All Subjects - Aussie Group Build 2005

QUOTE: Originally posted by madmike I just got my Road Safety Auditor qualifications last week, along with my Traffic management license, my boss is really making me valuable! cheers Mike

Good to hear Mike!!!
I did the Traffic Management in the first week, followed by Confined Space Entry & BA Rescue licence.
Then next month I'm off to do my Optic and Communications locating licence, which is basically a licence to print money.
We get charged a STUPID amount of cash for some grogon to wander out, say 'Nup, no stuff here', and bugger off again.

And with all this going on, still have to try and win tenders, run a bunch of contractors, sweet talk the government big wigs AND play golf!!!!!!
Management bites!!!

No wonder we have so little time.

On a lighter note, the Bell is coming along kinda nice like.
I reckon that by the end of the month, I'll have the engine scratchbuilding done, and will be ready for final assy of the pit and tail section.
After that just gotta scratchbuild the fuel tanks, and she should be pretty much done.

cheers mate

I have been flat out at work since I got back as well.

Itching to get back into the hobbyroom!

cheers

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by tweety1 ! That belongs in the Louvre mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah they have made me an offer but i'm just too sentimental to let it go to France

Progress Report Yep i've finally made some progress[:0]I found a plate of a Spitfire MK VIII from the 80th that sports an all white tail as well as the sharks mouth so i've decided to put the Mustang on hold and go with that...
So i've pulled ot the other Hasegawa kit and built most of the pit as well as getting the wings all ready to to go..........Hopefully i'll get the kids to sleep early so i can start the paintwork tonight

Big change of plans for my Group Build as well: I'm putting the hawk on the shelf for a while and I'm going to do the Mitchell in a RAAF scheme. That Accurate Minitaures kit is just too tempting, couldn't keep my hands off it. Bit more variety from the Mirage as well. I've got decals for a Foliage Green job & a couple of Olive Drab ones that I assume the RAAF couldn't be bothered painting after delivery, not sure which I'll do yet. Desperately need reference material on the RAAF birds, if anyone has any.

Jules - do you still need tophat decals for the Sabre?

Badge Size:
Have you all seen the new rules on badge size etc? Not sure if our current one complies.
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38673

'bout time, I say.

Bandha not for this GB mate and i doubt i'll need them for the rest of the year, maybe next year when the conversion isn't as scary.........
Thanks again for the offer, Much Appreciated
And Yeah i saw the post and resised all my GB badges to comply, the current one is a little bit to large........

Speaking of Group builds............With ANZAC DAY just around the corner i only just remembered this one....

Unfortunatly i've already gone and filled up the year with other builds so this one isn't an option anymore
Oh Well maybe it can be the first GB for 2006.............

I must admit Jules that I had completely forgotten about the ANZAC GB. I'm afraid I've gone and done the same thing as you and filled up the year already, but I'd be a definite starter in 06.

Cheers
Darren

Darren maybe we could kick it off at the begining of December and the finish date could be Anzac day 2006, that way i only have to add a slash and 06 to the badge...

QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison Darren maybe we could kick it off at the begining of December and the finish date could be Anzac day 2006, that way i only have to add a slash and 06 to the badge...

I reckon start it on ANZAC Day Jules.
Not many people will have parole over the Chrissy break to do any modeling.

Relationships and styrene do not mix!!

Jules & Tweets ANZAC Day is a much better option for me. Sean's right my free time over Chrissy is ziltch.
Jules, it looks like one of the GB badges (NA build I think) has gone AWOL.

Cheers
Darren

well you'll all never guess what I just did... dusted off the old Typhoon and gave her the dark earth over the middlestone... I did notice one thing, I want to graduate to a gravity fed brush. Although not terrible there is a bit of overspray. I plan to widen the middlestone stripes as it looks a bit too brown to me,which might be able to get some of the overspray done with. It was my first freehand camo pattern and it's not TOO bad for a first time.

I didn't use a pattern, just kind of made it up as I went. It shows a bit, as I said there is a tad too much brown on it. But I will submit it anyway because up till tonight this model was destined for the spares box...

So I might just make it in on this build yet! after the touchup, mediterranean blue lowers, put on the small bits, decals, weathering and BAM! I am done (oh yeah put on the canopy and spray it in camo somewhere in there, preferably before decals)


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ok... something had me curious about the camo pattern on the decal sheet. It was the EXACT same pattern the Martlet had in 1941. Kind of had me suspicious so I went and checked and ALL my camo patterns from Aero master that were RAF/RAAF matched this one exactly. The pattern on the Hasegawa directions did NOT match this one... So after my mods I am sticking with this one because there is not a clear on in my reference stuff... the pics I have of 805 sqn are all from the side and they even are different looking than these two...

I have finally managed some real progress, I most likely won't finish in time but not far off it.

Dave the Mossie looks awesome, great work so far.

Tom, why are you looking to upgrade to a gravity feed ab, although I have one myself I am just curious?

Cheers
Darren

Jules - that pic was a classic!!! I didn't notice it till this morning! You even got a good shot of the easy chair in that front window the Brigadeer always sits in to drink his coffee in the morning...

Darren - one just want to see the difference between a gravity fed and siphon fed... two, the ability to go down to lower pressures and still spray so you dont get a lot of overspray... there was very little with my anthem but would like to see even less!

Dave, great work mate, good to see someone making progress

What??? me not making progress? Why I... I... ok... I'm a lazy sod... to qoute the Sex Pistols... hopefully something will come out soon! might even purchase the Spit Mk VIII in RAAF clothes I saw day before yesterday just to have something to build! Hasegawa I think it was...

Tom, yeah OK now I understand what you are talking about. The only other advantage I could think of would be the ability to put just 2-3 drops of paint through the ab for a touch-up job.

Cheers
Darren

Darren, my 155 with the metal color cup can do that... problem is, even with the color cup I am limited to 12 or 14 PSI or over for spraying... which produces a slight overspray... hopefully my Iwata will arrive soon...

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900 What??? me not making progress? Why I... I... ok... I'm a lazy sod... to qoute the Sex Pistols... hopefully something will come out soon! might even purchase the Spit Mk VIII in RAAF clothes I saw day before yesterday just to have something to build! Hasegawa I think it was...

Tom

Nice kit, that one. I was sent one from your side of the Pacific not long ago...

I know what you mean regarding progress. I am struggling through a cold that looks though it might turn out to a flu. Everytime I bend my head to work on my Boomerang my head feels like it is going to explode!

cheers

Mike

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900 Darren, my 155 with the metal color cup can do that... problem is, even with the color cup I am limited to 12 or 14 PSI or over for spraying... which produces a slight overspray... hopefully my Iwata will arrive soon...

Which Iwata are you getting Tom???
I am after another a/b for finer detail work.
My Omni 4000 is great, but for really fine detail, like squiggle camo, I think it's a little out of it's depth.

I can dial my Omni down to 8 PSI, and do some wonderful things, but the spray pattern is a tad to wide for anything more.

Tweets - I am ordering the HP-CS.. Saltydog uses it with enamels with no problems so I guess I will do a paradigm shift (insert IT buzzword here) and switch to using mostly enamel for any camo patterns...

I've thought about the Badger 100LG as well... but decided on the Iwata.

lest we forget

Tweets - I have the Aussie Army crest in my collection of military memoribilia... pretty much what you posted (almost) lest we forget any of our armed services....

Remember Suvla Bay, SEAC, Viet Nam (for both of us)... the list goes on...

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900 Tweets - I have the Aussie Army crest in my collection of military memoribilia... pretty much what you posted (almost) lest we forget any of our armed services.... Remember Suvla Bay, SEAC, Viet Nam (for both of us)... the list goes on...

Tom, we all know that WW I was supposed to be the 'war to end all wars'

How fortunate for us that as time has gone by, governments have learnt nothing from the lives lost, and have continued to flourish in their attempts to gain land and resources.

What really ticks me off about the Australian government is that all the conflicts we have been involved in, we have been nothing more than some other countries lapdog and cannon fodder.
Yet we have done things during those conflicts that have defied all odds, and turned the tide for the better.

The term ' Australian Spirit' I feel was created on the shores of Gallipoli.
Since then it has, and will always, shine through every conflict Australia is unfortunate enough to be thrust into by the hand of someone else.

Maybe one day Australia's government will recieve the call to arms, and respond with-
'Get stuffed! You started it, you fix it!!'

Then again, Aussies are known to never back down from a scrap, and always help our mates.
Maybe Peacock shoulda called Australia the 'Pitbulls at the arse end of the world'

Sean, not all of them are the results of little johnie sucking up to the yanks. East Timor was a pretty much Australian affair. Trust me when I say that it was a situation that was needing to be corrected. This morning I was at the Melbourne Dawn Service with my Medals for East Timor on one side of my chest and my fathers Medals for Viet nam on the other. Two totaly different situations but both of us had done the job demanded of us by the Government.

The soldiers lot is not to decide where we go. We just do as the Government tell us, like it or not.

But anyway, my Mosquito is getting even closer to painting! Either tonight or tommorrow it will be a pretty PRU Blue. Just have to get home to Wodonga to get the correct canopy for it.

I am tempted to march next year, I have my Grandfathers medals. He served in Borneo, Moretai, New Guinea etc, before contracting maleria and being invalided home. He spent the remainder of the war bulding airfields in the Kimberley.

I also have my Great Great Uncles service medal. He was a 10th Light Horseman killed at Gallipoli age 16.

Just need to contact the RSL and find out more about it.

cheers

Mike

I've made a bit of progress on the Mitchell this weekend. Had to make some of it up due to lack of period interior reference but generally the Accurate Minatures kit is a dream so far.

Carl - wonderful looking interior! very elaborate! I have putting off getting that kit but I really think I need to.... that's an incredible amount of detail!!!

Tom, It's also all OOB as well, I didn't feel a need to add anything which is unusual for me (plus it all goes down the dark cave once it gets closed up). Instructions are excellent & the great thing about the Mitchell is that there were so many variations used - all manner of turret configurations, all sorts of nose configurations, etc. There are some more pics of my build here at higher res:
http://bandhaboy.fotki.com/forum_pics/

Tom, you’re getting the HP-CS, cool . I took Salty's advice and bought the same ab, it is fantastic piece of kit, it's just too bad its operator blows dog in my case. Oh and BTW, I use enamels almost exclusively with mine and have no problems, you just have to thin them down enough.
Also, with all the army junk that I gathered the only things that I really look after are my slouch hat and engineer corps badge. They actually only introduced the rising sun back into service as a hat badge after I left.

Dave I had no idea you served in Timor. When were you there and who were you with?

Carl, that looks great . Which AM B-25 kit is that? Also, I have a couple of B-25 references but no internal shots, if you need anything external give me a yell.

Cheers
Darren