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Post by coenraad on Aug 16, 2010 10:10:15 GMT -5
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Post by okami on Aug 16, 2010 10:51:14 GMT -5
I plead guilty - I'm a bit of an avid modeller myself. Harry can probably testify of this. :3 Very nice models too; I recognise quite a few of them, as I have the very same in my collection. No current shots of my models, but I have this one of my desk. I really need to find me a working system to organise my builds... >.<
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Post by garryrussell on Aug 16, 2010 11:59:34 GMT -5
Nice collection
I lost all my earlier projects but I have a few on the list some of which I've started
Glencoe Viscount being converted to a Srs.800, SM Viscount being converted to the Tay test aircraft and a BN Trislander made from two Airfix Islanders.
I have a Heller DC 6B which is going to be converted into a Canadair C4 and an Airfix Nimrod to be built as a Comet 4B.......long term projects.
Garry
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 16, 2010 12:45:52 GMT -5
Nice models. Wow Gary, you chose some complex kitbashing there. Should be worth it though.
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Post by garryrussell on Aug 16, 2010 13:12:39 GMT -5
All fairly straight forward but a lot of it although the Nimrod will be a bit of a challenge with the engine bays being very different on the underside. The SM Viscount comes in a Tay version which is basic instructions.they forget to mention the smaller fin....no 3-views and it is a standard Viscount 800 with resin replacements for the wings, engines and main gear. The wings are unusable so I've had to cut down the 800 wings. Also I've cut the windscreen area out and at present I'm working on the portholes. I;'ve cut out and made a new rudder...As the viscount is not a parallel tube it was a bit awkward cutting sections out of the fuse. The Trislander is simple cutting two Islander fuses into sections and making up the longer fuse, shifting the baggage door and cutting four new window. A new tail and rear engine nacelle is being fashioned and the tailplane extended...a lot of fun though. They are both in the early stages. With the Glencoe I have to remove the strip of fuse containing the portholes and reposition all of them plus add some new ones. The Glencoe Viscounts windows are too small but that easily corrected. The Nimrod to Comet will be big as I want to make the 4B so I will have to shorten the wing and delete the pod tanks. The fuse will need lengthening as well as modifying but I don't know when I'll start that. The DC-6B into a C4 is straight words if I can get some nice Merlins. ..just a case of shortening the fuse, blunting the nose and filing down the tail and tailplane to DC 4 type adding the tailplane fillet Unlike the DC4M1 which was pure DC 4, the DC4 M2 and C4 were pressurised and working hand in hand with Douglas produced what was essentially a modified shortened DC 6 fuse so not too difficult a conversion. But I'm in no rush Things on both models have move on a bit since these pics......no cleaning up or filling had been done Compared to un modified Islander Taped together for a visual Fuse tape and one wing shortened by 20inches/144m at the root..other wing with just engine cut off but not yet shortened. No patching up or filling done yet. Sorry.....didn't mean to hijack.....but he did ask ;D Garry
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Post by coenraad on Aug 16, 2010 13:35:06 GMT -5
Looks like some nice models on that desk Okami. But how many are you building at the same time?
Russel, do you have any pictures or could you take some of any finished kitbashed models? How do you make those new parts, you buy sheets of plastic or something?
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Post by garryrussell on Aug 16, 2010 14:36:08 GMT -5
I've none finished as I lost everything with the domestic situation and am just getting back into it
The Trilander tail is the Islander tail cut from the rudder and shaped to for the front with a piece of plastic card cut to form the rear then sanded to cross section shape. The engine nacelle is a plastic card box.
The windscreen bars of the Viscount are heat stretched sprue.
Previous lost included a Lancastrian a nearly complete Canadair and a Carvair made from a Minicraft DC 4 with a plastic card fin and balsa nose.
I have also got an Airfix Comet 3B made from a 4B somewhere part done..........mainly just a fuse reduction in that case.
I did have a collection of Glencoe Viscount 700, with and without radar and the different cockpit bars and square rounded point or cutlass blade props...that sort of thing, just detail things like the eleventh window on the starboard of ex BEA V.701 and vertral airscoops on the earliest
I had Capital, BEA RS Cambrian Air France and Air Canada.
I also had an almost complete Airfix Vanguard converted to a Merchantman with the door open and an interior of sorts....I may still have that in the attic, which sadly I can't climb up into.
I made several BAC One-Eleven including the prototype and some Super One-Elevens with the long fuse and all thes had the needed kit mods.
Garry
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Post by coenraad on Aug 16, 2010 15:37:56 GMT -5
You sound like a buisy man. Mine are all just standards. I am not really that good at bashing hehe.
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Post by garryrussell on Aug 16, 2010 16:07:01 GMT -5
I don't spend much time on it due to health conditions
It's not hard really...just need to give it a go
Cut too much away and you can always back fill with plastic paste made by mixing plastic shavings with liquid glue and of course filler.
The once smoothed off, paint covers everything.
Some of my tools are basic
I do use needle files but a lot of my filing is done with emery boards...that is nail files.
My sanding blocks for small areas is a piece of emery paper wrapped around and jammed into a wooden clothes peg....a sanding block with a handle ;D
Simple but effective..you don't need to spend loads on fancy tools.
I often fill wing gaps etc by first stretching some sprue and jamming it into the gap and applying liquid cement....that gives a strong bond as well as filling most of the gap and just finish off with a bit of filler
Like most things, it is nowhere as difficult as it at first seems.
Even the advanced stuff that is difficult is not as hard as you imagine......the hard stuff is easy and the impossible stuff is hard...but anything is possible ;D
The worst bit is spending all your spare dosh on a kit then trying to pluck up enough courage to start sawing it up.....first cut is usually with the eyes closed......well not really but you know what I mean. Above all get some accurate plan and then it's a simple matter of matching the plan
They don't have to be detailed, just accurate
To stretch the Glencoe Viscount 700 into an 800, on a piece of A4 paper I drew around the fuse half but only as far and just forward of the wing..The I moved the fuse half forwards to the equivalent of the stretch and drew around the front part
I now had an outline of a 800 that fitted the kit shape.
Simple then to then cut the font off one kit just behind the canopy bulge and another kit just on the wing le and rtim the two parts until they fitted the outline.........nice and straight too doing it that way
Next day, when dry I repeated the cutting process for the other half but sellotaped on of the pieces after cleaning up to the first half and trimmed until it matched the extended side.
Garry
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Post by Dee Waldron - HJG on Aug 16, 2010 22:06:22 GMT -5
Looks nice, and interesting. I don't build plastic kits anymore. But I do have quite a collection of un built models (older, classics) still in their original boxes, stacked up in my closet. I've traded some of them on E-bay, and made a little pocket change. All my display models (mostly airliners) are all die-cast. Dee
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Post by coenraad on Aug 17, 2010 3:13:54 GMT -5
I'll give it a go one day Garry, i hope your health is doing fine.
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Post by okami on Aug 17, 2010 15:05:56 GMT -5
Hi Coenraad, My desk right now's a mess - the kits currently on it are the following: - Avro Lancaster Mk.III - Bell OH-13S Sioux - Bell RP-63A "Pin Ball" - Bell UH-1D Iroquois - Cessna A-37B Dragonfly - Douglas DB8A-3N - Fairey Fox Mk.VIII - Fairey Swordfish Mk.I - Junkers Ju 52/3m - LWS RWD 14b - Macchi MC.202V - North American B-25J Mitchell - PZL P-23B Karas - Renard R-31 - Republic F-84G Thunderjet - Republic RF-84G Thunderjet - Sikorsky UH-34E Seahorse Together with some vehicles: - Citroën TA - Landrover 1 Ton ambulance - Leopard 1A5(BE) - Sherman M4A1 - Vickers Light Tank Mk.VIC - Willys Jeep - Willys Jeep (Amphibious) I have the very bad habit of beginning one kit while another one's still on the desk, which explains a lot. Though I did manage to finish 3 Hueys (a UH-1B, UH-1M and AB-204) and a Cayuse the past week, while my internet connection was down... As to finished models, here are some quick shots of some of them: This last one may hold some subtle clues as to my native country. And then, of course, there's still the "to build" stash, which is steadily reaching epic proportions (picture taken March 2009)...
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Post by coenraad on Aug 17, 2010 16:29:36 GMT -5
Holy crap hahahaha that is a huge pile with models to make. Is that connie on the lower right side of the picture for sale? ^^ Some nice models there by the way.
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Post by garryrussell on Aug 17, 2010 16:51:53 GMT -5
You've got the heller Warning Star.....is that still mega rare???
Garry
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jan
DC-6B
props are us.....
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Post by jan on Aug 18, 2010 16:23:19 GMT -5
Hi guys, Modelling started al my flying on the simulator But i have also large pile of aircraft (450+) and most of em are the classic props. The smaller fighter aircraft in my collection are mostly 1/48 scale but the 4 engine heavy's and other propliners and jets are in 1/72 amongst them are several privateers and Connie's DC-6es and the B-36 peacemaker i also built airliners in 1/144 scale. Lets say that i built everything that i like Its nice to see that it is so popular amongst us ;D My regards Jan
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