The Salty Sea Dog 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.

[Luke1199]

F8F-1 Bearcat- Hobbyboss 1/72

 

Super fun build, top quality kit- I hope Hobbyboss keep releasing these style kits. Build thread can be found here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for following along! More to come...

[theplasticsurgeon]

Airfix Supermarine Seafire XVII,  800NAS Royal Navy.

 

[Touvdal]

 

 

Cheers

Jes

[Faraway]

HMAS Castlemaine. 

Black Cat Models 1/350

 

 

 

[stevej60]

Hi folk's 1st build finish and the not so serious but still a blast build done Airfix's Banshee.

 

 

 

 

[flashlight]

Good day everybody,

 

finished my first contribution yesterday. It's Academy 1/72 USN F-8E Crusader, converted to an French Navy F-8P with folded wings. Thanks to all who followed, commented and liked, and a huge thanks to our hosts!

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

[Andwil]

Mitsubishi A5M-2b “Claude” flown by Lt Tamotsu Yokoyama, Buntai-cho  (flight or squadron leader) Soryu fighter squadron, November 1939.  Hobby Boss kit, stencils from Berna set 72-66.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AW

[Faraway]

KFK Kriegsfischkutter (Armed Trawler) 1/350 by ICM

 

 

 

 

[Touvdal]

Fisished

 

 

 

 

Cheers

Jes

[Louise]

KOVOZÁVODY PROSTĚJOV Supermarine Seafire Mk. Ib, MB340, RN Air Section, Port Reltz, Mombasa late 1944, flown by L/Cdr Duncan Hamilton

 

 

 

 

 

[theplasticsurgeon]

The Salty Sea Dog GB, this time Tiger Hobby 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire V floatplane.

 

 

[psdavidson]

Airfix Trafalgar Class Submarine (HMS Trafalgar) 1/350

 

Build thread is here

 

[flashlight]

My second contribution to this GB is finished.

 

The WIP thread for anyone interested:

Beriev Be-200ES 'Altair', 1/144 Zvezda

 

 

[Bertie McBoatface]

On 12/19/2022 at 5:43 PM, Enzo the Magnificent said:

 No more than five photos per entry.

 

Excess photos will have to be deleted but a link to your WIP can take your fans to a bazillion pictures of your masterpiece if you wish. 😀

[airfixpeter]

Airfix 1/48 lynx HMA. 8

A trouble free build for a change and I have gone for the folded up version not only that it saves on shelf space. 

 

[TEMPESTMK5]

                                                                       Academy NA T6 SNJ4 Flotille 5S Base Aeronavale Lartigue Algéria 1955

 

 

Brush Painted with Humbrol Metalcoate

Eduard Detailling Set 

Berna decals sheet

 

 

Build thread is here

 

Thank you for looking

Best Regards

Patrice

[SoftScience]

 

My first completed project for this Group Build and first one over the finish line for 2023.  Airfix's 1/48 Sea Fury built up as an aircraft flown No. 805 squadron of the Royal Australian Navy in the mid 1950s. On August 30th, 1955 this airplane was flown by Lieutenant John Bluett who shot down an unmanned runaway Auster Archer over Broken Bay, NSW. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AliGauld]

My first completed build for this GB.

Trumpeter 1/48 Supermarine SeaFang F. Mk.32

Straight OOB apart from tape belts.

 

Build Thread Here.

 

 

 

 

 

Many Thanks to all who've commented, reacted and looked at this build.

And, of course a huge thanks to @TonyOD and @Col. for hosting and keeping this together.

 

Cheers,

Alistair

[Andwil]

Indian Navy Sea Harrier FRS.51 INS Viraat (ex HMS Hermes).  Hasegawa 1/72 kit with CtA Decals, Master pitot, Matra Magic missiles pinched from a Modelsvit Mirage IIIE in the stash.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[flashlight]

My third completed build, Hasegawa 1/72 Shinkai 6500 research submersible

 

WIP-thread:

 

 

Thanks to all!

[PeterB]

This is the old Hasegawa 1/72 kit of the Grumman F9F-8 Cougar, their first swept wing aircraft to enter production and essentially a conversion of their F9F Panther which had straight wings. A nice simple kit.

I have used the kit decs for an F9F-8B flown by VF-81 who at that time were called the Crusaders, but later when equipped with the A4 Skyhawk they became VA-81 and shortly afterwards changed their name to the Sunliners.

 

Pete

[PeterB]

This is my attempt at the old Emhar 1/72 F3H Demon. A slightly crude kit so I have used some etch and a resin nose. The white metal Aeroclub undercarriage was frankly worse than the kit one to my mind and I had to use the kit canopy which is probably not as accurate as the replacement vac-formed one I had intended to use, had it not been damaged. The panel lines are a bit like those on a matchbox kit but in the end it has come out fairly well. Here is the build thread.

I have used aftermarket decs to finish it in the markings of VX-4 who flew it when testing various missile fits - in this case I think they are meant to be Sparrow I though they have a slightly blunt nose compared with the ones on my Cutlass and could just possibly be intended to be Sparrow II. It was one of the planes that suffered from poor engines and was underpowered, so McDonnell came up with both a twin engined version and one with a much more powerful single engine as the F3H-G/H which would be developed into the F4H Phantom II. The Demon was not a great success itself but it laid the foundations for a legend!

 

Pete

Edited February 7, 2023 by PeterB

[PeterB]

This is my 30 year old Fujimi 1.72 Cutlass which I have built like the Demon in the markings of VX-4 who used them to test the weapons fit. A complicated looking plane and not a great success, due in part to the same sort of engine problems suffered by the Demon and a number of other designs whilst the US aero engine industry was getting the hang of jets. Here is the build thread.

Other than the nose leg and the slats it went together pretty well.

 

Pete

[JOCKNEY]

Here's my Mach2 Republic Seabee.

 

If the aircraft looks familiar it made an appearance in a James Bond film many years ago.

 

Thanks for all the support and encouragement during the build I hope you like it.

 

Cheers Pat