Moggy

I think all of the SAAB kits emigrated including the Viggen. So if you want one you either get a second hand or buy it in Argentina. The availability of Swedish Air Force subjects is fortuitous - it improves the modeller's taste on subject matter! 😜 Any model of a Swedish Air Force subject is automatically high art 😜 Cheers, Moggy (into Swedish Air Force since 1985)

Excellent modelling. Which grey did you use? Cheers, Moggy

An Argentine toymaker (Hughes-Crovetto) bought a number of Heller moulds in the 2000's; Draken was one of them. There were other SAAB aircraft kits too. Being that imported kits are very expensive (and modellers get little respect - modelling is usually barely tolerated by spouses) the Hughes-Crovetto ex-Heller kits are popular. There's a implausible number of Argentine modellers on a steady diet of SAAB's best 😜 Cheers, Moggy

Let's go crazy: Nord N.262 Fregate Second the Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris (backing Dennis_C)

beautiful modelling! I am full of admiration. Cheers, Moggy

we had a solid week of -c degrees with the warmest being -4 worst was last monday with -12 at 09:00 getting warmer 13:00 at -9

Iḿ currently building a Miranda-class USS Saratoga (see Above the Karman Line group) Checking the existing aztec decals i found them to be too dark and obtrusive. The masks are a much better solution - provided you choose the right colours. The original studio models had the Aztec painted on to break the monotony of all-white model in camera. If you look at the ships in the movies and series there's no obtrusive pattern painted on the ship; subtility is the watchword for the aztec pattern. With the help of Carlos Zangrando's freely available Aztec patterns I'm endeavoring to cut masks - a time consuming operation. Carlos Zangrando's patterns are actually scale-perfect decals - to be printed by the modeller. I've checked the pattern on the actual model; they fit perfectly 😜 So you see it's as usual - ye pays yer money and make yer choice 😇 Cheers, Moggy (Starfleet enthusiast)

Man, your build is out of this world! Cheers, Moggy (wannabe astronaut)

I'm now slated for an operation next monday 🙃 We'll see. Now for something completely different! The kit has no real stand instead it has these: It's completely ridiculous... even if one succeeded in balancing the model on these any touching or even a hard look will tip the model into ruin 😝 So I decided to make a proper stand using this: I need a really strong anchoring point to avoid risking breaking the model every time I lift it ... I built a "tower" made of 2mm plasticard bits inside the main hull: Then I drilled a hole very slightly smaller diameter that the pipe... It was not easy to drill through all this styrene 😉 It ended up looking like this: The "foot" is going to be made of wood sawed to the shape of Starfleet's symbol Since I haven't done any woodwork for years it's going to be interesting to see how many I have to make before one is acceptable 😜 That's all for now! BTW if I should drop a clanger on Monday my daughter will be entertaining any and all serious offers for my 1000+ stash. Stingy offerers will be pelted with old KP kits 🤣 Cheers, Moggy

unfortunately no... in the christmas preparations rush and the rush to finish the model in time I completely forgot Cheers, Moggy

Here I am again! Unforseen health issues made my life more, err... interesting for the last six weeks Now I'm back to the real important thing in life - modelling Next is the main hull: I begin with the fantail This - like everything else in this project - doesn't fit particularly well. However I am a modeller - bad fit comes with the territory 😇 And now the saucer correction set: These are truly crappy - next time I'm using plasticard Here's what I'm talking about: Since the saucer's sides are beveled, sanding down the oversize resin overhang is a bit messy if not done carefully. Cheers, Moggy

Some brilliant modelling in here! Cheers, Moggy

There are two different FROG Javelin kits: the early one with its original release in the late '50s and the far newer one released for the first time in 1975. I have owned both The FROG Gannet is likewise a product of the '50s - no openongs for landing gear, no cockpit openings either - just a "pilot head" 🤣 Cheers, Moggy

JT Graphics - made in the US. I'm not sure they're still around - but I think so Cheers, Moggy

Originally I was going to do USS Reliant with lights for this GB. While checking the project I decided to do a build of the same kit as a kind of prototype for the Reliant build Since I had an extra Reliant kit with all the Saratoga trimmings then this build will teach me the kit and correction bits' idiosyncrasies - thus the Saratoga conversion now rather than later Here are the bridge and decks B & C as compared to the kit's shapes. As you can see I've already started to saw the kit's B&C decks off. Here's what it looks like when finished. There has to be a "shelf" left to attach the resin bridge on ...and the B&C decks that have been excised Finally the new resin bridge & b&C decks attached to the saucer. The dark smears are thick grey paint used as filler. That's all for today! Cheers, Moggy

Here comes my contribution to the group build: Benjamin Sisko's USS Saratoga. The Saratoga is a refit/conversion of a Miranda-class frigate. The (better known) USS Reliant - prominently featured in the ST The Wrath of Khan - is represented in modelling by a 1/537 kit by AMT/ERTL. The kit: It's a typical AMT kit: somewhat dodgy fit, few parts... and since I have the original boxing from the 90's the decals are shot. Nevertheless it's an eminently buildable kit! and a sizable one too. Somehow I feel that small scale representations of ships do not have the real feel of the originals as being gigantic beasts that completely dwarf its human operators - or anything else not the size of a mountain. I bought some extras: A correction set for the saucer section - it is two mm too shallow and it includes a new, vastly improved fantail. A correction replacement for bridge, B and C decks Here you can see both the bridge /B and C decks in resin resin and the new fantail New decals - really impressive sheet This is going to be really fun Cheers, Moggy

Thank you!

Desperately searching as above I've searched for them online but it seems to be the only Star Trek kit with no instructions online - that is the 1/537 kit 😡 Thanks in advance, Moggy

Most of my modelling involves sawing off chunks of the kit(s) - so I'm in Cheers, Moggy the Saw

OOPS! repeated info already in the thread....

I see you had the same teacher in Theory of Knowledge as I had at the Uni... His classes: come for the laughs, stay for the unending debates - with the Beer Philosophy bash as dessert 😁 Cheers, Moggy (confuse-a-cat graduate)

What happened to the pictures?

Incredible

Personally - "loose" instead of "lose" 😡

Brilliant modelling! The high definition of your 1/72 models are an inspiration to all 1/72 modellers. 🤩 It puts the "72 scale is not as detailed as 1/48" crowd on notice 😆 Cheers, Moggy (planning a Swedish Air Force Hkp1 - yes the Bananen) Brilliant modelling!