What's on The Workbench

[Heinz]

Ah good news that Andy

 

[Lancaster630]

as promised in an earlier post this is my little waiting to be built stash

 

[Lucky13]

How far down the line is the Hornby trainset?

 

[Heinz]

2800 series tank

I've been browsing Hattons site lately getting tempted by some nice locos there I must say.

Got some nice builds ahead of you

 

[A4K]

Nice ones Lanc! What's that Whitley like?

 

[BombTaxi]

My stash... only a small one as yet. The KGV is a mess, not one of my better efforts, but I may salvage it. The BMW will be completed at some point, planning on doing the Hurri in 32 Squadron colours after my Nachtjager is completed... unless I get distracted and buy something else meantime, of course 8)

 

[Lancaster630]

tee hee the Trainset is there so I can put all those kits up there the whitley appears to be quite good, I will let you all know my thoughts when i build her, I shall be doing a bomber command Mk V as opposed to the Coastal Command Machine supplied as I want to build one of each type of British built bomber that flew with bomber command during the Second World War, So far I have Blemheim, Lancaster, Stirling, Wellington and I also include the Tiger Moth and Avro Anson as training aircraft, I did have a Halifax but somone managed to come though my door trip and fall and turn 90 degrees miss the stirling in front of it and smash it, so I shall be replacing that at some point so as I see it I only have to add:
Hampden
Battle
Halifax
Mosquito
Manchester

If I have missed any please let me know 8)

@ BombTaxi spooky how you have the King George V and I have Bismarck, it was my Dads favourite so I (as kids do) had to choose my own ship and I chose Hood, do Revell make Hood in the same scale do you know?

 

[Airframes]

Lanc 630, you could also add the following to your Bomber Command line-up, as they served, although perhaps not as Main Force;
Mitchell
B17G
Boston
Ventura
B24J
The above were British based incidentally.

 

[BombTaxi]

Lanc, not sure if Revell do Hood in that scale, I'm pretty sure Tamiya do her in 1/700 waterline though. I have something of a Bomber Command fixation too (although I indulge mine in Microsoft Flight Sim 8) ), once my skills improve I would like to try a large scale bomber, like a 1/48 Wimpy or something similar.

 

[Airframes]

With my first part of the Group Build out of the way, and some older models cleaned and repaired, I've managed to just about finish the Academy 1/48th scale F86 Sabre. It just needs some tidying up here and there, the navigation lights adding, then placing on a base with the rather neat standing pilot figure that comes with the kit, and a groundcrew member or two, which will be 'converted' from Tamiya Panzer servicing crew figures. I'll post pictures of the finished display in my '30 Years of Airframes' Models' thread soon, but meanwhile, here's how the model looks so far.

 

[109ROAMING]

Well I must say I'm not the biggest fan of the Sabre But

I have to say that is very Cool!

 

[Wurger]

Also I'm not the bigest one.But she looks really great Terry.

 

[Airframes]

Thanks very much, Daniel and Wojtek. I quite like the Sabre, although there are better looking jets from that era, or just after, such as the beautiful Hunter.

 

[Lucky13]

That's one h*ll of a spiffy looking Sabre old fart....love the F-86, not those with the "nose" though, they're ugly. Would certainly be proud to have that one my shelf Terry, old chap!

 

[muller]

Nice Sabre Terry, love the exposed gun compartment! 8)

 

[Airframes]

Thanks awfully, old chaps! Trying to decide whether or not to have an 'armourer' at the gun hatch, or just keep it simple, with the pilot and a crew chief. Decisions, decisions!!

 

[Lucky13]

I'd have an armourer at the guns with the pilot talking to him and maybe another of the froundcrew next to them with the "belts" hanging around neck and shoulders....8)

 

[Airframes]

Nice idea Jan! But! Belts are already loaded into the flexi-feed chutes, and the pilot and bird are 'ready to go'. Also, it's only going on a small base, so want to keep it simple. The pilot figures are rather nice though; one sitting, and another standing, complete with parachute harness and pack, bone dome, 'speed jeans', separate arms and separate oxygen masks! That's the only reason I want to include figures, the pilot's too good to waste!

 

[Catch22]

Looks great Terry! I'm with Jan, I can't stand the Sabre Dog nose, the original's the only way to go!

 

[Wayne Little]

That Sabre is SWEET!! Terry, looks great.