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Jap fighter seat belts
I'm building a Hasegawa 1/48 Zero and am trying to find out what colour Japanese fighter seat harnesses were.Can anyone help please?.- Dave W
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Vallejo equivalent of RLM71
Can anyone tell me which paints in the Vallejo range are closest to Luftwaffe RLM71 Dunkelgrun and Rl LM70 Schwartzgrun please?.- Dave W
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Silly old sod!
Yesterday, i went into town with the intention of buying a Zero (which i got) and also a P47D Thunderbolt.I was looking through a cupboard at home and found a book on RAF Thunderbolts i hadnt seen for a few years .I suddenly got this burning desire to buid a P47D in South East Asia Command...- Dave W
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Japanese WW2 Aircraft paint colours
I've been inspired by Trey's recent builds of Jap fighters and especially the salt chipping he did on them.So I bought this Zero on a rare trip into town today.I havent built a Jap aircraft since my early teens,nearly 40 years ago.So i dont know anything about the paint colours used. The...- Dave W
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Airfix 1/48 JU87B Stuka
I've just finished building the Airfix 1/48 Stuka.This is an old kit with heavy raised lines and rivet detail.So i decided to sand it all off and rescribe it.Only in some places like the tailplanes i've been a bit heavy handed and given it that old Matchbox kit look!.I've got a Tamiya scribing...- Dave W
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ESCI 1/48 Henschel HS 129
Picked this up for a tenner at the Telford show last Saturday.As you can see from the catalogue included in the kit it dates from 1977.In fact i made one of these in the early eighties.Its a pretty basic kit with raised detail.I've made a start on the wings removing the raised lines and scribing...- Dave W
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Telford Pictures
Photo's from Telford today Just got back from the Telford show and thought i would post a few pics taken with my iphone.The Skraiders are the Zokei Mura 1/32 models.These kits are on sale for £100 at the show.I wouldnt pay that sort of money for a kit but they are very impressive.My favourites... -
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Stuka seat belts
Can anyone help please?.Im building the Airfix 1/48 JU87b As a Battle of Britain era machine.Im in need of a photo of the pilots and rear occupants seat belt arrangement.Ive got some Eduard Luftwaffe bomber seat belts but a picture of them fitted would be a great help. -
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Tamiya 1/48 Heinkel HE219A-7 UHU
This is my next build.Tamiya's 1/48 kit of the Heinkel 219 UHU (Owl).This kit comes with a metal cockpit insert to stop the model being a tail sitter.What a great idea and something i've not seen in a kit before.The cockpit is well detailed and im only going to add some Eduard seat belts to...- Dave W
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Academy Quality
I bought this Academy 1/48 ME109K-4 today.I'd heard their kits are good VFM but hadnt bought one before now.As you can see it has fine engraved panel lines and a superbly clear canopy.There's also a decal sheet by Cartograph and a brass pitot and gun barrel ends.Only £19 and all.Dont know what...- Dave W
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Finished - Italeri 1/48 Lysander
The Lysander is finally finished. I've painted it to represent an aircraft used by the Free French Forces 'Group Bretagne' in Tunisia during 1942.Not sure i've got the colour right for the exhaust and cowling.I used humbrol Bronze with a bit of black mixed in.Its good enough for me though.- Dave W
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Italeri 1/48 Lysander
I thought i would build this next and take advantage of all the info generated by Vaughans excellent build of the 1/32 version.This ones an ancient Testors kit reboxed by Italeri.There's hardly any interior detail so i bought a superb Eduard etched set for it.It only cost around 6 quid so is a...- Dave W
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Monogram P61 Black Widow finished
I've finally finished the P61.I tried painting it different shades of black but it hasnt turned out how i intended.The 3 coats of Kleer seem to have evened it all out.But im still pleased with it.- Dave W
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All Black Paint finish
Im a bit stuck as how to progress the all black paint job on my Black Widow.I had intended using different shades of black to pick out a few panels and so break up an otherwise boring colour scheme.I've spent a lot of time rescribing panel lines and was going to highlight them by spraying the...- Dave W
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Hercules interior colour
A friend is building the Italeri 1/48 Lockheed Hercules in RAF colours.Can any one tell me the correct paint colour for the cargo bay please.The instructions are not very helpful and just say it should be grey.He uses mainly Tamiya acrylics.so a Tamiya reference would be good.Thanks.- Dave W
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Vacuform !/48 Halifax
Trey asked me to post pictures of a 1/48 Halifax vacuform kit i built last year.It was the first full vacuum form kit i have built.There were loads of problems to overcome as the parts didnt exactly fall together.I used nearly a third of a tube of squadron green filler on it.Mostly because when...- Dave W
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Highlighting panel lines
My current build will have an all over black night fighter paint finish.As im taking the time to rescribe panel lines i would like to highlight these.But i want it to look realistic.I was thinking of painting the model black with a bit of red mixed in like stona uses on his models.Then running...- Dave W
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East Anglian Model Competition
I thought i would go along to the above show this coming Saturday.Ive seen it advertised in Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine.Its organised by Ipswich IPMS.I cant get through to anyone on the phone no.in the advert and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it.Like is it purely a model... -
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P61 Black Widow
Here's my latest build.As you can see its another Monogram kit.This one is of the Northrop P61 Black Widow.For those who have not heard of it, this aircraft was built as a night fighter for the USAF.It was big for a fighter with a wing span of around 66feet.I've had this kit since the early...- Dave W
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1/48 FW190 (Hasegawa)
Just finished building this FW190A-4.I made it straight out of the box with no extras and finished it as a machine flown by Hermann Graf with 202 victories to his name.The model was painted with Xtracolour enamels and given a light wash with the Florymodels washes.I then gave it a final coating...- Dave W
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