Jinxman

I have one of these part way through the build, (its on the shelf of doom!) It was donated by a friend who stopped modelling in 1/72. He had started it about 30 years ago, and I picked it up from there a couple of years ago. All in all I like the kit a lot, not quite Hasegawa finesse, but charming all the same.

Great progress and starting to shape up very nicely.

A little bit of progress. Started to laminate the sides of the floats, to build up the profile before slapping on some milliput. Moved the cockpit back on one side and tidied up the fuselage sides prior to getting a bit of detail in. Played with embossing some plastic card, (courtesy Muller fruit corner!), to recreate the oil coolers - think its worth trying with a bit of foil as well. ..and a float sat in the jig. cheers

Another one of my favourite kits - what scheme are you going to plump for?

What a beauty!

Bashed on last night - plenty of fun to be had with this so no point hanging around.. I started by using Cheshiretaurus' idea of using a jig to correctly marry up the floats & fuselage/wings, as the legs in the kit are all over the place - here is the start of it; Whilst trying to fettle the jig I started on the floats. In the spirit of the GB I will be using tube glue, enamels, etc where possible. Blocking off the locating holes with bits off the sprue; Adding some weights to the floats as per Cheshiretaurus' suggestion; The floats look a little undernourished in places, and the step is in the wrong place, so plenty of glue and heavily clamped ready for tomorrow. The fuselage needs some correcting - cockpit in wrong place, cross section too fat underneath, oil cooler corrugations in wrong place, too chunky on the underside of the nose, etc - and so the trusty semi-blunt Stanley blade/scraper got to work;

Hi, The Tamiya Formula Perfect book would be a good starting point. HTH

Good luck with this one - I had one of these started about 40 years ago. Never did get it finished as my mum gave away all of my kits when I went to college, aged 18!

Definitely still very interested in this - thinking my Meri Kits 1/43 Brabham BT58 can get built at long last.

Oh yes - a real beauty, possibly only bettered by the Macchi MC.72? Hopefully I can do it justice, as a small tribute to the efforts of the RAF High Speed Flight and the Supermarine team who were involved. Bring on the 14th!

Many thanks - a great build of yours from this kit. I really like your idea of a jig to get everything lined up. Makes me think of getting the floats and legs built/aligned and then plonking the fuselage/wings on top. Had another look at the parts versus the plan, scratched my head, and then checked your RFI - it can be done! cheers

hi All, My first group build, so looking for any constructive input that's available please! This kit was donated by a buddy who now only builds in 1/48th - so no box shots. Transparency and part of the prop are missing - no big deal I think. Not sure what I am going to do with the decal part of the build yet. I will be using the plans in here as a reference, Along with a stack of photos taken at the excellent Solent Sky museum, so hopefully the end result looks a bit like this, cheers

Looking really good - hope you don't mind me posting a shot from Linköping - also in flying mode. I have some hangar shots from Linz if these might be any help? [

My brother has a D5100 and he gets some fantastic results with it. The flip screen is great for museum and static work. He has a battery grip fitted which seems to balance the camera a bit better, and means he gets better battery life, at the cost of extra weight of course. He uses it in RAW mainly and processes using Lightroom.

Uuhh! I am gobsmacked. I remember when the Revell 1/48 B-17G came out and Shep Paine did a diorama piece around the kit - this reminds me of how I felt then as a kid - simply inspiring.

Watching with interest - what markings/finish will she be in?

Typical! Tuesday was pretty good, but at least the rain kept off for Wednesday. Oh yes, beautifully displayed and an aircraft with real presence.

Lovely set of shots.

I attended with a couple of buddies on Thursday and Friday; the weather was fantastic, and we had an excellent, relaxing couple of days. The company and change of scenery was as important as the arrivals and validations I suppose. The FRIAT stand looked very sparsely populated on both days, and one of the guys was at West park & view on Wednesday and said there were no more than 50 people in it. I live about 65 miles away and so it is an easy decision to go or not dependent on the weather etc. If I lived 400 miles away? To be honest there was nothing there that important for me to see. I had access to a complimentary ticket for Saturday if I had needed it but already had plenty of shots, and the weather forecast was mediocre so I didn't bother. (The queuing puts me off as well!). It will never be the same as it once was, but no organiser in the world can (realistically/economically) get all the aircraft into one place for one show that we want to see. I understood that both days were sell outs (?) - and if an organiser can sell all the tickets, and fill all of the corporate and special enclosures, the voice of the aviation enthusiast kind of gets lost a little I think.

Nice shots - CV-22 looks good in camo!

Thanks for your comments - given the history of the weather here I suppose we were lucky!

Thanks for your kind comments..

Wow!

Lovely show, crummy weather, and no prizes for guessing which aeroplane was the star of the show in my opinion. Hope you enjoy..

hi Seahawk, thank for the kind words. XH314 (G-OMHD) flew in late on Friday, and taxied straight into the static display area - don't know if it did anything on Saturday as I wasn't there. It is out of Kemble and the intention is to get it back on the display circuit as far as I know - can't wait!