Harriers4Life

That is awesome! Can I please ask what the vertical strips are along the hull that you added? (Not the torpedo net booms). I have been flicking through my Anatomy of the Ship book, but can't seem to find anything about them? I'm not a rivet counter, I was just curious and was wondering what they were, how you found out about them and whether or not to add them to my Dreadnought... 😊 Thanks, and once again that's a great model! 👍🏻

Haha, so it's just a mish-mash... I did think the instructions looked like a jet, but the wings on the model were confusing me! I wonder what creations we could come up with using random parts from different kits?! At least I now have a vague idea what it is, maybe I will make a replica of it one day! 🤪 Speaking of mish mash kits, does anyone out there modify standard bike/car kits to make custom motorcycles or hot rods? That would be so cool to just tinker away without worrying about accuracy etc, I just lack the imagination! Anyways, thanks for the identification of Eddie's mystery plane! 🎅

Hi all, Random modelling question: Does anyone know what aeroplane model Eddie is building in Bottom, series one, episode 3 'Contest'? It looks like a cross between a bomber and kind of biplane... If anyone knows, it would be interesting to find out what that kit is! Thanks and Merry Christmas! Mitch

Thanks for the welcome guys, I do have a varied stash that's for sure! As and when they get completed I will post up some pictures. I am no good at work in progress as I keep forgetting to take pictures! 🙃

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Hi everyone, my name is Mitch! I have been model making on and off since I was 11, my first kits were an Airfix Starter Set Harrier GR7 and a Starfix Messerschmitt which I got for Christmas 1996- Spice Girls 2 become 1 was number one in the UK Charts... I mainly make Aircraft, and recently went through a phase of collecting all the kits I once had as a kid to build up my stash... There's only a couple left I need to track down... I wanted to make them again but do a better job of them now I have some skills! I have a long time interest in Titanic, WW2, Cold War jets, and WW1 Ships and pin up girl nose art... Favourite Aircraft are SR71, Mosquito, B17, Lancaster and Harrier... I was an Aircraft Engineer in the Royal Navy for over 14 years, I now fix Aircraft for British Airways. I usually build stuff I have an interest in or have worked on/flown in... My stash includes- from what I can remember (in various stages of completion!): Trumpeter: 1/200 Titanic, Hasegawa: 1/72 B25 Mitchell, 1/48 Harrier GR7 Hobby2000: 1/48 Harrier GR7/9 (on pre order) Revell: 1/48 F-14, 1/144 A320 NEO British Airways, 1/72 Havoc, 1/72 Lancaster, 1/72 Me 262, 1/144 Harrier GR7, 1/700 Titanic Airfix: 1/48 Mosquito, 1/72 SA Bulldog, 1/72 Chinook, 1/600 Iron Duke, 1/72 Swordfish, 1/35 Jaguar E, 1/48 Merlin HC3 1/72 Mosquito, 1/72 Harrier T10 Italeri: 1/72 Merlin mk1 Academy: 1/288 Space shuttle, 1/400 Titanic Eduard: 1/48 Spitfire Lee: 1/800 Titanic Starfix: 1/48(?) Messerschmitt 109 Minicraft: 1/350 Titanic Tamiya: 1/12 Honda RC10, 1/12 Yamaha M1 Valentino Rossi, 1/12 Ducati Mike Hailwood rep, 1/12 Ducati 916 DeAgostini: 1/4 Yamaha M1 Valentino Rossi Del Prado: HMS Victory... I will usually post a message if I can't find specific things online, such as decals, or the finer details on a subject I am building... (if anyone knows of a decal sheet for Harrier ZD437 "Michelle" in 1/48 that would be grand... Model Alliance don't seem to do that set anymore!) I look forward to interacting with you all and showing you what I have made! 🙃

Thanks for the info guys, @dickrd @Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies @ArnoldAmbrose I really appreciate it, I love learning new things and finding what a blob of plastic on a kit is meant to be on the real thing! Once it is done I will post up some pictures for you to check out! With Regards to the davits on the kit, would the vertical parts that attach to boats be the falls on the real thing? Obviously they wouldn't just dangle over the edge, how would they be secured in place? Would they be stored on deck and swung out when needed, or would they have been swung out permanently and secured with cables? Kind Regards, Mitch

Many Thanks for your input and advice guys! @ArnoldAmbrose, @Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Well that has rained on my parade! I was not aware of Grey Anti Foul paint! When did they stop using that colour, and also did they have a black boot topper band with the grey? Was this lighter or darker than the upper hull? The models you have shown have opposite colours to each other, and one has the black band, the the other does not!- Is this because of the era that the ship is depicted? I hope this doesnt turn into a Titanic style debate on colours of antifouling and white star funnel buff! So only the Big Guns were painted? I was not going to bore them out, but rather paint the very ends to represent the tampion caps that were placed on them. Were these in use at that time? Would the book Anatomy of the Ship Dreadnought be a useful aid to this build? I don't know what the long bars are that are laying on the deck, are they boat hooks, and would they be polished wood? One last thing, would the decks be pale in appearance due to holy stoning? Despite being in the Andrew for over 14 years, I was a WAFU so didn't familiarise myself too much with fish head gubbins! Thanks again guys, if you know of a good reference book of these ships, such as what I have already mentioned, that would be great, I can avoid harassing folk on here and stirring up debates on the colours of black and white ships! Kind Regards, Mitch

Nice one Jeff, no worries for the late reply, i work nights here in the UK, so I can wait... I'm like a Jamaican in terms of timeliness!! Yeah, I done this kit back in 1998, I knew nothing about navy ships back then (I was only 13!) and just assumed that they were all just cold grey steel... Now I am more learned I quite enjoy the odd battleship kit once in a while. I had read about the bridge being too high, so am going to lower that, I will likely add a few scratch built parts to pretty up some areas and reduce the clunkiness of other areas. I have a photo etch set on pre order with BNA model world, so will wait for that to arrive to see what it's like... (I like PE sets but some parts are unnecessary, especially with its 2D appearance). I would rather scratch build a part than use PE that doesn't look right... I did not know about the barbette guns so thanks for the heads up there! I am on the hunt for some reasonably priced set of guns for this kit, but they seem rare and expensive! I may just sand and reshape the kit ones... Thanks for the picture, It would be cool to see more of your model! I will see if I can put up a picture of the Hood I made during Lockdown... Thanks again mate, I'm sure I will pick your brains at some point when I get round to starting it! I don't remember it being a hard kit to make...

Hi Jeff, yeah this is the old Airfix 1/600, I haven't started it yet, I am just having a mooch around the Internet seeing if there's any good references out there, but it is surprisinly difficult to find anything useful or specific to what I want to know! I was looking at the Haynes manual for Dreadnoughts, thinking it may come in handy...

Hello All, I have been searching for a while trying to find colours for the small boats on HMS Iron Duke (Are they called steam pinnace and working boats?) I had previously built the Hood with blue/white boats. Were they all blue and white, or were some all over grey, or white, and were they covered? I am happy to find the info myself if someone could point me in the right direction please, to a decent book or website as I am going round in circles! A book like Peter Davies Garner's Titanic modelmakers manual would be perfect! I would like to portray the ship early in her career, ie before 1918. I have been searching online but cannot seem to find much info on the finer details of the iron duke. (Most people seem to want to know what shade of grey the hull was but I'm not too fussed on the exact shade, light grey will suit me fine!) I would like to have a ship with little splashes of colour here and there, so maybe "Brunswick Green" for the anchor handling gear (if this was in practice on battleships of the Andrew before or during ww1), or blue/white boats on the deck, or other equipment like hydrants being red etc that are not just boring old grey! (I don't mind-mish mashing periods, ie painting it in 1912 colours with a 1920 configuration of superstructure for example, or fantasy paint jobs like I mentioned above. I would like to have a more detailed paint plan than what airfix provides in their instructions, just for all the fixtures and deck furniture etc... Thanks for reading this and if anyone here has any knowledge on the various colours used on these ships that they would like to share, it would be much appreciated! Kind Regards, Mitch