I have just noticed that reading this live you get so far down then there is a note in small print saying "read more" which you need to click to se the complete post - what a nuisance!
This all started with a chat with my next door neighbour telling me he made plastic model kits. Lockdown was keeping me close to home and I have form in model making going back to my teens. Casually I started looking at what was going on in this world these days and browsing on You Tube I came across a Land Rover kit and I was launched.
Below is a summary of my efforts so far. The Land Rover has been featured previously along with its own little fairy tale.
I have not made a strenuous effort to display the models realistically except for the Spitfire, although even that needs setting up properly to exclude extraneous background.
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The pilot is just climbing in and his WAF girlfriend has come to see him off. I used emery paper for tarmac and modelled the wind sock and used dried mixed herbs for the grass stuck down with watered PVA glue |
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| Just another angle but a bit of a Photoshop disaster |
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From rear to front:1/72nd scale Mustang. Sea Harrier Jump Jet. Ford Transit van, circa 1983, and the Spitfire again. |
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| I made an error with the Land Rover destroying vital parts having them too near a heat source to dry. I bought another kit. Here I have just taken the engine and chassis only to use as an exercise in "weathering." I much enjoy creating rust. |
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| De Havilland Mosquito. The hardest part was painting the lines on the canopy |
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| Challenger tank - work in progress here, but now nearly finished. |
I'm impressed with your models and attention to detail, but shouldn't the planes be hanging by invisible threads from the ceiling of your bedroom.
ReplyDeleteBNC - As they all have undercarriages down, presumably coming into land, you may have been reading of "Arnside pensioner dies as last Spitfire crashes on bed."
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