doozer1974 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Hello all Seems ages since I posted anything here, and finally got around to taking some pictures of recent builds with the decent light flooding into my kitchen courtesy of the UK weather just lately. So, here are a few pics of each build I've finished in the last 8 months or so. Most are out of the box, usually assisted with aftermarket canopy masks, occasionally supplemented with a bit of resin. Paints used are usually a mix of Tamiya and Mr Hobby Aqeuous acrylics, which i get along best with. Thanks for looking Adam 1. Heinkel HE 162 Salamander - Revell - 1/32 A nice kit, very cheap for the scale I thought (less than a tenner). Quite a rickety and fragile undercarriage, but otherwise a pleasureable build. 2. Chance Vought F4U-1/2 Bird Cage Corsair - Tamiya - 1/48 Nothing but good things to say about this kit. The wing fold option from the box works a treat, no need for expensive aftermarket stuff. This was the first time I’d tried the hairspray technique, as I wanted to show a weathered top coat wearing away to show the primer underneath. Could have done with an extra layer of protective varnish over the primer, but pretty happy for a first go. 3. Red Arrows Hawk – Airfix – 1/48 Airfix’s 50th anniversary offering. Decent kit, although I thought the cockpit details were a bit sparse, so I added a couple of Pavla seats and some instrument decals. I did a bit of surgery to the wings to display the flaps down, which made the decaling of the underside a bit more tricky, but overall happy with the result. 4. Sukhoi Su-27SM Flanker – Revell – 1/72 Another fine offering from Revell imo. Went with the box art version, but toned down the vividness of the blue. Having now seen some photos of the real aircraft, mine definitely isn’t blue enough… 5. Dam Busters Lancaster – Revell 1/72 I might start to sound like a sales rep for Revell, but this kit was another joy to build, once I’d rescued it from the hopeless side opening collapsing box. I’m a big fan of the colours of the Mr Hobby Aqueous acrylics range, although I’m not a stickler for accuracy, their dark green / dark earth just looks right to me. 6. Lockheed P-38 Lightning – Italeri – 1/48 Having been spoiled with building lots of nice kits of late, this one was a complete change of tone, and is one of the worst kits I’ve battled with. To some extent I agree with the view that there are no bad kits, just bad modellers, and if ever there was a set of sprues that highlighted my limitations as a modeler, then it was this one. Just about every joint needed tedious amounts of filling and sanding, some of the decals seemed as thick as cardboard, and I gave up trying to achieve anything with the clear parts that made up the central part of the canopy. Quite like the PRU blue shade though, so not totally dissatisfied… If you made it this far, thanks again… 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 All very nice! The Cirsair stands out for me!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Really nice builds there Adam and you did really well with the Lightning to get it to that standard. btw, the side windows wound down like car windows, so if you can salvage the top part of the canopy, by putting two strips of plastic card along the bottom you`ll have rescued it completely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polo1112 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 BRAVO! Great job there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 All great, two navy birds are grand! What's the hairspray technique? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doozer1974 Posted June 18, 2017 Author Share Posted June 18, 2017 Thanks chaps, much appreciated. 18 hours ago, russ c said: Really nice builds there Adam and you did really well with the Lightning to get it to that standard. btw, the side windows wound down like car windows, so if you can salvage the top part of the canopy, by putting two strips of plastic card along the bottom you`ll have rescued it completely. Cheers Russ, I didn't know that about the windows. Unfortunately i was so cheesed off with this one that I binned the rest of the canopy as soon as I'd called it done! Good to know for a future build though, still love the shape of the Lightning and would happily give the Academy kit a go. 16 hours ago, Valkyrie said: All great, two navy birds are grand! What's the hairspray technique? Hi Valkyrie The hairspray technique is one method of enabling a chipped paint finish, where you have a base layer of paint, a layer of hairspray on top, and then a top coat on top of that. With acrylics, letting water soak into into the top coat reactivates the hairspray, making the top coat of paint loose, which you can then remove in part to expose the base layer of paint (the yellow green primer in the case of the Corsair I did). I found this youtube video a really helpful example of how to go about it, it covers other chipping methods, and the bit on the hairspray tecnhique kicks in about 1.10 into the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0f1MVUb5TA. Hope that's helpful. Cheers Adam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head in the clouds. Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Be proud, they are all nicely finished kits and a pleasant selection ta-boot. I agree with your comment on bad models/modellers but sometimes a kit will fight you all the way and test your limitations which can only be good, I am on 2 at the minute. One is the Heritage Harrier T2/4 and the second is a Whirlybirds Avro 707c. The Heritage kit is poor but I got as far as the canopy then ground to a halt. Both kits are my first attempt at resin and vacform respectively. Gary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Superb builds. The He 162 is great - would love to see a decent one done in 1/72. The Lanc is really neat and crisp too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 1 hour ago, doozer1974 said: Thanks chaps, much appreciated. Cheers Russ, I didn't know that about the windows. Unfortunately i was so cheesed off with this one that I binned the rest of the canopy as soon as I'd called it done! Good to know for a future build though, still love the shape of the Lightning and would happily give the Academy kit a go. Hi Valkyrie The hairspray technique is one method of enabling a chipped paint finish, where you have a base layer of paint, a layer of hairspray on top, and then a top coat on top of that. With acrylics, letting water soak into into the top coat reactivates the hairspray, making the top coat of paint loose, which you can then remove in part to expose the base layer of paint (the yellow green primer in the case of the Corsair I did). I found this youtube video a really helpful example of how to go about it, it covers other chipping methods, and the bit on the hairspray tecnhique kicks in about 1.10 into the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0f1MVUb5TA. Hope that's helpful. Cheers Adam Brilliant thanks! Certainly works on the corsair I will give it a go thanks again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlo Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Beatiful models, and your SU-27 sm looks bad bottom in that color scheme, i like it ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Great line up! The Heinkel He162 is my personal favourite. Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewy Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Very nice builds, like the corsair ,also the salamander 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Some very sweet modelling on display, good photogrphy too. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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