@CountZero has your mate posted on any modelling forums or had work in a magazine, I seem to remember reading about someone that had made Jerry cans and racks out of silver?
Lysander is a 1/32 scale.
My preferred scale. You can scratch build a good bit of stuff into them.
Here is revell’s Sopwith Camel. Rigging done with an elastic thread. Makes it a bit easier & less fragile.
Old 1/28 scale. Full of scratch detailing that cannot be seen.
P51 cockpit just about done and waiting to be fixed to the fuselage, maybe just a bit of seatbelt weathering to do first though?
The seatbelts were a nightmare to fix together (HGW set) and took around three hours as they were so fiddly, I’m pleased with how they turned out though and would use them again. The biggest problem that I had was not knowing I had to take them off the backing paper and trying to force them through the etched buckles!😂
Lysander is a 1/32 scale.
My preferred scale. You can scratch build a good bit of stuff into them.
Here is revell’s Sopwith Camel. Rigging done with an elastic thread. Makes it a bit easier & less fragile.
Old 1/28 scale. Full of scratch detailing that cannot be seen.
That’s a really nice build; I’m currently doing the Revell Fokker DR1.
What’s the quality like of that kit? The Fokker is properly ropey, the moulds are from 1957!
I don’t mind. I like it, as does my son who has already stolen it.
It was more about restoring the mojo and trying some new techniques. I used White-Tac “worms” and a bit of Flory’s Filth for the first time. Also I’ve never done dots with the airbrush before.
Actually, the camera flash has exaggerated it a bit by whiting it out. I’ll get a better picture in daylight.
I built a 70inch RC p slope soaring version of that. Great to build as the long nose meant less lead to balance it in light winds, but enough volume in the fus for ballast on windy days.
Just looking! Fuse looked scale with a slightly larger fin. Wings were stretched for better gliding and a bigger tail. No scale detailing either. When every landing without flaps on the slope is a controlled crash you don’t worry about the details…
Just picked up 2 Revell 1/48 F-105D T-Stick II kits from Home Bargains for £4.99 each. They appear to be the old Monogram moulds but I’ve always had a soft spot for the Thud and it’s a nice kit. Worth a look (also 1kg of winegums for £1.99)
They also had some 1:144 Revell MiG-29 & 31s for £1.99. It reminded me of the LS Buy By Coin range in the 1980s.
If anyone is at Bolton next Sunday they can have one of mine for a fiver, I probably won’t build 2 but couldn’t resist the bargain!
Here is my Aldi Spitfire and behind it is my Tamiya Matilda awaiting weathering etc. My dad brought me a Matilda thirty years ago and we built it together which is why I bought it again! They are the first models I’ve built since then I guess.
@spursn17, no, he doesn’t, as far as I’m aware. He posts comments on the occasional online web comics, but not scale models. I’ll ask him when we go for a beer next weekend.
I’ll be there. Thinking of getting a new compressor and airbrush if there’s any good deals. I’ll wear my Orange (bikes) hoodie. Say hi! Looking for some decals and resin bits too.
I needed a resin zero-scarf nozzle for a Harrier, and ended up with two Harrier kits in a special boxing as it was cheaper. I also need to stop finding old aviation memorabilia in my loft and buying kits to go with it , but I did get a good deal on the Hasegawa Phantom FG.1 kit and I did get to try an airbrush I fancy. Could be expensive.
On the whole pretty happy with it. The big success was spraying the white crosses on the upper wings. First attempt at exhaust and gun staining – OK ish for a first go, but could be better. Annoyingly the hairial was drum taught until I walked out into the cold damp conservatory to take the pics where it went immediately soggy…
My Aldi Mustang (above) seems to have been supplied with the wrong decal sheet. I had to paint all the red bits and the yellow stripe on the wings.
Same here – the decals are for kit A01004A – instructions and paint callouts are on the airfix site.