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  1. Brad
    I coach junior cricket at my club and we have a rule for the parents; nothing negative and clap opposition players when they do well too.
  2. Brad
    I have actually managed to start. I mixed up some Russian interior colour from 50:50 Gunze 25 blue and 46 green.
  3. Brad
    Back playing cricket, wooohooo, although I am so sore today it's really not funny. I need a massage.
  4. Brad
    From what I've read, Iranian pilots really liked the Phantom. It's speed, weapons and durability were put to good use against Iraq especially, conducting bombing, fighter sweep and reconnaissance duties, However when equipped with the Maverick air to ground missile, the Phantom found a new and deadly role; tank killing. Nearly 50 machines are still in service with the IRIAF today. The 1/72 Hasegawa Phantoms are pretty decent kits, although do watch out for the fit of the forward fuselage to the body and the fit of the air intakes, it can be tricky to get right and the better you get the fit the less sanding you will have to do. The instructions give you three machines, but I was not happy with the colour call outs, so I went with matching colours to the box top that I believe look better. I did use their suggested Gunze 44 flesh for the sand colour, but picked RLM 71 over their suggested Gunze 303 for green which I think was too light and I went with Revell SM381 brown. Gunze 311 grey was used for the under surface and RLM 70 for the drop tanks as the green here looks darker than the air frame colour. You will have to source weapons as only three drop tanks are included, but Hasegawa has put the inner pylons along with sidewinder launch rails in the kit. The Mavericks and launch rails come from the Hasegawa weapons set.
  5. Brad
    Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force F-4E from Hasegawa in 1/72, with Hasegawa weapons set Mavericks and launch rails.
  6. Brad
    After a marathon decal session I managed to finish with time to spare. Right, onto the Nordic GB. Thanks for following along.
  7. Brad
    Things are taking shape with more parts glued on, a gloss and now onto the decals. Lots of little stencils and things to put on it. Most of them now applied to the wings, just the fuselage to go.
  8. Brad
    Kit tires, just with some dry pigment applied.
  9. Brad
    That super silver looks great, might have to pick some up.
  10. Brad
    Plugging away slowly, worked on the metallic sections tonight. I've been ruled out of round 1 due to injury so I might have a little more time to complete this.
  11. Brad
    More masking and painting, I also painted the stabilisers upside down, so I have to repaint them. Not too bad, just going back for some touch ups and masking the tail metallic surfaces and the nose.
  12. Brad
    Managed to mask up with bluetak sausages and some Tamiya tape. H44 applied, along with some black green to the drop tanks. Using the box top as a bit of a reference you can see the drop tanks are a darker colour than the topside camo, something the instructions doesn't really mention. I mean they could indeed be correct but I like a little difference. Gunze H44 is close to the box top, it's kinda not quite sand ,not quite flesh colour, not really yellow either plus I've seen a bit of variation in tones with other pictures so close enough.
  13. Brad
    They are pretty big over here in Australia, expensive too!
  14. Brad
    I did get a couple of my friends kids into aircraft, they were also being coached by me and another who use to think building models was silly now has a son who builds model cars!. No kids of my own so I'm just corrupting my friends kids haha.
  15. Brad
    Still going slowly. I thought I had run out of Gunze 311 but found an unopened bottle in the paint stash, nice. I found the drop tank fit rather poor with the scribed detail not really matching up well. An attack with sandpaper and super glue solved the problem good enough. I also attached the windscreen and painted the interior of the canopies black. I am leaving off the tail as it makes painting the metallic sections much easier. I'm not sure if this will make the deadline as I've taken up coaching a junior team at my cricket club, so between that, training and playing I'm out 4 evenings a week plus game day Saturday. I'll see how I go.
  16. Brad
    So this will be my entry, a little late but I did manage to finish a model before starting this so it's all good. I did think this was an MF but it's a bis, a few differences there. I really like the box art too and was thinking of building her wheels up as you get a nice pilot with the kit too.
  17. Brad
    Ok MiG it is.
  18. Brad
    I really shouldn't join another GB, but what do you reckon; a Finnish MiG 21MF or Danish F-84G?
  19. Brad
    The Revell kit is pretty nice with decent detail and fit. I wanted something a bit different so I went with a French post war machine. The colour used was Gunze bluegray number 42 straight from the bottle with some light weathering achieved by pigments. I believe this machine was used for engine testing. Fin flash was masked and painted with decals coming from a mirage kit.
  20. Brad
    I ran into some trouble with this build that caused me to put it aside. I found the fit of the forward fuselage tricky and the Hasegawa instructions lacking. Some parts simply appear on the instructions without a guide, just one step they aren't there, next they are. Clearly they have not proof read them good enough, but I think I've figured it out now. The cockpit seems to fit a bit odd too, it looks out of position but it wouldn't fit any other way. Last couple of days I picked it up and just started gluing stuff on. I also found my weapons set so I'll equip her with 3 drop tanks and 4 Mavericks, two on each inner pylon. If I just keep plugging away I should it finished, or at least close to it.
  21. Brad
    I too like fixing things rather than buying new. I remember years ago mum was going to get a new washing machine, but a quick search on ebay and 50 bucks later I had the machine washing like new. That thing lasted another 12 years until the gear box finally died last year!
  22. Brad
    Jumped in the car, turned the ignition to be greeted with wooop woopppp pfffft and just like that the battery is dead. Great, 100 bucks down the drain tomorrow for a new battery. My first battery lasted 11 years, 11 damn years, the guy who changed it was shocked. Since then this is the second battery I've gone through in 7 years! Going to get a genuine Holden battery this time as these RACV ones seem to be rubbish.
  23. Brad
    Very nice, I've always liked the Avenger, I just wish I had the 300k to buy one of the ones that was for sale over here in AUS a few years ago. Would be great to just sit her in the driveway!
  24. Brad
    Thanks mate. I really don't know, it was in an Eduard box though.
  25. Brad
    This is a very nice kit, the detail is great, fit is near perfect and the decals are extremely nice, all 200+ of them. My only gripe is there was not enough room for me to get the nose weighted down, so I made up a little base for her to sit on. I really like Tiger Meet special markings and this is a cracker of a kit. It's painted in overall RLM 04 yellow, weathering kept down as she looked pretty good when on display. It seems this aircraft was kept in her tiger colours and put on a pole outside an airbase hanger.
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