OK... Take me off the "TBA" list!  I finally decided on my build...

Battle of Britain Me 109E, which means the venerable Hispano HA-1112 "Buchon" will be in the spotlight...  I finally found one at a decent price, although I had to order it from South Korea... Price was still under 22.00 though, even with shipping.. It's a 1/48 Academy kit BTW...

Here's the prototype:

This is the CAF's Buchon (circa 1983), bought by the CAF directly after the filming of The Battle of Britain had wrapped... Intitially there were two,  (also two of  the "He 111"s) but one was sold... This one is now in the guise of "Der Stern von Afrika", Hans-Joachim Marseille's "Yellow 14", which "yours truly" did all the paint research on...

It's currently airworthy, but no one can fly it... Seems that the few CAF fighter pilots who are rated for it, can't quite make the squeeze into a Messerschmitt cockpit, lol..  I know it's a tight fit too, I'm 6'1" and @ 185 pounds, I was barely able to fit in it, although I couldn't close the canopy without it hitting my head...  Max height for a guy to fly that sucker has to be about 5'9"...

I should have a few pics bit later on or tomorrow.

Looking nice guys,

 Still no start from me thanks to appendicitis inviting me to spend the weekend in hospital, and while the surgery pain is settling fairly quick, hunched over a desk isnt the best place to be spending lots of time yet.

Andrew

Ouch... I feel your pain, although mine's relegated to the right hip I had replaced three weeks ago..

Ouch Andrew, hadn't seen you around much but assumed you'd been busy. My hopes and prayers for your swift recovery.

iv ordered a 1/48 scale b5 star fury can i enter with that?

Love to have you aboard

Getting hit with delays which prevent me from putting Paw to Plastic.

Biggest one is end of school-year of son is this month, so lots of shopping and preparations to get him ready for the new year. Add to that a 3 week holiday where he will be at home full-time and wanting my attention. 

Buy him a video game (j/k)

Andrew

I can finally get going on this GB.I should have some progress pics up later today.Off to the bench!

And away we go!

There are some ugly seems on this kit.

I thought this was a bit odd.

This is it for now.

Konigwolf13

Buy him a video game (j/k)

Andrew

Cough, cough, my copy of Dragon Age II came in yesterday so I may be moving a little em... slow...

Still did get some work done in filling in the rough spots on the resin over the weekend. And I fixed a small broken area on one of the tail fins.

TD4438: Maybe it's not the latest Dragon kit but still she doesn't seem half bad. Looks like she'll be a fun build.  

my 1st ever sci fi kit arrived today its only 1/72 scale but it looks bigger than i expected it to

ps its a babylon 5 star fury

Current progress.

TD4438

That was the very first armor kit I ever built... It came with Shep Paine's diorama tip-sheet and that was THE kit that changed me from an "assembler of firecracker targets" to a "serious modeler" and strictly diorama-builder at the ripe old age of 13....

My Texas Messerschmitt is now decaled and ready for touch-p and weathering...  I built it S.O.B. as there wasn't really anything that needed to be added.. The interesting thing is that there's only a seat-pan in the cockpit, no back-rest...

The CAF's  Buchon has a regular seat in it, since none of the pilots wear butt-pack 'chutes, which is what the "pan"- design was supposed to accomodate...  But I'm depicting this one from The Battle of Britain as "Yellow 4", so it's possible that the Spansh AF's movie pilots still wore butt-packs in 1969... I haven't found anything to suggest otherwise, any way..

I don't have a decal for the correct Staffel badge, only for JG 27, but oh well..  I'm doing a diorama of it during the filming of BoB, so, while the model languishes on the shelf as a 99%-er, I've started work on the two "Luftwaffe" figures, and also the camera, camera crew and director figures, doing a few "B-roll" shots... I figure that's the easiest way to depict the modeland make it obvious to any viewer of what the story is...

I also considered doing a Mk II Spitfire sitting nose to nose with it, with a another camera shot being set up for the "RAF" actors...  That one I'm actually gonna do that, I think, but it won't be for this build..  It'll be easy enough to change dioramas once this build is complete.. Pics soon...

Hans von Hammer

TD4438:

 

 

That was the very first armor kit I ever built... It came with Shep Paine's diorama tip-sheet and that was THE kit that changed me from an "assembler of firecracker targets" to a "serious modeler" and strictly diorama-builder at the ripe old age of 13....

Current Progress

I am almost beginning to regret this.I've already used a can of white spray paint (primer), and still haven't finished coating all the parts.I loathe working with white and yellow paint!

I hope the final results are worth the effort.

didnt they have any anti dandruff shampoo??

I'm not much of a figure painter,so I'm calling these done.I did enjoy it,though.

I might add some infantry to this build.Gotta check the stash.

eatthis

didnt they have any anti dandruff shampoo??

What?

I see "Head and Shoulders".

Looks like it's gonna be one long GB.

Murphy's Law is kicking in big time with this paint job!

Everything is fighting me!

It took far more primer to cover the green plastic than I could have guessed,resulting in another trip to the LHS.

Upon application,the primary color re-activated the primer,resulting in the paint running off a lot of the raised edges!I've never had that happen before.

I tried to brush a similar color over the sprayed yellow paint,but that simply resulted in visible brush strokes everywhere!What a nightmare this has become.I hate yellow paint!

I just finished respraying everything.So far it looks a lot better.Time will tell.

When I said everything was fighting me,I meant it!

TD4438 Um, don't even want to hear the story behind the exploding paint bottle

But I know what you mean, I've done something one way 100 times and then had the whole thing go berzerk on me on the 101 time. Just keep at it friend, shove it in the box, walk away, and then come back later if you have to.

Still the figures look good.

Thanks dude.The jar didn't explode.I had to carve it open.That lid just wasn't coming off and I needed that particular color.

hey..a little trick to get those stubborn jars open...

set the paint bottle upside down, with a paint brush or eye dropper, put some thinner around the slim opening between the lid and the jar, the thinner will follow the threads and loosen the dried paint...give it a few mins, and the lid will come right off... laquer thinner works the fastest...

Good idea!

I'm not sure it would have worked in this case.

I keep an adjustable wrench on the bench for just this kind of thing.

That lid still wouldn't budge!

its worked everytime for me.. sometimes it takes a few applications of thinner.. by the way... acrylic thinner wont cut it.. you got to use enamel, or laquer... then a firm application with pliers !  lol

Hot water has always worked for me on bottle lids. Even the worse has come off after five minutes of soaking.

Once I did have a bottle Polly-S 'Plastic Prep' that I tried for over a half-hour to get the child-proof cap (more like turtle proof!) off and finally just drilled a hole in the bottle and poured the contents into one with a reasonable lid.

Current progress.

The hull and turret are ready for detailing.I also successfully raided the stash for decals and infantry.