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 (…
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…
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…
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…
