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…
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…
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…
A couple of years ago I decided to build a large scale Winjeel. Plans and reference material was sourced and the beginnings of the model took the form of a digital rendering. From these files a series of parts were printed in ABS to produce the building blocks to make the masters. …
A year or so ago I built a twin seater F-5 using two kits that came from the estate of the late Eric Sujecki. This saw competition here and interstate bringing home a couple of trophies, but it was built as an homage to Eric using Mexican markings I found in the kit and handpainting…
Many years ago I was commissioned to build a large scale C-130H in RAAF colours ( Specifically A97-010) and only recently I rediscovered some of the old rudimentary “archival” castings I made that would enable me to build another… an idea I’m seriously toying with. With this initial model I started out with some plans, unrivelled…
A year or so ago I built a twin seater F-5 using two kits that came from the estate of the late Eric Sujecki. This saw competition here and interstate bringing home a couple of trophies, but it was built as an homage to Eric using Mexican markings I found in the kit and handpainting…
After a couple of weeks of building, a couple of months of designing and casting, a couple of years of preparation and a couple of decades saying I’m gonna do it – I finally did it ! My first exposure to the Macchi was as a cadet back in the late ’70s and here’s a…
