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Originally Posted by Katana1000S
Go rescue that JU 88  Its a great kit and I've not had to buy many extra's for mine ... just canopy masks I think.
The recent Revell 1/32 kits are serious amazing value for money, I know I want their old 1/32 Hunter too now that you mention it ... damn you oh and they are bringing out a 1/32 Heinkel He 219 UHU this year too that I wont be able to resist!
Just went and snapped a couple of pics of my 1/32 in progress that I mentioned ... as you can see the Trumpeter 1/32 Lightning is big compared to a Hawk of the same scale and also of a Spitfire of the same scale too ... I like to stick to one scale for this reason ... to get an idea of scale of aircraft you would not normally see beside each other.
The Lightning is almost ready for primer now ... I've not sprayed over the canopy's, they are masked off, the Hawk is almost ready for primer too ... hate the red plastic to build with! Not too much filling or sanding on either of them compared to the spit. I also tried using silver foil on the nose of the Lightning for the first time too here.
And last shot shows the old Revell Spitfire MK1 I mentioned, this is a really old and bad fitting kit and I wanted to practise on this with an airbrush and several other area's before starting my Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire master-kit ... the original decals were ruined, so just used some spares on this over Klear in ad hoc fasion ... I'll add a matt coat later and also try some more weathering effects, but my confidence is getting better with these big kits all the time.
As you can see I build 1/12 Motorcycle kits too (hence my user name) and now 1/350 ships ... where will it end?
Happy Modelling |
There's quite a few Hunters around on ebay from time to time (particularly the German ebay, if you can speak the language. I can't, but I can at least guess
). I've got the FGR.9 at the moment, but I've really got my sights set on the F.6 they did some time ago, since I'd love to do one in the black arrows scheme (I'll probably do the Hawk all black too, it's a nice way to get around the red plastic, but it also looks extremely smart like that I think). One warning about the Hunter though if you find one, is you'll probably need an after-market pitot tube. Mine was snapped in half on the sprue in the box since it's extremely thin at the tip, but Hannants have a metal one that someone's done so I imagine it wasn't only me that had that problem.
Those kits look great though! Now I'm even more tempted to get that Lightning! (Although I will rescue the Ju88 first!
) I agree with the old Revell point though. I got their old Typhoon (the Hawker kind, not the Eurofighter) and it's just naff in places. The undercarridge doors fall well short of covering the bays (although the fit is perfect, their just clearly not long enough by about an inch or so, though that's another one of my favourite things about Revell, that you can
usually do them gear up without chopping away too much) and the plastic is terribly warped in places, particularly around the ailerons, probably because the mold was old when it was made. I only really got it to get used to painting the RAF Grey-Green in large scale though, so it's not a huge problem. Their newer kits are just awesome for the price though, nothing comes close really.