As I said before the hardest part of this build and the most time consuming was masking the splinter camouflage. German splinter camouflage is relatively easy task to do as the lines are all straight. So out with the Tamiya masking tape and away we go. The largest problem to over come is that the splinter . . . → Read More: Masking Splinter Camouflage of the Airfix Henchel Hs123
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 Leave a comment  1-48th scale Ww2 Airplanes, Airfix Model Airplane Kits, Airplane Model Building, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Eastern Theatre Operations, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build  Camouflage, Canopies, Canopy, Case In Point, Caution, De Havilland Mosquito, Eduard Kits, Express, Framing, Job, Ki, Knife Blade, Masking Tape, Masks, Mosquito, Most Time Consuming, Paint, Painting, Painting Interior, Scalpel Blade, Time Consuming Task, X Acto Well here we are guys, my latest project the Airfix Henschel Hs123. I’ve always liked this kit right back to the time I first built it some where back in the dark mists of time when cars were insured against viking attack. I use it as a test if you like, to see how far my . . . → Read More: Airfix 1-72 Henschel Hs123 Leave a comment Airfix Model Airplane Kits, Airplane Model Building, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Eastern Theatre Operations, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Airfix Kits, Better Halves, Bottom Wing, Camouflage, Cockpit, Fuselage, Golf Ball, Honey, Instrument Panel, Joints, Masks, Mists Of Time, Molds, Plasticard, Putty, Reflection, Seams, Seventies, Sixties, Wings Airfix Finnish 1/72nd Me109G6 Okay guys here it is my new project. I know, I know I said I was going to do the Italeri 1/48Th scale FW190 with photo etch! but as any modeler knows, when inspiration strikes (or in this case seeing the new Airfix kit) you do what inspires you! I wanted to . . . → Read More: 1/72 Airfix Me109G6 (new mold) Leave a comment Airfix Model Airplane Kits, Airplane Model Building Airf, Canopy, Cockpit Detail, Decals, Fw190, Inspiration Strikes, Interior Details, Italeri, Matchbox Kits, Mold, Nz Dollars, Photo Etch, Pilot Figure, Revelation, Scale Thickness, Scratchbuilding, Seams, Skillful Design, Surface Detail, Trenches, Wheel Wells 1/72 Airfix Strikemaster I thought it timely to discuss the topic of decaling and the reason you ask? I’ve just finished a nightmare decaling session with my latest non World War Two build, Mk88 Strikemaster by Airfix, as flown by the RNZAF. (See a theme here??) The decals were brittle beyond belief, not printed on the usual . . . → Read More: Decals: How to Apply Them and Solve Problems Leave a comment Airfix Model Airplane Kits, Airfix Strikemaster, Airplane Model Building, Model airplane decals, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Model Airplane Projects Case In Point, Cigarette Smoke, Excesses, Glue, Ground Attack Aircraft, Habit, Hasegawa, Luftwaffe, Model Airplane, Model Info, Model Kits, Model Makers, Old Model, Picture Frame, Plastic Model, Revelation, Rnzaf, Scale Model, Stashes, Strikemaster, Sunlight Fading, Tragedies, World War Two, Yellows I left you wondering what could be done with the easily removed acrylic paint, as I sat there wondering what I could possibly do to make the paint more resilient a light went on. It occurred to me that if I was to cover it with something tougher it would make the paint last longer, so . . . → Read More: Finishing Revell’s 1-72nd Do 24T Leave a comment Airplane Model Building, Posts by NZFlyBoy, Revell Dornier Do 24T, WW2 Eastern Theatre Operations, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Acrylic Paint, Bench, Canon, Decals, Detriment, Dornier, Drawings, Enamel, Glue, Masking Tape, Nook, Nook And Cranny, Planing Hull, Revell, Sat, Shading, Sheen, Sorts, Turret, Turrets, Upper Surfaces, Varnish Okay so here we are the part that I was dreading, joining the parasol wing to the fuselage! To be fair I delayed it a bit by building the engine cowls and painting the engines, as well as building the tail assembly and gluing it in place. When I figured I couldn’t delay it any longer (Not . . . → Read More: Revell 1:72 Dornier Do24T, the next step Okay guys here it is my latest project. Flying boats have always fascinated me, particularly the larger ones, Short Sunderland, Kawanishi H8K2, Consolidated Catalina and the Dornier Do24T. This is Revell’s offering (which I believe is the Italeri mold) detail is a little sparse, but you can always add that. Panel lines are recessed and more or . . . → Read More: Revell 1:72 Dornier Do24T Flying boat Leave a comment Airplane Model Building, Posts by NZFlyBoy, Revell Dornier Do 24T, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Applicator Brush, Catalina, Cockpit Canopy, Consolidated Catalina, Cutting Board, Decals, Doorway, Evergreen Scale Models, Flight Engineers, Flying Boat, Flying Boats, Fuselage, Gap, Liquid Cement, Masking Tape, Modeling Supplies, Mold, Radio Operators, Seams, Short Sunderland, Sponsons, Super Glue, Trusty, Turret, Turrets 1/48 Italeri-p40m Re-scribing panel lines, the very term can make even experienced modelers cringe. Now the molds used for the Italeri kit are the old AMT/ERTL ones and show some deterioration from age. The fuselage is not to well formed and requires some remedial work sanding filling and re-scribing of panel lines. Now this is very easily . . . → Read More: Scribing Panel Lines on the Italeri P40M Leave a comment 1-48 P40M-N, 1-48th scale Ww2 Airplanes, Airplane Model Building, NZ WW2 Model Airplanes, Posts by NZFlyBoy, RNZAF 15 Squadron, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Array, Case Line, Circles, Cock Pit, Drawings, Dry Brushing, Eduard, Electrical Tape, Fuselage, Fuses, Glue, Instrument Panel, Italeri, Line Drawings, Lion Roar, Modeller, Moulds, Oil Washes, Panel Lines, Pundits, Putty, Rectangles, Reference Material, Remedial Work, Rudder Pedals, Scriber, Scribes, Shapes, Squares, Tri Tool, Triangles Federal standard colours and their equivalents in hobby paints. While taking a break from figuring out how to document my build on the 1/48 scale Italeri P40M-N I’ll be building next, I realized I had two 1/72 scale kits of the North American Harvard to build. One by Airfix and the other by Academy. I liked one . . . → Read More: Searching for colour matches for FS 595a & b colours Leave a comment 1-48th scale Ww2 Airplanes, Airfix Model Airplane Kits, Airplane Model Building, NZ WW2 Model Airplanes, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Eastern Theatre Operations, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Academy, Acrylic Paints, Airfix, Camouflage, Colour Scheme, Colour Schemes, Colours, Enamel, Equivalents, Federal Standard, Google, Half The Battle, Ipmsstockholm, North American Harvard, Paint Brush, Paint Scheme, Paints, Stocks, Wonderful Things, World War Two 1/48 Italeri P40m/n I decided after two small scale models that my next would be a larger scale model and decided to build the Italeri P40 kitset. Why? Simple this will be an out of the box build (O.O.B.)Â using the kitsets decals to make an RNZAF 15 Squadron aircraft flown by New Zealand Pacific Ace . . . → Read More: Italeri 1/48th scale P40M/N – Kittyhawk Mk4 Leave a comment 1-48 P40M-N, 1-48th scale Ww2 Airplanes, Airplane Model Building, NZ WW2 Model Airplanes, Posts by NZFlyBoy, RNZAF 15 Squadron, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build 50 Caliber Machine Guns, Alloy Wheels, Array, Bomber Escort, Buckles, Caliber Machine Guns, Corsairs, Distinct Disadvantage, Flight Lieutenant, Fuel Tanks, Grey Plastic, Henderson Field, Interesting Man, Kittyhawk, Masking Tape, Modelers, Modellers, Nose Art, P40, Photo Etch, Plastic Bags, Scale Model, Scale Models, Seat Belts, Sitting Duck, Sprue, Squadron Aircraft, Sutton Harness, Two Guns, Wild Cat The ultimate World War 2 model airplane kit The Flugwerks FW190 is a scale replica of the original. Classified as a kitset aircraft it doesn’t attract the same level of Insurance premium as a vintage FW 190 would and with a price tag of around 750000 euro’s perhaps half the cost. It comes ready to assemble but . . . → Read More: Flugwerks FW 190 The ultimate Kitset aircraft Leave a comment Airplane Model Building, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Eastern Theatre Operations, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Allison V1710, Arkadiy, Bmw Power, Exact Copy, Exact Replica, Fw 190d, Fw190, Ilyushin, Inline Engine, Insurance Premium, Jumo 213, Lavochkin, Light Aircraft, Machine Guns, Model Airplane Kit, Russian Radial Engine, Scale Replica, Soviet Aircraft, World War 2, Wright Cyclone When I first saw the decals for this kit I was thrilled. A complete set of markings for this aircraft, stencils found on the aircraft and national markings except the swastikas that go on the tail. (Not unusual for a Russian or German Kit) All was good till I tried to apply the decals, the carrier film . . . → Read More: ICM Me109E-7 Decals Leave a comment Airplane Model Building, ICM 1:72 scale Me109E7, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Alcohol, Avail, Bare Minimum, Crosses, Decal, Decals, Disaster, Edge Tool, Excess Carrier, Fingers, Fuselage, Hiccups, Icm, Instances, Matte Varnish, Operational Aircraft, Slow Progress, Soft Edge, Suitable Replacement, Swastikas Well here it is guys and gals my next project! The ICM Me109E7, now this kit is incredibly cheap $10:80 New Zealand , but well detailed! You can see pictures of the kitset in the ICM 1:72 Scale Me109E7 Trop gallery. I’ll be building this OOTB (out of the box) and not modifying the kitset. So this . . . → Read More: ICM 1:72 scale Me109E-7 Trop Leave a comment ICM 1:72 scale Me109E7, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Black Hole, Cockpit Interior, Concrete Floor, Control Column, Forward Bulkhead, Fuselage, Gals, Glue Dries, Gun Sight, Instrument Panel, Light Grey, Masking Tape, Mineral Turpentine, Monster, Oil Washes, Rear Bulkhead, Recesses, Rudder Pedals, Smudges, Solvent 1/72 Airfix beaufighter In my previous post I covered the beginning of the construction of the Airfix Beaufighter Kitset. And left it at the construction of the cockpit, this post can be found here, Making the Airfix Bristol Beaufighter 1/72 scale . Well now onto the construction of the cockpit, again Arifix provided nothing in the . . . → Read More: Making the Airfix Bristol Beaufighter 1/72 scale One comment Airfix Model Airplane Kits, Airplane Model Building, Bristol beaufighter, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Airfix, Bench Seat, Bristol beaufighter, Bulkhead, Cockpit Canopy, Correct Angle, Dihedral, Fuselage, Glue, Gunners, Hubs, Instrument Panel, Plastic Strip, Stabilisers, Stumps, Tail Wheel, Tyres, Undercarriage, Wheel Wells, Wings This is a Signifer multimedia kitset. It’s a beautifully detailed kitset, a combination of moulded styrene plastic and resin castings. The resin castings have an exquisite level of detail that is truly stunning. Once painted the interior is incredibly well detailed, this includes the passenger cabin as well as the cockpit and front well (which contains . . . → Read More: Signifer Grumman Goose JRF-5 One comment 1-48th scale Ww2 Airplanes, Airplane Model Building, Grumman Goose, Posts by NZFlyBoy, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build Acrylic Resin, Aircraft Maintenance, British Fleet, Construction Issues, Coral Atoll, Epoxy Resin, Fleet Air Arm, Fresh Paint, Grumman, Grumman Goose, Instrument Panels, Jrf, Landing Strip, Level Of Detail, Multimedia Kits, Operational Service, Photo References, Resin Castings, Styrene Plastic, Time And Patience, Weathering, WW2 Model Airplane Projects, WW2 Model Airplanes to Build |
 
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