PanzerWomble

111 Sdn , formed in Palestine in 1917 and issued with a variety of aircraft including the F2b. Their first victory came on 30th October when this aircraft downed an enemy observation aircraft. My first double bay biplane , a lot more fiddly in 1/48 than the single bay 1/32 one's I've done . Fun though ! Laterz PW

More Roy Cross Artwork @BlrwestSiR one for you ! Lovely to have nice renditions of the old boxtops Also picked this up for silly cheap , looks like a pantographed 1/72 in it's simplicity . Will be a quick build whenever i get around to it !

Second half of the bays done and tail plane on , bit more painting and more knitting next . That which does not kill me ....etc

Nice surface treatment Rob. I could never build only planes or the umpteenth Tiger tank 100 %👍 For me , if you're not moving forward , trying and learning new stuff, it's just treading water .

Nice one for Braille Scale . 👍

Thank you all for the kind comments .

Just out for a drive on Dartmoor ...just some quick pix before moving on

Meow !

Great find , thank you Maru !

Coming along well ! Going to be one statement piece at the end of this build for sure

Now with Zimm . Tracks and bits and bobs and paint tomorrow . It confused Kurt ....

Went Prym thread for an experiment , discarded tubes this time as over scale - they are not 1 inch dimeter in real life . (0.5mm *48 = 24mm) See how it goes Half done so far

Screams Zombie Apolcalypse dio to me , but then thats just me .

They used to start Royal Navy Deltic Diesels the same method - modified shotgun shells I think.

Use a 1/3rd less of everything , takes up less shelf space ....a lot less choice though.

1 /48 - part of my playing around with that scale armour last year . Did the Tiger, Jpanther and K2 ambulance. Pros and cons at this size tbh . This was left in the stash so finishing it up

Wonderful work

Ah back to the 1990's and when Tony Greenland covering everything in chalk/pigment dust , before people put it in "special magic bottles" and called it modelling pigment for 3 times the price . @FullArmor You can buy from art stores hard or soft pastels . Hard pastels when powdered will stick pretty well on their own , soft pastels less so . They both will dilute with water for mud effects and form a paint of sorts . you can mix them for custom colours too . Spraying gently with a matt varnish will stop then being worn off . Tony Greenland use to insist satin was more authentic for what it's worth His book is here, it's interesting but well dated now . I read it and sold it on TBH We can move onto misting Tamiya buff next to simulate mud and dust , that'll be modelling in the early 2000's ....😆 Both can still produce good results though .

Bit left field . I bought a bunch of WW1 aircraft prints from 1962, these two being drawn by Roy Cross (of Airfix box cover fame) who died this year aged 100 . Link to bio Bought them loose and now framed these two for my study . I had the Albatros as kid , my Dad had cleared it out of some Chief's Mess refit and brought it home for my bedroom . No idea where it went later on

Back on track after an armour interlude. Lower wing on and jigged up in my bipe jig ready for the pairing . Paper sheet to the right is cut to the angle of the wings to align the fuse and then all pegged out to hold it still . Can't remember where I picked this trick up from but it is useful . Tomorrow is top wing and starting the knitting .

Thats the one . I normally buy the 75ml bottle, as it thickens over time . I have diluted it after a year but for the cost easier just to buy a new one. You can spray it from the bottle or with a couple of drops of water or X20a as a thinner. Even brushed it at a pinch on small touch up areas . Been using it 4+ years , really is almost impossible to get it wrong . Thin coat, thick coat , makes no odds . Sadly their equivalent gloss isn't as good . Picked up the tip from Alexander Pedan , a gifted guy https://www.instagram.com/a_pedan_scale_models/

Hurrah for the Gulaschkanone ("goulash cannon") Same basic design since 1892 ....I'll bet there were West German conscripts still eating out of them in 1982 ! Germans just didn't really do rations in WW2 like the Americans or Commonwealth, beyond basic bread or iron rations , they were still feeding troops from field kitchens like it was 1812 ....all drawn by horses of course. ICM love their odd little subjects that's for sure , & thanks for a nice review Fran !

+1 on the Matt , I swear by W&N Galleria Acrylic Matt Varnish , you can almost pour it out of the bottle and it levels flat as flat . Never had an issue with it other than it goes off a bit in the bottle after 12 months opened. Is it RFI / glamour shot time ?

looking good from below !