Anything But Injection Gallery

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Post your completed builds here. No more than five photos per entry.

Please do not post comments in this thread. All comments should go in the subject's build thread

[Mjwomack]

If all goes to plan this will be the 'competition' gallery. Though I don't think they'll be any tangible prize. There's a second gallery for those who are happy just to get over the line with no voting. 

This should solve some of the logistic problems of trying to run a large poll in this thread

[theplasticsurgeon]

Arba 1/48 Gloster E28/39.

[Heather Kay]

1/43rd Dennis F8 Pump Tender

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dennis Brothers set up the UK's first car factory in Guildford, Surrey, towards the end of the 19th Century. The company eventually became renowned for building service vehicles of all kinds. You can still see the Dennis name on buses and refuse lorries (I still call the latter "dustcarts", because I am old), though the company as such no longer exists. 

 

One of a long line of fire appliances, built to meet British Home Office specifications as well as the specific requirements of various fire services, the Dennis F8 was introduced in 1952. It was a big hit, being a relatively small vehicle which meant it was able to work in narrow streets that larger appliances couldn't necessarily fit into. The pump tender, essentially what most fire appliances are to this day, could be referred to as a "first responder". It carried water in a tank, hoses and rescue equipment in the various lockers along the sides, a 35ft extendable ladder, and a powerful pump, as well as up to five or six firefighters, and was powered by a 4.2 litre 6-cylinder Rolls-Royce diesel engine.

 

The kit was made in the early 2000s. It has a one-piece resin body and cab interior, cast whitemetal chassis and running gear, cast brass detail parts, and PE brass brightwork and ladder. I have made a generic model of an F8, based on various preserved vehicles. I added some extra details to the cabin, as well as scratch building some parts like the windscreen wipers, spot lamp and the door mirrors. I'm really happy how this model turned out, though there are parts I could have done better. The fire station branding is completely fictitious, as is the number plate, but you might like to know Stoughton is the district in Guildford where the Dennis factory was situated.

 

The WIP thread is here:

 

 

[JWM]

Shcherbakov Shche 2 (or Sche 2), the Soviet WW2 light transport and parachute trainer. Besides USSR few of them were used in Poland (1945 - 1947) and Yugoslavia (1945-49). The model presents one of five Shche-2 used since March 1945 in Polish People's Army co-belligerent with Red Army.  Machine was used as parachute trainer. Model is Broplan (1/72) vacu, I replaced wheeles and u/c oleos by pieces of Russian kit of La-5 and props and engines by resin copies of ICM Po-2 ones.  

 

Regards

Jerzy-Wojtek

 

[theplasticsurgeon]

Rareplane 1/72 North American AJ-2P Savage of US Navy VJ-61.

 

 

 

[JOCKNEY]

Unicraft Daimler Benz "Jäger" 1/72 Resin Kit

 

Classic Luft 46 design, unfortunately never built, which for the pilots sake was probably just as well going by them being diced and sliced by the contra rotating props immediately behind the canopy !

 

Work in progress below

 

 

Picture below, I hope you like them

 

Cheers Pat

 

 

 

 

 

 

No satsuma were harmed in the taking of this last photo

[Jb65rams]

Roman Catapult

120mm Verlinden Products

A very simple, but enjoyable build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LorenSharp]

              Planet Models

            Grumman XF-10F Jaguar

           1/48

 

Thanks for stopping by to view. You can find the WIP here

 

[airfixpeter]

Gpm 1/33 card B-17 

Not the easiest kits to make especially in card 

[stevehed]

This is the Joystick 1/72 vac form Albatros C1, active on the Western Front circa 1915-16 and into 1917 on the Eastern Front and other quieter sectors.

 

[PeterB]

Ok, I called this 3 tank destroyers but that is not strictly correct.

The first one up is the A30 Challenger which is a tank, but it was a modified Cromwell with a longer and slightly wider hull and a ruddy big turret mounting the long 17pdr gun, and was rushed into service to strengthen the troops of Cromwells which had a short 75mm gun that could not deal with the Panthers, Tigers and the like that they would be facing after the return to Europe following the D-Day landings at anything but short range. It was designed quite simply to kill German Tanks!

This is in the markings of the 2nd Northants Yeomanry prior to their disbanding in mid August 1944.

 

The next one is the Archer which was a genuine tank destroyer albeit an improvised one with a 17 pdr mounted on an old Valentine tank chassis, and the gun actually pointed backwards as that was the only way to get it on! This is the "front" view.

And this the "back".

I have modelled it in the markings of 102 Anti Tank Regiment of the Royal Artillery, part of the 15th (Scottish) Division. It was a bit of a lash up but actually worked rather well. 

 

Finally we have the US M 18 Hellcat, another genuine Tank Destroyer based on the US philosophy of big gun and thin armour, relying on its speed to get it out of trouble - sounds good on paper but did not always work out!

This is one used during the Anzio amphibious landings in Italy.

 

All 3 are Milicast 1/76 resin models, and both the Hellcat and particularly the Archer were genuine kits in that they had quite a few parts and needed some proper modelling, unlike most of the others I have done in this GB.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

[bianfuxia]

This is my Metal Earth kit of the Kepler Space Telescope. 

 

Not sure what the scale is. The model is 60mm long and the real thing was 4.7m long so the scale is...beyond my maths capability to work out.

 

The telescope was launched in 2009 into an "Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit" which basically means cruising along behind the Earth as the planet orbits the sun. It just pointed at one spot in the sky - which included over 150,000 stars - and watched for the faint dimming of light that happens when a planet crosses in front (basically an eclipse). This way, it found 2,662 planets outside the solar system from more than half a million stars it observed.

 

It ran out of gas in 2018 so it could no longer point itself accurately. That was the end of the mission, but presumably it's still drifting along up there until (a) the sun explodes (b) an alien ship uses it for target practice or (c) some future earth spacecraft crashes into it. Or maybe (d) and asteroid hits it. 

 

The Metal Earth kit is actually pretty easy to build if you are patient and have either great eyesight or a really good magnifying glass (I used the latter). The build thread, linked after photos, shows the way the construction worked.

 

EDIT: I decided after posting here that I would try a bit harder and add gold foil and paint the solar cells. So these are the new pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the build thread:

 

 

Edited July 11, 2021 by bianfuxia
update photos

[AdrianMF]

Here's a scratch built 1/72 Snargasher. You don't see many of 'em about. Everything is made from sheet wood, plastic sheet/rod/tube, metal tube/rod/tape/foil, car filler and Milliput, held together by lashings of superglue, Contacta and PVA glue. I "cheated" and cast my main wheels from the back of an Airfix Spitfire wheel but otherwise everything has been measured once and cut at least twice by my own fair hand.

 

Build process is here should you be interested. Pictures? Sure:

 

And with a Miles Magister for scale to show how tiny it is:

 

Thanks for a great GB. It's such a refreshing change to see all the different builds on here.

 

I fancy a cheeky ANZAC Tiger Moth next to keep up to date with all the Airfix Moth colour schemes, then I hope to return with some Gloster Goodness from Magna Models.

 

Regards,

Adrian

[Mr T]

This is my Magna MB3 in 1/72nd scale. One of the older Magna kits. I  have doubts about some the shape of parts of the fuselage around the nose and the rear spine. 

WIP is here

 

Edited May 12, 2021 by Mr T

[JOCKNEY]

A+V Models 1/72 Focke-Achgelis Fa 225

 

First time, I've built an A+V kit, so pleased to finish this one, I hope you like it

 

cheers Pat

 

 

 

 

[PeterB]

A few years back I bought a CMR Resin 1/72 kit of the Sopwith Dolphin fighter and this GB gave me the excuse to build it. 

 

 

It went together pretty well except for a small problem with the undercarriage, and it is almost entirely OOB. I had to replace the axle with brass rod, and decided to use Aeroclub guns as I thought they looked better than the kit offerings, but other than that the only thing I added was a windscreen made from scrap packaging. I used the kit decals for a plane from 19 Squadron which was flown allegedly by Lt. C. Montgomery-Moore when shooting down a Fokker D.VII on October 30th 1918. It is painted in old White Ensign Colourcoats Khaki and Doped linen and some may say it is a bit too green - but it does take on a quite a browninsh tinge in some lighting.

 

It is a decent enough kit of a somewhat  under-kitted aircraft which served with some distinction, but is usually overshadowed by the Camel, SE5a and Snipe. The Dolphin was considered by some to be a better fighter than the Snipe, but the latter remained in service for several years after the war ended whilst the Dolphin virtually vanished overnight.

 

See you in the next GB!

 

Pete

Edited May 31, 2021 by PeterB

[theplasticsurgeon]

Rareplane 1/72 Douglas KA-3B Skywarrior.

[825]

Supermarine Seafire MkIb, Czech Master Resin kit in 1:72. Canopy and exhausts from the Spit/Seafire spares box. Otherwise OOB apart from Kits World 3D printed seat belts. Brush painted with Xtracrylix Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey over Sky and finished with Liquitex Matt Varnish. 

 

Completed as MB348 of 880 Naval Air Squadron based at Gibraltar in 1943. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[825]

Parnall Plover. A Chorosay Modelbud resin kit in 1:72. A contemporary of the Fairey Flycatcher but only about 20 built and had a short careeer with the FAA and was replaced by the Flycatcher. Straight out of the box, brush painted with Revell Aluminium and matt black glossed up with Kleer. Basic rigging with SBS etch. Completed as N9702 of 403 Flight based at RNAS Leuchars and HMS Hermes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ray S]

Hello all! This is my completed 'Anything but Injection' subject, the 1/72 Aeroclub Felixstowe F.2a flying boat. It was a vacform kit, with white metal detail parts, transfers and some injection moulded strut material (for the smaller struts). There was a little scope for a spot of scrtach building, which I took advantage of. The kit-supplied transfers were excellent, but I had to replace the lower wing roundels (one was disintegrating) with a pair from Blue Rider. The white Swirls for the main colour scheme were from AIMS Decals sheet 72D004. Paintwork was Humbrol enamels, brush-painted.

 

The build log is here:

 

 

The photographs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Ray

[Louise]

Royal Yugoslav Air Force, Dewoitine D.1bis No. 6, Novi Sad airfield 1924. The kit is made by Choroszy Modelbud, 1/72 scale resin, though not for this particular version (the kit is for No. 5 that went to Japan and sports Japanese markings).  Changes and details added can be found in the build thread HERE.

 

The markings are approximate, best made with my spares stock and freehand, but it's close enough to satisfy my needs and add one more aircraft to my RYAF collection.

 

 

[Kallisti]

1:48 Babylon 5 Starfury

3D print kit plus scratch built base

 

Build thread with lots more completed photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jb65rams]

Fairey Gannet AEW.Mk.3

1/72 Alley Cat. (Resin with white metal)

 

XL471 - D Flight. 849 NAS, HMS Eagle, 1970.

 

 

 

 

[djktrumpet]

Percival Mew Gull

1/48 resin - Heritage Aviation

 

The Percival Mew Gull was the pre-eminent British racing plane of the 1930s. Alex Henshaw, later chief test pilot for Vickers Supermarine at their Castle Bromwich factory in WWII, flew his Mew Gull, G-AEXF, to victory in the 1938 King's Cup, and the following year used the same aeroplane to fly from London to Cape Town and back, completing the round trip in four days, ten hours and 16 minutes, and setting a record which stood for over 70 years. The original aircraft survives (albeit after suffering significant damage and subsequent restoration) and is now owned by the Shuttleworth Collection.

This is a 1/48 resin kit by Heritage Aviation, with some added PEB and scratch-built cockpit detail, my first attempt at a vac-formed canopy to replace the kit parts which were somewhat problematic, and home-produced markings based on the description of 'racing green' wingtips and serials in Henshaw's book 'The Flight of the Mew Gull'.

It is a truly diminutive aircraft; this 1/48 scale model is a very similar size to a Messerschmitt Bf109E in 1/72!

 

 

Build thread is here: