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ROYAL AIR FORCE BAe HAWK T.MK1 "THE RED ARROWS"
1:72 PLASTIC MODEL KIT 2001
(Car boot find)
SVF-41 "Black Aces" VF-19 Excalibur, with FAST packs. 1/72 scale plastic model kit from Hasegawa. From the same timeline as the Japanese animation "Macross Plus" and "Macross 7".
1959 CORVETTE
Revell – H-1242
1/25 Scale – 1961
Art by Jack Leynnwood
This is a reissue of the stock Corvette kit released a year earlier, modified for racing. Revell made the same competition changes to their Austin-Healey 100-Six and Porsche Carrera at the same time.
Here is my Academy 1/48 scale Huey modified to represent a RAAF B model from the Vietnam War era of 1967. The rescue winch was scratch built. Decals yet to be added.
I just finished this 70s vintage Academy kit. Although it was marketed as 1/35 scale, it is much closer to 1/32. I used the suspension and road wheels from a M4A3 75mm Tamiya Sherman kit. Before Academy became a force on their own in the modelling industry, they would blatantly copy Tamiya molds part by part. This kit was a direct copy of the early Tamiya M10 mold. In 2001 Academy released a very nice 1/35 M10 tooled by their own engineers. Tamiya has also released a much more accurate M10 in recent years.
My sixth kit airplane, fourth DHC-6 Twin Otter - 1/72 scale by Revell (Matchbox casting).
G-BZFP is/was a very well travelled plane. Built in 1980, she appears to have flown in Gabon, French Polynesia, USA (Florida, then Hawaii), and returned to Canada where she was painted in British Airways livery prior to delivery to Loganair. Arriving on the 11th of August 2000 at Glasgow, she lasted 15 years with Scotland’s Airline before flying east to Switzerland and her new owners.
Foxtrot Papa is pictured here at Barra Airport, a new diorama made specifically for displaying my plane model fleet.
Loganair began their franchise agreement with FlyBe in 2008, following the end of their agreement with British Airways. This would continue until an allegedly acrimonious split in 2017, leading Loganair to go it alone. FlyBe attempted to retaliate by franchising with Eastern Airlines and competing on Loganair routes, however this failed. 2019 saw rumours of a code sharing agreement, indicating the rift had healed, however FlyBe would not last long. Having exhausted their finances the company would fold in 2020, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a cause. Loganair swiftly stepped in to take on a number of FlyBe routes.
Having bought the rights, Thyme Opco relaunched FlyBe Limited in 2021. Based at Birmingham Airport, their first flight was from there to Belfast, on the 13th April 2022. They ceased trading on 28th January 2023, having lost an average £5 million per month, and leaving creditors short of £684 million.
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Here is a super-cool Nakamura Gold Skull model kit I got from a friend in Japan. I think it's from the '70's. It is a gold chrome skull with a wind up so it can move along the floor.
The actual skull isn't nearly as impressive as the box art.
Like most airplane / car / space model builders, there always seems to be another gray I need to mix or match. I've got more, I just stopped at 50 for this picture, making sure to have my favorite, Polly Scale, well represented. Also Testor's Model Master Acryl II, (or just Acryl, nobody but me remembers the first version).
Polly Scale and Model Master paints are both made by the RPM company, but the Polly Scale paint costs $1 more per bottle, and is a superior brushing paint, in my opinion. Dead flat and able to be put on in extremely thin coats, Polly Scale is the water based paint that had the range and usability to allow me give up oil based paints.
Testor's Model Master Acryl is nearly as good, a little thinner, needing more coats to cover, but showing brush marks more as well. Go figure. They smell different.
Tamiya make an acrylic with an alcohol and water thinner that's like no other water based product. Its very thick, so seemingly covers in a few coats, but it builds up, especially the gloss versions. But the colors are beautiful and dense, the pigments very fine. Its like a super premium house paint. If you work diligently, you can build up 2 or 3 very thin coats of the gloss and get an actually glossy finish without it being too thick. Its not the most user-friendly but the cap molded in plastic the color of the paint, and the obsessive beauty of the colors, makes it hard to pass it by. It used to be the easiest to find, 30 years ago, but Testor's Acryl is easier in the USA today.
Gunzie Sangyo is another Japanese product, with the bottle caps molded in plastic (more or less) the color of the paint. They too have a unique not-just-water solvent system. Not the same as Tamiya, and the two don't actually mix very well.
Unlike oil-based enamels, acrylic paints don't all play well together....
Some very good modelers swear by Tamiya, some by Model Master Acryl, some by Gunzie Sangyo, some by Polly Scale.
Rarer birds in this collection are bottles of Pactra's old acrylic line, before RPM bought them and "rationalized" their line to not complete with the flagship Testor's product. The Pactra bottles are 4th from the right, back row, and first on the left, 2nd from back row. They have black metal caps but a colored sticker that gives the stock number, name and FS595 number.
One squeeze bottle of "steel" is from Vallejo, in Spain, and a second bottle, next to it in the back row, is a stainless steel from Blick Art. The rarest bottle in this collection is the beige/khaki grey/tan directly in front of the Tamia spray can. It was a super-niche model paint marketed to Luftwaffe fans, and the color is RLM 02 gray.
Polly Scale is specialized stuff you have to look for. Hobbies Unlimited in San Lorenzo stocks it in railroad colors, in larger bottles, (1.5 oz? 2oz?) Sheldon's Hobbies in San Jose has all the military colors in the 3/4 ounce bottles. Both also have Acryl. Hobbies Unlimited and Berkeley Ace Hardware have Acryl, Tamiya, and others. Berkeley Ace has the newer Humbrol acrylic, and oil paints.
Boeing Aircraft Company's color 707 gray (between 706 and 708, not named after the popular 4 engine jet airliner) for 1/144 airliners was a good challenge for me- there were oil based versions available but no water based one when I started mixing my own. I ended up with 3 parts Testor's Model Master Acryl II 36495 gray and 8 parts Acryl flat white.
Then there are the pure metallic paints, - stainless steel made using powdered stainless steel, Aluminum made with powdered aluminum. And that maid of all work, metallic gray, a mix of black, white and aluminum pigment. Its #56 in Tamiya's acrylic range and it was #56 in the old Pactra oil-based model paint line too.
The Model Master rattle can gray is an oil-based paint, and the Tamiya is a synthetic lacquer. One bottle of 'silver', third from the back, third from the left edge, is Testor's famous Chrome Silver enamel. Another bottle of Testor's oil-based metallic paint is at the back left corner. The Testor's oil-based enamels are in 1/4 oz bottles.
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Here is another view of my modified 1/35 scale Tamiya early IDF Centurion set up to appear as if it was in the Sinai desert.
The first of my Alien Visitors was made from two Japanese plastic kits. The head, torso, hands and feet came from one of four “Monster Cyborg” kits made by Imai around 1984. The arms and legs in this kit were just thin rods intended to flail about as the figure was jiggled. I found more substantial limbs in an older (1976?) Marui kit of a robot named Jagaranda. I went to the trouble of combining these two kits because I really wanted to use the Imai head, which seemed to be based on the goblin-like creatures reportedly seen in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1955. This was a nice change of pace from all the usual “grays”!
The gun came from a Tomy Zoid. I littered the base with some tools to give a rustic, farm-like look, thinking that the extraterrestrial might be looking for a cow.
Completed in 1993.
VF-1J Valkyrie piloted by Max Jenius. "What an ace pilot!" 1/72 scale plastic kit from Hasegawa. From the Japanese animation "Super-dimensional Fortress Macross".
Alien Visitor number two is a more common “gray” type, and I set him down in New Mexico. The figure was sculpted by Mike Cusanelli who sold it as a resin piece under his early Ridwolf label as “Mars Man”. This was a straight painting job stuck to a base along with a big Aurora rock and a piece of lichen.
Completed in 1996.