fittings, and the decals are the thinnest I've ever come across - while usually a good thing, it meant that the larger ones were prone to curl and stretch, hence the wavy lines of bombs on the mission tally; and I completely destroyed the one of the "Phantom of the Ruhr" text which meant I had to hand paint it instead. The duplicated flight deck in the foreground is my own resin cast of the Border one with a heavily modified/scratch built seat, which I'm going to use to try to bring the HKM version a little closer to representing the actual thing: Thanks for looking, J.A.