Falklands/Malvinas War 30th Anniversary GB

taxtp

Hi Bish,

I would be far more pleased with it if it did have a coat of flat varnish on it, I think it would be more pleasing to the eye. As I understand it, these things were painted gloss extra dark sea grey, so that's what it's got.

Cheers

Tony

Just for consideration, with the constant operations of the small Sea Harrier force and the sea and weather condtions it would have toned down a little. In scale a semi gloss or satin finish looks better to my eye.

Even before they were camo'd down the finish had a more toned down sheen than high gloss

and after...

some were also in a lighter gray as seen here on the Atlantic Conveyor...

and in combat

Firstly, thanks for the advice and many thanks Stik for posting all the pics. I've looked at stacks of photos I've got in a few books, and to be honest, some look very glossy, and are probably from the trip south or early in the conflict. It was my original intention to display the model in this state. However, given that I'm not happy with the look of it, and you guys mount a convincing argument, I think I'll give it a light semi-gloss coat, to edge it towards the glossier side of semi-gloss, if that makes sense.

Since I'll have to hit my next model (French F4U-7) with semi-gloss too. I'll hold this back a week or so and do them both on the same day.

Cheers

Tony

Nice work on the Sea Harrier Tony , I'm sure with a light dusting with of semi gloss clear your Harrier will look a lot more pleasing to you . Either way excellent work all round .

Sorry there hasn't been much progress on my builds of late , However this kit just arrived at the door

I've wanted a Seaking with those outrigger style landing gear struts for all most two decades  and now I finally have one . The kit is marked as a Falklands War bird and includes a open crew entry door with steps as well as folding main rotors ....."AWESOME"

The tail pylon is molded seperatly but there are no provisions to be able to place it the folded position . Although it probably wouldn't be that difficult to do .

Hopfully later today or tomorrow , I'll finally get to airbrushing my Argentine Chinook

John .

Is that a new Sea King kit oin the market, or were you able to pick up an old one. Looking forward to seeing the Chinook.

After many months of procrastinating, and many other months of work, I am calling my Mirage IIIEA finished. Overall not a bad kit. Its funny how after the fact we can see better ways to have done things.

ESCI 1/48 Mirage IIIE that I modified into a III EA. Italeri re popped this kit recently. I really do wish that they would repop the Mirage V so I could do a Nesher/Dagger... those Argie pilots had some great big brass... attributes 

Nice to see this finished, and a lovely finish it is. Great build Stik, that will look great on the front page

Thanks for having me here Bish

A pleasure to have you, as always.

Great work on the Mirage IIIE Stik .

The camouflage finish looks perfect .

Bish , the Cyberhobby HC-4 Seaking kit is a new release , it's a little pricey but as far as I;m aware it's the only 1/72 HC-4 kit that's around . They were used in the 1st Gulf War as well .

Helo H-34

Great work on the Mirage IIIE Stik .

The camouflage finish looks perfect .

Bish , the Cyberhobby HC-4 Seaking kit is a new release , it's a little pricey but as far as I;m aware it's the only 1/72 HC-4 kit that's around . They were used in the 1st Gulf War as well .

 I was just going to chime in with that info - saw an ad for that kit in.... "a British modeling magazine that shall not be named here"!

Great work Stik!

I hope to finish my Dagger before december.

Thanks for sharing your work,

Cheers

Jeremias

Thanks again guys. The work here in this GB is quite impressive and beautiful and I am proud to have been part of this group.

Congrats on the Mirage Stik. It looks really good to me, you should be proud of it. The como is spot on, as is the weathering.

Cheers

Tony

The Mirage is a wonderful model, stik. What is the central weapon?

stikpusher

ESCI 1/48 Mirage IIIE that I modified into a III EA. Italeri re popped this kit recently. I really do wish that they would repop the Mirage V so I could do a Nesher/Dagger... those Argie pilots had some great big brass... attributes 

As we know, when Britain was able to bring down transport and carriers, the theater radius was greatly diminished for the Harriers.

Argentina on the other hand had to withdraw their carrier in the face of the submarine threat and at that point in my opinion they lost the war.

I'm spending effort researching the attack on Sheffield. At least four aircraft involved.

But I think the Black Buck attacks really take precedence as brave. Sixteen Victors each for the two bombers on each mission.

(BTW the Victor IMO is the true hero in many ways, and Matchbox made a great one.

Where did the Vulcan's go in this GB?

Its a shame we didn't get a vulcan built, and i don't think we will now. There are a few MIA's from the GB, but such is the nature of GB's.

There's still no painting done on my Chinook as yet . In the mean time I started looking at the High Planes EE Canberra B.62 kit ,  'FUEZRA AERA ARGENTINA'

High Planes provide a nice set of resin cockpit goodies

Unfortunatly one of my front wheels is missing

I have a spare Airfix B-57kit , I could probably use both front wheels from that kit .

A quick check on how things will look , I dry fitted the cockpit pieces in place

High Planes instructions suggest painting the entire cockpit flat black , is this correct for EE Canberra's ?

I'll tidy up the resin cockpit pieces with some sandpaper and get ready to paint the parts and I'll clean up the fuselage halves and wing pieces and glue the wings together

Nice looking kit. I'm not sure about the cockpit. I have the Xtrakit PR 9 but i can't remember what colour that give for the inside.

Helo H-34

High Planes instructions suggest painting the entire cockpit flat black , is this correct for EE Canberra's ?

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image60358.html

Helo H-34

High Planes instructions suggest painting the entire cockpit flat black , is this correct for EE Canberra's ?

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image60358.html

Black it is then. Nice links Azorean.

Hello,

Black is OK for FAA Canberras, if you need pictures of this aircrafts, I have plenty, let me know.

Cheers

Jeremias

Helo H-34

High Planes instructions suggest painting the entire cockpit flat black , is this correct for EE Canberra's ?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/551917_349547211798090_788166795_n.jpg

ooohhh! A Canberra!?

Will be nice to have one of those on board.

vance, Stik's build needs to be added to the front page.

ahh - good eye Bish, just packing up for the day but will update this weekend.

Nice...what scale is this?

el_jere

Hi there guys,

Before enything else I want to wish say Merry Christmas to all!!! (a little lat, but who cares LOL)

Here are a couple of pics of my finished SUE, I still have to made a missing antenna but I´m wating for a friend who have th original part so I can copy it.

The colour is more or less right I belive LOL.

I´m now stariting my second build for th gropur, a 1/48 Learjet 35, I will post some pics soon.

best wishes to all!

Jere

ps: grea work on the pucara Bondo!

Thats a 48th Heller kit. bsyamato built a 72nd Academy kit of the same aircraft.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/134921.aspx?sort=ASC&pi240=41

Feel free to join in the GB. Builds can be submitted until the end of Oct and it runs until the end of Dec.