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  1. My Lord......I do not remember that!! Yes, chopping up a Revell Mustang would be way less stressful than it was chopping up the Tamiya one......I've never checked and cut so carefully in my life!
  2. .....and off we go for the first GB/STGB of the year for me..... I took this to my clubs “Bring & Build” day last Saturday.... and fondled all the resin bits for the hundredth time ........then tried to figure were they all will go....then made a mess chopping off all the moulding plugs! Then started to assembled the control surfaces, found out they’re all moveable with tiny PE & metal rod hinges!!!! That was all I got done on Saturday, yesterday quite a bit of progress............ in no particular order. The main gear and gun bays were assembled and painted. First colour was a dark green then the correct Yellow Green layered over it, this gave me some nice simple depth, I did this for everything else this colour. The cockpit base is resin from the conversion. Next the kit side panels were attached to the new resin fuselage. The resin fuselage is the same thickness as the kit fuselage and just as well detailed......it has to be the best casted I’ve ever seen! The undercarriage main bits are assembled, all have metal rods glued inside. Next the first scary bits, chopping off the top of the rudder and wing tips. Lots of careful measuring and checking was done before the cutting........ .......and that paid off the fit is perfect, I don’t think any filling will be required on these joins. The tips of the tip tanks where cast separately and needed a tiny bit of filler to finish them off. With everything just taped together I just wanted to see how it’ll all look and how much work was going to be required with these joins. To say I was shocked is an understatement, with just tape holding bits together the wing/fuselage join is perfect, there is NO gaps at all! The underside which has the most changes almost the same. Though I did find the one issue which will take a wee bit of work to correct! The forward fairings on the wings have 2 bits of plastic that now stick out going nowhere. I am going to have to do some plastic carving and shaping to get them right, not a big just....just something that may have been forgotten when the conversion was created. All together she’s going to be a super impressive model! Thoughts so far..... I can see why there is the talk about Halberd Models, easily some of the best cast/models/conversions out there!! The Tamiya P-51D, I thought their 1/48th Tomcats and Phantom were amazing, but the Mustang is sublime, in my opinion easily one of the finest models out there! What a way to start the build year....am loving this one!
  3. HAH!!! This looks like a cunning plan to make me go out and buy this conversion set as well!!! ....... but my powers of self control are well known...... I'll have an update on mine shortly, but the Halbred conversion set is just mind blowing, just one spot that will give me (and other who build it issues), but the way the Tamiya parts meet up with the Halberd parts (or visa versa) is amazing! They match up perfectly in all the key areas.
  4. IThanks, I did build one of these way back in the 2014 Mustang III STGB. For that on I used the Heritage Models 1/48th resin conversion set, was a bit basic and crude, but it came out quite nice, even used a Tamiya Mustang for that one!. Interestingly as well Airfix in one of their Annual Magazines did a piece on doing a 1/24th scale beast!!! I have the article which includes scale drawing in 1/24th......... and no I won't be doing that even though I have an old 1/24th Airfix Mustang I built when it first came out.
  5. wow now that is a classic!!!! It'll be great to see it built as she was intended to all those years ago (1965 if I'm not mistaken). Plus she even came with an engine! Been looking at the instructions.....now they are proper instruction, not like some of the vague crap you get now days! Will be an awesome build to follow, good luck with her.
  6. Wow that is something a bit different, very cottage industry looking, thought they did produce some quite interesting models. It should be a nice straightforward build for you Pat.
  7. Ok after a self-induced time away from GB’s I’m back feeling nice and fresh and ready to go hard or go home........something like that would make a great GB title/idea! This is my first planned GB/STGB for the year out of probably 3 I’ll be doing this year....have too of other projects planned! Ok for this build I plan to take one of the finest 1/32nd Mustang models ever released.....throw away most of it!!!! 😱 Then mix some of the best resin porn of the market to build this! (There are a few people here an in my local club to blame for this! ) Halberd Models Cavalier Turbo Mustang III! .....and yes it is resin porn taken to 11! I’ve built a lot of resin models and I can easily say this is some one the best resin cast models I’ve ever seen, I think equal to anything Fisher Model and Pattern did. I’ve spent plenty of time fondling all these goodies, the fuselage is cast in two pieces that are the same thickness as the Tamiya ones!!! There is not a lot to the conversion kit but it’s all moulded perfectly. The instructions are nice an clear and easy to understand, just some basic decals, the actual aircraft had none other than these. Only one scheme and I really do like SEA camo schemes. Unfortunately the conversion kit requires an awesome donor model!!!!! Most of this will not be used, not to sure what I’ll do with the leftovers! Am looking forward to this build to get back into the groove....not that I haven’t been really busy......currently on the work bench,1/48th IDF RF-4E(S) “Peace Jack”, Su-27UB, RF-111C (with all the new correction bits), plus some other mystery builds. Plus this lovely bit of resin porn finally arrived the other day....... JetMADS 1/32nd AJ-37 Viggen!
  8. Welcome along Dave, gosh I remember building one of these when they first came out, was a great kit back then!
  9. ...and as promised some motivational photos of my current build.......couldn't wait for this one!!! Will eventually be one of the 4 RC-111C's the RAAF operated, I've worked on all 4 of these birds. more details on the bits and parts used next time.
  10. welcome to the list. Oh ye of little faith!!! It's me you're talking about, I always have another plan or 3!!!! I present exhibit a! exhibit b! and exhibit c which is to be backdated to a Desert Storm GR.1!
  11. By some very strange coincidence I just happened to purchase a Kitty Hawk GR.1/GR.3 Jaguar at my club meet today for a very reasonable price. ....and yes I don't know what possessed me to by such rubbish (a Kitty Hawk model) and I will no doubt burn in hell for all the un-natural comments I'll make while building it. But I figure if I build it, there'll be one less Kitty Hawk model in the world.....that alone should cover all my past sins!!! So sign me up.....on a one way trip to.......
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