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Paint 'n' Dirt.
The missing part has arrived, so I've finished it.
That is impressive...
Ta. It's bloody enormous!
Bit of progress on the Tomcat.
Spent a miserable afternoon trying to get decals to wrap around the missiles. Anyway... job done.
Hasegawa F14 1/72
Done!
Very nice
Love the Sundowners Scheme on the F14. Did an F4 some time back with the same scheme, always looks good.
Nice kit, 👍
Thanks.
Odd isn’t it? Low visibility national markings and a bright red tail and shark mouth.
I suppose when it is carrying Phoenix missiles that can engage form 60 miles it doesn’t matter what colour you paint it.
Thank God for Micro-Sol. There is no way that the fin or shark decals would have gone down without it. The ones on the missiles wouldn’t behave, but I glossed them with Johnson’s floor polish rather than the Alclad that I used on the rest of it.
I’d like to do the Phantom too, but the build list is quite long and there are a load more arriving for my Birthday. A6 Intruder next!
A6 Intruder next!
The "Flying Chicken Drumstick"
In the miniature gaming world October is sometimes known as "Orktober" and used as an excuse to work on some orcs, orks, goblins and other things like that. This year I participated in Orktober by kitbashing something from a pile of terrain and various goblin models. I call it Waaagh Rokkit Ajax:
It's pretty big, coming in at 23" long. Building and painting it took up most of my free time in the past month and it has absolutely no gaming use but despite that I'm still really pleased with it!
I've uploaded quite a few photos to a Flickr album if you want to look at the various details and bits I managed to add to it.
That is fabulous!
Awesome work!
Progress.
Was presented with this as the cockpit on my Hasegawa A6 Intruder (with moulds that dated back to 1968).
Bodged some detail using spares and scraps into this.
Wow!!! That's seriously impressive!!
I recently made a start on the Tamiya Sea Harrier. So far I've got the pilot & seat done and started the engine. It's mostly hidden but I'm going to practice washes and dirt etc on it, so if I cock it up you can't see it anyway.
I'm finding it takes ages when doing all the colours properly rather than just bodging it 🤣
I also need to work out the strategy for doing fuselage bits - which bits to stick on before painting and which to do afterwards. I don't want to stick parts on & then find I've made it hard to paint.
Should have it finished by spring 😀. I'll try to get some pics uploaded.
Wow!!! That’s seriously impressive!!
Thanks, but that's a bit of a stretch!
I just wanted it to look better than the OOB offering as the canopy is massive, so everything is visible.
Two things
Thing one: Citadel paints: anyone use them? I tried the "air" version of one of their paints and it was a terrible globby mess. Nasty
Thing Two: Black basing, Pre shading, Post shading...what are we all doing, how's it going, whats working for you, what not working, what have you tried? tips and tricks?
I'm normally a pre-shader/post-shader mix, but I'm keen to try black basing...bit scared if I'm honest...
nickc Full Member
Thing one: Citadel paints: anyone use them? I tried the “air” version of one of their paints and it was a terrible globby mess. Nasty
I do, for miniature painting. They're generally OK. As they come in pots rather than droppers I rarely use them for airbrushing though. I think I have two of their air paints and while I think they still needed a bit of thinning they performed adequately.
Generally, Citadel's whites are usually poor or awful but they do some paints very well. Their reds tend to have much better coverage than a lot of the competition, their (acrylic) washes tend to be good, their metallic paints often have good coverage too. The orthodoxy in miniature painting is to work from a black undercoat so coverage is often considered an important metric!
PSA!
Airfix kits in The Middle of Lidl!
Starter sets with paint, glue and a brush for £6.99.
Not the same ones as you can get in Aldi.
Picked up a Mitsubishi Zero, which is a great little kit. They’ve got a Tiger and a Sherman Firefly too that look quite interesting. I may pick up a Tiger and make a diorama with a Hawker Typhoon that I’ve got in the stash.
They had a BF109 and a Folland Gnat with the “Yellowjacks” paint scheme too.
The only downside was that I was engaged by some “weird” in the checkout queue who wanted to talk to me about model kits. He must have seen me as a kindred spirit as I am a middle aged man who was buying nothing but Airfix and Pistachio nuts.
The current starter kit tanks are simpler versions than the regular kits. For example the starter kit Tiger has 39 parts and the regular (same scale) Tiger kit has 84. They could still be great kits but it's worth bearing in mind if you're after a particular level of build.
I think that this may apply to some of the other starter sets too. Looking at their web site Airfix seem to be in the process of rebranding their "regular kit + paints, brush & glue" sets as "gift sets" and using "starter set" for simpler kits, but the changeover isn't complete yet, so some starter sets are simplified and some are regular kits.
Hmmm... Interesting.
Just checked the Zero out on Scalemates and it the regular new(ish) tool one.
Will have to look into the Tiger and the Firefly to check their provenance. Is the running gear a single moulded piece?
The current starter kit tanks are simpler versions than the regular kits. For example the starter kit Tiger has 39 parts and the regular (same scale) Tiger kit has 84. They could still be great kits but it’s worth bearing in mind if you’re after a particular level of build.
It is the new one with the one piece track and road wheels. Might look OK painted up, or at least better than the rubber tracks.
I made theAirfix 109 a while back, showing it's age a bit I think
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I made theAirfix 109 a while back, showing it’s age a bit I think
If that's the 1/72 you've done an amazing job at not snapping and losing those fiddly little bits under the tail. Three of those kits ruined in this house between me and the kids with that issue!
I'm about to drift back into plastic kits and fancied the big tamaiya Mosquito. Luckily commonsense has prevailed. Anyone got any advice on decent Me262 at a reasonable scale?
Thanks for any input.
The Tamiya 1/48th 262 is well regarded I think, and Airfix have a 1/72nd that's quite new, and is supposed to be quite good.
I did the 1/72 Revell 262 a few years back. Not a brilliant kit (the cockpit is rubbish and the canopy was way too thick), but it turns into a 262 shaped object.
It will need a lot of nose weight.
Eduard P51-K. Wanted to do a 78th FG checkered nose but didn't want BBD which is what most decals sheets seem to be! Build was a curates egg really, some parts - wheel well, cockpit - for instance are fantastically detailed. Cockpit alone must have 30 parts at least, likewise wheel wheels are 16 parts , and as individual units go together quite well, but then fitting it all together was a bit of a trial, port side fuselage was warped and ended up with a massive step gap on the starboard wing root, nose has no location pins so it's very unstable, wings had gaps and so forth. They do some interesting planes, but Tamiya they ain't.
Looking good!
My Birthday today. Got a Sword Gannet AEW and an Airfix HS Dominie.
Hoping to spend a bit of time on the kits next week in "The Dead Zone" before New Year.
Latest additions to The Stash.
Nice! What is the Heller kit?
Not had the time/space/motivation to do any modelling so I enjoy following this thread.
Christmas additions for me and the younger one.
Obi-Wan is mine, the quantity of glass on that worries me as I'll have to do a decent job of the person at 1:58. Other two are his.
Nice! What is the Heller kit?
it’s a Saab Tunnan (barrel) Saab’s 2nd jet fighter and a good little performer. I was lucky enough to see one fly at Southport a few years ago.
Good to see the Saab theme continue with the Gripen, I’ve got the kitty Hawk one in the stash as I spent an enjoyable few years helping to sell them.
Good to see the Saab theme continue with the Gripen
Got a Viggen already in the stash, so I'll do all four one after the other at some point I guess. Need a Lansen too I suppose.
Over Christmas I built the Airfix "Kate" 1/72 scale which was £7.50 from The Works about a year ago! I also did the Tamiya T34/85
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Riksbar
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Bolton Model Show On 22nd January, anyone going.
Yep. Will be there for opening time with a shopping list!
Liking the T34. It looks suitably grubby! There's a running one at The Muckleburgh Collection and it looks like an awful thing to have lived/fought in.
https://www.muckleburgh.co.uk/
Nice !
I completed an Airfix 1:72 Hawker Typhoon but am embarrassed to show it as I lifted the wing roundel decal off with my sleeve and it now looks stupid.
Currently working on a 1: 72 EE Lightning and learning to use an airbrush. #LearningCurve
Oh OK then - here's the Typhoon.
Yes, I've seen a couple of videos about the T34, not a great crew environment and many of them broke down before they even got to the battle. The 85 was a bit better than the 76 as its got a bigger turret so a bit more room. But neither version has a turret basket so there was a real risk of the loader getting hit by the breach when the main gun was fired unless he kept his eyes open and moved round with the turret.
Photograph it from the other side so you can't see the decal!
Yes, I’ve seen a couple of videos about the T34, not a great crew environment and many of them broke down before they even got to the battle.
I've got a 1/16 RC T34/85. In the spirit of accuracy it too is broken :-/
What is the diameter of the roundels? I'll have a look in my spares and if I've got a set you can have them.
But neither version has a turret basket so there was a real risk of the loader getting hit
it was common practice to remove the basket in the Sherman. I think crews accepted the risk for more elbow room
Oh right, i didn't know that.