[Airfix 1/48 Spitfire mk14 G-FIRE]

Nice, different, and well done!

[Heller 1/72 Canadair CL-215]

Oh, so beautiful in its rugged riveted majesty!

Well done, a pleasure to see, uncommon and well-built!

[CL-215 fire bomber]

That's a truly beautiful model! And in record time! And of a plane that does wonderful things and renders a very useful service!

Excellent job and ably dealt with the tricky parts.

Now I REALLY want one of those 😁

[Polar Lights Star Trek Galileo Shuttle]

2 hours ago, Jeddahbill said:

 

Thanks Sensei Moa!  I was 7 years old when the original series first appeared - watched it on an old black and white Philco television with perpetual "snow" on the screen which also featured a vertical rolling image!

Cheers,

Bill

Luxury! We will dream of a TV set! We had a discarded cardboard box with a cut-out in the front, rats dressed as Spock, Kirk and Bones, and we would do their voices!

We had to do it at night, or our parents would eat our rats! And if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you!

 

Seriously, impeccably done, and the treatment of the finish is perfect. And in fact I was watching some of the episodes these days again!

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

18 minutes ago, Space Ranger said:

I was not aware monks had motorized tools.

My dear Spaced Ranger: We really don't. There are 1/72nd homunculi inside that drill pedalling like mad. We call it a machine to avoid paying social security.

 

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

9 hours ago, Bengalensis said:

Lovely work on that exhaust!

Thanks, Jörgen, it was simpler than I thought, took only a few minutes.

These are the times when I would like to have learned to use resin, to make a few copies. But I hate it, and the smells, and the mess, and the short shelf life.

So I often have to reinvent the wheel for my models.

7 hours ago, Vesa Jussila said:

Nice work with interior and engine.

 

Appreciated. Most of it will be almost invisible, but so fun to make!

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

15 hours ago, chrispisme said:

Very nicely done!

Thanks, Chris!

But I was just trying to avoid dealing with the struts.

[CL-215 fire bomber]

The dressing is going very well! 

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

The area that fairs the cylinders needs thinning its walls from inside, as the plastic is too thick here:

 

At the same time the front is opened, as photos show you could see the engine nose there:

[Polar Lights Star Trek Galileo Shuttle]

Nice and ingenious, oh, the memories!

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

Of the several different early engine exhausts I found of the spares bin, guess which one precisely fits this engine and this plane? You guessed: none. So one is fabricated:

 

 

[1:72 S.B.S Model de Havilland DH.88 Comet]

Beautiful model of a beautiful plane!

Well done, Bill!

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

The interior is almost there:

 

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

Starting to dress-up things a little working with oils and adding detail:

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

10 hours ago, Courageous said:

Get on with it, a walk in the park for Master Monks.

Nice tidy progress there Moa. 

 

Stuart

 

[Birmingham Bus]

Looks absolutely splendid! but what about scale? is it a kit? is it scratch? Did I miss the info (wouldn't be the first time)?

 

[-]

Another beauty, truly enjoyable.

[Minicraft 1/16 MG TC Midget]

Nice little thing! Well done.

[CL-215 fire bomber]

Good job!

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

A bit of primer and base colors are applied:

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

3 hours ago, chrispisme said:

Yaaaaaa, those struts wouldn't stand a snowballs hope in he.....(you know where) of supporting the model.

Not only that, the flimsiness and ridicule, but the only "parts" provided -as per photo- are just the "W" that unite the inner parts of the floats with the fuselage, most likely not right, by the way. All the other struts are blatantly ignored. You are on your own.

I say!

[CL-215 fire bomber]

We wait for the great unveiling!

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

You may call a kit "optimistic" when you are given this....

 

...to do this:

[799 - 1/8 Citroën 15 Six Traction Avant]

29 minutes ago, Bengalensis said:

I found a piece of 0,7 mm steel wire I had forgotten I had. Could this be used for the forward open section of the hand brake wires?

In a pinch, or having no access to stranded wire but instead to a craft store, these may be used (although they may be short for some uses):

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTrvFxmelPU/X-JSJ_3kZxI/AAAAAAAA0mk/2UkgJqxN1WUxBIvb3mW712k0BUmQlTYxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_3122%2B%281280x960%29.jpg

[Friedrichshafen F.F.49c, a civil cabin conversion based on the 1/72nd Sierra Models vacuform kit.]

The kit's interior goes through its dry-run trail:

 

Unlike every resin interior I have built on my entire modeling life, it fits: