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  1. On 8/13/2023 at 5:07 PM, Faraway said:

    I’ve learnt the hard way, about Trumpeter’s colour ‘guides’. But luckily I’ve got hold of a copy of this book 

    Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors by Ian Buxton.

    Which is supposed to be very good.

    Jon

    going off topic, sorry, but I have Roberts in the stash that I'm slowly getting the extra bits for (including the Big Gun Monitors book).  If you find what colours (and pattern) Roberts used (ideally for the Sicily landings), could you let me know?  Need to put an order in with Uncle Jamie sometime :-).

     

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    Tim

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  2. This is one of those kits that was sitting on the dreaded shelf of inactivity.  Didn't take much of a much to finish it off in the end.  Even now I still have not added any aerials.  Oh well.

     

    Kit was built as it came in the box.  They go together well.  Wheels a bit tricky, but I've done a few now so it was OK.

    I used some Inside The Armour decals I purchased many years ago to do a vehicle from the Northern Irish Horse.  Now to get the NA75 over the finish line........

     

    Tim

     

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  3. 19 minutes ago, Lord Riot said:

    @Fishbed what did you use for the instrument panels in your cockpit? Is that an Eduard set?

    Hi your Lordship,

    I was hoping that Eduard would come to the rescue, but they never released a set for this (or not that I found). I used the Airscale generic 50's dial set ( https://www.airscale.co.uk/#!/Instruments/c/142396758 look under early jets) and some from an old Mike Grant set I've had for donkeys years.  The gun site was from Quick Boost.

     

    Tim

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  4. I built this a year or so ago.  Had to add detail to the cockpit as I wanted the canopy open. I did find (probably my own fault) that the fuselage was a bit banana shaped once I had it glued together, so had to do some surgery to get it straight again.  I was not happy with the engine intakes, so replaced them with some Baracuda replacements, same for the wheels.  More details here -

     

    Looks great on the shelf once its done though.

     

    Tim

     

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  5. 20 hours ago, Winded Penguin said:

    So please excuse my ignorance if I were to ask if that is a triangle of 'left-over masking tape' remaining on the starboard side of the front canopy?

    If not, I'll get me:coat:

    well blow me down......  I do believe you have spotted today's deliberate mistake!  how I missed that I don't know. 

    you may leave your coat where it is  🙂

     

    Tim

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  6. Another of Bristol's twin engined beauties to add to the collection.  Picked this one up soon after it was released, and it did not befall the fate of many of my purchases and end up in the ever growing stash/loft insulation.

    I attempted to reduce the size of the engine cowling by running a strip of 20 thou card round the inner edge and blending in.  Typically, soon after,  resin replacements were available, but that's a few quid saved.

    I did add the Eduard "space" set to the cockpit to improve the detail a bit.  Lots can be seen through the very clear transparencies.  Having said that, the details added to the radio compartment are completely invisible, so may be I should have saved these for some other use.

    Paints were my usual go to Humbrol 29 for the earth and Coulourcoats dark green and sky.  The green was sprayed on freehand (well following a pencil line I had drawn on) to get the camouflage pattern. Decals were from the box.

    A very enjoyable build.

     

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  7. I dragged this one out the loft last year as I thought it was about time it was built.  Now or never scenario 🙂, I have had it for a few years now.

     

    I added the Eduard seat belts to the seats, but apart from that it was pretty much out the box.  The instrument panels had some generic dials added from an Airscale and a Mike Grant set of dials I have in the decal stash.

    The Bobcat kit is not to bad.  Mine had a number of sink marks that needed removing, and the fit was "OK". filler required on the engine nacelles.  Several shades of Alclad used to give it some variation in the finish, but most surprising is how big this monster is!

     

    (now I notice I must have caught the nose probe as I was getting ready to photograph the kit, so it does look a bit wonky.  to lazy to re-photograph the kit, so please ignore that bit 😆)

     

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  8. Thanks for the comments all

    22 hours ago, Fred piket said:

    beautiful rendition of a very, very special plane... Where did they use it for? Can't imagine that this is a fighter...

    As Graham said, it was supposed to be a fighter.  There were plans for it to carry bombs or rockets under the inner wings..........

    15 hours ago, Vulcanicity said:

    Beautiful restrained silver finish, looks just the job! Love the sea base too, even if it does look more like Cocos Islands than Cowes! 😄

    Well, I'm sure they had plans to take it places more exotic than Cowes 😉

    14 hours ago, Darwinism said:

    Well done Tim - great work and a terrific result.  I was thinking about getting this kit - you’ve inspired me to order it.  

    Oh, go on, you know it makes sense (ever the enabler me)

     

    Tim

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  9. A bit of a quick build (by my standards) of the Xtrakit SR-A1 flying boat.  Plenty of history about this jet powered flying boat out in the interweb. 

    A short run kit, but goes together reasonably well.  The area round the jet pipes and wing joints needs a bit of care/filler/elbow-grease. Some nice detail included for the cockpit.  Just take your time as with any other limited run kit and you have an unusual aircraft for your collection.

    Gave it a coat of Alclad aluminum paint, not much else needed really.   Decals are those that came with the kit.  The base is some foam board I picked up at a model show (yes I will get round to edging the foam at some point.  probably?).  I used the back of a couple of different sized spoons to make the ripples on the water.  And yes, I'm not sure the Solent is ever that blue 🙂

     

    Tim

     

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  10. 9 hours ago, Otakar said:

    I know this is a very old thread but maybe someone can still help me with a question. I just today got my hands on a mint, Paragon Mk.XII conversion intended for the awful Tamiya Mk.V kit. Has anyone attempted to use this conversion with the fantastic Airfix Mk.V kit? That was my intention for this conversion.

    If its the 1/72 version, then I used the conversion with the Eduard VIII, and it fit well.

     

    Tim

  11. 2 hours ago, coolhand said:

    Hi

     

    I'm sure this has probably been asked.before. I have one of initial fighter boxings of the Airfix 1/48 Blenheim and I was sure I read somewhere that you could make a straight bomber from this boxing. Could someone confirm if this is correct? I want to build a bomber version in Finnish markings.

     

    Many thanks

    Andy

    Yes, that's correct.  I did just that, new set of decals and job done.

     

    Tim

     

     

  12. On 9/22/2022 at 9:03 AM, Dunny said:

    Both lovely builds Tim - I've also got  a 6AEF build (currently stalled). I flew with 6AEF whilst a cadet in the 80s. I also used to live in Uffington...

    I'm just down the road in Wantage, so know it well.

     

    On 9/22/2022 at 9:26 AM, Russmeister 101 said:

    What a beautifully executed scurry of Chipmunks (I had to look up the collective noun... thanks Google ;))

    As for that bloody safety video... the amount of times I sat through that in the late 1980's in the ready room for 8AEF at R.A.F. Shawbury (before 8AEF moved to Cosford)...   Happy times and great memories indeed!  Thanks for making me feel REALLY old.. ;)

    A scurry eh?  not sure then that nugget will be of use again 🙂 .  not much we can do about the age issue.

     

    On 9/22/2022 at 4:37 PM, hopkp said:

    Two very neat builds. Probably too late for you, but Eduard's set 49-1225 includes photo-etched cowling panels for the Airfix kit.

    Oh, yes. tempting, but bending those to shape will be "fun".  could use the kit parts as a template.

     

    On 9/23/2022 at 2:04 PM, John_W said:

    I remember watching that video in my days as a Space Cadet.

    I think secretly we all hoped we would get the chance to bail out, but never happened.

    What amazes me is the lack of expression on the young lads face! doesn't seem a bit bothered by the entire experience.

     

    Tim

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  13. Well, I was only going to build one of Airfix's Chipmunks, a 6-AEF one based at Abingdon or Benson due to the local connection and the White Horse on the badge.  Whats not to like.

     

    I was planning on using the markings in the Xtradecal set X48221 for the 6 AEF markings.  However, while looking at the decals the set of day-glow markings for an all grey plane just screamed out that it needed using.  One order later, and it was a double build.  WG431, of Glasgow & Strathclyde University Air Squadron and WB550, 'D' of 6 Air Experience Flight.  One from the '60's and one from the '90's.   

     

    Lovely little kits.  Removed the locating pins on the wings as advised by other builds.  I used the Eduard space set on WB550 and the Kits World set for WG431 (one was 4 point, the other 5 point harnesses.)  I was going to re-scribe the early battery access hatches on WG431, but didn't, and didn't add the strengthening plate just behind the engine on WB550.  I did add the UHF aerial on WG431.

     

    Its a shame someone does not make thinner engine access panels for this kit.  The ones provided are so over scale.

     

    Other than that it was all fairly plain sailing.   I did try using the Humbrol 174 as advised in the instructions, but it looked to orange to me, so gave it a thin over-spray of 16.  Looks better to my eyes anyway.

     

    On to the pics. 

     

    * If you are wandering about the "jump, Jonny, Jump" watch the delightful video linked at the end 🙂

     

    Tim

     

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  14. 17 hours ago, Troy Smith said:

    One interesting detail,  the exhausts look to have had a coat of special  orange lead paint, which was supposed to supress the glow of the stubs. This is why they have odd flat appearance. 

    Thanks for your input Troy, very interesting. Now I’ve looked at that photo many times, and until you pointed it out, I’ve never twigged that  the exhausts look different.  Todays learning experience 🙂
     

    Tim

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  15. This is the special hobby boxing of the Eduard Tempest II.

    Lovely kit to build, almost a perfect fit.  I kept changing my mind as to which marking to finish it in, but in the end I went with the 33 squadron aluminum finish.  I've now purchased an overtrees kit from Eduard so I can do one of the others with the spare decals.

    I tried to get the batty worn look the one photo I found of the aircraft has, where the camouflage is starting to show through the aluminum sprayed over the top. could have done more, but live and learn.  And yes, the rockets should have a coloured  band on them, but i wimped out at that point 🙂

     

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  16. 1 hour ago, Selwyn said:

    really lovely build of A NF Defiant.

     

    Just one minor nitpick,  the turret would not be in that position on the ground as its would be impossible for the gunner to get in or out. If I recall the guns were slewed to the right so that the sliding panels  of the turret were accessable for the gunner to get in.

     

    Defiant gunner access

     

    Selwyn

    Very true Selwyn, but it could be in that position for servicing https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210136

     

    Tim

  17. 37 minutes ago, Graham Boak said:

    OK, but ortho film doesn't always show yellow as black, as this seems to depend upon the filter.  However, if the yellow around the roundel is visible then so should be the tips.  Is the red darker than the blue?

    The roundel on the wing has the blue darker than the red.  the gas detection patch is quite light.  Shame they didn't have digital cameras back then :-)

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