Why you build what you build

[stona]

I'm very pleased that you found it interesting and it may have prompted a few memories. When you're ten years old momentous events tend not to be those played out on the world stage but goings on closer to home.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Hi Barry, My eyes widened a tad reading your message reply re forthcoming 1.32 scale Lanc. and B17. Please enlighten me if you can as to who is going to produce these. At present I am half way through the Mustang, as like you I have a liking for this scale. Anything smaller and I fumble a bit. I keep waiting for the Tamiya release of the hurricane to go with the others. I used to live in Folkestone, 30 yrs ago (Warren Way) and regret not then having the keen interest in WW2 as I do now as you say, that's where it all happened. I must go back there some day to visit the museum at Hawkinge. Regards, Pete. (right down the sharp end of Cornwall)

[Guest]

I have started to get a small stash based on kits i like the look of or had built as a kid.

When it comes to starting a new build i just see what i am in the mood for.

I have 3 on the go and when i clear some room i will start the specially selected 1/48 swordfish next

[BarryW]

Hi Barry, My eyes widened a tad reading your message reply re forthcoming 1.32 scale Lanc. and B17. Please enlighten me if you can as to who is going to produce these. At present I am half way through the Mustang, as like you I have a liking for this scale. Anything smaller and I fumble a bit. I keep waiting for the Tamiya release of the hurricane to go with the others. I used to live in Folkestone, 30 yrs ago (Warren Way) and regret not then having the keen interest in WW2 as I do now as you say, that's where it all happened. I must go back there some day to visit the museum at Hawkinge. Regards, Pete. (right down the sharp end of Cornwall)

Hi Pete

The Lanc and B17 are being made by HK Models who recently did the B25 Mitchell. The B17 is being released first, a wingspan of about 38 inches by my rough reckoning!!!

Here is a link to their website with some very 'quaint' English!!!

Hong Kong Models co., Ltd.

Here is a review of their B25 - it looks good.

The Modelling News: Review & Mini Construction: H-K Models Co. 1/32 B-25J “Glass Nose” Bomber

Finally this

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[flyjoe180]

You guys are going to need shares in a paint company the way you are going.

[BarryW]

More like a full scale aircraft hanger!!

[Guest]

I do not build models to any fixed crieria .It is a pure random process.

I might get something dirt cheap from Hobbyzone or I mught have an incline for a bargain off of the internet.

Lately I have built airfix stuff as it seems to be pouring out.

If i deviate and buy something there and then it means the stash gets pushed further back and the box count goes up if Idont build it.

Its a random process based on what I see in mags or shows ,there is no pattern to it.

I usually finish what I start .and only rarely do a bit and box it up .

I never work on 2 or more at a time.

[Guest]

Thanks Barry, I agree with Flyjoe. The materials will no doubt cost more than the kit. But who cares. Well worth keeping an eye on this beauty. All the best, Pete

[Guest]

Motorbikes! Funny thing, I was catching up on this thread earlier this evening. But I've had my airbrush/compressor/regulator BSPP air fittings on my mind, and was thinking about 1 gallon air-reservoirs for big diesel trucks (for the air horns, etc) to use for small brush compressors, and then remembered that, back in 1968, I had a pair of air-horns on my BSA Royal Star 650, driven by a small compressor mounted between the front-tubes. Remembering your mention of motorbike kit, first airbrushing (I've done no more yet than put about a teaspoon of thinned airbrush-acrilic through my new Badger 100LF for testing) ...

This made me think "Uh-oh; I wonder if there's a kit for a 1964 BSA Royal Star 650?" ... of course, mine wasn't stock, it had been hit by a car, rebuilt by a motorbike painter, and I re-customized it a bit, so I would have to make the kit look like my old 650!! I might even last long enought to do it. Wouldn't want to try it from scratch, though! Funny what can suddenly tempt one to try a plastic motor kit, just because of having had a motorbike ... Yikes!! I'm afraid i've just been exposed to another potentially addictive model-building temptation! :smile8:

The mention of "Swordfish" also has planted a seed; there's a gorgeous painting, 12-3/4" x 40", in a two-page foldout in Aggressors Vol 4 Patrol Aircraft Vs. Submarine which shows "Royal Navy Swordfish Mk IIs attack a Type IXB U-boat with 3in rocket projectiles and .303in machine gun fire on the surface in the bay of Biscay. 1943" The aircraft on the right is a cut-away view, and I've apparently had a secret yen to build one of those ever since I got the book years ago.

I think I'm about to get into trouble like the rest of you! Kits in the closet (I actually have a few, but they are all old balsa flying models), kits partly built (already happening...), etc.

[Dave W]

I read books and modelling magazines.From these comes the urge to build models of particular aircraft.Read a few fighter pilot memoirs recently so am currently embarking on the build of 3 Spitfires,one after the other.Nearly finished a mk9,Then it will be a mk1 next.Trouble is I've got kits in the stash that have been there for years.So I've decided not to buy anymore until I've built at least 10 of them.Trouble is I'm going to Cosford in April.By lucky if I finish two before then.Plus Treys B17 build has got me thinking about my big B24.So I might not get to the third Spitfire!And then there's the new Italeri Sea Hurricane whispering to me to build it every time I go in my modelling shed!.

[Guest]

I'm a scratchbuilder, so I don't have a stash as such, just a mental list of more than I can cope with probably.

I also make patterns for kit makers, so it pays too. But I must say there are some kits that have tempted me over the years. Always of what I have flown in or just love the look of. I mainly go for civil light aircraft because of their colours and sometimes just cuteness. I am not a fan of guns and cammo, even though it's tempting to do the aircraft of 6 Squadron while me Dad was fitting rockets to Hurricanes.

Trouble is, I also like cars and have done dozens of patterns for them too and motorbikes!

So I suppose I'm a bit of a whore really. I do what people pay me to, with the exception of Audis and Porsches. I HATE them with a passion and will not model them!

For myself only, I always come back to boats and scenery. Nobody is going to pay me to spend days making a five bar gate or a set of canal locks!

Martin

[Guest]

Johnpipe, I've certainly seen old kits of bsa goldstars, every is your best, (only maybe), bet for one I'm guessing.

Mr Tin,

Out of curiosity, (I'm sure it will be way more than I can afford before I even ask).

What would it cost for a kit of one of my bikes, a Kawasaki ZXR 750 H1

Iwould love a kit if this but there has never been one made, the closest I ever found was a ZX7RR