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For those of us in 144th they've completely lost interest, we don't even get reissues now. Superb kits like the Ju-52 are long out of production.
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Oops forgot about this one. Fortunately most of my stash is under £10 so I'm going to try and find the most audacious diorama ingredients I can 😁
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Old school model railway modelling - when you needed a degree in engineering to complete a model and if all the parts were included it was a miracle 😁
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I was just going to ask a similar question I so hope you don't mind if I tag on here? Has anyone got the monster AK Interactive FAQ on figures https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/product/faq-scale-figures-book-ak-interactive-ak630/ Massive book and suitably massive price. I was just wondering if it was mostly for 1/10-ish scale busts, or if it was worthwhile for 24th and 35th scale too.
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MiG-29 Myanmar Air Force 1:48- Academy: Never again!
Tim R-T-C replied to 621Andy's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Firstly, great persevering on the MiG and lovely paint scheme. Secondly, are those really the same scale? It looks so wrong. -
Of course our hobby pricing makes much more sense.... 🤔 So this highly accurate, easy to build Tamiya plane costs £20 Or this resin model which needs 100 hours fettling, was designed in someone's garage and will leave you with COPD is £120
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1/24 American street scenes
Tim R-T-C replied to Tim R-T-C's topic in Ready For Inspection - Dioramas
More Doozy resin pieces and ETA diorama graphics, with a handy Master Box figure again. Easter Sunday walk, San Francisco aka. 'get your dirty dog away from me' -
1/144 Revell TF-104 Starfighter
Tim R-T-C replied to F-32's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Good work and lovely clean finish. These were recently re-released by Mark 1 models in a 2 in 1 boxing with nice decals. Hannants have them. -
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Emergency! GB - push the emergency button and vote!
Tim R-T-C replied to zebra's topic in 2022 Bunfight Archives
I'd be interested, lots potential. I don't normally make 'action' dioramas, but I made this emergency scene last year And as for Peacekeepers, this little Bosnian war vignette too. -
I can't promise anything to the standard of that Emil 😳 But what I lack in modelling I can make up for with silly backstory.... such as this for my newly finished G-10. Here we meet the brave comrades of the 33rd Rifle Division, battling deep into German territory they helped capture the airfield of Jüterbog, one of the last left defending Berlin. During the capture they were instructed to try and capture the Luftwaffe planes intact, so they could be studied by Soviet scientists. Although most of the planes at the airfield had been destroyed by the fleeing Germans, these brave comrades saw a Luftwaffe pilot attempting to escape and rather than destroying the plane, jumped onto its wings to slow it down and broke open the cockpit to force the pilot to stop the plane. Unfortunately when Stalin saw the photo, he was so shocked at how ugly the soldiers were, he ordered the photo to be buried deep in the Kremlin archives and had the photographer sent to a Gulag.
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So like many of my vignettes, this one started completely unplanned. I picked up the Mark 1 F104 two seater double pack with the intention of making one in Pakistani colours, then looking at the other schemes available noticed the Tiger Meet/RIAT 1991 scheme. Some research showed the plane alongside a Fouga Magister (and I think an Alpha Jet), so of course I had to recreate the scene. 5911 Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter Turkish Air Force by Graham Tiller, on Flickr Fouga CM-170R Magister 544/312-TM French AF GI 312 by Graham Hutchinson, on Flickr Some reference images I found, shared from the photographers Flickr pages in accordance with their sharing settings. If any readers have pictures of this display line, please do post them. The Revell/Mark 1 Starfighter was a lovely build and fun paintwork. I sprayed the frame with rattle can Tamiya orange, then hand painted the rest - no masking used. Only addition was some chocks and a cover on the pitot in accordance with photos. The Magister is a Miniwing resin kit, my first full resin kit. A nice easy build, I even used the vacform canopy. A few minor additions, I added the (vent?) to the canopy top and something red on the front (a 'remove before flight' tag?). As with the Starfighter, I sprayed the airframe orange, then brush painted the metallics over the top freehand. The decals had to be adapted - I used some I94 10mm tank numbers and letters, while the unit symbol was a closest match from the stash. Fencing is from Brengun, lovely brass pieces and it was only when I found these that I knew I had to make this scene. Figures are Presier 1/160 - but provided you don't put them alongside 144th people, the difference is not noticable and the poses were perfect. Notice the kids playing with toy planes, these were carved from sprue parts. A 1/700 plane for reference.
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The Mesopotamian campaign is a forgotten chapter in an overlooked theatre of the Great War. British forces looking to protect oil supplies from Arabia, moved into the Ottoman province of modern-day Iraq, seizing Basra and moving up-river for Baghdad until they ran into serious Ottoman resistance and were rolled back with over 8,000 soldiers being isolated in the town of Kut. Desperate but futile relief efforts were made, hampered by terrible weather and tactical negligence, leading to vast losses for British and Indian troops before the garrison at Kut was forced to surrender, many subsequently succumbing during harsh captivity. It is considered the worst defeat suffered by the British during the whole war. Aviation played a major part in the campaign with reconnaissance flights proving very useful for the British forces before German Fokker Eindeckers arrived in theatre and were able to disrupt the recon flights as well as embarking on a bombing campaign over Kut. There isn't much specific detail available about their use around Kut. In 1916 these 'bombs' would likely have been simple hand-held grenades dropped from the cockpit. Even the colours of the planes are debated, only monochrome pictures existing. I'm going with a light buff colour as many of the type carried and it would make sense as light camouflage in-theatre. The kits are Valom from their Great War series. Like their others they come in a single sprue of plastic, along with a big sheet of etch and a random resin engine. The Turkish squares were simply painted - over German crosses, somebody concerned that flying crosses in the Middle East might give the wrong idea. Accordingly I went for a hand-painted look and slighly faded so on one plane the original German cross can be made out. These kits use a lot of photo etch and need a lot of rigging too. I can't say I followed rigging guides too strictly for the underside, since the planes will be firmly stuck in place anyway, but should at least be representitive and the upper is based on photos and guides, all using 0.03mm Uschi line. All my planes get a base, but this was a particularly fun one. I was originally expecting a sandy desert scene, but accounts of this battle refer to endless rains and mud that so badly hampered British relief efforts, so I tried to capture this in the scene, along with the incongruous bursts of colour seen in the desert after rain. So my first Great War vignette was completed with the addition of some suitable figures and general debris.
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Ethiopia, some time in the mid-1980s. MiG-21s were used for fighter-bomber operations, while a small fleet of MiG-23 ML jets was acquired for the interceptor role - their fate is unknown. The Fishbed is the lovely Eduard kit, OOB with emblems from JBr Decals. The Flogger is a whole different story with aftermarket interior, scratch build wheel doors, substantially altered gear and forward fuselage (stolen from another kit entirely). Decals are from a Berna set. Read more, including the ungodly image of how the OOB kit should look in the build thread.
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Now complete with the addition of a resin pilot from Heroes Models of Italy and some suitable airfield detritus.
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70s F1 Restoration Shop 1/20 scale
Tim R-T-C replied to Stickframe's topic in Work In Progress - Dioramas
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Lovely work and I like the addition of the figures, really brings the ship to life.
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Just wondering if anyone had any experience of late? Got some tiny cars I want to order. EDIT - just seen they are charging £17.50 shipping for an order of 6 of these cars. Might give that a miss 🙄
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Whatever this bug is that makes you buy 109s has obviously afflicted me too. I had nearly finished my Gustav and, somehow, another boxing of the kit appeared at my door too... 🤔
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Well I finished one but not the other 😏
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It might be in progress, I had a missing canopy, sent them an email and a week later it showed up, but I didn't get any notification at all. You should get an automated confirmation email when you send a query. If you didn't, maybe resend.
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Time to try some resin
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Now down to the final paint touch ups and last details. Their base is also prepped and just needs populating.