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[LorenSharp]

And here's my 6th entry:

Glenco/Strombecker

1/48

X-1B

Extra detail  , 3D printed parts, scratch building, Spare part junk box. Exterior New Metal Foil, paint, Model Master, AK-Interactive, and MIg Ammo.

 

 

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

 

[Colin W]

Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak

Special Hobby 1/48

This is my 3rd submission for this very active and interesting Group Build.

The model is of the first of the 3 aircraft and the one which broke the World Speed record 3 times.

 

Skystreak build thread is here

 

 

 

 

 

Here are my 3 contributions for the Research aspect of the Build.

Convair XFY-1 Pogo, Saunders Roe SR53 and the Skystreak.

 

 

Many thanks to @Col. , @Corsairfoxfouruncle and @Enzo the Magnificent for hosting the GB and to those who commented and joined in along the way.

 

[PeterB]

This is my build of the 1/72 Focke Wulf Ta 154 "Mosquito". The kit was originally released by Pioneer 2 but has been reboxed several times. I already have a PM boxing but this was in a more recent Airfix release with their Fw 190 as a Mistel. It is a fairly crude kit and needed quite a bit of work including adding detail from an Airwaves etched set. The build thread gives the full story - 

and here is the result.

 

The kit comes with FuG 220 radar aerials and markings for one of the early pre-production models but I decided to build it as the V7 which had no radar and was used for handling trials. Far from perfect and no doubt less accurate than the Hasegawa one but not too bad. I rather enjoyed building it though it was a pain at times.

 

Pete

[PeterB]

This is the old Frog Arado 234 kit built as the optional C-3 prototype V22 (or maybe V21 - sources are a bit vague) It is OOB except for  an "improved" cockpit and here is the link to the build.

 I have painted it in the "official" RLM 81/82 over 76 scheme though manufacturers were allowed to use up old stocks of 70/71/65 so I have no proof which colours it was actually painted - earlier prototypes were almost certainly in either the old colours or a mix of old and new but as this was quite a late one it may have been as I finished it.

Quite a crude kit by modern standards but it looks passable.

 

Pete

[PeterB]

And this is my final entry in this enjoyable GB, courtesy of the organisers. Many years ago I built the old Frog Arado 234B, but I decided to refurbish it alongside my build of the 4 engined 234C and was granted permission to put it in the gallery as it was, if anything, more work than a straight build as you can see from the thread.

In keeping with the GB I built it as the V10 (or maybe V9 as there is conflict between my sources regarding the markings), and I have painted it in a slightly unusual mix of old and new paint as seen on some production 234B found at Grove airfield at the end of the war - RLM 71/81/76.

 

So thanks to the organisers for yet another fun GB - time to get on with the next one!

 

Pete

Edited January 2, 2023 by PeterB

[zebra]

Here's the first of my pair of 1/72 Buccaneers. This is XK527, a development aircraft based at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor. It started life as one of the NA.39 pre-production aircraft and was progressively modified throughout its life, ending up as the S.2D I've depicted in my build. In the latter stages of its life it was used for development of the Sea Eagle missile, which I've done using Air-Graphic resin missiles. It also has a 3D-printed nose probe, an extra pitot on the starboard wing, and scratch-built ILS antennas (as they aren't included in the Airfix S.2C kit). Decals are from Kits-World. Build thread is here.

 

 

 

 

 

thanks for looking

Julian

 

 

 

 

[zebra]

Part two of my Buccaneer pair is S.2B XW987, an A&AEE aircraft in raspberry ripple. This one had various parts from other aircraft and a bit of a patched-up appearance - at various times it had different coloured bomb-bay fairings, radome and canopy frames but most photographs seem to show it with intakes in zinc chromate primer and a dark sea grey and dark green camouflaged fin. I've depicted it as it was in about 1992, with a black radome, white canopy frame and what appears to be a medium sea grey bomb-bay fairing - I chose this version because it had something under its wings (most photos show empty pylons) in the form of a buddy refuelling pod on one side and slipper tank on the other. This is the Airfix 1/72 kit with 26 decals, and the buddy refuelling pod, towel-rail antenna and wingtip-mounted cameras were 3D printed. Build thread is here.

 

 

 

 

 

and finally, a photo of my two Buccs together

 

 

thanks for looking

Julian

 

 

 

 

[LorenSharp]

And here's my final, I swear, entry for this outstanding GB An updated Oldie...

 Lindberg

1/48

Douglas X-3

Stiletto

 

 

Regular kit plus Printed Burner cans, better engines, detailed cockpit and bang seat, new nose. Scratch build the gear bays. Paint Mig-Ammo, Alclad II and New Metal Foil for winks.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and having a look around. You can find the WIP here:

 

[PhantomBigStu]

F-106 56-0459 Edwards Test Centre "The Red Baron" Hasegawa kit with scratched wing fences, Hasegawa lettering and stars and bars and home printed lettering. Painted with Xtracrylix Red Arrows Red. 

Edited January 6, 2023 by PhantomBigStu

[psdavidson]

My second entry, the Dora Wings GeeBee.

Humbrol acylic paint throughout

 

 

Build thread is here

 

 

[CliffB]

Second Prototype Avro Vulcan.

This is the 1/96 Lindberg kit, finished mainly OOB but with re-profiled air intake lips.

It was painted using white Tamiya Fine Surface Primer (from a rattle can), which polishes up quite nicely 

The decals are a mixture of aftermarket and home-made (thanks to @Adam Poultney for his artwork), sealed in with a light overcoat of a silky acrylic varnish.

Please note that the finished model is devoid of any probes etc, as this is the only way that it will fit in to my display cabinet!

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Courageous]

Here is my 5th completed entry for the GB.

High Planes kit

Yak 11 "Mr Awesome" with T-33 tail Reno Racer

1/72

Build log here: 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

Stuart

[zebra]

Here's my NASA F-106B. Trumpeter kit with 3D-printed J85 test engines and decals from various sources. Build thread is here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking 

Julian

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr T]

Supermarine S6B 1931, 1/72nd Pavla kit

this is my second entry to this GB. It is the Pavla kit from about 2006. It looks good on the sprue, but is a bit of a challenge with a lack of any positive location points for the parts, and it tends to fit where it touches. The blue is based on what I could find, mainly the excellent Haynes guide., rather than the finish of S1695 in the Science museum, which is allegedly to dark. Build thread is here.

Thanks to Col for hosting this very interesting GB and to the Magnificent Enzo for looking after us.

[bianfuxia]

Here is my 1/144 Boeing YUH-61A - the chopper that didn't win the contract to replace the Huey. What did win it? A little thing you might have heard of called BLACKHAWK, of which there have been about 5,000 made (including the naval Seahawk variant). Not the contract you wanted to lose!

 

 

This tiny thing is a resin kit from Anigrand - one of the "mystery kits" they include in their 1/144 "Huge Bird" sets. You might get a Nimrod or a big Russian bomber, say, and it'll come with three random kits of smaller craft, almost always obscure prototypes or even never-built design concepts. Online there's a list of what comes in each set but I can't seem to find it anymore.

 

 

If you're thinking the rotor blades are very close to the roof, you're right. Apparently they were on the real thing. Here they are obviously so close they'd be touching, but that's how it came out. Other than that the two big surprises were that everything fit really well (especially the side windows) and that, amazingly, it actually stands on its undercarriage without tail-sitting. Anigrand decals aren't great but these were good enough.

 

 

To give a sense of scale, because unfortunately I don't have a 1/144 Blackhawk to pose it with, I set it next to my Anigrand 1/144 Merlin. I know the Merlin is a larger category, but at least it's something.

 

 

 

Finally, a few of you who've got to know my builds will know I like to pose them out on the tarmac of my backyard airbase, in this case on the fringes of the base away from all the fastjet and cargo plane action.

 

 

The YUH-61A is blurry because....of the need to hide certain classified features? 

 

No, it's because my knees and elbows - required to get down low enough - are not rated for safe use on tarmac that's gotta be 50C today. It was so hot I was actually concerned the models would melt. I only got this one quick snap before I bailed out of that sun. So ....my wife's yoga mat is now an aircraft hardstand, up on a shadier part of our place.

 

Build thread below - thanks for looking!

 

 

 

 

 

[alt-92]

The infamous DH.108 Swallow in it's slightly more benign low-speed form.

 

Excellent video here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[nimrod54]

Benz Patent-Motorwagen 1886

inc. Bertha Benz and her sons Richard and Eugen

 

ICM 1/24

 

In the summer of 1888 Bertha Benz along with her two sons Richard (13) and Eugen (15) made a journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim to visit her mother in the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Knowing that her husband Karl would not have allowed the journey, the trio set off in silence early one August morning taking extra fuel for the journey with them. In Wiesloch they had to stop to buy more fuel at the local pharmacy, before continuing with their journey which was not without difficulties. There was no low gear, so the car often required Bertha and Richard to push on the uphill sections and Bertha was concerned about slowing down on downhill stretches. She also carried out maintenance along the way, unblocking a fuel line with a hatpin and repairing a broken ignition with her garter. Further assistance was needed during the journey - a broken drive chain was repaired by a blacksmith in Bruchsal. and in Bauschlott/Neulingen she asked a local cobbler to cover the worn wood brake blocks with leather. On arrival in Pforzheim she sent Karl a telegram to say that they had arrived it simply said "journey to Pforzheim succeeded - we arrived at Grandma's." 

 

After three days in Pforzheim they returned home to Mannheim along a different route, gaining more public awareness on the way. And so ended the first long distance journey (120 miles) by a petroleum vehicle. She made a written account of the trip on her return highlighting problems encountered and the solutions she had come up with. One of the suggestions she made to Karl for improvements included the addition of a low gear for the uphill stretches.

Thus the first recorded road test drive of a petrol vehicle was carried out by a woman, and the first written vehicle test report was by a woman too. It is also thought that the terms 'Brake Shoes' and 'Brake Linings' were a result of this journey and it is also the first instance of a TWOC-ing offence being committed.

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

Link to build 

 

 

[Alex Gordon]

G'day Chums,here's my attempt at the Airfix 1/48th scale Spitfire XVI,the build thread is here.

 

 

My thanks to Col,Dennis and Enzo and to all who chipped in and generally encouraged.

[Torbjorn]

A pair for the prototype category:

 

Thulin types N and NA, 1/72

 

 

The planes were likely built towards an expected procurement of scouts for the Swedish army aviation that never materialized. The N first flew in 1917 prior to the government competition that was eventually cancelled. No one seems to know why the type was further developed into the NA the following year. The Thulin Aero factory was run by its founder, Enoch Thulin, and he left nothing written to tell that story. Thulin himself crashed fatally in 1919 and his company went bust in the wake of surplus material flooding the market. Although the Thulin factory was shortlived, it laid in many ways the foundation of Swedish aero   industru. Thulin started by license-building primarily French planes and engines in 1914, and eventually developed a number of own design. The N and NA were the last of these.

 

The N had a sleek rounded fuselage of plywood on wooden frames, while the NA had a lighter and stronger metal skeleton but a less sleek appearance with a rectangular linen-covered aft fuselage. That and  improvements of the 9-cylinder Thulin G engine (itself a development of the Le Rhone rotary) gave the NA a top speed of 210+ km/h compres to some 160 km/h of the N. Another difference was that the NA had ailerons on both wings. Of some inexplicable reason the NA was made into a two-seater with a ridiculously cramped observer’s seat. 

 

 

I borrowed wheels and engines feom the spares box; the rest were scratchbuilt.

Build thread:

 

The NA is on the left:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The N had a varnished fuselage of formed plywood sheets:

 

 

[CliffB]

Bristol Type 138 - High Altitude Record Holder.

This is a 1/200 scale Shed Models, white metal kit finished using a mixture of Alclad and acrylic paints/varnishes.

 

 

Cheers

[KiwiJohn]

1926 Ford Flivver in 1/48 finished in Model T Ford black

 

 

You can just see the windscreen!

 

 

 

 

 

[Whirly]

Here is my first completed build, a Curtiss XP-40Q in 1/72 from the Pegasus kit.

Build thread is here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many thanks to  @Col. and   @Corsairfoxfouruncle for hosting the GB and to those who commented and joined in along the way.

[Lifeline]

Hasegawa 1/72 F-14A "Super Tomcat"

Always want to build this F-110 engined F-14A. 

Build almost OOB, just a few modification as noted in the WIP.

Thank you moderators for a great GB!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Mario

 

 

[Dermo245]

Hi all and here's mine, Grumman's model 303E which would become the F-14 Tomcat. 
The #1 prototype made its short maiden flight on December 21st 1970 with Grumman chief test pilot Robert Smythe in the front and project test pilot William Miller in the back.  On 30 December, on the aircraft's second flight, the aircraft was lost due to failure of a hydraulic pump which caused a total loss of flight controls. The crew managed to eject safely and the aircraft crashed short of the runway at Grumman's Calverton plant, New York.

 

The short build thread is here but to recap:

Kit: Revell 1/72 F-14D

Paints: Tamiya and Mr Hobby Acrylics

Decals: Caracal for 'F-14 Tomcat, the Early Years'

Mods: Earlier seats; modified wing gloves and fences with plasticard; earlier TF-30 engine nozzles; extended 'boat tail'; nose pitot

 

Thanks to the mods for a great group build and for all your comments and encouragement!

Cheers,

Dermot

 

Revell_1_72_Grumman_F-14_prototype_build (10) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

 

Revell_1_72_Grumman_F-14_prototype_build (15) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

 

Revell_1_72_Grumman_F-14_prototype_build (16) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

 

Revell_1_72_Grumman_F-14_prototype_build (5) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

 

Revell_1_72_Grumman_F-14_prototype_build (19) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr

 

 

[CliffB]

Fairey Long Distance Monoplane -  World Record Holder

 

This is the 1/200 scale Shed Models, white metal kit built OOB and finished mostly using Alclad.

In 1933, the Fairey LDM raised the world non-stop flight distance record to 5410 miles, flying from the UK to Namibia.

 

 

Cheers