Airfix 1/72 Messerschmitt Bf110, C-2

  Howdy,

  This is my third build for Karen at work.  This time I have gone for the "enemy" and provided the BF110, before anyone asks or notices, I am not allowed to put any swastikas on the aircraft.  Complete crock I think but I can live with it.  I used an Eduard Zoom set for the interior and mask for the canopy, both I will be using again, but not relying on them.  Oh I also had an Eduard Brassin MG15, which I also like as well and I will be using the other one that I have.  I'm not too sure on the colours, but this is what Vallejo suggest and I am aware of the cock up on the right engine with the wash.  I am going with an oil leak for that one   Well here are the pictures of said aircraft.

  Apart from the greens being a bit off wack and the wash not liking RLM65 (I dunno). I am pretty happy with this build.  The fit of the parts was amazing, the wing join to the fuselage was perfect, could get away without glue but I didn't wanna risk it.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Airfix 1/72 Curtiss Tomahawk IIB (P-40B) 112 Sqn - Completed

  Hello Everyone,

  Well this is my second build for the Remembrance Day Lunch that the librarian, Karen, at work will be holding.  This Tomahawk will be displayed next to a Spitfire, Bf-110 and Bf-109, possibly a Lancaster too.  I decided to add this one as who doesn't love a Sharkmouth?!  Plus I was trying to convey the notion that the world war was just that, worldwide... you know what kids are like.  Anyhow, this the newer tool mould from Airfix of the classic Tomahawk (always liked this aircraft).  I had a few issues with it, I think most of those issues where my own doing.  Live and learn huh?  I had to strip the paint as the xtracrylix didn't wanna play for some reason.  I had to resort to Tamiya and mixing the middlestone colour.  I am quite impressed with it.  On to the pictures.

  Like the Spitfire, these photos where taken in the sunny weather, or what little we had this year.  I used EZ-Line, very cool stuff really, altho I think it's just the elastic out of a pair of tights/stockings.  This was the first time I had to drill a hole to feed the line through but I think it worked okay.  I do have another one of the Tomahawk to build this time in the AVG colours.  Will have to sort out the guns on the front and maybe the guns on the wings.  Apart from that I am really happy with the build.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Airfix 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia - Completed

  Right this is the first of the updates, thought I would start with something classical and British!  The good old Supermarine Spitfire! This one is being built for a lady at work called Karen.  Every year she does a lunch for the veterans in November (as close to the 11th as they can) so the kids at the school I work at can get an better understanding about the wars we have been in and what it means to remember the ones who have given the ultimate sacrifice.  Being the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britian, the lunches main theme will be that, hence the Spitfire.  Over all the build was pretty easy with no massive pitfalls.  The wing root join needed some work, but I think that was probably the way I built the thing.  The rest of the fits well together well and panted up quite well.  I don't have any pictures of the build for some weird reason, but I do have the completed model.  Enjoy!

  These pictures where taken outside in the mid-September sun... possibly August I can not remember now.  This is the first time I have used grey paint to simulate the wear and tear on paint.  Not too sure how well it worked.  Unusually for me, the wash worked really well... think it's a little too dark.  I have got another 2 of these to do, just need to find some decals for one. I had isues with these decals just sticking on the model, I had enough gloss on it and the decals where soaked properly, it just didn't wanna move.  I don't know anymore... still she turned out okay and Karen loved the Spit (who wouldn't?!).

   PEACE!

  Dazz

Completed - Airfix 1/72 Scotish Aviation Bulldog

  Well I got this one finished about 4 hours ago, just in time for the GB deadline!  Really must plan my time better tbh... oh well.  I took the mask off the canopy and noticed that there is a god awful mark on the left hand canopy, I think glue has seeped from somewhere, god knows how!  On to the pictures...

I may either buy this kit again at a later date or I will have to try and do something with that canopy, not sure what.  Maybe just sand it down... I never realised how much you would be able to see inside!  I am used to building aircraft where you can't see sod all inside!  Well this is one to add to the completed pile. :)

Hope you have enjoyed my various cock-ups...

PEACE!

Dazz

WiP 4 - Scottish Aviation Bulldog - Nearly finished...

  So I done some more work on this one.  I need to get it finished before 4th May... hope fully I will.  All I have to do is to do a few touch ups here or there and matt coat it.  Shouldn't take me that long... famous last words eh??

I think the blue in the Swedish "roundel"... I don't know it's correct name! I do apologise to anyone from Sweden!  Doing this aircraft has made me want to do another Swedish aircraft... what to pick??  Oo I have a Gripen in 1/144 (ear-marked for an Ace Combat scheme) or one in 1/72 with Tigermeet decals... hhmm... best if I get the other stuff finished first.  Oh yeah I suck at wheels...

PEACE!

Dazz

WiP 3 - Scottish Aviation Bulldog

  Not much of an update on this one, but I have tidied up what mess I made to it.  Took me a while to remember what paints I did actually use on it in the first place.  Got there eventually tho...

Just got to paint a few more bits on this one and then gloss it up.  Hopefully this one will be done really soon!

PEACE!

Dazz

WiP 2 - Scottish Aviation Bulldog

  Finally got a little bit done on this one.  It was a right bugger to mask up all of the parts for spraying.  Took me about 2 hours to mask it all up and about another 5 minutes to spray it.  Maybe I should move onto 1/32 scale stuff?  Will take me longer to spray!  As I had forgotten to spray the hi-vis bits before the camo I had to spray a white undercoat over the camo then the red.  Luckily I've learned how to spray red paint now after my cock-up with the F-15 ACTIVE.  Hasn't come out too bad I don't think, however there was a bloody lot of bleed from the white paint.  My dodgy masking skills at work there I guess!  Well onto the pictures...

  

See what I mean about the white?  I will have to sort that out... that will be fun.  Wont be long now until I gloss it and decal her up and finished.

PEACE!

Dazz

WiP 1 - Scottish Aviation Bulldog

  Well I have been away for a while, I do apologise for that.  I have not really been in the mood to be playing with plastic.  But I got over it and now I am back with vengeance!  I started some work on this little plane.  As I lost my 3822, I was going to make the plane that is in the box, but someone else in the Group Build is making that one and I can not find the XtraDecal sheet for it either, so sod it!  I went with the camo'd up Swedish version.  Now the box art is bloody hard to see!  Also all of the call outs are in Airfix's now gone range.  So I have used my Vallejo paints on them to see what happens.  I got the below.  Oh I have buggered up the nose weights, she will be a tail sitter! :(

  I have used the same colours as I did with my P-51B's, which I am now thinking was a bad idea...  Well I have still got to paint the day-glow parts yet so hopefully that will hide that cockup.

  Hoping to get this one finished soon.  I've has enough of this little bastard.

PEACE!

Dazz