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  1. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    Right, now I was on to the main fuselage crew compartment Not knowing whether the interior would be painted or not, I just went with all over grey with a wash shading. All the parts that I know the colours for, like the bomb sight, chair and table, coloured accordingly. I could have gone with...
  2. Steve-the-Duck

    BOATMANS B58 HUSTLER IN 148th scale with lights

    Wait, that's NOT a WASP interceptor? Some people say old kits aren't worth the trouble. But adding all the bells, whistles and LIGHTS (wow!) is what modelling is all about! That undercarriage looks superb
  3. Steve-the-Duck

    DH88 Comet..... Airfix 1/72

    So. Much. Filler!
  4. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    With my Silver Wings I try to completely finish the top wing first Fully skinned and with the top tank added, out of a simple plasticard sandwich. Next the header-transfer tank was added to the front of the wing, made out of ubiquitous strut material Paint! Simple rattle-can silver, with...
  5. Steve-the-Duck

    28mm Churchill Project - Hobart's Funnies Churchill AVRE SBG

    BTW, the only real addition I made to this kit, apart from 20p in 2p pieces (!) are the pulleys, which are actually the wheels out of an old OLD Matchbox M16 half-track
  6. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    And now onto the real scratchery I didn't find a detailed pic of the Rolls Royce Condor engine, so I went with what's visible on the Puttnam plans and the photos. The cylinder heads are bits of 1/24 rocket ends, from the Airfix Mosquito (?), topped with the wheels from a 1/72 Lorraine 37L...
  7. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    The wraparound skinning works pretty well. And once all set, the trailing edge could be scraped and sanded thinner I was going to use one of the unused seats from my vacform Hawker Horsley (which will get posts of it's own sometime), but they're not up to much, so I scrapped-up one from a...
  8. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    You can see here the lower wings formed pre-skinning Here's the upper wing skinning pieces before rib-scribing. I went for wraparound pieces which worked out pretty well The upper wing with centre section skinned. I went for separate pieces for the control surfaces And that's the lower...
  9. Steve-the-Duck

    DH88 Comet..... Airfix 1/72

    Good luck with this! Did the Frog one a while back, as the 'sixth' one built and flown in our 1930s adventure TTRPG. That kit is as old as me, and superior to the Airfix, not that THAT is difficult! My partner keeps wanting to get one of these just because, but there's no Lidl around here. I...
  10. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    So, here's all the main parts together by this stage. The wheels have already been thinned and shaped, with a circle of 10 thou on the back to simulate the tyre shape Note, I also had the idea of making entirely separate control surfaces, but with the new win g structure shown here, I'd...
  11. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    'May I say, sir, that now we are cooking with gas' These are the centre pieces for the outer wings, upper and lower, with a message to myself to get them the right way up. I mean, I wouldn't want to end up with two port upper wings, and no starboard! The cut-outs on the port wings were for...
  12. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    Ah, you see, my secret identity is Super..., I mean Steve, while my real identity is Kal-El, I mean Chris Or is that the other way round Stay tun ed, Neil, there's more
  13. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    The first attempt at building one of the outer wing panels, in a 30 - 20 thou sandwich. Which I realised rapidly was going to be way to heavy. I was always intending to put on a 10 thou skin with rib detail anyway, but... So, with a bit more thought and planning, A lighter solution was...
  14. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    So, here's the tail after removing, cutting back the fin, and re-attaching, with the brass rod at the centre plated either side Next, things starting to go mildly astray, all of my own making, I might add My original plan was to have the port wing folded, so as to take up less room on the...
  15. Steve-the-Duck

    28mm Churchill Project - Hobart's Funnies Churchill AVRE SBG

    TWO YEARS ago I started posting a build of this, then I couldn't post pictures anymore. Now that's solved, I can catch up with all the postings. This completion pre-dates the other lot of Churchills I just posted Churchill AVRE Bridgelayer - Folding Small Box Girder Bridge, 79th Division...
  16. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    So, would you believe the nose piece is an old 3D support piece? A bit of fettling, filling and venting, plus a road wheel off a 1/72 Lorraine 37, and the nose is in place, on a simple box of plasticard Later, I will realise that the whole nose piece is mounted 4mm too low. The base should...
  17. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    Now, the wheels are one of the few parts from somewhere else. I don't have a method of making big circular pieces so These, would you believe, are road wheels off an OLD Tamiya Panzer II!
  18. Steve-the-Duck

    Scratchbuilt 1/72 Avro Aldershot

    Okay, next These are the paper and card templates for the rear fuselage upper decking. Measure five times, cut twice, which eventually lead to this. All the skinning of the model is 10 thou plasticard, scribed on the inside to make ribs. Still needed fettling afterwards, but this was only...
  19. Steve-the-Duck

    Fairy-Kikkaku 1/700 Imperial Russian Navy Repair ship Kamchathka

    Here's a halfway build pic So, the white and blue resin bits are from the kit, as is the boat-deck base, the brown bit. The boats are mostly Combrig, as they have detail while the kit parts are just slabs. Likewise the two fore-deck cranes. Crows next and ventilators are from my copious...
  20. Steve-the-Duck

    Soooo clumsy

    'Skilled' the cement? Wait, is that one of those shake'n'bake models you just pour the glue into the box? Or is this a technique I've not heard of?

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