It's a monster

Wow ! Just had my first proper look at the sea vixen. If this is what airfix are going to produce from now on I'm a very happy bunny. The detail is nicely done. The cockpit seems to have a nice level of detail, not to sure about the seats yet. One look at the nose cone tells you this is a big aircraft.

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Tornado down ! tornado down !

I've had enough of fighting with it.

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Wish a tornado would come and blow this away

I've got to the stage where everytime I do or add something, I ruin what I've done before. The boz pod is about to go in the bin. I've managed to mould some milliput to make a skyshadow pod. Just to top it all off I think the landing gear is the wrong colour. Grrrrrr !

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Retail therapy

I decided to brave the shops yesterday with a trip to Lakeside. I got some modelzone vouchers for Christmas and needed (yes ! needed) to spend them. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of different manufactures that they stock now. The usual suspects were there but also some Eduard, Dragon and Roden.

I picked up a few kits, all 1/72.

• Revell Gloster Gladiator
• Airfix Hawk T MK1A
• Italeri Starfighter
• Revell F16B Fighting Falcon (Only £4.99 in the sale)

I also got a few paints and some more masking tape.

The big bonus being that i walked out with some money left.

Nice start to the day

My baby has landed, the sea vixen is finally in my hands.

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Merry christmas

Just want to wish everybody a very merry christmas and a happy new year. I plan on doing some serious modelling during my nine days off.

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Change of heart

Some of the decals I had put on started to flake off for whatever reason , so I pulled the rest off and replaced them with some 617 sqn markings from an radical sheet I had. I had to paint the radome again and the top of the tail.

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Still lots to do

As the title says, I've still got a long way to go on this one. This will take me up to Xmas hopefully. Then I can get the sea vixen unwrapped and start on it.

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Mini project finished

This is my cash tray from work. Lightnings on one end, everything in the middle and some more raf squadrons on the other end.

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On the desk at the moment

The tornado waiting for It's decals and the lightning part way through its refurb.

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Tornado gr.4

I said it would be something modern so here it is. I've got some nice decals to go on it but I may use the kit ones because I have some nice pictures of one with very worn fuel tanks.

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Finished Dora !

Just going to pop to the father in laws to borrow some fishing Li.e then It's all done.

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What next ?

Going to quickly get the spitfire canopy done. Then what to do next, I was going to tackle the revell 1/72 Lancaster but I've lost the instructions. I'm leaning towards something modern, typhoon or harrier. I think it maybe time to get the kits out one by one and have a good look. Let's. See what jumps out at me.

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