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Now that is one cool looking aircraft,well tidy indeed.
Regards
Celt.

Cheers, celt. Nearly there. Just some niggly little weathering and touchups to do. Keep your eyes on the Aviation section.

Love the way the Macchi is turning out. Don't see enough of these sexy fighters!

Cheers,

David

Doing my best to rectify that!

gnomemeansgnome wrote:Doing my best to rectify that!

Does that mean more Italian fighters coming from you? Fantastic!

Mmm....possibly . I have a backlog of other kits that need to get done first.

After watching my poor old pc pack up I ditched my home internet this last spring and walked away from the work table for a spell. Wasn't feeling it at all anyway, so there wasn't much point in belabouring it till I felt motivated enough again. After a while I felt more up to it and what follows is a potted photo history of some of my crimes and misdemeanours in plastic. Sawed away at some kits that were either not too mentally taxing and/or of sufficient interest to me lately that I thought I would hack away and see what resulted, and managed to find a way to get them online for the first time in ages. Lazy me. A few depicted here are still works in progress as of this point in time......













I think it was Arni who enquired about the state of a 1970's kit I have of a Chevy LUV pickup truck, so I drug it out of storage for a laugh. Been through the wars, unfortunately but I still have most of the parts, not depicted in this pic, of course, but it could go to a good home some day, I guess...The rest of these pics depict the work I did on a number of other subjects, in no particular order other than the rough sequence of each build or restoration......




Hans and Franz getting all did...

Pursuant to more polymerised tomfoolery......















Bring us a shrubbery!




Ivan and Dimitri getting their winter on......

...and so is their ride!





Brrrrr!

Aaaaand some more stuff I am plugging away at. Budget these days doesn't have much room at present for more yellow and especially flat black paint right now but I hope to resolve that soon and get on with it. This is a Heller Potez 631 long overdue for building as it kept getting pushed out of the way for other projects. You know how it is. The Vichy prison stripes have to wait till I feel wealthy enough for more yellow paint, as my rattlecan of chrome yellow gave out on me just as I was tackling the engine cowlings. I hate when that happens.


Gaston, Pierre and Rene getting all did...



You can see what handsome lines this ship has.

Hopefully this will set correctly. The fit was looking a bit dodgy....


And then there was this little character I bought at the 2016 IPMS Vancouver show. Not a very good kit but I am led to understand that it is an early effort by MPM. Not wild about the PE so I have taken a few liberties and counterfeited replacement parts with a medium I understand slightly better...




Faking up the office, big time....



Nearly got Capt. Lummox safely if ungainly ensconced in his office. What a tight fit!

The Potez and Ascender are interesting. I don't recall seeing either built before. Great work on that old Stuka and everything else. You've been busy!

David

Thanks, David. Been trying to make up for lost time I guess. Some of this work goes back to maybe April when my pc went kaputski, and I have been itching to post new(ish) pics to prove i haven't been entirely idle. Mr Lancfan did an Ascender a year or two ago but it was a vacuform kit. This one is a bit of a bear and maybe that is why I kept avoiding it. I had bought this kit years before but was so disenchanted with what I found in the box I sold it off at a loss. But when I saw it a second time for five bucks I thought I ought to take advantage of it.

I'm sure we are all familiar with the up and down nature of the mojo experience, but, your work is vastly varied and wonderful despite the brief voids in interest.
I especially like the yellow winged Revell Kaydet at the start of your posting. That kit is high on my to do list. Aside from that, all of your models are exceptional. Well done!

Thanks so much!

That's a very busy bench It may be worth noting (for future reference) that the Luftwaffe splinter scheme was not randomly applied but followed a strict pattern

Very nice collection of work over the past year. Is that T-34 the Revell kit?