[It's Lou IV Captain but not as you know it.]

Oh you are a bear poking trouble maker aren’t you!?

nicely done!

[Testors YF-23, 1/72]

Well done!

[1/48 Academy A-10C Thunderbolt - "Hoosier Hog"]

Love it

[Testors (ancient) 1/48 U-2 with some artistic license]

When you want a U-2 R (and later) but have a C in the stash. I've added a few bits and pieces here and there to make it "look" like a R. It's the very old C kit the spine cut down, some 1/35 Blackhawk fuel tanks, parts from a Trumpeter 1/32 mig 29 and various other bits added (awaiting decals)

 

 

 

 

 

some pics of the "scratch stuff"

 

 

 

Thats it, in a nutshell

as always, striving for mediocrity

Thanks for looking

 

 

[P-8A Poseidon MRA.1 "Pride of Moray"]

Beautiful piece of work!

[The Mighty Concorde (a French one though)]

A thing of beauty 

[Super Bug]

Agreed!

beautiful job on that!

[Haegawa 90's 1/32 Ki 43 Oscar]

This was a used/ started kit (all the upper and lower wing halves were joined) there were no decals and a couple of missing parts (nothing big) I Started it last Sunday, finished today (Saturday) but there's very few parts to the kit and fit was fairly good I added tape seatbelts brake pipes and ignition cables...and a bit of paint

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking

[Hold my beer....Trumpeter 1/32 CF 121 Redhawk]

thanks!

[1/48 F-14D, BuNo 159618, VF-31 'Tomcatters,' OIF, 2003.]

Well done sir!

be warned the (Tamiya) Tomcat is addictive! I built one, loved it so much built 2 more then a trumpeter 1/32!

I think I’ve got that monkey off my back.

 

 

[Hold my beer....Trumpeter 1/32 CF 121 Redhawk]

Not so much a "Ready for inspection" as just another finished model.

This is a WHIF project based on a April fools joke (google Mig 21 redhawk)

the model is painted with Alclad metals, Vallejo and, Tamiya ascrylics and a Kg of putty

As always, striving for mediocrity

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fit of the canopy(s) wasnt great and I didn't get it perfect, my clearcoat blemished the bare metal on the port side behind the cockpit (I may try polishing that out)

I added an aoa vane and cobbled together spare decals from other builds, mostly Leading Edge decals, some Hobbycraft Canada and Revell 1/32 Huey

 

[Lockheed HC-130N Hercules]

Awesome!!

[Trumpeter 1/32 F-14D with a buttload of resin]

Thanks so much mates!

[Trumpeter 1/32 F-14D with a buttload of resin]

4 hours ago, Mpfiend said:

very nice indeed.

Is  there any thing to watch out for when installing the Zacto intake set?

 

Keith 

The cuts made to remove the kit parts are critical and there’s a cast flaw on one of the intakes (which Cris at Zacto owns up to in his instructions) and indicates the easiest way to fill the resultant gap. I made all my cuts with the issue in mind thinking I could alleviate the problem with the foreknowledge in mind, nope it still ends up having a gap (although slight) at the rear edge of one Zacto engine intake where it meets the kit part.

The instructions aren’t very clear on how to cut the upper wing outflow vents, I cut one of mine (the first one) in the wrong place and had to re-install and fill some kit plastic.

The open wing Bladders have to be thinned where they join the upper part of the fuselage to lower them or a step will occur. I’m not sure if the closed wing bladders have the same issue.

if you haven’t got them, definitely go get the Reskit F-14 landing gear with wheels these things are a work of art all on their own. I took the ones I bought to a club meeting for show and tell and the folks there were jaw dropping gob smacked, I did nothing to my landing gear but paint them and glue them on…they even fit the Aires gear bays like a glove.

thanks for the encouraging feedback/ positive comments!

[Trumpeter 1/32 F-14D with a buttload of resin]

First the disclaimer/ excuse I try and I try but I'll never build a perfect model I bought a ton of resin upgrades for the model, not so much to make an accurate kit but to prolong the build as I seem to burn through my stash in the winter months (I'm sure it's understandable when winter is around -32c without the wind) In any case I figured the build would, with all the add on's get me through the winter...I was wrong

Included in the build are but not limited to, Aires resin cockpit and gear bays, Zacto intake correction set, Phoenix pallets wing bladders, Reskit main gear legs, weapons, exhausts and wheels and a Master turned metal pitot (not seen in these images)

As usual, striving for mediocrity and my first attempt at a heavily weathered naval fighter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking

stay safe

[Revell Super Cup Seaplane]

Ver nicely done

ive built a couple of these and really enjoyed them…I like floatplanes.

Here in Canada everything has floats, well…maybe not everything but they’re quite easy to find.

we were actually just watching a Cessna 185 take off from the local airport here a couple of weeks ago. It was a float plane on a flat trailer being pulled down the runway by a pickup truck with its engine running until it reached flying speed and lifted from the trailer. Quite a thing to see take off (I bet it’d be a lot tougher to land that way hahaha)

[Lockheed C-130H 36SQN RAAF]

Night and day difference there! Come on admit it, you built a new model dint ya?

kidding

beautiful work!

[Grey Wolf down - 1/48 Ukrainian Su-27B "Blue 58"]

Awesome!

[academy/Kangnam 1/35 AH-64A]

Built for fun (if you can call building a complete turd of a kit fun) there's a reason I didn't capitalize the academy credit to the kit as it is most assuredly a Kangnam kit in an Academy box. the best part of the kit is the decals. I used a half tube of putty and probably a yard of masking tape to build and finish this...thing. I made no attempt at corrections, accuracy or anything else great or even good modellers will strive for. about the only good thing I'll say about the model is that it's done. Now that I've done my time in purgatory I'm going straight in through those pearly gates when I run out of quarters.

I went with a kind of WHIF but the way things are going in the world it may not be so much of a WHIF at some point.

To call it "ready for inspection" is a bit of an exaggeration but in any case...Here it is;

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

 

[New guy from Canada]

welcome aboard sir!

enjoy your stay.

now get busy posting pics!😄

[Anyone ordered / used decals from ‘Above and Below Graphics’ - Based in Canada?]

I love ‘em 

I used their decals on a 1/48 CC-130 J (stretched) Herc and 1/48 CP-140 Aurora…they were the easiest parts of both builds. They come off the backing very quickly, are easy to place and even on a semi gloss paint had no silvering. They work with micro set and sol quite nicely.

the owner is helpful with any special requirements/ resizing needed.

highly recommended 

[Tamiya 1/48 F 14 A]

A really really really nice kit...but ya gotta like decals (I don't)

painted with Tamiya acrylics, Alclad lacquers, weathered with Vallejo and oils

I went easy on the weapons and pylons etc. just thinking they may not have been dedicated to this airframe.

with no further words (kinda picture heavy) here's the model

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking

 

 

[PCM 1/32 Macchi c.205]

Could be a trick of the angle/ light or whatever…pretty sure the gear was @90 deg to the wing when I glued them…

I’ve never built a perfect model and never will, just happy to have it “look” like the prototype and be finished with no finger prints in the paint and decals on right side up

thanks for looking/ comments 

[PCM 1/32 Macchi c.205]

A very sleek aircraft, painted with Tamiya acrylics, kit supplied markings.

 

 

 

As always, striving for mediocrity

Thanks for looking

 

[The last contingent ‒ Kawasaki Go shiki sentoki]

Nicely done!