Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Thanks Frank.

Cheers!

Now I know that as an Englishman I am expected to be utterly unflappable and reserved. Expected to maintain a stiff upper lip at all times and be annoyingly level headed when the rest of the world is going crazy.............. 

However.......I received a copy of Novembers FSM in the morning post. With it, there was a cheque because one of my FAA builds has been PUBLISHED IN THE READER GALLERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must now disengage one's English reserve.

YEAH! WHOOOOOOOOO!!

(dances round the living room for several minutes.) 

By thunder! That was most refreshing!

Now, where was I ? Oh yes! FSM has put my 1/48 Airfix Sea Harrier FRS.1 on p.43 of their Nov.07 issue. How very jolly nice of them.

Right, I am really going to celebrate tonight!

Cheers!

Cheers everyone! 

Darren,

I'd get cream-crackered with ya, but you are prolly already asleep.  Besides, I am still at work (don't tell the boss you saw me here!) so should wait till I get home.  I'll have one later.

Just finished the last shift of the week. 

Its 22.45hrs and I've just had dinner........and a drink.

The first round of the weekend is on me......have a good one lads.

CHEERS!

I am properly cream-crackerd! So pardon me while I pass out and sleep for a while.......

Roy,

I do still have the 1/24 Stuka, but am not having luck getting the parts I need.  Thus far, it appears that my only course of action is to buy an entire new kit.  I really want to, just having difficulty coming up with the $80 or more to get one.

Daywalker wrote:

Good to hear from you Roy!  I'm still up for the gift exchange GB, but don't know about the 1/24.

Don't you have that Stuka in 1:24?  If we do it, it will be late next year.

Roy

TANGO 1 wrote:

The B-25 is still on the bench, I still need to do some more sanding on the wings. I've not spent much time in the workshop lately as work is very busy these days. I have some time off in 3 weeks, hopefully I can put some time in on it then. As for a 1/24 scale GB-it depends when its going to start. I have a very nice 1/24 Spitfire Mk.Vb in the stash, but I don't know when I'll get round to building it. If its well into next year, I might be up for it.

Thats what I was thinking well into next year.  To everyone, I have not forgotten about the plan for a gift exchange GB.  I hope to be more active in Oct.

Roy

Darren,

Welcome back!  I saw that thing about the Sea Fury yesterday, and I want one too! 

Hey guys, I got back from holidays at the beach last week but have been plunged straight back into 14 hour days at work, ahh it's so good to be back.  If I am lucky things may start to ease up a tad so that I can get back on-line and get back to some modeling.

I have to spend a little time going back over the last million pages to see what I have missed but in the meantime I noticed this preview for Hobbycraft's upcoming 1/32 Sea Fury on HyperScale yesterday.  Hopefully the kit turns out as nicely as the box art.

http://www.hyperscale.com/reviews/kits/hc1716previewbg_1.htm

Cheers

The B-25 is still on the bench, I still need to do some more sanding on the wings. I've not spent much time in the workshop lately as work is very busy these days. I have some time off in 3 weeks, hopefully I can put some time in on it then.

As for a 1/24 scale GB-it depends when its going to start. I have a very nice 1/24 Spitfire Mk.Vb in the stash, but I don't know when I'll get round to building it. If its well into next year, I might be up for it.

Hello all,

Just finished catching up with the group builds my hat off to all the great work to date.  I will be moving into a rental house for the next 6 months.  Which I hope means that I will be able to work on my Corsair a bit.  I look forward to completing the resin pit mike gave me

The family will be here on the 12th of Oct.  Life is great!!!!!!!!!  I do look forward to chatting with you guys more often.

Roy

It's not a rumour.  Eduard announced it several months ago.  Supposed to be out before years end.  Not sure why we need one as the Hasegawa kit with some AM help is really quite good.

Regards,  Rick

I've heard a rumour that  Eduard are going to release a new 1/48 tooling of the Hellcat. One of the boxes will be a FAA version.

All together now.............

WHOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!

Here ye are lads!

I've been busy at work so no workshop time for me I'm afraid. Working through the weekend too so no grog for me either.

So the rest of you, wherever you may be, enjoy the weekend.

CHEERS!

Well, I got to spend the entire day in the shop, and managed the get some paint on my Seafire.  I sprayed the Sky on the bottom, and worked on the L/G a little.  Not a lot done, but at least it's progress!

Over 30,000 views- wonder if that's some kind of record!

Cheers everyone, and have a great weekend!

I see the cap'n lurking about, perhaps the rum rations are near at hand?

I only bought the external set as the internal set for the Seafury is a waste of money due to it being all black. The exterior set is well worth it I think. Here is a link to a review on the set by Hyperscale:

http://www.kitreview.com/reviews/seafuryaccessoriesreviewbg_1.htm

The parts are a great improvement on the Hobbycraft Seafury.

Darren-

Glad to hear that your B-25 project is progressing well, if not slower than you might like.  I Futured my rear canopy, and it looks pretty good.  Though, I must add, your Future job on the front canopy is MUCH better than mine.  In fact, mine looks pants compared to yours!

As for the Sea Fury, I am not sure where to get those Cutting Edge parts, nor what is available for it.  Think I may look at the kit when it arrives and see what I need for it. 

Good score on the Seafury!  Are you going to get the cutting edge goodies for it?

Glad to hear that you have got the canopy sorted, I have started test fitting my B-25 canopy frames, I'm glad that I did-they need a little "help" to fit properly. I'm back at work now, so progress will be very slow on this build as I will not have much spare time for a while. 

I recon that once all the fitting and sanding is out of the way, I'll be able to move things up a gear.

  I'm awake, I'm awake! 

I finally scored my Sea Fury on Ebay the other day, and may try to get it done for this GB if time allows!  As for the Seafire, I finshed trimming the canopy and gave it a dip in Future.  I think I am going to leave the elevators as they are, cutting them free has me sweating a little.

Mmmmm...........its a bit quiet around here.

We need something big and noisy to wake everyone up.

That should to it!