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Nice. Lovely looking missile truck.
lindybeige rant
Tomcat looks like this
Looking very good indeed HtS!
Not had a great deal of time to do much modelling myself recently as I've had a busy winter season. Hoping to pick it up again soon.
Did a bit more...
I like that rant but y'know, maybe more model shops selling struts and beams and L sections and that would still be open if it wasn't so hilariously expensive... I was looking at some of this stuff in Wonderland the other day just out of old times sake from when I used to do wargames terrain and it's still as much of a pisstake as it was then, it'd be cheaper to build an actual building. I say that as a (former) games workshop person so if I say a bit of plastic is too damn expensive, I am qualified.
I agree. At the other end of the spectrum that Tomcat was twelve quid.
Nice - will be interested to see what decals you apply. Tomcats had some great tail art - one of my favs below.
my inner nerd calls VF84. Or VF2
Always liked the Sundowners (VF111)
This is a Ghost Rider.
Tomcat
Next up...
An ancient Airfix RA 5C Vigilante. The kit dates back to 1971, so there is a metric butt-load of filling to do.
Here it is with the Tom Cat to get an idea of the size of it.
...and with a Zero. There are only 19 years between the first flights of these two.
Loving the Tomcat!! Missed it when you first posted the pics up.
Nice Tomcat! I really like the look of the Vigilante, I have a Trumpeter one stashed away somewhere.
I am every so slowly inching towards the completion of the kit I'm working on and if I ever get it done I'll finally have something else to contribute to the thread. I'm onto decalling now so nearly done but some of the settling solutions appear to be attacking the varnish, so it'll depend on how that works out.
The Vigilante is insane!
First flew in 1958 (60 years ago!!!)
Fly by wire control
Mach 2.1
Nuclear bombs fired backwards from a pod between the engines
Could operate off an aircraft carrier
...shame it didn't work very well!
It seemed to have a decent second life as a reconnaissance aircraft, plus it bears a passing resemblance to TSR.2, which is a good thing too. 🙂
Though even after it abandoned its attack aircraft role the Vigilante's rear exit bomb bay continued to cause problems. It was used to contain fuel tanks but they sometimes escaped out of the back during catapult take offs and caused deck fires!
Something Fast.
threesome
After the sad passing of Geoff Wellum the other week I had a root around in my stash of kits (the n+1 principle in action) and found a 92 Squadron Mk1a Spitfire from 1940/41.
This is QJ B, Geoffrey flew QJ K.
Anyone going to the Keighley model show tomorrow?
What/where/when? Keighley is on my doorstep
Wot he said.
It looks like it has potential to be a good one. Phil Flory himself has a trade stand there!
I'll be there when it opens with Mini Me.
Good show.
Kids haemorrhaged a fiver of mine on the tombola and won a box of Quality Street and book on Trench Warfare. Just what every 8 year old girl wants!
I got some bits off Flory's stall and a B-17 and Harrier GR9 for £18.
On the way home we popped into Bury Baths and found the coat that my lad had left under a seat on the balcony yesterday.
So that makes me 4-0 up for the day.
Nice one, would love to have a crack at a B17. Weather was poor yesterday so I stayed in and made the airfix 1/72 Mustang IV, very nice fit no gaps at all and only £5 to boot!
The B17 is a massive amount of kit for the tenner that I paid for it! It looks to be ex Modelzone stock in a very slightly damaged box. Ten Quid Though!
Wonderland are doing it for £15 +p&p IIRC and I suspect that Jadlam will have them at a reasonable price.
Mine will be a "Winter Build" along with the Lancaster, Sea Vixen, F15E, F18, Viggen, Sea King, Lightning FA2 and all of the others that I've got in various boxes.
Will probably stick to single engine 1/72 models because of space. The last heavy I attempted to build was the Revell Lanc, very poor fit between engine nacelles and wing lead to me relegating it to use as a paint mule.
Hmmm... my Lanc is a Revell BIII Dambuster. Good job I like a bit of filling!
Meanwhile.
Thanks Harry, that's my evening's viewing sorted! Re the Revell Lanc, although I don't have the instructions anymore, I believe that the nacelles are handed whereas I thought they were identical assemblies (obviously could tell the difference between inboard and outboard nacelles). I reckon I put the starboard nacelles on the the port wing and vice versa leading to big gaps 🙁
I’ve done the Revell Dambuster Lanc. All good as far as I remember
Jolly good. Got any photos?
The Lanc will look good with my B17 (a "Memphis Belle" green one). However, first I need to find somewhere to store them upon completion.
I've got a Hasegawa F8 Crusader on the go at the moment. Will post pictures when it has stopped looking like a ball of filler.
Now available for less than the price of 4 pints and a bag of jalapeno pretzels.
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Now available for less than the price of 4 pints and a bag of jalapeno pretzels.
4 pints of what? Sam Smiths or some artisan/craft shite?
Ordered.
No IDEA! when it'll get built, I've got a Hasegawa P3C Orion, a Monogram A1H Skyraider, a Hasegawa F1 Tornado & a 144th scale Herc Gunship all on the go. I started the Orion about 20 years ago......
I also have around 70 other unstarted kits in the loft.
I love building but hate painting. 🙄
I bet that Victor is going to take a fair amount of sanding and filler.
Good man! I prefer the painting to the building. Maybe we could do a deal.
I've actually got two of them so far this week. One I bought and one for inadvertently starting a squabble on Britmodeller then responding in typical STW fashion, by taking the piss and posting silly pictures. One of the moderators got in touch and has sent me another one with a load of resin and PE for the price of postage and a small donation to their server fund.
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235044816-revell-victor-just-how-bad-is-it/&
I bet that Victor is going to take a fair amount of sanding and filler.
I thought so too, but a quick "dry fit" has the fuselage halves going together quite nicely.
The new Airfix version has kicked the arse out of the value of the old Revell one. Sure, it won't be as good, but it looks a lot better than the £15 that I paid for it.
But it's a Victor! So will look good regardless 🙂
Proper Flash Gordon plane.
Worth posting again on here, this is the nose art on a Victor parked at Bruntingthorpe, ex-Desert Storm, I believe.
I'm building Maid Marian.
I’m building Maid Marian.
Cheeky! Hope the fuselage colour won’t be that ghastly shade of green, tho’! Fluorescent lighting does horrible things to colour photos.
Hemp over Light Grey.
The first photo I could find actually, well the first one that wasn't just a close up of the mascot's arse.
Wooo. The first model I ever built was that Revell Handley Page Victor.
Really? Wow! Go big or go home!
How did it turn out?
It was a present - I think I was about 9 or 10. We did it in an off-white/grey and green camo scheme. I think I did it with landing gear up and it was hung from the ceiling. The finish was distinctly amateur, but I loved it.
The next one was a Harrier that we spent a load of time on. None of these wear or aging effects that you are applying, but it looked really good nonetheless.
It unceremoniously crashed to the floor when my brother was throwing screwed up balls of paper at it while revising for his a-levels. Tosser.
I recently got back into proper modelling after a break of 20-odd years.
More into Sci-Fi, scratch-building, Maschinen Krieger stuff, but here's a couple of things I finished in the summer.
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I like them ^
love the Frankie one.
Revell 1:48 PT-17 Stearman Kaydet
Tamiya 1:24 LaFerrari. Not my finest hour.
More here: https://imgur.com/gallery/d3PIcVN
The rigging on the Stearman is EZLine if anyone wants to know. Rigging is a PITA. But at least it wasn't a sailing ship, rigging those really is a pain I can do without. Life's too short
The Stearman's nice; what scale is it?
Oh, yes, I see now!
Never used that rigging stuff, any good? It does look reasonably to scale.
it's designed for model railways - a US product so designed to replicate the telegraph wires that used to run alongside north american railroad (their term, not mine 😉 ) lines. it's elasticated so really easy to get a nice taut finish, but requires a bit of patience while the superglue sets.
I had to do a couple of botches where the rigging meets the wing root and again where it meets the top of each undercarriage leg. But I'm hoping you'd have to look [i]really[/i] hard to find it.
Should also be some rigging under the horizontal stabilisers but my patience was running very thin. maybe later. Some Eduard aftermarket extras but I'm not sure how much they were worth the extra effort - with the exception of the seatbelts I don't think much of it is even visible
The after market carbon fibre effect decals on the Ferrari weren't easy either, no matter how much decalfix i used, some curves just wouldn't conform.
Next up, Italeri big truck. 1:24 Scania R620.
Challenging already, very little in the way of paint detail in the instructions. And the seams, oh the seams 👿
Black Friday PSA
I randomly found this old Revell kit in the bottom of a cupboard (not my pic)
As tempting as its was, after checking ebay it became my Last, Best Hope For Selling It On For 10 Times What I Paid For It In The Wonderland Sale In 2002. Nice, though
What is it?
It’s from Babylon 5, I think it’s the actual ship of that name, although it’s been a long time since I watched it, and my memory is suspect at best.
Yeah, a quick google confirmed it’s the actual space station of that name:
Yep Babylon 5 “mans last best hope for peace, it failed!”
So I've been worked (somewhat half heartedly) on this for the last 18 months. It was the last kit I bought in my first modelling phase, shortly around the time I discovered sex, bikes and rock'n'roll. Found it last summer, part built in my parents attic, stripped it down and started afresh. Much learning going on - aftermarket resin bits, clay washes, oil dot weathering etc. Glad it's done to be honest - it fought me the entire damn way, but it doesn't look too bad (although the camera lies like a cheap rug, but in a good way!)
Hasegawa F-14D, 1/48
Lets see if I can make this wretched forum post pics...
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Very, very nice.
Just been looking at that over on Britmodeller!
Nice one Jon.
Currently building an Airfix new tool 1/72 Gnat, got it for a fiver from Lidl the other day. Reviews online for the kit are favourable but I'm having a difficult time bashing it together, a lot of filler used on what is a small model. Particularly around the intakes. The two sprues seemed to be two different types of plastic which is odd.
Ive also gone off every humbrol product apart from their liquid poly, their acrylic paints are pants.
I know what you mean about Humbrol.
Going to start a Victor K2 shortly and the only Hemp paint I can find is Humbrol's. Will try it on my "Test Pig" and if it fails I'll be mixing my own from various shades of Tamiya.
Tamiya & Revell Aquacolour acrylics for me. Tamiya acrylic thinner and a Neo by Iwata airbrush
I have a couple of Vallejo paints and an (I think) AK metallic to try out when I start on the next big project - MiniArt 1:35 T-54 complete with interior. Only 950 pieces of plastic to bash together...
in the meantime i’m wrestling with a 1/24 Italeri Scania truck. Chassis & engine coming along slowly, cab up next
having said that, I do like Humbrol Maskol. Have to apply it with cotton buds though, as it eats my paintbrushes. Needs cellulose thinners
"I know what you mean about Humbrol.
Going to start a Victor K2 shortly and the only Hemp paint I can find is Humbrol’s. Will try it on my “Test Pig” and if it fails I’ll be mixing my own from various shades of Tamiya."
Xtracrylix from Hannants do a close match to RAF hemp, nice paint to use as well.
Hemp?
Mr Colour 336?
http://www.mr-hobby.com/en/itemDetail.php?iId=87
(looks a bit too green on there though)
Chin on the floor! that F-14 is stunning! I'm not a modeller...not since about aged 15 where like many kids i had 5 or 6 hastily done kits dog fitting around my bedroom ceiling, but i do enjoy the photos here, well done!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aVCtTqhantUfoYUK7
Hetzer I started ages ago, now fast approaching the finish line. I need to get better at figure painting (and posting pics on here!).
Anyone fancy doing a Blackburn Buccaneer with an interesting paint job? I was digging around on the interwebz trying to find the BBC footage of the RAF Buccaneers taking part in the Red Flag Exercise in Nevada in 1977, and discovered that they’d been repainted in a sort of sand/brown version of the regular camo, except for the rear fuselage under the tail. There’s a diecast model with that paint, but I thought it might make an interesting project for someone out there.
https://militaryaiworks.com/download-hangar/file-library/download/8-aircraft-repaints/455-raf-red-flag-1977
Ah the Red Flag Buccaneers... finished their missions and back for tea before the Yanks even noticed.
I can't wait for a few days off so that I can crack on with a build. Not done anything since August.
That F-14 is stunning! Well done Jon.
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I've managed to post the pics at last, Flickr can go and do one now!
This is the Hetzer I started a few years ago when I bought it from ModelZone 😂
I'm not that happy with the figure though. The arms were chopped about to get him leaning on the gun and hatch lid which turned out ok, the painting needs to improve though as the face is a bit ropey.
The Hetzer itself just needs the aerial glueing on which was kindly supplied by Henry the dog donating one of his whiskers, and I'm fairly happy with it. The base needs a bit more work as the cobbles are too dark and I need to scatter some rubbish and dust on there.
Critique away boys and girls, we only get better by correcting our mistakes! 😀
Can't fault that.
F-14 is the nuts! I love how you had two goes at it. I could never find the Buccaneer vid but apparently it may be in the BBC archive. From on here around a year ago
Lots of reference to the Buccaneer video, Red Flag and other exploits here including an alleged incident where two Buccaneers hid under a Vulcan to evade detection 😮
http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-48541.html
Seems that the footage you’re referencing was originally shown on BBC Nationwide but has subsequently disappeared. Plenty of people have looked for it though.
I hear the Yanks to this day are regularly owned by the Brits, French and Israelis at Red Flag. The Yanks with all the toys and gear still.
I had a really horrible day yesterday so I made a paint rack to cheer myself up, it worked!
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