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Spitfire Vb, Biggin Hill, 1941
Lootenant Aloominum replied to Lootenant Aloominum's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Agreed, although nowadays I use 'invisible' thread (often too visible) rather than stands. Unfortunately, I have broken a personal record with this kit: The day after I finished it, I moved it to my remote storage location because the propeller spinner fell to the floor. I broke a long-standing promise to myself never to look for a dropped part unless I follow it down with my eyes and can see it straight away. Nevertheless, frustrated beyond imagining, I spent time grovelling on the floor with a bright flashlight to no avail. (A couple of weeks ago I found the missing tailplane of my 1/48th scale BAC Lightning, which vanished nearly ten years ago!) I do many difficult things, from flying hang gliders to computer programming and serious mountain biking, but plastic modelling is I think most difficult of all. -
Spitfire Vb, Biggin Hill, 1941
Lootenant Aloominum posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
< My normal compromise between accuracy, realism, and getting it done this side of eternity... I used satin varnish to obtain a semi-gloss appearance as if the paintwork is damp from having just emerged from cloud, which the grey-green scheme suits — the ‘Indian summer’ of the Battle of Britain being a year in the past by the time of this aircraft. More: https://everardcunion.com/plastic-models-2/more-plastic-models-korea-and-wwii/#EnglishChannel -
An extraordinarily well made model of an extraordinary aircraft. Visually stunning, which is what it is all about in my opinion.
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Thanks guys. I saw such a model in that scheme on this forum and I was so taken with it, I emulated it. I note that the accuracy of the white underside is debated, but I like the look of it. The Seahawk has always struck me as a good looking airplane. A shame about the fuselage join of this kit and the back of the canopy though.
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Leftenant Aluminium here with one of my crude crewed but effective models. I cannot compete with the experts here (I am too impatient) but I reckon I get passable results without too much effort. More: https://everardcunion.com/plastic-models-2/plastic-models/#DieselpunkDays
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Thanks. Because it is a victim of my 'rough and ready' modelling style, it looks better in reality than in photos enlarged by modern computer screens. I added a couple more photos, including this one:
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— from Sea Harrier Over the Falklands by Commander ‘Sharkey’ Ward, 1992 Inspired by a talk given to my hang gliding club by David Morgan, who (as of this writing) is still the last British pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft in air-to-air combat, I built my kit as one that he flew in the Falklands War of 1982. More photos and description on this page of my web site: La muerte negra
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I just noticed this on Hannants' web site. The box art depicts an action in the battle of Mogadishu in October 1993 as portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down. Looks like you can build the kit as the one that landed beside the crashed UH-60 or as one of the covering attack helicopters. (The same pilot landed it there in the war and then for the movie seven years later!) I reviewed the DVD of that great film on my web site: Saving pilot Durant A long time ago I had a 1/35th model of a Vietnam version. I am sorely tempted to add this new one to my stash of kits waiting for me to build them.
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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
Lootenant Aloominum replied to Daniel Cox's topic in Aircraft Cold War
South Atlantic Star, my review of Hostile Skies by David Morgan, 2006 While I am building the Kinetic 1/48th scale FRS.1 (and my Airfix 1/72nd scale GR.3 is waiting in its box) I figured it worth sharing my review of David Morgan's book Hostile Skies. (I attended a talk & slide show he gave to my hang gliding club in August 2016 and it has taken me this long to write my book review.) -
Action photos up:
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Hi Pat, you might be interested in my off-road bikes page, which has some Bultaco Sherpa photos: https://everardcunion.wordpress.com/off-road-bikes/#top I will add that as a link at the bottom of my Protar Montesa page when I get a moment. I am hoping for some sunshine at the weekend to get some 'action' photos with this bike. It is such a contrast to the Triumph 3HW of 30 years before...
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Click for full article The Protar (Italy) 1/9th scale Montesa Cota 247 trials bike is no ordinary plastic kit. Despite its age, it ranks as an engineering masterpiece. For example, the steering head and wheel axles, although made of plastic (some later motorcycle kits have such items in metal) they screw into place. The plastic is strong enough to take the torque that I sometimes found necessary to apply with pliers to finish the screwing in. The flexible plastic chain works (after a fashion). That is, when the rear wheel turns, the chain rotates and turns a sprocket hidden under the engine cover. Even the suspension works! Full article on my web site: Viva Protar
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I had some more info along those lines, which I posted in this sub-page: Engineering development then and now.
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I don't think the front mudguard is on backwards. It is just that it was rotated too far forwards in the earlier photos. I rotated it back a bit... I added some more photos, including another of the rider in pieces after she got blown over in the wind outdoors. Here are two of the new pics: Larger image Larger image These and rest are on my web site. See Mentioned in dispatches. (Not safe for work because Dawn is showing a boob in some photos.)
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The sand on the blade looks both 'real' and to scale, which is a rare and fine achievement. An amazing model.
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(Can't seem to add my reply when I quote someone...) On the vinyl seat question, I washed both seats (the rear one hardly qualifies as a seat) with washing up liquid and painted them with Humbrol acrylic #85 satin coal black. It looks hardly any different from the original vinyl, if you ask me. For the rivets, I used Humbrol enamel 'polished aluminium' because that is the shiniest in my set of paints. I knew something was wrong with the front mudguard. One thing is it is free to rotate (somehow) which is obviously not good, although I have now positioned it a little better. I will have another look at fixing it and taking replacement pics (if it stops raining). Agreed about the thick cables.
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M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle
Lootenant Aloominum replied to BlackMax12's topic in Ready for Inspection - Armour
Me neither, but it looks to me like something out of Thunderbirds, but better. There are some great videos online showing how that thing on top with the angled lid works. Spectacular! -
Larger image Not really an armoured fighting vehicle, but I guess it goes in this section. This is the Italeri 1/9th scale Triumph 3HW of World War 2. Building this kit taught me something that I sort of knew already and I find it a bit disturbing. It is that there was something radically primitive about the engineering design of motorcycles of this era. (Even my first trials bike, a 250cc Greaves of the 1960s, incorporated design elements that no rational mind would include on a trials bike.) It is not just that this or that component shows signs of being added as an afterthought. It is as if everything, from the bottom up, has been added as an afterthought. For more, see Mentioned in dispatches on my web site. (Not safe for work because Dawn is showing a boob in some photos.)
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See Duck à l’orange -- my Airfix 1/76th (OO) scale DUKW with scratch built hang gliders (page on my web site) Not strictly a military vehicle, but I figured anyone interested would be more likely to find it here than in the non-military vehicle section.
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You’re never alone with a drone Revell 1/48th scale General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper/Predator B More on this page of my web site: https://everardcunion.wordpress.com/plastic-models/#Drones
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Tank girl 1/9th scale resin
Lootenant Aloominum replied to Lootenant Aloominum's topic in Figure Ready for Inspection
Googling images for 'tank girl' finds some that resemble this model. There is even a movie from 1995, although the tank girl in that does not much resemble the kit. Here is a clip: -
Leftenant Aluminium here with my new 1/9th scale 'tank girl' made of the hard plastic unaccountably known as 'resin.' More pictures and description on this page of my web site: https://everardcunion.wordpress.com/plastic-models-land-vehicles/#TankGirl
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Thanks guys. Yeah, the strings... One day we will just use magnets to make it hover where you want it to. My Top Gun modeling technique (...the need for speed) does produce some rough edges when you look closely, Some of the work in progress builds by others here are clearly an order of magnitude more refined than mine, but, yes, I agree that there is a place for model aircraft in 'flying' mode.
