thats really nice jessie and to everyone else, great builds.
mine are coming along, the decals arn't very flexable so i'm having to be very careful with them...


paul

OK, back on track. was not able to locate miliput, so fabricated new engines from some tubing. I think this is actually an improvement over the kit parts.

and a coat of primer. pretty good. the wing root and engine nacelle fairings are almost perfect.

I sure hope this works. Never, ever used a digital camera or uploaded a photo. If nothing appears, just imaged a Cyber-Hobby Vulcan B.2. Ok, here it goes!

Well-- it kinda worked. Now, how do get the image to appear with the post and not as a link? I tried highlighting the img on the reply site but the dang thing wouldn't do it. Any help? I guess half a loaf is better than none. Long "sigh".
jt

JT you almost got there mate ! You just copied the wrong link. When you click on your pic in the gallery there's a link below it with a little brown "button" to the right. Click on the button and another link will appear beneath it. Copy and paste that bottom link into your post here and . . .

Thanks, Damian. I swear, between you and the magical Jessie C, I get there yet. I owe you a pint! Now, where is the glue?
Thanks, again. JT

You were even closer than you thought it looks like you clicked the {img} tag but instead of pasting the link to the image between the tags you pasted it after.

Your post looked like this

{img}http://put.url.here/image.file{/img} http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/500/IMG_000313.jpg

When it should have looked like this

{img}http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/500/IMG_000313.jpg{/img}

i've used { instead of [ so the tags show up and I've fixed the post for you

There are some really great (make that a LOT of great) 1/144 models in this thread. This has been a gold mine for me to make some notes on what kits to pick up and how to build them. Thanks!

Continueing my slow build saga on the F-15J, I am still working on applying the many different paint coats on the exterior. While that is still underway, here's a few photos of the modified bang seat for this build. You might remember that the kit has a solid cockpit area and I have converted a 1/144 seat from a resin upgrade kit for the F-18. It is not close in accuracy but it does look a lot better to the eye than a smooth area where the cockpit should be!





Have fun modeling!
Mike

Folks,
We definitely have some very nice builds going on here. I've finally started to catch up on my backlog, so I thought I would give all a clue of my entry. Providing I don't blow it on the build,I'm in with a Revell AH-64D converted to the Israeli AH-64D "Saraf". Not a major conversion, but to me it is an interesting version and a different color scheme. Sooooo....below is the layout shot just taken. You can see I've started to convert the stub wings with the added flare ejectors. This should be an interesting build.
Enjoy,Gang ................Bruce

I'm In with this kit



I don't normally build F-18's as I'm not keen on them but as my favourite Navy Squadron (VFA-31 Tomcatters) has transitioned to them from the Tomcat and they decked the CAG's bird out for the Squadrons 75th Anniversary I just had to get this kit when I saw it.

I might be crazy or it's this flu that I've got, but i'm going to make some modifications to this build so I'll start a separate Blog for the build.

Filling and fairing done. Finish painting now, overall gloss white.

No pics but I finally am starting on the Sukhoi-22. Cockpit and gear/wheel well today. Hope I can get it done before mid-April.

Jonathon. Well done on the HS748. Looks very clean.

hi all,

great builds...
having this one scale build has really brought out some great subjects.
we have military,civil and rotary that cover a period of 70 odd years.

keep going everyone

paul

Guy, thanks for the kind words. This model is going extremely well.

In fact, Im so pleased with it, I ordered a couple more kits from Welsh. I'm a vacuform building fool now.
when I signed up for this campaign I intended to build a Ozmods/Airfix 727, which I still intend to do, but now this Dornier 228 has jumped to the the top of the pile.

I have now finished most (all?) of the exterior painting on my F-15J. It has been drying on my shelf for almost two weeks. Here is how it looks so far:







Next step is the decaling!


Have fun modeling!
Mike

not the best masking job on the blue, but the silver nacelles and the red stripe came out ok.


Next to print some windows, flags, and the tail decals.
some reference photos

The color laserjet is down, so I havent been able to print decals. hopefully that will be ready on Monday.
Meantime, I got a new set of metal props from Welsh Models and painted them the right way this time.

Wow, I have completely forgotten about this Campaign - sorry about that folks.

Here's where the FT-6 is at. After I sand the seam around the intake, then I'll glue the stabs and canopy on. Then it's time for painting? I'll have to take a close look to see if there's anything I missed.

Seeing all these fine build, it is about time that I post some progress here.

The Revell A-10 kit is a nice kit, but not surprisingly, a bit simple, especially when compared to the nice Eduard kits. The fit of the kit is fine, but the outer engine parts do not fit well. Also, the fuselage halves don't fit well at the bottom, but I am not bothered by that and leave it as it is as you hardly don't see it



After glueing all parts together, I first gave the little beast a coat of Tamiya fine surface primer. Unfortunately, it ended up a bit rough. After drying one night, I sprayed a layer of Tamiya Sky gray on the model.



This is the stage the model is currently in. The next step will be adding a darker shade of gray on certain spots as is in real life.

The real bonus in this kit is in my opinion the large amount of ordnance that can be put on the pylons under the wings. This gives the model the look it deserves, being the flying tank on the battle field. Also a big plus in this kit is the decal sheet, containing a lot of decals covering the tiniest details, like the 'no step' signs for the wings.



Jelger

Hello all ,

nice work so far! Some late update on my project (F-104 G Starfighter from Revell):

I enhanced the bang seat a little by adding some belts and ejection handles:




After that I closed the cockpit and masked the canopy:


In this scale it is not easy to avoid breathing in fiddly parts...

Regards,

Sebastian

Hello everyone, I found this little guy while I was traveling and couldn't resist. This is my first model fixed wing aircraft bigger than 1/700 so we'll see how 1/144 treats me.

...that´s quite a big hop

Welcome aboard!

welcome david, hope you enjoy the campaign.

paul

p.s. (to everyone) just a little reminder to post pictures in the relevant campaign folder when finished.