Tony Adams

The May edition of the IPMS Romsey's clubs magazine The Romsey Modeller is now available for FREE download at May 2013 Contents Club News. Show Reports. St Georges Competition – 17th April by Paul Adams. Trumpeter 1/48 FW-200 Condor by Tony Adams. Something Completely Different by Richard Stewart Box Review – 1/48 Airfix Operation Herrick Afghanistan Supacat Coyote (A06302) By Chris Marston. Not so Grand Designs – part 2 by Russell Eden. Striking a victory with Victorious by Chris Marston. Foden condor 4×2 Tractor Unit by Nick Burden. Web Reference Material from Carl Thurston. Bye Bye SR-71 Blackbird supplied by Carl Thurston. Club Diary.

Really exiting range and the advent calender was such a clever bit of marketing, it certainly got people on here excited. The Javelin followed by the Lanc and ground set are top of my list , but I'm sure to pick up a gladiator or 2/

Very Impressed , I brought this cat at Telford - it looks like I have plenty of reference photos now for when I get around to build it.

The November edition of IPMS Romsey's clubs magazine The Romsey Modeller is now available for download at November 2012 Contents Club News. Yeovilton Show Report IPMS Scale ModelWorld 2012. Scale ModelWorld Telford 2012 Trumpeter 1/32 SBD 2 Dauntless Part 3 On the Workbench. – BAe Harrier GR7A/GR9A. 1/72 Airfix. 2006 Le Mans Corvette no.64 Figure Painting Club Diary

The October edition of the clubs magazine The Romsey Modeller is now available for free download at October 2012 Contents Club News. IPMS Scale Model World 2012 Essential survival guide by Nigel Robins. Badillac part 3 by Russell Eden. WARNING – All that’s Yellow isn’t Tamiya by Jim Bettley. Trumpeter 1/32 SBD 2 Dauntless Part 2 by Tony Adams. Dragon 1/48 Apollo 11 CSM – part 2 by Gray Sharpling. Hasegawa Honda NSR250 part 3 by Paul Adams. Old friends revisited – The Airfix Emergency Set by Nigel Robins. Acyrlic Face Painting – Colour Palettes. Airfix Spitfire F22 review by Nigel Robins. Club Diary

Almost inspired enough to take up vac form modelling - on the other hand I know I'm far too lazy.. Hats off to you..

The latest edition of IPMS Romsey's magazine The Romsey Modeller is now available for free download at September 2012 Contents Club News. Build a model in a day competition By Malcolm Grant A Tale of Two Spittys by Will Booth. Build a model in (half) a day competition by Nigel Robins. Painting with acrylics: A beginners tutorial ; provided by Kevin Peart Hasegawa Honda NSR250 by Paul Adams. Revell 1:25 97 Ford F-150 XLT Pickup With Modifications and Customised Paint Scheme by Nick Burden. Dragon 1/48 Apollo 11 CSM – part 1 by Gray Sharpling. Czech Master Resin 1/72 conversion No. 164 Avro Lancaster B.II for the Airfix kit by Richard Parkhurst Letters to the Editor. Club Diary View Magazine...

I've got an old Airfix Hawker Fury on the work bench, I hope it comes out a nice as yours

You absolutely right : problem between chair and keyboard!

We don't normally have any problems , I will look into it. In the meantime try right clicking on the picture and selecting "Save Link As" to download it to your computer, it's about 4Mb so will take a little while on a slow link.

I have just published the latest edition of the Romsey Modeller to our web site , it can be downloaded from Romsey Modeller The magazine covers Romsey Modeller's fantastic trip to Airfix HQ in Maidstone and documents what we found out about this brilliant company , including lots of detail about how models are designed. There are also build articles on the new Cromwell IV and Hawk 120D, if I say so myself it's a cracking read ! Enjoy Tony

The latest edition of the clubs magazine The Romsey Modeller is now available for download at September 2011 Contents. • Club News. • Build a Model in a Day competition • IPMS Farnborough Show 17th September • Tamiya 1/35 T-55A – part 1 • Polish Special Forces • USS Nimitz • HMS Victorious during the 1961 Kuwait crisis. • Spitfire BTK (Part 3) • And now for something different – an American Ford Pinto dirt track racer – part 3 • Club Diary.

Martin, I hope your eye recovers soon, it explains your absence from this year's RM build a model in a day event which if anything was more hectic than last year. Good work on the TSR2 , its encouraged me to get mine out of the stash ( I wonder how long that will last)

The July edition of The Romsey Modeller is now available for download for our web site at July 2011 In this edition Photo Shoot My Hobbylink Japan experience By Paul Adams. Goodwood Festival of Speed by Paul Adams. Model Auction by Steve Edwards. MAFVA Nationals 19th June 2011 by Nigel Robins. Lexus LFA By Richard Stewart Airfix Spitfire BTK by Nigel Robins. 1/72 Ejection seat detailing. By Gary Jarman. Ma.K Luna Pawn suit. By Russell Eden. Constructing Older Kits by Nigel Robins. Airfix Savoia Marchetti SM79 by Carlton Thurston. Ondangwa Aircraft Shelter – part 2 by Gary Jarman. A tale of woe… by Gray Sharpling. Tamiya 1/32 Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXc Part 3 by Tony Adams.

I always use Tamiya Fine Grey Primer which I decant and spray with my airbrush. Quick tip which I discovered last night, normally after I decant from the rattle can ( using a drinking straw attached to the nozzle). I wait 24 hours to let the propellant gas to escape. Last night I was in a hurry so I put the jar with the paint into a water bath within my ultra sonic cleaner, 60 seconds later all the gas had been shaken out and it was ready to spray..

Thanks Viking, I really enjoyed it and I suppose knowing that I did it the hard way provides some degree of satisfaction I did a running build on our web site at Bristol F2B if you want to see the pain!! I have got another 2 of Eduards F2B in the stash with less tricky build schemes which I hope to get to soon.

Doh after spending hours and hours placing the kit masks on mine , this is obvious. I also found out after I painted mine red that it was black . Hey ho the finished model is rather eye catching!

The May edition of The Romsey Modeller is now available for download for our web site at May 2011 In this edition “A Tale of two spits” Part 2 by Pat Camp. Enlightened TSR2 By Richard Stewart Polish Special Forces – by Karol Wicinski British Half Track part 3 by Russell Eden. Airfix Savoia Marchetti SM79 by Carlton Thurston. Photos from April’s Club Meeting.

Carl, excellent advice, I hope I can rely on picking some of it up for next months magazine

I pre shaded mine and was happy with the result, I have written up the build in our magazine if you want to take a look The Romsey Modeller for April Here are some photos

Thanks for the kind comments, it'll be on the Romsey Modellers stand at Newmod on Saturday , if you want to take a closer look. A write up of the build will also be on our web site soon, (I just have to get around to write it )

Airfix's lovely Sea Vixen , built OOB apart from some foil seatbelts.

Looks very good - well done. I've got one on the workbench but I haven't got further than cutting the major parts off the sprue. I'm looking forward to getting on with what looks like an excellent kit.

I've just completed my first BMF on an 1/48 academy F-86 Sabre, my experiences 1. I used polished Aluminium over Tamiya X-1 Black over Tamiya Grey Primer , which gave a really nice finish. 1a. I was surprised how much paint I used 3/4 of a jar - plus a bit of spillage ( the jars are fairly unstable so make sure you pit the lid on asap) 2. It shows every surface blemish so make sure you take you time rubbing down, I spent hours and still got found out in places 3. I had a disaster using Mr Softener / Mr Settler trying to tease down the Academy decals ( which were rubbish) , they seemed to react with the Alclad in places (possibly it wasn't fully dry), I reverted to MicroSol / Set after I resprayed which was OK. 4. Because of the poor decals I Futured the airframe which did loose a little lustre but is OK 5. Used pro modeller to bring out the panel lines which when on fine. Ended up with a reasonable finish, the project was really about investigating Alcald prior to me having a go at Trumpeters Super Sabre, I'll post some photos when I have more time.

Carl It's looking very good, I look forward to the end result. I was offered a Helldiver recently but turned it down ( due to a pang of guilt from my ever expanding stash), I suspect I will live to regret missing the opportunity. Tony