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That looks great, Deacon, lovely job! Very inspiring pic as well. What did you use for the main green colour? Is it mixed according to the kit instructions, or did you find an appropriate colour elsewhere?

OK, chaps, here we are with five weeks to go to the Armistice, so I think I'll have a go with another model. I dug this: out of the stash,so wish me luck as I join the Dawn Patrol to do battle with the Fokker scourge! Looks like a decent little kit. It comes with decals for a machine flown by Ernst Udet on the Western Front in winter 1915-16.

Decided I really was with the card models! I think I haven't enough patience for those. This GB's got 5 weeks to go, and it seems like ages since my builds finished, so I'll have a look in the stash..........

lovely job, deacon, makes me want to hunt a 1/72 Revell WW1 a/c from the stash and do another model for this GB, it seems like ages since I finished the WW1 tank and the W29.

Forget bullfighters! I've just received my Airfix Club members' exclusive kit for this year- yes, the two Harriers, GR7 and FA2! They certainly look good in the box, so it'll be one (or both) of these!

3 Here's my Me 410A2/U4 finished using the kit decals as an aircraft of 5/ZG26 "Horst Wessel" . Paints by Humbrol & Revell, applied with a hairy stick, kit built OOB. A fun build, I'd forgotten how well these old Matchbox kits go together.

Here's the finished article! I'm ony posting one photo here (avoids duplication). More pix in the "Gallery" thread.

Can't really see a problem with that, especially given what you intend to do with it! It's not that much different to me hoping that Revell's Easy-Kit 1/100 Phantom is eligible for the Phantom GB.......... You know, the pre-coloured snap-together one........... I've just re-read this after posting it(!) and realised that it looks as though I'm comparing Rich's project to an Easy-Kit. Before anyone points that out, please let me say that that was not my intention. I intended to point out that the principle, which is doing a project that's a little unorthodox in its basis, is similar. I didn't intend to belittle the effort that will go into Rich's model. Now I know how Basil Fawlty felt! again!

Yes, Milo. The oldest brush I own, size 0 with the bristles cut down to 4mm. Then just used a dry-brush "dabbing" technique until I was happy with the mottle. Thank you for that kind comment. I put it on the stand as soon as the fuselage and wings were assembled. It was simply because there was a stand with the kit that I decided to build it gear-up, so it was convenient to use the stand to store the model while paint dried, etc. It's not permanently attached (yet!) Nearly done now!

Cheers, Milo! Did enjoy that dram! Anyway, first stage of mottling completed! One more colour to apply, and the mottle will be sufficient!

Funnily enough, Milo, a nice single malt is what I usually recommend. Nothing to do with modelling at all, I just enjoy a wee dram! Clynelish is my dram of choice, served on the rocks with a splash of sparkling water. Slainte Mhath!

I usually use Kristal Klear- no fogging, dries clear, takes paint. problem solved!

OK, a replacement for the camera has been acquired and without trying to learn its settings, I've got this: which is a bit of an improvement! And now that I've showed that to you all, I can carry on with the mottling. I think a very light mottle of Schwarzgruen and Dunkelgruen on the tail, nacelles and fuselage sides, then a heavier dabbing of RLM Grau 02 on the same areas, and after that spirals on the spinners just to test the steadiness of my hands!

Mark, what kit and what scale is the Tonka? I'm seriously impressed with that one in particular, but all your builds are really good. Iron Man is another great model, especially when he's lit up!

That office looks great! And the staff!

I like this idea, mainly because Malta is one of my favourite holiday destinations! After listing all those aircraft, would model ships (Ark Royal, anyone?) be eligible?

Yes, these Matchbox kits go together very well. I have made some more progress, but the new digital camera (whcih arrived today) hasn't got a "macro" setting so I'm quite disappointed with the pictures of the model. They're a lot like my early model pix from before I found macro mode on the regular camera, so, backed away till it's in focus, digital zoomed in again and then cropped and scaled so the model isn't a dot in the middle of the picture, here it is. The main "splinter" camo done and awaiting mottle on fuselage sides and vertical tail. Before actually posting this, after seeing the preview, I'm horrified at that picture. Sorry, all, It's the best i can do for the moment, methinks a clandestine visit to Jessops is called for! more soon!

Comes of living under the downwind leg of Manchester airport circuit!

B-25!

Yes, I've never built a Me410 before. I bought one once, a FROG one, but didn't build it 'cos when I got home and opened the box, the plastic inside wasn't a Me410, but a Vultee Vengeance! I would've taken it back, but we lived in Brora in the Highlands of Scotland 75 miles north of Inverness and it was a 2 & 1/2 hour trip back to the LMS! So I built the Vengeance. Anyhow, I'd forgotten how easily and quickly these old Matchbox kits go together! One evening's work has taken me to a a built-up structure that needs painting and details adding (from where I was at the last report) Since it came with a stand, I decided to build the Me "in-flight" which meant putting staff in the office, so here they are, painted according to Matchbox's mini-paint plan: Then I got as far as this: So then I decided "Go for it" and got this: So that's where i've got to with this. I'll start painting the airframe today, hopefully but I'm losing the use of SWMBO's camera. Daughter-in-law has broken hers, and is off to Egypt for a holiday next week, so she's borrowing it from today! The good news is that SWMBO is treating me to a little 5MP Praktica camera, I'll have my own !

Agree 110%, my all-time favourite AFV. The first Tamiya 1/35 kit I ever built (in 1972, at university, in Aberdeen, bought from my first grant cheque!)

And I thought the Playfix Mustang I was given once was bad!!!

Oooops! That was the one I intended doing, as I have no confidence in my ability to achieve an effective mottle for the other scheme! Ah well, back to the drawing board........... 1. Trim down hairy stick 2. Practise!! <dab dab dab>

OK, here's where we're up to- Primer coat has showed up lots of places where a smear touch whole tube of filler is needed to rectify bad joins, particularly on the engine nacelles so I'll set to work on that now. Will report more progress when there's more progress to report!

Here's my build for this GB. I'll start with the usual "mugshots", Progress reports will follow, when there's progress to report!