Spaceowl's Roost
- Spaceowl
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Spaceowl's Roost
This is going to be where I park the pictures of any builds I'm doing, starting with this rather fetching Heller Saab J-29 Tunnan, the 'Flying Barrel' which will be in UN colours from the Katanga War in the early sixties. Recently I bought the DP Caspar decal set on this strange and largely forgotten war after reading Andrew Hudson's Congo Unravelled, and I'm going to start working my way through it starting with this classic French plastic.
So far I'm at this point:
and it was almost trouble free. This stopped at the point of getting the nose on, as you can see a fair amount of filling, sanding and rescribing was involved, but I suppose without that sort of thing we're not really modellers.
Wings are going on tonight; watch this space.
So far I'm at this point:
and it was almost trouble free. This stopped at the point of getting the nose on, as you can see a fair amount of filling, sanding and rescribing was involved, but I suppose without that sort of thing we're not really modellers.
Wings are going on tonight; watch this space.
Overhead a rainbow appears...in black and white.
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Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
- Clashcityrocker
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Nice start.
Nigel
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
I did this one a few years back. It´s a cool little plane!
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Well tidy start.
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
A little more progress:
Hardly any filler needed on the wings, which is quite impressive on plastic from 1979. Either it's trying to lull me into a false sense of security or it really is a good kit.
Onto the tricky bit now; masking and painting.
Hardly any filler needed on the wings, which is quite impressive on plastic from 1979. Either it's trying to lull me into a false sense of security or it really is a good kit.
Onto the tricky bit now; masking and painting.
Overhead a rainbow appears...in black and white.
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
- billyb_imp
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
I rather like the look of that Saab
A start on my first kit a Hawker Hurricane as been made, a spitfire awaits in the wings and thinking about models to come.
Modelling space in shed coming along nicely.
Modelling space in shed coming along nicely.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
That's starting to look sweet. I like the Tunnan. One of those aircraft that sort of looks ugly but sort of doesn't.
All the best.
Greg
All the best.
Greg
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
That is a fat little fecker. Seems appropriate.
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
To me there's no 'sort of'; it's ugly......Gregers wrote:That's starting to look sweet. I like the Tunnan. One of those aircraft that sort of looks ugly but sort of doesn't.
All the best.
Greg
But a good looking build none the less
Best wishes
Jim
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Cheers Ian. I love you too, mate.Old_Tonto wrote:That is a fat little fecker. Seems appropriate.
Welcome back.
So, further progress:
Until someone who specialises in the Swedish AF tells me otherwise, this is the scheme that the Swedish UN complement wore in Congo. Although they arrived in theatre in NMF (another project for another day), some were overpainted from local paint stocks to which the sand coloured 'worms' were added later. Pretty, eh?
Watch for more updates soon.
Overhead a rainbow appears...in black and white.
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
- Spaceowl
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All wormed up!
Time for varnishing.
Time for varnishing.
Overhead a rainbow appears...in black and white.
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
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Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Very nice.
Nigel
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Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Interesting scheme
I've always thought it looks like a guppy!
I've always thought it looks like a guppy!
Best wishes
Jim
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
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Very cool - I'm currently building the 1/48 Hobbyboss kit of this aircraft - I was thinking of doing the same scheme.
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It would probably work better in 1/48th - my airbrush won't go fine enough to manage the worms so I had to brush paint. On the original they were just random lines sprayed over the camo with a full size airbrush.Sir T wrote:Very cool - I'm currently building the 1/48 Hobbyboss kit of this aircraft - I was thinking of doing the same scheme.
Overhead a rainbow appears...in black and white.
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939
Current Projects:
Aircraft of VMA-542, USMC
Peru-Ecuador War 1995
THK 1939-2023
Polish Air Force 1939