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Good evening mates, I'll join this GB with one of oldies which probably most of us liked to see during 80s - ESCI 1/72 F-100D Super Sabre. Most interesting choice from the kit was the Danish G-279 F-100D. On all of the photos this example seem to be freshly painted into glossy Olive Drab, and that should represent later painting scheme when they replaced old not so durable paints with those glossy shades. But somehow I would like to paint it in a typical Danish heavily weathered manner, so I have to apologize in advance for making not so historically accurate example. Here are aftermarket sets I plan to use Cheers, S.

Good evening mates, I'm a bit late with joining - only last night I've decided to take part in this GB as a good friend of mine @Lanmi persuaded me to join him in this GB. As he already started work on Fujimi D3A1 Val, I've selected another Fujimi oldy - B7A1 Grace, so here we are... as a scale modelling sitcom"Val & Grace" Jokes aside, as with most of other Fujimi kits of this age, canopy is a bit thick, so rather plain cockpit detailing won't be much visible, so I'll try to make this one straight out of box, at least regarding to the cockpit area Regarding to canopy masking, this time I've prepared - at recently held Mosonshow I've bought precut masks from Dead Design Models, so I expect enjoyable ride... Cheers and see you soon with some "in-progress" photos, S.

There has been some progress since last update. I've assembled engine intake with fan blades... ...and soon after that the rest of the interior parts were assembled with fuselage halves and wings, and all the seams sanded where required. Pavla cockpit fitted reasonably well in the end.. not perfect but I am satisfied. Few more parts are left to assemble, and hopefully painting stage will come soon. Cheers, S.

Cockpit is finally finished - painted, detailed and wash applied. And this is how should fit into fuselage - some tweaking will be required, but I expect no major problems... Cheers, S.

Sorry for this such a late update - I've been busy preparing for now finished Mosonshow held in Mosonmagyarovar some 10 days ago, so my modelling mojo suffered a bit. Now I'm coming back, although slowly, so here are first visible steps on my Shar. Fuselage halves were modified in cockpit area in order to accomodate Pavla resin cockpit - I'm actually surprised that cockpit fits reasonably well, some sanding here and there and it will be ok. I've sprayed some cockpit and engine parts with grey and black Surfacer, so next photo update should represent finished cockpit. Front wheel well had an awfull ejection pinmark, so I had to remove it, and to reconstruct that "pipe" structure using stretched sprue (dark grey cross in the middle) I was preparing mentally for fixing exhaust nozzles as they were made from two halves, making very visible seam requiring some styrene sheets to cover it... but... fortunatelly I found this Aires aftermarket on Mosonshow, so with no hesitance bought it! Difference is very noticable! I'll spend following period of time to paint cockpit details, so I'll make new photo update then.... Regards, S.

Oh, thanks for the info @Col. time will tell how it fits, but surely will improve the look in the end! Cheers, S.

Good evening mates, I'll join this GB with Airfix Sea Harrier Of course, this option of markings will be used Here are the sprues - still sealed in original bag And I will use this package of aftermarket - don't know actually whether this Pavla set is made for this Airfix kit, or older one, but I'll manage somehow to use these parts - they really seem to improve the look of the pilot's "office".... Cheers, and see you soon in progress stage... Srđan

#2/2022 One of easy and relaxing builds - very simple kit with not so many parts (most of them are bombs and missiles :D). Painted with Gunze acrylics, while canopy has been subtle tinted with Tamiya Smoke. Wash done with artistic oils. The only chalenging part on this kit were blue fuselage decals - they were almost 1cm longer than they should be, so they mismatched the shape of area around canopy. I cut them in 4 parts and then assembled them piece by piece - had to repair blue color a bit on few places (behind cockpit is most visible area) Cheers, Srđan

One relaxing project started few months ago. Typical UM kit - interesting subject requiring a bit of patience and careful assembling and everything goes well. - painted with Gunze acrylics - weathering done with artistic oils and MIG pigments - headlight made from Kristal Klear Cheers, S.

I doubt it would arrive in a month, how much is left until the end of GB, and probability that replacement parts are also prone to the breakage is high. Nevermind, they are shelved until I find some inspiration and solution to this problem. Maybe they will be finished as what-if, I'll think about it Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Cheers, S.

Well mates, I'm officially giving up on these two - Dragon made my day with its inventive/modernised canopy design, which I do not so prefer.... I was about to mask canopies with Tamiya tape, and as soon as I've pressed tape onto windscreen, I just heard "craaaaack" sound... and canopy just split in half... there was a seamline visible before this, but I thought it was just inside_plastic_seamline that wasn't surface based and impossible to repair .... anyhow, I don't have any creative idea at the moment - maybe in future I will make canopy just like on these photos, and make SF-18 Space Hornet, but frustration is high at the moment, and I'll just shelf them... Cheers and thanks for organizing this GB - see you in some other themed story Srđan

Tails are attached on the fuselage, as well as weapon pylons under the wings. What's left to do before primer is sanding seamlines on canopies (they are moulded right across the center line ) and polishing of canopies. Hopefully next photos will be in primer/painting stage... Cheers, S.

Just a tiny update for today - I've glued lead balls as a weight in nose area, I hope it will be enough to avoid tailsitting Cheers, S.

Unfortunatelly, shortly after intro photo was made I've got first symptoms of Omicron, and as expectedly positive AG test, so the following period was just taking a rest and a ton of medicines and vitamines... All of that is now behind me, thankfully everything went well, so I'm finally back at the work table, and continuing where I stopped at (almost) full speed Cockpit is assembled, painted and weathered - I've used black ink for wash, and it's much less visible in vivo - macro emphasize all of those paintbrush streaks... Hopefully assembling of fuselage is on the schedule in following days... Cheers, S.

Few days after last photo was made I've got first symptoms of Omicron, and as expectedly positive AG test, so the following period was just taking a rest and a ton of medicines and vitamines... All of that is now behind me, thankfully everything went well, so I'm finally back at the work table, and continuing where I stopped at (almost) full speed Fuselages are assembled, although their alignment wasn't perfect - it seems Dragon messed up a bit joins of fuselage parts, so I had to use a lot of putty and sprue goo to repair that bottom part of strakes and around horizontal stabilizers... Kit with fully stretched wings is going to be VFA-31, while the other one, in parked wings position will be VFA-105. Few more parts to be glued and we're ready for primer... Cheers, S.

a bit of progress with painting of cockpit and exhaust area... Cheers, S.

Nightmare is finally finished. I know the pain you've gone through, so just big BRAVO for the final finish. Weathering turned out pretty nice around tail area - it really looks like after landing to the muddy runway. Cheers, S.

I'll join this GB with another braillescale, although this one isn't of typical gabarites of most of my kits Jokes aside, due to limited space at home, some of larger planes I choose to do in 1/144, and this one is one of them. Pretty nice kit judging by look of sprues, we'll see how fit goes... Cheers, S.

And so we go.. first steps are done, just to get into the rhythm after holidays. All is prepared for first layers of primer and color - interior area... Cheers, S.

Thanks mates, I'm glad you like this one. I pretty much respect what-if themes, although I personally am not too much skilled for real what-if "surgery" works - when you have to cut half of kit to merge with some other parts. My sphere of what-ifery is actually mostly "alternative history and/or retro/commemorative liveries", so when I find some new appropriate model, I'll let you know Cheers and all the best in 2022, Srđan

Hello mates, First of all, I wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New 2022! Time has finally come to get to work on some new model(s) For this (ST)GB I've chosen Dragon dual kit pack of F/A-18E Super Hornets in braillescale. Decals are given for VFA-31 Tomcatters and VFA-105 Gunslingers. As wings can be assembled fully stretched or bended for parking in carrier hangar, I plan to make one of them (most probably VFA-105 as it's less colorful in general) in that pose, but fully armed. Here is the preview photo, and see you soon with some photos from the bench! Cheers, Srđan

2021. was my most productive year so far - I've managed to complete 20 kits - and I must admit that 11 kits were made on purpose for Britmodeller Groupbuilds, so, yeah, those GBs have pretty much good purpose in restoring and maintaining of modelling mojo! Big thanks to all those mates who were companions in those GBs, and of course to the organizers of GBs, and GB moderator @Enzo Matrix - I did my best to build ALL kits I applied to GBs Well, enought talking, here are my finished kits in 2021... Stay safe and healthy, and may 2022. brings us all some better days. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Srđan 13.01.2021. Revell 1/72 Pz.Kpfw. V Panther Ausf. G 17.02.2021. Revell 1/144 F-14A Tomcat - VF-84 Jolly Rogers (“Final Countdown” movie) Revell 1/144 F-14A Tomcat - VF-142 Ghostriders Revell 1/144 F-14D Tomcat - VF-101 Grim Reapers 09.03.2021. Hasegawa 1/72 F-86D Sabre Dog (JRV 14088) 25.03.2021. Academy 1/72 FG-1D Corsair - El Salvador (Football War) Italeri 1/72 F4U-5N Corsair - Honduras (Football War) 25.05.2021. Revell 1/72 Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. L 09.06.2021. Platz 1/144 A-4E Skyhawk - VMA-211 Wake Island Avengers Platz 1/144 A-4E Skyhawk - VMA-311 Tomcats Trumpeter 1/72 M4A3E8 Sherman "Skeeter Hawk" (Korean War) 01.07.2021. Airfix 1/72 CA-13 Boomerang 01.08.2021. Hasegawa 1/72 Grumman X-29 28.08.2021. Fujimi 1/72 Tachikawa Ki-36 Kisaragi Tamiya 1/72 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 11.09.2021. Zvezda 1/72 ISU-152 30.10.2021. Revell 1/144 AV-8B Harrier II+ 26.11.2021. Azur FRROM 1/72 Ikarus IK-2 18.12.2021. Eduard 1/144 Avia B.534 24.12.2021. Revell 1/72 Challenger 1 (what-if)

hmmm... I guess I'll put this idea somewhere in my mind, so if I get some Leopard overplus, it shall be done Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you like it. Cheers, S.

You could say it would be a real CHALLENGE for them

I've got this kit from my friend, but without box, assemblying manual and decals, so I decided to do it as what-if, in "retro" livery, as I had spare decals from Crusader kit - 9th Queen's Lancers, 1st Armoured Division from North Africa, December 1941. Painted with Gunze acrylics, but black fields that were brushpainted with Lifecolor matt Black. Wash and dot filtering done with artistic oils, while weathering was finalised with MIG pigments. Headlights were made from Kristal Klear.... Cheers - have nice and safe holidays and Merry Christmas to all BM members that celebrate it tomorrow Srđan