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Hi everyone, Thought I`d show you some photo`s of my attempt at Special Hobby`s 1/48 Seafire Mk XV Completed to represent an aircraft of No 806 FAA Squadron, 16th Carrier Air Group, aboard HMS Glory circa 1946 Built 99.99% OOB With just the whip aerial replaced with a bit of wire This has got to be the best, easiest to build, Special Hobby/MPM kit I`ve built since my Fulmar some time back With only a bit of filler and work at the wing roots Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Just got some photo`s of my latest effort: Special Hobby`s 1/48 Il-10 to add to my `August Storm` mini theme I couldn`t find any photo`s or pictures in any books or on-line depicting Il-10`s in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria at the very end of WWII but I came across...... ...some images from a Flight/Combat Sim called `Shturmoviks over Manchuria and thought, in the absence of any thing else, one of those schemes would do. The build itself is mostly from the box, with just some wire brake pipes and a few bits of photo etch replaced with more user friendly materials here and there Replaced the resin gun barrels with metal tube too. Decals were made up from bits and pieces from the stash and a few of the kits. and I admitted defeat building the kit bombs and just modified some from the spares box to (loosely) resemble them Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ -
Hi Everyone, Managed to finish my attempt at making a Pe-2 that took part in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in the last months of WW2 during operation August Storm Built from Zvezda`s 1/48 kit Pretty much out of the box, with just some dodgy seat belts and aerial wires added Had to replace a few smaller details like the boarding ladder with some made from wire as I broke a few bits cutting them off the sprues Decals were some from the kit and the red and white `19` was made from some red 19`s with some white decal strip from the stash Finished to try and represent an aircraft of the `Pacific Fleet` based at Nikolayevka AB, 1945 I confess to getting bored with this one half way through and if I did one again I`d leave a lot of the details you can`t see out to speed things along. Anyway, hope you enjoy, thanks for looking and a Happy New Year Cheers Russ
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Hi everyone, thought I`d share some pic`s of my just completed AMT, 1/48 scale P-40N kit Which I completed to represent a Kittyhawk MkIV of 18 Squadron, RNZAF, Solomon Islands circa 1944 The kit is pretty much as Mr AMT intended with just some wire additions here and there..... and.some paper seat belts The later style main wheels came from an Eduard/Mauve kit.... as did the decals. Hope you enjoy looking at ,Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Just finished my attempt at making a Il-2 Shturmovik to represent an aircraft that would have took part on the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in operation `August Storm` at the very end of WWII. Built from Tamiya`s 1/48 kit, virtually OOB Finished to represent an aircraft of the; 967th Ground Attack Air Regiment of the 248th Ground Attack Air Division of the 12th Air Army Unfortunately I have been unable to find any photo`s and very little of anything else regarding this campaign, so...... .... this one is based on a profile of one marked `White 39` from the same outfit Only additions to the kit are seat belts and aerial wires, with decals from the stash. There`s a lot of passionate debate about Soviet colours and paint schemes so I just gave it my best shot. Anyway right or not I hope you enjoy, Thanks for looking, Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Whilst I battle through my current AMT/Hobbycraft P-40 ( which was supposed to be a quickie ) build, I thought I`d show you a previous attempt at one of AMT`s P-40 Warhawks Completed as P-40N `Tweedy II`, flown by 1st Lt Dwight `Bob` Butler of the 45thFS, 15th FG, , Gilbert Islands, 1944 Built as usual mostly OOB with a few bits of wire here and there, except for the decals which were from a Superscale sheet 48-889 I cheated a bit and built the canopy side walls up a bit to improve the look of the open canopy Hope you enjoy, Thanks for looking Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, There I was with a Tamiya Buffalo with a broken canopy, no decals, no aerial mast and no instructions, Mmm what to do with it? So I searched the spares box and found a Navy type canopy so started looking at US Navy Buffalo to add to my Pacific collection. I eventually came across a few profiles on line ( but unfortunately no photos ) of a Marines Corps F2A-3 with markings I could cobble together from the stash. So I chopped the nose off, added some rectangles of plastic sheet and extended the fuselage by about 1/4" Sanded the frames off the sliding canopy and drew some lines to try and represent where the bits were bonded together Modified the propeller hub slightly with plastic tube, painted, decalled and moved aerial to the wing, to represent a........ ...worn out at the end of its life, F2A-3 of VMF-221, US Marines Corps, Midway, circa 1942 Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ
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Hi All, Not posted for a while, since the old faithful Packard Bell `threw a seven` about three weeks ago. Back up now on the new computer now I`ve got the hang of it (mostly). Just finished Monograms 1/48 scale Black Widow that I bought at the Hinckley Show in March of a nice bloke called Daryl. Done as P-61A Midnite Madness of the 548th NFS based at Iwo Jima, April 1945. Built 99% Out Of Two Boxes as I wanted to do one with both engine cowlings the same, as the kit....... .... gives you one cowling with cooling flaps open and one closed and I wanted to make it a bit different. So I chopped and grafted the end of one boom onto the other and using the one piece engines had some more space for weights. Decals were from Print + Scale set 48-035 and were incredibly thin and stretched and rolled up and caused lots of swearing and some hand painting here and there. Otherwise just blanked the wheel wells off, made some seat belts, catches to the open canopy panel and added aerial wires. Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking. Cheers Russ
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Hi all, Thought I`d show some photo`s of my latest effort; Italeris reboxing of the AMT 1/48 P-40 N Done in the markings of Netherlands East Indies, 120th Squadron, Merauke around 1944 Which makes a change from the usual USAF, Australian and New Zealand markings but still fits with my Pacific Themed collection Made a few improvements to the kit including; boxing in the wheel wells fully, added retraction links and brakepipes,...... ... breather on fuel tank, transparent gun sight, fuel vents and aerials on underside rear fuselage...... and usual seat belts, bead gunsight and some canopy rails. Hope you enjoy, Thanks for looking Cheers Russ -
Howdy all, Thought I`d show you some pic`s of my latest effort; B-25G Mitchell, Little Joe, 820th B.S., 45th B.G., Marshall Islands, 1944 Academys reissue of Accurate Minatures 1/48 scale B-25G, from the Sharkmouth boxing Built almost completely OOB Only made a slight alteration to the Aerial Masts and layout Found the kit to be a lot better than the Italeri re issue which had lots of warped parts and shrink marks Apart from getting the fuselage parts to close round all that wonderful detail that you can`t see ( even includes a toilet !) the only bit I had trouble with was the dorsal turret which sat to high and wouldn`t locate without a battle Still got there in the end. Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ
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Hi All, Thought it was about time that I attempted an early `Grey` Zero for my collection. So here`s my attempt at Hasegawas 1/48 Zero from the `Rabaul` boxing Built almost completely OOB with just: brake pipes and seat straps added. After much searching for colours tried mixing my own as references varied, ie; not quite grey, not quite white, not quite light caramel. Which sort of goes with the background; not quite Rabaul Anyway whatever colour they were, I hope you enjoy. Thanks for looking,Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Finally calling this one done, after starting it nearly 4 Months ago. Italeris re-issue of AMTs 1/48 Nighthawk kit Done as `Dusty` of the 6th NF Squadron Detatchment `A` at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943 Made a few small changes to the kit to match photo`s I found on line, including; A wheel hub transplant, deletion of the rear gun and fitted a few boxes and radar scope in its place, no d/f loop or gunsight and ..... some brass tube to represent the longer blast tubes apparent ( to eliminate flash I suppose ) Had a bit of a disaster when a final Matt Cote lifted the weathering, so had to clean up and re-weather it. Hope you enjoy looking at Cheers Russ
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Howdy all, on a roll with two completions in 7 days, so here`s some pic`s of number two: Hasegawas 1/48 Val dive bomber In the markings of an aircraft from No 1 AC. 21st Section 1st Squadron, Aircraft Carrier Soryu............. 8th December 1941, Pearl Harbour Built 99.5% OOB, only additions being some seat belts and aerial wire The dreaded Hasegawa decals behaved quite well on this one, with only a bit of silvering on the fuselage stripes although I did cut them into two bits to get them onto the tail fillet. Hope you enjoy looking at Cheers Russ
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Hi everyone .....so there I was, with a Tamiya Corsair F4U-1A and a set of Ventura Decals, ready to do a RNZAF Corsair to go with my Gloria Lyons Kittyhawk I did a bit back and intending to do the tri-colour option with the nose art, when along came Peters and Ians brilliant builds. Ah well, might as well do the other one then, so here`s my very latest attempt at doing one of the RNZAF`s highly weathered Corsairs. After doing a bit of research I found on Pete Mossongs site that `Tutea Wera` NZ5614 was a `D` which explains the overall dark blue scheme even though it has still got the earlier canopy with the two frames at the top Had to be daring with the weathering as the electric blue roundels stood out like a sore thumb but luckily nearly all the pic`s I could find ( and there wasn`t many )...... show them in a very weather beaten condition. Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Just completed my Fine Molds 1/48 D4Y2 Suisei (Comet) or Judy Finished in the markings of 523rd kokutai, based at Tinian Island, Northern Marianas, 1944 Built OOB with just aerial wire added Been after one of these at a reasonable price for years and managed finally at the Hinckley Show in March this year Was a bit surprised to find lots of cast metal parts in the box but they hardly needed any clean up and fitted perfectly. Here`s two shots of it with my previous Judy build from the same manufacturer Which was the D4Y4 Radial engined version. Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Finished this a day or two ago, but been waiting for some sun to take some pic`s Italeris boxing of Accurate Minatures 1/48 A-36A Apache Completed to represent an aircraft of 328th FS, 311th FB, 10th Air Force, USAAF, CBI theatre Flown by Lt. William Creech, Burma 1944. Built almost completely OOB, with a few wire embellishments, seat belts and thinned the prop a bit. Also thought I might as well show you some of my previous Mustang builds.... Tamiya 1/48, P-51B with aftermarket decals, CBI Theatre Tamiya 1/48th, P-51D, CBI theatre Also with aftermarket decals and rocket launchers (Academy I think) from the spares box Hasegawa 1/48th, P-51D with prop from the spares box to represent a `K` In the markings of a Pacific bird Hope you enjoy looking at, Happy modelling.. Cheers Russ
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Howdy everyone, Seeing as I`ve painted myself into a corner, yet again, I hope you don`t mind me posting some pic`s of probably the oldest build surviving in my collection, but one I stripped down and refurbished a while back. My attempt at the Revell/Monogram 1/48 Pro Modeller Helldiver, which I built but was never happy with and which languished in the loft insulation... until I felt inspired enough to have another go.( and was too tight to buy a new one ) So; Dusted it off and evicted the spiders, off came all the delicate bits, repainted bits I wasn`t happy with, painted around the off-register decals..... re-feathered the camouflage edges and tidied up the weathering...... and slapped it back together and gave it a few coats of matt varnish. Hope you enjoy looking at, Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Here`s some pic`s of my attempt at Special Hobbys 1/48 Boomerang that I finished last night Done as `The Grim Reaper` of No4 Sqn RAAF, flown by Squadron Leader Walliker, 1944 Built mostly OOB and even managed to use some of the photo etch although some of the smaller levers eluded me Found this one a bit of a slog, especially trying to get the interior to fit between the fuselage halves and the delicate resin tail wheel was replaced with something from the spares box as I kept breaking it Tried to give it a very sun-bleached appearance and hope I succeeded Hope you enjoy looking at, have a great weekend, Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, at last I`m calling it finished My attempt at Special Hobbys 1/48 Firefly, from the home fleet boxing but done as an aircraft of 1772 Sqn, British Pacific Fleet, Schofields, Australia Used a combination of the kit decals and some from the stash 98% OOB with just some antenna, seat belts and rear view mirror added I`m afraid I don`t know too much about the hybrid markings but I presume they were in the process of being changed to the theatre markings Nearly went in the bin at one point due to a Matt varnishing disaster which dried frosty white but managed to pull it back Hope you enjoy looking at, Cheers Russ
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Hi everyone, as I`m between builds, I thought I`d show some pic`s of my Hasegawa 1/48 P-400 Which I thought I`d have a go at, to compare with my several Eduard ones To try and make a change from the kit markings, one of which I`d already done on an Eduard build and the other option being a quite often seen Guadalcanal set of markings..... ...I utilised a set left over from the Eduard boxing ( but of which Hasegawa did later anyway ) and did it in the markings of the 80th FS, 8th FG, New Guinea Autumn 1942. Hope you enjoy seeing it, Cheers Russ
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Howdy all, Just beat the rain and got some pic`s of my latest effort that I`ve just finished; Tamiyas 1/48 Birdcage Corsair Done as an aircraft of VF-17 aboard USS Bunker Hill, which is an option in the box Tamiya don`t leave you much to do, but I added a few wire embellishments, including; ignition harness, brake pipes,........... ....some springs I spotted on the undercarriage retraction links and a throttle lever that you can hardly see. Made life a little more difficult by raising the flaps and added some paper seat belts I attempted to try and weather the manufacturers logo`s on the prop` but I`m not sure it turned out too well Hope you enjoy it, Thanks for looking, Russ
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Hi all, Just thought I`d show you some pic`s of my latest effort; Tamiyas Gekko, late production version With the first pic in its natural element (well it was so overcast when I took the pic it passed for night ) Done in the 2nd option kit markings; 322nd Naval Fighter Group, 804th Fighter Squadron, KatoriBase, 1944 Only added some seat belts, wiring harness, antenna wire, brake pipes and drilled the gun barrels out, otherwise its as Mr Tamiya intended Got to be one of the best fitting kits ever, despite the use of some inserts that could have been a pain Hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I enjoyed building it Thanks for looking,Cheers Russ
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Hi everyone, just finished a refurb` on my Amtech P-40F, entailing a partial strip and rub down, repaint, more refined weathering, some extra detailing here and there and decals from the option sheet from my Hobbycraft Sharkmouth P-40F that I showed here recently. This is the same basic AMT kit but with the resin nose supplied in the Amtech issue, which is a much more accurate representation ( but I think it`s just a bit too deep at the front ) Built to represent Destitute/Reckless Prostitute, White 111, of the 44th F.S. `The Vampires` at Guadalcanal and Munda New Georgia 1943. Apart from the usual wire embellishments, I used some left over etched cowl flaps from a long gone Eduard P-40, mirror from a Revell P-40E..... the theatre stripes were cut fron a sheet of blank white decal and some hand painting and a butterfly for the carb` intake from some thick foil I`m having a bit of a P-40 renaissance at the moment with two more recently aquired ones in the `stash`. Hope you enjoy looking at, Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, Due to a varnishing disaster I`ve nothing completed to show you, so I thought I`d put up some pic`s of my P-38 pair. First up is my Academy early version from the Glacier Girl boxing But with aftermarket decals to do a Pacific a/c based in New Guinea Added some wheel well detail and seat straps but otherwise OOB Next is my Hasegawa late version, completed as an India/Burma based a/c With kit decals which are actually half decals and half painted as I had horrendous wrinkling problems with them Kit came with a host of aftermarket goodies including and eduard etched set of which I manage to use about a quarter and some resin True Detail wheels which I managed to use Hope you enjoy Cheers Russ
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Hi Everyone, whilst I`m between builds, I thought I`d take the chance to show you the last of my Air Apache Strafers Revells boxing of Monograms 1/48 B-25J, done in the markings of the 499th BS, 345th BG AKA `the Bats Outa Hell` based in the Philippines, 1944 99% OOB with just some seat armour, belts and bits of wire here and there Messed up the nose markings first attempt as the instructions were misleading (or I misread them, more like) but luckily had the set left over from doing `Lazy Daisy` from the previous build Hope you enjoy looking at, Russ