Neptune P2V-7 in 1/48 from Jetmads and a sneaky P2V-5 using leftovers.
Here’s a quick photo essay of a couple of Neppies I built recently. What started with a Jetmads 3D resin kit escalated into an additional previous version of the aircraft using spare parts and a ton of 3D jiggerypokery.
GAF Lincoln in 1/32
This could also come under the heading ” What I did with 2 HK kits and a bunch of 3D bits”. Many years ago a bloke named Fred Harris, IPMS doyen and my modelling mentor, showed me this scratch built model he was working on using fibreglass and aluminium – a 1/32 Avro (…
Building the Airfix 1/24 Bf109G-6
Here’s another new addition to the Airfix range. I remember back in the early ’70s Airfix came out with the first large scale Messerschmitt in the form of an Emil and when I finally got my hands on one in my teen years it was huge ! That was about 4 decades ago…
1/24 Airfix Spitfire – Grey Nurse Shark in RAAF markings.
As you may be aware there’s a new Airfix Spitfire currently on display at Metro Hobbies‘ CBD store, here’s a build log and some salient points to note about building one. First off let me say that my wife was happy to see me build something “out of box” for a change as this…
1/72 Airfix Chinook – Bravo November.
Recently I was asked to build one of the new Airfix Chinooks “out of the box” for display at Metro and whilst that was the brief I still had to modify one little thing – which I’ll go into further in the post. On the whole the kit is a fine piece of plastic engineering…
B26K Counter Invader in 1/32 scale.
A couple of Christmases ago young Max from Metro gifted me a Hobby Boss A-26B. I was quite stoked as I wanted to build one of these big bad boys but couldn’t justify the expense and I especially wanted to make a Counter Invader. Max built one virtually OOB and I went the difficult…
An Airfix 1/72 Me410 in a week.
Recently I obtained one of these new Airfix Messerschmitt 410 kits from Metro Hobbies and was asked to build build it for the shop “out of box” so I could show just how good the kit is. Well, here goes, I allocated a week away from my usual 1/32 stuff and got stuck in. I…
RAAF FB.31 Vampire conversion for the Infinity 1/32 Kit.
By now you’ve read about the 1/48 conversion set https://uncleles.net/2022/08/12/raaf-fb-31-vampire-conversion-for-the-airfix-kit/ where I did the RAAF FB31, FB30 & Mk1 – well here’s the same set upscaled to suit the new Infinity kit. ( Have the Tamiya putty and MEK RTG ) I started with a pre-production kit supplied by Max at Metro Hobbies and was…
RAAF FB.31 Vampire conversion for the Airfix Kit.
Welcome back. A little while ago I was presented with a new Airfix 1/48 Vampire F.3 kit and asked to facilitate an elephant ears conversion to fashion an Australian icon out of the plastic. Now if you’re here you probably know all about the Vampire’s history with the RAAF and how Australia received a Mk1…