Kallisti

I know, but as you can see from the photo with my Dad, this one did have wing mirrors as well as the associated rust that developed around the fittings

Don't have a 3D printer, sorry, this was printed by Alain and sent to me.

Yeah I saw that as well but like I said there are a couple of things not quite right with the kit, eg missing wing mirrors, windscreen wipers, seat belts in the interior but I wasn't going to mess about with such a small kit

Also forgot this book as a useful reference...

Hving just checked the last pic, I see the rear bumber is on crooked... fixed now I also used the opportunity to use a graphite pencil to rub lightly over the "FORD" and "Escort" badges

Its Alclad chrome, which I at first thought I'd messed up but its turned out alright when there is good lighting

At the start of this year I built Alain Rivard's 3D print Moonbase Interceptor: I had planned to put it into the SMW competition this year but sadly the forward landing skid was broken in the journey up to Telford and I wasn't able to repair it on site. However a couple of months ago Alain revealed his 3D print kit of the Space Intruder Detector aka SID from UFO which, of course, I HAD to have!!! The printing quality is superb, this is the 3rd 3D print kit I've got from Alain, the first being the 1:48 scale Starfury from Babylon 5 and the second being the aforementioned Moonbase interceptor. Here is what arrived back in October: I should have put a ruler alongside to show the size but when I did a dry-fit of the main parts it turns out to be about a foot long. Finally I was able to clear the workbench recently and made a start on this on Friday. First job was to work out what all the parts are and where they fit. Since this is a 3D print kit, there are no instructions, however using the photos from Alain's FB page, I was able to identify what all the parts are. Assembly begain with attaching the front panel of the main body. This needed a minor amout of fettling and cleaning up, mostly the pimples left by the removal of the print supports. Only one seam needed filler, the rest went together very well The front section is composed of 3 main parts, the octagonal collar, the underside docking bay and the main "golf ball". These went together well - I did had a little bit of overspill from the superglue on one side, hence the sanding once it had dried The octagonal collar will eventually have panels fitted around it painte back and white where the pairs of holes are visible in the above picture. These panels are supplied as separate pices to help with painting along with some other panels that will be added to the main body later There are three communications dishes provided along with three tiny antenna that will be mounted on this brass rod from the centre of the dish along with various other antenna and bits that stick out There are also two solar panels that attach to the back via brass rods One of the things I have to consider with this model is how do I transport it to shows and eventually to Telford next year? its a complex shape with lots of bits that stick out that could easily be bend or broken. Thankfully some of the pieces are a really snug push-fit, so I'm planning on keeping the main body and front as separate pieces that will slot together really snugly, plus the panels that are attached via brass rod can also be detached for transport. At least that is the plan! Everything is now out in the shed having received its first coat of Halfords white primer. I'll bring it in later today and give the primer a light sanding to smooth it down...

In 1971, but Dad bought the most expensive car he'd ever own, a 1968 Ford Escort in pale blue. He was immensely proud of it and was his car up until he died in 1979. For some years now I've been building examples of the aircraft he worked on while in the RAF in WWII under the banner Aircraft my Father fixed so I suppose you could call this one "Car my Father drove!" This is the old Aifix kit subsequently repackaged as a starter kit and to be honest, its not a very good kit, about standard for the time though I guess Scalemates reckons it was released in 1969. The kit does miss out some minor details like the wing mirrors and windscreen wipers, but I wasn't ready to start scratch building those! I didn't both building the engine, I'm not going to leave the bonnet open! Painted with a custom mix of pale blue from mixing Tamiya X-4 blue and X-2 white, this got a gloss coat at the end which sadly appears to have introduced some yellowish patches on the bonnet and wing, I don't know how or why, but it was so late in the day I wasn't prepared to strip the paint back and go again. I printed out the correct registration plate into paper which I then matt glossed before gluing onto the model.

Had this kit in the stash for more years than I care to remember but decided last week it was time to get it out and get it done and it just so happened I finished it on the same date that Dr Who was first broadcast in 1963! Its the old Airfix kit from 2007 with David Tennant's Dr and Martha figures, but I haven't built the figures as I really only wanted the Tardis. Considering its 'just' a box, its not a straightforward build! I dumped the awful sound card and speaker mechanism, which sadly also meant the blue flashing light has gone as well, but the mechanism buried into the roof makes it hard to get everything to fit inside properly. Plus its supposed to be clip on but I found if you don't have the roof glued on, its REALLY hard to get this to go square Box: Tardis: Oh dear, look who just turned up to IN-SPECT-IT!!! I used Tamiya XF-8 blue for the blue paint and gave it a good dirt wash to bring out the wood grain effect on the plastic. The windows were all masked and sprayed but the roof light was hand painted as its just too small to mask Now I just need to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, and everything will be right! Allons-y!

My main purchase from Telford this weekend... a bit of a bargain I reckon (if you zoom in you can see the price tag on the top right of the box )

...and done! This was a fun build! I decided to put some 'splinter' snow camo on the AT AT just to be differnt and then dirtied it all down appropriately. I'm happy with the result! Need to give the edges of the base a bit of a clean I think now having seen these pics

A while back I picked up this kit for a bargain price. The box was tatty, pieces were separated from the sprues and the instructions were missing. It was all in the plastic bags thugh so no parts have gone missing. Since this is a reboxing of the old MPC kit from 1981, I was able to download the instructions from Scalemates. As is the nature of some of these old kits the fit of the maib body is a bit ropy with large gaps at certain joints but was able to fill and smooth them reasonably well I've constructed a base using some fine-grained claycrete/papier-mache with some Tetrion filler mixed in The kit comes with some miniature Snow-speeders and turrets which have been painted up appropriately and the AT AT itself is ready to head back out to the shed after some priming and pre-shading

Since this year is the 50th Anniversary of my club's founding, the theme for this year's Telford is "Anything to do with Farnborough" so I took the opportunity to build the recent 1:48 Airfix de Havilland Chipmunk in the colour scheme depicted in the instruction of the first ever Chipmunk which went on display at Farnborough in 1949!

Yesterday got a delivery from Alain Rivard in Canada with a 3D print kit of SID from UFO! The main body on the right is 14cm long, a dry fit of the main components shows this will be about 30cm long when assembled. Lots of small pieces packaged up into small boxes... Can't wait to start it!!!

Acquired this yesterday... Its a decent size, not too small, not too large... and even comes with a miniature Space Clipper: This will go well with the kit still in my stash of the 1:72 Space clipper along with my existing builds of the older 1:200 scale space clipper and the Aries 1B