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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: June 2014
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Airfix Spitfire Mk IXc, WD-QQ, 4th FS, 52nd FG, Corsica, Italy, 1944. Flown by Bob Hoover. Another build from the past. This is from Winter 2011, shortly after Airfix released their (then) new Mk IXc. I wanted to build it quickly simply because it was, at the time, the best and only Mk IX available. The Hasegawa kit has it's flaws and is typically quite expensive. Posted by Tim Holland. Bf 110 night-...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: Friends and Enemies Part 2
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Sunday, November 2, 2014. Friends and Enemies Part 2. Spitfire IXe 2011/26, 101 Squadron Isreali Air Force 1949. This is part of a "friend versus foe" theme build at our local club. Construction was very straight forward and relatively easy. What little detail was lost in construction I easily rescribed. For the cannons I decided to use the Master Spitfire 'e' wing brass cannon and .50 gun barrels. I'm conv...I used Peewit...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: July 2014
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Sunday, July 6, 2014. AZModel Hawker Hurricane MkI Early. I built this kit back in 2010 and posted the build on the 72nd Aircraft. Website. For completeness I decided to post it here as well. My subject is a well-known Mk I, L1697/JX-G, 1 Squadron British Expeditionary Force, France, May 1940. P/O Paul Richey. Reference is Aviation Workshop On Target Profile 12, page 9. It's also an option in the kit decals. After much san...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: Airfix announcements at Telford 2014
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Saturday, November 8, 2014. Airfix announcements at Telford 2014. All 1/72 - Sea King, He-111P,. Sprue shots for the Defiant. They also showed the boxes for the Defiant, and mentioned it would be a first quarter release. The Heinkel would be a third quarter and the Sea King a fourth quarter release. Posted by Tim Holland. Location: Ketley Bank, Ketley Bank. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 160: November Show and Tell.
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: September 2014
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Sunday, September 28, 2014. Too little, too late. Hurricane Mk I, H-22, Squadron 2/1/2 Aé (Le Chardon or "The Thistle"), Belgian Air Force, Schaffen, Diest, May 1940. This is another one of my Hurricane season. Builds from this Summer. This is Airfix's new tooling Hurricane Mk I with the early fabric wing. I cannot say much more about the kit than I said in my last build. For the canopy. Both are very highly recommende...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: November 2014
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Saturday, November 8, 2014. Airfix announcements at Telford 2014. All 1/72 - Sea King, He-111P,. Sprue shots for the Defiant. They also showed the boxes for the Defiant, and mentioned it would be a first quarter release. The Heinkel would be a third quarter and the Sea King a fourth quarter release. Posted by Tim Holland. Location: Ketley Bank, Ketley Bank. Thursday, November 6, 2014. Airfix Mk IXc, kit A2065. The panel li...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: Comparing the Airfix and AZModel Spitfire Mk IX
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Thursday, November 6, 2014. Comparing the Airfix and AZModel Spitfire Mk IX. These are the two most recent Mk IX kits on the market. The Airfix Mk IX. Is older, having been released in 2009 and re-released in 2014 with new decals. The AZModel Mk IX. Was released in 2012. While both are nearly the same in terms of timing, and are generally accurate in shape, the difference in quality is quite marked. Airfix Mk IXc, kit A2065.
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: November 2013
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Friday, November 29, 2013. I finally get my work bench back. Im probably not different than most modelers, my desk usually looks like this:. While at Telford I checked out Sphere Productions. Which is part of Progressive Engineering Solutions. Sphere sells a number of laser cut storage racks designed for modelers and gamers. One item I was particularly interested in was a paint rack for organizing my paints. So one of the ...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: January 2015
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Friday, January 23, 2015. I'm packing up my UK stash and moving back to the US. Until my tools, paints and references get across the Atlantic, I'll have to satisfy myself with writing about modeling related topics, instead of actual modeling. The lower commute time means more time for modeling. Posted by Tim Holland. Monday, January 5, 2015. RAF Ocean Grey: a good hobby paint match? Humbrol 106 "flip top". Vallejo 896 Basa...
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling: Friends and Enemies Part 1
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The story of my aircraft and ship modeling. A place to document my model building. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Friends and Enemies Part 1. Spitfire IXc 664/L, Royal Egyptian Air Force, 1948. The Royal Egyptian Air Force. Was founded in 1930 and became an independent air force in 1937. Seeing little service during World War II, post-war Egypt acquired a few surplus Mk IXc from the RAF after they departed Egypt. All were in the Desert Scheme of Dark Earth, Middlestone and Azure. I used Peewitt's canopy ma...
