RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 14, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14, 2020 Bedford RL & Queen Mary trailer 1:48 ASAM white metal kit Cheers Darius 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanius Anglesmith Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 (edited) Am I the only one who thinks the Spitfire looks sleek and modern while the Bedford looks positively ancient?! Beautiful modelling though Edited January 15, 2020 by Titanius Anglesmith All the right letters but in the wrong order 3 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Spitfire F.24 VN485 Duxford Spitfire F.24 pilot: "Arrrgh! Sir, every time I prepare my Spitfire for a flight, other Spitfire boys get on the runway before me! (sob!)" Grizzled old Squadron leader: "There there, Hoskins! Just go and have a nice cup of tea in the mess, everything will be alright." The sun having come out for a while, I took this Revell 1:32nd scale Spitfire F.24 outside for some pictures, having just about finished it. Sprayed with Halfords Aluminium acrylic paint and then lacquer (after decaling) apart from the black anti-dazzle strip, to represent high speed silver. I wanted to try that out as I've got a couple more aircraft in the pipeline (Airfix 1:48 meteor and 1:72 venom) that also need to be HSS. I've left the gun barrels off because this was inspired by F.24 VN485 at Duxford. That's been painted in what looks like fairly matt aluminium, but most other 1950's aircraft I've seen in museums in high speed silver have been very glossy. Doesn't mean they were like that in service, of course, but may well have been polished up before flight. Hunters in camo look very glossy. Revell used the old Matchbox moulds, so the kit's been around for quite a while. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 12 hours ago, Titanius Anglesmith said: Am I the only one who thinks the Spitfire looks sleek and modern while the Bedford looks positively ancient?! Beautiful modelling though The Spitfire just looks right 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2020 RAF Lightnings 1:48 Aeroclub mixed media F3 and F6 Cheers Darius 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2020 RAF Phantoms 1:48 Hasegawa kits Cheers Darius 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 16, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2020 Sea Vixen 1:48 Dynavector Vac form kit Cheers Darius 11 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2020 RN Wessex HAS-1 1:48 Revell Kit - modified a bit... Cheers Darius 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2020 I've a revell 1/32 tornado ADV F2, that's part converted in to a F3, on the ground, radome open ( guess what I worked on) still in progress to be fully converted . A Matilda tank Tamiya 1/35, like grand dad went to war in. Not yet started, A hurricane spitfire pair 1/32 as per a great uncle flew. To be built. And a 304mm to the foot sailing boat, being rebuilt, I now need 175kg of lead.. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) Westland Whirlwind Modified Revell 1:48 Sikorsky S-19 kit Cheers Darius Edited January 21, 2020 by Darius43 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 Westland Whirlwind 1:48 Classic Airframes kit Cheers Darius 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 Hawker Typhoon 1:48 Monogram kit Cheers Darius 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 Hawker Tempest V 1:48 Eduard kit Cheers Darius 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 Dh Mosquito FBIV 1:48 Tamiya kit Cheers Darius 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 Sea Mosquito TR33 Modified 1:48 Revell kit Cheers Darius 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Darius43 said: Dh Mosquito FBIV 1:48 Tamiya kit Cheers Darius Snap! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted January 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2020 This is an astonishing number of really nice models, Darius. Are you still building them? It looks like many years of work. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 8 hours ago, Barry Ten said: This is an astonishing number of really nice models, Darius. Are you still building them? It looks like many years of work. Hi Barry, I have been building 1:48 scale aircraft And vehicle kits for the past 30 years or so. Less so lately as model railways have taken precedence. I sold off a large part of my kit stash a couple of years ago but kept a few “favourites” that I may get round to building... Cheers Darius 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titanius Anglesmith Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Love the Whirlwind and the Mosquito, two of my childhood favourites! 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Same here on the Westland Whirlwind. I built the Airfix 1/32 scale model about 50 years ago and seem to remember it wasn't very complicated! Certainly not compared to Darius' version. steve 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 Spitfire PR19 Modified 1:48 Academy kit Cheers Darius 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 Spitfire 21 1:48 Aeroclub/Airfix hybrid Cheers Darius 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 1:48 Lindberg Kits Stearman Hawker Hart Bristol Bulldog Cheers Darius 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 Fairey Firefly AS5 1:48 PP Aeroparts vac form kit Cheers Darius 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 I'll raise you another Spitfire. This is a Mk IX in Danish service post WW2. I built this some years ago. It was the first aircraft model I'd made for a long time. I'd read about using artists paints like raw umber, burnt sienna and Payne's grey as weathering washes and wanted to try that sort of thing out - I wondered if weathering techniques used on model planes and armour might work on railway trucks etc. The kit is the really old Airfix Mk IX that goes back to the 1960s (or earlier?) I'd made them when I was at school and had an idea of making one or two re-released kits that I'd done long ago. I also wanted to try painting it with an airbrush, add scratch built cockpit detail, use vac-formed canopy, Tamiya smoke for exhaust stains and so on. I modified it with cropped wings and a pointed tail. I also had to paint the markings myself (think I painted roundels on transfer sheet and then applied them). So it was an upgrade to an old favourite vintage kit that Airfix were still selling and trying out some new (to me) techniques. Airfix have brought out a much better Mk IX since of course. Aftere I built this one I also built several other vintage Airfix kits of types I'd made years before, such as the Auster, Lysander and DH Comet. Prototype: The H.F. MkIXe Spitfire was powered by the Merlin 70 engine with a 2 stage supercharger arranged for high altitude performance. 38 H.F. Mk IXe Spitfires were supplied to Denmark between 1947 and 1948, numbered 41-401 to 41-438. They also had 3 PR Mk XI Spitfires. My 1:72 scale model is of 41-420 which originally had RAF serial RK 889 and was built in October 1944. It reached Denmark in October 1948. It was written off in November 1954 after a forced landing. The radio aerial was a much later addition and came from my grand daughter's comb... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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