Stromness

I liked the scheme that Airfix proposed (it was in fact an MPC boxing) and did some serious research throughout the net about the right shades. A simple and effective pattern!

I don‘t remember actually - started the build in 2004 and finished 2017. Probably a case of traumatic amnesia!😄 Seriously, it took several days. In such cases I usually do things in „installments“ in order to not get discouraged by the sheer workload. (Calm down, breathe, that‘s better.....)

I am confident you will outdo me! 😎

An older build, which may offer some encouragement to those currently struggling with this kit. It is worth the effort, but an aftermarket canopy is strongly recommended as the kit parts are quite rustique. I‘m sure one can even do more improvements (such as wheel well detail, which I didn‘t) but here I focused on the cockpit and exterior. I decided to do things the old fashioned way and scratch whatever was possible plus brush painting. Paints are Humbrol 147 for the underside and a Testors blue for the upper which I don‘t recall the number. Seat and canopy are aftermarket (TrueDetails and Falcon).

The dreaded „German Accuracy“? 😉 In this case it has lead to an excellent model! I don‘t really know what to praise more, the plane or the presentation. I see a lot of artistic subtlety in both.👏 You truly honored these cool machines with your build - after all they were cutting edge for their time.

RS Models has a He-280 which is more recent and probably a little more advanced than the quite decent HUMA kit. There are a number of reviews, even vidoes, on the net.

Hope this works now - postimage isn‘t free without a reason.

Pics come across very dark; could you lighten them up a bit? Much of the detail you showed in your build report is obscured...

Ughhh!!! Some critical elements of ‘combat readiness‘ are clearly underrated.🤨

What can I say - excellent doesn‘t even start to describe it! Great scene, and wonderful execution. The Viscount was a lovely plane, very comfy and a great view from these large windows. Err - if all fails, are they going to turn the airscrews by hand like in the olden times?? 😎

I admire the way you did the faded/burnt away paint at the rear! It‘s one of the most tricky things to achieve on a F-100, and photographs give you a plethora of variations. This looks very convincing! BTW the pics are great, love the atmosphere. A really elegant brute, this bird!

......just like the real thing! (unquote)

Very realistic! Those entry holes look like 20mm shells......all in all a pretty close call! i second the skid marks (not easy as the aircraft must have swung around on the ground in the last seconds) and some additional grass ‘on the rocks‘ 😄 Otherwise a very impressive result for a first diorama. Love the vegetation!

I know what you‘re talking about.......🤪 Great job so far!

No idea.... 😉

I‘m working on it..... It‘s the Roden kit from over ten years back, not a bad kit but quite short-run - you have to make shure you don‘t run short of patience!

Milicast do photoetch Bofors sights, even different versions (early/late) - just in case you might be interested. Later types had reflector sights.

I‘ll just refrain from going hyperbole and limit myself to an austere „magnificent“!😎

Speechless!

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A little side project of mine, as I found the PSC carrier quite nice for its scale and begging to receive some details. Details from Milicast (Bren MG), Mars (bags and packs) or scratch. This little guy is part of a developing diorama „On the road to Dunkerque“ which I MAY finish within this decade .....

That‘s perfectly allright if you ask me! After all, nature reinvents itself every spring. It‘s all just natural!😇

Just to show you gentlepeople that I am not limited to vehicles or dioramas. This is the old but quite nice Monogram kit from the 70‘s, with some minor improvements (re-graved, Quickboost exhausts and prop, brake lines, TrueDetails wheels, carburator intakes depicted by inserted photoetch - the latter not really visible though it took me days) When KP/AZ issued their new P-51B‘s and C‘s one of the discussion points was the lack of proper wheel well detail on most P-51 kits. Somehow I was egged one by this and felt compelled to take the (probably still) most accurate early P-51 kit and give it some decent wheel wells in reverence to those pre-digital mould makers. I don’t know what happens to me in those moments but it certainly results in a remarkable momentum..... Apart from these trifleties the kit is completely OOB!😄 For the History Brigade: the aircraft is just about to receive its full theatre markings, therefore the steps and things around it. (I felt it looked better in factory fresh OD and couldn‘t be bothered to paint or decal all these white stripes.....) If I ever find time and energy I‘ll even out the machine gun openings a little - that‘s where my mojo left on a oneway ticket

Thanks! It took me a while getting things right. The gravel road (conjecturing most secondary roads in 1940s France were not tarmac) is coarse acrylic gel from an artist‘s store. The greenery comes from my abundant collection of railroad diorama supply, most artificial but some also dried natural things (grass, weeds, moss....you can get them from some select suppliers at a price). Most fun is creating the scenery, sometimes I‘m having a real flash glueing bits and pieces to the base, sprinkling turf and placing shrub or weeds randomly until it looks ‘natural‘ to my eye..... Lately I feel I do understand painters better!