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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

Working on decals, order the RG decals kit to add some more detail and interest and because I really enjoyed putting decals onto these kits.

After saying that I'm just hand painted a few parts of this kit with acrylics, gloss over, before decals and a matt finish.

Yeh, I always prime with a can of Halfords primer, and I have used every type of paint going on top of that without issue. That's a great kit to paint, a lot of parts...

I will do, did 120ish miles last weekend around South and West Yorkshire. Here she is just after I set off from Ilkley. It took me about 2 months to get it cleaned, serviced and road safe. ZX636 is a nice bike, would kill my hips and back nowadays....lol. The Aile has had 2 fins fitted from the old old No grade kit, and fitted the shield and beam rifle so we now have the OP Strike Gundam....

Hi Pete. It's a lot less confusing than taking a the bike apart and fixing the broken plastic faring, I knew this hobby would come in handy at some piont.... Here is what I have been fixing, melting metal mesh into the plastic, then going over with 2-part resin and it works ..... I know, unbelievable! back on 2wheels after nearly 20 years away. On with all the mechanical stuff as well, that is all new to me.

The next one Strike is the Perfect Strike, but this is made up of a mix of the HG kit and the EG kit. The main body and most of the Aile Striker are the EG kits, just because the parts and colour separation are much better and the legs and feet of the EG are much nicer looking. I will build up the HG Strike so there will be some comparison on the three kits.

Hi all Found some time to do a bit of kit bashing after spending an age on an old Kawasaki Ninja 500r. The first one is an HG Zowort Heavy and an EG Strike, after a a bit of cutting up and filler this is ready to paint. calling this one the Ground Type Strike Gundam. upload pic

Just sorting out a new bench out, some place warm of the garage and I will back to this... Cheers Brian.

Slowed a little but have decided to make a diorama using few other kits that have lost broken or just forgotten about for a bit. Will add a good size tree as well.

That looks amazing, very nice brushwork.

Now there is some paint in the girl you can really see the nasty molding, I could go back and sand it out more but life is to short for that.....😁

Made a start on the shed.