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  1. Another of Bristol's twin engined beauties to add to the collection. Picked this one up soon after it was released, and it did not befall the fate of many of my purchases and end up in the ever growing stash/loft insulation. I attempted to reduce the size of the engine cowling by running a strip of 20 thou card round the inner edge and blending in. Typically, soon after, resin replacements were available, but that's a few quid saved. I did add the Eduard "space" set to the cockpit to improve the detail a bit. Lots can be seen through the very clear transparencies. Having said that, the details added to the radio compartment are completely invisible, so may be I should have saved these for some other use. Paints were my usual go to Humbrol 29 for the earth and Coulourcoats dark green and sky. The green was sprayed on freehand (well following a pencil line I had drawn on) to get the camouflage pattern. Decals were from the box. A very enjoyable build. Tim
  2. I have a project that's nearing completion, at least it will be once I get my mojo back. It started out as an ICM OV-10A Bronco in 1/48 scale, and I've done some conversion work using scratch building, 3D printing and vacuform. Here is the model as of tonight: (note: if you don't see the image it's because your browser is blocking it. It works on Firefox.) The build was coming along nicely until I hit some bumps in the road. The first bump is that the propeller blades are set at the wrong angle - they should be in flat pitch (blade angle = 0). No manufacturer of OV-10 kits has ever got this right, so it's hard to fault ICM for this. If I squint I can pretend they're at flat pitch. The other road block was the decals. I really should sand them off and re-do them, but I don't have enough mojo left for that. From a distance they look fair. The most arduous part was building the kit without the sponsons. This required sanding and filling the recesses for the sponsons, then scribing over them. 3D printed parts are: jet engine pod, ILS antennas, 230 gallon external tank, main landing gear, winch operator's seat, and a mold for vacuforming a clear cargo bay door. To do: install winch operator's station, finish and install cargo door, finish decals -- Dave
  3. I finished this one a month or so ago but only got around to the glamour pics today. The ICM kit isn't the best Spitfire Mk.VIII kit by a long shot, but I still quite like it and it builds up well enough once its idiosyncrasies are known and managed. Here's the WIP. TL;DR Built mostly out of the box but some angst over the markings and paint scheme, plus scratch built the bomb carriers and a photo which is possibly/probably of the subject aircraft taking off on what would turn out to be its last sortie. Lt. Norman Cullen was killed in this aircraft on 10 July 1945. He was last seen pulling out from his bombing run on enemy targets in the vicinity of Tawao, Northern Borneo, it's assumed he was hit by ground fire. This was the final offensive sortie RAAF 452 Squadron undertook in the war. Cheers.
  4. After the 1/32nd kits (link), ICM is reported working on 1/35th Bell AH-1G Cobra kits. Source: AlexGRD V.P.
  5. Good evening folks, today I want to present my latest finished kit. It's the fantastic ICM x Revell 1:48th scale kit of the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 RBT Foxbat-B reconnaissance plane. I'll keep this one short - I had an absolute blast during the build. At the first glance it looks rather complicated although the box doesn't contain that many parts but as ICM has a few different MiG-25's on offer, the modular construction of the fuselage makes sense but as mentioned it looks strange at first because it isn't the usual top and bottom half. But the whole thing goes together nicely and because the kit is cleverly engineered, the construction leads to fewer seams and edges which need cleaning and sanding. The only thing that was a bit problematic was the gear. At least on my kit it was a bit wobbly and only became stable after the Loctite super glue dried. Also on a lot of photos the MiG-25 RBT seems to be slanted a bit to the back, which isn't the case here, the main gear struts would need to be shortened for that. The rest is absolutely fine in my opinion. That said - I'm not counting rivets Apart from adding a lot and I really mean a lot of weight into the nose and some blackout curtains onto the canopy made from wax paper, the build was strictly OOB, painted with mostly Tamiya and Vallejo paints and weathered with AMMO panel line washes, oil paints and micro chipping done with other Vallejo paints. It was also the first time I used chipping fluid. In the end everything was sealed with semi gloss Tamiya varnish as usual. P.S. this thing is large! Hope you like it Till next time!
  6. Hi everyone! Today I want to present you my new build of a new model from ICM. This kit went on sale about a month ago and I decided to make it immediately. Model is very nice , especially considering it`s price, although it have some drawbacks ofcourse. Realy weak point are decals, it was difficult to give them a decent look. As usial - some parts in cockpit and engine were added and modified, rivets are made, and some exterior parts are added too. Machine guns - Vector resin parts. Some photos of build proces are incuded. The kit is painted as a plane from 3/Aufklärungsgruppe Ob.d.L, Ukraine, August 1941.
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