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I wished I had seen this when I did my Sioux so very long ago. Great precision work Martian. You da man! er... Martian.

That's looking great, I can remember seeing this car on the track in that scheme.

That is a lovely clean build of a great looking aircraft! Nice work!

Have you see this its a great build if you go back through the earlier installments https://youtu.be/aERR62wP6i8?si=potQ3u6lwNF4Tbzl

no, just slightly fond

Oh boy that's a nice build! Wonderfully done!

at the end they took the Hasegawa route 😕 Luigi

Very nicely done - really like the scheme, decalling and terrific weathering- and out of the box very impressive!

Finished a "Movie MiG". Iron Eagle (1986) Kfir C2 masquerading as a "MiG-23" of the "Bilyan AF". Hasegawa 1/72 Kfir C2. Seems like almost all the Kfir aftermarket is for the AMK kit, which apparently is almost impossible to find. I came to a sad conclusion: seems to me that the aftermarket producers made vastly more items for the AMK kit than actual AMK kits were produced in the first place. Meanwhile there are countless Hasegawa Kfirs about with very little designed just for them. So, I made do. - Fictional insignia were masked and sprayed. Did my best to make the stars' shapes look a bit hand-painted, as they really were (I took a screen shot showing one in the lineup having its tail star upside-down!). Roundels masked with -wait for it- leftover outer masking for tires (T-33 and F-100). - Adapted a lot of the Eduard brass detail for the AMK to this one. The AMK airframe is apparently slightly larger than Hasegawa, so there was much cutting and fitting. Wheel well detail had to be cut down a LOT, just enough to make the wells look "busy". - Reskit afterburner. Again, for the AMK kit, and was almost too large to fit. - Master Model brass pitot. Again for the AMK kit, but I think it should work with any kit. - Resin MB Mk 6 seat used, although the bottom third had to be thinned to fit. - Missile rails replaced with Navy F-4 rails from the old Hasegawa AAM weapons set - AIM-9D missiles from Academy F-8 kit with aft fins removed - makes no sense aerodynamically but really looks different and kind of cool. - Center tanks seen in film were the slimmer, more pointed style with simple aft fins instead of the fins-with-outer-fins. Kit tank was seriously sanded down to a better (not perfect) shape, and fins rebuilt. - Added re-shaped acrylic rhinestones to the landing lights. Interesting item: The insignia stars were not yellow, but 30219 Dark Tan, the same as the darker brown in the IAF F-16 and desert Kfir camouflages (and US SEA camo). After seeing the (larger) photos, I obviously need to touch-up the imperfections at the rear of the windscreen base Enjoy!

That's better. I did that last night but have only just had a chance to photograph and post it. The rest of today has been taken up with decorating No4 son's flat, a project which is likely to take us into August, which was already looking pretty busy with the lad himself taking part in a two week DoE expedition and No1 son getting married, so I have no idea at all when I'll be back at the bench, or the kitchen worktop or anywhere else for that matter. So until I have something more to report.... Onwards and Upwards, my friends.

I would have thought that the One Man Andover would be ideal. You can have it with kneeling main gears and it seems to build OK - just you might need a few tubes of filler for the print layers

Super nice and clean build!

Absolutely amazing build. Are the helmets out of the box?

Hi all, I’m working on an FAA IA-58 Pucará from the Falklands War/Guerra de las Malvinas, specifically one armed with LAU-3 rocket pods, and I’m trying to nail down the correct colours for the rocket heads and motors as they would have been seen in Argentine service. Does anyone happen to know what colours were commonly used for the rocket warheads and motors in this context? I've come across a few references showing different finishes—some look metallic, others olive drab or even black—but nothing definitive for how the Argentinians would’ve had them loaded in 1982. Any insight or photos would be a huge help! Cheers Mick

Bier shaped Just maybe in 1/24

Hmmm, the “Big” bit changes it slightly. Maybe the HAR.3 as a “suprise” in Sep as per the historic announcements. With the “Big” being a 1:24 Bae Hawk, or a new 1:24 Hurricane.

I'd love it if they did. The standard Breguet XIX isn't really my kind of thing but the Super Bidon most definitely is

Tamiya TS-13 This clear coat seems to be more expensive than a quality Malt Whiskey now, inc the Post and Packaging. My only local outlet was Hobbycraft, but they've stopped stocking it now. Any Ideas fellow modellers? TIA Tony

A new 1/48 English Electric Lightning up to their current standards would be nice. 🤔

Update on 3D Prints.... they printed lovely with one minor issue..... I printed them at 1:100 scale not 1:72! I model most aircraft at 1:10 scale in CAD as that makes life easier - easy conversion from real world values. It's easy to scale parts directly in the slicer software when I'm setting up the print. But for some reason I must have had a brain fart and scaled them to 10% not 13.889% (i.e. 1:100 not 1:72) - I thought they fit rather easily on the build plate. Really frustrating as they came out looking really nice. I've rescaled them to the right size now, but then had to redo all the supports because the supports for 1:100 are in the wrong places when the parts are now larger at 1:72. (doing the supports is a dark art and tedious). In the printer overnight as it says 6hrs 45min to print. Fingers crossed they are as nice at 1:72 as they appear at 1:100. 😳 Photos tomorrow once they are done and washed/cured.

Are we going to see the red Super Bidon?

Hello everybody, for gluing marked tape strips onto the two side blankets I had to modify my template. For this, I first needed a picture of the entire rod system, which I first traced and copied. I've then cut out the inner part and placed this template over the blanket foil and fixed it. Afterwards, using the same procedure as for the back, I was able to mark the corresponding tape strips for the two side parts using the template of the space probe model's rod system with the Acrylic marker. These are the strips for the right side, and here are the strips for the left side. And after gluing all the strips, the finished three-sided blanket looks like this. Now I just have to figure out how to proceed with it, because I think the inside of the blankets still have marking strips too, but I'll have to look at some of the original photos first. That was all a while ago.

Possibly, but that wasn’t true for any of the other markings; look at where the fuselage and upper wing luftwaffe markings were in relation to the Croat crosses. But thanks.

Oh deary yes, I forget a heck of a lot of stuff very easily, 25% I should forget, 75%, not really.