Model behaviour

[Worldslaziestbusker]

I knew from his first posts that I would enjoy interacting with WAS because he managed to be funny about going to Fishwick to look at models, which is sound Canberra wordplay, and he salted his posts with pictures of some beautifully made aircraft kits. Since then there has been some talk of scale construction projects from a few forum members, but very little in the way of pics. I am seeking to redress this with some 1/1 scale nerdiness and opening a thread about what's on the work bench, be it scale, radio controlled or just general crafty fakeness.
As an opening gambit, I offer up an image of a styrene talisman I call "Flashman" who I keep in my paint box. He reminds me of the bad old days when I could only afford to get my air fix from Airfix. I still buy their kits, but I don't have to.

[Worldslaziestbusker]

After several years without a project, I launched back into kits with my son and the Revell re-release of the Matchbox Supermarine Walrus, the first in a theme based on my dual obsessions with aviation and the Antarctic. This aircraft, the Snowgoose, was carried to Heard Island by landing craft, carried out one survey flight, and was wrecked by a storm. As the kit deteriorates from being played with by the toddler I intend re-modelling to represent the various stages of destruction, replacing his favourite with a refresh mint version at each step. It's holding up pretty well so far as he's pretty gentle with it.
The airframe was returned to Australia and restored by volunteers at the Point Cook Air Museum. It looks like this...

and is where we spend most of our time when we visit the facility.

[Worldslaziestbusker]

The Jet-Cat, rocket assisted Catalina that visited Macquarrie Island to drop off a replacement engineer for the one who drowned in a tarn during the first ANARE overwinter. This is the 1960s era Airfix kit from which Flashman came. A very bodgy kit in terms of fit and detail, and plenty of evidence of the Airfix phantom riveter which I couldn't be bothered sanding off. I'm not great at this, just better than I used to be, and as the kits tend to get played with, a lot of them are pretty much bashed together. Still, my first go at building a representation of what has become my favourite aircraft, and another in the Antarctic theme.

[wearestardust]

I too had been toying with the idea of a thread for non-computer hobby nerdness.

For my part, my second-most recent build: Spanish Air Force Canadair-built F-104G. 1/72 Hasegawa kit with aftermarket decals. My aircraft modelling tends to fall into two camps; Australian subjects where I agonise over accuracy, details, colours and markings; and jets, where I only care that they are pointy and colourful. Though a current Indian Air Force Canberra B(1)8 project is causing me to spend much time on the net poring over pics.







The Walrus turned out nice; I note you rigged it and managed to have it non-saggy. I presume the Cat was in the stash from days of yore, or you would have gone the Academy route?

My latest build, you will be pleased to know, WLB, is a Hunter F.6 (in Belgian markings - not that that's important, again they're just pretty). Pics to follow, but probably not until I'm back from hols in a couple of weeks.

[Worldslaziestbusker]

Originally Posted by wearestardust

The Walrus turned out nice; I note you rigged it and managed to have it non-saggy. I presume the Cat was in the stash from days of yore, or you would have gone the Academy route?

My latest build, you will be pleased to know, WLB, is a Hunter F.6 (in Belgian markings - not that that's important, again they're just pretty). Pics to follow, but probably not until I'm back from hols in a couple of weeks.

The Walrus only stayed rigged for the photos. No trace of the tracery remains. The cat was an impulse buy, made before I saw the Academy offering for almost the same price. I will build that one sometime, in the ZK-PBY colours of the one operating in New Zealand, or perhaps as the Portugeuse fire bomber before it came here to become Felix at HARS.

The Starfighter looks great, especially the metal effect on the tail. Is that paint or foil? Hunters look good in hessian sacking, so Belgian markings will make for a very attractive finished product.



I built a Dornier that had laid dormant in the yore period box. It was a quick and dirty effort to get a present together for a friend. I wanted to go all out steam punk on it, with rust, coal bunker and smokestacks, but ended up just using a marker to add the boilerplate effect. I think I will try this theme again sometime, and hope to make something of which Brunel would be proud.

[wearestardust]

@ Mr Black: One of the attractive things of all kinds of Soviet design, especially weaponry, is that they look like they were designed by six year-olds. Add to that the lunacy of the ekranoplan, and then with the Lun (which depending on one's sources, may or may not be the Caspian Sea Monster), top it off by adding MOAR ROCKETS!!!11!!1.

Be aware, should you ever feel the desire to give in to the urge: Anigrand kits are for experienced to expert level.

@WLB: steampunk? Not quite, but still ..

The back end of the F-104 is done with Testors Metallizer, which is my first ever attempt at using metallizer paint.

Hunter F.6 by Revell, in Belgian Air Force markings of 1960 (one of the options in the kit). Note, with respect to metal, the underside is actually painted silver on the underside of the full-size item. the end of the tail is metal, and is painted with metallizer, but one has to look closely to tell











thus meeting the dual criteria of a sexah jet with pretty markings.

Phun Phact: the lumps on the bottom of the fuselage below the cockpit where added to the aircraft to collect cartridge links (ie not cartridge cases, but the metal clips that connect cannon shells into belts) to prevent them being sucked into the engine. In the RAF these were called "Sabrinas" after a well-endowed entertainer of the time. In either the Belgian or Dutch air forces - I forget which - they were called "Sophias", for Sophia Loren, for the same reason.

Current project: Canberra B(1)8 which will end up in Indian Air Force Markings; probably for 1971, but I may have a change of heart at the last moment and do it in silver and markings for the UN intervention in the Congo.

[Worldslaziestbusker]

A fine looking hunter. The low viz markings of modern fast jets, themselves pointless since no-one who could see them wouldn't already know whether the aircraft that carried them was friend or foe, force an extra layer of boredom on increasingly similar airframes. The colours and lines of your project are a pleasant reminder of the visual feast that once was part of cutting edge aviation.

[Loki]

Enough of this techical military blandness.

One for WLB.

An anonymous and unnamed research vessel.

Paint by Loki and spawn.

[wolty]

All right. I had to play.
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[Worldslaziestbusker]

Originally Posted by Loki

Enough of this techical military blandness.

One for WLB.

An anonymous and unnamed research vessel.

Paint by Loki and spawn.

A fine effort. Where's me Kwells. I'm feeling queasy just looking at it.

@ Wolty - 88?