Non-railway modelling

[johndon]

Currently progressing on the workbench, the Aoshima 1/48 Airwolf.

 

 

It comes with a fully detailed rear cockpit section for Dominic that becomes completely invisible once the fuselage halves go together!

 

 

John

 

[johndon]

She's starting to look like a Mach 1 Attack Helicopter...

 

[PhilH]

I don't know if this has been on here before I found this fascinating and quite frankly incredible. I'm definitely going to have to visit this place before I push up daisies.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/234342143003228?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

[JZ]

I've had the mask for the Zero cockpit a couple of weeks and today decided it was time to use them.

 

I gave it a coat of grey primer before the green.

So much better than doing it freehand, or even using masking tape and/or liquid mask. I have now ordered masks for some of the other kits I have. Next will be to get on and finish the B-17

[JZ]

Just sprayed the B-17 cockpit and other glazing using masks. Why I hadn't considered using them before eludes me.

[Darius43]

Some rtr 1:18 GT40s…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and a slightly smaller one.

 

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[railroadbill]

 

1:72nd  F16 AM  Royal Danish Airforce serial  E-191 in Danish national flag display colours.  The actual aircraft  was painted in 2019 to celebrate 800 years of the Danish flag.  The aircraft carried out a tour of Denmark to "show the flag".  I'm told it still had the paint scheme last year at the RIAT display.

 

 

The kit is a Revell F-16  (cat. No. 03860). It is retrofitted with Quickboost F-16 block 5-10 elevators (cat. No. QB 72 196) as Danish F-16s haven’t all got the larger elevator upgrade that other F-16s did). The markings came from Syhart Decal 72-118 which also includes masks for the red/white paint scheme.

 

 

This is the last of my Covid projects, (not that it's the last of pre-Covid projects of course).  :-)  It had really dragged on, for reasons explained below!

 

 

 

An aircraft with a complicated livery. The Syhart decals and masks made it possible, particularly markings like the tail and you do get an option to use either masks or decals (or in my case both in places) for some of the trim lines. There are a lot of stencils to be applied, some very small.

 

 

When the basic airframe was assembled I sprayed an undercoat of Halfords white primer (which became the white coat). I then applied the masks from the Syhart set and airbrushed Tamiya XF-1 red. So far so good, I removed the masks and applied Johnson’s Clear to give a gloss coat for the decals. Some of the lining can be done with decals supplied with the set, and I ended up using a combination of masked paint, touched up in places and in some places the decals. I thought I’d apply another gloss coat over another coat of clear, and used a spray can of Humbrol gloss varnish over it. This is where things went wrong.

I’d used the Humbrol gloss varnish before and had a nearly empty can that had given good results and so I used the new can, thinking it would be the same. Alas, the top coat of Clear didn’t protect the underneath red paint and it started to melt and run in places! The Humbrol varnish (acylic) had obviously reacted to both the Clear and the Tamiya acrylic paint. There was nothing for it but to leave the model to one side for everything to harden. Eventually I had another go, touched up the red and white paint where I could. I then took a deep breath and sprayed several light coats of Halfords gloss acrylic lacquer (the stuff you spray over metallic car paint) and that gave an increasingly gloss coat, without any effect on the coats below. Phew.

 

 

 

[TomCrewe]

I do some plastic kits from time ti time but like to put a spin on them sometimes. 

 

[Northmoor]

11 hours ago, TomCrewe said:

I do some plastic kits from time ti time but like to put a spin on them sometimes. 

 

 

Is that a 190A-3 as accidentally delivered to the RAF in 1943?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Faber

[Rugd1022]

Not mine - some recent finds via pinterest...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ben B]

 

Yesterday was, apparently, Gerry Anderson Day 2024.  As a massive fan, I wanted to do something, a build, a project, some photographs.  My original plan had been to build a trio of Airfix Angel Interceptors which I picked up from Pennine Models over a decade ago, to accompany my Imai Cloudbase toy/kit I showed on here last year... but somewhere in the intervening years since purchase and starting them, I'd lost the canopies for the Angels.

 

 

In the end, some eBay purchasing turned up a pair of Imai Angels; one smaller and a bit more toy-like, one larger and a little better quality (there was also an Imai SPV which was pretty horrendous to build and finish).  Airfix Angels go for frankly stupid money at the moment.

 

 

The Cloudbase; very toy-like in places, really nice in others, but quite enjoyable to build.  I did a simple paint-job with some weathering, but the transfers were too old and dried-out to use, they fell to bits trying to apply them.  I also lost one of the Angels which pinged off who knows where when testing the insanely-powerful catapult.

 

 

I hasten to point out that the model-making isn't up to the standards seen elsewhere in this thread, I was more bothered about creating something to have a play with for photography purposes.  My intention was to shoot outdoors, doing long-exposure pics whilst on holiday in Wales, and there was a good chance these models would get damaged shooting outdoors.  The Angels had a waft of primer, then sprayed white, a minimum of detail painting and some weathering with Citadel 'Nuln Oil', then finally some rather poor transfers owing to the age of these kits.

 

 

To capture the Angels in flight, I'd built a rig using a hand-held tripod, camera baseplate, two telescopic aerials, and a load of duct-tape. I wanted to do as much as possible in-camera, rather than messing with Photoshop, and had all sorts of ideas of sunsets, mountain backdrops, lakes... and then Storm Kathleen happened.  Bang went the location shoot, and then the following week of work left no time for a re-shoot back in Yorkshire, so come the Saturday, I improvised these pics.

 

 

Two boards with sky backdrops (that I usually use for miniatures shoots, created a few years ago for the Port Eden layout), a load of cotton wool, and a small camera tripod under Cloudbase.  The shadows under the clouds are a bit annoying, though from certain angles could be being cast onto an ocean far below, and it was a bit of an improv at the last minute, but it was a fun little project to do.  I deliberately used a slight fisheye effect to help make the pics a bit more dynamic, and the graininess and noise hopefully makes it look a little like 1960's film.  In any case, it was a nice change from railway modelling for a bit :)

 

 

 

 

[33C]

Gerry would be proud. Top work.

[JZ]

1 hour ago, Ben B said:

 

I hasten to point out that the model-making isn't up to the standards seen elsewhere in this thread,

Who cares? Modelling is about enjoying what you do, not what others think.

A friend of mine is also a very big Gerry Anderson fan, so I sent him a link to this.

[Darius43]

 

Absolutely superb photo.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[roundhouse]

In recent months I have been working on quite a few non railway models.

 

Firstly, these were a commission for a fellow railway modeller using resin kits. A fair amount of filing and filling plus some research to add extra details such as wing mirrors etc. but not quite 100% accurate. There is a book on Rugby Cement vehicles but is not cheap for potentially a one off build. number plates have been added since the photo was taken.

 

 

Next, a few aircraft for my self.

This Airfix FW190 was bought for £1 . The kit decals are showing heir age but once weathered the yellowing should blend in more. The tail decals are no longer supplied in many kits so a whole sheet cost £5 and are a little large but will do till I find some the correct size. It must be around 40 years since I last built a German WW2 kit.

 

And lastly for now, an Academy Kit of a USN F2H-3 also known as a  'Banshee'. A kit that had been on a show traders stand for months and I finally decided that it needed building.

 I managed to get a bit of overspray under the masking tape on the canopy so I used a bit of IPA to remove it but it fogged the canopy. Not had this issue with other kits but luckily a bit of polishing and Pledge clear varnish sorted this out so be careful with any Academy clear glazing.

 

[railroadbill]

13 hours ago, JZ said:

Who cares? Modelling is about enjoying what you do, not what others think.

A friend of mine is also a very big Gerry Anderson fan, so I sent him a link to this.

Re Gerry Anderson day, there was a 12 hour (!) live feed on YouTube of various interviews, documentaries and episodes relating to Gerry Anderson's shows. I only came across this half way through a making of Stingray documentary that was the last item. However a recording of the whole lot was then available on YouTube so you could pick and choose what you wanted to watch....it's  probably still there.

The opening segment goes through absolutely everything Gerry Anderson made, some more obscure than others.

F.A.B. Virgil.