ah, Honeysuckle Rose. She was my first ever aircraft model, back in 1976. It was the old Frog kit, and I won't tell you how bad the finished thing was, but it's one I'd love to reprise.

Yours is good, and just might tip me over the edge.

Cheers

Tony

Nice build Richard

Miss OWL, guys,

Funny how life can get annoyingly in the way of modelling. My bench ground to a virtual halt these last few weeks....

But i did finish my little P47!

The british scheme was just too tempting. It really gives the thunderbolt a whole other look compared to the NMF ones. Hope you guys like her

Richard

P.s. The hurricane is next up. I already did some paintwork on the office...

whoo! Ive been out of town for a bit and am glad to see progress!

DiscoStu: Thats some real nice NMF there, keep it up!

Blitzwing:

Didn't get the paint on the weekend I originally planned but finally managed to get the paint on. I've still got to add some finishing touches before applying decals but the end is in sight. 

The paints have finally arrived and just in time for the weekend too. Looking forward to getting some colour onto my model, an extremely eye catching combination of light grey, grey, and darker grey.

Excellent work Stu.

Really fine-looking metallic finish, Stu.  Very nice.

Yeah sharp clean work there Stu! 

Nice work Disco, looking good.

Here are a couple of pics of my Mirage fresh off the drying rack.  I used the kit-included masks for all the Red.  The white panels will be covered with decals down the road.  Really pleased with how well the masks worked. Only had one spot pull up the underlying paint and that was more operator error than as a result of the mask.

Gamera

Several different props were tested out:

12-foot Curtis Electric

13-foot Curtis symmetric paddle blade

13-foot Hamilton Standard paddle blade

I have a reference book at home I can check to see which would be closest for the N, if I don't have the exact one I'll send you the one that looks the closest to being right.  

Toss me the address you want it send to with a message and I'll try to get it mailed sometime around the first of the week.

thanks, Gamera. Message sent!

Several different props were tested out:

12-foot Curtis Electric

13-foot Curtis symmetric paddle blade

13-foot Hamilton Standard paddle blade

I have a reference book at home I can check to see which would be closest for the N, if I don't have the exact one I'll send you the one that looks the closest to being right.  

Toss me the address you want it send to with a message and I'll try to get it mailed sometime around the first of the week.

Gamera

Owl: The Hasegawa and Tamiya come with about three props for the different versions. If you know which version you need I'll look around and see if I have one of that type in the parts bin. No charge if you want it.

three props?! Dang....

Im building an N version, but Im not to worried about accuracy so whatever you have extra would be really appreciated!

Owl: The Hasegawa and Tamiya come with about three props for the different versions. If you know which version you need I'll look around and see if I have one of that type in the parts bin. No charge if you want it.

I think usually you can go through their websites. But the one i have for Academy doesn't seem to be working. Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks guys, cockpits are my most favorite part of the build--so much detail! :)

Bish

Lovely work on that pit OWL. Are you going to get am AM prop or contact Academy.

Ive never had to contact a kit-maker before. How do I go about doing that?

Lovely work on that pit OWL. Are you going to get am AM prop or contact Academy.

Thanks, Bish.  The radar turned out better than I could have hoped.  The LionsRoar offering has even tinier examples that I haven't attempted yet.

Outstanding work on the cockpit, Ms OWL.  Top-notch.

Very nice work Owl! Really nice seatbelts.

Wow, OWL you have come so far! Marvelous work!

M/TB379

Damn girl, you got mad skills.

Began construction on my entry, but couldn't get too far...but what I did get completed looks pretty darn good!

box top

The kit was bought second hand, so some of the pieces were already painted. Unfortunately the cockpit was all put together with no details painted! I snapped it apart and fixed that in little time

I added some wire details to the sidewalls, scratch-built harnesses, and added IP wires

this is how tiny the IP is: it fits on a dime!!

I had to stop here, because as I was preparing to wire-up the engine I noticed there was no propeller in the box!!! ACK! What use is a prop fighter if it doenst have a prop!? Construction on the Thunderbolt has ceased until I get a replacement propeller.....

Bloody hell check, i didn't spot those pics of the radar. Next time someone comments at how amazed they are are whats done in 72nd, i will post a pic of those. This is stunning work mate.

Thanks, Tony and Gemara; I appreciate your comments on the photoetch radar.  Along with the main SK radar, that's all the photoetch I'm adding.  I haven't tried railings yet.  They seem intimidating.

Below is some more progress, construction step 03.  This includes a bunch of the 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and the tubs to go with them.

First photo is of the 20mm's themselves.  They aren't modeled very well; just a blob behind the gunshield.  They might as well be fire-fighting cannons.

Below are the guntubs.  I painted them deck blue first, even though it's a darker color (masking it this way seemed easier), and now they are masked and ready to receive haze gray.

Next photo is of the finished gun tubs and the 20mms.  I used a dark gray acrylic paint for the barrels, also drybrushed a lighter gray for highlights, followed by a dark wash.

Last photo shows the guns installed in the tubs, per kit instructions at this point.  The tubs get installed during the final assembly steps--which is probably wise, rather than trying to plunk all these little pieces in place with the tubs already glued on.

Construction step 04 involves the floatplanes.  Fujimi included Seaking types in this kit, but Wisky carried Kingfishers.  I bought a box of Trumpeter Kingfishers to take care of this, and joined the "Floatplane/Seaplane Group Build" to finish them.  I'll return to posting progress for this GB when I get the planes finished.

Everyone's progress here is sure impressive.

Thanks for looking. 

Thnaks guys. I actually saw BN on station the other day for the first time in quite a while.

The only reason i rebuilt it was because the guy at work wanted this spefic aircraft and he wanted the same display as mine. The guy i built it for is in the REME, hence the REME flash. His uncle was also in the REME and was in the Falklands during the war. He died a couple of years ago and my mate his going to give this to his granfather, his uncles dad.

It is rather a nice camo, and makes a change from those compliucted German motteled schemes.

The Raiden is looking nice Mike.

Bish: Beautiful work on the Chinook! And really nice work there on the base and display too.

Mike: The Raiden is coming along nicely!

Bish

Looks like a great GB you have going here OWL. Thanks for running it. I will deffinatly be watching and hopefully will be able to add another build next year.

very nice, Bish! Ill get the front page updated pronto! 

Exceptional results on the helicopter, Bish.  The camoflage is easy on the eyes.  Looks outstanding.

Bish, that Chinook is the goods. I REALLY like the look of it. The display is exceptional too.

Cheers

Tony