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  1. Hello Britmodellers, Italeri's Mirage 2000C with a few extra bits and decals to make a 2000P. Thanks for watching! Luka
  2. Joining you with this kit, with originated in 1979. Costing £18 at IPMS Gloucester show in 2022 Offering these options - which I'm not using. Parts. And leftover ski parts from an Airfix build. Enquiries have been made about a set of decals for Night Fright. If that happens before the paint stage, this project could change direction. And my new Airfix C-47 build, which originated the skis
  3. Joining you with this kit. Italeri Messerschmitt Bf109F at 0857. Cost me £5 at Avon show earlier this month. Parts, untouched. Kit offers these options. For me to build as this aircraft. An exercise in painting this afternoon.
  4. I'm unsure I should be starting a second build within the GB. Either stupid of fool hardy! Anyway, my Commando Sea King is progressing so well, I thought, why not! So a Whirlwind? One of the original batch delivered to the Fleet Air Arm in March of 1954. These were Sikorsky HO4S-3's being supplied under the MDAP scheme and designated HAS Mk22's The first unit to be supplied was 845 NAS and in those days it was and anti-submarine unit (later becoming a 'Junglie' Commando unit). The aircraft were delivered in overall Gloss Sea Blue, in 1957, this was changed to o/a RAF Blue Grey. I have half a dozen of the Italeri kits in the stash and was responsible for mastering the conversion sets that were available in the then ROTORcraft range. I also researched the various colour schemes on the accompanying decal sheets. The Italeri kit is quite good, with slightly heavy panel lines but the rest is well detailed. The very old Airfix kit is scheduled for re-release. Personally, I'd rather see a re-release f the Italeri kit with RN ad other operators decal options. We're in load shedding ie, no power. I'll come back to this later... So, there I was and then the lights went out!!! A gift from the government. Lets deny the population of continuous power! So, Time for a couple of images... The parts breakdown, sorry, I haven't one of the box art. The decal sheet and conversion kit instructions... I don't think the conversion set and decals are still available. We never put a release date on the instruction sheet. I'll have a look on Scale Mates, see if there is a lead there. I've painted and buttoned up the fuselage, so more pics soon... Colin
  5. Lt. Francis Gahan, S/Lt. Alasdair Elder and L/A Peter Mansfield took off in Avenger JZ217, from the escort carrier HMS Trumpeter, with seven other Avengers and the four Wildcats of 846 squadron. This was 4th May 1945 and Operation Judgement - which was to be the last air raid of the war in Europe. HMS Trumpeter in 1945 853 sqn departed HMS Queen with the same mix of Avengers and Wildcats while 882 sqn on HMS Searcher saw twenty Wildcats launch. Their target was a U-boat base in the north of Norway within the Arctic Circle in the natural harbour at Kilbotn. The base consisted of the depot-ship Black Watch, supported by a flak-ship, two barges fitted with anti-aircraft guns and numerous gun emplacements surrounding the harbour. Several other ships were employed in ferrying supplies and ammunition to the base at Kilbotn, including the cargo ship Senja. Four of the Wildcats were assigned to provide top-cover against German fighters, while the majority of the other Wildcats were to arrive at the start of the operation, to attack the gun emplacements on land and in the harbour. The Avengers would then arrive to carry out glide-bombing runs in quick succession, The attack lasted seven minutes and destroyed Black Watch, Senja and also U-711, which had been moored alongside Black Watch. No Norwegians in the village of Kilbotn were killed or injured. Two houses suffered windows blown out and some damaged woodwork from a stray bomb. An Avenger of 846 sqn going in to the attack on Kilbotn Bay. The U-boat depot ship is centre right; a tanker is in the centre, and a flak ship can be seen above the aircraft. The airborne force arriving from the west over Kilbotn at 17:00 on a sunny afternoon, achieved almost complete surprise. Early in the attack a Wildcat of 882 sqn was hit by flak and crashed into the sea. Lt. Hugh Morrison from Wairarapa, New Zealand, Senior Pilot of 882 Squadron, is buried in Narvik New Cemetery. Several other aircraft received flak damage in the next few minutes, most later returning to the carriers, but the attack went according to plan. The main targets of the attack are hidden behind water columns and smoke in the centre of the photo. They were the depot ship Black Watch and the Type VIIC submarine U-711 - both sunk. The ship visible in the centre is probably the Senja, also sunk in this attack. U-711 was the last U-boat sunk by the Fleet Air Arm in WW2. One of the aircraft hit by flak was Avenger JZ217 of 846 Sqn. They tried to make a forced landing on a field but there wasn't sufficient space and they ran into the tree line. Lt. Francis John Gahan RNVR (aged 24), S/Lt. Alasdair Donald Hay Elder RNVR (20) and L/A Peter Bernard Mansfield, Royal Navy (22) were buried by the Germans, assisted by local Norwegians, in the churchyard in the nearby village of Sørvik - where they remain. Francis Gahan is often stated as being 22 years old when he died but his gravestone shows that he was 24. I feel that this is important but I'm not quite sure why. This is my attempt at Avenger JZ217 using the Italeri boxing of the Accurate Miniatures 1:48 kit. The kit has fantastic detail with Italeri having taken all the Accurate Miniatures options and placed them all in one box with a huge decal sheet. My one gripe about Italeri is that they have taken the extensive Accurate Miniatures instructions and removed all the text. The text being replaced by arrows. This approach makes the instructions more accessible but there are a few cases where parts are left hanging in mid air with no arrows. I definitely recommend getting hold of the original Accurate Miniatures instructions. Assembly was mostly straightforward with my main difficulty being (as others have said) the turret – both the assembly and the installation. There was a fair amount of fiddling and fettling involved in that. I added an Eduard p.e. set and a set of their canopy masks (there is a lot of glazing). I also replaced some of the RAF roundels on that decal sheet with spares as I thought the red too bright. OK, that's enough words – here's some pics. all the best Mark I've just realised that, looking at these images, my carefully sanded flat spots on the main wheels don't touch the ground. Oh well. I'm sure I'll get round to sorting that out at some point!
  6. Hi all, I managed to get some slightly better shots of the finished article today. The WIP thread, for anyone wishing to peruse, is located here. As you will see from the WIP, there were a number of challenges along the way with this one, many of them foolishly self-imposed! Still, the result has scrubbed up reasonably well; not perfect, I readily admit, but at least it fits in my display cabinet - just! Here's a few photos of the result: All comments and criticisms gratefully received, of course.
  7. Hello there, I started the Spartan about 3 years ago and this is now my second rollout for 2016 (which is already quite a lot for me...) It took me sweat and blood to finish it and almost landed in the trash bin, after a serious incident with a hot spotlight... But, I managed to save her and proceeded to the very end. As for the kit - it is from Italeri (1/72) and...well, not the best fit. But ok, the guys from Italeri did a good job all in all. Details are more than ok and they were bold enough to produce a plane like this, that is not that popular after all (imho). And still better than any resin kit... The decal-sheet is from Ronin Decals. Never worked with decals thin like this. They are excellent, but one has to be very careful and patient, because they tend a lot to "roll over". Other than that, they resist to a proper amount of tear, unless you really mess it up. Nevertheless, there is a drawback for this sheet. I found the walkway color tone being wrong. So I had to mask everything (which was probably anyways better and smarter, but a lot of work) The colors came from AK and it's the first time I've been working with these. They are pretty good, have a very good adherence and the color tone seems to be spot on. (again imho) I used as suggested by the decals sheet FS36099 / FS35237. Aftermarket parts came from Eduard ED73394 (Detail Set) and Eduard EDCX281 (Mask) Ok, enough of writing, I hope you enjoy my effort and on to the pics:
  8. My first attempt at a diorama and a great chance to try out techniques on an inexpensive 1/72 scale Italeri kit. I know it's not great but we all have to start somewhere!
  9. Hi all, Here's my just finished 1/72 Italeri A-26B. Italeri is not known for the most accurate and best kits around, but this one is on another level. The fit of some parts like the clear parts is terrible, the cockpit is pretty basic, the wheels are not like the real ones at all, the engines are way too deep into the nacelles, but at least you won't see the total lack of detail on them, the canopy is only correct for very early Invaders, even though all 4 decal options had the later style early canopy. Well, I should say 3 of them, because the one I was planning to do has the serial number of a Harvard, the wrong unit code (F8 instead of F6) and the wrong color for the rudder (green, instead of black). Looking for aftermarket decals, I found this Kit's World sheet that has my user name on it, so I had to do that one of course. These aren't without its faults either. The color of the bomb on the nose art should be a brownish colour, I think, not green, and the roundels weren't great either, but all in all it was an improvement. I used some MRP paints on it Thanks for looking. Pete
  10. With the permission of the Mods ( thanks guys!) I will be finally joining with this part started civil C-130. I had it sitting around in the stash with the modified fuselage assembled and cockpit painted as it was going to be a USAF ANG bird originally. This is the state of it a couple of weeks ago. I have managed to get the fuselage halves joined (sort of and started to fill some windows to convert the C-130 into an L-100 I hope to finish it as this non-descript L-100 operated by QP2 LLC... who may or may not do work for the CIA So I need to sort out the fuselage sponsons and redrill the cabin windows, find the wings and engines and go from there!
  11. I got this from Jadlam today, and their packaging explains why the box is slightly crushed. The back of the box shows the colour schemes There are two largeish grey sprues A small clear sprue, a little photoetch fret and a nice looking decal sheet The recommended overall colour is FS 36280 Flat Dark Gray, though I don't know of any model paint that matches this - I'll have to see if anything looks close to the sample in my old FS595A.
  12. Hi folk's,my build for this GB will be a Greek AF Recce Phantom.Luke has three kits in his stash and offered one as I grabbed a Trumpeter AMX Trainer for a snip in Creative's sale at a mere £12.50 posted however it only has Brazillian markings and there is nothing out there for Italian twin seaters except what's in Kinetics kit if I can get some it may be a second build.Anyway back to the Phantom rather than take a new kit I decided to take the one he started which only has the fuselage joined and a bit of interior paintwork.Being new to this modelling lark I think he was a bit disappointed in the intake fit and the poor fuselage to wing fit on dry runs however I'm well aware of this issue and know how to fix it.These Greek machines were in the familiar SE Asia scheme and weathered heavily so that was the attraction. Post some photo's soon but I really must get the mass of weaponry done for my Warthog build for the Japanese GB not touched it for weeks.,oh and I'll make sure he's shown the fitting fixes as he's planning Iranian and Israeli builds of this kit for future GB's.
  13. A close inspection from the soon to be released 1/32nd Italeri's Mirage IIIC sprues pics (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234975571-132-dassault-mirage-iiic-by-italeri-box-artdecals-release-late-september-early-october/?p=2112443) show clearly the typical MIIIE wheel brakes as an option. A new variant in view? Time will tell. V.P.
  14. I will be joining this GB with a 1/72 F4U-5 Corsair in Argentine markings as part of my newly-introduced "Sexy American Singles in South American Service" project. I purchased the Italeri F4U-7 kit as the starting point . . . . . . but I think I may pick up a F4U-5 too as I think some of the peripheral parts (such as some of the wing pylons and the exhaust glare shields and maybe the radome) I need are missing from the -7. Here is a photo of two of the Argentine birds--at this point I think I will be modeling one of them like 3-A-201 with the all blue scheme. Here are sprue shots from the -7 kit: Not the best set of sprues I've seen, but nothing that looks unworkable. Looking forward to the GB!
  15. Hi all, here's my Israeli A-4E of 110 Squadron - 'Knights of the North'. Built as part of my Israeli Adventure- WIP can be found here: The kit is the Italeri rebox of the old Esci kit, holds up surprisingly well considering its over 40 years old though there's definitely a few troublesome parts to contend with. The cockpit is extremely barebones OOB, with the canopy requiring a lot of sanding to fit on the fuselage (and I'm still not 100% happy). All OOB though decals are from Isradecals A-4 set, they were wonderful to work with. Paint is a mix of Hataka and AK Interactive acrylics. Here's the photos! And here it is with my Esci "A-4N" I built a few months back Plenty more Israeli stuff in the pipeline, the stash is growing concerningly large at this point 😅 Thanks for looking in!
  16. Here’s what I will be building for the group build: with a few extras: For someone who usually build fighters, this will easily be the biggest model I have ever built. Hopefully I can get it finished before I go away for a month in early June. In any case it will have to wait while I finish off a Mirage in the Dassult/Bloch GB and the Hasegawa Draken that is fighting me mercilessly in the Draken STGB. AW
  17. Hello Everyone, this is my next offering for your perusal. Originally I wanted to build it in U.S Air Force, Vietnam Era Camouflage but was quite take with this colour scheme. Built out of the box with just the addition of a couple of crew members and painted with a mixture of Tamiya and Revell acrylics. It went together well with very little filler and virtually no problems. I build most of my models in flight and the biggest problem I normally encounter is making the undercarriage doors fit but these dropped in with no gaps at all. A very enjoyable build. Thanks for looking, as always all comments and criticisms are welcome.
  18. Hello friends, I chose to rehabilitate an old model. It dates from 1992 (end of my student years...). Painted with a brush, of course, but it seems to me that it still holds the comparison. It still needed a refresh on the decals that had to be replaced. Thank you Thierry for sharing a new Carpena decalsheet. A small veil of varnish for this time to freeze and perpetuate the decals. A bit of additional weathering and it's over. On to the pictures. I hope you will like it. Alain.
  19. Hi all, planning on building the Italeri 1/48 RF-4E in an Israeli scheme for this GB. This was the boxing released last year with new decals included. I'll be building this in the grey IAF scheme of The Bats squadron. Honestly depending on how this kit goes together I'm very tempted to get another as it comes with an additional IAF scheme, an IRIAF scheme, a Luftwaffe scheme and a Turkish scheme. Looking forward to this one!
  20. Hello All, my second submission for this year, The Fighting Falcon. I have to say I don't enjoy modelling in this scale, I find that any mistakes or blemishes are magnetified. If you lose any detail due to sanding it becomes obvious unless you are good at rescribing which I am not very proficient at. Also because of the size of the model I feel weathering becomes a necessity, and I have wrecked so many good paint jobs with poor weathering that I now keep it to a minimum. Anyway here she is, built out of the box except for the addition of a pilot and painted wit a mixture of Tamiya and Revell acrylics. as usual all comments and criticisms are welcome. Thanks for looking.
  21. Hi folks, first things first - happy Easter everyone! 🐰🥚 Today on the menu is Italeri's F-35B Lightning II in its fierce Beast Mode configuration in 1/48th scale, my latest finished kit. Bought it last year after seeing the USAF F-35A demo during an airshow in Belgium. It impressed me so much I just had to have at least one Lightning II in my collection but I like it so much I aim to get the whole range. The kit itself is not bad but IMO a bit overpriced compared to Tamiya's F-35A which only costs around 20€ more than this one and even if I haven't build that one yet, it's safe to say it will be better in a number of ways. The Italeri kit is nicely detailed in many areas (Cockpit, landing gear, weapon bays, some surface details) and is kinda winging it in others (engine nozzle, other surface details) but it goes together very well and features a great many options. Sure, this also comes down to the F-35B variant, which is the one with STOVL capability. I chose to open every hatch, bay and intake possible to make it look like a Transformer. The kit also comes with some extra ordnance and weapon carts you can put next to it. Speaking of ordnance - there is plenty but the options are rather limited. You can either go for a stealth clean look or a full Beast Mode loadout with 6 pylons under the wings packed with 4 bombs (either JDAMs or Paveways) and 2 AIM-9X. The internal weapon bays can be filled with 2 AIM-120 AMRAAM and 2 again either JDAMs or Paveways and an optional underbelly gun pod. I went for the 4 Paveways and 2 Sidewinders under the wings and 2 JDAMs and 2 AMRAAM in the bays and ditched the gun pod. The build was quite easy going despite the rather complex nature of the plane itself. The problem is the masking afterwards. There is a lot of stuff that needs to go into the fuselage before the lower and upper halves go together and unfortunately a lot has to be painted in what I like to call gods cruelest joke - white. The masking and painting were the most time consuming aspects of this build. I used Tamiya's white for the internal bays, Hataka's Have Glass Grey and several Vallejo greys (and brushes this time) for all the surface details, followed by some Tamiya gloss varnish. Washes were done as usual with Vallejo and Ammo washes. The decals were fantastic. Printed by Cartograf on a very thin film and crisp as hell. Even the smaller stencils are still readable. They were easy to work with and a responded very well to decal softener. In the end the whole thing was sealed with gloss varnish. All in all it was a fun kit and I'm quite pleased with the result (although I made a few mistakes while painting which I noticed too late to be corrected) and I learned a few lessons for any future F-35 project and how I'm going to tackle a few things next time to make it even more enjoyable. I also found the box of the PC sim JSF - from 1997. That puts it into perspective how long the Joint Strike Fighter program is going on and me being in my early 30's now, it took almost my entire lifetime from start (around 1993) to introducing the plane into service (2015 to 2019 depending on the variant and their respective users). The time, money, thinking, testing and developing that went into these machines is simply incredible. That's it for now. Wish you a happy Easter weekend and thanks for watching (and reading)
  22. Finished this afternoon after 3 months of gentle work & manipulation. ES3A 1 by phil da greek, on Flickr And because I like the folded wing look I invested in this. ES3A 2 by phil da greek, on Flickr A nice kit to build, as always a few niggles, mainly with the kit’s canopy it was just awful so I got a vac from one off eBay & it was worth the tenner. The wing fold kit contains new wings which are solid resin & heavy, very heavy. So a metal undercarriage was invested in. I wanted a lightly weathered with subtle panel lines which I got although the panel lines have disappeared a little with the photos. The kit decals are beautiful & went down nicely with a drop of Humbrol decal fix. The model is brush painted with Humbrol enamels with Winsor & Newton Galleria acrylic varnishes. I’m pretty happy with the finished aircraft although there are a couple of mistakes & an omission or two. Have a look. ES3A 11 by phil da greek, on Flickr ES3A 9 by phil da greek, on Flickr ES3A 8 by phil da greek, on Flickr ES3A 4 by phil da greek, on Flickr ES3A 12 by phil da greek, on Flickr ES3A 7 by phil da greek, on Flickr
  23. AFAIK, it seems that Trumpeter's 1/72 CH-47A is the only 1/72 Chinook kit to be modeled with the early 'metal' rotor blades. Does anyone know of some aftermarket 'metal' rotor blades that would allow the CH-47D to be backdated with the earlier blades (the kit is tooled with the wider 'composite' blades which were retrofitted to some machines.). I don't think it makes much of a difference, but I'm specifically looking at the Italeri 1/72 CH-47C/D (H.C.1) - kit no. 064, initially released in 1996.. Note, I'm not talking about the wide 'composite' blades the kit comes with, but rather the thinner (earlier) 'metal' ones like in the CH-47A & early D's. I know OzMods did a set in resin, but they're listed as OOP on their site. If only 3D printers were more affordable.... 🙂 Scott
  24. Although I didn`t register an interest in this group build, i didnt decide to enter until the middle of this week. Hope that`s okay? So here is Italeri`s kit of the classic GMC CCKW-353 6x6 2 and half tonner known as the "Jimmy" or "Deuce and half". A vehicle synonumous with the Allies Forces more than any other with exception of the GPW Jeep? 500'000 were built in long and short wheelbases with hard and soft top cabs, with and without winches and a variety of bodies, general purpose, tippers, fuel and water tankers, wreckers, compressors and Bofors AA guns. Used in every theatre they continued in service with other Armed forces well into the 1970s and were still common in civilian use into the 1980s. I remember a tipper being in a garage in a gite I was staying in the early 2000s,. Everything was bolted together for ease of maintenance, looking at that 60 year old truck, you realised that vehicles like the Jimmy helped the victory of the Allies. A simple good quality product for effective use. Italeri`s kit dates back from the late 1970s and I will doing a bog standard truck without a winch or machinegun ring but with hardtop cab. I plan to do build a truck used on the Red Ball Express, the continuous supply convoy that ran from Normandy the front line 24 hours a day on a dedicated route. Italeri`s kit it well moulded for its age and most of the construction is in the chassis. This afternoon I assembled the 10 road wheels and the spare. Plus removed the "Italeri" and "Made in Italy" marking from under the cab. Reckon Ive had this in the stash for 18 years at least. Some photos. Thanks for looking. Grahame
  25. I always start with the hardest part on really challenging models. That saves a lot of time, because if that doesn't work, all the time and effort beforehand is wasted. With the Italeri Lancia it's the cockpit. which looks awful! After the cockpit was finally finished in 3D, I bought the model. My special thanks to Iceman 29 @Iceman 29 who gave the cockpit the right look with Fusion 360. I cut off the cockpit roof! It looks good without the "bubble" The headlights and the air slits above the fender have also to be reshaped. The new cockpit looks fantastic, I hope that I can do it nearly as well in real terms in 1/24 scale! I hope that this project will end successfully! Regards Andreas
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