SledDawg

Good job! I love that kit. Still have a couple in the stash.

Another one of my COVID-builds, another >30 year old< shelf queen. As stated elsewhere, I vowed to complete them pretty much out-of-the-box. and not spend any additional money on them, so I had to use decals and paint I already had, and scratch build anything I wanted to add. All that was an understatement with this kit! LOL. Yes, this is the 1966 issue 1/72 Lindberg HS-129, which I'm pretty sure I bought new back then. One of a series of pretty exotic-for-the-time subjects that they released, including the AR-234, HE-100, HE-162, ME-410 and DO-335. I think I still have old builds of some of those stashed in a box. (Perhaps I'll dig them out and photograph them...) All have pretty decent overall outline but detail is rudimentary at best, long ago superseded by excellent modern kits. I can't really remember why I put this one away so long ago, but I think it had to do with the canopy. The part was kind of messed up in the box, and for some reason I had sawed away part of the cockpit area. Perhaps I had decided it was inaccurate and was going to "fix" it. It sure needed fixing! In any case, this forced me to build a new windscreen and canopy out of clear sheet, paper and plastic bits. I more or less succeeded... good enough for COVID! Along the way of course I couldn't leave well enough alone, so built a rudimentary cockpit interior, exhaust, some wheel detail, and a lump of a gunsight. And, as with the P-36A in another post, I used decals that I had to hand. Including some old Microscale sheets, and I think, even some bits from a circa-1966 His-Air-Dec sheet! Paint is again Model Master acrylic, hand painted. I think it captures the evil look of the aircraft in an '80s sort of way. Kind of like something Mike McEvoy might have done in SAM back then... 😃

This is one of a group of "COVID-builds" I'm finally calling done. Started mid-last year, and picked at through the shutdown. All of these I'm posting are >30 year old< shelf queens: models I started and put away for one reason or another. When I vowed to complete them I also said I was going to build them pretty much out-of-the-box. Which of course didn't happen! LOL. But, I did also tell myself that I wasn't going to spend any additional money on them, so I had to use decals and paint I already had, and scratch build anything I wanted to add. So, this is a 1/72 Monogram P-36A, built from the 1979 boxing of the 1967 kit. I wanted to do a Finnish aircraft, but didn't have the decals to do any of those with squadron badges, etc. I found this one on this awesome site: https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/P-36/Finnish/pages/Curtiss-Hawk-75A-Finnish-Air-Force-LeLv32-Karhila-CU563-Finland-1942-01.html It's CU-560, the aircraft of Kyosti Karhila, and apparently it survived at least until 1944. Luckily the markings are simple, and I had the right numbers and national insignia from a 30 year old sheet! It's cool that it has the black-on-one-underwing... The kit is of course a familiar, simple gem. Brush painted with old but still viable Model Master acrylics. The only thing I added is a paper + plastic bits cockpit interior, using images I found on that site that are apparently intended to be used for computer wargaming. I just had to re-size them and glue into the fuselage sides: presto, instant cockpit interior. I used the wheel well images too. So, it's kind of an '80s-era build overall! The one problem I had was with the clear parts. The windscreen mold was pretty old even when I bought this kit, and it was pretty misshapen and just didn't fit. I didn't discover that till late in the game, so it's kind of gnarly, with canopy glue filler around it. Oh well...

Wow- That is nice! A big model too. Awesome job on the rigging! I regret giving one of those away a while back. Wish I had it still.

Wow. That is beautiful Those Welsh vacforms are challenging kits. Kudos to you!

Here's my recently-completed Heller Hurricane, built OOB, except for the decals. And, somehow the carpet monster ate the ventral radiator, so I had to make a new one out of Feemo. Needs a little weathering I think... Carry on!

Somewhere I have a set of His-Air-Dec decals for this kit (I think... or was it for an Airlines kit?) for the Turkish aircraft. They were included in an issue of the "His-Air-Dec News" and were quite revolutionary at the time. Who knew there could be markings other than what came in the box?!?!

A great kit. I recently built the Norwegian boxing of the Hurricane.

The parts and decal sheet. Decals are a bit yellowed - gonna do the window-in-the-sun process... and a tiny bit off center I think. I hope they are usable after all these years. Any suggestions for alternates if not?

Wow, so this is in some ways a rare kit, eh? In that Airfix permanently modded the molds... Not that there aren't probably thousands of them in stashes all over the world!🤪 I'll try to do justice to it.

Opening it up...:

Heller Gloster Javelin T.3, in the Heller/Humbrol box. Looks like I paid about $10.00USD for this, probably in the late 80s. I think I thought I was going to build a bunch of trainers, since in the same stash box that I hadn't looked in for years I found an Airfix Bulldog, a T-38, L-39, Alpha Jet, CT-114, etc. Guess I better get at it now!

Bonjour! OK, sorry I'm late to the party. I was going to try the Alpha Jet, but now I see that there are already two on the list. So, I'm going to attempt one that I don't see anyone has picked: the Gloster Javelin T.3. Question though: is this an original Heller kit? I found a few ambiguous threads (including one on Britmodeller..) that imply that this was originally an Airfix kit. Is it? Anyway, it's in a Heller/Humbrol box, so I'm starting a GB thread! Dave G.

I will sign up for this! First timer... So many pages to review - do I need to specify a kit at the outset? I think I must have at least 20 old Heller kits in the stash... I just finished a Heller Hurricane Thanks in advance! Dave G aka SledDawg

The ancient Crown/Revell/Minicraft kit, with old Microscale decals. Kit national insignia was useless, so modified some from an old 1/72 F-5A jet sheet. This is a rather crude kit, but the basic shape is OK. Modified the nose, reworked the awful props, tried to make something of the cowlings, added guitar string guns. Some have complained that the dihedral is too much... hard to correct though. I think it does look like a B-25 now though, especially from "far away." And in this size, just about everything is far away: that's a dime on the base. https://photos.app.goo.gl/PVgizkivE7hZwXbcA https://photos.app.goo.gl/5m8mYgHyC9NporJf9 https://photos.app.goo.gl/k2V9xzEoN2uk6Dpg9