matti64 Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 (edited) A Project that My Partner Fiona and I have been doing, Rendering some of our childhood favourite Matchbox kits in a more friendly 1/48th scale. First up is my Hawker Fury Edited August 22, 2018 by matti64 trying to add image. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatFlyHalf Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Hilarious project! Made me laugh. But if you were not from west Wales I'd say you'd been in the sun too long...... Hwyl fawr FatFlyHalf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 17 minutes ago, FatFlyHalf said: Hilarious project! Made me laugh. But if you were not from west Wales I'd say you'd been in the sun too long...... Hwyl fawr FatFlyHalf Diolch yn fawr. There will be three more to follow, but thats the only one which is 100% mine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Da iwan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbag Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 10 minutes ago, celt said: Da iwan Well I thought they were very good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) Next one is an F-5A which it about 50% my input. Actually Kinetic. It has not been an easy task with this project to pick the subjects which were firstly fondly remembered as Matchbox kits and seccondly have worthwhile counterparts in 1/48th scale which would be easy to pass off as their Matchbox counterparts. For instance there are not many 1/48th scale F-14's that include canopy frame as part of the canopy moulding. The third factor was choosing subjects for which the original Matchbox kits came in interesting colours. Edited August 23, 2018 by matti64 additional text. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 What a great idea – instant nostalgia for us who were teens when the Matchbox range was launched! Airfix has a Walrus waiting for a similar treatment… Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Love 'em😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 15 hours ago, Spitfire31 said: What a great idea – instant nostalgia for us who were teens when the Matchbox range was launched! Airfix has a Walrus waiting for a similar treatment… Kind regards, Joachim Go for it Joachim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) This one is all Fiona Holdens work apart from a little bit of filling with Milliput as she's allergic. Revell issue of Hasegawa. Edited August 24, 2018 by matti64 images not embedded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matti64 Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 The last one is about 50:50 each. My contribution was the masking and all of the decal work on the fins. It had to be the ~Monogram kit because, as previously mentioned it was the only kit available with the canopy frame all moulded intransparent plastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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