Captain Boogaloo Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Time to nail colours to the mast....a build of (a lot of) the stars from one of the greatest warbird films of all time. Spitfires: Mk1a, MkIIa, Mk Vb, Mk Vc, 3 x Mk IX and a PR XIX Hurricane Mk IIc Buchon And if I don't run out of time Casa /He 111 B 25 Cameraship, the famous Psychedelic Monster of Jeff Hawke. My tame computer expert ( who bares a striking resemblance to my good lady wife.....!) informs me my issues with posting images are to be solved imminently, so here we go (gulp!): My first group build. Literally! Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo Alain Gadbois, BradG, MikeC and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Sounds good, look forward to seeing your progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Looking forward to seeing these Cap’n. I’m an hour away from you if the missus doesn’t deliver! Happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Do your plans include a Buchon in RAF colours, as used to make up the numbers in the Hurricane scenes? ("Repeat please!") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 so, zee test is successful!! Oh wow. I came very close to persuading this device with a hammer!! But, we're there. The Spitfire is the BBMF's P7350, right after filming wrapped following delivery/return to the RAF at Coltishall (I think). The box contains some of the goodies I've accrued for this project- since the picture was taken its probably doubled!!! So, I've started with the Revell MkIIa and Spitfire Mk1a Ar213, since that was what Revell used as their reference and added the rather nice Pavla cockpit upgrade with their improved resin sidewallsapologies for the wobbly image! Will try harder! More to follow.... Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo mozart, Kagemusha, LSP_Kevin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 Mozart, Thanks very much for your kind offer, but I had to get there myself!! Would never remember how to do it if someone else sorted it for me! Mike C, Silence! In Polish!!! No, sorry I'm planning to put the Buchon into the Yellow 10 scheme, partly because I've already snagged some nice Decals for that scheme and partly because I've already crawled all over her at Duxford! Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 here's a few other progress pics ( hope they seem clearer to you than they do to me!) Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo Gazzas, mozart, MikeC and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Well done Cap’n, pictures! They are a little fuzzy to be honest, and I always think it helps to separate each picture with a space to help with seeing and understanding them, especially when the background is the same in each one. Spit’s coming on well though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 Hi Cap'n, if your camera has a timer, use it and then you don't have to push the button and you can hold / steady the camera with both hands. Helps me sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 Thanks very much for those kind words and advice, Gentlemen, I think I may have already improved the next set of pictures by simply...cleaning the camera lens!! Whoops! It looked like it had never been cleaned!! And it's now two Buchon on the build list ( entirely Mozart's fault!!) since I discovered that Buchon Scale Models now has a website, not just a facething page!......I tried, I really did. But I couldn't resist ordering one of their sublime conversion sets ( really designed for the hasegawa 109, but I know a chap who has made a decent fist of adapting it to the Revell budget offering.....so a package should be leaving Norway very soon!) My other Buchon is the old Grey Matter one (which they don't seem to be selling anymore, so should be interesting comparing them!). More shortly! Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo MikeMaben, LSP_Kevin and MikeC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 A long overdue update; been a rather long time since I made a silicone mold and pulled some resin copies and the initial results were, well let's say there was considerable room for improvement! But a bit of luck on ebay saw the purchase of a vacuum vessel and pump to remove those pesky airbubbles which always seem to be in the worst place when the mold goes off. I need a number of four blade Spitfire rotol propeller blades and spinners, plus few other twiddly bits, so a few copies of Tamiya's splendid MkIX propeller assembly seemed like a good idea. Also doing all the prep work on some of the aftermarket parts, drilling out the lightening holes in what seems like a hundred Spitfire cockpit sets!! But making progress on the Buchon bad guys, too: now up to three!!. Very tempted to make it four for a 'rotte' , but could not resist filling a hole in my book collection: It goes rather well with this: And this was hard to pass up, too!:-) More shortly...! Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo chrish, Alain Gadbois, coogrfan and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 Some of the Buchon opposition...( Early fits seem promising!) Older Grey Matter conversion seems eminently adaptable to the Revell G6, shame it's not available at the moment( although I understand GM will be bringing it back in due course); the Attitude Aviation set will be compared soon - it does look quite saucy - a high quality bit o'stuff; and great decals (for the BoB film fan!!) Which I am happy to be counted as!! Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo coogrfan, MikeMaben, MikeC and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnarg Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 This sounds like a fun endeavor. Best of luck with all you are doing. The movie is just amazing and those Spitfires and Hurricanes in the sky always get to me. Churchill accurately described the fact that so much is owed to those who fought in any capacity. They "saved Western Civilization" and we owe them thanks. This seems like a great way to do that. Tnarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Owens Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Any chance you’ll do a Buchon as a Polish Sq Hurricane flight line fill-in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Boogaloo Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 Hello Gentlemen, Thanks very much for your replies; if I may answer your posts in reverse order... Rob, sorry to say currently the p!an is to finish all three Buchons in the 'Luftwaffe 'type markings ( although you've planted the idea....and I now have some nice pics of the Polish ' Hurricane ' Buchons. Still, probably not since the novelty of explanation would rapidly grow stale!) Tnarg, Yes, I agree totally with your sentiments, and I would add that the film also really started the flying warbird movement in the UK, something of great personal importance to me. I hope I get everything finished by the deadline, but since the IPMS Telford show doesn't look likely this year, I might be in for the long haul, as I now have some fine interior shots of the B25 camera ship, and a tweak list for the he 111 to Casa conversion. Plus I need some cabinets for these and other large scale projects. Relaxing, this hobby of ours!! Blue Skies! Captain Boogaloo Kagemusha and MikeMaben 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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