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  1. This B5N2 Kate is part of a 3 model kit that Hasegawa released a few years ago. The other two planes are an A6M2 Zero and an D3A1 Val. The 3 planes all took part in the initial attack on Pearl Harbor, and were launched off Imperial Japanese Carriers. To stay with the theme; I decided to build a 1:48 replica of the IJN carrier Hiryu. I chose to build a 1/4th section of the carrier as it should be ample room (24”x36”) to get some photographs of all 3 planes together once they're all finished. This was the first time I utilized photoshops function to replace the background in favor of some real images and really enjoy how the photos turned out. I also just started using a 105mm macro lens. Overall, I am satisfied with the kit and am excited to start the next two planes.
  2. Hi all As part of my FAA builds thread, I have been working on this one on and off for a while, it is the Tamiya 48th Spitfire Mk.Vb converted to a Seafire III using the lovely MDC conversion. This one fought me a bit as there were various parts missing so I had to raid my Spitfire spares box. I realise theairintake is incorrect but it is all I had and decided to go with it. I have corrected the kit elevators to the later type and drooped them. I have just added some Eduard seatbelts. The model was brush painted using Humbrol Enamels and weathered with an oil paint wash some dot filtering on the engine panels with warmer colours and cooler colours on the wing leading edge panels. Quite pleased with it and relieved its done too.i have just started another one using the Specisl Hobby kit. Anyway enough twoddle from me here are some pics I hope you enjoyed. Thanks to those who have followed along and offered support and encouragement along the way, always appreciated. Thanks for looking in Chris
  3. So here I find myself in the Aircraft section with the Airfix 1/48 Me 109 E-3 I don't do wingy things as a rule, and my last aircraft was a 25 year old Airfix Hurricane in 1/24. So here goes .... only 2 sprues! Looking at them, I can't beleieve the size of some of the tabs between parts and sprue. There's a fair bit of flash and ejector pin marks in inconvenient places such as the wheel wells .... 😏 Usual box and sprue shot .... I made a start and soon had the cockpit built ..... Wings cleaned up and dry fitted to check and a coat of grey .... And the same for the cockpit interior.... I'm not intending to do anything fancy with this build ... OOB and hopefully finished in a reasonble time. Comments welcome! Keith 😁
  4. Hi all I have been enjoying this absolutely wonderful kit from Special Hobby, they have really excelled themselves with this one, it was a joy to put together apart from a moment when the glazing came apart on me, but that was more likely my fault🙄 The kit is very well engineered and is very detailed, I only added Throttle levers inside and the springs either side of the tailwheel, but that was all that was needed ontop of the kit parts. The model is of an sircraft allocated to the 196th Field Artillery Battalion one of 4 aircraft that landed near the Victory Arch in recently liberated Paris. The crew stayed in Paris for a few days with the aircraft parked in front of the Marinelli Hotel in Avenue de laGrande Armee. The scheme called for overprinted ID stripes and Special Hobby have done a great job with the decals to represent this. the Stripes that remain are neat but the photo I have seen of this aircraftcat the side of the road in Paris shows they are very neat. The model was brushpainted using Humbrol enamels and I really enjoyed fading the surfaces and representing the overpainted Stripes anyway enough waffle from me, if you like a Piper Cub , I certainly recommend this kit. Thanks to those who have followed the build and offered support and encouragement, it is very much appreciated. Thanks for looking in Chris
  5. What's better than a Sabre? A Sea Sabre of course! Except that the Sea Sabre was known as the Fury. Esci issued this kit in 1979. It was one of their earliest 1/48 kits. It was re-released by Italeri forty-two years later. As you can see, it's a nice simple kit befitting its late-70s origins. Lovely! But there is a major problem with this kit. It was adapted from the Esci F-86 kit and as such you cannot actually build an FJ-3 from this kit. You cannot even build an FJ-2! The tail fin is pure F-86. On the FJ-2/3 it was moved forward. The panel for the cannons is incorrect as the cannon ports need to be further forwards and angled downwards. The intake is suitabe for an FJ-2, which had the same General Electric J47 engine as the F-86. The FJ-3 had a Wright J65 engine which required a much deeper nose and intake, similar to that of the F-86H. This is not included in the kit, so it will need some surgery. Wikipedia has a nice history of the type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_FJ-2/-3_Fury @Jon Kunac-Tabinor built this kit seven years ago which turned out to be a tour de force. As imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I will be using his build as reference for mine. As mine is the Italeri repop I'm hoping that I won't have the same problems with the plastic as Jon had. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234981173-north-american-fj-3-fury-148th-esci-with-added-elbow-grease/ I will be building it in a different colour scheme: that of a drone chaser. Oh... and I might fold the wings...
  6. Hi folk's built for the KUTA GB this is one of a few Hobbyboss 1/48 easykits I have for quick build and paint practice.Brush painted in Vellejo matalics only using the airbrush to post shade it's been a joy to discover these paints after all these modelling year's this is the second kit brushed with them next one will be moving into the Jet age with Monograms venerable F-86 Sabre.Thanks for looking in. Here's the first effort using HB's 1/48 P-47.
  7. My first entry is Italeri’s 1/48 Hawk. Will be completed as an aircraft of the Fleet Requirements and Aircraft Direction Unit in the ‘Fly Navy’ 100 Years of Naval Aviation scheme. I have found some good info on FRADU Hawks on the following website. https://fradu.info/hawk/
  8. G'day All This was a thoroughly enjoyable build, the fit for the most part being excellent, although the fuselage centreline seam was quite stubborn to get rid of, followed by all the replacement of the lost detail, which would have needed doing regardless, the rivets tending too fade out towards the centreline. The only weaknesses of the model were the silly engineering that has you install the landing gear early on, and the exaggerated fabric effect on the ailerons, which I corrected by spraying several coats of primer, before sanding. Markings aside from the nose art were sprayed on through masks . The nose art came from ASK RAAF Mitchell's Part 2. For my money, the HKM Mitchell renders the old Monogram kit obsolete. I cant wait for them to released the solid nose versions in 48 scale. Eduard wheels and karaya metal gun barrels were used on the build. It represents a machine of 2 SQN Royal Australian Air Force 1944 Regards Bruce
  9. My second entry is another FRADU aircraft, the Hawker Hunter GA.11. I will be using Airfix’s recently released 1/48 Hunter FGA.9/FR.10/GA.11 boxing. Again will be using the following website for reference purposes. https://www.fradu.info/hunter/
  10. G'day All, Here are my latest completions. A pair of 1/48 Tamiya Mosquitoes. They are both based on the B.IV kit, with varying mods. They've been sitting on my "shelf of doom" for about 15 years or so until I was inspired to get them done for our local club's theme build for this year of "Twins". The PR.XVI was awarded third place in the member's choice comp too. The PR.XVI has resin engines and a vac-form canopy from Paragon (they've been on the go for so long that the engines were designed to fit the Airfix kit, because Paragon hadn't made any for the Tamiya kit when I started them! ) and the B.IV Series II has a bulged bomb-bay, also by Paragon. But it was originally just a solid piece of resin, depicting the doors closed, meant to be fitted to the underside of the fuselage. It has been hollowed out and built up to show them open. The main markings on the PR.XVI are all masked and sprayed, which is the first time I've tried this, and I'm pretty happy with the results. The markings on the B.IV are a combination of kit decals and Fantasy Printshop codes and serials. The normal Tamiya canopy has lines on the inside to allow you to represent the internal framing by painting them. But the vac-form version for the PR-XVI didn't, so I decided to do it by actually builting the framework under the canopy (I don't think I'll do that again 🤪 ) They're not perfect, but at least they *are* finished! 😁 Thanks for looking. Cheers, Motty.
  11. I'm building the Hobby Boss 1/48 LCM3 for a GB on another forum. I naively thought it would be a mostly OOB build when I started. But, I soon found myself pondering some of the parts, and that's when OOB left the building. As such, I thought this would be interesting to show, here, too. Here are the bits from the box As you can see, I added Eduard's PE for this kit. At first, this all looked OK. Since I would be building this for Overlord, I knew the Sherman wasn't a possibility, but I figured that a Jeep would be a fine accompaniment for the completed kit. The first steps are the hull. Turns out the very first pause came with the skeg and rudder The leading edge at the rudder hinge works out to about 4.3 inches thick! Also the rudder won't support any side loads, which I assumed would have been a strong consideration for a beaching boat... My Google-foo soon found an image with the needed detail. Turns out this enlargement showed an LCM aboard an M25, a.k.a., Dragon Wagon. Hm, if only Tamiya would release one of those in 1/48. But, I digress. Here's what I did to fix the kit. And the shot similar to my enlargement above That looks much better. Around this time, I found my subject vessel. Woohoo! A source of truth...and more questions... Details on LCMs are scant indeed. My best source of info have been videos on YouTube, which showed the next issue. I noticed that when the ramp dropped, there was some activity in that channel at the bow in the photo above. That guide is a C channel with the equalizing sheave shuttling from the aft end of the guide when the ramp is raised--as seen above--to the forward end of the guide when the ramp is lowered. HB was apparently clueless about that, as they just supplied a U channel for the part, with no other connection to the boat beside it being welded to the frames. As for ramp operations, HB guessed there were ramp winches port and starboard, and the cables ran from winch, along the deck to a sheave at the bow, and then up to a sheave at the top of the bow to padeyes on the ramp. Watching more videos and reading the contemporaneous Skill in the Surf: A Landing Boat Manual, led to a better understanding of the mechanism. There's a single ramp winch driven by the port engine, hauling on a cable connected to the eye on equalizing sheave. There's a single ramp cable (wire rope) running from a padeye on the port side of the ramp, over a sheave at the bow, down to a sheave leading into the equalizing sheave guide, around the equalizing sheave, forward to a 2nd sheave at the forward end of the sheave guide, around that sheave and aft above the deck to a sheave that transferred the ramp cable to the starboard side, around a sheave and forward above the deck to a pair of sheaves (bottom and then top) to the other padeye on the starboard side of the ramp. As the name suggests, this arrangement ensures that the tension on both sides of the ramp are equal, ensuring it moves freely. The green line in the image below runs from equalizing sheave to top of the ramp winch cover. The red line shows that port-side ramp cable. The yellow line shows what I believe is the ramp release cable mentioned in Skill in the Surf. I first made up a C channel from 2 strips of Evergreen C channel and strip material. Now that I had the equalizing sheave channel, I needed an equalizing sheave. This is a guess--the only part visible is the uppermost rectangular bar, which is what first caught my attention. With an equalizing sheave guide and equalizing sheave in hand, I turned my attention to the ramp sheaves. Here's HB's interpretation. I needed something more like this More searching led me to making these bits. The sheaves are disks cut from 0.01 in sheet punched using Waldron #6 and #4 punches. The rest of the bits are also 0.01 sheet. I used those bits to make these two assemblies. I first thought the winch cover was thinner than HB's part, so I thinned down the port winch cover. Turns out I was incorrect, and HB got the width about right. But the cable entered the winch cover at the top, not the bottom. I was able to refashion the unneeded starboard winch cover into a better shape. HB's winch drum looked more like a sheave. Also shown is the revised winch drum, which I corrected using my smallest square needle file, along with the mounting plate/box for the drum, which I thinned down considerably. Skill in the Surf indicated the LCM carried two 12 foot boat hooks. HB just had some unidentified hooks in the cargo hold. Eduard provided PE replacements for the hooks; they also indicated that plain 1mm rod, 95mm and 60mm long, were to be placed in the hooks. I made up two boat hooks from 0.04 rod, 3 inches long. I tapered the ends and mounted a hook fashioned from 0.026 brass wire into a hole drilled into the tapered end. I'm now working on the 50 cal mounts, shown in the enlargement below. I first noticed that the 50 cal Brownings are not mounted. Harrumph, and I just spent a couple of evenings tarting up the HB Brownings with the Eduard PE and Master barrels. Here's a before and after shot of the HB plastic. The remaining HB plastic, folded Eduard PE, and the marvelous Master barrels. And the assembled 50 cals Both HB and Eduard provide an armor plate shaped differently than shown in the photo above. This will be easy enough to fix. The hard bit, where I'm now stuck, is the elevation mechanism. My Google-foo has been unable to find anything like it.
  12. Good afternoon all, Just managed to finally finish this beast. Its my second build, but only my first to get past the paint stage (my Hawk T1 build ended up being my test bed for various things). It's been a rather enjoyable build and a steep learning curve to say the least. The aim was to depict the first Typhoon I ever worked on many moons ago, so it's a personal build to me. To me the kit isn't to bad (Revell 1/48 Blackjack version), those that followed the build thread will have seen my stugggles with the decals, but we got there in the end thanks to a few kind souls. The build isn't 100% accurate, but I had to find a balance between spending a fortune on after market items and trying to make do with what I already had. Whilst adding the last few bits such as the 4 ADT probes under the nose, I dropped one and it fell into the black hole of the floor. After an hour on my hands and knees searching for it, I gave up. So only 3 ADTs. Overall I'm really pleased with the results, it's not the best that you'll ever see I'm sure, but it's good enough for me. Stand made by: https://www.sulacosteel.co.uk/ The build thread: 1/48 Revell RAF Typhoon FGR4 https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235129152-148-revell-raf-typhoon-fgr4/ received_1008318610222954~2 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr received_1269516293737944 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr received_257505146857865 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr received_2751235418349375~2 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr received_907392760943004~2 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr received_318912894208302~2 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr Thanks for looking. Cheers
  13. In my eyes, the WZ-10 belongs in the top ten of Science Fiction looking hardware. This is the new Trumpeter 1/48 kit; the quality is overall excellent with an abundance of surface details and good fit. What started as straightforward OOB build got a bit bogged down when I stumbled upon a thread on SinoDefenceForum with an abundance of high resolution photos from every angle. In the end, I added only tiny details: Brake lines for the front legs, support struts for the wire cutters and the antenna along the spine. The rest of the detail work was all about painting & decal placement (the instructions are somewhat vague here). Some details were added in the cockpit, including pilots carved from Hasegawa Navy drivers. The main rotor head is slightly inaccurate, but once treated with painted details and a wash looks convincing enough. I think it is a french desing, so there might actually be aftermarket parts for it. The mechanism of the tail rotor is a simple disc, and I cut it into kind of an X-shape to bring it closer to the real thing. Paints are custom mixed Tamiya acrylics over a black base coat and Vallejo Metal Color. Thanks for watching & all the inspiration.
  14. Here the 2nd of 3 oldies I hope to finish for this GB. Otakis P-40E Warhawk in British North African livery. Another simple kit(I hope)I may not need to add many extras to fill this kit out, but we shall see. I do know I'll have to raid my decals spares once more to get it where I hope to finally end with . Even came with a little tube of glue, that's hard as a rock. I am going to add the sharks teeth to the nose.
  15. Hi this is the italeri 1/48 ju 87 d kit cross kitted with the airfix ju 87 b (the fuselage horizontal tail and tail supports and flaps and eirolons )the italeri cowling was shorted by 5mm and reprofiled In the markings of ju 87 g-2 of 10.(pz) /stg2, +KH stammkennzeichen SO+FN was retained spanning the entire lower wing. on the 8 of May was surrended at Eschwege Germany Aires radiators, 3.7 cm gun pods, cockpit Masters 3.7 cm gunbarrels, mg 81 z gunbarrels Quickboost , prop, exhausts Truedetals wheels Extracolour paints Thank you for looking
  16. Hello everybody, I've got another one here - not a special duty version, not a nightfighter, but a poor old daytime turret fighter. The idea of a turret fighter without forward-firing armament has proven it's worth (in a way), so I won't lose too many words about that. Our crew is about to get ready for takeoff. For the first time, I've tried my hand at riveting those wide, faceless, barren panels, and I rather like the outcome. For my first try, at least. My self-made panel wash was not such a hoorah... Yes, I tried my gunner to have the rhino suit... Both of those fellows are from ICMs '48 pilots & ground crews with Airfix heads. I cannot be too sure of the front of that suit... too bad the one famous pic of an airman wearing it has him turned away from the camera. He's got his flying helmet somewhere inside the cockpit. No need to check. 😉 Just a little piece of Hornchurch grass cut out - and the kite happened to be standing on it. (maybe would have been better: the real L7021 was shot down by a 109 on August 28th 1940) Talking about 109's: one pic is the enemy's favourite angle on a Defiant, and one the least favourite. Which one was which changed real quickly. This one shows more of the rivetting and my next shot at exhaust stains. I'd never expected the decal to work this good. (For me, this is good.) And here's the gunner's office. A final parting shot from the other side. I really liked this kit, but it was one of those where every 10th of a millimetre counts... so scrape the paint off the surfaces to glue, or something won't fit at all - sooner or later. Have fun with another bit of the BoB, Johnny Tip
  17. Hi this is the italeri 1/48 ju 87 d kit cross kitted with the airfix ju 87 b (the fuselage horizontal tail and tail supports and flaps and eirolons )the italeri cowling was shorted by 5mm and reprofiled In the markings of ju 87 g-2 of 10.(pz) /stg2, +KH on the 8 of May was surrended at Eschwege Germany Aires radiators, 3.7 cm gun pods, cockpit Masters 3.7 cm gunbarrels, mg 81 z gunbarrels Quickboost , prop, exhausts Truedetals wheels Extracolour paints Thank you for looking
  18. So the canopy that comes with the 1/48 is missing the central strut after some research it seems that the only mig-23 variant that has the canopy missing the central strut is the 23S which is an extremely early version, seems like trumpeter includes the correct canopy for all of their other 1/48 mig-23s but I couldn't find any of the other variants on sale without having to import from overseas. With only having the 23M as an option is there any (simple) way I could fix it so that it's the correct shape? Considered using 0.3mm styrene sheets or the left over material from photoetch. Did also try to see if I could find any aftermarkets that could fix the canopy but alas no results popped up.
  19. Or, The Bf109 Over Iberia Hi All, inspired by many of our BM friends and prompted by an increasing interest in aviation in the Iberian Peninsula, I though it was time to embark on a themed build. And what better subject than the Messerschmitt Bf109? Receiving its baptism of fire in 1936 over Spain during the civil war, the Bf109 and its Hispano-built offspring formed the mainstay of the Spanish fighter and fighter-bomber fleet until the arrival of American-built jet aircraft in the mid-1950s. However, the Buchón remained in service with the Ejército del Aire in ever-decreasing numbers until its final operational flight in October 1962. My plan is to build a representative collection of Bf109s and HA-1112s: I may or may not ultimately build all the variants. At the moment the only "definites" are the Bf109B-2, the Bf109E-1, the BF109F-4, the HA C4J Tripala and the HA C4K Buchón. I won't be including the Escuadrilla Azul aircraft. This is likely to be a long-drawn-out affair that I dip into occasionally. As such I'll be building only one of these at a time (I've already got too many builds in progress as it is!) and in no particular order. My intention is to edit this first post with links to the introductory post of each build as it begins so its easier to "jump" to a specific build. That's always assuming anyone's interested enough to want to, of course So, without further ado, I would like to introduce my first victim: Messerschmitt Bf109B J/88, Spain Thanks for looking in! Cheers, Mark
  20. Hi, On my shelf for a while now is trumpeters UH-34. I am not a helicopter expert, but I believe this is the same as an S-58. I gather you should be able to build this as an S-58 as used by the Netherlands Navy. At the time I tried to get the “DutchDecals” sheet, but it had sold out. Did find a set from a company previously unknown to me by the name of Heli Scale. I also ordered a rotor folding set from Scale warships Ltd. designed for use on the Italeri kit. It is actually for the Wessex and I am not sure if they share the same rotor head as on the S-58. However, hopefully I can make it work. The trumpeter kit does allow to fold the tail rotor at first glance, so I hope to display it as shown in the National Military Museum in Soesterberg, The Netherlands. Also plenty of reference material on the IPMS NL website: https://ipms.nl/artikelen/nedmil-luchtvaart/vliegtuigen-s/vliegtuigen-s-sikorsky-s58 That’s all, thanks for watching. Rgds, Rob
  21. Kit: AMT/ERTL Curtiss P-40N - 8798, released in 1995 Paints: Alclad - ALC 102 Duraluminum, ALC 121 Burnt Iron Gunze - H76 Burnt Iron Model Master - 4721 Insignia Yellow, 4757 Aircraft Interior Black, 4852 Green Zinc Chromate, 17178 Chrome Silver Polly Scale - 505080 US Olive Drab A/N613, 505096 US Interior Green A/N611, 505260 British Middlestone Tamiya - LP-2 White, LP-7 Red, XF-3 Flat Yellow, XF-7 Flat Red, XF-26 Deep Green, XF-69 NATO Black, Fine Grey Primer (spray can) Vallejo - 71.062 Aluminium Johnson’s Future Aftermarket: FCM 4801 decals Master AM48137 - Curtiss P-40E-N Detail Set Ultracast 48071 - P-40N Covered Wheels, Diamond Tread Ultracast 48153 - Curtiss P-40E-N Flared Exhausts Vector VDS-48075 - P-40E/N Corrected Prop & Spinner Scratch built: Rudder trim wheel Modified reflector gunsight This one is from the 1st Squadron, 14th Aviation Group of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) based in Canoas, state of Rio Grande do Sul. That’s the land of Gaúchos, from the cowboys which inhabit the region as well as Uruguay and Argentina, and of Brazilian barbecue. Gaúchos interject “tchê” in their speech, hence the title. The squadron’s mascot, Zé Loro, is saying: “Já te atendo tchê!” (I’ll take care of you tchê!). Regarding the mascot, the squadron had adopted Disney’s Joe Carioca (Zé Carioca, in Portuguese) when it was the 3rd Fighter Group. Then, in the early ‘50s the squadron started viewing Zé Carioca as a slacker and wanted a new image, more warrior-like, so they morphed Zé Carioca into a Zé Gaúcho, reclining on a bomb with 0.50 machine gun on his lap, sipping mate tea like a good Gaúcho. The trials and tribulations of building this kit are chronicled here: In short, if you want to build a nice P-40 model D or higher in 1/48, try Hasegawa or Mauve/Eduard. Stay clear of AMT/ERTL, AMTech, and Italeri (as the moulds changed hands). On to the pictures. IMG_4098 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4099 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4100 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4101 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4102 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4103 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4104 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4105 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4106 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr IMG_4107 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr And with its shelf mate, a T-33A bought at the same time. By coincidence it's from the same squadron; the blue band with the southern cross had me at first sight. The neighbours above are two T-6s, also from the Brazilian Air Force. IMG_4108 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr Cheers, Wlad
  22. Airfix 1/48 Hawker Hunter F4 Belgian AF It’s my first 1/48 scale aircraft and first Hunter - built as a tribute to a late club member who loved the type. It’s been a fun build. eduard etch cockpit detail and some Aerocraft resin bits.
  23. This kit was an impulse buy. You see, there used to be a store owner here in Calgary who went by the name of Uncle Rick. Evil man, he was. Any time I went to his store, I ended up coming home with way more than I went there to get 😁. Back in 2002, I went there looking for a bubble top P-47D which, to my surprise, he did not have. I came home with this P-40N, a T-33, and a few other things I really wasn’t after. Upon opening the rather large box, I realized I got a curate’s egg of a kit. Looks rotten, yet parts of it are excellent. The mold was misaligned during manufacture, resulting in every single part having flash on it. I started this kit twice, and got tired of: remove from sprue, sand or scrape the flash off, correct as needed, rinse and repeat. I considered giving it away, yet something about it kept calling me back whenever I had extra paint in the airbrush cup I didn’t want to waste. It sat in the stash until now, when I decided it’s time to put it out of its (or my) misery. This build is a test to see how good I can make this kit look. I know the decals I have in mind will let it down at the end, yet let’s see what I learn in the process. Here's a general view of some parts of the kit. Notice some parts are painted already at the “beginning” of this build. Also the plentiful flash present, with the larger pieces laid out for scale. The panel lines are fine though, hence the curate’s egg mention before. IMG_3714 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr The worst impact of the mold misalignment. I thought about cutting the tail with a razor saw and then gluing it at the appropriate place. Then I also thought all this work could introduce more misalignment, so it’s going to stay this way. I’ll blend in the misalignment by sanding. IMG_3715 by Wlad Franco-Valias, on Flickr More to come soon. Cheers, Wlad
  24. On 30 August 1955 (nearly 66 years ago), an Auster J4 Archer at Bankstown Airport (Sydney, Australia) had engine trouble on landing and rolled to a stop. The (solo) pilot hopped out to swing the propeller but failed to set the brake and the throttle was a little too advanced... The Auster duly took off (empty) and spent some hours circling Sydney with interceptions from scrambled RAAF Wirraway and RAAF Meteor failing - and eventually shot down by a RAN Sea Fury (piloted by RN pilots mumble mumble). The recent Airfix 1/48 Sea Fury (Export Edition) features the incident on the box art. tells the story in the instruction sheet and includes the markings for the successful combatant! However the featured Auster has not been kitted in 1/48 and conversion from other Auster models are rather extensive. So let's scratchbuild one? If you've been following the WIP build you'll have already watched the progress. Anyway - it's now considered done (by my standards!) And the underside - before completion (obviously) And a bit of fun with a hapless chap (the ex-pilot). Suspect I'll get around to painting him - but figure painting is new to me. Maybe post this photo again when I've learned the trade! . Oh, I do have the Airfix Sea Fury kit as well - although not sure what scheme I should choose for that? Not?
  25. I've always wanted to do a model of the first Typhoon that I ever worked on, so thought i'd make a start. The aircraft in question is ZK345 from around the 2016 time frame. My biggest issue I think I will have is finding the exact decals (anyone got any advice for them then I am all ears...lol) The kit I am using is the Revell 'Blackjack' 1/48 kit. The intention is to have x4 Paveway IV's (from ResKit), x1 LDP (from Eduard). x2 Asraam (included in the kit) and x4 Amraam (included in the kit) to represent the early Op Shader loadouts. The pilot came from PJ productions if I recall correctly. It's early days but I have been enjoying it greatly so far. Any advice on this kit would be welcome for sure. Shaky hands of late have made things tricky when aiming for the finer details, but I'm happy so far. The subject (photo taken by Burmarrad (Mark) Camenzuli) ZK345 LMML 27-01-2016 (1) by copyright of Burmarrad (Mark) Camenzuli Thank you, on Flickr The models progress: image_3 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image_1 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image_4 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image_5 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image_6 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image_8 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr image_9 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr 20230814_183905 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr Thanks for looking
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