Vulcanicity's 2017

[Vulcanicity]

My 2017 has seen an increase of one model on my measly total of three each for 2015 and 2016! Much of the year has been spent on the Matchbox Stranraer and Heyford, but those are mammoth builds that will stretch well into next year.

As usual all of these are 1/72 and largely brush-painted.

 

From January to March I built the Revell Hunter (while at work in Borneo!) in the colours of the little-seen 63 Squadron RAF.

 

 

 

From April to June (and at least partly in Borneo) I built the Airfix Swift, with lots of extra Eduard PE.

 

 

 

On return from the Orient, and after finishing the Swift I attended to some unfinished business from 2016: the restoration of an old MPM Defiant I'd built back in 2008 - using lots of Airfix kit parts and a fair amount of scratcbuilding and modifications to make it look a bit more like an actual Defiant.

 

 

 

Then it was on with the big Matchbox projects, but I paused in November-December to tackle the AZ Chipmunk, one of those "two weeks-maximum" builds that turned out to be less simple than I thought!

 

 

 

That's it, and thanks for looking! As usual, I intend to built more next year. As usual, I shall probably fail!

 

 

 

 

 

[SimonT]

All very nice, I especially like the Swift.

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Great work on everything 👍 I really like the Hunter and Defiant.

[AdrianMF]

Very nice. I built the MPM Defiant a while back (before the new Airfix one came out) and I thought it was pretty good - I guess the bar has been raised by the new one. And I keep meaning to do a Chipmunk in those colours but never quite get around to it!

 

Regards,

Adrian