PanzerWomble

I'd consider buying others if I was struggling for references and walkarounds. It was great to have it open on the Ipad in front of me as I've working out where stuff went . The builds were useful inspiration as well . All in all good value I felt .

I'm on the fence at the moment , love the Sundowners but not sure about the shark mouth on the Tamiya scheme.

Righty ho - sticking a fork in this one and calling it done . Glamour pix tomorrow in an RFI as it's midnight here now. Really happy how this turned out , even if this is 1987 tooling originally - for sure a keeper for me . Stoked to have a crack at the Tamiya F4 later this year as well .

You can build a second one to savour later !

Spitfire Mk IA, serial P9386 QV-K of No 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere, September 1940, Sq Ldr Brian Lane He wrote a book under a pseudonym Sadly died in 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lane_(RAF_officer)

Looking very Spitfiery .👍 Just for info - I was told once if you left your flaps down after landing , you had to buy a round a drinks in the mess as it was frowned upon . As ever not saying never, just not SOP . they don't droop naturally as some aircraft do either. Might have been from Edgar notes ?

@GazzaS It does exist then with all the hype I felt this was never to be released 🤣 Can you please get it banged out for the weekend and give us a build review eh ? theres a good fella .

You did really well with those old figures, I've used the Revell polythene ones which were pretty awful . Torpedo clamps are great addition as well

I have a Airfix/heller/revell Jag on the shelf , it’s ok for basic shape but not a lot else . The kitty hawk ones were supposed not to be great either . Shame as it’s a great looking aircraft with a long pedigree .

Partly why I don’t do jets often 😀

Thats a great colourful scheme . Chipping and weathering looks very good as well . 👍 Swedish biplane ...came flatpacked ? I'll get me coat.

Cheers Peeps , I've wanted a Phantom from Ark Royal on my shelf for a long time, so I'm enjoying the build. Love F4's and Lightnings in equal amounts ...if only there was a decent Jaguar in 1/48 ....I do have a Kinetic Harrier to buid and then for me all my cold war jets will be complete. 😁 Lots of decals today . I think we are done with stencils . Needs seats , stores , wheels and weathering to complete. Mottling is more pronounced in pics than on the bench , wonder if the camera is getting carried away with the contrast . We will see.

Damn fine rendition of the boat. 👍 +1 on the mines as adding a lot of visual interest & a very believable weathering as well Nice one

Rolled her over . Blasted with RAF Ocean Gray , lighter than EDSG . Trying to replicate the faded look . Mottled with EDSG ....then decided it was too light so misted more with EDSG and mottled with Ocean Gray .🥺 Then modulated with diluted Ocean Gray . Chasing my tail till I was happy. All the matt coats are being mixed with gloss varnish and gently rubbed back to build up a gloss coat. It's then covered in several layers of gloss coat so I think the mottling is a bit more obvious now than it will be after knocking back with matt. Masked the ROYAL NAVY as the XTRADECAL sheet for this aircraft doesn't have that one .Link to decal Sheet. FG1 options Masked the large serials underwing as way too big for a decal to settle without slivering Got most of the major decals on , it's late Saturday night , so reckon will have a session on Sunday/Mondau for all the stencilling . Needs the seats, undercarriage and stores painting , but we are getting there, and pleased that it looks better than the RAF version I did a few years back Pics don't do justice to the Alclad rear end.

Sod the model room .....where's the pole dancing party room??? ... never too old ...never too single ..

Thanks peeps . I wanted to have a crack at making plaster rocks , and also do better with resin after my mixed results on the 109 dio .

Hows your riveting holding up ?🤣

Looking good ! Your paint modulation is turning out well

Underside . Tamiya gloss white base coat , mottled with dark grey , then progressively oversprayed using the white thinned with gloss varnish . Time ot dry then flip her over. I'm not a huge proponent of this method ... but think alwasy worthwhile trying something new other every build looks the same . We shall see.

You will after you mount the 8 foot submarine on it's plinth 🤣 I'm not familiar with the show - will it be black rubber coated like modern submarines? Make a real conversation piece with the neighbours.

I think that was BC's point . TBH the post Falklands buy of second hand Phantoms was expediency to base at Port Stanley ,and they didn't really go on to have much in the way of interesting careers , even if the RAF quietly acknowledged they were better than the Spey engined ones.