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Miko's Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane mkI 'bee'
As the RAF brought into service it's first swept wing jets such as the Supermarine Swift and Hawker Hunter in the early 1950's to replace it's first generation Gloster Meteors and DH Vampires a tactical requirement was discovered, the new jets were fast and agile but tactics needed to be...- Miko
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- Forum: Completed Group builds 2017 on
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Miko's Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane mk I
It's been a long time since I built a Hurricane, decades probably, when I noticed this group build I decided I'd like to join in, and with peterairfix's consent given here I am! When I phoned the LMS I was pretty sure he would have a 1/72 Hurricane but I was hoping it wouldn't be Airfix...- Miko
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- Forum: Petes Hawker Hurricane GB: April - July 2024
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Airfix Comet 4B
I've been studying my copy of my Adrian M Balch book 'Testing Colours' and found XV814 Anyone know if the Airfix kit is a good kit despite dating back to 1960? Miko (this would be my first 1/144 since the Discoverys )- Miko
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- Forum: General Aircraft Chat
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Su47 Berkut
Tadaaahh!! My first HobbyBoss kit was a success, low parts count but enough detail for me, others may complain it lacks a more comprehensive cockpit and landing gear bays etc. but for me it looks like great representation what it's supposed to be! Construction simple and straightforward...- Miko
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- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Sukhoi (DERA) Su47b ACT
The deep thawing of the cold War and it's peace dividend meant East and West could share technology for the advancement mankind, military projects being cancelled worldwide, One survivor of the cash strapped Russian Federation was the Su47 Berkut, Sukhoi's latest technology demonstrator with...- Miko
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- Forum: Completed Aeroplanes
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Latest Acquisitions (2024)
I do like a prototype!! Out of service by 2006, I wonder which was the last JASDF T2? Miko (thinking themes) -
Su47 Berkut
A lightbulb moment brings about this, because 'MoD (PE) Conspicuity Colour Scheme' is a tricky masking job I've painted white decal sheet I had left over from a Fantasy Print Shop sheet, so all those bleed through under masking along panel lines and slight over spray can be decaled back into...- Miko
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- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Latest Acquisitions (2024)
Hey Steve, I know your pain! the best way to remove the sticker is to warm it with a hair dryer, if you're careful and get it nice and warm it works 9/10 times. This turned up a year or two ago from Amazon Miko (one of my rare forays into WWII 1/48) -
Latest Acquisitions (2024)
A nice new airbrush hose complete with never had one before 'quick release' connection, it's three meters long, so the compressor can live in it's semi sound proof cupboard while I blow paint on to polystyrene. Miko (my old one managed to uncrimp itself at the hose union joint, after ordering... -
Raspberry Ripple
I've enquired throughout various modelling communities to find out the proper name for 'raspberry ripple' paint scheme without much luck, so I tried F.A.S.T (Farnborough Air Sciences Trust) museum, today I got a brilliant reply from David Wilson, museum trustee Dear Miko Lee... -
Su47 Berkut
Thanks Yak, The parts count is quite low, seems to be a HobbyBoss thing I never knew there was a Zvezda Berkut! I see Hasegawa issued it as an Id@lmaster kit! I have one of those in the stash It does lend itself to 'what if' for sure, what was your 'what if' thing? Thanks Arnie, my dodgy...- Miko
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Su47 Berkut
Bit of blue. . . Just needs a red fuselage stripe and I can add decals Miko (bit fed up of masking)- Miko
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Su47 Berkut
A bit of annoying bleed under the masking tape! aarrgghh!! Next, Oxford Blue! Miko (what if'ing)- Miko
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Su47 Berkut
Primer coat on! first time with Tamiya XF-2 Flat White, took several million coats to get any opacity! Next colour? Signal Red! Miko (moving along)- Miko
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Su47 Berkut
Well this thing just falls together, the fuselage, wings and empennage assembly went together in ten minutes! minimal clean up needed because of thoughtfully placed sprue gates, the tab and slot fitting is almost like a 'snap kit' type of fit, tiny bit of filler needed, probably because I got...- Miko
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Su47 Berkut
The cockpit is very sparse, a simple seat and control column, you'd think such an advanced jet would have HOTAS? The instructions call for a grey/blue interior and matt black seat, that's it! I painted the interior 'what if' blue and added a little speculative detail to the seat, there are...- Miko
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- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Latest Acquisitions (2024)
Hasegawa 1/72 2013 edition of a Fuji T1a ,another shiny metal jet from Japan's research and development unit Gifu air base in central Japan, Miko (the manufacturer Fuji was the new name for the pre war Nakajima aircraft company) -
Su47 Berkut
I've competed my prebuild rituals, last build done, (no one loves the 'shelf of doom'!) cleared the bench of clutter, checked tools and materials, selected paints, made a nice cup of tea and got a few biscuits so I can sit and study the instructions for a while! maybe a YouTube search for...- Miko
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Lockheed T33A 'checker'
Unfortunately real life got in the way of completing this one in 24hrs. Still, I'm happy with it Photo gallery here Miko (onwards and upwards!)- Miko
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- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Lockheed T33A 'checker' JASDF
a 1969 vintage kit that cost around a tenner, it's difficult to find fault given it's age, went together well, a bit fiddly in places and primitive to kits just a short time later, I assume styrene injection molding in those days was still being perfected as the ejection pin and small sink marks...- Miko
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- Forum: Completed Aeroplanes
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