Coming soon – a blow by blow description of the build of an OOB Airfix 1/24 new tool Spitfire, followed by a build of the older Airfix Spitfire 1/24 Mk1 and then I’ll tackle another new tool kit but will go full OCD on added bits.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The production run for this has come and gone but I’ll leave this here for historical purposes. The page will remain here for posterity but the initial production run has ceased on both these items. I may return to these in the future and probably update the master when both are in service and operational…
Of course not – Revell did the Beaufighter in the larger scale. But it’s a very helpful kit when one wants to construct a largescale Beaufort and doesn’t want to use the currently available vac-form kit that politeness prevents me from making further comment upon. I wanted to take the lessons learnt from the 1/72…
In the 1950’s the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation proposed many designs including this one, the XP-65 Warrior, which was to be powered by a Rolls Royce RA24R Avon engine and possibly armed with cannons and air to air missiles. A year or so ago Uncle Les made a 1/32 version based on the following drawing…
No words, just pics.
