BradG

They look great.

I still have a tin of Humbrol gloss black that's older than me. It takes a day to dry but you can't damage it with a hammer.

This is the old kit from Revell. I think all they did was put some new pieces in their PFM kit to make an MF. Detail is lacking, the cockpit is a mess and inaccurate with the molds and fit are not up to what you'd expect today. Rather than chuck it out I thought I'd just build it as is, for the detail sets would cost more than simply buying the rather nice Trumpeter kit. Mark was nice enough to send me a pilot from the Trumpeter kit and Tony some VPAF markings (thanks guys) and I scrounged some sidewinders from an old Revell F-4E kit to stand in for R3-S missiles as they were pretty much Russian made sidewinder copies anyway. I was meaning to represent red 5040, the MiG 21 nightfighter that allegedly shot down a B-52 during the 1972 Christmas bombings, but I mucked up the masks for the numbers several times and rage quit them, so I'm calling it done. Unfortunantly its a grey old day in Melbourne for taking pictures, as you can see.

Interesting fact about the world cup; you're more likely to be bitten by a Suarez than a shark

Oooops. Doesn't look like there's too much damage so I'm sure it will be repaired.

One bloke really likes submarines, he enters about 10 every year.

Cees - yeh Kev was there. A few of the LSP guys were. Erik - Mirages, you have no idea. One of the guys has a complete instrument panel and now a canopy. I said he should just go to Pakistan and buy one of our old mirages, it would be easier than getting bits at a time.

Here's a selection of pictures from the model show held over the last three days. http://s200.photobucket.com/user/_Exocet_/slideshow/Model%20Expo%202014

Very nice indeed.

I got these today at a swap and seller who had a little garage sale. I nearly picked up a Stuka for the group build, but I just gotta stop at some point. I've only built 3 kits of mine this year but added 8 to the stash. I have to build a few more but I've just about filled my cabinet, so I might need to make some storage space for older builds.

It will sell well in the UK, maybe well in Europe but I'm not sure it will be a big seller in the US or rest of the world. It looks really well done and I'm sure a build review beforehand will help sales figures. If you want it buy it, because I don't see it being in production long as most who want it will snap it up straight away.

No, if I'm building something I always at least google it to read something.

I had this kit laying in the stash for years. Dad bought it at a swap and sell for the drop tanks and then gave it to me, but it was missing the spinner. Fortunately Wumm was able to send me a replacement and Iain sent me some decals for Israeli Mustangs he wasn't going to use which probably saved it from being turfed into the bin (because I don't normally build older kits). I scribed some surface detail including dzus fasteners and knocked back all the raised rivets and panel lines. I did consider putting a resin cockpit in, but for the price, it just wasn't worth it. It's not a bad older model and although being surpassed by the Tamiya offering, if you're on a budget you can generally pick this kit up for 20 bucks at a swap and sell. As for white 19, it was shot down by ground fire over the Sinai peninsula in October 1956.

Walked into a local toy store that was having a 50% off the lowest sticker price sale as they are moving locations and found these two. Orginally 82 dollars, down to 65 and then half off that, well I couldn't walk past them. There was nothing else worth buying in the models section.

150PSI...for when you want to paint a model from across the room.

Sweet, very nice indeed.

cool.

Nice, thanks.

I've been watching a lot of combat film from the civil war over there and was mightly impressed by the T-72's ability to burn from just a single RPG hit and I wouldn't mind building one. Since I have pretty much no idea what's out there for post 1945 armour, suggestions anyone?

At 34.99 it's still too much for a Trumpeter kit.

I always thought the way to remove your future was to get married.

That's pretty nice.

I use only 3 glues; super glue for almost everything, Revell Contacta for when I need a couple of minutes wiggle room to position a part and Testors clear parts glue for all the clear bits.

There is probably not much left to find Rick. You'll find chuncks of aluminium that once was an aircraft, larger bits of metal like engines and weapons if they were still on the aircraft, but I seriously doubt that recovering such wreckage would be worth anyones time or effort. A lot of the time they would bulldoze aircraft into a pit and burn them too, you can imagne what that does.