Something a bit different a heavy fighter from the early years of WW2 - fantastic concept, let down with crap engines, if only they'd fitted it with Merlin's.
Over a year in the making (though technically only took a week to build).
Box Art
Instructions & Colour Call out.
What's in the Box.
The Build part 1..
It
Hot on the heels of the Tempest and defying my normal convention of posting a cameo of my next build - as I have three unfinished (and I'm unmotivated to finish them yet), I opted for a quick and simple build instead.
I've had the Attacker in my stash for nearly a year, so I thought what the hell let's build it.
Up first here's what's in the box...
The sprues a clean a crisp, no sho
Part two of this epic build, this kit is more like a 1/24th scale kit due to the number of parts..
Aerial torpedo assembled and test fitted.
RATOG's (Rocket Assisted Take Off Gear) assembled and test fitted.
So many assemblies, so much to paint.
Sitting on her wheels (temporarily) .
Lots of Sky Type S!!
Lots of parts painted.
Masking up the fuselage for top coat.
Painting done and masking removed, very little touching up needed.
Something a bit different, the Seafang, the planned replacement for the Seafire - which due to the Jet Age, became an interim (and mostly) forgotten foot note in British Naval aviation history.
Then Trumpeter created a kit of it (along with the Spiteful).
I've had it my stash for a while and I wanted a quick build..
Box Art
What's in the box..
The decals came back to haunt me.
Having thoroughly enjoyed build HMS Buttercup, I decided to get something much larger...
A few stats.. Length: 1082.5 mm, Beam: 160 mm, Parts: 1260+
As a wise precaution I invested in a reference book. Lot's of nice scale drawings and details
What's in the box, well for starters - more boxes!
The instruction booklet and colour call out.
In the white box is the beautifully
Another update, though progress has slowed due to me having the cold from hell..
Most of the underside bits added - the tropical radiator Vokes Air Filter required some serious fettling to fit properly)
A small amount of filler was required to get all the unsightly gaps filled (and the redundant gun positions - kit can make the MK.1A as well)
Masked up and ready for the underside to be painted (engine side panels are blu-tacked in place - as they won't be fit
Several moons ago a certain member (@46444) suggested I should check out Trumpeter's Westland Wyvern..
I did and little does he know, what a can of rivets it opened....
I acquired the kit on a certain auction sight, it arrived just before I finished the Sea Fury. I also ordered the Eduard Photo-Etch set for it...
The kit is amazing and the instructions are sometimes baffling. However for someone who built Leaping Heaps for a living - not a problem.
Due to the gearb
On with part 2.
With first floor inner walls in place (and dry), they were trimmed to height.
End wall veneers were added next.
Test fit of tank.
Adding the exterior detail..
And finally for this part, fitting the tank (roof will be fitted at a later stage).
Till next time..
TBG
Finally after a few weeks away from the Wimpy due to Loco commission work (& brief venture venture back to WW1 with the Eindecker) & number of exchanges between myself and Airfix (more on that later) - it's been full steam ahead on the with build...
Test fit of the bomb bay partitions.
Making sure all the main assemblies fit together.
And so the fun with Airfix Customer care began..
I noticed that a part was malformed (E2 main under carriage support strut), so I
So it's been a while (seems like a heart attack and surviving a stroke - was so last year) since I've written a Blog Entry(re-uploading the photo's isn't fun).
Long story short, I got this kit on a whim, as I'd seen a few Positive reviews of it on YouTube and I wanted an Airfix Beer Glass!
I noticed, well it was pointed out to me that one of the decal options was Her Majesty the Queen's:
And then it sat on the shelf in the workshop for
Be careful what you wish for @gwrrob😉
So after 18 months or so on (& off the bench), the Engine Shed is finished and currently en-route (as I type) to it's final home temporally - as it's got to go to the layout builders in Taunton next week.
Anyhow on with the final part and where I left off - the roof or tiling nightmare as I like to call it (to be fair Bramley was quite poorly at the time - so I was not quite with it).
Time for another piece of Armour - this time it's Russian (albeit in Polish Markings)...
The Box Art
Decals & Colour/Markings Call out (it's green lol)
The Sprues (or Frames), etc.
The build - fairly straightforward - it's Tamiya after all
Lower hull and tracks pai
...Or Should that be Repainted?
A client requested I rename his 4013 Knight of St Patrick to 4012 Knight of the Thistle and repaint/rework to GWR post war unlined green - with a few tweaks (more on those later)
I started tender first and began the tedious task of removing the lining and branding from the tender top. Once this was done the tender top was washed down and allowed to dry. Then masked up and airbrushed a nicer shade of green (Railmatch GWR Post 1928 Locomotive Green), after a
Time for an update with a couple of projects that have appeared in various threads, but in very brief form..
Merchant Navy (Rebuilt) 35002 Union Castle
Using a bargain 'United States Lines' as a donor along with a heavily modified Wrenn/Dublo 5,250gl tender top, the renaming side is the usual way... with the usual suspect - Fox Transfers & Jackson Evans. However I'll go through the reworking of the tender.
First off is to make the tender top fit the donor loco's tender chassis, n
....not the Bionic Woman, but another Bionic Bulleid - more that later
Two more loco's rolled off the renaming/renumbering and weathering production line this weekend.
First up was Rebuilt West Country 34095 Brentor another one I hadn't done
And then T9 30337, looking her age I might add (photo's have been redone )
Currently awaiting varnishing and weathering in the paintshop is another King Arthur 30797 Sir Blamor de Ganis.
Then the rebuild operation that's
While I was waiting for Airfix to sort themselves out with some parts for both the Wellington & Shackleton (I will cover those issues in the next blog entries for them), I decided it was high time to start the smallest kit in my model stash - the diminutive Fokker Eindecker E.III.
The kit is very straight forward to build and goes together really well, however for the insane amongst us (namely me) - the kit comes rigging diagrams!
It only took me a few hours in total to build and pai
Okay, so I've been busy renaming/renumbering/repainting Bachmann Halls over the last few months (eek) - I'll let the pictures do the talking..
First up 5998 Trevor Hall (Mk. 1)
5998 Trevor Hall (Mk.2)
4943 Marrington Hall
This loco had been been renumbered & weathered before..
From 4936 Kinlet Hall to 4948 Northwick Hall and now to 4943 Marrington Hall (in Post War GWR unlined Green)
Final part of the Coaling Stage build, in this it focus on final assembly, painting, detailing, weathering and even some soldering
Adding the coaling drop to the front - the instructions were very vague on how it went together!
The time consuming part, hand painting the exterior, I applied a coat of light concrete and then dry brushed the exterior with light brick acrylics..
I then painted the interior walls white and th
On with the build - I've been busy..
Up next I busied myself with clean up on various parts of the rear main gun - I also had to modify one part as it was a short-shot.
I also painted and added a couple of the life buoys..
The rear gun was added next..
At this point I decided to add some of the rigging - lots of pennies in the swear jar!
Then I got on with a job I'd put of
Going to keep these update blogs quite short - unlike the Shack which is huge.. (I'd forgotten that).
The Aftermarket arrived from Hannants.
With the fuselage fully cured, I gave the joint lines a initial clean up & added some more of the glazing, plus test fitted the tail.
I turned my attention to the underside and fitted the bomb bay door's etc.
Time to work on the wings and all 6 of the engines..
I think I got carried away photographing this build - this entry is a whopper photo-wise:
A slight c*!" up with the paint needed some remedial action
I don't I've used ever used so much Tamiya Masking tape...
With the bomb bay doors in place - the Shack reminds me of a pregnant fish...
Sitting on her undercarriage for the first time - all the fettling to get a good fit pays off
The build that started on June 6th (2017) is finally at an end.
This set of photo's, show the undercarriage installed, cannon access panels partly painted and the frankly massive prop painted.
In this pair, it's the canopy completely painted and partially installed
Next few, the cannon access panels all finished painting (these took nearly two days to paint) and everything not glued positioned as it will be after adding the transfers
Transf
Is it Armour, is it Railway or both - all I know is it's big for 1/72nd.
Brief history of the model, it was first released by Hobby Boss in 2007, the Railway Transporter was released in 2008 (without the KARL), this version was released last year, so it's two models in one.
Box-Art
Instructions & Colour Call Out.
The KARL (you have the option of modelling either 040 or 041)
For the first time in ages a new West Country rolls off the TBG workbench (literally of course) 34004 Yeovil in Rebuilt guise. The donor and plates had been sitting around for ages so the time had come to do a renaming from scratch. Like a well oiled machine it rolled off the production line in no time at all.
While Yeovil was in the paintshop, I busied myself with a Battle of Britain (Tangmere) donor and created a new version of 34065 Hurricane. This will get the heavy weathered treat
Having seen all the recent froth on the subject of what to use in front of Merchant Navies, West Country's etc. I thought I've give my perspective on it.
Original - Fresh out of the Works, as built, later loco's had wedge cabs and other modifications from new so this covers them as well.
Modified - Wedge Cab fitted, changes to deflectors, tenders etc.
Rebuilt - The loco is radically change in appearance, though retains enough of it's original DNA to still be called the same class!
