Eye In The Sky GB - January 2010 - October 2010

Sub she's really looking great!!!! I agree, when you get to this part of a build it seems to take on its own personality.

Yes indeed Sub revolution she is looking really good I will be awaiting the finished pictures, its gonna be awesome I am sure.

The Vigilante looks great! I really love the colors on the tail!

could i join this please?

1/72 scale sr71 almost unstarted

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Sure, welcome aboard!  Is that the old Monogram (Revell) kit?

no its italeri no idea how old

JMabx/Jeremy – Great job on the Taifun!  nice and clean build.

Vance –  Beautiful work on the Storch; love the paint job! Congrats on the finish. And “the finish” (weathering), superb job!

B17 – Brilliant work on the mosquito cockpit.  Love the final paint job, very nice and clean. and congrats on getting your model noticed and on display!Better than a placing at a contest, cheers mate.

Aggieman – Arado looks great. Very nice pit detailing and rigging, congrats on the finish!

Artabr – very interesting and new subject; nice build. Great technique on the teeth masking. Nothing that some touch ups cant fix! Bummer about the canopy, but I liked the dew idea lol. I think we have all done something similar.

vetteman – Avenger looks great. Nice work on fixing all the blemishes. Good paint work. Love the final set of pics! cheers

simpilot – very very nice Jake, congrats on the finish!

Not sure when I will be able to start my P38 Recon… backed up in many GBs! Will see if I can start by end of July. Cheers all

Thanks Jmart!

Hopefully you can get a start on your P-38 soon.

the back row are all 1/72 scale

front row are both 1/32 scale

nimrod (anti sub build)

vulcan (iv got 2 on the go im using them to learn and i like vulcans)

sr71 (eyes in the sky build)

f14d (for the cats build 2011)

the 1/32 spit is for the bob build

jmabx

Thanks Jmart!

Hopefully you can get a start on your P-38 soon.

Cheers mate!!!

Just a little bump!

iv not touched the sr yet

ps would i be allowed to enter a what if recon plane?

Sure, so long as it adheres to the parameters of the GB. 

hmm its a little vague technically it wasnt used for recon but its a realistic and plausable what if

im just gonna do it and if its eligable then great if not oh well :)

progress pics

primed the main body painted the belly and weathered the gearbay

1/48 tsr2 against 1/48 f4 and f15 shows the size of the tsr2 quite well

1st coat of 1 out of 3 camo colours

Eat she's looking like the thouroughbred that she is!!!! Nice!!!

Eatthis yup looking real good Gotta keep an eye on this build

Finished the Revell 1/32 RF-4C.  This was a $20 win on e-bay, which I was pretty pleased to get, as they are getting a bit scarce.  I had the Eduard PE set for the cockpit, but chickened out.  I see Another big Phantom in my future, maybe with a SEA camo scheme, so that PE wont go to waste.  Undercarriage instructions were a bit vague, apart from that I really enjoyed this one.  RBF tag seems too big, I found these on a Great Britain website, maybe 1/24 scale.  I'll try and scale them down and try again.  According to the instructions, 6 of these Alabama ANG birds were converted to carry Sidewinders.  (A big thank you to to Hawkeye for providing the 'Winders, all the way from USA to Oz)

Very nice work on that Phantom.  I'll add it to the front page when I get back home.

WOW that phantom looks nice!!!! WELL DONE Wirraway!!!!!

Looks great!

I just started getting into the 1/48 RF-4E.

I located some Norm 70 camo  type decals and started up but now will be away for a week on vacation.  I can't complain because I really need one.  Hopefully I'll start right up after I'm back.

update time camos getting there im slightly alarmed at the amount of paint that came off with the tape but overall i really like it

That's a nice paint job.

im nearly finished with my 1st plane :)

its a 1/48 tsr what if japanese recon bird

1sts with this model

decals

aftermarket resin parts

weathering

2nd proper attempt at a camo scheme

i ruined the decals that form the stencil on top of the wing so i masked it and sprayed it lol

iv made lots of little mistakes rectified most of em and il live with the rest but i like the look of it :)

wash is on now

Wirraway - Great looking Phantom!   Twenty bucks is a good deal in any scale I think.

eatthis - That's a cool camo scheme.

got the wheels on theyr rather flimsy i had to use ca and they still bow out a bit!

all thats left to do now is fit the pitot tube (begs to get broken off) and put a final coat of either mat or satin im not sure yet

plenty of mistakes but im chuffed with it coz im a noob :)

iv actually completed my 1st plane  and also my 1st gb (:D)

i manedged to (accidentally) find a recon pod that sits in the bomb bay it looks good imho

here are the final pics

1 thing thats really annoyed me is the final coat of varnish has made parts of it go milky. its much worse in the photos than it is for real but its there nonetheless. the gloss coat i put on went on fine

i then put the decals on. after that i put a coat of matt varnish on and it was pretty bad iv since put a satin coat on and its better. any ideas what i did wrong??????

ps the gloss satin and matt varnish are all humbrol spray cans

Nice builds guys, very nice indeed. They both look mean as the devil

Congratulations Eatthis on your first GB finish well done

vetteman42

Nice builds guys, very nice indeed. They both look mean as the devil

Congratulations Eatthis on your first GB finish well done