Model kits

[Medvedya]

I've always wondered what that would be like to make.

 

[cheddar cheese]

It cant be too hard...

 

[Medvedya]

I once had this stuff called Linkalite - it was these rubber moulds which your poured Plaster of Paris into, and when dry, would form brick sections which you put together like a jigsaw to make a building. There were windows, and doors of lots of different types, but the trouble was it took so long to make anything with it!


http://www.linkaworld.com/what_is_linka.htm

 

[plan_D]

While cleaning my room, I found this discarded at the bottom of one my drawers. It's a P-38 model, made long ago...bruised and scared from years of abandonment it now sits proudly above my monitor with its new friend my test Mustang.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Nice 8) No Stella in sight though

 

[plan_D]

Jesus christ, I'd taken that picture at some point early in the morning after just waking up. Give it time, man!

 

[Nonskimmer]

Actually, the wear on the P-38 seems fitting. Gives it that veteran look. 8)

 

[plan_D]

You can't see all the damage on both those. The Mustang has lost a drop tank, two props, under-carriage and SOMEHOW under-carriage bays. The P-38, has to be the best BUILT model I've ever done, has lost two and a half props. One rocket pod...and..that's it.

 

[mosquitoman]

Don't worry, I have to watch where I walk in my room at home, I keep knocking propellers off when I stretch

 

[cheddar cheese]

Bloody hell.. how did they all manage to get permission for airspace?

 

[mosquitoman]

At my last count I had 46 models, there's a list of them somewhere in this thread

 

[cheddar cheese]

I should have finished my Fiat G.50 ages ago...but I cant get any yellow paint #24...

 

[Maestro]

You can't see all the damage on both those. The Mustang has lost a drop tank, two props, under-carriage and SOMEHOW under-carriage bays. The P-38, has to be the best BUILT model I've ever done, has lost two and a half props. One rocket pod...and..that's it.

Damn !

From wich company did you bought them ? Italery ?

Really, that company sucks. I bought a Chinook helicopter years ago and I lost both props (one broke up in three parts) and three of the four landing gears. AND IT NEVER TOOK ANY HIT ! I'll never buy a model from this company again.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Does ANYONE know where I can get a Piaggio P.108 plastic kit...?

 

[mosquitoman]

Try Ebay, they normally have rare kits, that's where I got my Maryland and my Whitley from

 

[Medvedya]

Yeah, I was impressed with your Whitley. I have exactly the same one myself. It's a Russian made kit. By a company called 'Zvyeshda' or Star.

The moulds are not terif by any imagination, so a spot of sanding and scribing is usually needed.

Apart from E-bay, if you go to an airshow, model shops and dealers specialising in rare and old kits almost always have a stall or two about.

Incidentally I have a very rare kit of a F9F 'Blue Angels' Cougar made by Hasegawa. I've never opened it, since I would want to do it full justice, and don't really have the time or space at the moment.

 

[plan_D]

The Mustang was Airfix, and the P-38 was some company I've never heard of, and can't remember. They're many a year old, and taken a lot of bangs and scrapes so I can't blame them for being so badly damaged.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yes!! Ive finally found it!!! But damn it costs a lot...

http://kits.kitreview.com/p108bserieiireviewgp_1.htm

 

[Medvedya]

Not surprising - has high detail resin parts. Professional kit that.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Cool. 8) Ill have to do some saving up...anyone wanna pledge to the CC P.108 fund?