Aussie Modellers

Folks - I've set myself up on Fotki and am in the process of migrating my aircraft pics across there over the next week. This setup gives me unlimitied disk space [:0] so I don't have to scale down the pics. To date I've done the AWM & the Aus. Aviation Museum at Bankstown.
http://bandhaboy.fotki.com

Heh heh, 55MB on the Mirage alone.

John to FSM and welcome to the Aussie Modelers thread. I totally agree with you on Vic Hobby Centre, they have the best prices by far and if you're a model club member you get a further 10% discount.
I use Hearns mainly to by paint and bits as I pretty much only use MM Enamels and they have a good range of those.
Hobby Place is OK and has an excellent range of Tamegawa kits, but I don't find the service to be all that great.

Cheers
Darren

and (he forgets) ex PDMC member...

hope you are settling in ok, Andrew!!

cheers

Mike

Thanks for the Hobby shop info guys!

I visited the February meeting of the Eastern Suburbs Scale Modelling Club last night.
They were very welcoming and there was a good selection of models on display.
Thanks for a great night if any of the guys are on the thread.

Celestialsphere
AKA Andrew Riddle
New to Melbourne
Aircraft 1/144th and 1/72, Modified 1/24th scale cars, occasional small scale AFV's, Scratchbuilt sci-fi, very rarely Warhammer 40K figures.
Current projects 1/44th Revell Boeing 737 (with winglets!), Italeri 1/72nd Israeli Merkava MBT.

QUOTE: Originally posted by celestialsphere Alright all you Melbourne Chappies! You're all under ARREST until you tell me where the Hobby Shops of Melbourne lurk..... Well... I'm waiting! :) Thanks Dudes! Celestialsphere (Your newest Melburnian)!

Hehehe I think i usurped your title Celestialsphere!!!
Here's a list of the larger ones:

Hearn's Hobbies: 295 Flinders Street (under the Flinders Street Station, oppostie Elizabeth Street)
Victorian Hobby Centre: 1st Floor, 21A Swanston Street, also near the station.
Metropolitan Model & Hobby Centre: 424 Station Street, Box Hill
Hobby Place, City: 280-282 Lonsdale Street (opposite Myer)

I suggest VHC, they're a lot cheaper than Hearn's when it comes to their products. I have been buying from them for a few years now and must say I'm quite happy with the results. Also, they have a great stock of conversion kits & decals to build Aussie models.
Cheers,
John (the REAL newest Melbournian)

BTW I'm John, i live in Melbourne's western 'burbs. I'm into Warhammer 40K, 1/35 Aussie Army vehicles (incl APCs, Tanks & Helos), 1/35 WWII German amour, 1/72 modern day fighters (esp Aussie and Russian). I also do a bit of HO gauge railroad modelling and some 1/350 ships.

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson to our little patch of Aus outback and celestialsphere!! I expect to see you both over at the Aussie Group Build so that you can join in the fun there. celestialsphere, I'm from Melbourne and the main hobby shops I go to are: Hearns Hobbies 295 Flinders St Melbourne Victorian Hobby Center 1st Floor 21a Swanston St Melbourne Hobby Place 280- 282 Lonsdale St Melbourne I work in town so it helps Cheers Darren

Darren, you answered a question before I had a chance to ask it: as I am going to be in Melbourne this weekend I was going to ask about the shops you mentioned to confirm that they where still open.

QUOTE: Originally posted by outback Hi All, Long time lurker now I'm out of the closet so to speak. Names Shane currently living in Adelaide. My main interest is 1:35 Military ground based vehicles and I'm in my modern period at the moment but anything will do. I have dabbled in sci-fi and built some planes but the planes were about 30 years ago oh and one motor bike (that was 20 years ago). I did a truck once. Built it that is . Cheers

Shane to the FSM Forums, and the Aussie Modellers thread, nice to see you come out of the closet, it gets very dark in there. What part of Adelaide are you from.

to our little patch of Aus outback and celestialsphere!! I expect to see you both over at the Aussie Group Build so that you can join in the fun there.

celestialsphere, I'm from Melbourne and the main hobby shops I go to are:

Hearns Hobbies 295 Flinders St Melbourne
Victorian Hobby Center 1st Floor 21a Swanston St Melbourne
Hobby Place 280- 282 Lonsdale St Melbourne

I work in town so it helps

Cheers
Darren

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison Darren, Yeah mate i'm game Now this is the only pic i have of myself already in photobucket and it was taken at Australia Zoo on my daughters B/Day last September........ I've already posted it in the BoB thread when we were talking about Cow Tipping and things like that............ Daniel, Mate you thought right Mine should be finished within a couple of days just have to give it some flat clear and some pastels and then i'll post it up Without a doubt this Hasegawa F6-F3 Hellcat has been my sweetest build..... I missed that completely on the BoB build, I must have been asleep or something. But Jules, [:0][:0] OMG what the heck are you doing to Skippy and how could you let your daughter witness it??? Cheers Darren

Mate i was just taking ol Skip for a burn around the paddock

Hey Outback to the FSM forums and more importantly to the Aussie modellers thread

Hi All,

Long time lurker now I'm out of the closet so to speak.

Names Shane currently living in Adelaide. My main interest is 1:35 Military ground based vehicles and I'm in my modern period at the moment but anything will do. I have dabbled in sci-fi and built some planes but the planes were about 30 years ago oh and one motor bike (that was 20 years ago). I did a truck once. Built it that is .

Cheers

Alright all you Melbourne Chappies! You're all under ARREST until you tell me where the Hobby Shops of Melbourne lurk..... Well... I'm waiting! :)

Thanks Dudes!

Celestialsphere (Your newest Melburnian)!

Hello guys ,
sorry , I thought my post was lost i had no idea on how many pages thier were . WOW any how any help on the Valinat issue i would grately apreciate it . thanks
nfpa1002

QUOTE: Originally posted by leemitcheltree Hey, Wayne......... I'm Lee and I live in Melbourne - I make a lot of 1/48 a/c, 1/24 cars, 1/12 bikes and anything else I can get my hands on. Been modelling about 35 years now. Cheers LeeTree

Hi LeeTree,
i am not a Aussie , just a modeler hear in the states . . I was wanting to ask you about the R & S serise Valaints. Do you or any one you know ever produced Right hand drive after market kits ?
I have the two US kits currently . monogram and AMT , I might plan to have resin casts made . if you have any sugestions on the after market kits, I would apreciate it .
I do know of a 61 Valiant resin kit out , but the right hand drive opptions is the goal . .
any photos or tech spects. or any 1/24 scale 6 cyc hyper / hemi models engines .

personal i have a 62" 225 cid. here at home .
I am familliar with trax cars 1/43 scale


thank for your time, nfpa1002

Thanks for the info Carl and a great link

cheers mike..

QUOTE: Originally posted by South Aussie Now your have done it Jules, with that picture all our oversea friends are going to start to believe again that Roos roam down all our main streets.

Running Hopping for cover [:0] more likely.

QUOTE: Originally posted by mgbriggs Does anyone know where I can get some letter decals from I want to make up the code RB-E It belongs to the sunderland mkIII which flew in the RAAF 10 squadron which was shot down at bay of biscay . they look like they are in a dull red colour and they are about 19mm high .

I got some 'RAAF Faded Sky Blue Letters' from Red Roo. They're basically off-white letters & numbers in quite a variety of sizes & a couple of styles (stencil + typical san-serif for call sign lettering). You could easily spray them another colour as they're quite light.

Google search seems to show 3 common turret setups, no top turret (esp. RAAF & RNZAF), a central top turret (yanks?) & then the offset top turret.
http://images.google.com.au/images?q=%22Short+Sunderland%22&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison Darren, Yeah mate i'm game Now this is the only pic i have of myself already in photobucket and it was taken at Australia Zoo on my daughters B/Day last September........ I've already posted it in the BoB thread when we were talking about Cow Tipping and things like that............

Now your have done it Jules, with that picture all our oversea friends are going to start to believe again that Roos roam down all our main streets.