qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) As Obi Wan Kenobe (would no doubt have) described these refined and shapely planes “An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.” A couple of lockdown builds. I had grander, more detailed plans for things to do with these kits but needed something to occupy a couple of days of low hassle, low stress. These geriatric Novo kits fit the bill nicely. Made out of the box with a little bit of tidying up cockpit innards, pilots from spares. As the kit decals were missing (Canberra) or beyond use (Sea Hawk) and to try and add a little colour variety to my collection I tried to come up with different from the norm schemes that I could achieve (or get somewhere close to) from spares (with some much appreciated help from @speedy where spares came up slightly short) I know there are loads of flaws with these builds but they made & make me happy so they’ve achieved their purpose Edited July 15, 2020 by LostCosmonauts 43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigbeale Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Great results. I agree, if you build them and you’re happy with them, you have succeeded with your goal. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 15 minutes ago, Brigbeale said: if you build them and you’re happy with them, you have succeeded with your goal Thanks, I hopefully serve a useful purpose in that new members can see my posts and think “If that knacker can put pictures of his shoddy workmanship and wobbly paint online then so can I” 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickandrews7 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 i like them, unusual topic choices:) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) 49 minutes ago, nickandrews7 said: i like them, unusual topic choices:) Thanks! Not ones that I’d have really thought to buy but I was asked to sell a job lot of kits by the widow of a modeller who got the (stash size/build rate)/longevity ratio a bit off. Once I’d sold the bulk of them these were among the stragglers she told me to just keep. (p.s. folks - just crack on and build things. I found loads of kit and parts receipts, magazines, clippings and notes going back 40 years in the boxes full of plans and things to do “one of these days when I get around to it”) I was going to turn the Canberra into the mooted P.12 interceptor version and the Sea Hawk into the one of the swept wing derivative prototypes but I found myself in need of something straightforward, sedentary and meditative to do. Adding the interior to the Sea Hawk and mixing up the decals and schemes gave me a bit of room for creativity without asking too much of myself Edited July 15, 2020 by LostCosmonauts 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Lovley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angell328 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Love them. 👍 Simple, fun kit building. Sometimes it is nice to just do an old kit out of the box build. I can get so caught up in all the detail modern kits deliver I can loose the joy of just building a kit over a weekend, like I did when I was a kid. So I have a few old airfix and matchbox kits in the stash that I pull out as a fun injections when I hit frustration points. Matt 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 For old kits they look really nice, especially that Canberra. Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapam Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Love to see low-stakes builds (so-to-speak) such as these. I've enjoyed looking at them as much as you enjoyed building them! Great work! 😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 These are a lovely pair of models @LostCosmonauts, and you have done a grand job on them. The Canberra especially rings a chord with me. Back in my yoof, many (too many!) years ago, my Dad and I were in a toy/model shop in either Tring or Leighton Buzzard and I saw what I now know as a Floor Standing Display Unit (or FSDU as we used to call them at work!) which had lots of models by some upstart company - it must have been upstart because it was not Airfix. Well, they had lots of stuff which was different to this 8-year-old, and I was like a donkey between two equidistant carrots: I did not know which way to turn! I saw a number of small boxed models I liked, and the Frog Canberra. I chose the Canberra as it was big and I was impressed. Dad asked if that was the one I really wanted, or I could get four of the smaller ones (Dad always did back my hobby!), but I chose the Canberra, especially as it had an off-centre canopy. Three hours later it was built, in all its shiny silver plastic with the transfers stuck on. I was still to learn about paints, and it was fun! Anyway, great job! All the best, Ray 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Ray S said: I chose the Canberra as it was big and I was impressed Thanks! This is probably the same mould as you made back then. I think the Frog tooling (or at least the non Luftwaffe stuff) all got sold to the USSR when they went bust in the 70s. I’ve been on a small nostalgia kick and pulling some of the older kits from the stash so you might also have eyed this Javelin kit I did in the May bank holiday blitz build on that shopping trip with your Dad. Edited July 16, 2020 by LostCosmonauts 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis Alfonso Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Congratulations for this pair of Wonderful build Friend!!! I am back to modeling and have some fifteen kits ready to paint, ones since some years ago, others from recent times, have cleaned my simple Badger 350 airbrush and have got another modeler offer to buy an old Thomas compressor, have been cleaning and conditioning a nice space to set the bench, and after a long time watching all those models will follow your path trying to finish many of them ASAP and for first time since I got membership here will be soon posting my very first build. Thank you very much for the inspiration and the joy to watch your work. Cheers, Luis Alfonso 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 47 minutes ago, Luis Alfonso said: for first time since I got membership here will be soon posting my very first build Thanks and I look forward to seeing your first (& then the other 14) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Fun sometimes get's forgotten about in this modelling lark so top marks for enjoying these two lovely builds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Very nicely done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Those both look excellent to my eye. I don't know if they are actual schemes or not but they look as though they could be. I'd call that a result. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Hi, simple is most of the time good! These two kits look great, and wished I could keep it that simple. I would definitely build far more kits than I do! Great modeling! Keep having fun. JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 27 minutes ago, stevehnz said: Those both look excellent to my eye. I don't know if they are actual schemes or not but they look as though they could be. I'd call that a result. Steve. As far as I can tell the Sea Hawk scheme is real. I was casting around for a suitable look and found this picture which looked pleasingly like a puffin so I had to do it. There are a lot of profile paintings and a couple of computer renders online for the Sea Hawk in this scheme (can't find any photos) describing it as a special scheme for trials with 700 squadron. I took a liberty by changing the Royal Navy lettering to white to show up better on the EDSG. It features on the Blackbird models colourful Sea Hawks decal sheet https://www.scalemates.com/kits/blackbird-models-bmd72018-colourful-sea-hawks--1123873 but I cobbled it together from xtradecal sheets of standard roundels and numbers. The gloss black canberra has far better evidence available as it was the finish VX185 got when it was converted into the B1.(8) prototype (see https://www.raf-in-combat.com/downloads/june-2017-english-electric-canberra-bi-8-part-1-50-photos/ first 3 images) - it looked too elegant not to do. Thanks to everyone who's liked these or commented positively - very much appreciated 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOD Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 That's a great scheme on the Sea Hawk, nice to see something other than plain old EDSG/sky (aka 123/90). I think I have an all red Sea Hawk on a Royal Navy Display Teams decal sheet that will look the biz when I get round to building it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qn30jEkPz7 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, TonyOD said: an all red Sea Hawk 738 squadron Red Devils? I look forward to seeing that. They look really smart in that finish https://mobile.twitter.com/CcibChris/status/1169288757327073282/photo/1 Edited July 17, 2020 by LostCosmonauts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOD Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 11 minutes ago, LostCosmonauts said: 738 squadron Red Devils? I look forward to seeing that. They look really smart in that finish https://mobile.twitter.com/CcibChris/status/1169288757327073282/photo/1 That’s the ones! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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