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3 hours ago, rodenlee said:
It looks excellent Bruce-bold move with the prop!!
Cheers
Shaun
Thanks Shaun
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20 minutes ago, ModelingEdmontonian said:
I've been tempted to try this, so I appreciate seeing you pull it off. Looks great and I love the photo on the stand touch!
Thanks Edmonton. I was quite happy with the look of it too.
Regards
Bruce
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Gday All
This is the first of three Spit 14s Im building.
No one is more surprised than me as its not the greatest kit, especially given its only a recent release. Moulding and engineering are average.
That aside, its a great looking machine
To me nothing ruins the illusion of an in flight piston engined model more than a stationary prop, so i decided on this compromise of simply cutting off the prop blades and filling the resultant holes
Model is finished with tamiya LP11 and all national markings and underwing serials are painted on
My blog contained in my signature block contains more details and photos of the build if you are interested.
thanks for looking and any comments welcomed.
Bruce
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Maybe this will spur on Airfix to release a 1/48 kit. We can only hope !
Bruce
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lovely work Russ
Bruce
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12 hours ago, MRMRL said:
Some fab builds there, I agree with all the other praise here, so much good stuff to see in all these builds. I'll also agree with you on the Fly Hurricane, having built it myself, it's a pig of a kit, you've done a way better job than me with her though.
Very kind of you. Are you getting the new Revell Hurricane to try ?
Bruce
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Ive been hoping for a new gannet from Airfix for a while. Hopefully next year may be the year. I for one really hope its not a AEW, as that would limit its sales.
The AS1, to me makes far more sense, being used by more air arms, therefore more scope for future boxings by airfix.
Bruce
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Thats an amazing output, and all look brilliant too
Bruce
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Great stuff. Some very interesting schemes there too
Bruce
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A great year. I still love that vampire and the late mark Spitfire
Bruce
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These are brilliant Chris. I love FAA subjects
I think the tiger moth is my fave
Bruce
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Mark. Looks like a brilliant year, and all those are models to be proud of. I initially thought that first shot of the underside of your Spit was a real aircraft!
The very in scale chipping on the Corsair looks fantastic in that it doesn’t hit you in the face. And I love your HMS Wren . I need to do a ship myself
A mate and I have indulged in a few buddy builds. They are certainly great fun. I must watch out here more for some.
look forward to seeing what you produce in 2023. I’m off to read your blog now
Bruce
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5 hours ago, Graham T said:
Yea good luck with a fruitful model building retirement! Hasn't worked for me sadly!😅 Nice builds though - especially that Eduard Spit!
So far it’s not working well here either😕 . I’m sure things will settle down once we’ve established ourselves in the new house
I have managed to sort my decal collection though!
Bruce
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All nice builds Steve, but that Sherman boasts the most in scale “rope” I’ve seen on a model. What did you use?
Bruce
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WOW! You bought a shop . Congratulations and good luck with it. I love your horse drawn vignette and the Lightning build
All the best for the business in the coming year
Bruce
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On 12/16/2022 at 11:00 AM, Kallisti said:
Having build both the Hurricane IID and IIC from Fly I can sympathise with your feelings, but since they are the only options out there in that scale needs must
A nice selection with hopefully more to add in the coming year!
I actually looked at your builds before tackling mine. It seems all goes well if you completely get rid of the casting block on the undercarriage bay. I’ll certainly be buying a Revell IIc when they release it
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Wow! They are all excellent builds. Varied subjects too, which I love
Bruce
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10 hours ago, roginoz said:
Quality over quantity, Bruce, a very nice selection of models. Like others above, the Mitchell is my choice, with the added bonus that it's Accurate Miniatures, generally brilliant kits.
On the bench is AM's TBM-3D Avenger, the one time mount of George H W Bush. Haven't got far into it, just painting jobs before assembly, but I'm enjoying the kit immensely.
Would be good to catch up when the opportunity presents.
Compliments of the Season, mate.
Rog
That’s a lovely model Roger . You’ll enjoy it. Would love to catch up too, but we’ve now moved to NSW for the better weather
Hope your Xmas is filled with joy
Bruce
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2022 was proceeding readily on the modelling front until the latter half of the year. We had our house on the market and sold quicker than expected, so the bench had to get packed up
Still managed 5 though, so not too shabby, as that seems to be my average output.
In order of completion
Eduard's superb 1/48 Spitfire Mk1.
A very enjoyable kit, this one finished using Fundekls "Early Spitfires part2"
I have bought several more!
Next was Accurate Miniature's 1/48 now rather old B-25C/D . This was not as fun as the Spitfire .
Nor was not it as good a kit as I seem to remember from when I first built it upon its initial release
Decals from Eaglecals
Continuing on with kits-that-arent-fun-but-need-to-be-built
Fly Models 1/32 Hurricane MkIId
I needed a bit of a quick easy build after that. The Hasegawa 1/48 Ki-44 Tojo fir the bill although it took me 2 goes to get the camouflage right
Meng's 1/48 F-18E was another enjoyable build, although I raced it to the finish line as we were starting to pack up the house
Once Xmas is done with, time will be spent getting a new bench up and running so full production can be resumed.
as Im transitioning to retirement now, Im expecting that production to be fruitful
Enjoy the season fellow Britmodellers
Bruce
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All thoroughly brilliant Neil
Bruce
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Lovely work on all of them. Your Spitfire XIV is an inspiration as I am working on this kit at the moment
Bruce
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Great build and the model looks stunning
Bruce
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Excellent looking model . The old hasegawa Classic still stands up as a good kit I reckon
Bruce
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18 hours ago, bigbadbadge said:
Thanks Bruce, wow I thought it was my errors, in one way good to know it wasn't, have another couple in the stash and will be ready for the next two.
Have you seen the Paul Budzig videos for this kit, he goes through it and it's very handy especially for the armoured fuel tank cover. They are linked on the first page of my WIP embedded in my RFI initial post.
Thanks for your kind comments
Chris
I shall definitely check them out Chris
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Airfix 1/48 Spitfire FRXIVe
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Thanks Rob and Trevor
Bruce