Trojan Thunder Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Nice to see some more nice works of art completed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martin_sam_2000 Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Finished my Alpha Jet: Full album HERE Sean Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 A couple CT-156 Harvard IIs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 (edited) 1/72 scale Hobby Craft Caribou. Very simple kit but one of Hobby-Crafts better kits. The decals are top notch. Landing gear is awful, but thats about it for criticism. Edited November 11, 2017 by phantom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martin_sam_2000 Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 Here are the last three of my builds. Hoping to maybe fit a CRJ in before the end of the build..we will see. 1/48 Kinetic Tracker. Full complete album can be found HERE 1/48 Grand Phoenix Firefly. The full complete album can be found HERE 1/48 Hobbycraft Sea Fury. Full completed album can be seen HERE Thansk for looking, Sean Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trojan Thunder Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Nice work there guys, I need to on with my next build.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 1/72 Hobby Craft Dash 8 with Leading Edge decals..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick McPherson Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 4 hours ago, phantom said: 1/72 Hobby Craft Dash 8 with Leading Edge decals..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rick McPherson Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Is it just me or is the nose on 804 bulge down and the nose on 803 bulge up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Your right! Yours is 803. The correct way. 804 was done years ago. I got that one wrong. That is why its on the upper shelf and no one can see it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AX 365 Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 For display only. I didn't really build this as part of this GB. 48th scale Revell of Germany CL-13B Sabre. Model Master and Alclad II paints with mostly Leading Edge Model decals. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin K Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Hi guys....I've been absent for a while. However, I have still been building. I started this kit back in August (ish) and finished it recently. It's my Kinetic CF-188A Hornet. Overall, this kit isn't that bad, but it has its weak spots. It doesn't blow Hasegawa's kit out of the water, but it does have a slight edge, in my opinion. Anyhow, every Hornet I have built to date has either been a demo bird or one with some sort of artwork on the tails. I had never built a line bird for myself. So, I decided to change that. I built my Hornet as 188757. I saw this jet in Cold Lake, back in 2016, during Maple Flag. At that time, it was assigned to 401 "Rams" TFS. Currently, there are no decals for the Rams squadron insignia......until now. I've been working with making some of my own decals (mostly small stuff like pilot names). I decided to take a crack at making the Ram head on the tails. I used a photo, put it into Photoshop and shrunk it down to the correct size (don't ask me about rations, etc. I just made adjustments until I had it right). One other thing was the new BLOS mod on the spine. The kit does not include this part, but it provides a decal. Using that as a pattern, I made a master out of sheet styrene, made a mold and cast a few in resin. For my purposes, it came out pretty well. Model was painted with Model Master acrylics, a pin wash was added and some fluid streaking was done with pastels. I decided to add a bit of colour to the jet, so I made a seat cover using Tamiya masking tape. It was painted red, then a Remove Before Flight decal (I made it) was applied. A The Major resin fat pylon was added to Station 8 and for something a little different, I painted up one of the kits GBU-38s as an inert practice bomb. Finally, since it had the option, I left the refuelling probe extended, as they usually are after a jet completes and air-to-air refuelling, during a mission. All in all, not a bad kit. A few headaches were the intake trunks, windscreen/glare shield/HUD fit and the nose section fit. The instructions from Kinetic still leave a bit to be desired though. One has to be really careful and heavily rely on their references to get things correct. Anyhow, onto the photos. Sorry they are so crappy, but I just don't have a great set up and the lighting isn't that great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trojan Thunder Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Looks great Colin, nice to see a line jet represented. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin K Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) I'll just post these for display as I'm not sure if these were started before or after July 1st. Anyhow, I ended up building six Snowbird Tutors for some of the pilots on the team. They were all presented at the 2017 year end show, by their spouses. Needless to say, they were well received. They are all 1/48 Hobbycraft kits with a few resin bits (antennas, etc). Decals are a mix of Belcher and homemade decals (pilot and tech names, logos on tails, tail numbers and RCAF/ARC titles on the underside of the wings). They were all mounted on bases using acrylic rod. The Snowbird logos are actually keychains that I bought from the Canex in Moose Jaw. Snowbird 1, flown by 2016 Team Lead, Major Yanick "Crank" Gregoire....and yes, tank cam is included with the jet! Snowbird 8, the Opposing Solo, Captain Greg "FOMO" Humme-Powell. He also flew as Snowbird 6 in 2016. The tail is made out of resin and was made using the impression of the kit tail. Snowbird 9, Lead Solo, Major Craig "Nacho" Sharp. Snowbird 7, Captain Maciej "Match" Hatta. Match is the guy responsible for all of the Snowbird video footage from tank cam, over the past couple of years. He wanted a jet, sitting on the ground, ready to go. Match also flew as Snowbird 6 in 2015 and Snowbird 3 in 2016. Should be noted that the speedbrakes are made from scratch and the ejection seats are resin. This was the fun one. Snowbird 10, Captain Blake "Naughty" McNaughton, threw down the challenge of capturing the entire advance party (Snowbird 10 and 11), with sausage bags on the seats, with smoke on, performing the Snowbird pitch. Oh, and the spacing and formation references had to be correct! No problem! In any case, here it is. The bags on top of the seat were made with Tamiya 2 part molding putty and painted to look like the real bags. The smoke is simply piano wire with cotton batting on it. The cotton was then dipped in diluted white glue and left to dry. I am also happy to note that the formation spacing and reference points were bang on, according to Naughty. So, there is my Snowbird project. I actually owe a few guys thanks for giving up their Belcher decal sheets for the cause. My original plan was to get decals through Canmilair, but with Bill's knee surgery, that changed and I was stuck for decals. Luckily, a few guys answered the call! Edited November 24, 2017 by Colin K Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AX 365 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Nice work on the Hornet, Colin. I forgot about the little "L" braces for the inside of the vertical stabs. Oh well. I also had a bit of difficulty with the minimal mating areas of the landing gear door tab and slots. As you probably did, I learned many tricks and hints on what to do for my next Kinetic Hornet build. Great work on the Tutors as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grey Ghost 531 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Novo (Frog) Hawker Sea Fury - more pics in build log Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin K Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 10 hours ago, AX 365 said: Nice work on the Hornet, Colin. I forgot about the little "L" braces for the inside of the vertical stabs. Oh well. I also had a bit of difficulty with the minimal mating areas of the landing gear door tab and slots. As you probably did, I learned many tricks and hints on what to do for my next Kinetic Hornet build. Great work on the Tutors as well. Well, Kinetic forgot to mention the brackets in their instructions as well. The gear doors didn't really give me any problems at all. I love them compared to the doors on the Hasegawa kit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Here is my Big Planes Kits Bombardier Challenger 604 in 1/72. It represents an aircraft that lives in a hangar at Montreal's Trudeau Airport, at Skyservice. At the time, it was registered in the USA, with tail number N604DD. That way, when we checked in on Centre frequencies, initial contact would be: "Chicago Centre, this is Challenger 6-Oh-4 Delta Delta". I flew this particular jet for almost 200 hours over a 2-year time span, as I instructed in the simulator for Bombardier in my spare time (actually, instructing was my normal job at the time). I used custom decals for the blue stripes and the tail number. This aircraft now has been rebranded as a Canadian-registered aircraft, and still remained in Montreal as far as I know. We used it a lot to shuttle engineers and managers between the Bombardier main plant in Montreal/Trudeau, and Learjet (a Bombardier subsidiary) in Wichita, Kansas. It was configured with 19 seats in the back, like a little mini RJ. ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AX 365 Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 To echo, there are some really nice builds here folks. Take a bow. Here' my completed Hornet. 1/48th scale Kinetic CF-18 using kit decals, MM and Alclad II paints. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 (edited) A Heller CL-215 in 1/72 with Leading Edge decals. And a Heller CL-415 also in 1/72 with Leading Edge decals. A new photo added, with newly painted engine. Edited December 17, 2017 by phantom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Amodel 1/144 CL-415 in French service. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trojan Thunder Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 nice work there guys! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantom Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 My second of the same plane. Learned from the mistakes on my first Kenetic Hornet. THIS one turned out better. Which is good as it was built for someone else. And a shot with the one I finished a couple months ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 2 hours ago, phantom said: My second of the same plane. Learned from the mistakes on my first Kenetic Hornet I must say I've thought more than once about building 2 of the same kits, the 1st to learn what not to do and 2nd to get right... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AX 365 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 1/48th Hasegawa F-86 Sabre as a Sabre 4, 67 Squadron, R.A.F., Wildenrath, Germany, 1955. More photos in the build thread below. Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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