PhantomBigStu Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 (edited) First of several Edited November 3, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 I'm embarrassed to say i had actually forgotten about the Airliners Matchbox released, so all the more reason to be happy to see this one join us. Best of luck mate Cheers Pat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 That looks great Stu and I too am looking forward to seeing what's inside the box and how this little airliner kit builds up. Cheers, welcome aboard and best of luck.. Dave 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Never realised they did airliners! Was this an original or a Redbox from another manufacturer? Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, Max Headroom said: Never realised they did airliners! Was this an original or a Redbox from another manufacturer? These small scale airlines look to be original Matchbox 1990 releases Max. I’ll admit not knowing this until we got stuck into this GB and began compiling a list together. That plastic kit guru @Ratch pointed this out which was quite a surprise to me as well. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Lyttle Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I'll certainly be interested to see how things pan out with this in bigstu's capable hands. Afraid Matchbox Airliners passed me by as well. I've noticed that there are 4 listed and they are in 4 different scales, which isn't exactly a coherent approach. Maybe they were harking back to the ancient "Boxscale" ranges where the standard size boxes dictated the scale required! I've got a couple of old Revell kits like that, maybe Monogram had a range of these too? Anyway, good luck with this Stu 👍 Going Irish with this'un....?! ☘️ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 Made a start. Going to be the BA option. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Looks every bit like a Seven Thirty-Seven! Nice start. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 1/15/2022 at 3:48 AM, Rabbit Leader said: Looks every bit like a Seven Thirty-Seven! Nice start. Cheers.. Dave If only things had continued in the same vain, currently stripping the paint back to primer….. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) Stripped, windows refilled and sanded and more primer applied, hopefully the second lot of grey goes on better. Edited February 7, 2022 by PhantomBigStu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 Lot of sanding and repainting, now happy with the grey and the blues gone on, though it’s way darker than the decals so probably have to find an alternate or mix it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesModeller Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Blue doesn’t look too bad on my iPad Stu! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Looks pretty good to me Stu Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 4, 2022 Author Share Posted May 4, 2022 This stalled as had problems with the wing tips and some damage, haven’t binned this but not touched it other than to try a new blue I had acquired which better matched the decals, and as I’ve been struggling with mojo I’ve made the decision to put this away in the long term box as part of a mental refresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Hi Stu My apologies for not replying to this at the time. We have as you know a 2 week extension on this GB. I'm not sure if that's an opportunity to take another look at this one or to stick with your original decision to put it to one side. Either way best of luck with it, when you come back to it. Cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 15 hours ago, JOCKNEY said: Hi Stu My apologies for not replying to this at the time. We have as you know a 2 week extension on this GB. I'm not sure if that's an opportunity to take another look at this one or to stick with your original decision to put it to one side. Either way best of luck with it, when you come back to it. Cheers Pat Yeah won’t be squeezing this one in as part of the mojo burnout era, though maybe I might try the meteor…. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 As part of my crusade to turn all my dead threads into finished builds, one I've started this afternoon will take this over, does have a tenous matchbox link given one of the tempests will be using the leftover nose from my build in this gb so seems right.....anyway Kits a KP V that's becoming a VI...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 (edited) Dn plans scuppered at the start, the matchbox nose is too deep for the KP kit......so have to be a regular wartime 5, lucky my surgery has left the kits wing untouched so it will be proceeding, also means the academy will be the second choice scheme for a post war one…now which do I do first? Edited October 27, 2022 by PhantomBigStu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted October 28, 2022 Author Share Posted October 28, 2022 The VI is Back on again, seems I can just swap the radsiator part and use the Kp nose…also made a start on the repaint. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) Load of repainting progress on the v, might have had it decal ready had I not wasted a load of time cleaning up the wing where the tanks were, then deciding to fit bombs racks only to then have to remove them and spend even more time cleaning it up as they were used by like one unit on two sorties or something. Haven’t done much on the vi aside from assembly Edited October 30, 2022 by PhantomBigStu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) Decal ready with the decals I intended which can’t be used as is as revell stuffed them up, was going to paint them sky carefully cut instead found one from the same sqn for spares box code letters which by accounts was a prolific v1 killer. And yes I’m trying to get myself a v-1 Edited October 31, 2022 by PhantomBigStu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 (edited) Decals on, had also decided to cancel the conversion it became a complete mess and even doing it as v is became obviously a lot of work Edited November 2, 2022 by PhantomBigStu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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