Every time I see the great work on this thread I have to hide my cards to avoid buying a Tamiya 1/32 Mosquito.
Back in the late 80s I had a fine collection if 1/12 scale Tamiya F1 cars. Just had a quick peak on eBay to see how much they go for now. 😯
Shan't be buying any soon.
I think I bought the Tamiya Gold Leaf Lotus 49 three times...
Woke up at 3am and couldn't sleep so started watching a Mosquito build on YouTube, I soon got tired of the thought of even trying to match that. The 1/48 Corsair looks interesting though as does the 1/12 Kawasaki Ninja. Im amazed you can double the cost of the kit with photoetch parts and seatbelts.
Im amazed you can double the cost of the kit with photoetch parts and seatbelts.
Just double, I wish! I've had a 1/48 B26 Marauder on the go for a few years and I dread to think how much I've spent on the extras, decals/resin wheels/photoetch/resin .50 cals/more decals it goes on and on.
I think I bought the Tamiya Gold Leaf Lotus 49 three times
I remember making the Marlbro M23 McLaren years ago, loved that kit but I'm not shelling out for one now..
A tad over my price limit
😳
Im amazed you can double the cost of the kit with photoetch parts and seatbelts.
Here's a link to a thread on pistonheads, which 'started' with a redo of a Tamiya MP4/6, I'd hate to think how much has been subsequently sunk into detailing it....
The work that's gone into this P-51D to give it that well used & weathered look is amazing.
Worms.
I've abandoned my F-80 - trying to get an nmf with metalcote didn't fork for me and the kit is a write off.
I have however taken delivery of an Airfix RAF P-51, so will be trying to build Dooleybird here: RAF Museum
Because I am hilariously inept with NMF so far, I've spent a small fortune on some vallejo water based metal paints. I've only done a couple of small test airbrush sprays with it, but it's way, way ahead of metalcote or Tamiya in terms of applying a thin, highly reflective finish.
And a another Phantom FGR2 and a Tamiya Me262 arrived yesterday too.
Right, then...ages ago in this thread I asked for some general advice as I'd bought an Airfix 1:72 Boulton Paul Defiant.
I started it some time in the New Yr and I've just been doing bits here and then in the evening while sitting watching the telly.
It was an all-in-one kit, and so the glue & paints were a bit thick which I was warned about. I ended up watering down the paint with a bit of water.
It's now built to the stage of putting the decals on - I'm not massively happy with it, but it's not bad for a first attempt.
It actually looks better in the flesh, than in the photos - I think the camera pics up so much detail you can see the poor workmanship more obviously!
I was hoping for some advice before I put the decals on. If it's gonna require a ton of work, or buying of more stuff then I'll probably just whack them on. But, I was wondering if there's anything I should be doing to get the decals on more successfully?
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Don't put them directly on to matt paint. They will look bobbins and may not stick.
If possible apply a coat of clear gloss, do the decals then finish with a clear matt.
If not possible brush on some watered down PVA white glue and apply the decals whilst it is still wet.
The paintwork looks nice and sharp BTW.
Looking good!
I've been building a Heller Renault R8 Gordini kit for the past couple of months - one night a week. I prefer to paint before building.
The engine's gone together nicely-
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Harry_the_Spider
Don’t put them directly on to matt paint. They will look bobbins and may not stick.
If possible apply a coat of clear gloss, do the decals then finish with a clear matt.
Cheers! Is this something I can buy? I'd really only be able to brush on, not spray.
I've seen floor polish mentioned before, but I think that was for airbrushing?
Do you use that stuff that helps the decals conform to the surface of the model...? Can't remember what it's called.
The paintwork looks nice and sharp BTW.
Thanks. It's generally Ok, but I struggled with certain areas - getting my hand into a suitable position & holding the brush steady was tricky in some places. I tried to paint everything I could before gluing it together.
I painted the underside first & masked the fuselage using frog tape. Once I did that and removed it, I realised it would be hard to apply a reverse mask for the upper fuselage, so I just tried to go free-hand.
I drew on the camo pattern with a pencil and then tried as best I could to follow it.
I guess if you have a very light/dark camo pattern, you could perhaps do the whole plane in the light colour & then just have to apply the dark colour over the top. I wonder if that would work?
I found the transition between the topsides of the wings & tail to the undersides very tricky - it was hard to get a crisp edge at the transition.
What's annoying is that I spent ages on the simple interior & the pilot & gunner, but once the windshields are in place you can barely see them - the plastic seems quite thick and it distorts a lot.
Good fun so far though.
I nicked a Matchbox Skyraider 1:48 scale off my Dad last time I visited them, which must be 25 years old at least! It's been sitting in his wardrobe & never touched.
It looks quite basic in terms of detail - no idea how good Matchbox models are, but it looks a lot easier to get to grips with as the parts are so much bigger.
^^^that engine munrobiker looks great!
Cheers! Is this something I can buy? I’d really only be able to brush on, not spray.
Yep Tamiya clear is about £2 a pot. Get standard clear for the gloss and a matt, or semi gloss, for the top. It can be diluted with Tamiya thinners which cost about £6 for a life time supply. Not sure if you can thin them with water.
I'd leave it to dry overnight before applying the decals so that it has properly hardened off.
Thumbs up! Nice one Harry_the_Spider...
So, it looks like Tamiya X22 is the gloss & XF-86 is the matt...might have to get an order in, along with some thinners.
I was half tempted to just whack them on, but I'll do it (semi) properly...!
Quick question. Are the reference numbers on Humbrol and and Revell paints the same? I've always used Airfix kits and Humbrol paints. Got a couple of Revell kits and they obviously list Revell paints.
I’ve got an Italeri Renault 5 that’s almost finished- just needs the door mirror. I’m half way through a Revell Type VIIc u-boat and about 3/4 of the way through a Tamiya Kawasaki Ninja.
Might get the motorcycle finished this week.
Loads in the stash, including a terrifying T-54 with over 1000 parts (probably 900 of them make up the tracks!)
I was wondering if there’s anything I should be doing to get the decals on more successfully?
stumpy01, so long as you make the surface glossy you wont need anything else apart from a matt coat when its all dry. I'm a big fan of the floor polish method, you dont need to airbrush it, I always use a brush to apply it as its so thin that you hardy ever see brush marks. I've had a bottle of the original Kleer for over 25 years and I reckon that I've got about two years worth left!
Kleer is now called Pledge floor polish but the formulation is different and doesn't give as good results as the old stuff. Floor polish from Lakeland is rumoured to be close to the original Kleer but I've not tried it yet. Or just buy any model paint gloss and matt! 😊
a terrifying T-54 with over 1000 parts (probably 900 of them make up the tracks!)
johndrummer, I'm the same, I've got a Takom King Tiger with a full interior and am too scared to start it!
munrobiker, nice work on that engine!
Which paint would you recommend between Humbrol and Revell. Bear in mind I am currently brush based only, no plans for an air brush yet.
Personally I like Tamiya, but it is very much down to your own preference.
Not tried Revell and my experience with Humbrol hasn't been great.
Revell have a smaller range than Humbrol and a lot of the other brands too. This tends to result in the painting instructions for Revell paints involving a lot of "80% this paint, 10% that paint, 5% another paint and 5% yet another bloody paint". At least Humbrol tend to have specific paints for most of the common colours you'll see in typical model kits.
Ha! Yeah, just opened a Fairey Swordfish and the paint mixing instructions was quite something!
That's pretty good work on the Defiant, you're better with a brush than I am and you've made an excellent job of the canopy frames.
As others have probably said by now, don't apply decals directly to matt paint otherwise they'll not adhere properly and air bubbles underneath will make them "silver". Your best bet is to order some Pledge floor polish and apply thin coats of the stuff over your Defiant, leaving a couple of hours between coats. You want to end up with a glossy, shiny surface before you add the decals.
Once the decals are on, a final coat of Pledge is a good idea. If you want to try a panel wash (thinned dark paint applied directly to the panel gaps) then again it works best on a gloss finish. Once you're happy with everything, add a top coat of matt varnish (avoiding the canopy and turret) and it'll be pretty much bang on.
Which paint would you recommend between Humbrol and Revell
Model paints broadly come in two varieties - oil based enamel or acrylic, you can't mix the two types of paint. Humbrol carries both types, enamels are usually in tins (and thus will need enamel thinners, white spirit for brushes etc) and acrylics in little plastic flip top bottles. Enamels can give great results, but Humbrol's range is inconsistent - some tones are harder to mix and work than others. Humbrol's acrylic range is not worth bothering with, a lot of of these shades are absolutely dire.
I've tried those little square pots of Revell acrylic paints and they're not too bad. They're a little lumpy, but you can thin with ordinary water. They're equally happy being brushed or sprayed.
TBH, I am a fan of Tamiya acrylics. They seem to do pretty much anything that you want them to do, they brush well and spray well. The range of Tamiya colours isn't great, so you learn to mix colours. Getting an exact match is a bit of a fool's errand, aircraft kept outside tend to dull and fade quickly.
Whichever type of paint you go for, make sure to get the right varnishes otherwise they won't play nicely together. Enamel paints like enamel varnishes, but work okay with Pledge floor polish. Likewise Acrylics will also work with Pledge okay, but will need an acrylic varnish.
PJM1974 - thanks for that. It's much appreciated.
For the canopy, the painting was quite rough (I intentionally over-painted) and then cleaned it by gently scraping up with a sharpened bit of sprue that worked really well; I saw that tip on YouTube.
I added a range of paints, thinners & masking tape to a basket today on Modelsport & when it got to the checkout there was a message saying they are now not shipping new orders for paints/thinners etc.
So, I need to look somewhere else....great advice though, all!
Try www.modelhobbies.co.uk for paints etc
Thought I’d try armour as tanks are easier to display than airplanes 😀. This is Tamiya’s Panzerkampfwagon IV from around the invasion of France time. I’m rubbish at painting figures though.
Kawasaki Ninja 1/12 by Tamiya - a work in progress:
Kawasaki Ninja 1/12 by Tamiya - a work in progress:
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Right folks, lockdown bites...
Suggest me a source of some varied, fun and cheap kits.
The lads are not into fast coldwar jets so much (yah boo), so suggest some cars, trucks, boats and non military planes.
We likely need a few paints as well - but we aren't going to be world class modellers....
Www.modelhobbies.co.uk
Www.spotmodel.com
Hobbycraft if they do deliveries
So here is the Christmas Airfix... Finished somewhat faster than normal, thanks to CV19...
Vickers Wellington Mk.1A 1/72.
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Full interior too!
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The biggest kit I've done yet. On the whole pretty happy with how it came out. Learnt some new stuff, made some mistakes, hopefully won't make the same ones again...!
Nice 🙂
Is that the Trumpeter kit? I had one in 1:48 scale, don’t think I ever finished it
No its the Airfix one I got given for Christmas! 😉
The clue is in your post 🙄
I didn’t realise Airfix had one with a detailed interior
That Wellington looks fabulous!
My Lancaster is almost finished. I hope that it comes out as good as that.
Kawasaki Ninja 1/12 by Tamiya – a work in progress:
I saw a modding video on that kit... blimey.
Ooh found it:
Wow
I’m calling this finished now:
Kawasaki Ninja HC-R in 1:12 scale, by Tamiya
I think that’s the first one I’ve finished this year. Built straight OOB
Really nice work. That and the Tamiya 1/32 Mosquito are the only things that appeal to me at the moment.
I spend far too much time watching this guys builds.
He did a standard jet kit just using the stock parts recently that was still amazing, but stuff like this is museum grade.
Guy Gibson's Lancaster.
Build thread https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235068557-revell-dambuster/
Nice one. I remember that kit being launched back in the day. I think the bouncing bomb details were still technically classified for quite some time. I think it was Airfix that had to redesign their kit after the accurate details came out.
Guy Gibson’s Lancaster.
he's smaller than photos would suggest
It is the newer release, although I managed to lose half of my Upkeep so had to scratch build it.
Going to add a fuel truck and groundcrew.
That Lanc looks excellent.
Support your local model shop!
Mine is doing postal deliveries even though the shop is shut. Just put an paint order in as The Lancaster consumed a lot of greens and brown and my next build will be even bigger.
Mostly trains, but they stock Tamiya and Humbrol paints along with adhesives, decal setting solutions and so on.
The Locoshed, whitefield.
01617720103
Better pictures now that the wind has dropped.
Truly great work HTS, the Lancaster is very, very well done. The exhaust staining, subtle variations of tone and the panel wash are all excellent.
All of a sudden, I'm a key worker as of the beginning of April so I'm still having to go into the office. This means that Project Dooleybird is going slowly. That vallejo metal stuff is truly excellent, it's pretty robust if given ample drying time and will turn dull, grey plastic into a pleasingly deep duralumin. I'm on a steep learning curve, so the unfortunate P-51 has been stripped of paint twice due to my own ineptitude but perseverance has got me to a point that I'm now spraying light aluminium and dark aluminium to give tonal variation and sparing use of Tamiya Smoke along the panel lines to give the panels dome depth.
Thanks. Flory dirt wash and Tamiya pastels are difficult to get wrong!
Nice work Harry! Agree ref the local model shop - mine is Halifax Modellers World and it’s an awesome shop. I tend to try to stick to only going in for consumables now though as I have a huge stash and no time!!
What witchcraft is this? I actually have something I can share? Impossible, yet here it is!
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In the past couple of years I have been sidetracked from scale model kits as I got back into another childhood hobby of mine, wargaming. Instead of building and painting scale models, I've been building and painting sci fi and fantasy soldiers (well more building than painting, but I have painted a few).
After my last big wargaming project I decided to do something completely different so I pulled this Tamiya 1/48 M1A2 Abrams out of my disturbingly large stash and had a go at it. It is a very nice kit, as you'd expect from a modern Tamiya kit it goes together like a dream, so any ugly bits are my fault and not the kits.
Nice. It looks real, and that is as good as you can get.
Thanks! It was a nice change of pace from the spooky undead models I was painting up beforehand. I had a go doing preshading and it had some effect but by the time I'd airbrushed on enough of the main colour to get the average colour looking about right, most of the difference between the light and dark preshaded bits had been lost. Also, I have painting the tyres on road wheels!
Here's some of the not-quite-appropriate for this topic undead I painted up before I built the tank:
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@ChrisL- the figures are stunning. I sued to do a bit of WH40k stuff back in ye day, but nothing like that!
Anyway - another one done. Airfix Blenheim MkIV F. Kind of an irritating kit - the main bulk of it moulded to extremely tight tolerances, so getting it to fit was hard work, but ultimately successful, but a lot of the silly little ancillaries like aerials are just "glue on where you feel like" - no pins or sockets, even when trying to fit a flat edge to a curved surface. I was a bit sloppy on the masking too in places, but it doesn't look too shabby.
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Thank you for your kind words. 🙂 I really like your Blenheim too, though even the thought of having to mask all its cockpit transparencies gives me the heebie-jeebies!
Nice Blenheim! I like the shading on the upper wing camouflage, how did you do that as I've failed miserably several times?
@ChrisL - Eduard mask kits FTW!
@spursn17. A bit long winded I'm afraid:-
Prime
Preshade the panel lines in black, preshade the middle of the panels with a fairly mottled white.
Spray the brown (lots of dilute coats until you get the correct level of preshading showing through)
Mask
Top up the preshading, both black and white, on the non-masked areas
Spray the green. (lots of thin coats as before)
Pull off the masking, hoping the paint stays attached to the plastic, not the tape!
Prime
Preshade the panel lines in black, preshade the middle of the panels with a fairly mottled white.
Spray the brown (lots of dilute coats until you get the correct level of preshading showing through)
Mask
Top up the preshading, both black and white, on the non-masked areas
Spray the green. (lots of thin coats as before)
Pull off the masking, hoping the paint stays attached to the plastic, not the tape!
Yep, done all of that. Still looks pony! 😂
The first one that I've ever entered in "competition".
Gallery of Lancasters.
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235068390-avro-lancaster-stgb-gallery/
Build thread.
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235068557-revell-dambuster/
Got a free(ish) weekend and a huge stash of kits so I grabbed this.
...then changed my mind, put it way again and grabbed this instead.
Well I’ve only gone and started work on my 1/35 Miniart T-54 ; only 1030 Pieces to put together. Done about 4 nights of 2-3 hours at a time. So far I’ve built the engine and the suspension, plus a bit of the interior, doing about 1 page at a time.
Suspension is a working torsion-bar set up. Well, mostly working. The front- and rear-most set of road wheel suspension pieces on each side sadly are now fixed due to over-exuberant application of Tamiya liquid cement 🙁
Here’s the listing at Model Hobbies: https://www.modelhobbies.co.uk/miniart-135-t-54b-soviet-tank-early-production-interior-kit--37011-90367-p.asp
Come to a bit of a standstill now, I need to paint the interior but the Revell Blue-Grey Aquacolour I was going to use has dried up. Now have to rely on online ordering & Royal Mail, shame I can’t just pop into Hobbycraft or my LMS
Whoa! 1030 pieces - that’s radio rental! How on earth do you find and keep track of all the right pieces?! Your bench must be far more organised than mine 😀
1030 parts?!
You need to post up a progress picture or two of that!
I've got the Osprey too. Also got a Chinook on the way for Fathers Day and about to pull the trigger on an A10. It's the Revell version though. Also got a Fairey Swordfish stashed away somewhere. Probably wait until the autumn before starting up again though. Plenty outdoors stuff to be getting on with.
Ooh a Stringbag. Good luck with the rigging
The box:
The manual - 24 pages plus colour instructions:
Contents:
Track links. There are 10 of these sprues:
Road wheels - 10 or so of these sprues. I think I have a choice of which type of wheel:
The engine:
Driver’s seat:
The hull interior (so far):
Moving torsion bar suspension. Plus, to it’s left, a non-moving part:
https://i.imgur.com/77jyRVh.jpg
Gear & steerImg levers:
This is going to take me a while, I think
Yikes! There's a lot going on in there.
About 15 parts - some of them barely visible with the naked eye - go into each suspension arm.
Needs painting now, I’ve made a bit more progress but I really am depending on the paint arriving.
Right, what else is in the stash? Ah, yes, a crew for this beast!
Ooh a Stringbag. Good luck with the rigging
Funnily enough, exactly what I'm doing at the moment! <<my eyes hurt>>
Wow! Just wow!
And when that’s finished, there’s an M3 Lee by the same company, again with full interior...
Sometimes I think it would be nice to do a simple 1/72 Spitfire
Just done a Revell 1/72 Spitfire. Can't believe the quality of the kit over the Airfix one, worlds apart!
Well I didn’t have a 1/72 Spitfire handy, so I started on this...
Three & a half hours later, I’ve assembled much of the airframe and given the cockpit interior a coat of grey
Wet paint!
If anyone has a 3D printer then this is a useful thing to make.
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