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Yes - diorama is part of scale modelling ✅

Just 6 more sign ups needed for this - it will be such a great fun build.

When I was a wee thing we lived in the UK for a year and Action Man was probably my best friend (wasn't easy for a kid from Australia in late 70s England!). So, yes, welcome old friend! Welcome with that excellent choice. I had a blast building it last year or the year before in the MB GB.

There are quite a few for sure!

Amazing! If mine looks half this good I'll be a happy camper. Thanks for the thorough write up, too - full of good tips!

Late to this party because I couldn't find this guy in my stash...until today. i started this years ago but all I did was paint a few bits black and cut them off. I just test fitted it and man, it's pretty good. In my memory this kit was really crappy but now that I see it again I think it will make a nice model.

Well, so much for a quick build! On 3 Feb I had a long business trip and it's been chaos since I've been back but today while on a boring long call I quietly taped this up for some spray on certain panels in a slightly different shade of silver. It's done just for visual interest, not according to any actual references. Hopefully I can get to the decals this weekend!. The spine and the tail and the wing tanks don't matter because they're entirely covered by either OD paint (the spine) or decals (the rest). Does anyone know how to choose between the two seat options that come in this kit?

Late to the party and I'll be late starting too but here's my entry: I will use the rockets and drop tank load because I need those bombs for my F-84 in the F-84 GB. The underwing tanks on that kit died - one of them somehow got superglued to the superglue tube. I don't even know how it happened!

This is really cool! The 318 is the only one I haven't been on yet; sounds like I may not get the chance if they're that rare. You did a great job on this model - well done!

It's true - they barely register. To be fair I think there were only 39 of the 990 made compared to 850+ 707s and 550+ DC-8s. Even the VC-10 out-numbered this thing!

I am already behind schedule on my *epic* GB workplan for 2024...but let's be honest I haven't even finished what I started in 23 (International Space Station, cough cough). So I lay this down as a placemarker for what I hope will be a relatively quick build of this really cool, cutting edge, but ultimately failed effort - the Convair 990. The jet is squarely in the Baby Boomer era - first flight 1961 and entered into service not long after (and before the date cut-off). Yes, in NASA colours it operated in later years, but was basically the same 50s/60s design. I picked this Atlantis re-issue up at a good discount from, of all places, a store in Australia called Lincraft. When I was younger, that was strictly a shop for sewing supplies fabrics, and so on, and had a big prestige store in the nicest mall in town. These days it's more of a "craft supplies" place tucked away in the back blocks of the second tier malls (and let's face it, in this day and age, post covid and all, who even goes to the mall?). Needless to say I got it online. It gets a pretty decent wrap, this kit, despite it's slightly odd scale. I am sure for my purposes it will look fine sitting next to a bunch of 1/144 aircraft. Anyway, I'll come back to this when I finish my F-84 in that GB.

Welcome! Godzilla would be a perfect contribution!

Excellent choices - welcome!

Not a lot to show but I have sprayed the plane with tamiya gloss aluminium (I think TS-17). I will then do the cockpit, add the canopy, mask off most of the fuselage but leave some panels and the canopy frame and hit it all with a different shade of silver. Does anyone know should the wheel wells be silver, white, or that chromate green colour?

I was just basing that on what I read above - it's possible the wings are different between the two kits? They came as a separate part in mine, I think, not attached to a sprue. It certainly includes two types of airbrake and two types of exhaust pipe

Well I just realised two things - one that the E and G are the same kit except for decals and two that your awesome trick for the canopy will be too much for me on my build!

Welcome aboard for two awesome builds 😉

The carpet and the counterpane are to the suburban garden as the Hurricane is to the Spitfire at the BoB. People think the great wars of our childhood were won in those huge garden battles...but had the enemy not first been defeated in those early skirmishes in the bedrooms, history might look very different today. Welcome aboard!

Everyone here is probably familiar with the kit. I never pulled the trigger on this when I lived in China where it would have been a few bucks, but I got it later from ebay for not too much more. That was in early 2020...and here we go: I started tonight with some clean up. There's not much to this kit. I was two holes into drilling this air brake when I checked and realised an -E would have the one with just 6 small holes. I drilled and cut and hacked them out. I was pretty sure this thing would sit on its nose wheel without help, as the front is very heavy and it passed the basic COG test (balance on my finger at the main wheel wells and see which way it tips). But I gave it just a little anyway. Not long after that, I was here: Those drop tanks are the best I have ever encountered on any kit ever. They snap into place and there is no seam - I hate sanding and trying to clean up drop tanks. Fit isn't perfect - I needed some Vallejo plastic putty in the wing seams and on this panel: That panel doesn't fit too well but I am just going to roll with it. This is a quick build for me.

Here's my only F-84 - the old Airfix kit.

Wow I literally ordered this kit this afternoon! You did a great job of yours - looks amazing.

Yes, I think it won't have a long time in my collection because I just don't have space. Before long I'll need to put the boxes back onto the top of the cabinet where it's presently sitting. Thanks everyone for the comments!

I'll join up - I just figured out I have a Heller tallship in my stash that Scalemates dates to 1970. Boom!

You've done a lovely job with that old kit. I built one last year so I know how it is! Your paint job is excellent - and you're right it's a really cool plane. Great work!

Will be for a few more decades it seems - it will have outlasted B-58, B-1, B-2 and B-21 probably! I found this interesting but very cheesy video - ff through all the horses until you see a B-52. https://youtu.be/ju-LrWiokeg?si=kbB4_hXQZf_pOoD4