Calum

Long dead IIRC. He's making ships now

Excellent work Dan. Those stickers are great touch as are the first aid kit and markings on the label behind the seat. All things I remember from my time working on them

excellent

Thanks everyone No A Tamiya F-4B is next I think the Kinetic is better than the Hasegawa one Andy. That said the Hasegawa kit is also good.

Thats nice

Here's my recently completed Kinetic TF-104G. Despite a few niggles I really like these Kinetic Starfighters. This is my second and there will be more. For those interested, there is a full build report here with all the details but onto the images

I am a bit Hamfisted in my approach to things although I get there in the end.

Excellent

A respectable 7 completions this year. Same as last year. The tally this year was 2 jets, 2 World War II Props and 3 pieces of armour. The last one got across the line on the 24th December One highlight was completing the Special Hobby Viggen. This was one subject I have really wanted to add to cabinet for a long time. It was a bit of slog but I'm happy with the result and it should be appearing in a magazine in 2024. Onto the images. If you want more on any of the builds the title is a link to the build. 1/48 Kinetic BAe Harrier Gr.3 - No IV (AC) Sqn Royal Air Force Depicted as aircraft XZ997 / V from No IV (AC) Sqn Royal Air Force RAF Gutersloh, West Germany, 1992. I have always liked the look of the Harrier Gr.3 with the LRMTS nose. So I was happy when Kinetic finally released that variant. 1/48 Tamiya T-55 Depicted as generic tank from a Middle Eastern Army. I wanted to do something other than an all green Warsaw Pact machine. In the end I went for a generic vehicle using a lot of images found online of other peoples models and actual machines. I also used Martin Kovac's (Uncle Nightshift) build of the T-55 as inspiration. This model won it's categories at the 2023 Scale Model Show and ScaleACT 2023. Needless to say I was pretty happy with the results. 1/48 Eduard North American P-51D Mustang - Marie Depicted as P-51D-5, SN 44-13298, flown by Capt. Freddie F. Ohr, 2nd FS, 52nd FG, 15th AF, Madna, Italy, Autumn 1944. This is my third Eduard P-51D. You can see the first here and second here. The third was to be another bare metal aircraft as bare metal is not something I feel I'm particularly good at. I chose this one from from Eduard's Chattanooga Choo Choo Boxing after seeing Spencer Pollards build online. 1/48 Tamiya Marder III - 19 Tank Destroyer Battalion 19 Panzer Division Depicted as a vehicle from 19 Tank Destroyer Battalion 19 Panzer Division in Russia, Winter 1942. 1/48 Eduard Supermarine Spitfire Vc Trop - No 243 Sqn RAF Depicted as aircraft JK715 flown by Squadron Leader Evan "Rosie" Mackie, RNZAF when flown from RAF Hal Far Malta in June to July 1943. Evan Dall "Rosie" Mackie, DSO, DFC & Bar was the highest scoring flying ace to serve with the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) with a total of 21.5 victories. Wikipedia has a good article on his life if you're interested in reading more (click here). One of the interesting things with Mackie's JK715 was that he fitted a set of exhausts from Spitfire Mk.IX. Mackie was originally a mechanic so he was always interested in the maintenance of his machines. He first fitted these exhausts to his another Spitfire. After it crash landed, he removed the them and installed them on his new JK715. 1/48 Special Hobby Saab AJ-37 Viggen - F15 Wing Swedish Air Force Depicted as an aircraft from the F15 wing based at Söderhamn, 1978. The Viggen was one of those aircraft I loved from the moment I saw it - jumping out of the centrefold of Airplane magazine in that amazing splinter camouflage. 1/48 Tamiya Sd.kfz251/1 Ausf.D Half Track - United States Army - Germany 1945 Depicted as a vehicle captured by the US Army in Germany, 1945 and pushed into service as an ambulance. This kit was built as an entry for the 2024 NSW Scale Model Show's Panzer Tracks Trophy. The theme being "In Enemy Hands

Nice work Steve

Thanks mate same to you.

There is a list of aftermarket I used over at my blog with some more images ( Link is in my signature.). I used a mask set for the camouflage and tacked it in sections spraying all the colours for that section and then moving on to the next. As for advice on building one. Well just take it slowing a dry fit everything. The lit is a bit of a struggle to be honest. Lots of clean up and lots of dry fitting. But far from impossible. Just take your time and you'll get there. Same with the painting ABT 502 oils Sepia Mostly from the bottle except for the light green which I mixed. My blog has a list of the colours used. Link is in my signature.

Probably my last finish for the year. Special Hobby's Viggen with a bit of aftermarket. More details at my blog

A-4 Skyhawk

The C was re-released last year (or the one before) They were quite easy to get for a period. it seems the A-4E/F and TA-4$ along with the M are the current ones they are producing atm.