Milo Black Posted May 31, 2010 Posted May 31, 2010 (edited) Hurro! Thanks to the immense generosity of Erwin, my partner's 11-y-o daughter Sophie will be building the Matchbox 1/72 Halifax (probably with a bit of help from me here and there, but she does want to do the bulk of it herself). Sophie built a P-51 Mustang for the Airfix Starter Kit GB, and is gradually filling her "model shelf" with completed builds, after she watched me working on a 1/72 Vulcan and thought "I'll have some of that" I'm away from home this week, but sprue shots and starting pics will be up next weekend. Edited July 3, 2010 by Deon
Erwin Posted May 31, 2010 Posted May 31, 2010 (edited) to the groupbuild Sophie. I hope you have fun building it. Are you going to build it unpainted,mini paintplan or fully painted ? Edited May 31, 2010 by Erwin
Deon Posted May 31, 2010 Posted May 31, 2010 That's it Sophie, in at the deep end! If its as good as the P51, it'll look great
Milo Black Posted June 1, 2010 Author Posted June 1, 2010 to the groupbuild Sophie.I hope you have fun building it. Are you going to build it unpainted,mini paintplan or fully painted ? Never one to do things by halves, I think she's decided on fully-painted, Erwin.
Milo Black Posted June 5, 2010 Author Posted June 5, 2010 Starting pics: Three colour moulding, lots of plastic in the box and the decals look usable... game on
Deon Posted June 5, 2010 Posted June 5, 2010 looking forwards to this one, its a fair sized kit for little hands
Milo Black Posted June 14, 2010 Author Posted June 14, 2010 Finally dived into this yesterday...... Pilots, of course Having showed her how to dry-brush to bring out the moulded detail... ... she got the hang of it immediately ... so the "office" is done! 1
ollieholmes Posted June 15, 2010 Posted June 15, 2010 Thats some very tidy painting. I dont think i could paint those size figures so well.
Milo Black Posted June 20, 2010 Author Posted June 20, 2010 I'm afraid I can't see this getting finished in the next two weeks - it's a big kit, and there has been no progress this weekend (FAR too much TV to watch, it appears.....). Erwin, I feel really bad about this, since you donated the kit - I'll be happy to return it to you. It's a shame she's actually started it at all in some ways. PM me with your address if you would like this. Not a happy bunny.
Erwin Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 (edited) I'm afraid I can't see this getting finished in the next two weeks - it's a big kit, and there has been no progress this weekend (FAR too much TV to watch, it appears.....).Erwin, I feel really bad about this, since you donated the kit - I'll be happy to return it to you. It's a shame she's actually started it at all in some ways. PM me with your address if you would like this. NO WAY !! I gave it for her to build. She's doesn't have to feel bad if she can't make the deadline at all. Can't expect an eleven year old girll to only build models and not play or watch her favourite programs. She can carry on at her own speed and post the finished model in the gallery even after the end of the GB. Edited June 21, 2010 by Erwin
Deon Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 Here, here, we look forward to seeing it as it progresses, whenever that is There's no point in adding GB deadlines to a heavy work load of homework!
Milo Black Posted June 20, 2010 Author Posted June 20, 2010 OK, guys, thanks for that. You can understand I don't want to chivvy her along too much - I don't want it to be "something Milo wants me to do" rather than "something I want to do", which is of course the point. I'll let you know as and when things develop.... whenever that is.
Smudger2 Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 I'm afraid I can't see this getting finished in the next two weeks - it's a big kit, and there has been no progress this weekend (FAR too much TV to watch, it appears.....).Erwin, I feel really bad about this, since you donated the kit - I'll be happy to return it to you. It's a shame she's actually started it at all in some ways. PM me with your address if you would like this. Not a happy bunny. Hi, Let her take her time with it,there is a lot of parts in that kit,it might look a bit daunting to an 11 year old,afterall the holidays are almost upon us,she will have 6 weeks to play with it. Regards Rob.
Milo Black Posted June 22, 2010 Author Posted June 22, 2010 Bit of progress this evening. Rear Turret: ... and getting the main fuse together I think she may have zipped this up now - she was down scrounging Tamiya tape earlier - so I think this marches.
Milo Black Posted June 26, 2010 Author Posted June 26, 2010 This has been quietly proceeding apace over the last few evenings - not as many progress pics as I would have liked, but Sophie generally forgets to take them when she's on a roll...... It appears that the fuse was zipped up by Wednesday ..... ... and somewhere between Wednesday and Friday evenings, we arrived here ..... She seems to have run into a few things - the carpet-monster ate a transparent part, u/c legs got broken coming off the sprue - but she's found her own solutions (one of the windows is now made of cling-film), and the first I knew of any of it was yesterday evening when she said "nearly finished" I've suggested painting the exhausts, canopy framing, retouching the paintwork a little and maybe some exhaust staining on the wings... she also noticed the radio aerials..... but what she'll decide to do is of course down to her. She may just go for "decals and done". I'll let you know
stevehnz Posted June 26, 2010 Posted June 26, 2010 Great effort for a youngster, you go Sophie. Steve
Milo Black Posted July 3, 2010 Author Posted July 3, 2010 Finished!!! (Oh me of little faith ) I had little or nothing to do with this build - this happened in The Holiest Of Holies (i.e. Sophie's bedroom), well away from prying eyes and any (possibly) helpful suggestions from know-nothing grown-ups... More pics in the gallery.
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