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Harrier progress. Closed up the fuselage and added the canopy and windscreen. Still have to clean up the seam and fill around the gear doors with PPP. Getting the ordinance and stuff ready for paint. Before the wings go on, the fuselage kinda looks like something out of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon.
OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...
fotofrank I think I need a wall chart so I can track all of the group builds I am commited to. My little old brain is having a tough time keeping up with everything. This starts tomorrow, right?
I think I need a wall chart so I can track all of the group builds I am commited to.
My little old brain is having a tough time keeping up with everything.
This starts tomorrow, right?
I don't often put pilots in pits, but then as i usually build ground based diorama's, i usually have figures on or around the aircraft. I've tended not to include any with my 32nd aircraft as i do make them into diorama's, but i have thouight about includeing a single figure to give that sense of scale.
I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so
On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3
Bish Moving on well there frank. Soon have this sucker closed up. I remember Airfix used to put pilots in every kit, now it seems to be more hit and miss.
Moving on well there frank. Soon have this sucker closed up. I remember Airfix used to put pilots in every kit, now it seems to be more hit and miss.
If a kit doesn't have a pilot, I'll try to find one to fit. Having a pilot in the cockpit gives the model scale, I believe.
The pilot is in his seat. Now to install the thrust nozzles and close up the fuselage.
Hi, Bish. Yup, 1982 reboxing of the Airfix kit. (Attempt to link to photo on web below:)
Mine even has a "From the Battle of the Falklands" sticker on it!
Glad to have you on board gomeral. That must have been hearbreaking for your dad seeing the ship he had just served on sunk and knowing people he had become friends with were on board.
I'm guessing thats a re-box of the Airfix kit. I have been hoping Airfix would do a new tool of the Lynx, but i am thinking i might have to try and get one of their old kits. Really looking forward to seeing yours, the first time i flew was on a British Army Lynx.
Okay, well, after several months away from anything, I'm mostly healed and looking for excuses to practice getting back into this hobby. There are a few others in the queue, but I'm going to go ahead and jump on this, if that's alright with you, Bish. (The others are for your other GBs, anyway...)
I've always found this particular conflict to be of unusual interest to me, since at the time my father (USN) had recently spent time on the HMS Coventry (D118) in a bit of a service swap. He knew quite a few of the men killed when she was sunk. After that, he went out and got a model of the Westland Lynx (ASW role) to build. Last year, I was browsing a shop on eBay and when I saw the exact model, I had to get it! So, please count me in with an MPC 1/72 Westland Lynx.
tempestjohnny Bish Mopar Madness Bish, I spent the day hauling dirt and planting shrubbery and flowers. I feel your despair. I just spent the day emptying my wallet. £120 on 2 small bushes and 3 plants. Nice garden centre though. We had not been before but its one we pass everyday going to work. I have you both beat. Wife and M-I-L just signed a contract with a company to come in to redo mom's bathroom. $18,000. I need more OT
Bish Mopar Madness Bish, I spent the day hauling dirt and planting shrubbery and flowers. I feel your despair. I just spent the day emptying my wallet. £120 on 2 small bushes and 3 plants. Nice garden centre though. We had not been before but its one we pass everyday going to work.
Mopar Madness Bish, I spent the day hauling dirt and planting shrubbery and flowers. I feel your despair.
Bish, I spent the day hauling dirt and planting shrubbery and flowers. I feel your despair.
I just spent the day emptying my wallet. £120 on 2 small bushes and 3 plants. Nice garden centre though. We had not been before but its one we pass everyday going to work.
I have you both beat. Wife and M-I-L just signed a contract with a company to come in to redo mom's bathroom. $18,000. I need more OT
The Mrs is arranging to get someone to do our living room. Fortunatly she is paying for that out of her pension payout. I am leaving her to it, afterall, i don't spend that much time in there.
Nice start frank.
Been working on some fiddly bits like ordinance, the cockpit, thrust vectors. Here's the "office". Be advised, my paint brush technique isn't the best. I will say that the 40 year old decal for the instrument panel worked just fine, so I guess I'll be able to use the rest of the kit decals for this build. That's a relief.
fotofrank Well, I opened the box, now what?
Well, I opened the box, now what?
Just try shacking the box and see what happens. Works for me.
Always room for more caveman, got you on the list.
Hey guys! Got room for one more? I have a (Gulp) Kitty Hawk 48 scale Super E on the shelf. Been in a huge modelling slump but a quick Argentinian Exocet carrier may do the trick.
Glamdring Put me down for Dragon's 1/700 Type 42 Destroyer. It's their Falklands War 25th anniversary release. They give the decals and flags for the HMS Sheffield or ARA Hercules, it will be a hard decision to make...
Put me down for Dragon's 1/700 Type 42 Destroyer. It's their Falklands War 25th anniversary release.
They give the decals and flags for the HMS Sheffield or ARA Hercules, it will be a hard decision to make...
Bill
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
I dono, I never got past that point.
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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Yeppee!
Now that my time is slacking a little, I think I'll work crack the box Mirage this weekend (as well as take the grandson to Godzilla vs Kong)
Well its just about midnight here and i am off to bed. I was planning on a late session tonight but the Mrs decided we have to go to the garden centre tomorrow. Like i haven't done enough in the garden this week.
So, i declare this GB open. If you have bugger all better to do this evening, feel free to get cracking on your builds.
I'm even going to try to make these 1983 kit decals work. I like the Kits World decals but there are none for this airplane on this side of the pond. None of the vendors I have tried have the Falklands decals.
Their new kits include the Humbrol code but fortunatly also the BS number, which does seem to be more common with many compaines now.
I've been going over the instruction sheet for this Airfix Sea Harrier making paint notations. Airfix had their own paint numbers back then, 1983, so I had to cross reference to find suitable colors for this build. I think I'm going to pose the airplane gear up, in flight. I feel jets just look better posed in flight. See y'all tomorrow, bright and early. Yeah, this kit was issued in 1983.
Bish fotofrank I think I need a wall chart so I can track all of the group builds I am commited to. My little old brain is having a tough time keeping up with everything. This starts tomorrow, right? I list all my upcoming build in a word doc and put beshide each one which GB it belongs to. My current list covers 7 GB's. Starts on Fri UK time.
I list all my upcoming build in a word doc and put beshide each one which GB it belongs to. My current list covers 7 GB's.
Starts on Fri UK time.
I should do that. It would save me a lot of stress.
Will do Glamdring, either of those will work. Our first ship.
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