Pat C
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I found using the poly made them marginally more robust , at the expense of totally gumming up my airbrush. The bin beckoned.
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On 1/9/2023 at 5:36 PM, Winded Penguin said:
Looks terrific 👍
and is that a sandpaper based diorama?
Thank you!! Just a bit of wood covered in stuff used for doing model railway tarmac - I suspect it is paper with very fine wood chips dyed grey glued to it 😃
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22 hours ago, troschi said:
Did you also interchange the sliding doors with those from Airifx? I always think that HB‘s sliding doors windows are too small.
They are the HB doors - the Airfix ones are very thick and I didn’t have the will to thin them down for this build!! I think for an accurate Lynx you would probably end up with a kit that was mostly Airfix tarted up by bits from the HB one. I took a pic of the upper door rail area of the Lynx at the Museum of Army Flying , and compared it to the HB effort, and there was very little similarity!!
thx for all the kind comments.Pat
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I think that looks very nice - you have a got a great finish from a brush. Gloss varnish is known for darkening the appearance of "dark" colours so what you describe is not unexpected!
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Another one from me today. This is Hobby Boss 1/72 Lynx which has been augmented with the old Airwaves Gulf War set, a couple of Sea Skua from the Airfix NATO Weapons set, replacement resin sponsons, plus part of the engine bay cover from the Neomega Super Lynx set.
A couple of tweaks were made to the base kit - as has been noted the main rotor sits significantly too high above the top of the aircraft but this is a relatively easy fix to trim away some of the bottom of the rotor assembly. Hobby Boss have also, in my view, done a poor job in representing the prominent upper door rails on the real aircraft that jut out markedly from the fuselage side. I ended up using rails from a trashed Airfix Lynx, which were trimmed down a little (Airfix have them a little large to accommodate a working door). Bulged cockpit doors were sourced from another HB Lynx which is destined to be a donor kit for a Wildcat.
I used the Neomega replacement engine decking as this incorporates the "cow horn" intakes that were found on this and later model Lynx, however I thought that this was too slab sided and ended up cutting it up and just using the small section with the cow-horns on, preferring the kit effort for the rest. The weapons pylons were a combination of the kit part with scratch built outer sections.
Decals were from a combination of an old Modeldecal set, spares box and the kit. I did a major boob with the Union Jack - the Modeldecal ones have the white section as clear so the Dark Sea Grey shows though - I could not find a pic of XZ230 showing this and other pics of GW Lynx show this as white so I ripped off the decals and replaced them with ones with a white background. A couple of days later I found a splendid colour photo of XZ230 while leafing through Fleet Air Arm Helicopters Since 1943, showing that Modeldecal was correct 😣. Cue some very painstaking painting over of the white sections of the flag!!!
Hope you like!
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Completing this kit was a bit of an odyssey which began years ago with picking up these markings for £1 from the decal bin at a show because I liked the markings, having problems finding the Fujimi kit which a few years ago was quite hard to come by, trashing the first attempt, buying another kit and set of decals, wrecking those decals, buying more decals until you finally have the finished form!!
The Fujimi kit has a reputation for being a tricky build, particularly where you join the complete nose section to the complete fuselage section - my first attempt ended with a slight twist to the nose section which was impossible to correct without breaking the kit apart at which point I decided it would be easier to start again from scratch. The slat tracks are also very delicate and if I was to do another I would probably remove them all at the start of the build and glue on at the end to avoid snapping them off and losing them during the course of it!!
Unlike many of the old Microscale sheets it was easy to find a couple of good pics of this actual aircraft, including a spectacular mid-air shot of it dropping a couple of napalm tanks on a training mission from the early-70s. Colours were Gunze Aqueous Light Gull Grey over Gunze White, with Gunze Insignia Red for the tail and slat bays (the decal sheet has a large red decal for the entire tail but it became obvious that this was never going to fit properly). It was necessary to divide the hawk on the fuselage side into two to get it to fit properly.
All in all much more of an adventure (and expense) than I anticipated but a spectacular looking bird to add to my USN/USMC collection.
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Looks pretty good to me !! Which parts on the kit did you find problematic?
Pat
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On 10/28/2022 at 1:33 PM, Ngantek said:
How was the kit? The mark III is hard to find these days so have been wondering if the 5 kit boxing is worth it... but given I oddly find the XV one of the uglier spits, despite the outline basically being a xvii with the high back (and the 5 box has two of them), I'm not so sure.
This was from the 5 kit boxing which I was unable to resist buying 😁. I know what you mean about the Mk XV !! It went together fine and didn’t put me off building the others in the box although am currently doing a Jays Mk47 which is a little more tricky.
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Shockingly I think this is my first completed Spitfire family kit in the 45 odd years since I started building kits!! This is from the Sword family of Seafire kits, and I think the XVII is the best looking mark of the Seafires, particularly in this colour scheme.
One tip I picked up from this site is to insert the cockpit after the fuselage halves are joined - it can be inserted from below. Much easier to get it to fit that way. Make sure to do this before attaching the wings 😃.
Otherwise this was a relatively straghtforward build - paints used were Gunze Aqueous Sky and Xtracrylix XDSG with decals coming from the Freighdog Brits At Sea II sheet.
Pat
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Bear in mind Caseys recipe was for Humbrol 96 which is not the same colour as RAF Blue Grey as found on RN Helicopters. Shouldn’t be a problem getting the Hataka paint from Poland - I’ve ordered from that particular Polish EBay shop without difficulty before. But looks like there are also UK stockists who would sell just that paint if you do a bit of Googling 😃
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You can get individual Hataka paints - I can see RAF blue grey on EBay at the moment - would be £5 incl postage from Poland. I have that paint and it looks a pretty good match.
Pat
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6 hours ago, Dave Swindell said:
Bare unpainted fibreglass
Thanks Dave - much appreciated.
Pat
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5 hours ago, David Womby said:
Bravo! I look forward to watching that! Is it the Falcon conversion or a later resin one?
DavidI’m using the Falcon one although will not use the front fuselage. As am doing a late Neptune with the big glazed nose and sting will just move the radome, build up the cockpit area to take the new vac canopy and add a couple of windows to the Hasegawa front end.
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6 hours ago, mackem01 said:
The tip of the wing tank is clear perspex for the Leigh light.
Tother one !!!
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Happy New Year folks!!
Have seen a number of pics of RAF Neptunes that have a lighter patch at the front of the radome (and also on the front of the port droptank). I know that the colour at the rear of the "sting" is a browny colour and that would be my guess for the radome too, but wondered if anyone knew for sure?
Have just taken a saw to the Hasegawa Neptune to commence the conversion 😀
Pat
https://www.verslo.is/baldur/p2/british/WX553_35-F_640.jpg
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52 minutes ago, Hook said:
I think the Trumpeter F-105D, like the RoG kit, needs a few mods to accurately represent a unmodified example - see this RoG build
https://modelingmadness.com/scott/viet/f105d.htm
Cheers,
Andre
It certainly does - it has all the airframe mods - despite having decal options that would not have had the mods 😃
Pat
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Thanks chaps - have ordered myself a copy!
Pat
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And some versions instructions have you put the bulged cabin window in the wrong window too 😀
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Is there a guide anywhere to at what point in time the various upgrades to the F-105D airframe got implemented or became standard fit for new build aircraft? I am thinking of things like the fuselage side scoops, the venting on the gun housing, the thin cable duct along the spine, various scabbed armour plating etc?
Pat
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That looks great Colin - I’m actually in the process of doing one of these myself (with Air Graphics engine and bulged doors) and will pinch some of your ideas for improvements as well.
is that some stray masking tape on the port side or has the co-pilot drawn the blinds??!! 😁
Pat
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22 hours ago, Jon Lake said:
I remember flying that very 'dog, too, albeit a bit later, as by the time I was on ULAS we had the props in black/white stripes.
That’s brilliant to hear that someone flew the aircraft that I modelled!! Thanks for letting me know 😁
19 hours ago, kapam said:Did the Neptune ever come to fruition?
Ha! No although I’m doing a 3D printed Andover in 72nd which is a big old bird. The Neptune I think is bigger still but the good news is we are in the process of having our garage converted so I’m hoping for some extra shelf space !!!
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Lovely job - would like to see the Frog kit and the newer Revell offering next to each other. Next job maybe? 😁
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Was very sad to hear about the passing of Mel Bromley recently so this is a small tribute to Mel who ran S&M Models and gave us 72nd modellers a lot of pleasure producing kits like this, the Canberra B2 and the Sycamore. RIP Mel.
This was a lovely little kit to put together with the one criticism being the very spindly prop which had broken on the sprue. I replaced this with a reshaped prop from an Airfix Skyvan. Not all Provosts have the ribbing on the control surfaces portrayed on the kit which seems to be restricted to certain serial blocks - check your references!!
I decided I wanted to portray a machine in the silver and day-glo scheme with the CFS and finding pics that definitively showed the location of the code letters and the demarkation of the day-glo areas was quite difficult. There seemed to be a number of variations of day-glo around the tail area in particular. In the end this is a little bit of an informed guess - In know that XF892 carried the pattern shown and was coded "P-B" when in the earlier silver and yellow scheme and I know that many CFS Provosts retained the same codes when they switched to day-glo.
The model was given an all-over coat of white primer and the day-glo was a 50/50 mix of Humbrol acrylic Orange H18 and Fire Orange H209. The day-glo was then masked off and Citadel Chainmaill was used for the silver areas. Markings came from the spares box.
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1 hour ago, neilspen said:
How did you find ordering from Air Graphics?
Up until my most recent order fine but not had recent order 3 months after ordering ☹️
Westland Gazelle HT2 - Airfix 1/72 - 705 NAS
in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
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Been a while since I posted anything due to an N gauge railway side project but here are a few pics of the old Airfix Gazelle kit in the markings of 705 NAS shortly after it would have entered service in the mid 70s.
A few mods were made to try and improve the kit, most notably making new larger cabin doors from clear acetate and then making the aperture for the cabin side windows appropriately smaller and adding aclear acetate windows there as well. These aircraft had no fenestron cover on the starbd side - i just flattened off that side to give the impression of there being no cover but a lot more detail could have been added.
I also added a small amount of detail to the rotor assembly just to try make it look a bit busier. Paints were a mix of Hunbrol Orange H18 plus H209 Day-Glo Orange and Xtracrylix Light Aircraft Grey. Decals came from an old Modeldecal sheet although the orange "66" on the front came from a Microscale railroad sheet!!
There is as much tungsten putty as possible rammed into every space in the cockpit area to keep this from tail-sitting and I lost count of the times I snapped the skids of during the build. A nice addition to the FAA collection in the end though :-).
Hope you like !!
Pat