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  1. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Revell SE5A.

    So, the cockpit parts are painted... I did think about drilling out the instruments, but a few shiny paint blobs suffice And the sidewalls done with just a little shading And then the halves together And, of course, all that can be seen is the top of the joystick. We all knew this would happen
  2. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Right, last ones, showing a difference of twenty-plus years (maybe more) between kits DH9As For a long time , the Maquette R-1 copy of the Ninak was the only way to build the 'plane, other than the Blue Rider conversion for the Airfix DH4. I mean, no-one was going to do a NEW Ninak...
  3. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    Halfords matt black spray as undercoat. It's VERY matt! I've already done the all-over spray of Olive Drab, which is fairly close to the G3 Khaki Green base colour Now, I just need to re-drill the aerial mounting on the Scout!
  4. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Revell SE5A.

    So, for some reason, I got it into my head to put in cockpit detail What was I THINKING! Reference was the Wingnut site of their build. It's come together surprisingly quickly... Now I've jinxed it I could have just painted the sidewall detail... Only had one piece, first piece for the...
  5. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Revell SE5A.

    'May I say, sir, that now we are cooking with gas!' The silver job I'm doing has a white registration code on a PC10 panel, so I'm going to try that Letraset I got for the Matador in the Trucks GB We'll see...
  6. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Revell SE5A.

    First up, Schrodinger's glue has been determined. Still might not use it though...
  7. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    'The bandages came off just this afternoon!' Niow THAT's what I'm talking about. Now I have a handle on the Alclad, it may see more use. Might still try the Vallejo if I come across it. I found a set of Mig metals and finish stuff in a model shop yesterday, but fifty quid a pop just to try...
  8. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Finally, and yes, I do have too many RAF silver wings kits, and there's still a few I'm looking for! Some of them don't exist as kits though... AZ Hind and Amodel Hart AZ do a slew of Harts, mostly, as you can see from the sprues, the foreign service radial jobs. Just from prior experience, I...
  9. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Here we go, Hawker Furies! Shiny! Honestly, the Matchbox one (still available from Revell with different squadron markings) still holds it's own, though the Amodel has more options. Plus the usual Amodel difficulties So, at siome stage I should end up with a Mk.I, a Mk.II and the High-Speed...
  10. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Okay, I'm going to do some more biplane compare/contrast sets, now I'm in the right place this time! First up, the Avro 504K from Airfix and Amodel. One of these will be converted to a 504N, when I get to building them! FirF AS you can see, the parts are practically identical, even to Amodel...
  11. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, here we are, the Cavalry carrier is built Rifle frames and body work added, plus the seat back frames And so... The pyramid frame at the front is for the tilt cover. Strangely, this was the only variant of the carriers with a tilt cover frame included from the start Side skirts are from...
  12. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, the Light Dragon Mk.III is pretty much finished. I will probably do a tilt cover one painted, with the sides up The commander figure will be fixed in once everything else is painted. I've used the Milicast 1/76 casting as reference for the rear as still the only phot of the back has an...
  13. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    So, we're kind of back on track. After leaving the remaining Alclad to dry for five days, here's round 2! I tried dust-coating this time round, as advised by my brother-in-law, and we may have a winner! Still needs a second go-over though, in a few more days time... As a comparison, I did...
  14. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Well, as Richard (rtfoe) is doing an, excellent, build of the Matchbox Siskin IIIA, thought I'd put in a quick compare and contrast job. Kora recently put out a single and trainer twin-seat job, so I had to have the DC, as I already had the Matchbox and a spare with a replacement fuselage to do...
  15. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Revell SE5A.

    Okay, so, the Hector is stalled for a while, much air-brush practice to ensue, so this was going to be next afterwards but I may just make a start now-ish I WILL be putting in cockpit detail, thanks to Wingnut references. Intention is a post-war RAE display aircraft in silver, which I can...
  16. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, also where I'm at with the Dragon Mk.III Still got the seat back-rests, the armoured headlights and the elaborate tow-hook to put on (the latter of which is identical to the one on my Matadors, but I don't have a spare!) What does get me though, is there seems to be no provision for...
  17. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, here's a couple of the crew figures just placed for size. As can be seen, to get three in the space will require some work I think I'll be making the mudguards out of some aluminium tube I've got lying about, as I've nothing else curvy enough, and I'm not about to warm upsome plasticard...
  18. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    And so, indeed, on to the Cavalry Carrier That's the main bodywork done. Next to add all the gubbins to the top of the engine compartment Also: Theses are part of a rather excellent 28mm 3D printed set of seated British soldiers and drivers found on eBay. To fit six in the back will...
  19. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    And now the not-quite disaster. I decided to finally use the Alclad chrome I've had knocking about for a while for the shiny SHINY cowling Copious masking just in case, and on with the black base coat. So far no trouble First coat looked a little blotchy. It looked worse on the other side...
  20. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    Okay, so here's where things are starting to go astray... I used the kit markings to start with for the registration number, and the last two digits out of a set of Ventura letters and numbers And the heights don't match. So, I've subsequently replaced the '8 1' with more Ventura numbers As...
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