Airfix Group Build 2011-2012

Centhot

Oh, well, I just went for it!  It's called Erstwhile Classics, which maybe is a bad name?  Need to think of a badge, and how to make one.  Anyway, let's see who signs up!  Basically, I was inspired by this GB!  I have an Esci 1/72 F-16B which is just crying out to be built!  Then there's a Matchbox Buffalo, and a Frog DH.Hornet., and a...

Centhot

Scorpiomikey:

If you build it, they will come.

Field of Dreams!  Doh!  Didn't pick-up on that reference immediately! Very good.

That makes you the Keven Costner of the GB anyway  

Actually i think i got that quote from waynes world lol.

Scorpiomikey

If you build it, they will come.

Oh, well, I just went for it!  It's called Erstwhile Classics, which maybe is a bad name?  Need to think of a badge, and how to make one.  Anyway, let's see who signs up!  Basically, I was inspired by this GB!  I have an Esci 1/72 F-16B which is just crying out to be built!  Then there's a Matchbox Buffalo, and a Frog DH.Hornet., and a...

Well thanks for the compliment centhot. The best thing you can do is start a feeler thread. If you get enough responses, just make an official thread with a badge and a set of rules.

If you build it, they will come.

Just start a thread and see who signs up!

This GB has been most useful and fun - it's made me actually get those old kits built, and in the case of the Camel finished (not well, but as I say, the worst finished model beats the best unfinished one) - including fabricating some new parts to replace missing bits!  Alone, I probably would have just binned it.

I'm actually thinking I might run my own GB, for kits from companies that no longer exist, which is rather small actually, but includes some classics.  Matchbox, Frog, and Esci spring to mind.  How does one go about creating a GB?

Scorp--

I've got Airfix's new HMS Trafalgar kit. The hull is together but no paint or fiddly bits have been put on. Is it eligible?

Yeah sure, ill put you on the list.

There is some great work in here; lots of "old friends" (the kits I mean ;)

so you accept cross-overs? I just joined in the SAR GB with the olf Airfix RAF 63ft Rescue Launch. I can x-over here if allowed.

cheers

checkmateking02

TD, that is really nice.  Great work.

Centhot nice to see back on work

nice incoming pieces Lewbud 

great nice work on the buffalo TD

Thank you sir.The canopy is gonna take forever.The paint goes on very thin,so it's gonna need numerous coats.

TD, that is really nice.  Great work.

Current progress.

All usable decals applied and sealed.Just gotta finish up the canopy and weather this bad boy.

my paints are humbrol acrylics, never mind the alcohol idea though ill try and pick up some future stuff...

Centhot way to keep at it!

TD, looking forward to seeing the Buffalo finished.

Dupes, looking forward to seeing the lawn dart finished.

Kinda stalled out on the Spit for the moment.  Really should get back to her, as all she needs is the exhausts painted, the landing gear installed and the decals applied.  Went to the local HobbyTown today and came back with this (has the corrected SLA, CSM and BPC):

Went into my closet, and found this (vintage 1978):

 Upon opening the Shuttle, I found my Cutting Edge resin SSME set, Shuttle Tile decal set, Shuttle vinyl mask set, SILTS pod and an updated Shuttle Logo set.  Plan on meeting some friends at a not so local HobbyTowntomorrow for lunch.  They had the updated Saturn V in Skylab configuration last time I was there, maybe bringing that home as well.  If so, the Saturn Ib will be in a Skylab paint scheme.

Glad to see you forging ahead on another kit Centhot.

Thanks for the kudos on the Buffalo fellas.I am enjoying it.The decals however totally blow!

They just won't lay down in places for Micro Sol or Micro Set.The a/c reg. numbers broke into five pieces each.I tried to salvage the first,but it folded up and that was it.I should have it finished in a day or two.Pics to follow ASAP.

OK, so, after the debacle of the Camel, here's the Widgeon.

Here's how it was when I started the GB

I'd read elsewhere, several times, that the engines didn't fit the nacelles, as can be seen here:

The solution was green putty and plenty of it!  I also removed the rather pathetic coolers (?) on the top - I'll fashion new ones.  If nothing else, would be hard to blend every in with them extant.

One done!

Both done, and the mainplane attached.  Some blending will be needed though, as the square section is a different size to the fuselage...  I'm getting the idea that everything is to a different scale here!  Still, the fuselage fitted nicely (mostly), almost Tamiya infact!

You've done a creditable job with perhaps very little to work with.  When I did WWI years ago, I preferred Revell's Camel to Airfix; just seemed better.

Nonetheless, congratulations on your perseverence and the skills you've learned.  I don't think I'd have stuck with it like you did.

I tried rigging the Camel, but, a disaster!  So, here's the final picture, before it goes to the last mission, a terminal mission, that will only end in it's loss...

VanceCrozier

I suspect I was so patient because I was trying to avoid homework assignments at the time! 

I used to clean my room and do laundry.  I totally should have worked on models instead!

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VanceCrozier

The Buffalo is in the home-stretch! Can't wait to see that one finished up./quote]Astonishingly good painting for hand-painted.

It's all about thin paint & multiple coats! I've got a few in the display case that are from my pre-airbrush days that I am still pleased with the finish. Patience patience patience. I suspect I was so patient because I was trying to avoid homework assignments at the time! 

Centhot don't give up about the camel, really a pita kit but at least give it the wheels and the gun

TD the buffalo is really good

[quote user="VanceCrozier"]The Buffalo is in the home-stretch! Can't wait to see that one finished up./quote]Astonishingly good painting for hand-painted.

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traveller:

FINALLY!!! I start annual leave tonight after I finish my shift I might be able to get some things done

 

LOL no you wont, it will start with "I wonder whats on TV?" and end with "OH GOD ITS MONDAY AGAIN!"

The Buffalo is in the home-stretch! Can't wait to see that one finished up.

the real red baron

progress has been halted on my hurricane, im sorta well.... 'out of thinner'

will alcohol work as a thinner?

For which paint? Brand? Enamel? Acrylic?

Scorpiomikey

Do you want me to post that pic on the front page? or do you have another one you would prefer?