Can you see what it is yet ?

With the airbus about to land in the bin its time to restore my faith in this religion of plastic. So out comes the daddy, this is a kit I've been wanting to make for a long time. So far I've just painted the main parts on the sprue with an airbrush full of interior green.

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Not impressed

Don't know why this has happened, I'm going to blame the paint pies for this .

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Getting there

This one is slowly getting near the end. The canopy, sight and aerials still to go on, but next up will be a pro modellers dark wash.

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Branching out

In Modelzone last night, I was having a good look round and picked up the new airfix spitfire mk.XII, walked around some more then put it back and bought an airbus a319 and a ferrari F1 car. The car will be my first. It's a Tamiya kit so it should go together well.

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Phew !

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Jiggle juggle

And I thought the rigging was going to trouble me. I hadn't even thought about getting the wings lined up on the struts.

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Blimey that's small

Started the gladiator this morning, I can't believe how small it is compared to say a Spitfire. Not much happening inside the cockpit. A seat with some belts that's it. The canopy is very thick so you're not going to see anything in there. I'm going to have a look and see if I can get some more colourful decals for it. Lucky for me there are a lot of pictures around for this aircraft mainly thanks to the airworthy shuttleworth example.

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Work, work and more bloody work

That's all i seem to do at the moment. I managed to pop out yesterday evening to put put a few bits away in the cupboards and ended up sticking the prop and spinner together and also getting the rudder attached.

I did have a bit of a panic though because i couldn't find the rest of the kit, i knew i still had one sprue left for the 109. I eventually found it inside the sea vixen box.

I've decided to be brave next and start the Revell 1/72 Gloster Gladiator, I've never done rigging on an aircraft before which is why i tend to stay away from such subjects.

All change

The wife and I have had a bit of a change around at home. I have moved all my gear back outside to the old modelling room. My wife said she needed a desk for all her work so I kindly gave up my monster of a desk. I now a have a modelling area with good natural light and a nice leather armchair for when I'm reading.

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Main decals are on

These new airfix decals are such a pain, they will not settle down Nu matter how much decal solution I use. At least they haven't silvered. Hopefully I'll get the stencils on tomorrow.

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Mottle done

Mottle has come out a bit too big for its scale, but I think its going to look ok when decaled and weathered . I hope !

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