BAGGINS Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 (edited) ok so i have come back to modelling after about 25 years...that is what happens when you go into toy shops age 45 with your kids :-) I have really enjoyed the quality of the new generation of kits and cant wait to get stuck into the Revell Ventura. Anyway here is one of my first attempts. not up to the quality of some of you guys but i really enjoyed doing it. It is the old Otaki kit in 1/48 Edited October 30, 2012 by BAGGINS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Thats a really sweet looking model! Very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAGGINS Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 Thank you very much :-) and it was like being 15 again when I realised the prop would spin freely when I blew it whilst photographing it lol ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbuna Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 As a Fleet Air Arm fan I was always going to like this. Nice choice for your first model back after a long lay off and a good job done of it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin_Bitz Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Nice build, looks good. Hope you enjoy the hobby again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonL Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Nice piece of work, welcome back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pte1643 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 it was like being 15 again when I realised the prop would spin freely when I blew it You wouldn't catch the rest of us doing that. Much. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin_Bitz Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Nice build, looks good. Hope you enjoy the hobby again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Looks good! Welcome back to the fold. For some reason, when you're an adult kits seem to take longer to build than one afternoon. I don't get it... Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCinLA Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 (edited) Since you have come back to modeling from a while back, I don't want you to take this as a criticism, but as an addition of information for future projects. In recent years, there has been a lot of confusing information out there about just what colors US aircraft used by British forces were painted, with the big quagmire of "equivalent colors" coming prominent. What it appears (the photography might be showing this wrong) you have done is "US equivalent colors" of Dark Grey/Olive Drab uppers and Sky Grey lowers. This would be right for any US airplane used by the FAA not built by Grumman (i.e., Corsairs, GM-built Avengers, etc.). However, Grumman itself got Dupont to make FAA-exact colors which they used for the airplanes they produced (like the Hellcat), so what one wants when doing a camouflaged Hellcat I or early Hellcat Ii is the real FAA colors of Dark Sea Grey, Dark Slate Grey and Sky. Nice model though, and you prove that modeling is like riding a bicycle, if you know what I mean. :-) Edited November 1, 2012 by TCinLA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAGGINS Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 Hi, no that is great and thanks for the tip. The kit had paint colours that I did not recognise all in Japanese......so i went with what I thought the colours were from pics on the internet....and as I had been making a typhoon so rather lazily used the same scheme.....dark green2 raf, ocean gray 2 raf and medium sea grey 2 raf......also meant i did not have to fork out for new paints......as you can tell I am not going to win any prizes for accuracy......but it was still fun :-) Since you have come back to modeling from a while back, I don't want you to take this as a criticism, but as an addition of information for future projects. In recent years, there has been a lot of confusing information out there about just what colors US aircraft used by British forces were painted, with the big quagmire of "equivalent colors" coming prominent. What it appears (the photography might be showing this wrong) you have done is "US equivalent colors" of Dark Grey/Olive Drab uppers and Sky Grey lowers. This would be right for any US airplane used by the FAA not built by Grumman (i.e., Corsairs, GM-built Avengers, etc.). However, Grumman itself got Dupont to make FAA-exact colors which they used for the airplanes they produced (like the Hellcat), so what one wants when doing a camouflaged Hellcat I or early Hellcat Ii is the real FAA colors of Dark Sea Grey, Dark Slate Grey and Sky. Nice model though, and you prove that modeling is like riding a bicycle, if you know what I mean. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnylurve Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Nice one jockey, great build. Welcome back to the joys of modelling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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