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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
Ok I’ve now finished attaching the super structure to the main deck. Let’s just say that it’s fits and that’s it. I would say it’s composed of 80% model and 20% filler. I don’t know if your fit was as bad as that but mine was absolutely awful the two pieces at the rear or the stern which stick...- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
Well the main deck housing is now installed and let’s say it’s fits where it touches and leave it at that Christ knows what I’m gonna do with the gaps at the end. I might just put some card in there to fill it. I can’t put more filler in there it just melt everything.- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
For my next project as you can see I’ve got a theme with boats at the moment in 1/72 scale. How about something? Totally different at 1/35 scale hovercraft used by the US in Vietnam.- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
So now we come to the main cabin assembly and as predicted by other people and as what I’ve seen on the net it was a right pig to put together the cabin sides and top are welded with superglue over glued with Tamiya extra thin and once that had all dried It was sanded smooth and painted over...- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
Time for some more painting this time the main cabin sides and the so-called instrument panel which was completely blank and was told just paint it black. Well I’ve added loads of little dials and bits of paint here and there to make it look a bit more interesting whether it is anything like the...- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
Okay, just a quick pictured. Show the repaired top section now that the connections have been extended using an old coffee. stirrer to fabricate the extended pieces required so that it will actually join up and look like a framework and not a disaster- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
Well I have to say something. This is a bloody awful kit. nothing fits and it’s devoid of detail inside so first off the two side panels that formed the inner sections have added to the decking and the roofing part supposed to fit over the top it’s too short, so I have manufactured additional...- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
Going back to the filler side of this kit here is a picture showing the amount of filler that had to go into the rear of the deck to get it to actually fit or make it look like it fitted The finish result after the filler have been sanded smooth and all repainted and I extended the diving...- Bigfoot57
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
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Airfix 1/72 Severn Class Lifeboat
So whilst waiting for the missing kit to the U 96 to arrive I built the Airfix 1/72 scale Shannon class lifeboat which was a very good kit letdown by it’s useless decals which seemed to disintegrate as soon as they hit the water if they were Cartograph they must’ve had a bad day when they made...- Bigfoot57
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Original 1960’s Airfix HMS Prince
HMS Prince Nearly There So I’ve finished rigging the ship using a bit of artistic license in places. I cannot guarantee that this is an accurate rig of how it would be in real life and I do know that it’s only half the rigging the actual real ship carried but I just wanted to give it an effect...- Bigfoot57
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Original 1960’s Airfix HMS Prince
Latest update on the rigging we’ve now moved onto the Lanteen spa having completed the main Mast and the Mizzen so were nearly there Apart from all the pieces that fell off whilst I’ve been rigging the ship as you can see in the photograph mostly Cannons and Gunport lids you can also see the...- Bigfoot57
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1/35 Tank display stand made from Shoe rack
This may or may not be of any interest to anyone but I thought it might be something different. I’ve got a collection of tanks so far I’ve built 9 but I’ve got about 80 to build and I thought what can I use to display them which is fairly compact, but Allows for about 40 tanks to be displayed at...- Bigfoot57
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Original 1960’s Airfix HMS Prince
Hello, again when I last left you, I just started doing the running rigging for the formast & Bowsprite that has now been completed and I’ve moved onto the main Mast & did the standing rigging for the mizzen mast where we met a slight accident and I snapped the top of the Mizzen mast off never...- Bigfoot57
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Original 1960’s Airfix HMS Prince
Latest update on HMS Prince Rigging is half done I’ve run out of black thread which I’m waiting for a new delivery of then I’ve gotta add another 30 blocks to the Masts & the Yards that should finish off that part, then I can add the running rigging and I haven’t decided yet whether it put the...- Bigfoot57
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Original 1960’s Airfix HMS Prince
Hello again well I’ve finished the bowsprite and the Formast now moving onto the Main Mast well, I’ve just started adding some blocks on the main yard and three lots of standing rigging lines at the back of the mast not much else to add really you know it’s just plod on bit by bit tomorrow...- Bigfoot57
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Hachette U96
c whilst waiting for the glue to dry on the HMS Prince I have cracked open another one of my kits which I’ve been collecting for the past two years that being U 96 from Das Boot but this time this is not the wooden one that I built previously this is an all singing all dancing electronic one...- Bigfoot57
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Original 1960’s Airfix HMS Prince
With the completion of the Porsche, I can now get back to this and I’ve started a Preliminary rigging this will not be a full rig as that would be ridiculous on a scale of this size but it will be sufficient to make it look as though it has got some rigging on it. I’ve already started with the...- Bigfoot57
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Pocher 1/8 Porsche 917K Gulf
Just finished building this except for installing windows etc waiting for some 1mm Double sided clear tape to stick then in with- Bigfoot57
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Pocher Porsche 917 1/8 Scale
Porsche 917K the glory shots- Bigfoot57
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