Old Collingwood

11 hours ago, hof00 said:

Hi Chap,

Good to see your posts at the very least!!

I was wondering where you had got to. 🙂

Look after yourself and get someone to prescribe some Amoxicillin perhaps?

 

Cheers and Regards,

 

Harry.

Thank you kindly  Harry.

OC.

Morning all,   sorry  this  build  has  slowed down  -  life  sure  has a way  og getting in the  way  of our  hobbies  (that keep us sain)  I have  struggled  with my teeth  all my life  based from my fear  of dentists,  and  boy  have I suffered   due to it, at the  moment  I have a  few  very painful  absecess's  giving me  real  grief  - that kind of pain and throbbing  where  you feel   your heart beat  through the  pain.   Trouble  is  over  here  there are  very few  dentists  who  will  treat  you  through  the  Free NHS  service,  so  I am   having to  self  heal  myself.

I  want to  try to take my mind of  the pain  with  my modeling  but  its  so  destracting.

I will  be  back  you  can  guarantee  that.

OC.

12 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Good to see you back and making some progress.   I hope things are better on the home front.

Thank you kindly Mark.

OC.

13 hours ago, CDW said:

It’s interesting to me the way this hobby has progressed. Seems like not too long ago, a cottage industry appeared where someone would create a master part to upgrade an existing kit, then fashion a limited run mold to manufacture replacement parts from cast metal or resin. Later on, the molds improved significantly and resin upgrade parts got a whole lot better, those first ones being pretty crude sometimes. Today it’s a new ballgame. These resin upgrades are drawn in 3D cad then printed out using 3D resin printers giving just an incredible level of detail, practically flawless. I plan to build the kit supplied plastic seats just to compare them to these 3D printed resin ones. Very fine details are visible in the replacement seats.

 

They look  neat  -  so  much fine detail.

OC.

Evening all,  I managed a bit of time on the bench today,   continuing with my British Cavalry  -  I added  some paint to the  trousers and when dry I glued  them down onto their horses,  I have also  been  painting a  5th KGL  infantry  fellow.

Good to  be back.

OC.

8 hours ago, Danstream said:

Hi all,
not great progresses to show, but many small parts that need some preparation. Finally, I completed gluing the plates on the tail, only one remaining, but that will go once the fuselage is closed.

Interiors received some colors (XF-71 interior green and XF-69 NATO black):

Pedals made by folded PE and black wash applied:

As said, not much to show. However, I finished another model I was working on and OC showed some interest in it, so, if you don't mind, I would like to propose few pictures of it. The subject is the small Italian tactical jet Fiat G.91 R and the kit is the very old Italeri/ESCI kit in 1:48 scale. This is a moody picture of it quickly taken on the sill of my window in a rainy day:

The kit was with raised panels and I rescribed the entire airframe. I addition, I made numerous modifications to some incorrect features (but I did not corrected all of them).

With a blue background showing the nice lines of this aircraft typical design of the early '60s. By the way, the colors used for the early NATO camouflage are exactly the same ones that I am going to use on my Tempest:

I hope you like my model. Now I will continue full time on my Tempest.

Best regards,

Dan
 

That G91 looks Superb.

OC.

I hear  you  brother  -  similar  with  me with  real life  has a habbit  of getting in the  way.

OC.

6 hours ago, AJohnson said:

Hi Craig, yeah Airfix only provide Humbrol Colour numbers, simply because they are the same company (both brands belong to Hornby Plc now).  So you can see why they promote their own paints, but as Andy says there are plenty of conversion www sites out there that compare the wider international brands and standards like FS etc. 

I am slowly moving over to the Colourcoats range by Sovereign Paints as the quality of their enamels and colour accuracy is much better than Humbrol imho.  I received my batch of Dark Sea grey this week from them. 😁

Wasn't  the  Humrol/Airfix  factory  in Hull?

OC.

Can't wait to see  the  next  one

OC.

Fantastic work.

OC.

This  looks  cool  Ras,  I'm  in.

OC.

I love your G91  in background shot.

OC.

I.m  In  also, seen a  few buccs  over the years  either at Airshows  and even on one aircraft spotting trip to  Lossiemouth  where  208sq  was based.

OC.

4 hours ago, CDW said:

By now, I have one of my own as well. Maybe the three of us will do an ad-hoc build of it. 

That  would be  cool.

OC.

4 minutes ago, Danstream said:

One of the most distinctive British jet ever, yes of course I will follow. It is one of the kit that I would like to have.

By the way, I am late, but I would also like to congratulate for your neat Sea Harrier and the family portraits.

Cheers,

Dan

You  should  also  have  a  go  at  building  it  Dan -  its  supposed  to be  an  excellent  kit.

OC.

So  good to see more  progress  my friend,   she  is  looking  really nice   -  looking forward  to seeing more.

OC.

Excellent  dio  building.

OC.

Seen other  builds  of  the New Tool  Bucc  -  it  looks  an excellent  kit  you should  have an easy  enjoyable  build.

OC.

This  is  what  I did  with  my  stern  - 

OC.

27 minutes ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Wow, great pic OC!  Now that would be a fantastic diorama to recreate!

It would  be great  mate.

OC.

I agree  with  the others  -  what a fine kit,  I  came close to  building one in 1/350  scale  with my old  Warspite  build,  but never did due to me dispalying her  at DD  time  when she had done away with her Walrus's.

Here  is a pic  of  the Old Lady  launching  her  Walrus.

OC.

5 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Excellent work on your figures OC.  Really impressive!  I just did a few figures for my two plane dioramas and took me forever!  You make it look too easy

Thank you so much Mike.

OC.

Thats looking really nice  -  certainly  taking shape now.

OC.

Evening all,   decided  to pull my finger out  and  do a bit,  life  has  dictated  my attention  of  late  (doesn't  it always)   anyways  -  I have  turned my attention  to  my  Kings Dragoon Guard  and  Life Guard  and  a bit  of colour  adjustment  to the horses  saddle cloths  and  rolls.

OC.

Really  nicely done.

OC.