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I picked this up last year for much cheapness and decided to give it a go over my long weekend. Innis advised me that the Sea Plane version was the one to go for so here it is in all it's amateurish glory.
I found trying to get [...]
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One of the reasons I got back into modelling was to build some or all of the aircraft that I was lucky enough to fly in during my time in the Air Cadets.
So, here is my first flight and one of the planes that I learned to fly in. [...]
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For your delectation and delight I bring you my build of the... Ahem... accurate Trumpeter Sea Vixen OOB except fot some tape belts and of course Decals from XtraDecal as the kits ones were very wrong.
I got this kit from a well [...]
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This wee kit almost built itself. ~Everything fitted and only a minor amount of Mr. Dissolved Putty was required for the wing edges.
I wasn't certain what the interior cockpit colour should be so went with RLM66.
Painted with [...]
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This was purchased in a well-known Edinburgh model shop over a year ago and Innis picked it, so while I was off work awaiting a Covid-19 test result I thought it was about time it was built.
Innis decided it would be wheels [...]
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Whilst working at my usual glacial pace on another build I decided on Monday to see how quickly I could complete a kit using enamels.
This is the result. I have just spent the last two hours trying for the life of me to get the [...]
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This was being built in parallel to the Firefox but this one is for the wee man's roof, so wheels up.
When I started I thought that the dihedral fix wouldn't make that much of a difference so decided not to bother...Wrong!
Primed [...]
This was my surprise present form my son last Christmas.
Never having made a resin kit before the very thought of it terrified me because it was a present and if I made a mess of it I wasn't just disappointing myself.
So, after doing some [...]
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This just finished. Well, I'm calling it.
Many, many years ago...1979 I was a young naive Highlander at College in the big city of Edinburgh and on my first weekend there The Playhouse had a late night Friday showing of:-
Pink [...]
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Well, believe it or not, this is the first Hurricane I've ever built. Built being a loose term for my attempts
When this arrived in December 2018 the wee man asked me if we could build it with this particular scheme.This build [...]
