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After watching that wonder "James Mays Toy Stories" on the Beeb last night it got me wondering. How many of you aircraft buffs make/made em?
if so what and have you got and pics?

Just a few photos.
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00933.jpg
Seaking
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00937.jpg
Typhoon
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00938.jpg
Spitfire
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00916.jpg
Landrover 1 ton Field Ambulance, Harrier Gr3
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00498.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00497.jpg
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00499.jpg
Spitfire

In my yoof I was know to attach parts of a model aeroplane to myself with various solvents, moving into later years I went more into tabletop wargames (it gave painting the toy soldiers some purpose) but I still bash out the occasional 'real life' model (got a 1:25 scale Sherman I keep meaning to get round to doing).

Its compulsory isnt it?
youve never made a scale model until one vital piece is missing only to be found stuck to some part of your anatomy a few days later.

I make 'em.
No pics tho, I have a wip right now but I need to buy a decent airbrush compressor in order to finish it. Then I'll take the pics ;)
My favs are Fine Moulds and Hasegawa (pretty good to begin with), but I'm going to try an Eduard kit soon

Im not that good so i just stick to Airfix, Revel and Italia.

I'm definitely not good!! You'll see it from my pics :shock:
Same as King Jareth I have more experience with toy soldiers, but I prefer RL planes.

And the brand choice is made mainly because I love kits with tons of parts (which make me swear a lot actually!)...:lol:

Yeah i know what you mean especially when stuff starts melting with the glue and you get all that stringy mess.

id love to make my own colection of every ww2 aircraft but i am
1. not very patient.
2. have very shaky hands

Ah well thats the fun.
after hours of cursing and fiddleing with pieces that are so small you need a microscope to see you can stand back and say "I built that".

in my childhood ive built hundreds of airfix kits we used to have a local model shop that sold hundreds you also used to be able to buy then in your local newsagents too :grin:

i got the model bug from my uncle i used to spend a lot of time with my uncle and cousin as my father was away on deployment for long periods of time and my uncle still has lots of models me and my cousin made when we were kids plus the hundreds he built himself :grin:


i can prob say i got the aircraft bug from him too as he used to take me and my cousin to lots of airshows i have very fond memories of my uncle he was like a second father figure to me and i still visit him often to catch up on things :grin:

As a kid i used to do airfix models with my dad, but always broke a few when i tried playing with them :( as i grew up i switched vfrom airfix to die cast collectibles... very very expensive though :( i have over 50 of these die cast models. My favourites being...yeah you know it, the hawker hurricane (4 of them) and the lancaster (2 of them).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...983/35501a.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...983/35501c.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35501sv2.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35501sv1.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/35501fv.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/35501rv.jpg

Just one of the 4.

Never built a Hurricane but i think ive got the kit for one some where.
goes and looks, yeah a promo one from the daily telegraph.

The daily telegraph obviously knows what a great plane it is :D but whats the deal with reading such a posh paper?? lol.

Heres a quick shot of the lanc -

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...983/32601a.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/32601sv.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/32601nn.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/32601S35.jpg

ATENTION THIS POST MUST BE SAVED FOR ALL TIME SO THAT YOU CAN SHOW YOUR CHILDREN A POST BY FOZ1983 THAT DIDNT MENTION THE HURRICAN BY NAME!
ahem
it also gave a way a Spitfire aswell oh and i read it because i prefer it thats all. Oh and Lanc is beautiful buit one of the dambuster ones.

lol, yeah it didnt mention the hurricane!! if you want i'll even show you a spit!! and my other lanc haha just to show im not stricly only enjoying and repsect the hurricane. I have to respect the lanc, my grandad did 2 tours in them, if it wasnt for him then i dont think i'd have any interest in avitain at all.

The other lanc i have (dambusters) is good, it comes on a stand, well more of a base thats shaped like the mohner dam, but it has a button on it. When you press the button you see lights flash on the base to simulate gun fire and water from the dam, but also the sound of the lanc flying over low and fats before playing the dambusters music!! worth the £150 i paid for it :D

Sorry for the picture quality but heres my Lanc
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00940.jpg
and another but theres also a Vulcan and a Lightning in there
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/DSC00941.jpg

nice!!

AJ-S, mines AJ-G.

Notice a "lightning" in the background to i think??

AJ-G was Guy Penrose Gibsons Leader of 617sqn.
Lancaster AJ-S flown by Pilot Officer Louis Burpee, which was shot down in Holland in wave 3 of the Dambusters Raid.
Ive just realised how ever that its number is that of AJ-N

number of AJ-N?

yeah the number on the fusalarge of my model is ED912 which is the number for AJ-N so ive put the wrong one on!:-x

I picked up model building from one of my brothers at a younger age. He still remembers the day I took his prized "Memphis Belle" B-17 model out to the back yard and blew it up with Black Cat firecrackers.
But in my defense it was a little boy's imagination that took over and in my mind I was flying the B-17 over war torn Germany on the way to a bombing mission while trying to survive the horrible flak of enemy guns and dodging German Bf-109's
It was a glorious mission until a direct hit blew the plane in half.
I think my brother chased me around the house a dozen times.:rolleyes:

:sad: dont come near my precious models or i come after you with the Firecrackers!
but yeah i know some people who make films with em blowing them up and so on.

Airfix's website has crashed! must have been so much interest.

I was planning to have my own fleet of WWII model planes, never really worked out!:D I bought a bunch of model supplies including an airbrush, but haven't had as much time for it as I thought I would. I've only managed to build one so far, and that's my personal favorite B-25. It looked ok for a first time job I thought, but it fell of it's shelf a couple of weeks ago and lost a prop.:( I'm hoping to reattach it.

Liquid Poly should sort that if not try a needle or pin.

As far as model building I only remember getting so high on solvent fumes I didn't really care after 30 minutes...
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Honda SL90 specifications

Solvent Abuse can kill INSTANTLY.

haha yeah, you've got to leave a couple of windows open or you get to feel a bit light headed.:-P

I still haven't finished my second model, my airbrush is actually not working and I can't figure out what's wrong for the life of me. I need to take it down to the hobby store when I can find the time. :neutral:

EDIT: LOL, for a second there I thought Vulcan said "Soviet abuse can kill instantly". I was assuming someone had made a remark about the yak-3. :D:P

Run out of compressed air?

Nope, I had just bought a full can. The air was spraying out, and so was paint thinner when I tried that, but I couldn't get the paint to spray. I know it wasn't the paint quality either, because I had just bought some brand new expensive paints.

hmm a conundrum!

Matt did you use the right thinner for your paints?
Cause I had some problems using certain acrylic paints watered down with...water. They needed a specific thinner otherwise the pigment would not "spread" into the mix but stayed too dense (I could not notice that just by mixing or by eyesight, actually had to try spraying), causing the airbrush not to work properly.
The can also has its toll, the pressure is not constant after a few seconds and it's a pain in the a**.
So I know it's expensive but I suggest to get a compressor.

Sorry for bad english, hope it's clear enough :)

B25 eh? i have one of those to :D -

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...83/35308fv.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35308s03.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35308s05.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35308s06.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/35308pic.jpg

I gotta say yours is nicer than mine. :) I like that nose art too, mines just a decal of some hot chick. I mean not bad, but I like your painted one a lot better.

Also, @Hrok, it might be the problem you mentioned, as I don't have the highest quality airbrush around, but I tried it with paints that have known to consistently work in the past, and it was just failing on that day. Maybe I'll try it again soon, but I swear I've used up half my can of air just doing tests to try to get it working lol. :)

go die cast, much easier :D just a hell of alot more expensive to :(

hey I didn't swear at the glue, I just got shitty with the transfers when they snapped...

anyhow if you sniff glue your bogies taste bad, even if you can get your fingers out your nostrils...
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lol i realy want to make loads of ww2 aircraft but my patience is so bad that im often cursing people for taking too long in a shop (but then all i want to do is play bop)

That sir is being put to memory for future use!
Wheres Soviet when you need him!