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I just hand carried home a 1/32 Tamiya Mosquito from Japan. It’s a steal at 15000 yen tax free price. I had resisted the purchase from past 2 trips but decided to get it before it gets difficult to find one. I would like to ask the mossie experts here what are the mosquito books good for modeling? Is there a kit out there to convert this Tamiya plane to one with the window at the nose?

Hi All No way I can find space for the full kit, so this'll have to do. Its WnW heritage is obvious, with quality and detail at least matching Tamiya's Mosquito. Shame that there is no way of displaying the interior though as the double-skinned fuselage means a clear section (as per HKM's otherwise vastly inferior version) isn't feasible. Photos will have to do instead. Only problems I encountered were that the instructions are a little vague in places as to the the locations of some minor fittings, and the decals are the thinnest I've ever come across - while usually a good thing, it meant that the larger ones were prone to curl and stretch, hence the wavy lines of bombs on the mission tally; and I completely destroyed the one of the "Phantom of the Ruhr" text which meant I had to hand paint it instead. The duplicated flight deck in the foreground is my own resin cast of the Border one with a heavily modified/scratch built seat, which I'm going to use to try to bring the HKM version a little closer to representing the actual thing: Thanks for looking, J.A.

So I think I've settled on the idea of an abandoned scrapyard, heavily inspired by this video: Incidentally, this channel has some cracking barn find videos if you've been thinking about going down that direction. Picking a kit wasn't easy, but I'm going with this: Recently liberated from my parents' house, I started it way back in the 90s: The plan will be a little vignette of it rotting away (MGs are prone to that, right?) being consumed by weeds, hopefully with a figure of a YouTuber/urban explorer documenting some new content. The undergrowth will be new territory for me, so I've got this for some pointers: The other problem will be resisting the urge to add more cars to the scene. Don't tell Mr Magnificent, but I've got the Airfix Aston DB5 too and I've found an Ebay seller that makes 3D prints of 1/32 body shells of (mostly) terrible British cars - Allegro, Princess, Minor etc The soundtrack to this build will be: Famously released as an album, a film and a lawsuit. Let's rot!

Talk softly and carry a big gun. Here's my latest completion, the Revell (ex-Dragon) Bf110C, with the AIMS conversion set used to modify it into the C-6 version with the 30mm MK.101 cannon and marked as one of the aircraft used by Erprobungsgruppe 210 in the summer of 1940. To the base kit and conversion were added the Quickboost exhausts, Red Fox Studios 3D instruments and radio gear fronts,the HGW seatbelts and interior/exterior mask set and LF models mask for the camouflage pattern. Revell re-jigged the Dragon instruction sheet which made it easier to follow but included quite a few errors, omissions and just-plain-headscratching assembly choices; I did my best with it and deviated where I thought it prudent and I pretty much got away with it I think. I found building the kit to be absorbing, at times a bit frustrating, but overall I enjoyed it to the extent that I have started on a second one, and now have a third in the stash (the Hobby 2000 Bf110D). Mistakes were made. Some of my work was down to its usual shonky standard and the camouflage pattern on the port side is just wrong, I made the mistake of thinking it would be possible to fit the wings right at the end and only realised then that I had obviously misplaced some of the camouflage masks. Still, in the end I got it finished and that's a long-awaited one off my 1/32 bucket list. Paints were Colourcoats ACLW12 - RLM Grau (RLM 02) for the interiors, ACLW03 - Hellblau (RLM 65) for the undersides and the top surface camo was ACLW02 – Schwarzgrun and ACLW11 - Dunkelgrun (RLM71). The blue on the prop spinners was a mix of Citadel acrylic blues mixed as close as I could to the blue on the aircraft code letter. Oh yes, one more for scale: Cheers, Stew

Full title: Eduard Bf109e-7/Trop Oblt. Ludwig Franzisket, Stab I./JG 27, Ain-el-Gazala airfield, Libya, June 1941 I won't have a huge amount of time for this - because I'm also in the Leopard STGB So this will be the Eduard 109e-7/Trop in 1/32 with minimal aftermarket (boo, boo, yeah I hear you…) The minimal being the Eduard 32219 Photoetch, I'm also aiming to add additional piping and wiring in the engine compartment, which will be exposed This will obviously be a desert-weathered plane - I have no experience of doing this, but from real-life experience sand gets absolutely everywhere! So too it will on the model I've never done a mottle before, I'm aiming to cut pairs of masks, one in 0.5mm thick card, and the other in paper, the paper being the size of the blotches, the card with larger holes, so when I spray the green it's nicely soft at the edges Apart from that I've actually built two Eduard 109e's at 1/48 before, so not expecting too many surprises in the build itself (I may live to regret that statement) I'm aiming to spray the balkenkreuzen, but unlike the Ju 88, I won't be cutting masks by hand, I'll be aiming to cut with a Silhouette Cameo 4 onto Oramask 810, and no, I've no experience of this either, so will be a learning curve Everything else will be decals, the Eduard decals go down pretty well with my go to solution, Humbrol Decalfix. Humbrol would have you dip the decals in Decalfix from the start, but I have found that by the time the decals start to slide they are too soft and tend to roll and wrap themselves up - I don't want that, so I'm going to use water, and as soon as they slide dip them in Decalfix for 60 seconds before applying Off we go then, here's the box and photoetch: Contents with proof of no false start: Off to the wash: And here's the scheme I'll be doing Off to prepare the masks whilst that washes….

Hi @trickyrich Can I join the party this late? Using it as a tool to get my mojo back I'd like to resurrect this 1/32 Tamiya Spit that I have previously started (hopefully you regard it as less that 25% done) If so I would like to represent 'LOD' S/Lt Pierre Clostermann's mount in it's invasion striped guise. A great chance to do some tricky paint / weathering. See the LOD ref's below (together LOC in the same squadron). and here's the AM for your perusal. (theres also a resin door thats been given a base coat (in the first photo in this thread) I think the HGW belts look unusually rubbish: the print dots are so large they are almost unusable as they stand. (will have to paint them 🤷‍♂️)

Well, the scale fits so here we go. This is a fairly recent release. I figured how hard could it be? One main sprue, two small duplicate ones for the rims, a small PE fret, and four tyres...

My build for this GB will be the 1/32 Special Hobby Tempest II. This is the Hi-Tech boxing with lots of resin and other goodies. There are lots of things to show in the box, so I will do it in stages.

My (part) set, bought second hand, many damaged, based on: The ARMED FORCES Of WORLD WAR II ISBN 0-85613-296-9 - Illustration 263 Private, British Commandos, 1942. Light raiding order, as worn on the Boulogne raid. A woollen cap comforter, battledress, 1937 pattern web equipment, inflatable lifebelt, toggle rope for scaling cliffs, and instead of ‘ammunition’ boots wears plimsolls. US M1928 A1 ‘Thompson’ sub-machine gun.

Here's my place-holder. While I could afford the full kit (though my wallet would be whimpering in a corner), I certainly would have no room for it! But just the tip..? Sure.😁 And there's some time to in order to get some PE and other bits. Thom https://imgur.com/a/Q9jkOIo

Hi folk's I started out with the intention of three kits for this GB sadly the Mustang was a fail so as a replacement I raided the stash for this kit picked up for £15 at the Northern show (thank you Phil from one of the Scottish club stands).I then raided Luke's spare decals for this scheme. I've built this kit before as a Russian machine. It now sits in a Museum after many years on the airshow circuit so the all black finish combined with the lack of weathering should lead to a quicker build but we'll crack on with the Huey for now.

A.M.U.R. Reaver released a new resin set to improve 1/32 aircraft such as F-15, F-16, F-111, A-10, CH-53, Swiss Hawker Hunter F.Mk.58. Set will contain four standard dispensers and four with double-sized cells.

Well She's finally finished. Sorry to disappoint anyone who was hoping to see a lovely bikini clad young lady, but after some thought (well hardly any if I'm honest 😀) I decided to leave her out of the finished item. However I've enjoyed making the buggy so much that I've actually bought another two, so she may as yet make it to the RFI section. It really is a fantastic little kit and its hard to believe it dates back to the 1970's Heres the link to the WIP. And heres the glamour shots I've just noticed the hugh gap under the windscreen (which you can't see in reality), oh well no one's going to complain about a draught in a beach buggy are they? 😁 Thanks for looking - Andy

Here is my 1/32 Spitfire IXe of the Royal Danish Air Force. I used the Revell IXc kit and converted it to an IXe. I used Eduard zoom PE for the cockpit and added after market door and wheels. The decals is from Stoppel Decals, which unfortunately is out of production. I think I could have gone a little more heavy on the weathering. Enjoy the pics. /T

With work on the Honda City coming to a halt whilst I wait for some fresh primer to arrive I decided to yet again break my own rule and have more than one build the go. I must confess when I ordered this kit from Airfix I didn't have very high expectations considering the age of the kit. let's just say I've been pleasantly surprised, however there's always room for improvement. As ever I will be adopting a very scatter gun approach to the build. As with pretty much every automotive kit the exhaust tips were not hollow. They're only about 2mm in diameter, so rather than drill then out, yet again I'm going to replace them with brass tube which I've shaped with a file whilst turning it in a battery drill. The trick in making two the same is to start at the far end of the tapper, ie the narrowest point with the file and then cut the end off to give you the correct length. Whilst looking on the Internet at beach buggys I came across a picture of James May's which had some rather nice domed hub caps. This was hardly key to the build, but I thought I'd have a go at making some. It turns out all you need is a circle template, a wood glue container, some aluminium foil from a food tray and a hole punch! Simply place the foil over the 4mm hole on the template and then use the end of the wood glue lid to make a dome, then simply punch it out. My last improvement for now is the cover over the rear pulleys. On the kit this is just a solid lump, where in reality the shroud often has an open mesh. After some measuring I made a jig using some MDF and two drill bits. This allowed me to form some wire to the correct shape. Once I cut the excess off, I simply solder the the two ends together to give a sold ring. Next step was to rub if on a sheet of abrasive to make it flat. Then superglue it to some photoetched mesh and then glue a further ring on the back. Thats all for now, but thanks for looking - Andy

I had the Herman Goering boxing of the Wingnut Wings Fokker DVIIF which comes in a rather boring and difficult (for me) all over white. So imagine my delight when I was at Telford to see that Aviattic had a set of decals depicting an aircraft from the Ukrainian Galician Army in September 1919 with all profits going to charities to help refugees from the Ukrainian war. In addition I used Gaspatch machine guns as I lost some of the original parts and EZ Line for the rigging. Anyhow, on with the pics. Slava Ukraini!

Hi Everyone Again, Thought i'd also post my Revell 1/32 He-111 H6 - Built a couple of years ago Excellent model design by Revell. Shame these are hard to find now. Only a few fit issues but excellent to build. Maybe HKM may do one. Revell's BF-110 is also a great kit. Got that on the bench to finish soon. I'm doing a C-7 Night Fighter variant One downside of a 1/32 He-111 though...... They're huge!

Hi All, Have not posted on this thread for a long time now, going to attempt the Imgur BCC links to see if this works before posting the rest. Here goes 3 pics: Phil

Hi folks I was regularly put off starting this whenever I opened the box due to the number of sprues and its apparent complexity, but once I started it I wished I hadn't waited. Typical Tamiya perfection, and still the benchmark others can only hope to match. I've done this as a 333(N) Sqn of the Banff Strike Wing, c. January 1945 using a mix of decals from Vingtor, Barracuda and a couple of Tamiya's own. The bombs and drop tanks are fixed with magnets to be interchangeable. A departure for me is to include a couple of WIP pictures - the cockpit is completely OOB and I thought deserved to be photo'd prior to being locked away: The obligatory 'everything uncovered' image. The magnetized cowlings fit well but don't really stay on securely enough, so they probably won't be taken off again: Thanks for looking J.A.

Hi all, Yes, starting another build...(shouldn't you be finishing those other GB subjects ) This time the recently released ICM HueyCobra in 1/32 scale, which is not the usual for this kind of subject...most modern helicopter releases are in 1/35. @Julien already did a very nice in-box review of this kit here so I'm not going to repeat his efforts: All I'll say is, very nice kit and a major upgrade of the fifty-year old Revell kit which was all we've had in this scale up to now. Very nice options, loads of armament, and both types of tail enable pretty much any AH-1G model to be built from the kit. I'll also be adding the Quinta cockpit decoration set, my first experience of these much-vaunted accessories. Looks very good so far. Includes instrument panels, crew harnesses and other cockpit accessories. Hope it lives up to the hype! I'll be building this alongside the MRC/Academy Whiskey Cobra for the GB, by way of a comparison of the development of this excellent and innovative airframe. All the best, Alan

Hi all. I just finished the 1/32 Academy Luftwaffe F-4F (Vietnam War F-4E boxing) with some aftermarket parts. The biggest job was trying to make a decent cockpit. I used the kit tub, from which I raised the floors, Several parts from the Legend cockpit set; ejectio seats, wall panels and some pe parts, Red Fox Studios 3d printed instrument panels and a bunch of details made from plastic strips and rod. Other aftermarket parts used are a corrected nose and exhausts from QMT, wheels from a Tamiya kit and Sidewinder missiles from Reskit. Overall, I think this kit is quite decent, especially with the upgraded parts included in this release. Finding correct decals proved to be a bit of a problem, that was until a friend of mine offered a spare set from an older Revell kit. After the cockpit was done and the panel lines and rivets were fixed on the outer wing panels, most of the build was pretty much straight forward. All RAL colours were mixed from several MrHobby paints, using a RAL fan deck to make them as close as I could. Weathering was done with oilpaint washes and AK pencils. Thanks for watching, René

G'day All, Here's my recently finished 1/32 Revell Hawker Hunter done up in Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) colours. It's mostly out of the box with scratch-built Singapore-specific antennas and inboard pylons added. Paints are Gunze lacquers (camo), SMS (metallics) and Gia varnishes. The Singapore-specific decals are a combination of laser-printed examples from SozoPlamo, in Singapore and an Aeromaster sheet. The airframe depicted was the last Hunter delivered to Singapore and was on display at a local museum here in Australia for a few years in these colours. More recently it was moved to another museum a couple of hours away and has been repainted in RAF colours with its original RAF serial (XF460). I hope to be able to donate this kit to the museum where the airframe now is, to represent its Singaporean service. Happy to pass on other info and pics if anyone is interested. Cheers, Motty.

Well I had some luck at the model show and picked up the Trumpeter Bf-109K-4 in 1/32 for this GB. Never really been much of a fan of second world war German aircraft but I've been playing a lot of War Thunder and the late Bf109s and Fw-190s are growing on me so looking forward to building this. Ordered the Red Fox studio 3D cockpit decals and a decal sheet by Aims with a few late Bf-109 schemes. The plan is to build this as Ernst-Dieter Bernhard's K-4. Be starting this soon, going to be quite an airbrush intensive paintjob which should be a nice challenge. I'm off work for two weeks so hoping to make nice progress with my builds for the GB. Thanks for looking in!

Sevastopol, 1942 It was morning over the Crimean peninsula when Aleksey woke from his rest, not from a call to fly as was usual but rather by the movement of a vehicle outside his barracks. He rose and clothed himself in haste, not expecting the Regiment Commander to arrive unannounced. He burst open the door only to find not his superior, but an Army Commissar followed by a number of cameramen. Slightly startled by the exit, the political officer introduced himself as the NKVD Propaganda Manager for the region, and that he would like to include a segment on Aleksey's unit in the next film, requesting permission from the deputy commander. Aleksey agreed to this, and while there were no combat missions being flown that day, a segment was filmed with himself and the commissar explaining the details of his own Il-2. Nearing the end of the film, Aleksey looked into the camera and smiled; the camera clicked as the cameraman extracted the tape from it. The NKVD commissar thanked Aleksey and his unit for the opportunity and left in their truck, putting the film together back at their headquarters, only to find that the segment filmed earlier that day could not fit - much of it had to be cut away, leaving snippets of Aleksey walking around the aircraft, pointing out certain features... And ending on his smiling face. Right, with that little (possibly fictional) backstory over, here is the sum effort of three and a half months of work: My Hobbyboss 1/32 Il-2 (1942) done in the colours of aircraft no.30 of PShAP 18, Sevastopol, U.S.S.R as shown by this reconstructed three-view from Sovietwarplanes pages by Massimo Tessitori: https://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/il-2/il2-camo/il2-1942/il-2model1942.htm This is the aircraft that is shown in the background of the film that Aleksey Antonovich Gubriy, Hero of the Soviet Union, appears in sometime during 1942. I happened upon the scheme whilst browsing the website (https://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/index.html) for information regarding Soviet Camouflage, and this stuck out to me as 1. It had an interesting backstory, which I have *ahem* amplified, and 2. It sat right in between being too generic and far, FAR too difficult for me to handle. The kit itself, while nicely detailed, has a rather jarring accuracy flaw in that it depicts the aircraft as being all-metal, something that can only be applied to the earliest production aircraft, the vast majority having a wooden rear fuselage and most sporting wooden wings, such as the example shown above. Take away this discrepancy, and the kit is wonderful; excellent fit, vast payload options and an engine more detailed than some in 1/24 scale. This was in some ways a testbed for me, as this is the first model I have used AK products on, their WWII Soviet Aircraft paint-set and their 'masking putty'. The paint was good, bar a few bottles that had gotten damaged and had coagulated a bit, and the putty worked well, though misunderstanding the limit of it's coverage meant that the paint did build up near the edges. This model also suffers from a continuous issue I have had with Tamiya Flat Clear, where it gains a 'frosty' appearance upon being applied. I made my best effort at polishing it down to an acceptable level, however I am still at a loss on how to cure the issue. Apart from that, the focal point of the model was the opportunity to use clear pieces for the cowling to display the engine, and while it took extra effort to mask and to fit, I am more than pleased with the result. Now, with the unnecessarily long foreword out of the way, enjoy the images of the finished product! As a final word of note, I apologise to all those who were following or were interested in the in-progress thread I had for the build of this kit - during the early part of this year I found myself suddenly over-encumbered with work and unable to take and prepare photographs for posting, and the events of Cyclone Gabrielle did little to ease that. In fact, I completed this kit back in March, but the ensuing chaos has meant I have only found time now to post it here. Sincerely, Hurricaneflyer

Alright, first of all, I will need to have a small rant: this Aircraft's nickname is a nightmare. I sent a solid hour or two looking for a proper 'official' spelling for use in the title, only to find that the closest there is (as it is used by the Videogame) is Sturmovik, which doesn't make sense considering the original Russian pronunciation, where 'ш' is pronounced as a "Sh" sound, but even more baffling is 'Stormovik' as there is no 'o' sound anywhere NEAR the first letters, and even though the theoretically correct 'Shturmovik' does indeed get used, it is primarily in more vintage works, where the more recently-printed copies of the same book have changed the spelling to that of the first variety! Due to this, I may as well use the original Cyrillic штурмовик, for at the very least it is undeniably accurate and true to the original with minimal fuss! …Okay, pet peeve rant over. I should probably now get to the subject itself: Hobbyboss's single-seat wheel-equipped Il-2. This is undeniably a great kit, as quite a few much more knowledgeable modelers have made clear, although that does not rectify a rather prominent issue: It cannot fit on my workbench! The solution, as obvious as it is, was to build everything separately, stashing the rest of the sprue back in the box where they would not bother me, and so I started with... The engine. Yes, I know that it is common courtesy to build the Cockpit first (at least so I think), however as I am studying resources and walkarounds to get the area as accurate as I can get in terms of colours, I elected to build the Mikulin AM-38 powerplant first, seeing as it should be relatively simple, right...? Well, the construction could be worse, however seeing as there are 4 different paints needed for the engine I had to assemble parts that shared certain colours and leave others on the sprue before priming them, a spit in the face to my traditional practice of smothering the engine in Tamiya Gunmetal and calling it complete! Here the parts were given their first coat of paint, chrome silver (the only shade I have at the moment) on the smaller pieces and a strange mixture of 'Dark Grey' and 'Neutral Grey' on the larger ones. Yes, I know I am supposed to use 'Dark Ghost Compass Grey' (which does not really match up with photographs of real AM-38s in any case), however seeing as I did not have the appropirate shade I just mixed' and matched'. It came out alright, but it was at this point I ran out of lacquer thinner (needed for one of the paints) and daylight, which meant I had to pause the painting, at least for now. And that is all the work I have for today. Don't worry about the relative lack of progress, as I will make an attempt to expand the build everyday, majorly if possible. I have tried to resize the photographs to be more compact (thank you very much @stevehnz) but if it has failed horribly please let me know. As an addition to this, if there is anything I could do to improve build or my methods I would be more than happy to see any tips or such, as this my first attempt at this sort of activity. In any case, that is all for now. Sincerely, Hurricaneflyer