More from last Sunday
Never been to this before, great free event where you can go and enjoy many, many great cars (and bikes if you like that sort of thing) at the Goodwood Circuit
A few pictures for now which I hope you will enjoy, more soon.
An in-flight build from a few years back.
Airfix Hawk with LED in the nose inspired by a trip to Wales and seeing them zipping around on the way to and from training runs in the valleys.
One from 20+ years ago
It’s an AMT ‘49 Mercury, smoothed and painted with Humbrol 50 Green Mist enamel with a basic airbrush as I recall. Wipers are from fuse wire, other than that I think all the bits were as came in the box
Bit dusty after all these years but hope you enjoy
Here is my Airfix Buccaneer built 5 years ago, inspired by the Rowland White book ‘Phoenix Squadron’ (Vulcan 607 is a good read too)
I built it wheels up, it needed lots of filler which in turn meant the panel lines etc got lost during sanding but I don’t think it looks too bad
All was as supplied in the box other than using the Martels (which are on the sprues but not the instructions) which needed some plastic card rails and spares box decals to match pics on the internet.
Base is a piece of a pine shelf kit with a polyfiller sea and balsa trim finished with pine colour varnish. The sea was painted with Lifecolor greygreens then sealed with ‘canopy fix’ (like Krstal Klear) which was repeated a few times to get a smooth finish after I varnished the first coat of and it all cracked (it would have made a very good dry lake bed effect …)
Plane is suspended on clear acrylic rod (brought on eBay), bent using a hot air gun paint stripper whilst wearing thick gardening gloves (still got hot hands!)
More here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/63328-172-airfix-buccaneer/
Calling this one done, bit scrappy in places (my fault) but hope you enjoy anyway
It’s the 1966 Le Mans winner as driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon from the Fujimi 1/24 kit
Paint started off well (Tamiya TS rattle can over Army Painter Matt Black primer) as did decals but I used a Humbrol 35 Gloss Varnish rattle can to seal them in and it went dull even though it was a hot day and I had warmed the can well.
I got back a bit of shine with micromesh and polish but its still dull and there is polish dust in the panel lines still that will get a bit more attention shortly
Attaching the metal vanes by the bonnet and quick release fixings caused me grief, I tried various varnishes and in the end used krystal klear as I didn’t want super glue frosting the paintwork or epoxy trails everywhere
Just finished this one
A quick, fun build inspired by seeing some real M113s at last weeks War & Peace show
Found an Italeri (ex-Esci?) M113M163 Vulcan version in the stash, I added some plastic rod and strip to the turret to make it look busier than the basic plastic parts provided, its not accurate but it looks more the part to me.
A mix of kit and spares box decals were added over Vallejo Model Air Olive Drab and Dark Green, I experimented with various MIG and Humbrol enamel washes (the latter very heavily thinned) with Humbrol weathering powders mixed with both the washes and separately with a decalcotewater mix
Some thin wire adds the finishing touch for the aerials
Off to find some weedkiller now ….
Another one from a few years back, the new tool Zero
Great little kit, all from the box and brush painted with Lifecolor
More here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234907924-airfix-zero/
Visited this show yesterday down in Kent (United Kingdom), fantastic collection of military (and some civilian) vehicles and associated things.
Here are a few pictures I took whilst there, hope you enjoy
http://www.thewarandpeacerevival.co.uk/
Always liked the Stalwart since having a toy Corgi one in BP exploration markings as a kid
Built this BW Models white metal version a few years back, its very heavy!
Main paint is Tamiya, cab was a pig to fit and blend in but it looks OK with my other Alvis 6 wheelers (Airfix/JB Saladin and Saracen)
More here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234935084-stalwart/?hl=stalwart
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