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Tamiya 1/32 kit. Tamiya 1/35 German Field Maintenance kit and MasterBox German motorcycle maintenance crew for figures and tools. Ground surface is real mud and sand from my backyard, mixed in with white glue and painted. Boards are coffee stirrers. Tarp is tissue paper and glue. My WIP is here. Thanks for looking!

Early we started, with the welding of the parts, I have been twisted several times! I realized that I was making progress, the heat affected everything again, so I had to fasten 2 posts to the wooden base, and each weld held until finished Ready welding, and sanded the excesses, the wire core I placed helped a lot. I checked that there are no deviations, looks alienated It's all for today, sold out, all day at the workbench.

Hi everyone, A big thank you for all your messages. The engine is almost finished. I'll leave it at that for now, I still have to skate it but I will do it when the time is right to put it in the fuselage to match it with the whole. In addition I'm a little tired of this engine which, I must admit, has put me a few times in trouble to realize it. Plus I can't wait to start the Eduard cockpit. See you soon, Sweety

The build pictures are on the Multi engine group build. I hope you enjoy them.

Getting all the parts ready for closing up: Sutton harnesses being prepared: Test fit to make sure Sgt Smith is going to fit: Sutton harnesses fitted (I've left off the PE attachment fixings since they won't be visible) and drying: Off now to finish off fitting Smith then closing up, followed immediately by locating the fuselage into the lower wing. More later I hope!!

It's been a long six months of work on this project. I've loved working with this Tamiya kit, and the added challenge of my first diorama certainly added a couple of months. I am really pleased with how it turned out, even though it's not up to the standard of many of my fellow posters. Anyway, here is the completed diorama! More pics over at my RFI post. Thanks for looking, and for commenting, advising, and helping!

So, I want to model this aeroplane: As found on this excellent website: http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/escadrille003_02.htm and present it like this: Also from the same website (highly recommended!) To that end: There are new longerons at the front: and the empty belt spool got smartened up in my lathe: Richard

Ok I am in the build with this one. Basically out of box and markings of JG 54 in the Courland Pocket . I will start as soon as the F-16 is finished. I seem to have help at removing the plastic bags already. Soon to be continued Nick

Here's my rendition of Tamiya's recent iteration of the iconic P-38 Lightning. I dressed mine up to represent "Miss Virginia" which was involved in Operation Vengeance; the aerial assassination of Admiral Yamamoto who was the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The kit fell together really well with minimal filler used for seam lines. However, the kit decals were a tad thick. For aftermarket, I used PE seatbelts by Eduard and metal gun barrels by Master Models. The wire antenna was done using 0.1mm copper wire, brass tubing and rigging fibre by Infini. The kit was painted with Mr Color lacquers and weathered with oils, enamels and pencils. All in all, the kit was a pleasure to build. Looking forward to Tamiya releasing other variants! Mark

I will be working on the u/c for this and a few other LSP subjects over the next few weeks during the Christmas holidays. There was not much point in rushing ahead as the brass casting company closes this week till the 6 th January. All being well if I have done what I need to then I would hope and expect product towards the end of January. cheers Ali

Hello guys After some time I can now upload this SE.3130 Alouette II 1/32 model kit to share how difficult it will be to get the best out of it, because it is the only mold in the market #04401 Revell, there is a lot to take advantage of, but I recognize the most beautiful pieces of this kit, which for me are the windshield, oolala, exquisite, and I will support myself with some scrtach, which I will decide to move forward, as well as the set 32043 of Eduard, In the morning with a delicious coffee we start .. More by habit, than by rebellion, my models do not start them in the order of the instructions, from the branches I take with which I think to start, and at this moment I take the tail structure, a fairly simple tetrahedron, which does not satisfy me, these are round tubes and the model cannot reproduce them, so it will be necessary to devise, I will use brass tubes of 1mm and .9mm, I will respect the measures of the model, which will guide me, the really complicated thing was to perforate the tubes, fortunately none of them turned or scored badly. now wire them together. That will serve as a guide when it comes to welding. For today it was all the breakthrough, as I go on vacation, tomorrow I will try to advance something

Now here's a curious thing, this rather awkwardly shaped panel that has to be "dropped" neatly into the hole.....don't you just know it's going to cause a little trouble? It can only mean that ICM have a Sea Gladiator on the books: So after much micro-adjustment with knife and sanding stick, it's not perfect: but I dare say all will turn out well in the end.

Good day, friends! After a long illness, I've returned to modeling. Allow me to present Bf109 E-3, OOTB. I've used Mr.hobby paints and oils from AMMO. Thanks, and take care! Regards, Sergey Budyansky

Let me toss in some of my rare books. Valiant Wings Airframe Volume 1. "The Heinkel He 219 'Uhu' " Valiant Wings Airframe Constructor Volume 2. "Building the Heinkel He 219 'Uhu' " Kagero Monographs #49 Volume 1. " Heinkel He 219 Uhu" Winner will receive all 3. Justin

Thanks a lot, I'm on a learning curve here, not much of a 109 expert but there's a lot of information available on the web...I have to be careful with that though because some of that information can be misleading. I've decided to try making the spinner keyholes with a bit of cutting and styrene. I then began making plans to close up the fuselage, test fitted the wings and got side tracked boxing in the gear bays...Squirrel! The spinner under construction; beginning butchery of the wing then I decided to cut away the roof of the upper wing to expose the underside of the bulge (I may need to add details here?) one side, nearly done...until I think of something else to do to it Thanks for looking

yikes, rescuing this build from page 6, I'm not a big fan of Christmas (bah humbug) i seem to have less bench time. I'm jumping around a bit with this model, but progress is being made

terrific job John , keep the good, here is a great reference picture of wing root chipping effect, cheers

A little more progress to update you on this evening... I've been busy making the individual ribs for the wings - each one has been made from plastic card and then glued to the inner wing surfaces. Making each one identical was tedious to say the least, but the effect is what I was after. I've also been adding some Evergreen stiffeners too, and I'll now need to make the stringers that sit between the ribs and add those. Plenty to keep me busy over the next few sessions! IMG_1702 by Thomas Probert, on Flickr IMG_1699 by Thomas Probert, on Flickr Until next time, Tom

If you haven't tried the Nieuport 17 pair from CSM - they are on sale at 55 Euros (pre-VAT) here: https://www.copperstatemodels.com/page/store/WyIyIiwiW1wiMVwiXSJd

Just found footage of the crash of the NF-104A flown by Chuck Yeager on Dec 10, 1963. The video shows the preparations to the fight and close-up details of the aircraft. Alain

And before you know it, she has wings! The joining of halves and wings went as seamlessly as I'd expected, a light swipe with a sanding stick will clean it up with no need for filler. I love the way ICM have thought out a realistic rudder hinge mechanism, here inserted into the tail fin. Like the elevators there's a substantial tab for location, but again I want my rudder slightly offset so I've started trimming off the tab: You'll notice two aerial masts, one will be cut off depending on your references or preferred colour scheme. My 56 squadron plane has the fin-mounted mast so the rudder one goes! Might just get a coat of primer on next after the seam clean up.

Well it arrived today, a great surprise coming home from work. Opening the box, it’s massive I mean massive. My wife says I’m acting like a child again

Kevin , we'll just have to agree to differ !

Another tiny update. A busy month plus hard drive failure and associated hair pulling, venting, sulking and a resigned week reloading all my software have slowed me down, but the main paint is now on! Ignore tape marks on the wing tips, they'll be stripped back then receive their red finish. Question: In one or two places, there are tiny ridges along the edge of the dark areas, where I've been heavy handed with the paint. Suggestions as to what to use for knocking them back?

My deliberation counts for nothing....... Sorry to mess people about but the eurofighter I will send will be a single seater! Good news though this one is completely unstarted. I USED to be indecisive but now I'm not to sure.

Bring me the beau. Don’t care how much it costs- cheers Pete

HPH Me 323

Done! In my humble opinion, the kit is well engineered and with nice details but never again! Too big, fragile, cumbersome, etc. More pics posted at “Ready for inspection”

Hello all! slow grind on this, but am chipping away at it! Might not look like much progress, but I have spent waaaayyy more time looking at obscure reference photos of the ceiling, (most shot at weird angles) than I have building components.. more to follow! Thanks for all the words of encouragement!! cheers Pete

Hi everyone, Extended intake pipes. I used Maskol originally intended for masking to temporarily fix my exhausts without sticking them. It's surprisingly very effective. Painting the exhausts. Don't panic ! I didn't shot the Christmas reindeer!! This engine will make less noise !!! See you soon Sweety

Hello everyone, I am new on the forum, excuse my English because I use Google translation. So far I have posted montages on French forums only, despite the language problem I have joined the Larges Scale Planes community that I have been following for a long time and which I appreciate very much. Your criticism, remarks and advices are welcome for me in order to progress in this Hobby. I started a Corsair F-4U 1A some time ago. I'm going to embellish this Tamiya Kit with the Eduard cockpit and engine. I started with the Pratt & Whitney 2800 engine from the Eduard Kit. For the painting of the cylinders I used Humbrol Mascol liquid mask that I cut once dry. To preserve the slice of the black cooling plates. Home tools used for cutting the liquid mask. The painting of the cylinders once finished. See you soon, Sweety (Google Translate)

Hi all, I'm new here and this is my first RFI (please be gentle!). There’s a bit of a story behind this one… I started learning to fly when I was 13 years old, first fying Grob Tutors with the Air Training Corps, before taking up gliding and, eventually moving on to powered flying – gaining my PPL in 2017. Unfortunately, I haven’t flown much since then (powered flying is WAY too expensive) so I’ve decided I’m going to try gliding again – I’ve never flown a glider solo! I bought a 1/32 Revell Ls8, however, the all-white colour scheme and lack of interesting decals haven’t enthused me to build it – glass fibre/composite gliders also aren’t so interesting to model (though way better performance!). This led me to turn my hand to scratch building a glider out of balsa. The glider in question, the Schleicher K8b, in the colours of my local gliding club – and quite possibly the aircraft I’ll end up soloing in once I get back to gliding. I found plans online for a 2m wingspan K8b which someone had already turned into a .dxf file, I used CATIA to scale these plans to 1/32. I constructed the airframe by creating a spine from the side elevation then added ribs and stringers, before covering with balsa. The wing was created by making the upper and lower skins, gluing the wing ribs to the lower skin before attaching the upper. The cockpit was a challenge, particularly the copy which I plunge molded some clear plastic packaging (from some new baubles) over a balsa mould. The pilot is a slot car figure from immense miniatures, with some major surgery to cram him into the cockpit – the internal fuselage structure visible in the cockpit sidewalls is made from 0.5mm pencil lead. Painted with a mixture of halfords rattle can white and humbrol acrylic red, the decals were home printed and are a little thick, but overall, they look the part. I’m really happy with how this has turned out given that I’ve never made a balsa model before and never made a model from scratch. There are a few inaccuracies, I’m aware of, such as the fuselage lacking a protruding “spine” over the centre of the wings, but I think it looks the part, let me know what you think! Schleicher K8b, G-CFTN, Mendip Gliding Club Hopefully I'll get some pictures of it "flying" when it's less windy outside so I can suspend it. Thanks for looking!

I Feel The Need, The Need For...………………………………….

DONE - quite satisfied

Hi Guys please remember this thread is about my forthcoming products - thanks - but to shed some light as well as advertise the fact that it is a part on the Bracing wires and other external details PE set - you can see here that the ring sight is outside - as it is in most photos I have collected.

Indeed, AND...with real aircraft performing in the picture......just imagine contemporary naval firepower in WW2, great flick!!! Oh and btw...... Jennifer Connelly looks very hot in The Rocketeer..........

This time "Iron" in grays. MiG-21MF Polish Air Force Made as always straight from the box from the Trumpeter set, which should have a new improved version long ago.

Sorry, my mistake. I mean Prowler, EA-6B PROWLER! Florin

salut tout le monde aller à la campagne sicilienne Bf110 C-7 Trop d'entretien à Gerbini en 1942 Le lanceur ventral ETC et les chars supplémentaires indiquent un bateau de patrouille côtière (quelques marques de victoire également) ou une escorte de convoi, bien que ce dernier rôle soit plus facilement confié au Ju88. bf 110 Dragon kubelwagen tamiya figurines tamiya, dragon, miniart.

Hello everyone! The Bronco is on the final stretch! Having finished the camo in the previous update I spent the past three weeks decaling and weathering the airframe. My reference pics showed aircraft that were quite battered due to heavy use during operation Desert Storm. Lots of oil leaks and spills, paint touch ups and exhaust stains. I used a combination of products to create the weathering including Abteilung 502 oils, Ammo and AK Interactive washes and a bit of "creative" airbrushing. Only thing left now is to assemble and paint some smaller details and then create a simple base to highlight the plane and figure!

Hi everyone here is a preview of 32PE011 ICM Gloster Gladiator Landing flaps, thanks for looking - available mid January

some in the Philippines in 1945 a squad of Marines supported by a sherman discovers a Japanese installation ...

Hello everyone this is my Me 262 in Innsbruck in 1945

Still plugging away. I've installed the cowling framework. Typical Tamiya, everything fits precisely. I'm not sure if I'm going to leave the cowling sections off or not but regardless, the kit gives you a very good idea of how compact the engine installation is. NAA did a great job of squeezing everything into a very small space. This picture also shows a feature of the later Mustangs. To make room for more radio equip aft of the pilot, the battery was relocated to the engine compartment. It was squeezed in between the back of the engine and the oil tank. With the cowling in place, the only way you can tell if a Mustang had this feature was by the small cooling scoop for the battery on the lower section of the cowling. Given that at best, I'm going to have just one of the side cowling panels off, I didn't go crazy super-detailing the engine. For those that want to leave the entire cowling off, you could spend hours adding all the wiring and small details. Note the multitude of aluminum colored coolant lines. A single bullet hole in any of these lines would lead to the loss of the aircraft. A main reason why the F-51D was very much unsuited to close support missions. Still wonder how many pilots would have made it home had they been flying P-47's.... Sorry for the crude paintwork but as noted, this area won't be visible. Had I decided earlier in the build on this, I wouldn't have bothered painting any of this (or adding most of the kit parts). A better picture that illustrates the exquisite Barracuda K-14 gunsight and "No Handhold" decal. As mentioned, I toned down some of the metal scratches on the pilot's seat. That's it for now, thanks for looking!

Hi everyone, Cockpit Eduard, that's what's going to keep me busy for a while. Just like the engine the details are beautiful. See you soon, Sweety

...and I finally picked a subject: I'm looking forward to painting this one! Cheers, Tom

Treating the port wing like a mini-project, I apply the national insignia to both sides using Montex masks. For two-color masks, you can do the colors in a number of different orders. I chose to do the dark blue background first and the white star last. I did the top of the wing similarly and added the white bars afterwards. For context, here is the wing mounted on the unpainted Corsair...

Hi, Thanks! Few progress and improvements. I wanted to rebuild the anti roll bar with brass, but the original is good and almost hidden behind the tank... The grills are installed on the radiator and the simulated inside tubing is still visible. A new Sandow will replace the white metal part. Pascal

Hi everyone, Thank you for your messages it's nice. Candles must be Cubits with this version. I used the Eduard resin candles that I cut in half and pierced in order to pass the ignition cable to achieve the elbow. See you soon, Sweety

Hello everyone, For version 1A. The magnetos of the Eduard Kit will be replaced by the Bendix magnetos of the Tamiya Kit. As well as the distribution ring. Creation of notches to adapt the Bendix distribution ring of the Tamiya Kit Painting of the engine block slightly weathered for the moment See you soon, Sweety (Google Translate)