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  1. I first built this one back when I could buy Matchbox kits from my local newsagent, and did so every time I'd saved up the 50p or so I remember them costing back then. I had another go some years later towards what must have been the end of Matchbox's original existence. So here we are for round 3. The current incarnation is courtesy of Revell, so one of their end opening boxes. There are two sprues, both the same colour (boo!!) and both with some unexpected flash (very boo!!!) Instructions are the period Revell cheap as chips paper booklet instead of the rather nicer Matchbox fold out originals but the rubber band tracks and decals are still familiar. I always loved that interlock to fasten the tracks together. No messing around with heated screwdrivers like with contemporary Airfix offerings. And finally for now - my last build of this kit. Think this must be my oldest surviving model. I have no idea how, but it has gone through 8 house moves and is still in one piece. A testament to the power of tube glue, if not my painting skills. This what I haveto beat. I'd love to do the grey scheme for a change, but that would mean not using the base and figures. Hmmmm... Andy
  2. While we've been isolating far from the madding crowd, I've had some time to do a bit of scratch building on this one. The basic old Matchbox kit needed it too, whilst it appears a decent shape there wasn't the option for an RAF Wessex in the kit. I added a few bits to the cockpit and some rescue equipment in the cabin, as well as the various aerials, the spotlight on the wincg and an under fuselage cable and hook combo. I chose XS675 as I had no spare 1/72 letter Rs or Ts, so it seemed as good as any! I hope you like it. As always, all comments welcome. I'm thinking of doing either the Sycamore or early Whirlwind next, possibly.
  3. I was asked by my good lady why all my models are dark grey and green or "boring grey". Do I have any nice bright coloured ones to make? So, I found these two old kits lurking in the loft, along with a Sea King and an S&M Models Sycamore, so thought I'd give them a go. They don't come much brighter than bright yellow! I'll start with the Wessex, for which I'd treated myself to a set of aftermarket decals. Luckily there should be enough 'Rescue' markings for the Whirlwind as well. I'll be making the helicopter in 22 Sqn markings, circa mid-1980s. I'd love one in 1/48 too if I can ever find a cheap one on ebay. All silly prices for the Italeri Wessex 'UH5'. Anyway, back onto the little HAR2, which is what this will be. Strangely, there are no serial numbers included in the decal set, so I'll have to raid the spares bags. I splashed out on some paint too! Hopefully enough for all four choppers. Must be a Chinese import Matchbox kit! Luckily the missus is a fluent Mandarin speaker ...
  4. I bought this titchy little kit very cheaply from eBay, I think the postage was more than the kit. It was a good thing it was cheap because when I opened the box and examined the sprues my first reaction was Uurghh and my second reaction was not safe for this forum. I did a bit of research and it showed that this kit was first released by Revell in 1964 and reboxed in 1994 under the Matchbox branding and the age shows. It might have been state of the art in 1964 but it was a bit grim for 1994 and unacceptable for 2020. I decided I quite fancied a quick little challenge and if it was unbuildable then I hadnt lost much. I wanted to build this OOB even though the wheels and undercarriage really should have hit the bin straight off. The fit of the parts was terrible nothing had a straight part to part joint and the wing lower section was warped having a dihedral a Vought Corsair would have been proud of. Perhaps the worst were the three sections of the engine cowling which needed a fair bit of filing to get straight and lots of tiny pieces of sprue and plastikard to make fit. The best fitting parts were the fuselage aft of the cockpit which went together fine and the horizontal tail planes fitted with only a smudge of filler to fill the joints. I had to scratchbuild from Plastikard a wheel well floor and sides as the kit had nothing internally other than a seat and a one piece pilot. The panel detail was very crude with rivets about the scale size of a Melon and panels as thick as a plank but most of it was turned into plastic dust when filing to fit so I didnt get too bothered with it. I didnt have any Grey Blue paint for the undersides so mixed up some Tamiya Blue, White and Grey, it didnt go too well coming out a lot bluer when dry than I expected the photos do make it worse than it actually is but its still more a cornflower blue than the grey with a blue tint I was looking for. Topsides were painted with Vallejo 71.406 Light Slate Grey which I think matches the Soviet Grey/Green very well. The pilot was painted with Citadel paint. Weathering which I am useless at was Flory grime wash with a touch of gloss varnish to high light the stains. The transfers were very old fashioned and looked like they were printed on Fablon. They were very tough didnt want to settle on the surface and seemed to shrug off the first 5 or 6 coats of Humbrol Decalfix. Before going to bed I absolutely drenched them with Decalfix and in the morning they seemed to have setled down. I thought at one point I was going to have to attack them with something stronger than Decalfix like Acetone or neat Acetic Acid. The kit had two alternative slogans for the side of the fuselage and I decided one of each wish I knew what they said. The wing machine gun barrels were replaced with Albion Alloys aluminium tube, I meant to do the same with the engine mounted guns but didnt dare attack the plastic because I was worried about the rather fragile cowling cracking. The Aldis sight is a piece of brass tube I found in my bits box and if the tiny pilot ever tried to use it in combat he would be shooting way off line. The pitot tube is a brass pin. Despite my initial worries it has turned out okay for a quick and dirty build. P1000899 by Stuart, on Flickr P1000898 by Stuart, on Flickr P1000895 by Stuart, on Flickr P1000894 by Stuart, on Flickr P1000892 by Stuart, on Flickr P1000885 by Stuart, on Flickr P1000901 by Stuart, on Flickr
  5. Hi Guys Two new sets now available, the brass undercarriage set is the first set I have done in 1/72 scale, I do have plans for one or two others in the future. There is only a limited quantity of the brass set at the moment as these were delivered yesterday, and the brass casters have closed like most companies. Resin casting is not effected as much as long as we have materials available. see the following links https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/dhc-6-twin-otter https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/dhc-6-twin-otter-alternative-wheels Stay safe and enjoy your modelling, Ali
  6. Hope you're all well. One of the great things about our hobby is that it is the perfect past time when you're forced to stay indoors. I even manage to get some kits finished that were long overdue. Here's my Xtrakit (Matchbox) A.W. Meteor NF.11 in the markings of the Belgian Air Force, as it appeared in 1956. I also used the Airwaves set for the interior, although in hindsight I might have left it out. Decals are from Kits at War, from their long OOP Belgian Air Force sheet. Hope you like it. Peter
  7. My entry for FB and F II is this 1;72 Matchbox Fairey Seafox, I want to push on with my FROG GB builds before making a start on this kit, but it shouldn't be too long a wait. Here are the box and its contents photos. by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr by John L, on Flickr
  8. These three guys have moved between the workbench, the shelf of doom and back again for many, many years. I recently decided that I'd get them back to the bench and make an effort to get them finished. One each from Airfix, Academy and Matchbox. I'd decided years ago to finish the three of them using an Almark decal set for three Battle of Britain aircraft, each displaying variations in finish. The Airfix kit is not the current kit but one from a few years ago with the trademark rivets. If I'd started this more recently I would have taken down the rivets but as these were started years ago I'm just going to press on. Here are the first few photos.
  9. Having failed to complete a Felixstowe for the Floatplane GB I decided on a little break from it and tackled a Siskin instead. These Matchbox kits go together really well and is completed pretty muck OOB. Rigging is stretched sprue, I usually use fishing line but sprue has worked out easier in this case as little of the rigging goes through the bottom wing and is therefore difficult to tension.Extra points for anyone who can spot the howling mistake!
  10. Most modellers will have one or two kits lying around that never made it to completion. The majority of those kits languish on shelves or in boxes, unloved and forgotten. However, a select few end up in a worse state: They become experimental subjects, exposed to all sorts of toxic substances and chemicals. Enter my Matchbox Tempest II. This kit started life happily enough on the shelf of a toy store in the early 90s and was picked up for a few quid by my dad and early-teens me. She was destined for, lord knows what really. We only built planes that had seen service with the Dutch forces at that time. It was probably the similarities to the Seafury that did it, because a few years later I set out to turn it into exactly that. A valiant effort was made, unassisted at the time of course by internet references and just a few Seafury photographs in a book. It was quite a modification I recall: I moved the oil cooler from the starboard to the port wing, set out to add a propeller blade, changed the shape of the gear doors... The kit made it to the painting stage, and that is where it stalled. It sat on a shelf in its Dark Sea Gray / Sky livery for years. I went to college, started working and for about ten years didn't do much in the way of model building. In 2009 I picked up the hobby again and I completed many of the old kits that had been left in various stages of completion. However, a few years older and wiser and with the help of the internet I realized that my Tempest-to-Seafury conversion had been somewhat misguided. I'd missed some obvious differences which are hard to correct, like the mid-wing section and resulting changes in the gear well positions, elevated cockpit as well as a few other things. Rather than dump the kit, it ended up as an airbrush test model and over the next ten years it accumulated layer after layer of paint. Still, the Tempest II remained an attractive plane to me and I found myself looking forward to actually building one, so I set out to buy another kit. However, like some other Matchbox kits, this one actually commands a rather hefty price tag. I didn't want to spend 15-20 pounds on it so I started considering renovating it. I'd never tried paint stripping with oven cleaner before but it went very well and within a day or so my poor Tempestfury was clean. Only after doing the cleaning did I realize I had done quite a lot of work on the tail as well, Changing it back into a proper Tempest II would prove to be more work than my original conversion to a Seafury. I'd also lost most of the parts apart from the main airframe, so they would have to be sourced elsewhere. Not wanting to spend the money on another Matchbox kit, I got the cheapest Tempest 72nd scale I could get my hands on in Telford last November. The kit would serve as donor for the prop, landing gear, doors, wheels and canopy. I got hold of the ancient Revell tooling, but this turned out to be a bit of a mistake. The prop and spinner are a single molding and after removing the flash it does look rather anemic. The main gear and doors are single piece moldings as well but look ok once the ejector towers (I didn't know they could squeeze two in on such a small part!) were removed from them. The canopy only looks vaguely Tempest-like and is a lousy fit on the Matchbox kit, but hey, I wasn't building a show winner here and with some plastic card and putty I faired it in. I used the rudder from the Revell kit (despite it being short shot, needing more card) as the original had so much material removed to make it more Seafury-like. More plastic card was employed to restore the tail fillet and move the oil cooler back to the port wing. The gun ports were filled, redrilled and Albion Alloy tubing inserted to clean them up a bit. The only completely unusable parts from the Revell kit were the main wheels. They have a sort of non-descript hub cap, rather than the spoked hub design of the original. There are resin aftermarket wheels for the Tempest but I stole a set from an Academy Typhoon. At some point I will have to fork out the dough for a new set. Or maybe use the Revell wheels on the Typhoon I couldn't find the decals anymore but then I didn't look too hard for them; the original kit only offered Indian marking for the Mk II which I wasn't interested in building and they'd in poor shape anyway, so I invested in an Xtradecal sheet with Tempests and selected the most colorful option, MW800/HF-V from No.54 Squadron, flown by Squadron Leader Frank Jensen during the Victory Day Flypast on June 8th 1946. So there she is, almost 20 years in the making: Matchbox's Tempest Mk II. Not the quickest, neatest or most efficient build I have ever done, but I feel really good when I look at her and see her all cleaned up and finally reaching her intended purpose.
  11. Afternoon all, Here is a build from a few months back. Knowing the importance of recycling, particularly of hens teeth old Matchbox kits, I had a lot of fun dismantling and renovating this HS 125. I thought this was a funky scheme, and I liked the idea of 1970s JCB execs flying off to Schipol in the morning, selling a few diggers, and celebrating with G&Ts on the flight home... This started with a £3 ebay purchase and arrived covered in lashings of Humbrol with no discernable undercarriage, looking something like this: I've yet to master the art of the perfect finish following heavy duty sandpapering, but I learnt a lot along the way, and it did help tone down those Matchbox trenches. Apologies to the ebay seller if I desecrated a family heirloom! All best, Harry
  12. Build completed as part of the Film, Fictional and Speculative GB: Here we have the old Matchbox Skyraider built as an aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm during the Suez crisis. I rescribed the whole thing and brush painted it with Xtracrylix. Decals used were the Berna Decals set for a Westland Wyvern. Markings are from an aircraft of 827 NAS based aboard HMS Eagle. Please see WIP for more back story and build details: Cheers, Ash
  13. Another one from the Matchbox group build. A few years back there was a thread with a pretty convincing argument that several Heyfords were used for trainers in WW2 and at least one was painted in trainer colours, with yellow undersides. Well, here it is, best as I can make it. Matchbox PK-605 1/72nd Handley-Page Heyford, acrylics by Tamiya, rigging by ez-line, plenty of putty by Tamiya and Perfect Plastic Putty.
  14. Stalled when my mojo was defeated by this kit. My dad, if not the kit deserves better, so off the shelf it comes; though I make no promises
  15. Sea Harriers FRS.1 - Falklands War period - May to July 1982 Back in the 1980s we had only the Matchbox Sea Harrier kit to work with, and both these builds used that kit as a basis as they were finished sometime in the mid Eighties. I well remember the 1982 Yeovilton Air Day where many Sea Harriers were on display, both those just returned from the South Atlantic and those being prepared for the next deployment down south aboard HMS Illustrious. I based my upgrades of these kits on those superb drawings by the late Mike Keep which appeared in Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine, as well as my own photos. Mike was relentlessly in search of accuracy, and I know that he drafted these drawings in front of a real Sea Harrier at Yeovilton. My chosen subjects were XZ457 coded 14 as part of the HMS Hermes Air Group, and ZA193 coded 254 of the reformed 809 NAS. XZ457 was finished in the overall Extra Dark Sea Grey scheme and scored three kills during the conflict, these being marked under the port cockpit as two Skyhawks and one Mirage. It is modelled in the static configuration with upper auxiliary intakes open, undercarriage doors open and tailplane in the 'at rest' state. ZA193 was finished in the Medium Sea Grey / Barley Grey scheme and joined HMS Illustrious for its post-conflict mid 1982 deployment to the Falklands area. The model is finished in the taxi-ing configuration with pilot in the cockpit, all the auxiliary intakes open, undercarriage doors closed and tailplane in the neutral position. It also has the larger drop tanks fitted at this time, which were made from cut down and reshaped Airfix Hunter tanks: Both models were fairly heavily modified, including filling in the famous Matchbox trenchlines, new crash-moulded canopies, opened intake doors, airbrakes extended, antennas and lights added, stores added from other kits, replacement pitot tubes, and probably some other things that I can't remember after all these years. They both survived a few house moves and storage in the attic for years and years and it was good to see them again recently for a photo session:
  16. I've managed to find a Matchbox Lightning T55 Lightning, and want to build/paint it up as a RAF T5, I know that I've got to find a pair of straight wings, but is there anything else? And is there a step by step conversion I can follow?
  17. Hi all, So this one started life as my build for an online 'Matchbox GB' elsewhere. My plan was to build an Irish Air Corps machine, mid- 1990s. But then I came across a picture of one them before they were (controversially) retired in late 2005. So I thought I'd give that a go instead. Not really "scratchbuilt" in the true modelling-sense of the word but bodged together from different plastic spares, sprue, plasticard, wire, etc. The build WIP is here if you're interested. Close up of up top.. I thought I would give it a go and enter her in the Helicopter class at the IPMS Ireland Nationals last weekend - and was gobsmacked to win a Bronze in Class and Best Irish Aviation subject. More than a bit shocked as the standard of builds was unbelievable again this year. Thanks for looking and enjoy your modelling. Cheers, Dermot
  18. So this build was more emotional than trying to make a great model. I even remember a little squabble with my older brother over this kit as kids. Back in the early 80s this was the second kit I ever built. Revisiting this kit now I just wanted to do a decent job of building it again the way the younger me could not. I tried my best to stay true to a straight OOB build including the decals. The underside of the fuselage however is just too bare and I added bits and bobs from the spares box - mainly leftovers from Airfix and Italeri SHAR builds. Enjoy and comments are always welcome Paints are all Tamiya. I also took a picture of it next to my last Airfix SHAR build to compare experimenting with Tamiya field blue for this build vs gunship grey used on the Airfix. I added the Aden gun pods (Airfix) from the spares box as the underside was too bare and the strakes made it look more so. And one with the Airfix Thank you for looking
  19. Whetting you whistles with this Matchbox Lightning. . . . that I'm planning to corrupt. Here are the parts. Leftover decals from my recent Revell build. I won't be using the kit decals This kit was from a colleague, he's just lost his father, for whom I had built some model Meteors, Harvards, and a Defiant. This kit and a Revell Lightning were in his effects. I'm thinking of you John.
  20. This is my recently completed Fairey Seafox , L4526, 702 Sqn, FAA, HMS Asturias, 1942 Life started by using the dated Matchbox kit and was updated some what to include more detail: Cockpit deck added and seating positions corrected. The observers pit was updated with black boxes, MG replaced with Miniworld option and mounted on a corrected mount. Moulded-on landing lights removed and scratch clear options fitted. Oil cooler replaced by scratch option. Engine intakes hollowed out and scratch engines added. Moulded-on exhausts removed and scratch options fitted. Moulded-on venturi removed and resin option fitted. Control horns and lines added to float rudders. Flaps removed and fitted for 'landing'. Colourcoats enamel paints used externally and painted in the 'Shadow Scheme'. Some kit decals were used but roundels and codes were Xtradecal. Rigging was Uschi line. All mounted on a sea base depicting 'touch-down'! Work in Progress here: Thanks for looking. Comments and critique welcome. Stuart
  21. This is my recently completed Fairey Seafox 'H9A', 713 Catapult Flight, HMS Arethusa, Kalafrana, Malta, 1939. Work in progress here: Life started using the dated Matchbox kit and was updated some what to include more detail: Cockpit deck added and seating positions corrected. The observers pit was updated with black boxes, MG replaced and mounted on a corrected mount. Molded-on landing lights removed and scratch clear options fitted. Oil cooler replaced by scratch option. Engine intakes hollowed out and scratch engines added. Molded-on exhausts removed and scratch options fitted. Molded-on venturi removed and resin option fitted. Home brewed vacuformed glazing for rear pit fitted. Control horns and lines added to float rudders. Flaps removed and fitted for 'landing'. Painted overall with Tamiya AS12 rattle-can. Kit decals were used except for the black wing markings that were painted. Rigging was Uschi line. All mounted on a sea base. Stuart
  22. G-ASLW served with the RAF as WS829 before being sold to Rolls-Royce in September 1963 for use as a photographic chase plane. It was sold in July 1969 and after it was attempted to illegally export the aircraft to the Biafran Air Force ran short of fuel and ditched in the sea off the Cape Verde Islands. This is the old Matchbox Meteor NF14 with home made decals. Thanks for looking. Steve
  23. What Machbox kits do we want to build again? Still there is some moulds out there not used by Revell that would be nice to be used again? Kits that would be simple and fun to biuld. Kits as the A-4 Skyhawk, P-51D Mustang or the Tempest Mk. II... /André
  24. This build is so old that I actually don't recall when I assembled this kit. Re-photographing and re-posting now for the sake of nostalgia. The text is from the time when I posted it somewhere, but that post is not dated. Another spawn from the Dungeons of Matchbox, with the usual colorful Ectoplastic treatment. After opening the box I realized I have seen a decal review of a civilian version, and following a fast search I order the set from Whiskey Jack Decals. I will elaborate on this matter later*. So there I was, battling valiantly again against the multi-colored Ectoplastic, but always with a smile on my face. This Stranraer model is really beautiful -the 30's definitely have some special charm- and builds easily. The only parts of the kit that made me frown were the struts. The central ones are way too long, and some of the exterior ones are too short. I found them difficult to position and the whole process of attaching the upper wing found me making good use of words that will make a seasoned rap singer turn pale. Rigging info is not provided, but there is a fair amount of images on the Internet, which helped me with it and some other details. Since I didn't have the lemon yellow suggested by Whiskey Jack Decals available, I used Utrecht artist acrylic, which of course unfortunately is meant not to flow, and diluted it with Model Master acrylic thinner. Several coats were laid down to build up a solid color that matched to my satisfaction the yellow on the fuselage side decals. The conversion to the civilian version, a Canadian machine of Queen Charlotte Airlines Ltd., requires some changes: the gun positions have of course to be deleted and blanked off and there are also changes in the engine/propeller area and other minor details. I have a single word for the after market decals: excellent. You have to be aware, though, that they have a continuous carrier, so you will have to carefully cut all the subjects and trim them. The decals must be handled carefully, and before cutting them a clear coat is suggested (I used Future, three coats, airbrushed). I tried them with and without decal setting agents, and I think you are safer without them, but you have to be patient. The colors are good as is the definition, but I encountered minor misalignments in the fuselage side decals (if you make on part of the image align with certain surface features, other parts are not aligned and vice versa, but I repeat: minor issues. The decals conformed well to all the surfaces and even endured some repositioning with remarkable stoicism. Another old Matchbox kit that provides a satisfying build, provided you are not obsessive-compulsive. *These decals -as far as I know- have been discontinued for ages now. (Note: there was a dolly, now missing, that supported the aft fuselage of this kit)
  25. Hello gents I recently scored a Matchbox He 115 from ebay for a very reasonable price, given what they sometimes go for. I'd like to do a quick build on this for a few reasons; I think it's a nice-looking aircraft and the kit itself is comparatively simple so I hope to be able to get it finished in time for the Scottish Nationals Model show in Perth later this month (as a representative example of the RLM 72/73/65 Maritime Scheme for the Sovereign Hobbies stand, not to take part in any competitions, and assuming we have room on the stand for it). I built this kit a couple of times as a kid when it first came out and I recall it being a pretty straightforward build. Here's the kit: Looks like mice have been at the box end: Still, all the parts appear to be present, though a few are off the sprues: Also included are a rather faded set of instructions: There is a speckling of coughed-up box dust on the parts, courtesy of the mice: Those will be getting a wash and a bath in IPA before we go much further. The loose parts, clear parts, display stand and transfers are in a sealy-bag: Though the transfers have wed over the years to their protective sheet. No matter, a dimly-remembered idea led me to search the transfer stash... where I found these: A more recent set of instructions with no mouse bits on them, and two sets of transfers which look viable Also, the ultimate gift from a forgotten Past Me; the Eduard mask set for this kit: Anyway only a couple of weeks before the show so I need to get a shove on, it will be a very basic level modelling to say the least, with no additions or corrections... Cheers, Stew
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