[CH-53D, Sea Stallion, US Marines, Mid 1970`s]

Very nice indeed, looks superb.

 

Eng

[Airfix 1/72 Nimrod MR.2]

Very nice indeed, great to see one pop up here. 

 

My own own effort is languishing partially built in the loft 🙁

 

Eng

[Eduard`s MiG-21bis / well worn Croatian AF one]

Beautifully painted and weathered as always, stunning work.

 

Eng

[Desert Storm bird - Dassault Mirage F.1CR, KittyHawk 1/48]

That is rather sublime, beautiful work.

 

Eng

[F-14 during Civil War]

🤣 Totally love this! Dudes horse is gonna bolt as soon as that sonic boom hits them. 

 

Anytime Baby! 👍🏻

 

Eng

[IL-28 Trumpeter 1/72]

Outstanding, what a fantastic build, some tremendous scratch building.

 

Eng

[French TurboFirecat 1/72]

Wow, that's really nice work, a great diorama.

 

Is the Landrover from a kit?

 

Eng

[Academy 1/48th F-16C Fighting Falcon]

Looks fantastic, and nice to see more unusual scheme, like those big red bort numbers.

 

Eng

[1/72 NH90 - Royal Norwegian Air Force]

Very nice work.  

 

Have to say I think this is quite a good looking helicopter, there was an Italian one through Glasgow during Joint Warrior Excercise in October, looked very smart.

 

Eng

[Academy EF-18A(M) Hornet 1/72]

Absolutely stunning work, could easily pass for a bigger scale.

 

Quick fancy having a go at the Academy one I have in the stash now!

 

Eng

[PAS Models 757-200 Air Holland 1:144]

That's beautiful, all the right shapes seem to be there. Might have to look into one of these as opposed to the rather poor Minicraft kit languishing in my loft.

 

Did it come with the RB211's or are these aftermarket?

 

Again a lovely piece of modelling.

 

Eng

[Phantom FG.1 XV571 43 Sqn 1986 special markings]

2 hours ago, Scimitar said:

So true. 

The view from the railway station end was superb wasn't it.

I don't have any of my own pics at hand but found this one on the net

If Carlsberg did airfield vantage points! Miss the days of peeking over the fence at Leuchars ☹️

 

Eng

[Italeri Tornado IDS into a GR.4 1:72]

Go Revell, without a doubt the better option. Only other thing to do to it is shorten the nose gear oleo slightly, I personally feel it's slightly too long and as such your Tornado will sit a bit too nose high. Some of the later production Revell kits I have in my stash suffer from very poorly moulded transparencies and I haven't yet decided how I'll tackle these for the cockpit, probably have a go at vac-forming. You may be lucky and pick up a kit that doesn't suffer this problem

 

I've built 2 so far, have another 2 in work....... and have at least another 8 in the stash! Almost more than the RAF 😉

 

Eng

[1:72 Hasegawa Grumman/General Dynamics F-111B Conversion "Beta Tomcat"]

Awesome bit of conversion work 👍 

 

Eng

[1/48 A-10C, 354th FS, Inherent Resolve, 2017. Finished 16/01]

Looking forward to seeing this one! I saw that dirty inverted pic in one of the aviation mags and was so captivated by it to took a pic of it on my phone from the mag with a view to building a dirty Hog like this at some point. They are great looking machines, the one in the photo has certainly been doing some amount of tank-plinking.

 

Bring on the progress pics

 

Eng

[Airfix 1/48 North American P-51D Mustang]

Quick off the mark, looks nice OoB.

 

G

[Kittyhawk 1/48 Su-35 Flanker]

Another fantastic build, missed this one earlier 👍

 

Great work.

 

G

[Airfix 1/48 Sepecat Jaguar GR.3A 6Sqn 90th anniversary]

Stunning, Jag's still look awesome, you've done a cracking job of this.

 

G

[Hobbyboss 1/48 RCAF Hawk CT-155 419Sqn commemorative scheme.]

Beautiful bit of work mate, love the camo top surfaces, looks great on the Hawk's.

 

G

[1:48 Tornado F3, 11 Sqd, RAFLeeming]

You've made a beautiful job of that, and in my opinion one of the nicest F.3 schemes there was. An F.3 with black fin/spine just seems to work.

 

The Hobby Boss kit had a lot going for it and I reckon if they had just gotten the intake shape right and slightly flattened the canopy, any of the other niggles would have been passable under a good build and paint job like yours.

 

I've received my Revell F.3 and it does look good, a lot of parts carry over from the GR/IDS but the necessary changes seem to have been made. Resisting the temptation to start it until I clear some in-work projects off the bench.

 

Excellent work on your F.3, looking forward to seeing you produce a Revell one 👍

 

Eng

[Douglas X-3 Stiletto 1:72 Planet Models]

Gorgeous model and beautifully displayed, very nice indeed.

 

Eng

[Revell 1/48 Tornado ADV]

12 hours ago, Shaun said:

Mine has off register pink and light blue printing...

005 by SHAUN BOWMAN-DAVIES, on Flickr

 

Your decals are fantastic compared to mine Shaun! I'll get a pic of mine up tomorrow 😖

[Revell 1/48 Tornado ADV]

Anyone got one of these with a dodgy set of decals?

 

The red on my set is very poor, almost like the printer was running out of ink - roundels not filled right up to the blue, the red in the 23 Sqn flashes again not fully complete, and the red stencilling and fuel tank markings incomplete.

 

For me it's nothing I don't have additional decals I can use as replacements, but just wondered if this is just a one off, or is there a bad batch of decals.

 

Eng

[Tornado when "parked",question on the position of the wings]

I can 100% confirm that the Tornado F.3 can and was parked up with the wings fully swept provided the Hindenburg tanks weren't fitted. I believe due to the additional length of the fwd fuselage the CoG wasn't an issue with this variant.

 

Eng

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This thread just keeps giving, epic workmanship, still loving this.

 

Mod's can we please have this thread pinned? It deserves to be a 'go to' guide for Tomcat modellers, weathering, casting, scratch-building... it's all in here.

 

Rgds,

 

Eng