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

Random postings....

  Hello to anyone who is still looking at this blog, I am sure there is many of you out there!  I haven't forgotten you nor this blog.  I have been bust over the last 5 months doing life... bloody life... always gets in the way sometimes.  Over the next few days I shall be updating the blog with things I have done or still work in progresses... there is many... I will not be posting them in any particular order neither, well apart from "when I remembered"...On with the show as they say...

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Random Warhammer bits...

  Don't know if I have put this on here or not (pretty much like everything else really), but I have a new job!  No more working for a Northern Supermarket chain, I now work in a school!  They are trusting me to work in a school... hahahaha!  Anyhow, one of the teachers here has found out I like "bashing plastic together", I have no idea what that entails but it sounds like model making to me.  Could mean something totally different, and with him it probably does... ahem.  He asked me a while ago to paint some Warhammer buildings for him, as I didn't have to pay for them I thought why not.  The first building he gave me was handed back in February I believe (it's now May), he liked it so much he gave me another and something called a Rhino.  Pictures below.

  I did know what this thing was called when I first painted it... its now known as Hotel Green Boxes.  That was the first ever Warhammer related thing I had finished.  Yay...

  This was the next thing I was given, this time I was to build it from scratch.  Can't say I am impressed with the plastic, the fit or the mould. But it has been an experience.  The teacher loved it and said the kids will love it too.

  I've had this Rhino sitting around a while now, it was part of the Ultramarines Battleforce set thing I've had for a while now.  I decided to finish it and paint it in the colours of what the teacher uses (now on called Latch).  He has since taken delivery of it and loves it very much.  Bless him...

  PEACE!

  Dazz

WiP 1 - Hasegawa F-14D IdolM@ster 1/72

  This one has been an "On/off" project for a while now, I started it about a year ago as part of a Single Type Group Build over on Britmodeller.  I have been trying to get her done for the last few months now.  Really lost the urge to finish it tho.  I'll post pictures of where I am with her.

 
  I bloody hate Hasegawa decals, they are horrible.  I have her standing on her own wheels now, I just dont have any pictures of it.  I will/should be updating this as and when.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Completed - Revell 1/72 Hawker Hurricane IIc

  I can not actually remember if I have posted any pictures of this aircraft on here or not, been trying to build this one over the last... well it has been a few years at least.  The problem I had was the left vertical stabilizer, or more specifically the dog eating it.  You couldn't make that up! Well I mentioned on Britmodeller that I was missing it and a nice chap by the name of Vulcanicity helped me by sending him some spares he has (legend!) So with the new bits in hand I got them on, filled and blended in and away I went. I tried to make her really dirty, kinda pulled it off I think.

Completed - Sweet 1/144 P-51B/C Mustangs x 4

  Well it has been a while since I have updated this blog.  I have done a few things since the last update, breathing mostly.  So to everyone who reads this regularly (yeah right!), I wish you all had a good Christmas/New Year/Hangover.

  I don't actually remember how far I got with the WiP's on the 4 Mustangs but they are done.  Piccies here...

  These where all taken on the phones camera, but haven't come out too bad.  The canopies suck, but at least they are finished.

  PEACE!

  Dazz