BradG

Coming up soon at The Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin Airport October 22/23. A swap and sell will be running over both days and Sunday we will have the Mustang Car Club in attendance. Categories and details below, hope to see some of you there.

This is the Trumpeter kit in 1/72, with Red Roo Decals. I cut out the radome from the lower fuselage and filled it with plastic card as the T2's didn't have this fitted. The instructions also have you put the flaps down, but I glued them in the up position. As usual, fit of the parts was hit and miss, with the major sections fitting nicely, but the smaller parts left a bit to be desired. Unfortunately I screwed up the paint job the first time around and it has sat in my cabinet half finished since January, but with Wings Model Show coming up I pulled it out, sanded down the rough as guts paint and repainted it. I was unable to cram enough weight in the nose to make it sit so I whipped up a base from an MDF board, sanded and painted with a little MiniNatur grass to add some interest and glued the model down.

Yes it's the Tamiya 1/16 kit. I'm not sure who it's meant to be, but they do give you a specific Adolf Galland head in the kit, but he doesn't have the cap which I think looks better.

This is my first attempt at a large scale figure and I admit to practicing on the head more than a few times, even so my face painting is nowhere near as good as some I see, but I figured after several years of the headless fighter pilot being in the cabinet, it was time to finish it off. Brush painted with Vallejo and the base was made from an old model show trophy, some dirt from the back yard and MiniNatur grass tufts.

5 euro to print instructions? Are they gold plated or something? Instruction sheets don't need to be this full colour booklet like WNW do, that's just a marketing gimmick. Simple, easy to follow black and white instructions like included in your stock standard Hasegawa or Tamiya kit are really all that's needed. Even if you were printing those commercially at an office supply store, they're usually only 10c per A4 and if you're only doing a short run kit, hell print them on your PC at home and it will cost even less. Add $1 to the price and be done with it. Probably cheaper than buying a bunch of CDs.

This one is straight out of the box. It's not a bad model at all, so long as you sand down some of the interior so the fuselage closes up without force and you take your time ensuring a close fit of the windscreen. Tamiya khaki drab is the base colour, with MiG pigment and Tamiya weathering powders used to give it a well worn look.

Beaufighter would sell it's pants off. The 262 is a bit of a safe bet, just like the million Bf-109's out there, if it's German, it'll sell.

Looks nice, I got this kit for christmas so it's good motivation.

A trip to the hobby shop yesterday. Call them early Christmas presents.

You actually get almost all the black and yellow as a decal, but I'll probably mask and paint most of it. I've done something similar with the black and yellow striped F-104 a few years ago.

I know it's not an LSM, but I'm into tiger meet and it caught my eye at the LHS.

If I finish everything I'm doing currently and there is time left, I'll build my Bf 109K.

I don't think I'll be in a rush to sell my RV Resin D-13 conversion despite this kit coming out.

Thanks and yes, at Moorabbin Air Museum, October 24/25.

Here is one of these models you buy at a swap meet on a whim for a gold coin, in this case $2. It's not a very model, with poor fit around the cockpit, wings and air intakes. This was the F-21 Lion boxing and the decals were no good, so I got some spares out of the decal folder. I also added a pilot, bombs, bomb rack, drop tanks and sidewinders from the spares box. I built it for Wings model show here in Melbourne next month, where we are running a category called 'Make a Mirage' and it'll fill a hole on that table nicely, just don't look too close! lol

Drink crap warm beer and get rained on?

If I was able to buy one, I would. Unfortunately draconian gun laws in Australia mean you can't even own replicas or deactivated firearms without a license. Australia - where only the criminals are armed and it's illegal to return fire.

Something different, it looks great.

Nice work. You might want to put some clear plastic supports under the fuselage to bear some weight. Both dad and I have built it and after a while, the tail wheel will collapse under the weight, unless you've beefed it up of course.

This aircraft was reportedly seen in a derelict condition at Phenian (Pyongyang) airfield by Soviet ground crew around 1950. The story is certainly not beyond possibility as there were many Japanese aircraft left in Korea at wars end, with photographic evidence some being pressed into service with the North and South. I based the colour scheme on the North Korean Tachikawa Ki-54 that was captured probably at Pyongyang. The kit itself is showing it's age, although it's not that bad. I only had trouble with the fit of the windscreen which too some mucking about. The mix of raised and engraved surface detail is accurate and quite nice. Humbrol Matt 27 steel and Tamiya Khaki drab are the main colours, sealed with some future with an oil filter of white and yellow applied. I added to that with different coloured pastels, MiG pigment and a black chalk wash for the under surface. I yellowed out the canopy with a make up brush and Tamiya weathering pigments. Decals came from some MiG 15 decal sheets. The base is the case of an old clock, glued together and painted with a cheapie rattle can of black. The dirt is grout left over from bathroom repairs, spread around over the base then flooded with water from an eyedropper and left to harden. I added some MiniNature grass tufts and couple things from the spare box to fill a hole.

I know, it's a little bit gay, but I entered it this weekend at Model Expo here in Melbourne as a joke, but I won a 3rd place in the category!!

Yes, I was wondering what I should do with this kit as I have 4 of the new Kinetic offerings and when I found pictures of this, it was perfect. I think it was painted up as a joke between squadrons, but they ended up taking it for a flight in this scheme.

I'm not sure, I just used Gunze gloss pink straight from the bottle. I probably should have put 20% white in it.

I've finally finished a model of my own for the year, although I could have picked a better kit to start with. I bought this for about 9 bucks years ago when it was about the only Mirage III you could buy in the scale. I had visions of converting it into a Mirage V Dagger, but with the coming of the new Kinetic kits, I don't need to do that anymore. There isn't much to say about the plastic, apart from; it's a poorly detailed, ill-fitting, obsolete relic. A Britmodeller member was kind enough to send me his leftover decals from the Eduard kit and these were really nice to use. If you have this in the stash, just buy the Eduard kit. I did get the pink a little dark, but it'll do.

Very nice, I have this kit in the stash too.