didcot Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 The R2D2 is a Thinkway Star Wars R2-D2 Interactive Droid. Got it from Argos about 6 or 7 years ago. C3PO is a Jakks Pacifics/ Big Figs figure. They are really difficult to find, unless you want to spend silly money on Ebay. Mine was from Amazon about 2 months ago. Cost around £80 and came from Spain. It's pretty basic, but plenty of YouTube videos on how to upgrade it. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 On 20/07/2022 at 20:26, didcot said: Finally managed to get a 32" high C3PO to go with my 18" R2D2. It's moulded vinyl and wasn't the least bit gold. Prepping vinyl is awkward. It doesn't like coarse abrasive. Bought two cans of gold spray and the second was totally different to the first. The third matched the second so had to redo these. Been to hot for spraying the rest. Just went back to your original post having seen your latest one on the finished C3PO and I noticed that the parts are on a Lister engine of some sort - diesel boat or small auxiliary farm engine? - I'm intrigued, what is it? (looks a great thing to have in the workshop!) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Yes it's a Lister D. It was my first restoration project. Bought for £30 in 1987 from a farm in Heywood just outside Westbury. I had just left school so my Grandfather lent me the money. Took the flywheel of and it came home in the front of my Dad's Ital, with my Grandfather sitting next to it. Wouldn't part with it for anything. I also have a Lister A. Having scaled up to a steam roller I had to scale down once the family came along and they are all I have left. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Excellent! Thanks for info, a worthy project to keep. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 A lockdown project, 1:72nd scale Airfix Spitfire F 22. I managed to lose the windscreen, so set it aside otherwise complete for quite a while then as the screen hadn't magically turned up, I bought a replacement vac-formed canopy off e-bay. That let me finally finish it. The hanger is from a laser cut card kit reinforced with wood strip. It's sitting on a board painted with a concrete-ish coloured paint that a nice lady in B&Q mixed up for me. The 2 Spifires at the back are a PR Mk XI (MPM kit) in Danish markings and a PR XIX (Airfix kit) in Swedish markings. Also lockdown projects and the theme was post-war Spitfires. All these were still flying in the early to mid fifties. 8 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 (edited) Airfix 1:72nd F22 alongside one I did much earlier, 1:32nd Revell (ex Matchbox) F.24. VN485 is the one at Duxford, in the main display. I'm Spitfire'd out now... Edited August 12, 2022 by railroadbill 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Having them in the Hangar setting really makes it. I have the big Airfix Spitfire, can't remember the scale, but it's still in its box. Just wouldn't go together properly. Had to cut bits off the engine and then gave up on it. I'm hoping the retooled version will be better. 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 A 2020 lock down project. It all turns over and the valves work properly. Probably one of my favourites. It does need a gentle dust. 7 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 4 hours ago, railroadbill said: A lockdown project, 1:72nd scale Airfix Spitfire F 22. Almost the same as this one from my Dad's film collection: PK664 at RAF Waterbeach in 1956. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 2 hours ago, BernardTPM said: Almost the same as this one from my Dad's film collection: PK664 at RAF Waterbeach in 1956. Terrific picture! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 On 12/08/2022 at 10:45, didcot said: The R2D2 is a Thinkway Star Wars R2-D2 Interactive Droid. Got it from Argos about 6 or 7 years ago. C3PO is a Jakks Pacifics/ Big Figs figure. They are really difficult to find, unless you want to spend silly money on Ebay. Mine was from Amazon about 2 months ago. Cost around £80 and came from Spain. It's pretty basic, but plenty of YouTube videos on how to upgrade it. Thanks - the R2D2 model it begging to be weathered...! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 That's the next job. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 5 hours ago, didcot said: That's the next job. Just need some dust and sand from Tatooine. :-) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 These needed finishing as the kids only got so far with the builds and so have distracted from proper modeling. F22 F35 and a Tie fighter. bit of fun tracking down bits which they had cut out and snapped in half or fitted incorrectly. richard 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 In need of a mojo boost I picked this up at my local model shop this afternoon, a 1/350 scale Thunderbird 2 complete with a tiny Thunderbird 4: and just an hours work has seen it progress to this stage... and with the pod in place although it won't be when I'm finished as I want to do small diorama with Thunderbird 4 being launched... John 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted August 26, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26, 2022 F.A.B. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted August 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 26, 2022 Earlier this week I was at the RAF Museum in Hendon and bought an Airfix Spitfire Mk1 kit. Today I found an unopened Jet Provost kit in a charity shop for £3. I already have about a dozen not started model aircraft kits in the round tuit pile. Please help. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Northmoor said: I already have about a dozen not started model aircraft kits in the round tuit pile. Please help. Edited August 26, 2022 by pete_mcfarlane 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 49 minutes ago, Northmoor said: Earlier this week I was at the RAF Museum in Hendon and bought an Airfix Spitfire Mk1 kit. Today I found an unopened Jet Provost kit in a charity shop for £3. I already have about a dozen not started model aircraft kits in the round tuit pile. Please help. I do that, buy anything I see,then, bung 'em on the 'bay as job lots and use the cash to buy what I really want.... 🤑 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 And on to Thunderbird 4 with some fettling still to do and a couple of parts not fitted until after painting: and TB2 on the deck of the USS Enterprise in the same scale, she's a BIG bird... John 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted August 27, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2022 This is supposedly 1/600th scale but if so it would be about twice as long as an aircraft carrier: There aere some shots in the film of TB2 alongside but I don't think the scale is very consistent from shot to shot. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndon Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Progress on the Thunderbirds. 4 has been painted and decalling has started, the engines of 2 are painted and I've working the seams on the rest of the kit: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 7, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2022 Not my models but an interesting way to display ship and submarine models. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Not my models but an interesting way to display ship and submarine models. Watch "4THECRAFT" on Youtube for great models like these. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 2 of the big ship many have seen on the front of the overlord layout actually work but they havent touched real water for many years, recently the layouts owner worked on them and took them to his model boat club such as his Jeremiah O'brien and Grenville (all photos are his as posted in the Overlord FB group) O'Brien Grenville 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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