Evening all!
Thought having recently joined the forum I'd share a build I completed for a work colleague. Only being a couple of years into this hobby myself, I discovered a chap at work also dabbled in this hobby. His passion lay mainly in overhauling 1/64 scale matchbox style cars. Having seen I'd been building some aircraft he decided to make his own diorama of a WW2 german airfield. So, excited one morning he tells me hes won a kit on ebay. When I enquired what he had won I was met with a 1/64 Ju88 produced by Lindberg. Now two things got me, firstly I had no idea kits were produced in this scale, (my ignorance, from what i've read apparently this was the scale many years ago and most modellers seemed to prefer this? true or false please comment and educate me) And secondly I'd never heard of Lindberg either (again ignorance). Finally when the kit arrived a rather dejected friend wanders over to me quite upset that it wasn't in the best state and some bits were missing along with some broken, Idid explain to him the kit was from 1955 so it had by this time survived a war of it's own. He condemned it to the bin, so me spying an oppurtunity to practice on another kit and help a fellow modeller out offered to take on the project. so here it comes:
As you can see, the kit has been messed with as expected at 70 years young. The mouldings aren't brilliant but for again the age more than likely fantstic for the time. anyway, got to love a challenge
Thought having recently joined the forum I'd share a build I completed for a work colleague. Only being a couple of years into this hobby myself, I discovered a chap at work also dabbled in this hobby. His passion lay mainly in overhauling 1/64 scale matchbox style cars. Having seen I'd been building some aircraft he decided to make his own diorama of a WW2 german airfield. So, excited one morning he tells me hes won a kit on ebay. When I enquired what he had won I was met with a 1/64 Ju88 produced by Lindberg. Now two things got me, firstly I had no idea kits were produced in this scale, (my ignorance, from what i've read apparently this was the scale many years ago and most modellers seemed to prefer this? true or false please comment and educate me) And secondly I'd never heard of Lindberg either (again ignorance). Finally when the kit arrived a rather dejected friend wanders over to me quite upset that it wasn't in the best state and some bits were missing along with some broken, Idid explain to him the kit was from 1955 so it had by this time survived a war of it's own. He condemned it to the bin, so me spying an oppurtunity to practice on another kit and help a fellow modeller out offered to take on the project. so here it comes:
As you can see, the kit has been messed with as expected at 70 years young. The mouldings aren't brilliant but for again the age more than likely fantstic for the time. anyway, got to love a challenge
