Big Tony

Well done Peter, I`ve really enjoyed following your journey on this one, learned a lot along the way and I`m immensely grateful for your kind help with my mediocre effort! Your model looks like it could fire up and fly off into the sky,.......it really does look like a real aeroplane!! Looking forward to your Hornet! Cheers Tony

Yeah,.....not bad I suppose,......but I bet you couldn`t put a Fruit Pastille in your mouth without chewing it??? Its looking superb Peter, you are on the final lap to finishing the best model that I have ever seen on an internet site, total! Good luck mate, Tony

I`m looking forward to seeing the red cheatline in place. You`ve probably done this already but what about putting your mask in place and then tape around it, remove the mask and then the cheat line should be the right shape and ready to paint? This has to be the best model project that I`ve ever seen on the tinternet,.......the cockpit looks so real that I can almost smell the oil and leather and the metal additions that you have made just look like real aircraft parts! Cheers Tony

Brilliant,.....are you sure that these are not real aircraft parts? For somebody who hates painting you`ve done a pretty good job so far! For the oil streaks on the undercarriage doors,....what about brushing on wet pigment powders or watercolour paint, leaving them to dry and them wiping them away until you get something that you like? If it isn`t any good you can just rub them totally away and try again. Cheers Tony

Wow,....just, well,.....Wow! Beautiful model Kev,....I really do hope that they are not too expensive as I`s really like one of these myself, Cheers Tony

Cheers Kev, It looks great as usual, thanks for sticking it on your website, All the best Tony PS- Cheers Harv!

Brilliant news,.....it would have been so criminal not to finish this beauty off that I might have had to call the Old Bill around to gee you up! Looking forward to your next posts, All the best Tony

Thanks for your very kind remarks folks, Kev- As always you are more than welcome to use my models on your fantastic website, it would be an honour sir. Daywalker- Cheers,...the exhausts were painted matt black and then dry brushed with matt silver and the tyres were also painted matt black and then brushed with European Dust pigment powders. I had to score in some tread detail onto the tyres first as much of this was lost while sanding the seams flat. Cheers again everybody and all the best Tony O`Toole

Hello Peter, Have you got any further with this one or have you decided to keep it in a non painted state? I know that you were pondering doing this but personally I`d love to see it painted with that cheat line down the side, All the best Tony

Hello Folks, I`ve not been on LSP for a while as I`ve been busy in smaller scales but here is another one from the production line,...this is the old Hasegawa 1/32nd scale P-51D Mustang built as a Mustang Mk.IVa of 3 Sqn RAAF in Italy, 1945. The prop was replaced by a resin uncuffed Hamilton Standard and the exhausts came from the spares box. Hand painted as usual, the decals came from Xtradecal and the pilot from the Tamiya Spitfire kti, although his goggles have fallen off and I cannot find them!; Using photos of the real aircraft as reference the `W' code letters were drawn onto the undercarriage doors to try and resemble the hand applied originals and although some sources state that louvres were applied to the cowling intakes, I could not see these so rightly or wrongly I decided to leave these off. Hope you like it, All the best Tony PS- I`ve just noticed JD`s model of the very same Mustang,....if I`d noticed it first I wouldn`t have posted mine!!

That looks really nice indeed, with beautiful paintwork. I have the same kit to make an RAF Sabre and I hope mine turns out half as nice, Cheers Tony

Hiya Peter, This is going to be another stunner and you`ve got off to a flyer already! Sorry I didn`t get the chance to come over and say hello on Saturday at Telford as planned but I was stuck signing books for longer than I thought and the day just flew past. As a result I didn`t get to look at many stands or sellers at all and totally missed the 32nd scale Hornet too,.....could I please ask how much it is as I`d dearly like one? Keep up the great work, Tony

Thanks for your kind remarks everybody,.....shucks,....you are too kind! Cheers Tony

Looks terrific in its desert colours and you`ve done a nice job cleaning up the Hobbycraft kit too,...especially the canopy, Great job, cheers for sharing, Tony

Hello Kev, Please feel free,...I`d be honoured. Thanks to everybody for your very kind remarks, Cheers Tony

Fantastic,....superb,......brilliant,........oh how I love these WNW FE.2b`s and this one is another stunner!! Oh how I wish that I had the skill and patience to build one of these kits, Well done and cheers for sharing it with us, Tony

Hiya Folks, Here is my 1/32nd scale Hobbycraft Sea Fury finished in the silver and red scheme worn by the Aerobatics Flight of the Royal Australian Navy`s 805 NAS, circa 1958. Some nice photos of the real aircraft including three in colour appear on pages 70-72 of Tony Butlers Sea Fury book by Dalrymple & Verdun and my built thread can be found on Britmodeller; http://www.britmodel...ings/?p=1433498 Anyway, here is the model, Tamiya silver spray paint, with Humrol enamel gloss red and varnish applied by brush; I`d like to say a very big thank you to Peter for helping me out with the vacuformed canopy and his fantastic 1/32nd scale land based Hawker Fury model, based on the Hobbycraft kit can be found here on LSP; http://forum.largesc...showtopic=40054 Cheers mate!! All the best Tony O

Here are some pics of my Trumpy TBM-3 kit built as a late war/immediate post war RN Avenger Mk.III based in Australia with the BPF. I believe that many of these were reconditioned ex US Navy TBM-3`s?; Here are some of my TBF-1C kit built as an Avenger Mk.II; Hope this helps, Cheers Tony PS- I meant to say that the bulged windows were vac moulded from the waist window of a Monogram B-29. This was my first attempt at doing this and basic shape was way beyond by comfort level. The RN received the Avenger AS.4 during the 1950`s and these didn`t have the bulged windows, I think that they were based on the TBM-3E? Cheers, Tony

WOW,........ Ditto to what everybody else has said,....I`m gobsmacked!! Cheers Tony O

Hiya Peter, This is coming along fantastically and is light years ahead of my own build(s-I`m making two!) of the Hobbycraft Sea Fury kit! For those of us who cannot vacuform, would you please consider releasing your vacuformed canopy for sale? Keep up the brilliant work and all the best wishes, Tony O`Toole

Thanks again everybody and the article looks great Kev, cheers. Brad- I cleaned the parts thoroughly but to no avail, the plastic was just extremely hard and crumbly, like some test shot kits that I have built in the past, almost resin like. Normal model glue just would not melt it and super glue only just holds it together. since building it the seam along the leading edge of the left wing has opened up but I`ve managed to repair it OK! All the best and thanks again for your kind words, Tony

Hiya Kev, Glad you like it and please feel free to use it on the website, cheers. I know what you mean about the price, they are quite rare over here in the UK too but when I found this one going relatively cheaply I pounced upon it and started it straight away. Just a pity that the plastic was so awful, much like test shot plastic and almost unstickable! All the best and cheers again, Tony

What an interesting and well built and painted Hurricane,.....love it! I especially like your cockpit canopy,.....is that really the kit parts or aftermarket items? I second the use of sellotape for the landing lights, I`ve used it on many kits including this Revell 32nd Hurri; All the best Tony

Hiya Folks, I`ve just finished another of my 1/32nd scale RAF fighters, this time the Hobbycraft A-36A Apache kit built as an aircraft used by the RAF`s 1437 Strategic Reconnaissance Flight in North Africa and Italy. This one has been sat on my shelf of doom for quite a while as unfortunately the plastic used in this kit was atrocious and would not respond to any type of polystyrene cement whatsoever! Cyano super glue would only just hold the parts together but the joints are still very susceptible to cracking open and have done on so quite a few occasions! The paints used were Humbrol enamel Olive Drab and Neutral Grey which were brush painted as usual. I have the Mustang Mk.Ia version to build yet (thanks to a very kind Britmodeller in Canada,...cheers Michael- AV8fan) but may have a bit of a break now before starting it and anyway I cannot decide between giving it a desert colour scheme (which I know next to nothing about but actually do like!) or a NW European scheme circa 1944-45! Hope you like it, Cheers Tony O PS-One of the propellers keeps snapping off and it seems to have slipped again in some of the pics,....sorry!

Hiya Brad, Glad you like them, the radar pod for the Avenger Mk.III (TBM-3) was made from a cut down 1/48th scale drop tank with plastic strip wrapped around the outside. All the best Tony