Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Darren-

How ever you did it, it turned out a treat!  Looking forward to seeing her all dressed up.  WOuld you mind adding a 1/48 Hasegawa F6F-3 Hellcat to my FAW build list in place of the PBY?  Thanks my friend!

I am off work until Tuesday, woohoo!!! 

darson wrote:

Gentlemen a drum roll please. Never let it be said that the combined postal services of Canada & Australia do not operate at a speed approaching warp factor nine. I have today received my Christmas exchange gift from Alain .  Ignore the ugly mug in the photo but as you can see I'm pretty chuffed. Thanks very much Alain I love the F-86 and don't have this kit in my collection, I will try and do it justice. Oh and just to let you know it was posted on November 17 last freaking year Cheers

Hey Darren, glad to see you got your kit eventually! Thats a sweet build-you'll love it.

Daywalker wrote:

Darren- Awesome finish on that Seafire, what paints did you use?  Does it already have a clearcoat on it- looks very, very smooth.

Thanks Frank! No clearcote, just one spray of my own mixed Black/Blue enamel. I guess I did OK with all that sanding!

wyoroy wrote:

Hello Mates, I have just finished read the post that I missed.  Seems a lot has happened in my absence.  Darren, great to hear that you survived.  Rum and yard work do not mix. It was great to meet frank in person, great guy!  I hope that at some date and time more of us can get together. We are still house hunting so it will be a while before I can start building. Now where's the rum.............

Good to hear from you Roy! Hope things are going well for you. CHEERS!

rjkplasticmod wrote:

Darren, nice work on the Seafire.  Looks good from here. On another topic, I do in fact have the Aeromaster Sheet 48-441 Seafires pt.1.  Let me know if you're still interested. Regards,  Rick

Rick,

I'm very interested! PM sent.

That's bloody outstanding darson!  I am so glad to hear it arrived.  This calls for rum!

Almost four months to deliver, good thing the postal service doen't deliver organ donations!

Gentlemen a drum roll please.

Never let it be said that the combined postal services of Canada & Australia do not operate at a speed approaching warp factor nine.

I have today received my Christmas exchange gift from Alain .  Ignore the ugly mug in the photo but as you can see I'm pretty chuffed.

Thanks very much Alain I love the F-86 and don't have this kit in my collection, I will try and do it justice.

Oh and just to let you know it was posted on November 17 last freaking year

Cheers

namrednef wrote:

Frankie!!!!! USPS arrived early today!!!!!!!! PM being composed! Nam!

PM received!

Frankie!!!!!

USPS arrived early today!!!!!!!!

PM being composed!

Nam! 

Okay, okay, Frank! I turned in early last night. (Have to be rested for the weekend!) I knew you'd be on to welcome Roy.

Me?.....hanging out at the moment....awaiting the USPS Mail-Chick.....might be something for me! Gets here around 5:30 pm EST.

Darren- Awesome finish on that Seafire, what paints did you use?  Does it already have a clearcoat on it- looks very, very smooth.

to our GB wyo...

OOPS!  Almost din't recognize ya, been a while!

Here's a tot of rum for you.  I hid it from the lads for ya!

As for the rum key, it appears to still be AWOL.  However, some of the chaps seem to be a bit tipsy on duty... But, all is well and the ship looks great!

namrednef wrote:

...now where the the heck is Frank?

I'm here I'm here!  What did I miss?  I was...just...checking the rum (HICCUP) locker to be sure it was secure.  Yeah, thas wut I wass doing...

Wow!....Roy! Back online already!......we had the slot up for sale on Ebay.....you just made it!

Awesome!Home!!.....now where the the heck is Frank?

Hello Mates,

I have just finished read the post that I missed.  Seems a lot has happened in my absence.  Darren, great to hear that you survived.  Rum and yard work do not mix.

It was great to meet frank in person, great guy!  I hope that at some date and time more of us can get together.

We are still house hunting so it will be a while before I can start building.

Now where's the rum.............

Darren, nice work on the Seafire.  Looks good from here.

On another topic, I do in fact have the Aeromaster Sheet 48-441 Seafires pt.1.  Let me know if you're still interested.

Regards,  Rick

Not sure where your battles with the kit were........looks pretty awesome to me from that angle, Boss.

However, I've been meaning to ask other modelers about what they 'pack' the cockpit with for paint masking.....looks like tissue.....but if there's a better medium......would love to hear about it!

Hello chaps!

Here is a sneak peek of the awful Revell 1/32 Seafire Mk.Ib  that I am currently doing battle with!

This is the all over black scheme as seen on the decal sheet I spoke about earlier. I have done a bit of reading up and some folks say that this airframe was painted a very dark shade of blue. I have it on good authority that the airframe wa sin fact black all over, but because I like the "blue look" I cheated and mixed an extra dark blue and sprayed it on. I still have plenty of work to do on this one, but here is how she looks so far.......

rjkplasticmod wrote:

Darren, I'm pretty sure I have the Seafire decal sheet you're looking for in my stash.  I'll go through the stash later today (about a 1,000 sheets ) & let you know for sure. Regards,  Rick

1,000 sheets? My goodness! Thanks for looking for me.

Darren, I'm pretty sure I have the Seafire decal sheet you're looking for in my stash.  I'll go through the stash later today (about a 1,000 sheets ) & let you know for sure.

Regards,  Rick

TANGO 1 wrote:

Good one Frank! PM read-return signal inbound!

Glad you liked it!  Oh, and

Good one Frank!

PM read-return signal inbound!

Hey fellas, saw this over on ARC and had to share:

Darren-

PM inbound!

darson- Thanks my friend, I really appreciate that!

Congratulations Frank that's a fine build and well the prizes are more than well deserved.

Daz I thought I might be able to help you out for a minute but I have checked and I have the newer Seafires sheet Seafires At War Pt 1 Scale: 1/48 #48769.

Cheers

Thanks for looking Frank. It is the 1/48 sheet that I am looking for, it was released back in 1999 and it is only recently through doing some research that I discovered it. I would love to build the  all over black scheme in 1/48 as I have a cracking idea for a diorama. I can build it in 1/32 scale, but I won't be able to make the dio that big.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Rick, here here!

Darren- I have looked for those decals in a couple of places, but no luck so far.  I noticed these are 1/48, are those what you are looking for?  I have a couple of other "contacts" that I will check with tomorrow to see if they might have some.

Lads,

I'm looking for a very old Aeromaster decal sheet, its the Original Seafires part 1-no 48-441.

No one seems to have it, if you happen to come across one give me a shout will you? Here what it looks like:

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Congrats on the Awards Frank.  Well deserved .

Calls for a drink .

Regards,  Rick