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Had a week off so hit the stash! These were all 2nd hand, missing bits or badly started/damaged from the bootsales. Airfix Churchill had no turret and is now a 3 inch gun carrier. The Matilda, again, had no turret, so now a "Canal Defence Light" and the Trident was made, badly damaged and covered in nicotine, so stripped, repaired and repainted.20220331_011624.jpg.4ae8f07aa30d0e6d8f8be46adce772a2.jpg20220331_011550.jpg.cc56904da700c67afc7382e93db1d90b.jpg20220403_125331.jpg.503d01adc1156b3d3937577a5d651d50.jpg

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Matchbox Panther acquired, made badly with track missing. Dismantled then "Zimmerited", new track pulled out of the scrap box. Painted in "Ambush" camouflage, weathered with a piano wire aerial and bow machine gun.20220404_164147.jpg.6d93d7c456c16a67bbecddd2323fa4c7.jpg

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And the last is this Airfix JS3 "Stalin" tank. This had a few wheels snapped off and a damaged drive sprocket. I modified the turret to a more prototypical shape and added the man-rider rails, M.G. mount and aerial. Screws hold the sprockets/idlers in place to resist the, too tight, tracks. A few extra little details like lights, brackets and hatch/tool-box covers and she's done!

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A couple of boot-sale finds, rebuilt and repainted this week. All were badly made, poorly painted and missing parts. Dinky S.E.P.E.C.A.T. Jaguar, Airfix Hawker Hunter, Mirage III and F-104 Starfighter. Now, back to the trains!

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Lovely job @33C; a Hunter is on my Wanted List after seeing them roar over our house every day in my childhood.  Unfortunately I tend to be selling and not buying at boot sales (too easy to come back with more than you went with) but I might have to look harder for that sort of thing in future.

Hoping to finish off a 1/24 BMW and a 1/43 Mini  this weekend......

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Fancied a bit of a change which has resulted in a 1/48 T38 Talon C land on the workbench, I've ever actually built a 1/48 scale aircraft before.

 

Progress so far has seen the cockpit completed, the fuselage halves together and work has started on the seams on the fuselage and air intakes.

 

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The T38 build shown above has ground to a halt as the canopy windshield snapped in half when was polishing it and replacements appear to be as hard to come by as rocking horse poop so, with the railway modelling mojo severely lacking at the minute, I've dug the 1/200 Iowa back out.

 

I've not touched it in over a year and, when I left it, the hull was in primer.  A good few feet of Tamiya masking tape later and the hull looks like this, painted in what was known as Measure 32 camouflage.  The table should give an idea of size but at just over 53" long, she's a monster...

 

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9 minutes ago, johndon said:

The T38 build shown above has ground to a halt as the canopy windshield snapped in half when was polishing it and replacements appear to be as hard to come by as rocking horse poop so,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always a when something happens to a canopy, especially when they are not easy to get as replacements.

 

I lost the cockpit glazing from a 1/48 DC-3 for weeks and weeks, and couldn't see a way around it. Then I found it stuck

to part of the  vacuum cleaner. But with other models I have had to buy a second kit to fix a lost canopy, hoping that at some point I get a spare so I can finish the second one as well!

 

 

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I notice my post has been silently edited to remove the word I wrote after "always a" ! 

 

Perhaps you could buy a second kit, and use the mint canopy to make a casting of a new one? At least then

you'd have two complete kits.

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The Iowa now has her main wooden deck fitted.  Strictly speaking, for the colour scheme I've painted the hull in, the decks should be stained blue but I much prefer the natural wood look.

 

I have to admit I'm enjoying building this far more than any of the modelling I've done on my own layout in the last 6 months...

 

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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.

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2 hours ago, didcot said:

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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.

I could be wrong...., but I think the body was taller and not green!

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3 hours ago, didcot said:

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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.

 

It's not always clear in the films, but C-3PO's lower right leg was actually silver rather than gold.

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This was a right old mess! Airfix Westland Scout. A personal favourite. But, cleaned up a treat. Managed to salvage all the bits and a coat of paint hides a multitude of sins! Very like sticking the legs back on a squashed spider........🤪

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Working on a 1/32nd Tomcat from Tamiya.

 

 

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I've substituted an Aires resin cockpit interior for the Tamiya one as there's a lot more detail. Here I'm just test-fitting the new parts. It's a tight fit (I already filed away a heck of a lot of resin!) but all will be good once it's glued and clamped up. This is one of Tamiya's older kits so the cockpit was a a bit sparse and in this scale I thought it was worth spending a bit more time and money on an upgrade.

 

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Progress of sorts.

 

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The cockpit part is all glued together but just dry-fitted to the rest of the plane. The fit of parts is OK but not as flawless as it usually is with Tamiya, perhaps because of the age of the some of the moulds. The two front fuselage halves seemed to be very slightly different lengths, so I ended up with a mis-registration of the panel lines across the seam. I sanded back and re-scribed them. On the rear part of the plane, the panel lines are raised so I'm re-scribing as many of them as I can do without too much difficulty. I'm not that bothered if a kit has raised panel lines throughout, as I don't think it makes that big a difference to a finished model, but I worried that my weathering might accentuate the two approaches if I left it as is.

 

I think there's a boo-boo in the instructions at one stage regarding which way up the wings go, so I've double-checked, and double-checked again, and I think these are correct! The swing-wing mechanism is very well engineered with metal supports and bearings, so it feels nicely solid.

 

 

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Nile said:

That's going to need quite some shelf space for display, enough for a micro-layout!

 

Yes, it's a big beast! I bought it quite a few years ago without any idea of where to put it.

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A few more bits added. All that plastic, and the metal bits inside, makes for quite a weighty model (and it doesn't even have all the

bits on yet) but the clever Tamiya guys have provided metal reinforcing rods for the undercarriage, a nice touch.

 

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Coming time to start painting and final detailing (consoles etc) that cockpit. 

 

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Finally got C3PO back together. Being soft vinyl it marks very easily. For some reason the paint still feels slightly tacky on the arms. But it's been several weeks since they were sprayed. I'm going to leave it a while before painting the midriff black and pick out the wires.

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20 hours ago, didcot said:

Finally got C3PO back together. Being soft vinyl it marks very easily. For some reason the paint still feels slightly tacky on the arms. But it's been several weeks since they were sprayed. I'm going to leave it a while before painting the midriff black and pick out the wires.

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I rather like that - where did you get the kit please (and the R2D2 one!)...?

 

 

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