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Painting and markings:
Classic RAF colors from the Sixties, with Dark Slate Gray/Dark Sea Gray from above and Light Aircraft Gray below (Humbrol 163, 164 and 166, respectively). The aircraft received a light black ink wash in order to emphasize the kit’s fine engraved panel lines, as well as some dry-painting with lighter shades (including Dark Slate Gray/Dark Sea Gray from Modelmaster – these tones are a tad lighter than the Humbrol counterparts, and Humbrol 196, RAL 7035).
The cockpit interior was painted in dark gray, while the landing gear wells and the other interiors were left in Aluminum. The landing gear was painted in Steel, the wheel discs white and the air brakes in red from the inside.
Decals/markings come from an Xtradecal sheet for RAF Phantom FG.1/FGR.2s, "XL196" is, AFAIK, a ‘free’ (never used) RAF serial number that fits around 1962. Some additional stencils and markings were painted onto the fuselage by brush.
After decal application the kit received an overall coat of semi-gloss Tamiya acrylic varnish.
"A LIFE SAVER--Against marauding Indians, this natural fortress was used by the Famous Scout as a shelter for his troops during the early days of the West. This great guide and explorer made his headquarters in Ancient Taos in Northern New Mexico; and on the plaza there today stands The Kit Carson House, his old home. Both he and his wife lie buried just outside the Taos village."
postmarked 1948
The kit and its assembly:
This is a whif, but the Nanchang Q-6 was actually developed until 1989 – even though it never entered any service. It was over-ambitious and a dead end, overtaken by technological advances and the fact that Chinese development used to take decades rather than years.
Anyway, the Q-6 actually looked as if someone had glued the nose and air intake of a F-16 onto a MiG-23/27 fuselage - weird, but cool, so why not try this at home?
Like many kitbashing things, what sounds simple turned out to be a bit tricky in detail, even though the surgery was finally easier than expected. The model basis is pretty simple: I took an Academy MiG-27, sawed off the fuselage in the wing roots area (about 1cm, the cockpit section is an extra fuselage section), and did the same with an Italeri F-16 nose section, right behind the cockpit, where the front wheel well ends. The top insert for the single seater was left a bit longer, so that it would overlap with the MiG-23/27 spine.
When you fit these parts together, height is almost perfect, even the wing root/LERX angles match, but there are gaps left on the flanks where the original MiG-27 air intakes would be. These have to be covered, what creates lines reminiscent of the respective area on a MRCA Tornado. Furthermore, the spine behind the cockpit has to be sculpted, too.
Furthermore, the wing root levels of the MiG-23/27 and the F-16 did not match - they have a difference in height of about 4mm on the model, and this was the biggest challenge.
In order to compensate for this problem on my model, any LERX sign was removed from the F-16 nose. Inside of the F-16 section, a column was added that supports the rear upper half of the front fuselage, since the flanks had to go almost completely.
On the outside, the necessary intersections/extensions sculpted new with 2C putty, extending the MiG-23/27 lines forward. The final surface finish was done with NC putty. This major surgery was less complicated than expected - lots of work, though, but feasible.
The new front section with its blended fuselage/LERX area around the cockpit reminds surprisingly much of the MiG-29? As a side note: when you look at CG simulations of this aircraft, this area is a frequent field of trial and error. You find unconclusive, if not impossible designs.
Other changes include a less modern canopy from a MiG-21 (I think it comes from an Academy MiG-21F kit), which was more tricky to fit onto the original F-16 canopy than the LERX stuff. The F-16 canopy looked just too modern for my taste. An old Airfix pilot figure was added, too.
Another new feature is a new jet pipe, a J-79 nozzle from an Italeri Kfir that fits perfectly into the rear fuselage, and the fin. The latter was taken as a leftover part from my recent CF-151A project and comes from a 1:144 scale Tu-22M bomber (Dragon). It's higher, but less deep, and I thought that a slightly different shape and more area would be suitable for an attack aircraft. For the same reason the single, foldable stabilizer fin under the rear fuselage was replaced by two fixed strakes (from the F-16). Small details, but they change the look and make the aircraft appear more simple.
The landing gear was taken from the MiG-27, the front wheel strut had to be slightly shortened due to the reduced wheelbase on the Q-6.
The ordnance was puzzled together – according to current BAF weapons in use. I went for unguided missiles (taken from the Academy MiG-27 donation kit) and some 100kg iron bombs, leftover from a Trumpeter Il-28 bomber kit. These were arranged under the wing roots on improvised tandem MERs.
I did not even try to engrave new panel lines on the new front section - actually, almost the whole upper surface is featureless since it was made with putty. But bot 2C and NC putty are pretty touchy to drilling or engraving (as the rather fruitless attempt to drill open cavities for the two guns proved...), so I decided to just use paint effects.
Finally managed to get my hands on the iPad Camera Connection Kit. It is seriously smooth and easy to use - just plug in an iPhone or a camera via USB, or use the SD card connector to plug in the memory card from your camera, open the photos app and hit import. Within seconds all your new photos are available to review on the fantastic iPad screen.
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Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is the name of the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow on Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent. It is one of the Medway megaliths.
Kit's Coty with the Medway valley in the background.
Although badly damaged by ploughing and later vandalism the impressive entrance to the tomb still survives. It consists of three sarsen orthostats supporting a horizontal capstone with a total height of almost 3m. This would have been at one end of a 70m earthern long barrow oriented east-west. A further stone at the site known as the General's Stone or General's Tomb was destroyed in 1867 and may have come from the chamber. William Stukeley visited the site in 1722 and was able to sketch the site whilst it was still largely intact. Before this, Samuel Pepys also saw it and wrote:
Three great stones standing upright and a great round one lying on them, of great bigness, although not so big as those on Salisbury Plain. But certainly it is a thing of great antiquity, and I am mightily glad to see it.
Stukeley's 1722 prospect of Kit's Coty House with its remnant long barrow still just visible and labelled 'The Grave'
In 1854, it was investigated by Thomas Wright who found 'rude pottery' beneath the stones and further Neolithic sherds were recovered from the surrounding field in 1936. Trenching in 1956 located the silted-up ditch surrounding the southern side of the monument and further stones which had been pushed into the ditch when the monument was partially demolished. An excavation in advance of High Speed 1, which runs nearby found the remains of a Neolithic longhouse.
In 1885, Kit's Coty was one of the first sites in Britain to become a Scheduled Ancient Monument and the iron railings that surround it were added a few years later at the suggestion of Augustus Pitt Rivers. It is now in the care of English Heritage.
As only the megalithic portion of the barrow was fenced in by the railings, the long earth barrow has been continually ploughed away since, with uncovered stones dumped in woodland nearby by the farmer and the mound itself, still visible in the mid-twentieth century, now gone.
The site is traditionally known as the burial site of Catigern, brother of Vortimer and son of Vortigern following a battle with the Saxon Horsa in the mid fifth century AD - listed in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as taking place in 455 AD. In 1947, one of the stones from the kerb was removed.
The Countless Stones, also known as Little Kit's Coty House lie around 450m to the south. The name "Kits Coty" allegedly means "Tomb in the Forest" according to signs at the site, possibly related to the Ancient British *kaitom, later *keiton, meaning "forest".
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Kit Galinha pintadinha: Convites + Álbum espiral/Livro de Mensagens + tags
Convite Galinha Pintadinha
My fancy-schmancy food garnishing kit that looks to be something that a serial killer would be interested in having in their home...
It includes: Pointed Paring Knife, Slanted Knife, Curved Paring Knife, Birds Beak Knife, Fruit/Vegetable Decorator, Fruit/Vegetable Saw, Stripper-Pointer, Stripper-Flat, Double Sided Veg./Fruit Scoop, Crinkle Cutter, 6 U Carving Tools w/handles, 6 V Carving Tools w/handles, Utility Knife, Shallow U Small w/handle, Shallow U Med. w/handle, Shallow U Large w/handle, Flat Bottom Small U w/handle, Flat Bottom Large U w/handle, Reversed V w/handle, Pointed Spoon Small w/handle, Pointed Spoon Med.w/handle,Pointed Spoon Large w/handle, Flouted Single Small w/handle, Flouted Single Large w/handle, Multi-Flouted Small w/handle, Multi-Flouted Large w/handle, Waved Small w/handle, Waved Large w/handle, Double Sided Flat Bottom U, Double Sided Large V, Double Sided Large U, Double Sided Curved U, Double Sided Curved V, Angled V, T Tweezers, 3 scalloped cutters, Carrot Shaver, Double Happiness Template, Rabbit Cutter, Rounded Flower Cutter, Butterfly Cutter, Dove Cutter, Flying Dove Cutter, Bear Cutter, Dragon Cutter, Phoenix Cutter, Heart Cutter, 1 Heart Cutter 2 Heart Cutter 3 Heart Cutter 4 Heart Cutter 5 Leaf Cutter Tulip Flower Cutter Goose Cutter Tear Drop Cutter 1 Tear Drop Cutter 2 Tear Drop Cutter 3 Tear Drop Cutter 4 Tear Drop Cutter 5 Tear Drop Cutter 6 Flower Cutter 5 Scallops 1 Flower Cutter 5 Scallops 2 Flower Cutter 5 Scallops 3 Chinese Character (Long Life) Chinese Character (Happiness) Chinese Character (Wealth) Chinese Character (Double Happiness) Chinese Character (Get Rich)
The kit and its assembly:
This whiffy Yankee Gina was inspired by a profile that had popped up during WWW picture search a while ago. Tracking it back, I found it to be artwork created and posted at DeviantArt by user “Jeremak-J”, depicting a G.91Y in polish markings and sporting a two-tone grey camouflage with light blue undersides and a medium waterline. I found the idea bizarre, but attractive, and, after some research, I found a small historic slot that might have made this “combo” possible.
When I recently delved through my (growing…) kit pile I came across a Matchbox G.91Y in a squashed box and with a cracked canopy – and decided to use that kit for a personal Polish variant.
The Matchbox G.91Y bears light and shadow galore. While it is IIRC the only IP kit of this aircraft, it comes with some problem areas. The fit of any major kit component is mediocre and the cockpit tub with an integral seat-thing is …unique. But the overall shape is IMHO quite good – a typical, simple Matchbox kit with a mix of (very fine) raised and engraved panel lines.
The OOB canopy could not be saved, but I was lucky to find a replacement part in the spares box – probably left over from the first G.91Y I built in the early Eighties. While the donor part had to be stripped from paint and was quite yellowed from age, it saved the kit.
It was built almost OOB, since major changes would not make sense in the context of my background story of a cheap 2nd hand purchase for an air force on a lean budget. I just added some details to the cockpit and changed the ordnance, using missile pods and iron bombs of Soviet origin (from a Kangnam/Revell Yak-38).
The exhausts were drilled open, because OOB these are just blank covers, only 0.5 mm deep! Inside, some afterburners were simulated (actually main wheels from an Arii 1:100 VF-1).
The flaps were lowered and extended, which is easy to realize on this kit.
The clumsy, molded guns were cut away, to be later replaced with free-standing, hollow steel needles.
In order to add some more exterior detail I also scratched the thin protector frames around the nozzles with thin wire.
Since the replacement canopy looked quite old and brittle, I did not dare cutting the clear part in two, so that the cockpit remained closed, despite the effort put into the interior.
A personal extra is the pair of chaff/flare dispensers on the rear fuselage, reminiscent of Su-22 installations.
Festa dell'Unità d'Italia e delle Forze Armate
Porte Aperte alla Caserma Ceccaroni di Rivoli (TO)
Esercito Italiano
Caserma Ceccaroni di Rivoli
1° Reggimento Logistico di Manovra
E' un kit costituito da 10 buste che contengono un fazzoletto umido di carbone attivo cadauna che hanno lo scopo di decomporre e di neutralizzare l'azione tossica degli aggressivi chimici nervini e vescicanti. E' distribuito a ciascun combattente e costituisce dotazione individuale
The pride and joy of all model builders is their stash. As you can see I have a few waiting to be built.
The "Wirbelwind" flak-panzer is a commission job for the same person who gave me the M24 grenade replica.
I also have two Tiger 1 kits, one will be built as Tank 205 which was Michael Wittmann's tank in the famous Villers-Bocage battle (Tamiya kit).
The other will be built as Tiger 007, a command tank also commanded by Wittmann in which he and his crew died in action in August 1944.
The 55 Chevy has also been started, just got to take some pics of it.