Mark

Thanks Noel and Trevor! My plan is slowly coming together. I have already started on the three engines and the paints from Hiroboy are on their way as are sets of fog lights and photo-etched belt buckles. I haven’t felt as excited as this when starting a project in a long time!

Dave, Keith, thanks both for your replies. I’ll try and get those Renaissance buckles, they look perfect for the job Keith. Stunning Modelling there Dave!!

Hi everyone, So I've got everything I need to get going with a project that has been on the cards since Tamiya released their 1/24 Mini Cooper kit. I'm using the Mini Cooper 'Racing' release for the three cars as it has the correct Minilite wheels. But stills from the film show the cars with leather bonnet straps. Does anyone know the best way to replicate these? Cheers in advance!

Salut Chris et bienvenue ! I’m not too far away, near Bourgoin Jallieu

I’m no expert really, I just have ‘insider knowledge’ having flown for Emirates between 1999 and 2007, finishing my career with them as a Captain on the A340-500 😉 I keep coming back to your model though and have shown many friends who all think it is a really amazing model.

Gorgeous ❤️

Hi Martin, that is an incredibly beautiful model! Everything looks so right about the A340-600 and the authentic airliners kit seems to capture the complex curves and the details. My only correction would be to say that Emirates never flew the -600. I should certainly catch up with all of your other models on here as that is really lovely.

Superb in every way!!!

Morning all! Appears I’ve got my Mojo back! This model is literally falling together. Lovely engineering but some soft details. I’m not an expert on the larger scales, but I’m loving this as the parts are far easier to handle and achieve better finishes with subtle dry-brushing. This could be the way to go! Also, some rather bonkers details, including cylinders, pistons and con-rods moulded into the inside faces of each engine half!! 🤪 i’m off to the gym this morning, followed by a 10km run and a 25km cycle ride, and then work will continue this afternoon! * * this, of course, is a lie. I’m having a lie-in!! 😂

Well, the boss said ‘Crack On’ so I did! I’m surprised that I’ve got this far today to be honest, but it is a lovely kit and really does just fall together! The only extra I have used are a set of HGW seat belts, otherwise she is completely OOB. Here’s today’s progress: She is rather big!! But then that’s the name of the game with this GB I guess!

https://progzilla.com/the-prog-mill-remembrance-special-with-leo-trimming/ We shall remember them…

Hi everyone! I am sitting here in my modelling shed and wondering why I make models. It’s not that hard to think about my childhood enthusiasm for anything aeronautical and that has led to a rewarding career in aviation. Sitting with my Dad making Airfix Series 1 kits that ended up hanging from my bedroom ceiling is a fond memory. But now as an adult approaching his 60th birthday, the horrors that these machines committed is not far from my mind. I have now come to the conclusion that I create these little miniature war machines as a testimony and memorial to the brave pilots and crew that flew them. This, of course, is very apt on this day, Remembrance Sunday. I have also not really committed to the group builds as much as I would have liked, or in fact been that active at all on here, but that is about to change as I have noticed the deadline for this GB has been extended and I have just over a month to go! I have long been a ‘fan’ of the A-1 Skyraider and remember trying to get as many stores under the 1/72nd wings of the Airfix kit all those years ago. But this GB demands something large, so I have dug out from the stash the Z-M 1/32nd A-1H Navy variant and given myself a real challenge! So, I had better crack on and get some glue and paint on the plastic parts that make up this beautiful kit. But I need a suitable soundtrack and nothing could be better than this! https://progzilla.com/the-prog-mill-remembrance-special-with-leo-trimming/ So sit back, enjoy this great two-hour show, broadcast yesterday on Progzilla Radio, a station that I contribute a two-hour weekly show too. A man cannot have too many hobbies! Without further ado, here is the kit…

Totally brilliant!

I know nothing about the kit or the type, but I am now inspired to research both! what a great build!

Of course I can remember the Viscoun, how can I not forget?! I still have mid-range hearing loss after spending nearly 1,000 hours in the right-hand seat long before noise-cancelling headsets became a thing! I was based at both Southend and Aberdeen in the early ‘90s as a First Officer with British Air Ferries, this was my first airline. We lost the Shell contract and I was transferred back to Southend in 1992. I loved everything about my time in Aberdeen and flying up to Sumburgh with some of the worst weather you could imagine! It looks like I could have flown a couple of you back in the day… @Ormlie Here’s a team photo of the Aberdeen crew in 1991, that’s me on the far right. A really lovely model of G-AOYL in the BA Landor scheme. She eventually joined the fleet of British Air Ferries in January 1984, but was put into storage and canibalised for spares in 1986. I saw her often gradually losing bits and pieces as we taxied out for another night freight run from Southend. Sorry to hijack your thread, but as we are talking Viscounts, here’s my own one from a few years ago.

Well chaps and chapesses, it’s that time of year again when my local club hosts the annual Replica show and what a great little show this is! Plenary of vendors with card machines fully prepared to take my money, plenty of good humor amongst the many friends that I now have here in my part of France I call home and some of the best Modelling on display from some top class modellers. So without further ado, pour a drink, pull up a chair and have a look over the photos, cheers! 🍻

Bonjour from moi aussi! 😊 Dept.38 Expat Anglais since 2012

A warm welcome from me too! 😊

from me too! I like things that go Brrrrmmmmmmm!!! 🚗🏎️

They did not… But I did come away with an Arma 1/48 Hurricane IIC Trop, an Airfix 1/48 Tiger Moth, a Tamiya 1/48 P-47D c/w Willys Jeep, a Z-M 1/32 Skyraider an my early Christmas present, an Airfix 1/24 Spitfire Mk.IXc

I’m off to my annual model show in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France and hope that one of the many retailers who are normally there will have one

10/10 from me! Superb in every way 👍

Well you guys might just have cost me £90! I had zero interest in the F-35 but the comments, reviews and photos here all point to my desire to have one of these on the display shelves! 🥰

Hi Dave, Despite the difficulties that you had with the build, specifically your health issues, you’ve come out the other side with an absolutely beautiful finish on an extremely elegant airliner from an exceptionally old kid! There’s nothing I can find fault with and one you should be very proud of! I hope that your health improves, arthritis is an absolute sh*t!

Hi Tom, Back in the day, a long, long, long time ago, I had a large box under the Christmas tree with one of these inside! I quickly followed with the Spitfire and the Mustang as soon as pocket money was saved and I believe that that was probably the beginning of my real obsession with this hobby! I certainly think it was these Superkit models that were to blame for my insistence of showing as much of the inside of the airplane as possible, even though I’m now mostly a 1/48 modeller. But seeing the engines and gun bays open was always exciting when seeing these 1/24 kits made up and on display at the shows! Seeing your Messerschmitt has taken me right back to when I was probably around 12 years old; 1976 would that sound about right? It has now certainly got me very tempted to go for the latest Spitfire Mk.IX from Airfix. You have really done a fantastic job on this classic kit and just like Fightersweep above, I love the 02/70 high demarcation scheme too. Although the yellow-nosed 109’s are obviously iconic, it’s always great to see something different on the Bf-109E. Thanks for sharing this, Tom, but it’s now going to cost me about £95 😂