Airfix Group Build 2011-2012

great updates here on warlus and spit

the updates on the scout

i freeze this build for now, Waiting to finish some other kit before.

I may join this group build. I have an 1:32 scale Airfix Crusader that deserves to be built.

That cockpit is looking mighty fine bs.

A bit more progress on Wally.I love that engine!

TD, I don't think I ever heard of a Walrus before this group build, but you are building up one very impressive model.  It's nice to see.

Thanks dude.It sure ain't the sexiest of aircraft,but that's what I like about it!

TD4438

Thanks dude.It sure ain't the sexiest of aircraft,but that's what I like about it!

Its pretty damn sexy in my book. In fact 90% of amphibious aircraft are good looking birds.

Scorpiomikey

TD4438:

Thanks dude.It sure ain't the sexiest of aircraft,but that's what I like about it!

 

Its pretty damn sexy in my book. In fact 90% of amphibious aircraft are good looking birds.

I'm callin' this one done.The canopy is a bit lacking in fit and there are some good gaps between the lower wings and fuselage that are beyond my talent and/or patience to fix,but I did enjoy it and am looking forward to the next warbird.

Marv says....."Not bad,but ya shoulda patched up them wings and canopy ya lazy b*astard!"

"Ya got any more beer?"

The "lazy man's" way to fill those problems areas is with white glue--which, being lazy, I use regularly.  With the wing and/or canopy in place, you run diluted white glue into the seam with a small paint brush (some say a toothpick works; but not well for me).

When the glue dries, you wipe over it with a damp q-tip and (voila!) gap is filled.  It will leave a visible join, but then wings and canopies were separate attachments anyway, and I tell myself it would be there on the real item anyway.

To give an example, here's an Airfix Spitfire I did last year for the Battle of Britain group build.  I filled the wing root and attached the canopy with white glue.

And then, Marv won't be mad at you anymore.

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The problem is that I needed the top wings to keep the bottom wings straight.Once I had 'em put together,I had very little room to work.I never would have thought of using white glue as filler.

Marv's my homie,but some times he just needs to STFU!

TD4438

 

Scorpiomikey:

 

 

TD4438:

Thanks dude.It sure ain't the sexiest of aircraft,but that's what I like about it!

 

 

Its pretty damn sexy in my book. In fact 90% of amphibious aircraft are good looking birds.

 

I agree.I think it's time I break that 1/72 Airfix Catalina outta the stash!

 

i agree whishing to see the catalina out me too likes amphibious. 

The warlus is really good , decals great and.. fortunately the pilots seems pilots sorry for the cockpit, anoder way was to put some really tiny plastic stripes at the back and sand it till the fit is best.

Nice looking spitfire checkmateking02

the scout pilots just need the control stick and seat belts, if i not complicated the things with the canopy i can finish it in few days.For now just taking a break and thinkin to put down another kit here later, probably the mig-23 or the viggen.. boh , one of these. 

TD4438 good looking model....

Shame about the dirty foot prints------those small helpers are a pain when they do that to you  

I got out of my  aircraft element, at a friends request. He was looking for a model to represent his interest in antique cars. :   At the LHS they had this: Airfix  Ford 1910 Model T Construction Kit. pattern no. 1337. ( It seems to be an old kit as the Airfix logo is  a "flag" like device, not the round ball of today). So I picked it up.

                        BUT the big question is..... can I join the group build?? :  Huh? can I? huh?

Nice looking build that Walrus, good work! 

Here's the latest on the Camel:

I tried to recreate the ribs using finishing line.  A lot easier in theory, than reality, and lot nicer in theory than reality!  I ended up removing the ribs, and re-painting.

Thanks guys,I'm glad ya like the Walrus.

Tha Catalina is gonna stay in the stash for now.I wanted to do something with a more interesting paint scheme.

It's gonna suck trying to paint this window!

Nice finish on the Walrus, now on to a Buffalo? You have a fascination with animals that hang out in the water don't you!?!?

Centhot - fishing line for the ribs? Maybe if you had used the line as a guide, then applied some putty, or even white glue or CA to minimize the "step" between the line & the original surface???

Rob Gronovius

I may join this group build. I have an 1:32 scale Airfix Crusader that deserves to be built.

Here is the kit I will build. I purchased this at a hobby shop in Methuen, Massachusetts in 2003. He had a pile of kits he got from an estate sale. I paid $5 for the kit because it had some pieces missing and many parts off of the sprue (common with Airfix kits), rattling around inside the box.

After a careful examination, I found it was only missing three pieces; the tank commander figure and both of his arms (parts 169-171). Since every piece is individually numbered, the kit contained 177 parts including the missing figure, so in my mind it was just as good as a complete kit. Not bad for $5.

The box art advertises this kit as new and the hull has the date 1975 on it, making this an original issue that is 36 years old. The kit was part of a short lived 1:32 scale series of Airfix armor kits that began with the poorly selling Monty's Humber, and included the excellent M3 Grant, M3 Lee, Rommel's halftrack "Greif" and ending with a towed 17 pdr anti-tank gun (extremely rare). The line also included a few kits from the Japanese company Max, but their kits were 1:35 scale. The Max kits exist today in Italeri's line.

The Crusader kit was recently reissued for the first time along with a set of the popular Multi-pose British 8th Army Desert Rats and German Afrika Korps. The reissue goes for around $35-40. This is not the same kit as the Testors/Italeri Crusader models.

The decal sheet includes markings for just about any tank that rode around in the desert. Painting only gives an olive green tank in Tunisia or a black/buff tank from the Western Desert.

The only construction option is the turret hatches open or closed. Since I do not have the commander figure and there is no interior, I will most likely close the hatches. Interestingly, this kit uses separate hatches for the open configuration and shut hatches molded together for the closed option (it is pictured in front of the turret).

The overall kit is very solid, with thick pieces, but does not look clunky like most kits from that era. I think it will build nicely.

I tried using Mr.Surfacer to reduce the impact of the 'ribs' but it looked awful.  Stuck instead with a smoothish surface, broken up in lines by the remains of the CA from the ribbing attempt.

ok, don't cry for the catalina till the next chosen is the buffalo, the pilot looks already good good luck with the windows, if don't work try with linux (pc related sarcasm)

Nice looking kit Rob.

Centhot another way is to melt little plastic rods with excessive tamiya glue and refine with putty  

contact the gb operation chief if not appear soon

Nice work on the Walrus!

Now if slowy-mc slowpants (i.e. me) here could get beyond the first stage he would be laughing.

I'm probably painting too minute details on things in the cockpit that will never be seen but that I will know are there.

Im getting there lol. Everybody is welcome. Ill sort the front page out presently. Congrats on the first 2 completions. Feel free to grab the badge...I did upload a badge right?

Griffin

Nice work on the Walrus!

Now if slowy-mc slowpants (i.e. me) here could get beyond the first stage he would be laughing.

I'm probably painting too minute details on things in the cockpit that will never be seen but that I will know are there.

Yes, yes you are! But we all do it.

 Thanks Scorpiomikey for the acceptance.

Bought this kit at my LHS in the "trunk of shame" (where the old, partial built, unloved, and ridiculously silly models go). BUT they are cheep, don't cost much and there is a "pearl among the swine".... sometimes.

I'm building this for a friend who likes antique cars--not a commission darn it- just friendship  

Now off TO WORK!

Correct me if I am wrong,but is DUSTER building the oldest kit so far?

Current progress on the Buffalo.

From what i can find it was released in 56. So if its an original 56 kit then yes, as everything else i think is a repop of an old mould.

Scorpiomikey

From what i can find it was released in 56. So if its an original 56 kit then yes, as everything else i think is a repop of an old mould.

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bsyamato

Centhot:

I tried using Mr.Surfacer to reduce the impact of the 'ribs' but it looked awful.  Stuck instead with a smoothish surface, broken up in lines by the remains of the CA from the ribbing attempt.

 

Centhot another way is to melt little plastic rods with excessive tamiya glue and refine with putty  

Gee guys you say 1956 as if it was along time ago.  OH WAIT it was along time ago.... even if I remember it as a pretty good year

Well the kit is interesting; it's plastic is bright red and not brittle but more like a hard plastic. The flash is fairly minor.  Except the wheel spokes were awful!  The mold had slipped or was not aligned so the spokes were overlapping about 1/2 way from one side to the other on 2 of the 4 wheels, the other 2 were less so.

I picked what I thought was the best of the sides, marked it and cut sanded filed the spoke problems away. The body of the car  was fine mostly but removing the flash at the front floor caused a need to replace it .

Configuration of  the canvas top ( folded down on the back of the car) looked very out of scale and childish - so of course I cut it off. The  seams of the body halves were not bad- if you like trenches. But when filled up  they disappeared. 

My research reveled some errors on the dash board/firewall as well as an out of scale windshield molding so, once again out with the knife.   A replacement was fashioned and now looks the part-at least with the lights off.

Nothing bad to say about the motor -there isn't one

There are a few minor bits done -cutting off the English sized license plate holders, recreating the body line on the back at the door level,  considering and rejecting opening the back doors, figuring out why the body wont fit on the finder/frame part. 

FUN at every turn

In the next post  I'll put up some pictures of this hack job -er- work ta date. 

Ford Model A, 1910  1/72 Scale

DUSTER - welcome aboard! 1956.... they had plastic back then?!?!? Sounds like you've still got some work ahead of you on that one I actually helped my grandfather restore one of these for a local collector in (I think) 1987-1990. I still remember countless trips to the local machine shop and a request to "make me a couple of these gizmos" on all sorts of parts that were simply not going to be sourced from originals. Ahhhh, the good ol' days!