Post your 3 pictures for the August Model of the Month competition Here.

Post your, single, picture for voting purposes here

Rules for the new Model of the Month. Please read before posting

1. Entries must be of your own work.
2. The model must be of an aircraft.
3. The model can be in any scale and in any medium.
4. The model can be “out of the box”, scratch built, or anything in between.
5. The model must be finished within the month for which it is entered. The model could have been started some time before the MOM for which it is entered, it is the month in which it is actually finished that counts. So if it isn't finished this month it may be ready for next month or the month after
6. 1 picture is to be uploaded into the relevant gallery and titled with what the model is of, I.E. VS Spitfire Mk Vc. No composites. This picture must be of just the model, no base. (For a model posed in the "in Flight" configuration" a small stand is allowed which can be used to either support the model or as a counter weight. A beaching dolly can be used for a float plane.
7. A thread will be opened in the general aircraft forum in which you MUST add up to 3 further pictures and you MAY add details about the build. The model can appear on a base or even in a diorama in this thread. Pictures must not be larger than 700 pixels wide, in either the gallery or the information thread. If you wish to post further pictures then open your own thread.
8. Pictures of models can be placed in the gallery from the first of the month until the penultimate day of the month (the next to last day) (see “5” above). (This is to avoid the time zone difference, I'm working on GMT)
9. Voting will take place over the first half of the next month, closing on the 16th. (This will be between 18.00 and 00.01 GMT)
10. A member winning one month cannot win the following month.
11. Dragon are sponsoring this from June 2007.
12. Staff members of the Kitmaker group of sites cannot enter.
13. The rules will be added to when and if it is deemed necessary.
14. Any none complience with these rules may result in disqualification.
15. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse for not abiding by them.

Let me be the first here in August contest I'm presenting the Hasegwa 1/48 scale beutiful kit. The build was almost trouble-free. Some notes are listed here:

1) I used the canopy from Dragon/Trimaster kit, because it has a better shape to my eyes.
2) The smooth tires are replaced by treaded ones from Hasegawa A3/4 kit.
3) All the camo is sprayed freehand using Gunze C/H paints except the yellow places and the stylized wings behind the engine cowl.
4) I made some minor improvemets here and there like pitot tube, etc..

I'll be the second to enter

Here's my Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SBD-3 Dauntless. It was built OOB with the exception of a pair of Ultracast resin seats, and painted with Tamiya acrylics.

Oka, Here goes....

This is the Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat. Painted in FAA colours with Xtracrylics.

Something different for me this month, it's not a Messerschmitt (though i buit one of those this month as well). Just to prove i do realise that MOM stands for Model of the Month and not Messerschmitt of the Month.

It's the 1/48 Hasegawa Ki43-I Hayabusa "Oscar". This one was a Christmas present from the girlfriend, she liked the tailplane colours. Nice model except for the way Hasegawa did the wing tips.





Andrew

my entry this month is the Tamiya 1/48 P-51D Mustang. Built out of the box with the only addition of brake lines on the under carriage and Eduard Etch seat belts. Painted with Various shades of Alclad II and decals are from PYN-UP.







Cheers

Allen