Pics of your models, please!

[Prolex-UK]

Siko said:

Great job on the Panzer 38, brilliant effort! I have just finished my first allied tank - started it a year ago and sidetracked a bit by a few other projects but this really was great fun to build. I just can’t imagine it gets any better than tamiya for a novice like myself. This went together like a dream and looks brilliant. I know this won’t be too everyone’s tastes but as a beginner I am mega chuffed with this, I deliberately went for just a bit of dust rather than full weathering for that Normandy vibe. I also tried my first go at a camo net, came out passable just about but definitely learnt a lot for next time.

Edit: when I mean it looks brilliant I mean the kit itself, not my finished efforts!

Edited by Siko on Wednesday 27th December 21:44

Nice

[robemcdonald]

Our first club competition this year is in February with the subject being the letter B.

I thought I’d get an early start with this Aoshima MGB..






It’s a pretty simple kit, so didn’t take too long. Went together easily enough and looks okay.

Good enough for a club competition anyway.

[Prolex-UK]

robemcdonald said:

Our first club competition this year is in February with the subject being the letter B.

I thought I’d get an early start with this Aoshima MGB..






It’s a pretty simple kit, so didn’t take too long. Went together easily enough and looks okay.

Good enough for a club competition anyway.

Looks good.

Nice finish to the paintwork

[Stick Legs]

Fantastic paint!

I just built the Aoshima Range Rover & it’s a brilliant kit.

[robemcdonald]

Thanks.

It took a while and I still think it could be a lot better, but I’m happy enough with it.

[RacingPete]

robemcdonald said:

Our first club competition this year is in February with the subject being the letter B.

I thought I’d get an early start with this Aoshima MGB..






It’s a pretty simple kit, so didn’t take too long. Went together easily enough and looks okay.

Good enough for a club competition anyway.

Love that… much better kit than the Airfix kit version I customised for my dad’s version of his car

[Prolex-UK]

My latest effort... 1/24 scale SAS Land Rover.

Known as a pinkie. Pink paint was good for desert camouflage.

Not too happy with figures but need to move on.



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Edited by Prolex-UK on Saturday 13th January 15:47

[W124Bob]

Here is my latest weathering project pretty much finished, Heljan O gauge Class 31 with an RC battery power conversion. It's my brothers, for his garden railway, it came unumbered, so 31442 was chosen as it was a regular in the 90's when I was driving their. Weathering is lots of very thin acrylic washes and weathering powders, a spray of Dulcote(avoiding the decals, they react) . Then a bit of a retouch with the powders.

Edited by W124Bob on Friday 19th January 16:26

[srob]

W124Bob said:

Here is my latest weathering project pretty much finished, Heljan O gauge Class 31 with an RC battery power conversion. It's my brothers, for his garden railway, it came unumbered, so 31442 was chosen as it was a regular in the 90's when I was driving their. Weathering is lots of very thin acrylic washes and weathering powders, a spray of Dulcote(avoiding the decals, they react) . Then a bit of a retouch with the powders.

Edited by W124Bob on Friday 19th January 16:26

That’s very impressive!

Would love to see pics of the garden layout too if you have any to share

[V12GT]

After doing no modelling for a year and had this nearly completed last January, I finally finished it today, to go with my WW1 biplanes collection.



Airfix Bristol F2B in 1/72 with rigging and brass MG added.

[P5BNij]

W124Bob said:

Here is my latest weathering project pretty much finished, Heljan O gauge Class 31 with an RC battery power conversion. It's my brothers, for his garden railway, it came unumbered, so 31442 was chosen as it was a regular in the 90's when I was driving their. Weathering is lots of very thin acrylic washes and weathering powders, a spray of Dulcote(avoiding the decals, they react) . Then a bit of a retouch with the powders.

Edited by W124Bob on Friday 19th January 16:26

Very nice Bob, lovely bit of work there and just as I remember them in BR days. Our batch at Old Oak weren't usually that dirty above the solebar as the carriage washing plant at Kensal Rise got rid of most of it, but the bogies were always caked in filth, so much so that they caught fire regularly.

[W124Bob]

srob said:

That’s very impressive!

Would love to see pics of the garden layout too if you have any to share

Some Youtube clips here

youtube.com/@railman7454

[Prolex-UK]

Two recent kits completed.

Bronco quad bike and trailer in Op Herrick trim

AFV Scorpion in Op Granby colours. With SMM upgrades... Accurate turret and stowage engine and drivers compartment



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Edited by Prolex-UK on Tuesday 23 January 09:23

Edited by Prolex-UK on Tuesday 23 January 17:57

[Fallingup]

They're excellent. Well done.

[em177]

I’m building up a small collection here in Japan.

Prices haven’t gone as crazy with diecast as they have in the UK. Enjoying finding European rarities, interesting as when I lived in the UK I was obsessed with collecting JDM models. Funny old world.

[Stick Legs]

Work in progress:

My Grandfather was from Wilmslow originally, born 1911.
By the mid 1930’s he found himself living on Rhode Island & married to an American.

By 1939 the marriage wasn’t going so well & WW2 had broken out.

He took a train to Ontario & joined the RCAF.

Having completed his training he became a Navigator in the RCAF & then completed further training before being posted to a Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit.

Finally he became operational with 433 Squadron RCAF based at Skipton-on-Swale in Yorkshire.

I have some of his papers from that period:



I personally love the “is your journey REALLY necessary” based on this wartime propaganda poster:



As you can see BM is the squadron code for 433 (verified from other sources) and the aircraft code letter is J.

Digging around I found that BM-J in October 1944 was MZ905, a H2S equipped Handley Page Halifax BIII.

This corresponds to the entry in his log book.

It’s a long way from finished but as I decalled the fuselage this evening I thought I’d share:





His crew completed their tour, and the next one.
I haven’t established how many Ops but it’s around 50-60. Which is quite something.

Frustratingly he had to De-Mob in Canada.



Presumably with some war pay in his pocket & a free spirit born of getting quite intimate with death he headed west, and ended up settling in Ceylon.

Only returning to England in 1960.

I barely knew him as I was quite young, he passed away when I was 12. But wish I could take him for a pint & pick his brain now.

Anyway, enough rambling, I have turrets wings & engines to build!

[gruffgriff]

De-mobbing at all sounds like a win!
You`re doing a great job and what a connection! I`m guilty of calling my models labours of love...quite shallow in comparison...

[Prolex-UK]

Stick Legs said:

Work in progress:

My Grandfather was from Wilmslow originally, born 1911.
By the mid 1930’s he found himself living on Rhode Island & married to an American.

By 1939 the marriage wasn’t going so well & WW2 had broken out.

He took a train to Ontario & joined the RCAF.

Having completed his training he became a Navigator in the RCAF & then completed further training before being posted to a Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit.

Finally he became operational with 433 Squadron RCAF based at Skipton-on-Swale in Yorkshire.

I have some of his papers from that period:



I personally love the “is your journey REALLY necessary” based on this wartime propaganda poster:



As you can see BM is the squadron code for 433 (verified from other sources) and the aircraft code letter is J.

Digging around I found that BM-J in October 1944 was MZ905, a H2S equipped Handley Page Halifax BIII.

This corresponds to the entry in his log book.

It’s a long way from finished but as I decalled the fuselage this evening I thought I’d share:





His crew completed their tour, and the next one.
I haven’t established how many Ops but it’s around 50-60. Which is quite something.

Frustratingly he had to De-Mob in Canada.



Presumably with some war pay in his pocket & a free spirit born of getting quite intimate with death he headed west, and ended up settling in Ceylon.

Only returning to England in 1960.

I barely knew him as I was quite young, he passed away when I was 12. But wish I could take him for a pint & pick his brain now.

Anyway, enough rambling, I have turrets wings & engines to build!

Nice build and story!!

[Squirrelofwoe]

Stick Legs said:

Work in progress:

My Grandfather was from Wilmslow originally, born 1911.
By the mid 1930’s he found himself living on Rhode Island & married to an American.

By 1939 the marriage wasn’t going so well & WW2 had broken out.

He took a train to Ontario & joined the RCAF.

Having completed his training he became a Navigator in the RCAF & then completed further training before being posted to a Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit.

Finally he became operational with 433 Squadron RCAF based at Skipton-on-Swale in Yorkshire.

I have some of his papers from that period:



I personally love the “is your journey REALLY necessary” based on this wartime propaganda poster:



As you can see BM is the squadron code for 433 (verified from other sources) and the aircraft code letter is J.

Digging around I found that BM-J in October 1944 was MZ905, a H2S equipped Handley Page Halifax BIII.

This corresponds to the entry in his log book.

It’s a long way from finished but as I decalled the fuselage this evening I thought I’d share:





His crew completed their tour, and the next one.
I haven’t established how many Ops but it’s around 50-60. Which is quite something.

Frustratingly he had to De-Mob in Canada.



Presumably with some war pay in his pocket & a free spirit born of getting quite intimate with death he headed west, and ended up settling in Ceylon.

Only returning to England in 1960.

I barely knew him as I was quite young, he passed away when I was 12. But wish I could take him for a pint & pick his brain now.

Anyway, enough rambling, I have turrets wings & engines to build!

It's looking amazing so far, and fantastic that you have the personal connection with all of that history too. I love stuff like that, it was my passion for wartime history that got me into models in the first place, always enjoy reading about personal accounts- makes everything a tiny bit more relatable. It will make for a superb display alongside the personal log book etc.

Looking forward to seeing it finished.

I actually built a 1:72 Halifax about 30 years ago when I was 9 or 10- still had it lingering in a cupboard somewhere until a few years ago but sadly it never survived a couple of house moves. It was very rough around the edges though and had never even been painted!

[46and2]

The latest creation.

A4B Skyhawk US Navy

Airfix 1:72, a really enjoyable kit with very few issues.