Iterali 1/72 Hawk 100 and Revell 1/72 Stuka G

  I actually finished these two off last week, haven't had much time to do anything this week.  I was fixing laptops again the week before that.  Anyhow... on to whats occurring.  Right I decided to finish the two big models off first before I start anything else, and they where the Stuka and Hawk.  I was undecided for a while if I wanted the Stuka to be a dive bomber or a tank buster.  I thought I'd go for a tank buster as I have an Hurricane IID and an P-51 B Mustang to make and they where both "ground pounders/tank busters".  I might need to get an P-47 Razorback at some time too.

  Anyhow on with the Hawk first.

  I decided to go with the 4 AIM-9 Sidewinders on this one, I think it worked really well.  I noticed the "glass" pannel in the canopy has ruined the whole thing tho.  I never noticed that the RAAF's roundels are totally opposite either.  I think I got them the right as I didn't trust the box art one bit.  Now if you are wondering why the decals look so plain and boring, thats because my dog knocked the table when I was working on it.  She managed to tip over my bottle of Microsol and they landed on the decal sheet.  Which ruined half of them.  I am hoping I can get some more or bodge something.

  From the front she looks pretty good, thinking that a set of bombs and SNEBs might of been better... hhmm...

  masking up that canopy really paid off, guess I will have to do it in the future.  Not looking forward to doing it for the ME-110C... yay!

 
  Both planes together now on my kitchen table.  They look really cool together, just gotta find somewhere to put them now... joy.

  Even tho this plane got totally mashed up by the RAF and Soviet Air Force, it still looks like a mean little bugger, love that little tank decal on it.  Shame the crosses didn't align to well.

  Shame the cross on this side is "silvering" I really need to varnish the models.  But I'll be damned if I am going to pay £30 for a bottle of Klear... damn you Pledge!!

  And the front, those anti-tank cannons look really mean.  I'm really glad the prop cone looks white.  White is one of those colours that I can never get right.  Might have to invest in an airbrush me thinks.  Really enjoyed building this one for a change. :)   Let me know what you think.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Work so far...

  Yesterday I was supposed to wash my car (I know what an exciting life I lead eh?), but as is typical for England it was raining as per usual... and we are in a drought... go figure.  So I decided to do some models, now I didn't do anything major.  Just some tidying up and masking which took me a while.

  I've finally gotten around to masking the canopy for this bugger Hawkeye.  For a model that is supposed to be a modelers dream, it sure is turning into an nightmare for me.  It's just that bloody gray that I can not get right.  Might just slap on any old gray.

  My Revell 1/72 Ju-87 G Stuka, I decided to build the tank buster after all, might get some after market barrels for those cannons.  Dunno yet, need to tidy up those wing tips also.  I am quite pleased with what I have done here.  I need to sort the cockpit out also, that canopy isn't glued down yet.

  My little Revel 1/144 F/A-18 F Super Hornet, only managed to get the cockpit painted and glued the canopy down also masked it up.  Still trying to decide what weapons load I want on it, I might leave the Mk.82 bombs or the JDAM off and put them on the AV-8B Harrier II+, dunno yet.

  And last but not least we have the 1/72 Iterali BAe Hawk 127 (altho the model says 100), I've cleaned the cockpit out and made sure the canopy fitted correctly this time around.  I also tidied it up a bit and tried to get rid of the join lines.  I painted the Sidewinders too, so I just need to varnish it and decal it and this little baby is done.  I might buy this plane again at some point, I masked up the canopy but that too me an hour...

 
  A close up of the canopy, the paint work needs some touch ups but it's more or less done for an spraying.  I can't wait to get this one done.

  Haven't had much chance in the last two months between going to work, going out and crap weather to get the telescope out.  Almost forgotten how to use it :P  Hope I can soon...

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Gunpla to be made

  I was going through my stuff the other day, trying to clear out some junk when I found these two in my wardrobe.

 This little one is from Zeta Gundam, I love the mecha from this show.  Altho the series didn't really do anything for me, might have to watch it again tho.  This is one of the Zeon mobile suits.  Will have to get around to making it.  Kinda reminds me of an old medieval knight for some reason.

  This one I have had for a while, I really did like SeeD.  I can't believe it's ten years old already.  Time flies eh?  I wished I had picked up all of the Astrays and the random mechs they had in it.  I might find them yet on ebay or Bandai might release then again... who knows...

  Peace!

  Dazz

The Stealth Fighter... (F-19)

Well I started on my Revell 1/144 F-19 Stealth Fighter today. Admitted there isn't that many parts for it. I've decided to have the undercarriage up as the legs where shocking... Well that's not entirely true, the whole kit is shockingly bad!!! I guess it's the age of the molds, from 1988 this model is. I might do the "bomb bays" as closed also, dunno yet. The more and more I look at this plane, the more I see the "Have Blue" plane that was the prototype for the F-117 Stealth Fighter. With the rudders pointing inwards. I was gonna paint this model in two tone air superiority gray. But it's too much hassle for a "test" model, altho I might yet, and besides I can use the decals on my F/A-18E. What I am gonna use this model for however is practicing how to use filler, sand it down and see what gray I can use on my Hawkeye. I hope the pictures come out okay. This is my first blog written on my phone. :D

Peace!!

Dazz

New bits and bobs...

  The other day Nat and I went to our local HobbyCraft store.  The traffic home was terrible, took me 2 hours to travel 3 miles... yay... thank you Olympics!  Well I went there and noticed there was a model of a BF110 E-1 in 1/72, even tho I have the new Airfix's tooling of the ME-110C2/C4 which is a fantastic model, I thought I would get it as I saw the price ticket for it and it said £2.99.  I thought that must of been an admin error, but legally speaking if a shop advertises a price for something they have to sell it for that price.  It helps knowing the law when you, yourself works in an Admin dept for a big supermarket. ;)  Well I picked it up and was getting ready to have an argument with the management of the store.  The lady behind the counter scanned and I asked what it went through as and she said £2.99.  I was deflated... I was expecting to question it, but I got it.

  Not bad for £2.99 eh? So if you have a HobbyCraft near you, check out the BF110 E-1.  I admit it's not up to the tooling of the new Airfix one but I put that down to age.  However it now means I can make both the C2 and the C4 once I find out what was different about them, or just make the Airfix one as the "fighter-destroyer" used in the Battle of Britain and make the bomber version shown here.  Not sure yet.  I might make them side by side... altho I have a feeling the Revell one will be finished sooner.  As it has about a third of the parts of the Airfix one.

  Next up is this little plane.

   Now as I understand it, this little plane belongs to the subject of "Luft46" (Luftwaffe 1946).  It never flew to my understanding but as with most of the Luftwaffe planes of late 1945 it was jet powered.  Had the war continued I imagine that the allies would of had a much harder job of winning the war... or more horrifically using the atom bomb on Berlin... who knows what the war would of done had it gone on.  Anyhow, I picked up this model from ModelsforSale.com. To me the Flitzer looks a lot like the Venom and Vampire the RAF used up until the 1950's-ish.  Not sure if I can do the mottle camo, but I'll see what I can do.  Now for some reason that escapes me, both Airfix and Revell ship their German planes without Swatikas.  So I bought the two decal packs below.  One is for the BF-110 nightfighters and the other is for a BG109F-4.  Might actually buy the models they where designed for at a later date.  But for now I wanted them as they where cheap and they had the Swatikas in then. :)

  I also bought an Revell 1/144 Eurofighter Typhoon, I've seen good things about this model I might try to make it into an FGR4, just depends if I can get any weapons for it, like the Paveway IV's.

  PEACE!

  Dazz 


 

Espada 2 Rafale!

  I finally finished this baby, this is my first finished 1/144 scale aircraft and I am loving it.  I loved the detail and I loved how well everything fitted.  Admitted I could of spent a little longer making it, but I was rushing it (shocking)... I am still well impressed with what I have done.  Now I am not sure if you'd call this an "What If.." project as the Spanish do not fly the Rafale, they fly the great Harrier, where some of these decals come from.  I used the little decals for the Rafale that came with the kit and they are great!  I love the little "Rafale" on the top of the rudder and the "Dassault Rafale" at the bottom of the rudder.  I used the Spanish decals from my AV-8B Harrier II+ kit that I have still got to make.  Well I am impressed with this one, oh yeah I forgot to mention, I think the decals on the canards are so cool!  I think they say the usual "No Walk" kinda thing.  Well I'll get onto posting pictures of it.  Hope you like it as much as I do, please let me know what you think of it too.  Oh yeah, for people who haven't read the rest of my blog, I was trying to make one of my fav "Aces" from Ace Combat Zero : The Belkan War.  Espada 2 flies an Rafale while her leader flies an Saab Draken.

 Top view, I'm not too sure if the Spanish Roundels work or not...

  Front left side, I think it looks pretty good.  Love the fuel tanks.

  You can see the "Armada" from the Harrier kit here, I think they work.

  Front right, I'm really happy with this, altho I see places I need to touch up tho... bugger.

  If anyone has any comments about this please let me know.

  Hope you liked it.

  Peace!

  Dazz

Airfix P-39Q Airacobra

  This model was made because a friend suggested it.  The kit was horrible and didn't fit together too well, needed lots of filling and the decals where crap.  Anyhow here be the finished result.

  It doesn't look too bad there, but the thing was a pain.  The decals are way too big, incase you couldn't guess.  The US insigina on the other side came away in my hand so looks horrible.  The windscreen didn't fit too well either, I guess thats my fault for not dry fitting and making sure it fitted.  Meh... Still I was shocked that Airfix would still release a kit like this.  Still I learned a few things on this model, like how to mask up a model for straight edges, how to use filler and.... bugger the cannons are still white.  Just noticed that... bugger it.  Nevermind I'm not going to display this one at all.

  Peace!

  Dazz