Models update (Lockdown anti-venom)

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.

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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

Just another angle but a bit of a Photoshop disaster

From rear to front:1/72nd scale Mustang. Sea Harrier Jump Jet. Ford Transit van, circa 1983, and the Spitfire again.

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.

De Havilland Mosquito. The hardest part was painting the lines on the canopy

I have now nearly finished a Challenger tank. I think it is my best effort so far unless I mess it up with the final sir brush varnish. A post will follow.

All the models I have built are things I have a strong feeling for. Recently I read the biography of the late Henry Blog, the most decorated lifeboat man, erstwhile coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat. I also walked through Cromer on my Broads to the Lakes walk with happy memories. A modern RNLI lifeboat kit is on the way. 

Challenger tank - work in progress here, but now nearly finished.