Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Here you go then.
The first is a conversion from the Airfix Mosquito FBVI into a BIX, built 19 years ago as the 'model' for one of my paintings, and it's been sitting on a shelf ever since, unfinished! The extended angine nacelles and bulged bomb bay were moulded and sculpted in Milliput, and the nose came from the old 1960's Monogram BIV kit. I moulded the now discoloured canopy, and when I eventually get around to finishing this model, I'll mould a new one, and add the frames. The detail parts, such as the entrance hatch cover, have already been scratch-built, and are sitting in a box somewhere!
The P47 is the Academy item, a very nice kit, and doesn't need much to finish it, all the 'missing' parts having already been painted. The NMF was brush-painted, using the technique I described in the 'Bare Metal' guide, and as you can see, is rather grubby and dusty at the moment, as the model was built about 8 years ago. I never got around to making the diorama base for it, so it's just been sitting at the back of a hidden shelf, forlorn and forgotten. After a dusting and polishing, it should regain it's sheen, and I'll get it on a base soon.
Finally, another very dusty 1/48th conversion, this time a Spitfire PR19, from the old Hobbycraft kit, made about 10 years ago. This was a fairly simple conversion, the most time consuming area being the moulding of the canopy. The 'ridge' at the base of the canopy is the externall runner, as the PR19, being pressurised, didn't have a cockpit access door, and the canopy was mounted on external rails to help facilitate with pressurisation. The model just needs a darn good clean, a bit of touching up here and there, then the final parts and some decals adding.
I'll post some pics of some more 'hangar queens' soon, along with the cast of 'The 21st Panzer Division in Normandy', all 45+ items, intended for a yet to be built 1/35th scale diorama.
The first is a conversion from the Airfix Mosquito FBVI into a BIX, built 19 years ago as the 'model' for one of my paintings, and it's been sitting on a shelf ever since, unfinished! The extended angine nacelles and bulged bomb bay were moulded and sculpted in Milliput, and the nose came from the old 1960's Monogram BIV kit. I moulded the now discoloured canopy, and when I eventually get around to finishing this model, I'll mould a new one, and add the frames. The detail parts, such as the entrance hatch cover, have already been scratch-built, and are sitting in a box somewhere!
The P47 is the Academy item, a very nice kit, and doesn't need much to finish it, all the 'missing' parts having already been painted. The NMF was brush-painted, using the technique I described in the 'Bare Metal' guide, and as you can see, is rather grubby and dusty at the moment, as the model was built about 8 years ago. I never got around to making the diorama base for it, so it's just been sitting at the back of a hidden shelf, forlorn and forgotten. After a dusting and polishing, it should regain it's sheen, and I'll get it on a base soon.
Finally, another very dusty 1/48th conversion, this time a Spitfire PR19, from the old Hobbycraft kit, made about 10 years ago. This was a fairly simple conversion, the most time consuming area being the moulding of the canopy. The 'ridge' at the base of the canopy is the externall runner, as the PR19, being pressurised, didn't have a cockpit access door, and the canopy was mounted on external rails to help facilitate with pressurisation. The model just needs a darn good clean, a bit of touching up here and there, then the final parts and some decals adding.
I'll post some pics of some more 'hangar queens' soon, along with the cast of 'The 21st Panzer Division in Normandy', all 45+ items, intended for a yet to be built 1/35th scale diorama.
God how I've had those days before....
