[A Sea Harrier to keep Tony happy! Hasegawa 1/72 -Finished]

(EDSG even!)

[Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Walrus MkI]

Good to see this one up and running! 

[Salziger Seehund S-Boot]

This is a remarkable build. Very out of the ordinary!

[Nineteenth Century New Bedford Whaleboat - Amati - 1/16]

Just having a bit of a catch-up on what's going on around the GB. The whaleboat is coming along splendidly, that varnish colour is lovely.

 

Mrs. Troll needs her own WIP thread, though.

 

Just kidding 

[Beriev Be-200 'Altair' - Zvezda 1/144 - Finished.]

That's a remarkable looking machine, and coming along very briskly!

[Academy NA T6 SNJ 4 , Flotille 5S Base Aéronavale Lartigue 1955 - Finished.]

Ooooh shiny. Looks fantastic 

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

Day 16 update...

 

Another two beauties to add to the Build List today... @DaveJL's F-14A is now joined by his F-14D, and @Torbjorn comes aboard with a lovely looking Hanse-Brandenburg W.29. The two types couldn't be more different, really, but I know exactly the same amount about both: absolutely nothing. Part of the fun of GBs is learning though, innit? 

 

No new finishers today, but plenty quality modelling going on, it's a pleasure to be part of this.

 

Tonight's numbers:

 

140 builds

101 underway

7 finished

 

 

Cheers 

Tony

 

[A Sea Harrier to keep Tony happy! Hasegawa 1/72 -Finished]

Looking great. Is she going to be ESDG?

[Hansa-Brandenburg W.29, Eastern Express, 1/72]

That's a great new addition to the Build List. Look forward to seeing how you get along with it.

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

4 hours ago, Mark said:

Did I miss anything? 

 

I'm the GB host and I ask myself the same question when I look in each evening. the answer is always: yes, lots.

[Obscure sub-hunter - M-28V Bryza-1R bis (1/144)]

Sounds like a good plan.

["They gave me a Seafire..." - Seafire Mk IIc, 809 NAS FAA, HMS Stalker, Operation Avalanche September 1943]

I superglued a thin resin shim in and sanded it flush. Much improved.

 

 

["They gave me a Seafire..." - Seafire Mk IIc, 809 NAS FAA, HMS Stalker, Operation Avalanche September 1943]

Further wing tinkerage: I’m happy with the clipped tips now (but still need to polish the lights up). The port aileron is glued in but the inboard edge of the starboard one is showing a gap of about 1mm that I’ll need to sort out.

 

[10 x FW 190, 1/72]

On 1/17/2023 at 6:30 PM, Touvdal said:

Photo taken some years ago when i had my collection of Bf 109 and FW 190 at a model exhibition.

 

The collection stands now at 233 Bf 109's and 73 Fw 190's all 1/72 build over a apps. 25 year period

 

Oh wow. What a sight that is. Got to say there's something very pleasing about a lot of the same plane, same scale in various guises all together.

[Salty Sea Dog GB in the Bunfight]

On 1/7/2023 at 12:57 AM, Tomcat101 said:

I do not think that my idea is a what-if but I want to build a ship transitioning bow to stern from initial framing through destruction.  The subject is historical. Is that ok?

 

Sorry, I've only just seen this! I think I understand what you mean, and it sounds like a very interesting project! I'd love to see it in the GB. Some great stuff going on there already, but this would add something very different.

 

Cheers

 

Tony

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

Day 15 update...

 

Quietish day today, with just one new WIP up and running, @bianfuxia's M-28V Bryza (I'd never heard of it either - obscure Polish sub hunter) being added to his three ships. And one more over the line and turning blue, @Andwil's Mitsubishi A5M, and very fine it looks too.

 

Tonight's numbers:

 

138 builds

100 underway

7 finished

 

Night all!

 

Tony

[We needed a Yamato - Lindberg 1/1200 ++Finished++]

That's interesting. Wonder how many kits have been knocked out of this mould over the last 62(!) years?

 

Can we call this one started yet? 

["They gave me a Seafire..." - Seafire Mk IIc, 809 NAS FAA, HMS Stalker, Operation Avalanche September 1943]

More tinkering with the wings...

 

I've glued on the cannon blanks and they're horrible misshapen things that I should be able to sort out with a needle file and a bit of patience. As for the cannon, the kit provides both moulded and (better) resin versions, the latter being notably longer than the former. I checked against drawings and it's the resin ones that are too long. I had thought to drill and pin them but the extra length means I should be able to just cut off the stubs, drill holes in the leading edges and put the cannon in the holes. (This may or may not be intentional on SH's part!)

 

 

Elsewhere I've got the blister panels more or less flush. I have no idea what those little resin bulges are that I was required to CA onto the upper wings, never seen them before (they will end up covered by roundel decal). They were an absolute sod to cut and sand to the required flatness on the back and on the port wing I managed to damage it slightly. The cropped wing tips are transparent so as to be able to do transparent navigation lights, I've painted the back of the front corners (if that makes sense) red/green, but after sanding the wingtip join flush I'll need to polish them up before masking.

 

 

Thanks for looking in!

 

Tony

 

 

[KFK Kriegsfischkutter (1/350 by ICM) - Finished]

More miniature wonderfulness!

[The Salty Sea Dog GB Chat]

Day 14 update...

 

Happy weekend shipmates. Do we really have just two weeks behind us? Hard to believe with so much going on.

 

Quick update as I am determined to get an hour with my Seafire tonight: some more new builds joining the list today, and as interesting and varied as ever.

 

@John Laidlaw has parked his Seafire 47 in the hangar for a bit and is sounding the depths to find his mojo with an Airfix Bristol Beaufort with a detty gret torpedo on the bottom of it. @Faraway is straight into another build following the completion of HMAS Castlemaine (I'm sorry Jon, it always makes me think of a lager brand, popular in the eighties, that nobody gave a Castlemaine XXXX about ) with a second build, a KFK Kriegsfischkutter by ICM. And we are joined by @Louise with a brace of KP Supermarine Seafire Mk Ib's - I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can never have too many Seafires! - and also @Colin W with a lovely vintage Airfix HMS Victorious. Thanks all, the list just gets bigger and bigger!

 

Quite a bit of activity in the GB today with a number of WIPs turning green. Just one finisher, @flashlight's superb F-8E Crusader in commemorative French Navy livery. I'll turn it blue now and link it to your pics once they're in gallery if that's OK Nick.

 

The scores on the doors...

 

137 builds

99 underway

6 finished

 

Have a great weekend all.

 

Cheers

Tony

 

 

[SS British Sovereign, Revell, 1/500 **** Finito! ****]

That looks great!

[A Pair of Seafire Mk.Ib in 1/72 - One finished. One in progress.]

Thanks @Col.If this is to be true side-by-side build of two examples of the same type in the same scale I'm happy enough to have them sit in one thread, they will go on the Build list as a double build, same as @Davek72's Zeros.

 

Cheers

Tony

[Esci 1/48 Fury.XXXFinishedXXXX]

That's a very striking scheme for sure Steve.

[1/72 Academy F8-E (FN) Crusader, 100.000 hrs of 'honneur, patrie, valeur, discipline' - Finished.]

Oh, that looks fantastic. Great work Nick.

[Beriev Be-200 'Altair' - Zvezda 1/144 - Finished.]

As I've done my nightly trawl through the not-yet-green WIPs to see if anything has happened, I've found myself mildly disappointed not to see this started yet. Great to see it up and running.