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Hello everyone, Happy New Year to you all! I wanted to ask for those of you that have used decals from 8a, are they easy to use and apply to the model? I have a set already for a 773 and am tempted to buy a couple of more sets but am sure of how good they are on the finished product. Thank you for any tips an advice. Alistair

I started this one a couple of years ago it seems, I had dabbled with it here and there to the point of paintwork, It's the 1/144 Revell A330-300 kit OOB using GE engines This was my progress to date, well it is a fuselage Decals for the project- prototype sheet for the QANTAS 2007 scheme from Pete at Hawkeye, soon for general release (Delivery scheme on this sheet as well (bottom set)) Wings together and flaptrack fairings going on Masking the tail and painting the tail and wings TIme to get it finished, considering QANTAS just celebrated 100 years in continuous operation.

I've been flying back and forward between Bristol and Amsterdam regularly in these little Embraer beauties over the last year and thus felt the need to model one. Jadlam's recent clearance sale of this kit was the catalyst required. They do remind me more of a sports car than an airliner, and indeed the pilots seem to fly them in a slightly more aggressive manner than the Airbuses. Plus, they are much more comfortable than Easyjet's A319s and A320s - and they feed & water you during the flight! Although I previously built a Revell E195 a few years back, this is their recent E-Jet issue, featuring the shorter fuselage of the 190. It comes with rather plain Lufthansa decals in the box, so for this one I used the superb 26 Decals KLM Cityhopper set and selected a serial for one I know flies out of Bristol. Mind you, literally minutes after I ordered these, I found another vendor in the US selling a set that included the current colourful KLM 100 yrs markings, but these still met the bill perfectly! The kit is a fairly easy build with no vices. I added a little weight in the nose and had to fill and sand a few blemishes on the top of the fuselage where the sprue didn't detach cleanly. Unlike my previous build, in this case I managed to keep the tiny antennae intact despite my sanding! My kit was crisply moulded with little flash, although I have heard this is not always the case. For the KLM blue I used Revell 50 gloss enamel. The wings are Humbrol US Medium grey, which in retrospect is a little dark, but it all depends on the lighting of course!!!! As always the kit was hand brush painted enamel, with Klear and Micro Satin acrylic top coats to finish. FredT

Hello and happy new year 🎉✨🤗 ... Since I was waiting for the MILLIPUT to dry on my 727 I started a new kit while I was motivated and inspired, thanks to you guys👍 I love Fokker airliners so I just had to have the F 28 from FRSIN, 1/144, injected plastic! The surfaces are VERY rough, I tried to capture this in the pictures so that everybody can judge for themselves if a FRSIN or Mach 2 kit might be something to consider in the future...

I bought this recently and thought that it would have made a nice subject for the Anything but Injection group build, but because that didn't make the cut for this years group builds I am going to build it here. The box and its contents are shown below, I have quite a busy schedule at the moment but I hope to start soon. by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr

After a chat with @Hockeyboy76 yesterday, I decided that I would have a crack at my first Blitzenbuild. A hunt in the stash brought this 1/144 Armoury boxing of 109's out as candidates. I had originally bought this boxing as possible builds for the Battle of Britain GB, but in the end decided that I couldn't squeeze them in. The only work that I did at the time, was to prime the etch fret with some Halfords Etch Primer which should help to bind the topcoats to the metal parts. Mrs N is out on a hack for a couple of hours on Boxing day, so I should be able to make some good progress. 🤞 by John L, on Flickr

My projects have been on hold for some time. Most of my hobby stuff is wrong side of the border and currently traveling is bit a problem. So I have supported my local hobby shop and purchase some basic things to continue modelling in second home. First project is Dornier Do-X in Otaki boxing. Same molds are use for Revell and Matchbox boxing's. Basically plastic looks good, better what I have seen in Revell box. Some basic information can be found from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_X Only 3 planes were ever constructed and first plane was use after Dornier by Luft Hansa, but saw very little usage and was damaged in heavy landing. Two other planes went to Italy and were known X2 and X3, usage was there also limited. In the beginning plane was using 12 Siemens Jupiter that produced 525 HP, these were notice under powered and were replaced 12 Curtiss Conqueror 640 HP versions. Even with new engines plane was not a rocket. Italian versions use Fiat engines. I have only limited amount of reference material so mostly I need to trust internet sources. So here we have typical starting photos: Box itself, that have some water damage, Instruction sheet: Hull: Wings: Small parts: Engines: Clear parts: Decals that have suffered damage, but I think I can use these as a template: There was even glue included. I don't plan to use this Thanks for watching.

Finally...this is the last of my 2019/2020 builds so far. The TU-204 was first flown in 1989 and it was planned and designed to replace the TU-134 and TU-154. It had the latest technology inserted back then and was even offered to the western market with a Rockwell-Collins cockpit and RR 211 engines,like the Boeing 757. The TU-204 can be compared to the Boeing 757 in size.Its not a copy as some may think but it has a slight resemblance to the 757. For some reason,it received not many orders and was build or still is build only in small numbers. Zvezda released both,the passenger version as well as the cargo version of this airliner. Its a wonderfully designed kit with nice detail and perfect parts fit. The attractive livery of Transaero Cargo is probably the most time consuming part of the build. As it was with the MC-21 kit,Zvezda gives wrong numbers for Tamyia paints on their painting guide. They state the underside to be painted with clear orange.I tried that on a sprue and it looked awefully wrong. Photo references showed it more orange/red. I found it with Testors dayglo orange. If painted over the grey of the rest of the fuselage it comes pretty close to the real thing. The grey part is correctly stated. After painting I applied 2 coats of Gunze Aqueous Premium Gloss and another 2 coats after the decals were applied. The decals are superb and provide all nessecary details and stencils. Cheers

50 years now is the mighty and graceful Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet in worldwide service. From airline operations,cargo transport,VIP transport,military use (E4B) Air Force One,or even firefighter,there is almost nothing that the 747 has not done or is still doing. Back in the 60s,Boeing took a huge risk,investing large sums of money,that could have meant bankruptcy,if that plane would not sell,nobody could have imagined that this aircraft would change the art of flying for millions of people for decades to come. In 2019,it marked the 50th anniversary of the first flight. Revell released its almost as old as the original (1974) 747-100 kit with decals for the prototype. The moulds really show their age,lots of flash,excess plastic on almost every part and the fit is also not as good as it once was. But its still the only injection moulded 1/144 scale model kit,that resembles the original pretty well. The Airfix kit is plagued by lots of errors,probably due to the fact that this kit was released in the 747s first flight year (1969),and is based on early drawings. It was a lot of work to get the parts clean and esp. the engines were a pain and needed a tremendous amount of time to achieve a respectable result. I had plans on adding more details to the model and ordered a PE detail set.But upon receival,I realized that this set was for the 747-400 kit,so that detail set was then used for my 747-400F build. In the end,I only corrected the cockpit section and added an APU,made out of a plastictube. For the paints this time,I tried Gunze gloss white No.1 for the fuselage,which worked quite well. The grey on the wingbox and the wings is Testors Voodoo grey,Coroguard panels are Tamyia metallic grey and the the metallic parts are Testors chrome silver,primed with Testors gloss black to enhance the shine. The whole model is sealed with Gunze Aqueous Premium Gloss. Photos showed the prototype on the roll-out day in an all gloss finish,so thats the way I am displaying it. The decals are superbly printed and also include all logos from the airlines who had ordered the 747 until 1969. This is the 12th 747 kit that I had built since late 2019 as part of my 747 anniversary project of building every version of the 747 in 1/144. The -SP is currently under production and the 747-300 is in the planning stage. Shelfspace is getting rare but its kind of an addiction I seem to have with the 747...😉 Cheers Alex

Just finished this one up as part of the KUTA GB, it is the Revell kit built OOB with decals from Hawkeye Models Australia for a QANTAS A330-300

Another bunch of Airbuses. Eastern Express offers the smallest member of the A320 family in 1/144. Probably ripped off and altered from Revell's A319,its an ok kit. The fit is a bit iffy in places but its not as bad as their earlier Boeing 737-300 - / 400 / -500 releases. As I had the British Airways decals left over from my A319,which I built in Gambia Bird livery,I could use these decals to create one of only two A318s Britsh Airways had in its fleet. They had an all business class seating and were used on the London City - New York flights,that had been offered by BA as replacement to the Concorde services. The Airbus A318 was not successful as an airliner,as far as I know,Air France is now the only airline to operate the type. But it sold well as a busines jet. The Avianca A318 was built OOB. The red was mixed with a few drops of white to match the tail decal.As with all EEs recent releases,the decals come from PAS decals and are nice to work with.They are laser printed most of the time and have no white backing,wich can be a problem sometimes,esp. if one wishes to use the windows as well. Cheers Alex

Eastern Express released their nice TriStar kit in many different liveries and versions. Among those is also the Orbital ATK Stargazer. To my knowledge,this TriStar is the last flying example. It was originally delivered to Eastern Airlines in 1974. Painted with Revell 04 white,Revell 374 grey for the wings and Testors silver for the metallic parts. Some light weathering was added on the wings and tail.AA cockpit window,some details from the NAZCA detail set.The rest is from the kit provided decals. The kit is the known airliner kit,the rocket and atachment are extra parts cast in resin. Eastern Express did not design the kit for a wheels up option,but here it would make sense.Otherwise its difficult to see the rocket beneath it. Closing the wheelwells was not the problem but getting the model on a stand and sit properly is. Because the rocket sits right where the stand should be for balance,the mount for the stand had to be made behind the rocket.The finished model is very heave and of course leans forward. Therefore I had to insert some weight through the No.2 engine to get weight in the back.Now its even heavier and the stand I am using for now is not very stable.I have to do something else in oder to make the TriStar stand properly and safely. But it makes for some dramatic views for the photoshoot.... Cheers

While the famous Jumbo Jet is celebrating its 50th anniversary,I took this chance in building some of my many models of the 747. Even more so,since the COVID 19 pandemic leaded to the withdrawal of the type from almost all major airlines in passenger service. Loving the 747, this was more than a shock to me,as also the chances to catch another flight in one of these majestic aircrafts,diminish significantly. And while also Boeing announced to end the 747 productionline in 2022,I decided to increase production...so here we go Starting with the Alitalia 747-100 Its the old Revell kit,its well known and around almost as long as the original.It shows its age but is still a good kit that produces to a nice replica of the mighty Jumbo. But as with almost all Revell airliners,the newer the releases the more worn out the mould seem to be. I have 1974 releases that are clean and nice but for example the anniversary release in Demonstrator markings from 2019 shows signifficant amount of flash,thin plastic and missing locator pins.The engines are almost beyond salvation. On some of my Revell 747-100/200 kits,I used resin engines from Welsh Models. The decals for the Alitalia version are actually from the Airfix kit but they fit well on the Revell release. As I was building these through the first lockdown,I went through my decal stash and used what I had there instead of ordering a lot of stuff and wait forever for the items to arrive. That way I saved a lot of money and cut down my stash and spare parts box as well. The Lufthansa Cargo 747 was actually the first 747-100F that went into commercial service. If I remember correctly,the decals I used for this build are from LS decals. Interestingly,the first 747F for Lufthansa Cargo did not feature a side cargo door as that became a regular on all forthcoming 747F. For my United Airlines 747-100 I used the decal set from my Revell/Monogram 747-400 kit as I have other plans for that one. I always liked the 1993 scheme and when I found some pictures of some United 747-100s that also wore that livery,it was an easy decision. Unfortunately,the decals were bad,not yellowed though but very brittle. It was not noticeable while they were on the sheet,but once in water,they became brittle and tore at the slightest touch. It was a nightmare getting them on,a part above the wings is missing,I will add that at a later point when i found stripes that match the color. African airlines are a must in my airliner collection,so it was clear that also some 747s will appear in such liveries. The first that I finished was the Air Gabon 747-200. During their 747 operations Air Gabon used leased aircrafts,one had P&W engines,the later one had GE engines and was namend "Leon Mba" I found these decals on ebay and I guess they are from Liveries Unlimited,not sur as there was no instruction sheet added but the quality looks like it. They were in perfect condition and great to use despite their age. While building 747 new,I also had one sitting on the shelf in urgent need of a redo. Formerly built in Aerolineas Argentinas livery,the decals had badly yellowed over the years and also the paintjob I had done back then was not up to my standard. So...off with the old decals and paint,repair the damages and putting on new paint. While using paint remover from Revell,the tail suffered serious damage as it became very brittle during the cleaing process. I had some leftover parts from a Revell 747-400,so I carefully cut of the damaged tail and replaced it with the -400 one. For the redo I opted for a Lufthansa version as I had many decal sets from the Revell -400 kits. I replaced the P&W engines with GE engines that I also had in the spares box,reworked them to give them a better shape,and the LH 747-230 was born. Some of Lufthansas -200s were Combis,so I added a side cargodoor. I always wanted a 747-400F in my collection but there is no model kit around. Suddenly I had the idea of combining the fuselage of a Revell -200 with the wings of a Revell -400... With a certain amount of reconstruction,the wings fitted on the fuselage. For the wing to fuselage connection,I used some evergreen plastic cut and sanded to the wingbox shape and glued on the wings. As I have 2 Cargolux 747-8F kits,one of those decal sets were used for this build.The red/blue stripe just had to be shortened by about 3 cm,the rest fitted perfectly on the -200 fuselage. Cargolux operates their -400Fwith RR-211 engines,so I ordered a set from BRAZ. I further added details to the landing gear from a detail set,very fiddly stuff those tiny PE parts.I found out that this is not really my cup of tea,so this was a one time experince... Lufthansa is one of only 3 operators of the 747-8I in passenger service. As I already built their first -8 some 8 years ago,I thought the Retro scheme and the actual livery should also be added to my fleet. The new livery version is built straight out of the box,here i decided to build her gear up as this adds to the 747s elegance. No additional stuff was added,as the decalsheet provides everything thats needed. The retro livery comes from 8A decals Mexico and are of very good quality. Here,the problem was to find a good match for the underbelly of the 747. Its not bare metal as with the old 747s.Revell suggests grey 374 but thats just wrong. I researched the net and came across an article from Lufthansa from the time that retro jet was introduced. There they mentioned a "Mica-Silver" was used,I found something similar from Tamyia in a spray can. The result is quite nice. Another -8,my last -8I in my stash actually comes in the livery of Qatar Airways. Its part of the Qatar Amiri fleet but wears full airline livery. Only its limited number of cabin windows proves of its VVIP standard. The decals are from DRAW decal and are great to work with. After the gloss varnish was applied,no clearfilm is visible and it looks like painted on. The grey is 315 from Gunze. Enjoy the 747 anniversary collection Registration will be added when I find decals that match.

These builds were done during the last year and this year,when I decided to cut down my A320 family stash and get some of them done. The builds were fairly easy,although the Revell moulds start to show some serious wear. Esp. the Etihad kit looked more like a vacform kit,lots and lots of excess plastic on almost every part and also the fit left much to be desired. The older isues were nice,clean and fitted well. Building these Airbuses,I decided to use decals either from the kit itself or what I had in my extensive stash. The Etihad version was out of the box,only the engines had to be changed to the V2500,the kit provided CFM56 engines,wich Etihad does not use on their A320s. In other A320 kits,Revell offered both engines,but here they decided to take out one set and probably the apprentice cut out the wrong ones... The color for the Etihad scheme had to be mixed acording to Revell`s instructions, the rest is the usual paint from Revell,Tesors and Gunze. The windows are from AA. For the Philippines A320 I used one of the decal sets from 26decals. A few years ago,I bought a whloe collection of decal sets and kits from an old man,and he had a large number of the same decals for whatever reason. Because of that,I also built a A321 in Philippine Airlines colours . The Lufthansa A320 is a rather special version... Revell's first release of the A320 dates back to 1988,and this release contained decals for Lufthansa,Air France and British Airways. When Lufthansa ordered the A320 in 1986/87,the fleet still wore the distinctive blue cheatline and the A320 was also shown in this livery in modelform back then. When Revell released their first A320 kit,it included this scheme and the model was an A320-100 without the winglets.Lufthansa received their first A320 in 1990,this being a -200 with winglets and the then newly adopted livery. I still had the LH decals from the first release and they were still in good condition. I found the A320 looked rather good in this scheme so I decided to build it in that way as it was depicted back then.Some details were added from the 2009 boxing wich had a superb decal set with lots of details. The Condor "Berlin" Airbus is the Revell boxing of 2000 Details come from the kit decals as well as from one of the A319 sets I had in my spares. Windows are again from AA. The Airbus A319 was the British Airways issue,but these decals I already had in mind for my Eastern Express A318,so I wanted someting exotic for this one. V1 decals offer this nice set of the German wings founded Gambia Bird,and being fond of Africa,it was an easy decision to do this airline. Sadly Gambia Bird no longer exists. The A321 was one of the first releases by Revell,back then with Swissair decals. When I travelled to the Philippines in 2018,my flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Manila and from Manila to Hongkong was on one of Philippine Airlines A321s. Both were very pleasant flights and also my first ones with this type. Philippine Airlines A321s are all fitted with the new "Sharklets",so my model should have these too. I didnt want to buy them on the aftermarket,so when I went through my stash, I came across the Zvezda Boeing 737-800 kit,wich offers different winglet types. The Split Scimitar Winglets are almost the exact shape of the sharklets used by Airbus,just some light sanding was nessecary and the parts fit perfect. As mentioned,the decals are the A320 Philippine Airlines set from 26,I just had to create the registration and handpaint the logo on the sharklets Windows are again from AA. Enjoy the pics Cheers My young lady who is with me since october 2019...

A brand new airliner kit from Zvezda. The russian company releases some really nice airliner models and is also pretty fast with new types. The MC-21 is still in flight tests and Zvezda already released a supperb kit this year in the markings of the first prototype. It is about the same size as the A321 and is build with the latest technology. The model is highly detailed,and all parts fit perfect.It also features a cockpit wich can be clearly seen through the big windows. I did not use a bit of filler anywhere. The only flaws I found were in the paint guide and on the otherwise excellent decal sheet. Zvezda gives color numbers either for their own range of paints or that of Tamyia. Unfortunately they state the wrong number for the blue part.I checked the number they provided with the Tamyia paints and instead of blue,they ask the modeler to use a greyish blue,wich is completely off.I found that Revells blue 52 is a perfect match for it.Its the same color as the MC-21 letters on the fuselage. The decal set provides the red stripes that run arond the fuseage.But somehow they are designed in the wrong shape. I decided to paint that red stripe as well. The rest of the decals fits perfectly and altogether it is a wonderful model that almost builds up by itself. Now I hope some aftermarket decals with the first operators of the type will appear soon,so I can get me some more examples of this nice kit. Cheers

Starting this tiny Tornado IDS, Revell 1/144. As other recent Revell kits in this scale, this one is beautiful, with enough parts to assemble a very decent cockpit, wheel wells and landing gear, fine negative scribing, moving elevators, swinging wings (although choosing that option, means not using any underwing ordnance...). Two marking options, I don´t really like the Tigermeet scheme, but I´ll assemble that same Tornado (43+46) in the Norm 87D scheme used when transferred from the Marinenflieger to the Luftwaffe (no Tiger stripes this time). I started with the cockpit, folllowing instructions. I used Light Gull Gray for interior color (real ones were Dark Gull gray, but compensating for scale effect). Decals for the instrument panels and consoles are really nice, some retouches here and there, corrected the ejection seats headrest, seat belts added, and the cockpit nice, This time, lot of the cockpit will be seen after the canopy gets installed. I thought necessary adding some detail to the jet exhausts. Notice that as provided in the kit (right exhaust), they are shallow and devoid of detail. I bored them open (left exhaust) And added some detail to make them more intersting. And started masking wings and elevators, will paint these before starting assembling, easier. Marco

The very first Kliment Voroshilov tank, tested in the winter war of 1939-40 on one of my usual mini vignette bases.

I present my recently completed 1/144 scale Roden C-47, in the markings of the aircraft used by 335 squadron RNAF to transport the King of Norway, during the early 1960's. The model was built as part of the Nordic GB, but missed the deadline due to some last minute issues with the decals, which were rectified very promptly by Vingtor.. The full WIP can be seen here Having built several DC-3's in this scale before (both minicraft), I think the Roden offering has the edge, in terms of looks and accuracy. Wheel wells were fully detailed internally using scrap card and rod, aerials and under fuselage radar bumps were scratch built. Paints used included Alclad Hi-shine plus Aluminium, Alclad White, MRP Luminous Orange, black and yellow. The dark blue trim on both engines and the fuselage cheatline were airbrushed using Revell Lufthansa Blue enamel. Decals are from Vingtor sheet 144-124. Although this sheet does give the cheatline, on my initial set, I experienced some cracking due to me having one of a small number of a bad batch. Vingtor were able to help me subsequently, but by that time I had already reverted to airbrushing the cheatline. I'm very pleased with the way the cheatline has come out however! And finally, here she is with her older stablemates: Thanks to all those who followed the GB, and special thanks to @trickyrich, @Col. and @Vingtor for their support and help! Comments and questions welcome Thanks for looking. Terry

Finally finished this which has been on and off the shelf for around a year. Cheers, Sam

We must fight on, whatever happens. I should count it a privilege to be dead if Hitler rules England. I had not thought I should have to live through such awful days... From the diary of Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office How grim things must have seemed then. It is sobering to imagine the uncertainty of the times, even with our own present troubles. Civilization was on the brink, and it is frightful to think where we would be now as a people, as a species, if things had gone the other way. I'm always interested to read the accounts from people which were written at that time, unfiltered by years or a lifetime of hindsight. One aircraft that for me embodies that period of dark uncertainty and impending peril was the benign little Miles Magister, hastily modified to carry a clutch of anti-personnel bombs beneath its wings. When the invasion came, these fragile, under-powered trainers would be sent out as part of a last desperate all-or-nothing defense of Britain. I had the ex-Frog Novo Magister as a kid, and I loved that little bird. I must have painted it in a dozen different liveries in its time. The last being an overall coat of Humbrol 11 "Silver Fox". Traces of which remained on the armrest of my mother's favourite armchair for more than a decade after... I've long hoped to do another Magister, but these days I'm deeply embedded in the cult of 1/144. Apart from an unobtainable resin from Japan, there aren't any of the little buggers to be had. If I really wanted a Magister (and I did) the only hope was to do one from scratch. So here goes... The first bit was the keel. I found a bit of evergreen styrene and cut a strip representing the bottom of the fuselage and bent it to a curve that matched the drawings. Not very exciting, but its the most important bit. I made sure the taper at the back was okay then added two sidewalls of .35mm styrene. A "roof" of 2mm sheet was also cut and some undersized openings for the cockpits were drilled out. I tried to get this piece as seamless a fit as I could, but there's nothing to locate it to yet so I'll need to flush it in properly later. The upper fuselage decking got rounded off with a file and I laminated some scrap styrene for the cowling. The long bit sticking out the front is a temporary handle that will get cut off later. Making the part from laminations rather than a solid piece is easier, as you can use the seams as a guide to ensure you don't start filing the piece out of alignment. Then it was time to bur out the inside of the decking. Brrr! Once the piece is thinned down you can shape the edges of the cockpit much more easily. The next evening I added a dummy tail and taped the bits together for a captain cook. The cowling was beginning to take shape by this time too. With that part in hand it was on to the wings. I started off with a parallel strip of 3mm styrene and cut it to the width of the centre section. This got double sided taped to a block that was held in a vice. Then I went at it two-handed with a big coarse file that was about 30cm long. I rounded the leading edge first. Then worked over the back. Flipping the piece over and sticking the wing down again with a fresh bit of tape makes it easy to shape the wing evenly. It took about 40 minutes to get the basic shape. The wing(s) are marked with some scalpel lines and two deep score marks underneath where I'll bend them to create the dihedral. Then the excess is sliced off. Then it was back on the block with some tape to shape the outer wing panels. Once this is done the styrene is easily tidied up by wet sanding. A piece of the centre section was cut away to accommodate the fuselage, but I left a bridge running between the two wings to preserve their alignment. A corresponding notch was cut out of the lower fuselage. Somebody once said I was a frustrated carpenter. They may have been right! The fit isn't going to set the world on fire, but its okay. Adding more soon!

Zvezda 737-800 straight from the box but with 26 Ryan Air decals. Flew on this to Lanzarote in 2019 - remember when we could do things like that? Steve

Part two of my little gunship builds, and I'm doing the Hercules AC-130A ,the minicraft kit, its a simple construction, I've dry built it and there's nothing to report in the way of fit horror stories, even the wings will plug in after painting to make this far less stressfull while painting , theres a short shot on the underside of the port wing that'll need sorting first off , and you get a stand in the box too, so choosing the scheme, i was going to do "azrael angel of death", but the full wrap around sea scheme (surprise package) has seduced me ,I'm even tempted to do the early roman nose version of the prototype, also wrap around , it did see service apparently Short shot Schemes I like this one And this Next to its stable mate, dry built The wings do fit better than the photo suggests ,and although not shown, the clear section looks to fit quite well too Cheers all I'm off to do some glueing

Hello Everyone; For those of you already follow construction stages on my Instagram account, as of today, I finally finished 1/144 Revell Boeing 767-300 Asiana. Construction adventure took more than 20 weeks but happy with the result. Some scratch built details added like anti collision s, engine vortex generators. For the paints, Xtracolor X309 Asiana buff (which is by far the worst paint ever used in terms of pigmentation) used for upper section. Lower section of the fuselage painted with Mr. Color C316 white, wings and horizontal stabilizers painted with MRP Boeing Grey, coroguard panels painted with Alclad dark aluminium. Model clear coted 4 layers of GX112. Decals from Liveries Unlimited are excellent considering they are 25 years old! Thank you for looking. Any comments and feedback are greatly appreciated. Greetings from Frankfurt Prost!

I like this tiny 1/144 kits as I take them as a stress-reduction therapy between bigger projects. I wanted to give it a try to a couple Luftwaffe jets, the first one being this, the F-104G from Revell. The kit offers two options for markings, I will build the 26+53 from WTB61 (Technical Test Facility 61) at Manching, 1991. The kit provides a decent cockpit, main wheel well, workable front wheel well, nice landing gear, and jet engine exhaust, scribing is really nice. Only thing I would have expected is an option for open canopy, only closed option is available. Fuselage is split in left/front and front/rear halves. The ejection seat has enough resemblance to the real one, just adding couple seatbelts and it will be good under the closed canopy. The fitting between front-rear fuselage gave me issues, not that it was a big gap, but where it was located. Tamiya gray putty and patient sanding solved the issue. I don´t like fitting the main landing gear at this stage, but there is no other option. Detail inside the front wheel well is completely lacking, I had to issue a "floor" for the front half of the wheel well (the rear will not be visible under the landing gear structure). The kit provides a decal for the instrument panel, looks nice for the scale. Not much will be noticeable at the end anyway. The cockpit had a crack where it joined the sprue, cleaned and sanded as much as I could, will try to hide some more when I paint the cockpit frame. Can´t imagine what is the purpose for that neat gap below the tails of the fuel tanks. All the 4 of them have the same issue. Filled them with putty. And here I am, about to start painting this tiny Starfighter. Marco

With the RUFE done and humming with its motor driven propeller its time for the next time. I had a chance to drive to the storage and pick a couple of kits. The A-90 was not on my list but did catch my eyes when looking for something that can be built quick but also can be complicated/AMS'd to a diorama. I don't have any water/gel materials - this will have to wait till they lift the lock-down and the financial situation will be a bit more clear (no shopping as of now) - so it will be a kit only venture at this stage.