PanzerWomble

What great fun that is ! I love it with all the lights and the little Nautilus wreck - didn't see that one coming . Great work !

Just some gratuitous pix taken at the DH museum 7 years ago . 1:1 scale modelling.

s'funny , things like proper fitting pegs to align angles on landing gear ( that Tammy 1/48 109 had them) are so obvious in hindsight , it's crazy how glue , bluetac and praying was considered ok for so long. Same a moulding windscreens to form part of the fuselage, so no join to fill . I was prepared to be a bit meh about this one , mainly given all the teenage angst and hype 18 months before they even cut the moulds in certain areas, however I must admit it seems to have lived up to it's promise . I'm not a big fan of dry fit either , whack in it , daub the ET glue...... if the engineering right it should all fit fine . Maybe the new Hurricane as a companion / comparison is in your future?

Too stuck in the mud maybe ?

Oops yes , you're right there. Was thinking more armour stuff, track guards , stowage bins, grills etc.

Disagree buddy . You can scratch to scale as well . I'm also dubious about a lot of PE sets as my pal Simmerit points out..... a lot of the Eduard ones for armour are often pure fiction. 🤣 Still it's only glueing bit of plaaaaaztik together after all . I need to get back to my FJ1200 restoration at some stage.

I watch Drachinifel ....I wasn't surprised at the colours 🤣 ... the silk purse you've made out of a sows ear however is shocking !!!

Thanks for the tip that's golden 👍. I find PE a PITA , often preferring to make stuff from styrene sheet or copper sheet , both of which are easier to work I called it a night and did some sea stuff instead . Nice white styrofoam .....cut boat hull shape ....rough swell cut with a knife, and then the wakes planned out . Final rough shaping using a gas lighter with melts the foam naturally rather than leaving cut marks . Rolled with a rolling pin to even out . End stage one ! Thank you Chris Flodberg for this method.

Anyway , I am not enjoying this build that much🥺 ....most of how I approach things doesn't want to play . It's all to damned small and fiddly , like 1/72 nonsense . So here were are , built up numerous bits of superstructure . Painted them ..oh ..3 or 4 times . Painting square portholes ...who knew ? Glued it all to the hull , and then a couple of washes because nothing I make needs to be clean or pristine . So paint all the small bits , glue them on, enjoy the PE railings and we're done yeah ??? Hmmm let's see. I'm with Neitsche today ..

Yes I forget occasionally , nations divided by a common language and all that ! I really didn't want to fork out for a big Hood or Scharnhorst before finding out I hated ships .

Hmm ..nice beaver ?

Genuine 2K would be total overkill for a shelf model IMHO . I spray motorcycles in it because it set hard .

If thats toluene based ( what we would call cellulose in the UK ) based , won't it risk strip of your existing paint ? Tried looking it up on line but it was vague as to the carrier . +10 on Spoon painting !

Yes but first the Spitfire today perhaps ?🤣

With that filling it can make you need the toilet run in under three parsecs ........

Ah .....so thats how it's done ! 😀The instructions are next to useless for a build sequence that makes any sense . Never seen them live, one of my daughters did about 10 years ago , said much the same . I loved all the furore about their recent Deutschland release. Thats was the one you chose to start of modelling again ???? Not a 1/72 aircraft or some old Tamiya tank....?? Outstanding ...more pix please. haha... you shouldn't drink during ship building. I grew up in Plymouth and worked in the Dockyard for a while I can categorically state that is not the case 😆 Zerstorer just means "destroyer" 😀 Me too , so I cheated and bought a small cheap ship just in case it went Pete Tong .....hence won't be making a $30 model into a $100 model with lots of extras .

End for tonight then . All the superstructure is loose fitted. Reckon build it up into decent sized subassemblies , paint them , add the details then fit to the hull . And then the railings???? ? oh and try to paint modulate as you go along . Argggghhhhh all so much more fiddly than tanks .🤯esp after a bottle of wine .

I reckon Garys done a pretty good job with the kit parts , which seem to be living up to the expectation for sure . There's always YAHU , if you can't live without .

Thats looking the dogs wobs !

Cheers - I would be so tempted . I know people modify the Tamiya one but it's a huge amount of work . Whine Mode on British jets are well under represented in 1/32 , the Lightning is crap , no Spey Phantom , Sea Hawk , Jaguar or SHAR , Buccaneer only if you want to shell out millions on the obscure Icelandic kit , the Revell Hawk is an ancient and frankly an anaemic subject. I guess there is the new TONKA , the old Hunter and some Euroblanders ...meanwhile somewhere in China they are making yet another new tool bf109 or fw190 release .....or wow... another Gigant .....coz that was a huge gap in the range that people were clamouring to buy ....FFS . . It's only Airfix, if they could get their heads out their asses with 1/32 as a concept, that would probably take them on now . They know their releases of those subjects in 1/72 and 1/48 sell well so .... jeez they are even doing a Gannet ??? & not like there are shortage of subjects to go scan . OK This was once only , and on my thread ...... 🤕 Whine Mode off

Mother Womble always wanted a son called Panzer ....🤣 There used to be a Fallschirmwomble out on the early internet as well ( nothing to do with me though, maybe a distaff cousin 😆) . My name is quite unique so have kept it off the internet for 25 years, I like my privacy .

I know right - crazy decals!!! from memory it was about 10 applications over a couple of days to get there .