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MarkwG said:
Aye, had to write an angry letter t'editor of Motorsport in them days! Stamps were tuppence h'penny, too, & you 'ad to lick yerself! We woz happy, though.
(Best bit, you got an "any bits missing?" ticket in an Airfix kit - with a bit of creativity, you could allegedly grow a whole new one for just stamps & envelopes
- not that anyone would take advantage, of course. 
)
A bit easier when there were only a dozen parts in a 1/72 Spitfire. These days the price of a new kit would be considerably less than the postage for the letters asking for all the pieces.(Best bit, you got an "any bits missing?" ticket in an Airfix kit - with a bit of creativity, you could allegedly grow a whole new one for just stamps & envelopes
- not that anyone would take advantage, of course. )Speaking of which, I see Airfix have re-issued a load more "vintage" kits. The RRP of this kit is £5:99, which hardly pays for the box so I wonder how many parts it has! After so many years, I imagine the mould wear may make it a bit... what's the word... no not THAT word. Challenging. That'll do.
'Officially' ny F1 collection only goes up to the end of the 20th century, but recently I've been thinking I might bring it up to date a bit more. Perhaps just a selection of championship inning cars. (Ha-ha, that's how I started - slippery slope. And now, 500-odd models later ...)
Anyway, 2005 has just arrived.
And 2007 is on the way.
Anyway, 2005 has just arrived.
And 2007 is on the way.
Al Murphy said:
robemcdonald said:
Just finished academy’s 1/72 scale F-35b
After pilot and 617 squadron decals.
So many decals.......
How was the kit to build Rob? Looks really nice as a finished model and I've been looking for a good F-35B kit to build.After pilot and 617 squadron decals.
So many decals.......
Al
The worst part of the kit was the weapons. Very fiddly indeed. If you made it without those and the weapons bays closed it would be a piece of cake.
As I mentioned before; the squadron decals are aftermarket as was the pilot.
The decals took me about a week as you can’t really apply lots in one go.
It’s a nicely engineered kit though and anyone could get a nice result with a bit of patience.
Had this lying on a shelf for years and lockdown felt like a good opportunity to give it a go... £200 later I have a compressor / airbrush and more Tamiya paints and tools than I know what to do with! Good fun though
Getting the metallic "hellblaumetallic" share just right was a real challenge.
Getting the metallic "hellblaumetallic" share just right was a real challenge.
Nice 1:1 and small version!
This one certainly isn't a replica of anything on my driveway......
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1991 Monogram kit, apparently first issued by Aurora in the 1960s. I decided to build it with a random V8 from the parts box and fatter wire wheels and tyres from a Monogram Corvette. Arches enlarged to suit, bumpers removed and some smoothing of the bodywork to give it the look of a sympathetically(ish) customised 1970s car that had suffered its original engine going pop.
First started it back in the '90s, finally got back onto it this year and finished it today.
Also finished this one recently, basically a reassembly of something I built around 1990/91 and for some reason it had ended up in various parts boxes.
1:24 Monogram 1937 Ford kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram 1937 Ford kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
I thought it would be a simple exercise, didn't need repainting or anything significant, but it didn't go together as well as I'd hoped. Good to see it one piece again though.
This one certainly isn't a replica of anything on my driveway......
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:25 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr1991 Monogram kit, apparently first issued by Aurora in the 1960s. I decided to build it with a random V8 from the parts box and fatter wire wheels and tyres from a Monogram Corvette. Arches enlarged to suit, bumpers removed and some smoothing of the bodywork to give it the look of a sympathetically(ish) customised 1970s car that had suffered its original engine going pop.
First started it back in the '90s, finally got back onto it this year and finished it today.
Also finished this one recently, basically a reassembly of something I built around 1990/91 and for some reason it had ended up in various parts boxes.
1:24 Monogram 1937 Ford kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram 1937 Ford kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
I thought it would be a simple exercise, didn't need repainting or anything significant, but it didn't go together as well as I'd hoped. Good to see it one piece again though.
Edited by Spottedlaurel on Thursday 30th July 22:58
Love the vibe of the Maserati Spottedlaurel, sacrilege that it is! I wasn't happy with my build anyway but yours has really shown a way forward. A rebuild is on the cards now! But retaining it's GTi status...
And the '37 Fat Fendered Ford with it's billet rocker covers...a proper piece of it's time!
And the '37 Fat Fendered Ford with it's billet rocker covers...a proper piece of it's time!
I counted 13 1/24th cars, 11 72nd/76th militaries, a plane, a Zeppelin, a 1/43rd white metal Cord L-29, 35th halftrack and a 00 railway layout as genuine works-in-progress....so knuckled down and started something new:
Nostalgia driven and great fun all the way, this is Executive Home by Faller:
Moulded in slightly swirly colours there's little paint beyond satin and matt lacquers to lose the plastic sheen, kit came with embossed pre-cut and printed paper panels for the crazy paving and stone work, outer box printed with interior picture panels. Lots of hot glue inside!
Nostalgia driven and great fun all the way, this is Executive Home by Faller:
Moulded in slightly swirly colours there's little paint beyond satin and matt lacquers to lose the plastic sheen, kit came with embossed pre-cut and printed paper panels for the crazy paving and stone work, outer box printed with interior picture panels. Lots of hot glue inside!
I really like that house!
Building, err, buildings would be a bit too much like my day job but maybe one day I'll do a bit of a 1960s/70s garage/house scene.
I'm currently on five active 1:24/25 WIPs, plus a couple of long-term dormant ones that may get resurrected soon. I'm pleased to finally get the Masaerati done, but I need to complete at least one more before I'll allow myself the pleasure of starting another kit.
Corvette was started by a friend in the early '90s, Datsun Roadster in 2007 and Ferrari in 2008. Roadster will probably be the next one to see completion, it nearly got finished some years ago but then got knocked onto the floor by my daughter.
I have some time off at present when we should have been going away, so I'm spending lots of time working on them out in the shed.
The pleasure of building in plastic is we can be as sacrilegious as we want to be. Lots of room for the V8 in that Maserati, alternatively it dropped onto the Corvette C2 chassis remarkably well. I nearly had a change of direction when I did that and it looked like this:
1:24 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
That's an LT5 in there....
Building, err, buildings would be a bit too much like my day job but maybe one day I'll do a bit of a 1960s/70s garage/house scene.
I'm currently on five active 1:24/25 WIPs, plus a couple of long-term dormant ones that may get resurrected soon. I'm pleased to finally get the Masaerati done, but I need to complete at least one more before I'll allow myself the pleasure of starting another kit.
Corvette was started by a friend in the early '90s, Datsun Roadster in 2007 and Ferrari in 2008. Roadster will probably be the next one to see completion, it nearly got finished some years ago but then got knocked onto the floor by my daughter.
I have some time off at present when we should have been going away, so I'm spending lots of time working on them out in the shed.
The pleasure of building in plastic is we can be as sacrilegious as we want to be. Lots of room for the V8 in that Maserati, alternatively it dropped onto the Corvette C2 chassis remarkably well. I nearly had a change of direction when I did that and it looked like this:
1:24 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram Maserati 3500 GT kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
That's an LT5 in there....
Edited by Spottedlaurel on Monday 3rd August 10:28
For fear of turning the stomachs of other posters I think we ought to get a room....my '37 has an LT5 in it, I've built two of those simple Revell 240Zeds over the decades and you've inspired me to hot rod my disappointing no-paint-just-polished-plastic Maserati experiment!
We seem to be cut from very similar cloth....
We seem to be cut from very similar cloth....
Ha ha! It's like someone is building my stash in a parallel universe.
Your Z looks great, it's surprising how such a basic kit can be made to look really effective. Is that Ford Purple Velvet?
Here's where mine has got to, with its Fairlady Roadster ancestor:
1:24 Datsun Fairlady Roadster and 280Z kits by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Datsun Fairlady Roadster and 280Z kits by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
By coincidence, the Roadster has the slotmags off the road car version of the Monogram Z (red moulding). The Z I'm building above is the yellow "Road Racer" version, which donated its wheels to my recently-completed Sunny Truck.
Revell do a nicely detailed Z at 1:25 scale with engine and suspension, but the windscreen aperture is a bit odd. I also have Fujimi and Hasegawa versions to do - the former has an engine, but the underbonnet area doesn't really justify the effort.
Good luck with the Maserati rebuild! Looks like you got your door hinges to work.
The '37 look excellent, very mean. LT5 engine swap not an easy one, it's big old lump with a lot of extra components isn't it?
Your Z looks great, it's surprising how such a basic kit can be made to look really effective. Is that Ford Purple Velvet?
Here's where mine has got to, with its Fairlady Roadster ancestor:
1:24 Datsun Fairlady Roadster and 280Z kits by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Datsun Fairlady Roadster and 280Z kits by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
By coincidence, the Roadster has the slotmags off the road car version of the Monogram Z (red moulding). The Z I'm building above is the yellow "Road Racer" version, which donated its wheels to my recently-completed Sunny Truck.
Revell do a nicely detailed Z at 1:25 scale with engine and suspension, but the windscreen aperture is a bit odd. I also have Fujimi and Hasegawa versions to do - the former has an engine, but the underbonnet area doesn't really justify the effort.
Good luck with the Maserati rebuild! Looks like you got your door hinges to work.
The '37 look excellent, very mean. LT5 engine swap not an easy one, it's big old lump with a lot of extra components isn't it?
Ha, yes, as you are me you know that's Capri purple! Are you the evil twin or am I?
Most of my stuff are shelf queens, ie only looking good on the outside.... the 37 has the LT5 looking in from the top but no suspension, cooling or drive line nonsense! Too much time in the roof-chop and pie-section of the body to be engineering the grubby bits. Packaging be damned! Wheel travel? Ha! "It's on air mate"!
As a rattle-can man I knew the Maserati's doors wouldn't work if my paint went anywhere near, hence the polished plastic experiment. Maybe a drift of something light will work...can't be worse than it's current bland and dull look! And as an exponent you'll understand throwing on some bmf! But like I'm going to get to it...13 works in progress are calling...make that 14 now
Most of my stuff are shelf queens, ie only looking good on the outside.... the 37 has the LT5 looking in from the top but no suspension, cooling or drive line nonsense! Too much time in the roof-chop and pie-section of the body to be engineering the grubby bits. Packaging be damned! Wheel travel? Ha! "It's on air mate"!
As a rattle-can man I knew the Maserati's doors wouldn't work if my paint went anywhere near, hence the polished plastic experiment. Maybe a drift of something light will work...can't be worse than it's current bland and dull look! And as an exponent you'll understand throwing on some bmf! But like I'm going to get to it...13 works in progress are calling...make that 14 now
Who needs opening doors on a kit? It's not like you're going to get in there.....
Fairlady Roadster finished today:
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
Fairlady Roadster finished today:
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
Another one finished and heading for the display cabinet:
1:24 Monogram 1965 Corvette kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram 1965 Corvette kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram 1965 Corvette kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
Fitted with LT5 engine from a later Corvette ZR-1 kit, wider wheels with lower profile tyres and Datsun 280Z seats.
1:24 Monogram 1965 Corvette kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram 1965 Corvette kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Monogram 1965 Corvette kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
Fitted with LT5 engine from a later Corvette ZR-1 kit, wider wheels with lower profile tyres and Datsun 280Z seats.
Spottedlaurel said:
Who needs opening doors on a kit? It's not like you're going to get in there.....
Fairlady Roadster finished today:
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
Can't get over how that looks so much like an MG Midget, think it's the door shape and chrome rubbing stripFairlady Roadster finished today:
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
1:24 Fujimi Datsun Fairlady Roadster kit by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
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