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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.

This is Airfix's 1/72 DH Chipmunk, a kit which has been in my stash for about 15 years. I sanded off all the rivets and rescribed major panel lines, added a bit of cockpit detail and made my own decals to represent an a/c of Yorkshire University. All the dayglo orange areas were masked and airbrushed.

Hi Guys
here is my latest build the Fisher 1/32 scale F9-F2 Panther built straight from the box. Painted in Model Air Acrylics. all of the rivets have been added one at a time. Hope you like her?

Here is my Otaki's 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt finished a couple of hours ago. This model should have been a break from WWI models, I tried to built it straight from the box but my bad case of AMS attacked me again and I had to make the following improvements:

- I detailed the landing gear wheel wells and "weighted" the tires a little.

- I replaced the machine guns tubes and the pitot tube with hypodermic needles.

- I made the landing and navigation lights with clear acrylic. I made a small hole with a 0.4 drill to represent the light bulbs (blue/starboard-red/ port).

- I added some detail to the bomb racks.

- I sanded off the kit's cooling vents and I made new ones in plasticard.

- The drop tank came from the spares box (I think it belonged to a Tamiya P-51D).

- I painted the model with Gunze-Sangyo Acrylics (including the invasion stripes).

- I used AeroMaster's decals "Thunderbolts Galore III" (48113). I chose the plane flown by Maj. William H. Juntilla, "The Flying Finn" of the 352nd FS/353rd FG while based at Raydon in the early summer of 1944. They include the cowling's diamond pattern but the decals were designed for the Monogram Kit and didn't fit well so I had to paint it. I also painted the star and bar markings because the AeroMaster set doesn't include them and the kit's decals were unusable.








I hope you like it!