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Single, dowdy, old spinster who lives with two cats in the east of England.
Mainly builds 1:72 and a few 1:32 with the very occasional 1:48. Currently on a French kick.
Love to turn old sows ears into silk purses.
Got my love of modelling from being the first born, who should have been a boy and was going to be taught how to build models by my dad, like it or not.
MR.PAINT is a Slovak firm who focus on producing paints for modellers. Their colours allow modellers to use authentic colours and tones and to be assured that they are correct.
The paints we have are designed specifically to be used [...]
Paint: MR. Paint
Decals: BarracudaCals (BC32145)
Extras: HGW Models Fabric Seat Belts, Barracuda Studios Oil Cooler and Air Intake Scoop.
A really enjoyable build and made even more pleasurable using MR. PAINT. The kit has no real vices [...]
Probably my best build for 2013 and the best competition result of any kit I've built. She took Best in show at the Daymns Hall Show in August 2013.
I researched LMM for this build and here is the concise version of my findings:
"Lt [...]
Something a bit different from me today, a helicopter. Built pretty much OOB with just a slight tweak to the decals to change the aircraft's identity and the sonar instrument station was fully wired.
An enjoyable kit with only a couple of [...]
One of my first forays into 1:72, Airfix's Mig 15 finished as an example from Cuba
Three Zero's representing Zero's from three of the six Japanese carriers at the Pearl Harbour attack (please don't ask me which carriers).
Made up from two Hasegawa and one Airfix but mainly using the Hasegawa decals, all painted with [...]
Revell 1:32 Spitfire Mk.IIa
(Backdated to Mk.Ia)
QV-K P9386 19 Sqn Pilot S/L Brian Lane and F/L Walter Lawson
Kit: Revell 1:32 Spitfire Mk.IIa
Decals: EagleCal EC#157
Paint: AK Interactive
Sundries: Mig AMMO Washes, Tamiya Weathering [...]
This is the last of my 2014 builds, and as always one of Airfix's new tools and a joy to build. Finished with the kit decals and using Tamiya paints.
Another one from 2014, one of adM's range of resin kit building that I put together and painted for a future diorama, done at a time when my model making 'mojo' had taking a vacation so did this to kick start my brain.
Painted an weather [...]
Another of my builds from 2014 and another Airfix. Yet another gem of a kit, finished with the kit decals and painted with Tamiya X-18 then vanished with Klear/Future
