Sorry for the delay in posting this but I am not able to use the internet at the moment, I'm using Nige's laptop to write this before leaving for a model show.

Post your 3 pictures for the April 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. A model of a crashed aircraft on a simple base is allowed. This, simple, base can only be of groundwork, no vehicles, trees, fences etc or figures are allowed, but items off the aircraft are (such as wheels).
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 800 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.

Here's my entry for the April MOM contest!







This is the Eduard 1/48 Mirage IIICJ kit, with a whole lot of goodies from S.B.S. Models, Eduard PE, IsraDecals etc. Painted mainly in Alclad II Airframe aluminium, and very slightly weathered with a soft (6B) led pencil and Tamiya soot. The Israelis kept their precious Shahaks neat and shiny! Built for the Aluminium Campaign here at Aeroscale. A lot of hours were put in to this fun and rewarding project!

This was my first - but definitely no my last - attempt at the 1/48 scale. I liked it!

Cheers! // PolarBear

Here's my entry for the contest.







That's Revell's (reboxed Hasegawa) 1:72 scale Heinkel He 111 H-6, built as the transport plane used by the Detachment Kuhlmey stationed in Finland to help repel the Soviet offensive on the summer of 1944. The commander of the unit, Oberstleutnant Kurt Kuhlmey arrived in Finland on this particular plane.
The kit was built for the Big Beautiful Bombers campaign with the help of Eduard zoom PE set for the cockpit as well as canopy masks.

More photos of the finished model can be seen on the campaign thread, as well as in-progress pics (starting from page 5) along with commentary on the build.

Italeri's 1/48 Tornado ADV. Improved with Paragon ehhausts, chaff/flare dispensers and wing pylons. Resin ejector seats with buckles jaz up the cockpit a bit and X-Tracdecal decals provide the markings. Some panel lines were filled and corrected, and the weapons were replaced with more detailed moldings from the spares box....