80 Years of Airfix GB

That, Frank, is fantastic result from such an old kit. Great work on the glasshouse and the finish is super.

Good stuff!

Excellent Frank.  I have never seen a red tipped torpedo either!

Let's see what happens here. USE.com, the photo hosting site I've been using is going off the air next month. All of the pictures I've posted in the past will now be blank. Oh well. I'm starting a new folder with my SmugMug account for my models. Let's see if the photo sharing works. I finally finished the Devastator. I think it looks really nice. There's a lot of detail crammed into this little bird. I guess the toughest part was masking the canopy! I bought the Techmod decal and mask set to mask the canopy and have some nice decals for the build. The decal set is made for the Valom Devastator kit. The canopy mask didn't fit this Airfix kit so I had to custom cut masking for the canopy. Tedious!

The model depicts a Devastator aboard the USS Wasp, March 1942. It was an enjoyable build. Not real fiddley. For as old as the kit is, it has nice detail. It's all painted with Model Master enamels, a light blue I lightened with a few drops of Insignia White on top and Light Gray on the underside. Pre-shading was done with flat black enamel. The kit instructions said to paint the torpedo warhead red. I've never seen a torpedo with a red warhead. The torpedoes I've seen from the period are bare metal or painted gray, I think, so that's what I did. There's still a couple of things I need to do like fashion a radio mast on the nose  and maybe a little exhaust stain on the fuselage but essentially it's done. Now onto the next build...

I sure do love the vampire. Nice detail painting on that pilot!

Nice work on both of those Chad.

The Crusader is ready for the paint booth. The kit is pretty crude by today’s standards but certainly easier to assemble than your typical 600 part count Dragon kit. Requires a little filling and sanding but I’m sure when it’s all painted everything will look fine.

With glue drying on the Stuka and filler drying on the Crusader, I thought I’d start drilling portholes on the Eugen. 

Thanks guys, I cant waite to see what Airfix masterpiece gets completed next.

Ed, those were the days!  That Eagle is coming along.

Ed, thats looking much better after the putty clean up, nice work.

Nice one Chad, i had not realised MPC had boxed this. I am hopeing to get some paint on my belfast soon.

You only just missed out, maybe next time.

Thanks BK, will get that one added.

Mopar Madness

 

Man, I turned in a lot of those tokens for model kits.

After procrastinating for a while I finally finished up the putty, assembling and did some pre-shading on the Eagle. 

Bish, I would like to submit the 1/600 MPC Prinz Eugen Heavy Cruiser for my next entry.  Unfortunately, it seems I just missed out on a golden opportunity to win a 1984 Corvette! 

Thanks guys. I really appreciate the kind words! 

Chad, you did a great work with those birds.   Hell of a job of cleaning them up, and lovely colours too. 

regards,

Jack

Chad, you really did nice work there. I agree with G, the totally different subject caught my attention too.

Colorful little rascals, too. I admired your paint job for quite a while before replying, BTW.

Chad, awesome job on those. Those came out stunning, i beter not let our youngest cat see those, she will be diving for the screen. I think Bluetits are about the only bird she hasn't brought in.

Front page is updated, thank you for shareing those, deffinetly something different.

Mopar Madness, that’s some nice little ti..  I mean Bluetits!  What a refreshing change of subject!   

At long last, the Bluetits are complete.  Here they sit astride a young silver birch in early spring.  They have already caught my cats attention so I assume they look OK! This was a fun kit and will not be my last of the wildlife series. The eyes were made with resin.  Please use the first picture for the front page. Thank you all for following! 

Thats very impressive Chad.

Base color is laid down.  Time for “weathering”.

Thats very nice work there Chad, can't see any sign of the seam and you have done a great job replaceing the lost detail.

fotofrank

 

 

Bish

Nice subject choice frank, got you updated.

 

 

 

 

Thanks, Bish. I was going to build a Soviet tank buster but after some research I found out that the Soviets really used the P-39 as a low to medium altitude air-to-air fighter! Many Soviet pilots became aces flying the P-39. So I shifted gears. Instead the P-39 will be depicted as a 332 FG P-39, a Red Tail. Those pilots have always been heroes of mine.

 

I had not realised they flew the P-39 frank, will be nice to see.

I used a Proxxon tool to replace feather detail lost in construction.  Next I’ll lay down basecoats and begin “weathering”.

Bish

Nice subject choice frank, got you updated.

 

Thanks, Bish. I was going to build a Soviet tank buster but after some research I found out that the Soviets really used the P-39 as a low to medium altitude air-to-air fighter! Many Soviet pilots became aces flying the P-39. So I shifted gears. Instead the P-39 will be depicted as a 332 FG P-39, a Red Tail. Those pilots have always been heroes of mine.

Lovely work on that Stuka pit Chad, coming on very nicely.

A lof of filling there Ed, but good to see it coming on.