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planecrazyman61
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hi all thought it time i put up a workbench thread to show what new/on going builds are being attempted,but first a picture of my proposed builds for 2016 based on interest at present,cold war sig involvement and group builds i'm interested in, anyone else like to get their builds for the year planned out

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hi as well as the kits in the photo also planning to build
1/72 italeri mc202 (when i find it)
1/72 revell tornado IDS (unboxed)and
1/72 revell mirage F1 (for cold war sig ) instead of the esci F1, but i'll start the year off by starting on the new airfix Lightning F2/A

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looks really nice hopefully not much filling/sanding involved in this one

cheers craig
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I´ve been trying not to buy this kit! It does look good.
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Craig,
I am lucky if I can figure out my next build let alone what I want to do through the year. Usually I end up regulated to what review kits I get.
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Looks like you've got it all sorted hope it all goes to plan. I've just put half eg kits I had planned to build last year back in the loft.
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Stamford wrote:I´ve been trying not to buy this kit! It does look good.
i'm going to get the f6 boxing having seen this one up close
JamesPerrin wrote:Looks like you've got it all sorted hope it all goes to plan. I've just put half eg kits I had planned to build last year back in the loft.
there's every chance i'll be doing the same at the end of the year as i only built half of what i set out to build in 2015
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Nice looking selection for the year's builds......I wish I could be that disciplined!
Other than GBs I go into the stash with a specific kit in mind and wander out again clutching something entirely different. Sometimes I wander out just trying to remember what it was I was doing in the garage in the first place......
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Like the look of those planned builds Craig, especially the Cold War ones naturally ;-)

I like to have some idea of what I'm going to build although this inevitably tends to be a rolling plan that rarely pans out as intended :roll:
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Some real tasty projects there. The ESCI F-4's have always been a favorite of mine.
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Quite a pile there Craig, I'd stick the Flanker towards the bottom if I was you. Dry fitting on mine shows it needs a bit of work. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with the Lightning.
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shangos70 wrote:Quite a pile there Craig, I'd stick the Flanker towards the bottom if I was you. Dry fitting on mine shows it needs a bit of work. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with the Lightning.
what markings are you looking to use,i like the early flanker scheme with the green nose cone but i might deck it out in the ukrainian zigzag scheme from the revell boxing
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Ha your always making things hard for yourself! You know me Craig, easy way means I get it finished. Mine is way down the list at the moment although I like the look the look of the new Revell /Zvezda SM version.
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A very interesting pile of kits there Craig and the Lightning is a great way to start the year. I gave up planning builds for the year ahead a few years ago as the plans never really got beyond the end of January. Bit like New Year's resolutions. Which I've also long given up on :grin:
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hi made a start on the lightning, wings ,gun and belly inserts onto fuselage sides, intake and exhaust pipes and cockpit parts all glued and have painted intake /exhaust and cockpit,did not have a dark admiralty grey so i used vallejo neutral grey 70992 (fs36173) can anyone say if this is close to what the lightning cockpit would have been painted

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also as ive got my airbrush working again i tried spraying a couple of items that were sat in primer first a kv-1c in german colours

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painted with vallejo basalt greymixed with german grey

and a vickers vib which will be the twotone 1940 scheme

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this was painted with an airfix mini pot light olive 86 thinned with vallejo thinners

colours in photos are washed out both tanks are darker
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