The home of gnomemeansgnome

Show us a view of your workbench / work in progress and build reports too.
Post Reply
User avatar
Stuart
Raider of the Lost Ark Royal
Posts: 19204
Joined: February 25th, 2013, 4:55 pm
Location: Forever England
Contact:

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by Stuart »

That's a corker of a build, great stuff!
Stuart Templeton I may not be good but I'm slow...

My Blog: https://stuartsscalemodels.blogspot.com/
User avatar
Narayan
If anyone needs me, I'll be in my office
Posts: 2602
Joined: April 10th, 2011, 7:01 pm
Location: The Middle of Nowhere in Ireland

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by Narayan »

Lovely Stranraer, the rigging is very impressive.

________________
Narayan

Like a midget at a urinal I was going to have to stay on my toes.

A:B 2017 8:1 2016 27:10 2015 53:07 2014 21:04 2013 39:12 2012 20:05 2011 11:10 2010 44:12 2009 19:16 2008 16:03 Overall 340:86
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

Thanks fellas. Not sure I would ever want to do that much rigging ever again though.
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

And now back to our regularly scheduled programme.......more work done on the Jumo-engined Dinah. Got the airscrews and gear hatches on, and just a bit of canopy touchup plus a wire for the radio mast and it can take its place down on the apron......
Image

Image
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

Done, more or less. I may change my mind. You know how it is.




Image

Image
Image
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
jssel
Still crazy after all these years
Posts: 11976
Joined: April 5th, 2011, 3:42 pm

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by jssel »

Well now. That turned out really well. Totally believable WHIF.
Besting 60 years of mediocre building of average kits in the stand off scale
ShaunW
NOT the sheep
Posts: 26118
Joined: November 26th, 2011, 6:11 pm
Location: Pontefract West Yorkshire

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by ShaunW »

Nice one GMG, the Dinah is a stylish aircraft anyway IMHO and it looks great with the Jumo engines.
Doing - Tamiya 1/35th Universal Carrier.

Work is the curse of the modelling classes!
IPMS#12300
User avatar
Marek
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 2455
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 8:03 am
Location: Madison, WI
Contact:

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by Marek »

Agree, believable and nicely executed.
User avatar
PGAS
Active Participant
Posts: 825
Joined: December 17th, 2015, 2:37 am
Location: Ontario, Canada

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by PGAS »

Great looking PZL 23. I do not see Polish aircraft too often but they have a look that I really like. Very fine job. Cool Dinah too.
Paul

This is it. The moment we should have trained for.
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

Needed a no brainer shake and bake kit or two to keep me sharp until I feel like getting on with various long stalled builds and restorations. Keeping my idle hands slightly busy with this and that....this for instance, the venerable Airfix FIAT G.50. Tacked the fuselage halves together. Not much to see in the cockpit and Pilot Officer Mario Andretti will fill most of it anyway. The wings will be fun as only the tops are dihedral and no dihedral at all on the bottom part of the wing.
Image
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

As well, now that the Stranraer and all that other Group Build jazz is out of the way, this shelf queen has come out to play. A 1980's re-release of Monogram's Grumman F8F Bearcat. Good fortune enabled me to get my mitts on a decal set for a Cat based I think out of Dien Bien Phu itself. Have wanted to bat this one out of the park for a while......

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

That last pic is clearly me going full Don de Torquemada on the airframe, getting it to confess its sins! And yeah I know that the office isn't exactly regulation but it is a lot more busy than how I found it. My chief thing was how to put something in that looked vaguely like a console from a few feet away.
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

The Bearcat's current state of play till I can get a rattlecan of gloss black to prime the airframe......
Image


And the FIAT G.50's lack of wing dihedral was corrected after much hand to fifty plus year old plastic combat and liberal bastings of putty.

Image

Image

But I am well pleased with how Pilot Officer Andretti has turned out.....

Image
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
skypirate
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 7241
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 6:13 am
Location: Port Macquarie, Australia

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by skypirate »

Good grief! The Airfix G.50!
That takes me back to my school days!
Good on you!

David
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

Heh heh, we shall see, David. The first one I built over 25 years ago turned out all right as I recall but perhaps this one has not thrived so well after all these years in a plastic bag. There is some fiddly sanding in this one's future. I have quite a few G.50 bis's in the stash, inherited from here and there over the years.
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
User avatar
gnomemeansgnome
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 5269
Joined: July 16th, 2013, 4:03 pm
Location: No Fun City

Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome

Post by gnomemeansgnome »

Puttering and wheezing along..... fuselage band and Savoy cross on the tail now painted flat white and waxed prior to be being taped over for grey primer which will also serve as underside paint.
Image


Then, acting on a notion I had earlier I started cutting plastic in the vague shape of the G.50's wing from plastic card and glued a couple of cuts together to start forming what I hope will be a top wing. The result should hopefully be FIAT's answer to the I-153 Chaika if I get it right. Clearly my masochistic pash for impossible biplanes has not abated....

Image


....moving right along. I employed le baton hirsute in the pursuit of getting gloss black on the Bearcat as primer, my funds for a new rattlecan of the stuff not being presently viable. The Modelmaster Acryl dark sea blue I have will suffice for the Bearcat's Navy scheme.

Image
Ego no habeo consilium.

ICBM = Insatiable Collector and Builder of Models
Post Reply

Return to “Workbench Window”