Alan P

Whaaaat?! If I'd known that I'd have put the glazing in hopefully an easy fix. Great info, thank you

Sorry to all who recently commented, I'm sorry I missed them all! Thank you very much for your comments @Whitewolf you have the answer about the green from @ROB61, I agree with you about the shade 👍 Thanks very much again guys

Last thing to post: Gloss coat on and decals started 😃 There are a LOT of stencils! Using diluted Klear as the setting agent, works especially well as I used Klear as the gloss coat too! You can see I had to remove the upper triangular masking on the canopy winding windows to get the NO STEP decals to fit the frame. The tail decals were a pain! They're slightly too wide circumference so have to be carefully posiutioned to be straight. I'll slice off the excess round the curves when they're dry. Thanks for looking, Alan

Oh well, looks like two there I can get into! That's probably enough for me to be honest

Thank you again Craig 👍 Primer on! No major issues there. Slight seams up the vents under the engine nacelles. Not a difficult fix. Everything else seems to have gone together very well So I went ahead with the paint: Colourcoats PRU Blue enamel thinned with the proprietary naphtha thinners which is touch dry in about 20 mins and cures within about 24 hours. Perfect paint if you work weird hours like me! One of those shades that any aeroplane would look good in! Particularly suited to fast, sleek photo-reconnaissance aircraft like this one. Still impressed how good this kit is. Must have been a world-changer when it was released thirty years ago, The Italeri boxing is excellent with those decals as well. Alan

And we're off! The first bit goes together very well. It's extremely petite by my usual standards, so it's nice to see it fits well from the off. Never built wings like these before! Like someone took a BAe 146 and stretched the wings out. There's a slight step around the circumference of the rear part of all the nacelles, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that. It's supposed to be one continuous curve The fans all fit very well though! White plastic isn't the easiest to work for seams, but I'll probably try to put as much of this together as possible before trying to paint anything. The right hand fuselage has two additional details: a circular vent just behind the wing attachment, and another venturi type intake on the top of the fin. That intake is also on the left hand fuselage and you have to file it off. So, this looks like a nice, well produced kit that's probably more of a novelty or gift shop fodder (it was bought for me by my dad!) but builds up well so far. Alan

Well, one of the best subscribed and most successful GBs in BM history was the Salty Sea Dog with loads of maritime subjects from 2023 (? I think) so there's always an outlier! Alan

Didn't need to be perfect to look very good 😊 Evergreen philosophy 💯 learned a long time ago that good enough is good indeed 😊

Lapping this up Jon 😊 it's a shame you can't see the promenade decks or interiors through the bulkheads. They're just sidelights or scuttles or portholes (pick your favourite word) Keep up the good (and quick!) work👍 Alan

Great to see such a vibrant subject given the year you've had. I applaud both your resilience and your skills! 🏆 Hope the coming year produces more ups than downs, especially on the business side. Recently stocked up on Colourcoats, the online shop works really well 👊

That's worth waiting to see 🏆 thanks for moving your photos, that's very considerate👍

No 😭 Imgur images are not available in the UK. There's a thread all about it in the Announcements forum.

Spot on Russ, beautifully done as ever 🏆 the glazing looks crystal clear too. Another superb job, well done 👍 Alan

Hi All, Very pleased to introduce my second build for the GB - the fascinating hybrid aircraft White Knight Two with its spacecraft payload, Spaceship Two. Devised by Virgin Galactic to be the world's first viable tourist spacecraft, Spaceship Two was developed from the imaginatively-titled Spaceship One to be the first commercial spacecraft, before it became trendy among billionaires to start their own space programmes. The Revell kit is a very neat little 1/144 package which enables the aircraft to be completed in a variety of poses and combinations. It's a simple build with some excellent decals. It's quite petite in this scale, a tad over 6 in /15cm long and about 25cm in span. It's an innovative Burt Rutan design, and twin boom enough to convince @Wez so you can draw your own conclusions I've started already so more photos will be inbound soon Cheers, Alan

Cheers guys @modelling minion and @Thom216 More done on this nice little kit: Some detail on the interior of the wheelwells. After assembling the main fuselage and booms. No putty added at all! The fit of this area is pretty impressive. Same goes for the underside! A little filler work to be done around the nose, but otherwise this is a very easy job so far. Just needs a bit of a tidy up, much nicer than the Liberator I was struggling with earlier... I just remembered why these are my second favourite WW2 aircraft! Cheers, Alan