Aussie Modellers

Carl,Thats one awsome pitLooking forward to seeing the finished build

to the gang Seeveealways happy to see another Aussie on FSMI'm looking forward to seeing some of your work.........
BTW were Due to start the Aussie Group Build on Australia day if your intested.....

Hey seevee ... welcome a fellow Sydney-sider ... glad to have you on the board.

For those who are interested in those wingy things that were used by my previous employer (the RAAF), the Navy and Army, the following website, if you don't know about already, maybe of interest. http://www.adf-serials.com. I have also posted this website in the Aussie Group build folder.

That is beautiful work you've done on the Mirage Carl

Please post more shots as the build progresses.

Darren

QUOTE: Originally posted by seevee Gday all Here is my belated greeting. I'm from Sydney and would count myself as one of the lucky ones who has a wife who also models. We both usually dabble in 48 scale military aircraft with the occasional foray into other scales. One question I have always wondered about is does anyone make a scale 1968 Dodge Charger either built or kit? I have never seen one. Cheers.

to the Aussie modelers thread seevee, always nice to have another Aussie on the forum (we are in fact taking over this forum bit by bit )

I know that ERTL did a 1:18 1968 Dodge Charger from the movie "Bullitt" with Steve McQueen, you can check it out at
http://www.idcow.com/etl2037.html

ERTL also do a Pro Stock silver and red 68 Charger that you can check out at
http://www.diecastmuscle.com/store/29281

Cheers
Darren

Bandha Boy, your cockpit looks excellent, looking forward to seeing more of your aircraft.

QUOTE: Originally posted by seevee Gday all Here is my belated greeting. I'm from Sydney and would count myself as one of the lucky ones who has a wife who also models. We both usually dabble in 48 scale military aircraft with the occasional foray into other scales. One question I have always wondered about is does anyone make a scale 1968 Dodge Charger either built or kit? I have never seen one. Cheers.

seevee to the Aussie Modeller Thread, can't help you with the Dodge.
Don't forget to keep check this thread.

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson Jules and South Aussie Question for both of you as I noticed that you both built the Tamiya Matilda II for the Commonwealth Armor GB. I am thinking of building this (as one of my builds) for the Nth African GB and wanted to know what is the kit like. I know it is old but does it still build into a reasonable looking kit? Cheers Darren

Darren; I agree with Jules that the Matilda 11 is not a bad kit but it does suffer some of the minor problems of early Tamyia kits including overcoming the kits provision for mounting a motorizing kit. If you decide on the three colour Caunter scheme the instructions will not be of any great help, as Jules has highlighted. There is a debate on hyperscale that the blue in this scheme does not exsist, at least on the honeys, but I have photos of matildas that show blue in use in this scheme. Im using these photos as a reference although it will be a guess about the top of the turret as the photo don't show this very well. Ill post a photo of the completed model when I finish painting it.

Possible colours for the Caunter scheme are;

Desert yellow = Tamyia XF 60 Dark Yellow, you can added a small amount of XF 49 to darken it
Dark Green = Tamyia XF 61 Dark Green
Slate Grey = 60% Tamiya XF20 Medium Grey and 40% XF 23 Light Blue.

hope this helps.

superb work!!

Looking forward to seeing more as the build progresses!

cheers

Mike

It's all from the Eduard IIIC Royal kit. Some wierd things they do, eg all of the instructions are written for the 'Profipack' (a level down from the 'Royal') so you find, for instance, a resin seat in the kit that is quite different to the one in the instructions and not mentioned anywhere at all. I think the plastic one is an MB4 & the resin an MB5, but consequently some of the PE doesn't easily fit onto the resin seat. All up though, Eduard do a wonderful job.

I added a few pipes etc to the wheel well after looking at the RAAF IIIO, which has absolute spaghetti in there. I'm doing the SAAF scheme but couldn't find any pics of their interior of the IIICZ, so I've copied bits from various sources, eg the multifarous seat colours are from a Sea Vixen as it was the closest seat design I could find to the resin seat.

Thats mind blowing well done mate what brand is the kit .

seevee sorry not able to help on the 1968 Dodge Charger .

cheers mike

Here are some progress pix of the Mirage. Cockpit tub almost ready to go( it's not glued in here, just sitting loosely). The seat was a whole deal in itself, pity I didn't think to take some shots before I stuck it in.


Panel & instruments (sorry for the crap photos):

Some of the PE goes onto the wall rather than the tub:


The front wheel well is the reverse side of the tub - obviously sans wheel at this stage:



There's a whole bunch of detail up the jet pipe although you need an arthroscope to see it, which begs the question...

Gday all

Here is my belated greeting. I'm from Sydney and would count myself as one of the lucky ones who has a wife who also models. We both usually dabble in 48 scale military aircraft with the occasional foray into other scales.

One question I have always wondered about is does anyone make a scale 1968 Dodge Charger either built or kit? I have never seen one.

Cheers.

Thanks for the Congrats fellas

Briggsy sweet build mateNMF looks brilliant

Daniel, Mate i can't wait until the Canetoads kick the Blues A- -E this season, i'm gonna rub it in big time Please disregard this comment if QLD loses

Darren the Matilda 11 is not a bad kit at all, it goes together fairly well but the exaust system is a liitle trying, the only other gripe i have is with the colour guide, i want to do the 3 colour Caunter scheme but the instuctions are hopeless there is no colour guide at all only a B/W pic of the finished model which is not much help, i asked about the actual colours on the armour forum and was advised to go to the Review forum and have a look at the Stuart Honey in the Caunter scheme so at least now i know what colours to paint it, but i do still need to find out exactly where the colour demarcation lines are.......other than a vague colour guide it's a pretty good kit
OH yeah BTW you will have to fill up a couple of holes where the old motorized bits used to go.........Jules............

Hey Jules, congrats on that nice new shiny star.

Now if you queenslanders would spend as much time training for the footy as you do on this forum, you might be able to win something.

Hi guys I've finished the mustang and now to get ready for the aussie 05 build .

Congrats j.s.harrison on the 4th star out standing



cheers mike

Jules, congrats on the 1000th post and 4th star. Well done!!!

Jules and South Aussie
Question for both of you as I noticed that you both built the Tamiya Matilda II for the Commonwealth Armor GB. I am thinking of building this (as one of my builds) for the Nth African GB and wanted to know what is the kit like. I know it is old but does it still build into a reasonable looking kit?

Cheers
Darren

Ok South i'll go and check it out

Jules, Check out the Odds & Ends Folder - they are already toasting your pending 1000th post.

Maybe a couple posts early but congratulations on your 4th Star.

Mike J. Excellent work your 1:72 F9F-5 Panther and Kamov Ka-27 Helix ASW Helicopter. Thanks for sharing.

To both Mikes, decanting paints from spray cans, never even thought about that technique. Guess you learn something everyday.

Not to sure how I'll go I'm painting the house at the momment fun...

I've just recieved the mustang resin 1/72 update set and the vac foam canopy for the sutherland that I'm going to do in the float and fly group build never used these before this will be intresting . Also recieved squadrons 2005 catalogue lots of goodies in there ..

cheers briggsy

Mike

Next month mate

You reckon you will get another done?

cheers

Mike

Thanks guys ,

darson
the kit decals that were suppied had 3 type of planes to do the first one I stuffed up and I wasn't about to give up so I tryed again this time it worked ok after allowing the pledge to dry properly .

mike that Kamov looks out standing good one , I've seen that Panther somewhere before still looks great .

mike whens the next comp at PDMC..

cheers briggsy(to many mikes)

Briggsyand Mike sweet builds guys, excellent work

Darren, yeah mate it's a 142cm NEC with a digital box top and surround sound system, If your ever in Bris come round and watch the BoB, it sounds wicked when the Spits fire up their merlins

Darren

No problems

Kit is a Matchbox 1:72 F9F-5 Panther from VF-144 aboard the USS Boxer in 1955. Decals are from Microscale and needed rescue treatment with Microscale decal film to prevent shattering. The kit decals were dead as the kit had been stored in a shed before I got my hands on it via ebay.

I used Tamiya AS Spraycan dark sea blue for the overall finish, which I decanted for touch ups. Other paints were from Aeromaster, Vallejo, Citadel and Humbrol.

As you can see, the Microscale decals performed like champions, bedding down without silvering! I used Superscale white decal strips to replicate the prominent white canopy seals.

Build-up was excellent with only moderate amounts of filler used. The use of a Flex-i-file paid dividends here for fuselage seam work. Thanks Thommo!!

I used the kit seat with Tamiya tape belts to simulate the harnesses. In fact the cockpit was the only place I had difficulty with. More me than the kit I guess!






cheers

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bandha Boy I ordered my airbrush from Bear Air. The courier fees are a bit silly but it still works out considerably better than the local rip-off merchants, I shudder to think what margin they're working on. I also include a few goodies in the box that you can't get locally & BA are good to deal with. They hit me for about US$50+ for UPS (including a hose, a couple of quick-connects, some paints, cleaners, etc) but 'YouCanShopSecure', who have the best Badger prices, came up with > US$170 just for shipping one airbrush via UPS!!!

$170 for postage . They have got to be stark raving mad. I paid $250 AU from Dixie Art for my Iwata (with extra needles, nozzles and caps) and that includes shipping. I'm to embarrassed to mention what I paid locally for my old Aztec.

Jules, Plasma, did you mention Plasma, boy you're lucky you live in QLD or you'd have me around watching movies at your place all the time

Mike that's a great looking Mustang, what decals did you use for it?

Mike J I love the chopper, great job. Now how about posting a couple of shots of the Panther that's hiding in the corner of some of the Helix photos.

Cheers
Darren

Hi all

A trio of sneak peek pics of my just finished Kamov Ka-27 Helix ASW Helicopter. I took these whilst the Kamov was residing in it's new home.

Flat coat was finished on Sunday morning using Pollyscale clear flat acrylic and in the afternoon I did final detail painting and added replacement fuse wire step-rungs (the kit offerings were out of scale, chunky and entirely wrong!)

Canopy and side window masking was removed and the blunt end of a shaped toothpick used to clean up some errant paintwork. The window wipers then needed to be painted as well.

I had to use a brass tube section to correct the sit of the rotor head, this has really improved the final look of the model.

The whole model was then treated to some selective pastel chalk weathering, which really lifted the model more.

The flat coat reduced the wash effect somewhat, even removing a little here and there, but nothing really bad and certainly something I am not annoyed about.

Still, here it is, so I hope you like what you see. I will post better pics later this week when I can set up my photo corner.

Time to get on with my BoB and SF Ground Assault GB entries





cheers

MikeJ

I had a feeling it was good old AS-12, my favourite BMF, though I would not go down the path of decanting and airbrushing it!

Well done Mike, looks the bees knees

cheers

Mike

Thanks guys the finish is AS12 tamiya , but I removed the paint from the can and air brushed it on , for the shaded panels I just added several drops of flat black to the AS12 . when all the decals were done and dryed I gave it a final coat of pledge and thats the finish you see . I sprayed AV acrylic flat clear on the antiglare panel .

I'm no way experienced enough to use BMF .

thanks mike

Mike

Sweet one mate!!

What was the BMF, did you get some Alcad?

cheers

Mike