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Thanks Shaun, yes!
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Great save! Wish I felt brave enough to do similar to some of my Loftwaffe.


Here! have I just coined a new expression for a stash of aircraft? :-D
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Oh I don't know man, your figure conversion work is boss enough.
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Purplethistle wrote:Great save! Wish I felt brave enough to do similar to some of my Loftwaffe.


Here! have I just coined a new expression for a stash of aircraft? :-D
I like it!!

And for balance you could have a LoftRAF too :-D
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Just so not into cutting plastic or new builds at all lately. In order to shore up the flagging modelbuilder mojo I have turned to a few repairs of old second hand vintage kits cluttering up the fringes of my Workbench of Eternal Shame and Horror. First up a mostly intact Monogram B-58 Hustler. This was found a couple of years ago in the toy section at a certain overpriced second hand chain store and snapped up before hordes of busy and destructive little hands could pummel it into bits like a few less fortunate carcasses I picked over as well. Scratchbuilt bomb/tank fins, hatches and gear doors and a windscreen cut from recycled plastic packaging. Took three tries to get the shape and size near enough that I could live with and it still looks crap. Only the framing to do but I just wanted it off the bench; another time maybe. The pitot tube was cut from a sewing needle and grafted on. Some of the decals got a bit squarshed while I handled it but hopefully that isn't really visible. Then the obligatory two heavy coats of floor wax to seal the deal.



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Next up, an Airfix Bell P-39Q from 2014's craig's lizst air force rescue job lot that got new paint and spare decals I had leftover from the new build that I did a few years ago in Russian markings. This one represents an Airacobra during the grueling New Guinea campaign, 1943. The artwork and instructions are utterly at odds with the markings as they depict an earlier D model, but I said the hell with it and did it up as best I could.


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And for laughs I also hauled out a clapped out Revell Nakajima Oscar, and gave it the crashlanded and abandoned look. At some point I want to indulge in some outdoor scale model aircraft boneyard bonsai stuff. It was a craig's liszt rescue as well and came with that peculiar lavender/mauve kind of paintjob. It's still a work in progress..........



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Very busy workspace. Great builds.
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The B-58 looks great in that scheme! Nice work
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iggie wrote:
Purplethistle wrote:Great save! Wish I felt brave enough to do similar to some of my Loftwaffe.


Here! have I just coined a new expression for a stash of aircraft? :-D
I like it!!

And for balance you could have a LoftRAF too :-D
RAF = Recovered Attic Follies
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Great rescues! I really like the Hustler.
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Sometimes it is too easy to get bogged down in one project.
Looks like you are having fun!

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Interesting model rescues on the go GMG. Your scratchbuilt canopy for the Hustler looks pretty good to me!
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Cheers, fellas.
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nice set of builds, the crashed one looks the part.
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Thanks Marek.
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More repairs, rebuilds and restorations underway here at the Nick Cave. I may finish them within a reasonable time frame. Or not. The mojo is in a precarious way these days.....first up, an ancient Stuka of unknown provenance, taken off of a high school chum's hands many moons ago and stripped of the paintjobs it picked up over the years.

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After that, the next lucky contestant is an unfinished Mitsubishi Ki 46/II Dinah, part of a job lot obtained at a local collectables fair. It was missing one engine, so I yanked off the Jumo engines from the craig's liszt Heinkel 111 (since I intend eventually to convert that into a Merlin engined Pedro anyway) and will graft them onto the Dinah. I found the box from another built one that still has the tiger decals and the landing gear, so I can redo the paint without guilt.


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And finally, in anticipation of the Cessna Group Build next month I am attempting to mold, shape and cut some clear plastic packaging in to something approximating the canopy, which along with a pilot's seat, is missing from the A-37B Dragonfly kit and want these pieces available in time.

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