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My sixth build for this enjoyable GB. Sukhoi T4 Sotka, Amodel 1/72 fibreglass & injection moulded and painted with various shades and mixes of Alclad.


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Too big for my normal photoography setup!

 

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Hi all

Just got this one over the line before the deadline.  This is the Williams Brothrrs 1/32 scale kit.  The cockpit has a fair amount of scratch additions and the engine also had extra detail added.  The main thing was to cut off the lift out cockpit access section .  Quite pleased with this, brushpainted with Humbrol enamels the wing scallops were painted using masking tape masks drawn and cut using the scale plan on the instruction sheet and the fuselage and wheel spats scallops were painted free hand.

Rigged with Prym Knitting elastic and brake lines or cables and cowl support cables are invisible thread made taught by holding a soldering iron.  Weathered with oils and weathering powders.

 

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Thanks to Col, Dennis and Enzo and thanks to those who offered encouragement

Chris

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1/48 Scratchbuilt Geest fighter, based on the Aviatik DII but with the Mowe wing which has an aero foil section along the wing and across and a zananoia like profile. This was the last machine built with the Mowe wing.
 

 

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9-B53801-D-C03-A-4629-90-D9-BA784-C55238

 

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Here's my three-engined Boeing 757. It's Honeywell's testbed, N757HW, with a 3D-printed TPE-331 test engine and prop and home-made decals, with windows and detail decals from  a 26 Decals set. Build thread is here

 

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thanks for looking

Julian 

 

 

 

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McDonnell-Douglas F-15

71-0280, the first prototype

27 July 1972

 

Kit:   Hasegawa 1/72 JS-097

Decals:  Caracal Models 72087

Build thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235116850-f-15-prototype/ 

 

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Dassault Mirage F1

the first prototype

23 December 1966

 

Kit:   Revell 1/72 04353 (reboxed Hasegawa)

Build thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235116042-dassault-mirage-prototypes/

 

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Dassault MD550 Mirage III

prototype

1956

 

Kit:   AML 1/72 72018

Build thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235116042-dassault-mirage-prototypes/

 

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De Havilland DH.110

WG240

DH Hatfield, 1952

 

Kit:  Xtrakit 1/72 XK72003

Build thread:  https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235116521-de-havilland-dh110/

 

 

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Hawker Tempest Mk I

HM599, first prototype

24 February 1943

 

Kit:  Kovozavody Prostejov 1/72 KPM0252 "At War" boxing

Build thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235115530-hawker-tempest-mk-i-and-mk-v/

 

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Hawker Tempest Mk V

NV768

Napier Annular radiator testbed

 

 

Kit:  Kovozavody Prostejov 1/72 KPM0221 "Series 1" boxing

Aftermarket:  Kora Models C7202 conversion kit

Build thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235115530-hawker-tempest-mk-i-and-mk-v/

 

 

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NASA lifting bodies

 

Build thread:  https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235115172-we-have-the-technology/

 

Clockwise from the white pointy one:

 

Mach 2  X-24B

Anigrand HL-10

Anigrand M2F2

Mach 2 X-24A

 

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Lotus 72E

John Player Team Lotus

Italian Grand Prix, 11 February 1973

Driver:  Emerson Fittipaldi finished in second place.

 

Kit:  Ebbro 1/20 20003

Build thread:  https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235115536-jps-lotus-72/

 

 

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This is the Chinese deep sea submersible research vehicle named Jiaolong (pronounced, very roughly, Jee-ow Loooong...the "long" is a similar sound to Oolong Tea). The name refers to a mythical "flood dragon" (the word long 龙 means dragon, and the wiki link I just gave has an interesting analysis of the jiao 蛟).

 

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The Jiaolong reached the then-record depth for a craft of this type - 7,000 meters - in 2012. Since then, China's newer Fendouzhe submersible made it to 10,909 meters  in the Mariana Trench.

 

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This was essentially a snap-tight build which I did without glue (except maybe on one ill-fitting part) and without paint except for some silver on the floodlights. It was just fun putting it together, no muss no fuss.

 

In the pic below you can see it in my "space and research" display at bottom left, next to the Hasegawa kit of Japan's Shinkai 6500, a similar snap-tight kit of a similar craft which once held a similar world record...at 6500 meters (the clue's in the name, Dad, as my kid would say).

 

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Fun build and there should be more kits of quirky things like this! 

 

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Here's my Tiger Meet Mirage 2000C - Modelsvit kit, Syhart decals. Fun little build, very nicely detailed kit, short run but I don't think short run means what it used to mean any more! Build thread is here

 

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thanks for looking

Julian

 

 

 

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Here is my second completed build, a Pilatus PC-6 in 1/72 from the old Classic Plane kit.

It is a very special scheme applied by the Austrian Air Force in 2000 to use it as a recruitment tool. The plane was sold in 2012 and moved to the USA, apparently keeping this livery up to now.

Build thread is here: 

 

 

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Thanks for looking!

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G-CPET in the retro Negus livery applied in late 2010 to mark the withdrawal from service of British Airways Boeing 757s:

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Zvezda kit with the usual Halfords Appliance White, Holts HL Grey01 and Humbrol HU15 for the main colours.  Decals are mainly from S&M Models with a few from 26decals.

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