Sorry, I was joking that you could make the V-1 a RAF model by filling it with some good British lead bullets...  

Gamera thank you.you just got to like the tempest looking very good!!  gotta see the new pics. getting gloster masked and ready for dark green . I started the V1 now bullet holes ?

Nick: Meteor is looking good. Love the pre-shading and nice work there on the engines, pilot, etc. 

Maybe you could fill the V-1 with British bullet holes??? 

Just finished decaling the starboard side of the Tempest. Just the portside and the little dab of stenciling they gave me left. Will have photos up sometime this weekend. 

alrighty then here goes this may take me a while

Ye, sures, its part of the kit so why not.

Greg I thin tamiya paints alittle more with their thinner.

Bish can I throw in this V1 flying bomb that came in the gloster kit? I now its not British

Greg

Nick, your undercoat looks neater than most of my finish coats.

I had no idea the Lotus factory is in Norfolk, Bish. Cool! I'm not a formula 1 racing fan in particular, but I've always loved the color Lotus Green. Ever since I built that kit way back when. I wonder if I even painted it? I bet I didn't.

That's a neat idea about one old and one new tool Airfix kit. I'm actually getting excited to try one.

 

I am not much of a racing fan either, but it is nice having a worldwide brand on your doorstep. I did once get to sit in a Lotus. It must have been the late 70's and we were on a day trip to Great Yarmouth, which is one of the main coastal resorts on the east coast. They had a black lotus carrying the JPS cigerrete branding on it with a Lotus stand and you could sit in it, get your pic taken. I must have only been 7 or 8 at the time. I will have to ask my mum if she still has that photo some where.

Eric, i have heardthose comments about panel lines as well. I have built up a small collection of the new Airfix kits, not bad seeing as i used to avoid them like the plauge, and what i have seen does not look to bad to me. I actually prefer panel lines a liuttle deeper as they hold washes better. As for rivets, i am not a fan of those anyway. I have thought about riveting kits,especially larger scale, but then i look at pics of the real thing and even on those you can't see them unless you are right up to them.

I think these model companies just like to use, and even invent catchy names. Its like the terms King Tiger or hanomag, not only did the Germans not use them they were not offical terms. But they look good on a box apparently.

Greg

Lotus Green? Back when I was hooked on British roadsters we called it British Racing Green (BRG) - if a custom job, often given a white racing stripe. That was the mid-late 60s and Lotus certainly made a mark. As I recall Lotus was racing something in about every class in the sport. They got their attention in the US when guru Colin Chapman developed the F1 Lotus team and took the Indianapolis 500 in 1965 with Jim Clark at the wheel - dooming 60 years of dominance by front engined racers. (US car chauvinists got a little revenge when Carol Shelby won at LeMans with the Ford GT-40: it was half English, but who quibbled?) Depending upon your view that era was the peak of F1 racing or a kind of grim spectacle. The number of great drivers for Lotus alone - Clark, Moss, Hill and even American Mario Andretti - gave the era star power. So did the casualty rate. No F1 season (or Indy 500 or NASCAR for that matter) was complete without deaths and injury. Indeed, people not amused accused racing fans of enjoying the blood. Clark's death in 1968 - at an F2 race in Germany - started some serious examination. Increasingly limitations were put on the cars to slow them down and safety equipment mandated. Now it's a rare to see a fatal accident. A good thing no doubt. But what a show while it lasted! The best car I've ever driven? A 1967 Lotus Super Seven - silver and BRG. I couldn't fit in it today. Glad I could then.

Eric

Nick, your undercoat looks neater than most of my finish coats.

I had no idea the Lotus factory is in Norfolk, Bish. Cool! I'm not a formula 1 racing fan in particular, but I've always loved the color Lotus Green. Ever since I built that kit way back when. I wonder if I even painted it? I bet I didn't.

That's a neat idea about one old and one new tool Airfix kit. I'm actually getting excited to try one.

Looking good Nick.

Greg that typhoon is moving along!

well Im back in the saddle just shot tamiya dark sea gray on the meteor top side 

Greg

Bish and Gammy, thanks for commenting.

An Airfix GB sounds like fun, I'd say I'm tempted too.

I think it is odd that Airfix doesn't have 1/32 aircraft, only a few 1/24 (which I'd love to try)

 

Good point Greg, but they have produced 1/32nd military figures, rather than 1/35th. Guess they just like to be different

You kow me Greg, i don't mind off Topic. And while i don't build car kits, i will look forward to seeing that Lotus. It might not be an aircraft but its certainly British and whats more from Norfolk. I grew up about 10 miles from the Lotus factory, which is on what was a B-24 base during WW2, Hethal.

Gamera

I have some older vintage Airfix kits, just not the new releases. I don't remember exactly which ones but I know I have Monty's staff car in 1/32nd. 

 

I am hoping people will build one older kit and one of the new tooled ones, might be nice to see how they have changed. I have a couple of each lined up.

I'm very fond of vintage kits. Of all sorts.

This is way off topic but I just found a Tamiya Team Lotus (the sold-out re-release) in Japan and ordered one. I built one as a kid and couln't resist.

Ok...back to British aircraft now.

I have some older vintage Airfix kits, just not the new releases. I don't remember exactly which ones but I know I have Monty's staff car in 1/32nd. 

Bish and Gammy, thanks for commenting.

An Airfix GB sounds like fun, I'd say I'm tempted too.

I think it is odd that Airfix doesn't have 1/32 aircraft, only a few 1/24 (which I'd love to try)

Always happy to help

Greg: That looks good. I've accidently left a few seams on the top of the nose before and then had it glare at me until I finally broke down and puttied and sanded the sucka down... 

Bish: You are tempting me sir... 

Well, it coming Greg and its looking nice.

I have not built any of the new Airfix kits yet either, but i will be changing that with the Phantom for the Commonwealth GB. But i also plan on running an Airfix GB next year to mark the 80th Anniversary, so none of you will have any excuses after that

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AA, your Airfix kit and associated conversation reminds me I've yet to try an Airfix kit. You may whet my appetite.

I started my Tiffy for this GB however many months ago with simplicity in mind. No fiddling planned. Misalignments will be as they are. Imperfections after priming, live with them. Most certainly no re-scribing. Not this time.

But there was that ugly seam at the top of the engine cowling staring at me tonight.....

.....and so it goes. Y'all know the drill.

Thanks for the recommendation AA. So far I haven't tried any of the new Airfix kits. This would make a great one for getting my feet wet. I've got about a dozen kits of that unmentionable RAF aircraft but so far not a single Hurricane. 

Thanks Bish and Gammy. Nothing everyone hasn't already done, just posting proof of progress. :)

Cockpit looks good, Armor.

AA: Looks good, nice detailing there in the cockpit. I may have to pick up one of those. 

Greg: Looks good there too, white glue makes great lenses. 

That looks good Greg.I used white glue for the clear piece which goes over the light on the wings of a couple of Stukas. It does shrink a bot so needed a second application, but came out ok.

While I wait for glue to dry, thought I'd snap a pic of it drying.

This is the 1/48 Eduard Tiffy's right landing light 'lens' drying, a glob of white glue (actually, Gator's Grip Glue original formula) over a painted circle of silver.

If I guessed right, it will shrink a little drying and end up looking something like a lens.

Progress, slow but ....slow.

And this is what happens when I try to manual focus in the dark.