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No show on the instructions and its was turning the place upside down and clear out to fit a motorbike project in my work space that caused the problem, down to just the small desk to build and paint on. Thanks for your help.

I need some help from you lovely lot, I have one of the generic Chinese stray booths that I have lost the plug for. Does anyone know what I need to replace it with and where I can get one? Thanks, Brian

I need some help from you lovely lot, I have one of the generic Chinese stray booths that I have lost the plug for. Does anyone know what I need to replace it with and were I can get one? Thanks Brian

Man, I love the yellow orange black tiger stripes of this one. Cheers and really like the geometric shapes on this one, now can I combine the two?????

I was trying to think of something a little C Foss-like, so the Black Tiger fighter is a good call.

With some primer I can start to fill in the gaps, there are a few little ones and it could do with a few panel lines but happy with how this is going. Any recommendations for a colour scheme?

Bob is the new ground crew showing us the model star fighter. He said its a pig to work on and they don't build fighters like the used to.

OK so the is standing all good, level and straight and the bonus is the ladder still fit. So just the front of the main body part to sort out some greebles on. I'm having the crazy thought of cutting a hole in the body to add an open catch.

The tricky part is getting the two end to stick together....eeek! And you can just about ser the secondary set of smaller wings now added and the rear landing gear. Hopefully when I come back in the morning it will be all set straight. A better picture of the wings. I see a lot of filling and sanding in my near future.......

I like this one, defo looks like it belongs in the Expanse universe.

Thank you. I was thinking no respectable space fighter has wheels so fitting some skid plates like the X-wing.

Here we go....

Slow going over the long weekend on this as I have been playing out on the bike in the sun....😎 but I have got the cockpit all finished and the nose together. I have also added the sensor aray to the shielding in front of the cockpit and added some close range lasers to the nose.

My selection of stickers.... for realy secure bond, content adhesive and CA will hold larger parts together. The gorilla glue is great as it expands and fill gaps. Mocking up the front / nose and the kits in the back ground might make a small diorama.

Side few of whats in place so far, deflectors shielding and vents fitted to top stabiliser engine and patched the gap between the upper and lower parts with a strip of plastic card cut to fit.

Working on the backend at the moment. Added more to the tail, some small vent thrusters either side of the main engine and heat sheld on top on the main engine, then a few widgets, I think we will call then "defusing outlets" to the upper stabilisation engine. I think a few pipes are needed next.

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That is a craking looing kit, love what you have done to the base.

Cheers it's good to at it properly again. What I have done to the kit, is the donor kit fuselage is moulded in 2 half, fairly standard stuff for these kits, so I started by chopping the noise off from just behind the cockpit, I plan on keeping this mostly as it ( for now), then I cut the tail off the fuselage and then trimmed down the leftover fuselage, turned them upside down and back to front and they now fit at the base of the new 3 tube shape fuselage. The underside of the kit will be used as is just fitted the other way around. The main engine is made up of hose connectors and a small bottle top and the smaller engine is one half of an inline connector for electrical cable. I have glued most of this lot together now just some main engine alterations to get a little better fit and I haven’t fitted the nose section. Now I need to fill some gaps. Pictures to follow, a good lunchbreaks works that.....🤫

Ok first up I make no oppogies for this looking quite a bit like the MK1 Viper, that was not the intention it's just how it ended up. This is part of a Keighley plastic model club group-built competition, we are all given, well we have to pay for it at cost as the competition is sponsored by https://plastichobbys.com. So we all get the same kit and are told to go away and build it. We didn't know what the kit would be and at the meeting, they came in a brown box, very exciting stuff, this year's kit is/was a 1/48 Northrop F-5A light by Tiger Hobbies so the first thing I did was chop it to bits......😋. The plan was to use as much of the kit as possible but make it sci-fi and that it, so I sat at the bench with the kits and my box of bits and this emerged, time to start with the glue and filler.......😁.

what kit is this looks really nice?

I would go with grey and use it to build up the light grey/blue snow colour.

Now that is stunning in every way!

Yep but love applying decals, I find it relaxing.... Well I have finished the Perfect Strike and happy with the outcome, the matt top coat is not as matt as I would like but other than that its OK.

More decal fun than you can shake a stick at.....but making good progress. image hosting services