Magazines !

I have recently stopped buying the magazines as a matter of course. Every month without fail i would take myself off to WH smiths during one of my breaks and part with the best part of £15.

Recently though the magazines have changed, Well the only one that has really changed is the military aircraft monthly international. This is now a reference magazine that seems to tag along behind it's sister magazine of scale aviation modeller, which is a shame because it was the magazine i would always pick up first and enjoy reading the most.

Some good news on the magazine horizon is that Airfix have announced a magazine coming out very shortly.

Some more pics

The current project, showing the resin airwaves seats i thought i would try out. The lightning is the airfix 1/48 kit made into a 19 sqn F2.A, this kit i started about 2 years ago so i thought i would try and bring it more up to date. I also have a 1/48 F3 in 23 sqn colours that was the first kit i made when i got back into it about 5 years ago. My plan for that kit is to use some Mr muscle on it to try and remove the paint and I'm going to have another go at it. The last picture is my 1/48 kinetic NATO viper F-16 in Norwegian markings, i know the tail number is wrong but i kept it because the kit was taking too long to complete.

Some Pics

1/72 fujimi phantom FG.1 and 1/72 xtrakit swift.

1/72 acadamy p51b mustang

1/48 tamiya spitfire mk V

1/72 revell tornado F.3

Just noticed all these pictures are missing their canopies.

Toy box

I have managed to finish a few models since my last post back in April so later on today i will post some photos of them.

The silver MiG that is pictured on here has met it's end at the hands of my 2 year old. I really didn't like it so i put it in the bin and the next time i saw it, it was flying around the toy box.

It's been a while '

I'm back and I'm going to try and keep this updated as much as possible. My models still seem to be improving(well i think so anyway !), and I'm still having fun doing them. Since moving my modelling room back indoors i seem to have more time.

At the moment i have the Revell boxing of the Hasegawa Phantom FGR.2 on the desk, i have used some aftermarket decals from Almark to mark it up as XV490 from 92 Sqn, the reason i chose this particular aircraft was the fact it had a light grey radome instead of the usual black and it also has both sets of yellow and red checks on it. I'm led to belive that this aircraft was one of the first to start receiving the air defence grey scheme, even the tanks were painted grey. There was something about the green/grey camouflaged phantom's and this one now stands out against my other aircraft on the shelf.

A few of my latest

I have been a busy bee lately, but i have still managed to find some time for modelling. The mig is from the Hasegawa set that i picked up at southern expo. The F-16 is the Kinetic 1/48 Nato viper that will be finished in Norwegian colours and the buccaneer is the 1/72 Airfix kit that has just been re-released.

Airfix Time

I have been having some fun with a couple of the new Airfix kits. The Sea harrier FA.2 and the Mig 15 have been on my workbench for about 10 days each.

The mig is an absolute gem, i can't remember enjoying a 1/72 kit like this before. I chose to do the Hungarian option.

The sea harrier is also a good kit but is let down by some rather chunky sprue attachments, in fact so much so that at one point i had to recover the kit from the bin after it had been painted. On Saturday i decided to put the decals on to see if i could regain some faith in the kit. It worked !.

The Hunter is from Revell and it was £4.99 in Modelzone , what a bargain. Hopefully i can get these 3 finished this week. I am going to the RAF museum at Hendon on Wednesday with some friends from work and then I'm going to take them into the Hannants London shop.