Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary GB

It's time to catch up here!

Great looking Stuka, BrandonD.

Glad to see your Defiant, RobS; I have one too, and am looking forward to starting it now.

Very sharp Hurricane, rooster.  Nice work with the pastels.

Neat little 109, OWL; colors are eye-catching.

Dan, very effective treatment of the Sptifire camouflage;very good.

Really did well with the Hurricane, Scott.

Steve, that is one petite Heinkel.  Nice touch to have it in flight. 

Good work on the cockpit, moose.  Coming along great.

Very nice Steve! Great build!

The 111 looks great Steve.  

I'm done. The 1/144 He 111 KG55 is in night markings and shown in flight mode.
Thank you for hosting this GB Lewbud, it was fun.

Steve

Off to a late start on my build, but here is some pictures of what I have done.

First up I have the pit done.  I am doing a straight out of the box build.  I wanted to keep it simple and the kit that Eduard has is beautiful.  I am having very little fit problems.

Also I have the sides of the fuselage done as well.

Next up is the engine.  This was a bit challanging to install in the fuselage.  I have decided to keep the cowls off to show off the engine.  I know this will make it a bit of a challange to keep paint off it and match up the camo.

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Currently I have the fuselage joined together and the wings.  More pictures to follow.  Just waiting for the glue to dry.  I hope to have the base coats of paint on it this weekend.

Looks great Steve.

I finally received the paint this weekend and painted the 111. I just installed the front and upper canopies with some Elmer’s and will hand paint the frame tomorrow and install the decals.

Steve

Scott,

Those came out great! Nice pair of RAF birds to put up against the Luftwaffe. They really do look nice next to each other.

-BD-

It makes a nice compliment to my Spitfire.  Thanks Lew for hosting this GB.  The BoB is a very interesting subject to model after.

Well, I did it, I finished another model.  Here is the new tooled Airfix 1/72 Huricane that I attempted to look somewhat presentable.

Sorry Guys, I am way behind on this GB.  Between completing a build for a friend and his father-in-law and a new job.  Has me way behind.  I will get pictures up tonight.  I have the pit done and started to join the fuselage together. 

I am still going to finish this build and will not just rush through just to get it in on time.  I want to do a job that I am happy with.  Just a reminder to all I am building a Bf 109 E-4.  Though I might do a different plane other than Gallands bird.  Namely is eveyone builds his.  I like to build odd ball things. So I am going with Ofw. Fritz Beecks bird.  It looks cool and I really like the markings.  Also the camo shouldn't be to overly difficult to paint.

Kim

Sorry lewbud, I'm awaiting paint from Taiwan for the He 111 and to date I still haven't received them. As soon as I get them in I'll complete the build.

Steve 

I'm on the finishing leg.  Start touching up, decal, some light weathering, final coat, and she may be a wrap.  Hope to finish today since I have the the day to myself.

CallSignOWL: Nice job on completing your 109, this looks like the Tamiya kit? Built one years ago, it went together very well.

Modelcrazy: Your He-111 is looking good. I've tried two times on building the Revell 1/48 version, for one reason for another couldn't finish them. Picked up a third one so hopefully I can complete one. And great B&W photos of the He 111.

Scottrc: Nice painting on your wheel wells and insides, and your two ton camouflage.

I'm finally on the decal stage for my Spitfire Mk. II, the Airfix decals are a little thicker than I'm used to, but the model master solvent is working on getting them to conform great. Worked on the top side yesterday and today, I'll start the under side Tuesday. My other Spit needed a little more touch up with the airbrush, so that will set it back a few days. Don't think I'll have time to get the Lancaster started before the group build is over, it has around 200 parts. Oh and I'm happy the free hand camouflage I did on the Mk II., first time I've done that.

This is the first time I am using Vellejo acrylics and am finding that I really like them.  Both the undercarraige and the top green are Vellejo and the brown is Moldel Master enamel.  MM is so much harder to work with and clean.  Not to mention my Paasche never liked enamels. 

A little better,

Now the green.  Again, dang camera.

Did my painting this week.  Man, I got to get a new camera, and one with manual settings.  My old digital just is not doing it anymore.  This is the brown coat and beleive me, its much lighter than the picture shows.

Ladies and gentlemen, apologies for taking so long but the front page is finally updated!

Does anyone know what happened to ajd? Did he finish his 109?  Maybe I'll duck on over to the 109GB and see if he's posted there.

Modelcrazy, that 111 is the bee's knees.  Can't wait to see it done.

An update on my 110, she looks like an airplane now. Got the RLM70 and 71 on yesterday, but discovered I was out of 65 for the underside.  Pics to follow later.  Keep up the good work folks!

Very cool photos Steve.  Thank you for sharing.

Kim

Good to see a HE111 joining the fray.

OK Lewbud, back to your GB.
I'm going to display my He 111 in flight mode, so after some serious gap filling I finally got to the paint part. Reserching KG 55 during the Battle of Brittin, it seems that some of the ships had an underside that was painted in a temporary dull black for night operations with toned down crosses. Sooo that's what I'm doing.

Steve

A little work on my Hurricane last night.

lewbud, I think I'll go with this one for the front page. Thanks again!