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Nick's Heller 1/24 Fergusen Tractor - LeeW's Four Wheels on my Wagon GB
Here she is all done. A relatively straightforward build that took a fair bit of effort in the painting and became somewhat difficult to handle towards the end. The main paint was a rather dark Zero Paints Fergusen Grey with a supporting cast of mainly Vallejo acrylics and a dabble with a few...- Nicko
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- Forum: Completed Group builds 2017 onward
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What flew over your house today... or yesterday... v2.0
Had a bit of Jet Provost action this past few days. Unfortunately only the usual quickly snapped phone pics and they were not so close by the time I had it ready. Looked like they were practising for a display or something...... Nick -
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Hope you feel able to get going again soon Peter. I snapped this for you a little while ago....... Nick -
What flew over your house today... or yesterday... v2.0
We've had a lot of Chinook action this week, going on until quite late in the evenings too. Bit of underslung load training for 16 Air Assault Bde I would guess. Apologies for the quickly grabbed phone pics. I missed the one where they had a 6-wheeler Pinzgauer dangling.... Nick -
Latest Acquisitions (2025)
I had a birthday this week and did manage a couple of modelling related items....... Firstly, my Daughter bought me this: I have an original 1967 Honda Z50M so to get the 50th Anniversary bike in 1/12 is very nice. Its pretty small though, even in this scale. My Mum gave me some money so I... -
Italeri (Protar) 1/9 Yamaha Tenere - Paris Dakar winner
Well, I'm calling it done and its been put on a high shelf in 'the model room' in the hope that nobody can look too closely and its less likely to get bits knocked off it. I started this one on 15th March last year and initially it was an exercise in attempting to re-spoke the wheels to an...- Nicko
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- Forum: Completed Civilian motorcycle s
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Latest Acquisitions (2025)
Been very good not adding to the stash, but still need to keep the supplies topped up. Usual excellent service from John..... Nick -
What's on the Bench 2025
Been wrestling on and off for nearly a year on an old Italeri (ex Protar) 1/9 Paris Dakar Yamaha which started out as an exercise in attempting to respoke the wheels but is now finally starting to come together..... Nick- Nicko
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Nick's 1/72 Hasegawa FW190A5 - for Alan G
This is a 1970s tooling which was likely very well regarded when it was originally issued. It does have its limitations, but I made no attempt to modernise it apart from giving it some nice new decals and replacement gun barrels and pitot from aluminium tube and wire which are a little...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: gallery
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Nick's 1/72 Frog FW190A4 - 1959 tooling - for Alan G
I was a little worried at the start as to how this one would turn out as its such an old kit and I made no attempt to modernise it apart from giving it some nice new decals and replacement gun barrels and pitot from aluminium tube and wire (a little over scale, I know). Paints used were a mix of...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: gallery
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
So, after sealing in the decals and a bit of light weathering - mostly just some very gentle sooty streaks - I have given both airframes a coat of VMS satin.... That really only leaves all the fiddly little bits to be added, so the next updates will be in the completed section. Thanks...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
Still ticking along with these. After a bit of detail painting, I hit both airframes with a coat of clear gloss. Then after a day to cure I have this afternoon being having fun with the decals. I have to say, they went on very nicely. Thanks as always for looking in.... Nick- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
Moving on to the upper surfaces, the Eastern Front green camo of RLM62 & RLM70 were a bit brighter than I was expecting whilst the grey Western Front camo of RLM74 & RLM75 seemed to have quite minimal contrast. These schemes did not appear to have the sharp angular look of the earlier Luftwaffe...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
I've been beavering away on these, mostly sanding, filling, sanding etc and the result is that the Frog kit has lost some of it's raised detail. Not sure what can be done about that so I will live with it. Managed to break one of the guns off the Hasegawa kit - they were moulded integrally with...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
Thanks for your responses guys. So I started working on a spinner yesterday and didn't think it was looking too bad.... Today I have been working outside splitting some logs. Then I went in my workshop to do a bit of work on one of my bikes. I do my airbrushing in there too and it was 1.3C so...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
Some modest progress on these two...... Here is a pic of the interior parts for the Frog kit... That's right, nothing. I therefore gave the interior of the fuselage a coat of matt black and closed it up. Tailplanes were a single piece also added at this point. Inside of the lower wings...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
I found a rather nice set of decals which give me a Western Front A4 and an Eastern front A5 with quite different schemes and some really nice artwork for inspiration: More to follow once I've made a start. Thanks for looking. Nick- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
The Hasegawa kit is a relative newbie, being tooled in 1976. And it shows: Instructions are quite nice too: Both kits had decals that were curled up rather horribly so I have sourced alternatives. Nick.- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
So, taking the Frog kit first. I thought there must be some parts missing when I first opened the box - not a lot is there: Here it is all spread out: You'll notice there isn't even an attempt at undercarriage bays - think this will be built 'wheels-up': Pretty basic instructions too...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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Nick's old 1/72 FW190 kits
Well, for this group build and tribute to Alan I have been for a deep-dive into the stash and pulled out a couple of dusty old kits that have been with me for probably 45 years or more. I give you the Frog 1/72 FW190A4 and Hasegawa 1/72 FW190A5: I can remember buying the Frog kit in probably...- Nicko
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- Forum: Alan G Memorial GB: Jan - April 2025
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