Your model collection….

Very nice phantom hurry up and get the 56sqn one finished and on here Phil.

Love the detailing on that F-4K…….even down to the ‘marbles’ debris stuck to the tyres….. 😮 😀

Whoops sorree!

Hi Tom,so thats how you pass the time on the night shift then?!

Shhhhhhhh! No one is supposed to know that!

Tom 😉

Also got a Twin Pioneer and 2 x Rapides underway.

Tom.[/QUOTE]
Hi Tom,so thats how you pass the time on the night shift then?! 😉
Great model !
See you soon Alan. 😀

Hey – keithjs – I recognise that Avenger!

Here’s a couple of mine wot I finished quite recently

(Historic, certainly)

(A historic colour scheme :rolleyes: )

I mainly build 1/48 stuff – and have been building Phantoms more than anything else lately 🙂
Doing a 56 sqn machine now.

Cheers,
Phil.

Well I have not less than 125 models in stock , what I don’t stock much lately is spare time to work on them ! Most are 1/32, about 12 are 1/24 and the rest is 1/48. (I think just 1 in the 1/72 scale)…..all are wwII propelor !
Bart

And maybe I’ll buy some kits from you if you give me a good price….

Hey, how do you guys do Canopy glass? I have a very thin brush and try to freehand it on the framing but it always winds up in other places, probably the weakest of my modelling skills…the plane looks fine but the canopy looks like crap! Any tips would be appreciated…

Mark

Hi all–

Most of my stuff is 1:72, in several display cases in my loft. Three of the cases are “Canada-centric” with another being WWII international and early-postwar subjects. Canuck stuff includes Anson, Norseman, Lizzie, NA44 (the Cyclone-powered Harvard), couple P-40s, couple P-51s, couple Spits, Tiffy, Defiant, Fury, Mitchell, Hudson, Firefly, Sabre, Chipmunk etc. Also have a few diecasts and two 1:48ish Avro types, a CF-100 desktop promo made for Avro circa 1960 and a mahogany Arrow (which I got cheaply because it was in the Mid-Atlantic museum shop in Reading, Pennsylvania–the guy at the desk commented that they never sold these things until a Canadian arrived, then they were guaranteed to sell one!) Have a DHC Beaver made out of beer cans, too. The international stuff is an odd mix of things that took my fancy at one time or another: Fokker D.XXI; Yak-9D; He112; FW190A in Turkish markings; Tuskegee P-51C (an improvisation from before anyone made decals for those); Me109K; Fury prototype; Iraqi Fury; Belgian Spit XVIe; F-82G; A-1; F-51 in Guatemalan camo; Spanish T-6D etc. Toughest job was a 1:150 or so Martin P6M, reissue of a wretched old Revell kit from the 50s that probably has as much putty in it as plastic, but turned out OK and the original was a most impressive and advanced airplane. Current project, 99% complete, is a 1:72 diorama of part of the Walter Soplata collection in Ohio, based on photos I took 23 years ago. That involves eight models: BT-15 (kitbashed from parts of a Testors T-6G, an Academy P-40B and a Yak-40 airliner kit!); F2G (modified Matchbox F4U-4); F-82E; FG-1D; XAD-1 (modified Tsukuda AD-6); TB-25K (Matchbox B-25J); P-80A (Airfix F-80C); F7U-3. Fun stuff. Now to find somewhere to put the thing…Oh, and half my basement is full of unbuilt kits and unopened diecasts. Maybe I’ll eventually open a hobby shop.

Cheers

S.

i8 started about 30 years ago was building mainly 148th but moved into a smaller house so am build 172 now mainly jaoanese and raaf
3 oz beaufighters
1 oz a20
3 boomerangs
raaf museum mustang
several zeros
ran seafury
n1k1 rex
n1k3 george
ki46 dinahs
ki84 frank
ki43 oscar
2 raaf spitires
and about 50 unbuilt kits
and about 100 zoids
i have been working on a dh hornet racer with griffons for about 2 years .
paul [night shift is killing my modelling]

Alright, good stuff folks!! LOVE the Dakota, very nicely done….Black Panther has the ‘Borough of Lambeth’ Spitfire (NK-K) in his collection that I am currently working on and he did it as the box illustrates it, with a cream colored underside, but I am going with the directions this time and painting the underside a light blue…we’ll see what it looks like. When I started this thread I just wanted to know what you guys had in your collections AT PRESENT…like everyone else, I have building since I was a kid and I’m 40 now, the list would be far too long to even attempt to write out here of the kits I have built that got destroyed, damaged and repaired, lost, blown up, test flown, given away or just mysteriously vanished (a miniature Bermuda Triangle?) but I’m sure the list of models that I have built would number into the hundreds…some of my favorite kits might not have been of the highest quality (usually Monograms and Revells) but the had cool moving parts like folding wings and dropping bombs and such-always loved the Monogram Dauntless in 1/48 scale for the dropping bomb, opening flaps, retractable gear, moveable gun and prop…but inevitably something somewhere broke and you had to glue it in place. Only recently have I gotten into the higher priced, high quality kits like Hasegawa and Tamiya, and recently did an AMT/Ertl A-20 kit (reasonable results, not spectacular) and an Academy P-40B (great kit, crap decals) and continue to experiment. It’s a blast when one comes out right!

Mark

Hi to all, just my collection of Spit’s (Sorry about the Dust)

Cheers
Rob….

Lovelly models Keith,love the Wyvern and the SeaMosquito. I don’t have a model collection as such at the moment,it’s all in “deep storage” having recently moved house. I’ve done a few online reviews of kits i’ve built in the last couple of years…

http://www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/gb/harringtontemp.htm
http://www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/korean/harringtonjav.htm
http://www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/gb/harringtonlys.htm
http://www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/korean/harringtonhunter.htm

Hey Keith,

Superb work! particularly like the Wyvern and Sea Hawk.

Tom.

Yeah, but that’s yer engineerin’ or proj mgr coming to the fore eh?

Small but perfectly formed.

OOOOOO NICE DAK!!

I used to prefer 1/72 and have done some 1/48th in the past but oddly am now doing 1/444 kits – those by Sweet or the new Revell toolings (am doing the Hunter at the moment) are quite wonderful….strange innit – i guess i must have done all of the airfix range since i was 5 (first kit – Army Auster…aaaahhhh!) but i have to say their new TSR2 looks rather sexy….

Gosh that is small. Is that a typo? That would mean a Spitfire would have a wingspan of just 1″.

Mark (non modeller)

Model Collection

This is some my collection which is 90% 48th but I do like to do 72nd if the subjects right. I only really do RAF & US but again if the subjects right then I’ll diversify. I have also done a few reviews and a forthcoming P40 artilce for Scale Aircraft Modelling (next month or 2 I believe). The Avenger is the new Trumpeter 32nd scale kit and is superb and I can highly reccommend it.
Anyway this is just a sample of what I like to do.(other than watching real ones of course!)

I have quite a few, mostly 1/72:
Spitfire 1a
Me 109
Fw 190
P-51 Mustang
P-47 Thunderbolt
Hurricane 2b
Bulldog
MiG 15 Fagot
F-86 Sabre
Ju-87 Stuka
Avro Lancaster
B17 Flying Fortress
dH Mosquito
HP Victor
C130 Herc
Su-33
Su-30K
F-22
F111 Aardvark
Thunderjet
KLM Boeing 737

In 1/48 i have:
Spitfire F22
Me-109 G14
Tornado F3
MiG 21

Im just branching into Army vehicles so i also have an Israeli Merkava Main Battle tank and a Warrior MCV in 1/35.
BARNOWL

OOOOOO NICE DAK!!

I used to prefer 1/72 and have done some 1/48th in the past but oddly am now doing 1/444 kits – those by Sweet or the new Revell toolings (am doing the Hunter at the moment) are quite wonderful….strange innit – i guess i must have done all of the airfix range since i was 5 (first kit – Army Auster…aaaahhhh!) but i have to say their new TSR2 looks rather sexy….

It’s actually the Italeri kit in an Airfix box. Much better than the original Airfix “Dak” and no rivets to sand off!

Ah, quite a different kettle of Osprey fodder. To get a model looking like that from the old Airfix clunker, would be a trick. Still a very nice model though.