Hi!
Here is my finished DH-60 Moth.
Amy Johnson set record flights in this AC,England to Australiahttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Amy_Johnson_jason_india.jpg
AMY JOHNSON



Amy Johnson (later Mrs Amy Mollison) was an English aviator. She was born in 1903 at Hull, Humberside and died in 1941. She became a pilot in 1929 and in 1930 flew solo from England to Australia in a second-hand De Havilland DH 60 Gipsy Moth aircraft (christened Jason Wanderer) which her father bought for her, setting a new speed record, breaking the record held by Bert Hinkler - despite losing two days after hitting a ditch while landing at Insein which caused considerable damage to the plane - for which she won a prize of 10,000 pounds awarded by the London Daily Mail newspaper. During the Second World War she was a pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary and died after bailing out over the Thames estuary.

Interesting subject, where did you find it?

I've also been on the hunt for one of those (could live with just one) of the Hughes racers as well. I know they are a double kit.

Mike

Hi Mike.
The DH-60 is from OMEGA-Models (omega-models.com) which I got from Hannants.
The Hughes racer was given to me a couple of years ago as a christmas gift from my son.It is a CMR kit that he got from West Coast Hobbies and yes there are two AC in the box.
I hope this info helps .

Cracked the box last night.



not much in here, but oddly enough it's got an interior and a decal for the invisible instruments..inside a nearly completely sealed cockpit.
I did some pre-painting on the sprues last night and will get into construction tonight.

Review to follow.
Short version, it's an A Model kit. Not great location pins (where they exist) a little rough molding, giant sprue gates, but a unique subject not available anywhere else.
Totally buildable.

More later
Mike

I think that jessica has that model in her stash!

I do indeed, but I've discovered that I don't have the correct colour purple to paint it with, so it's going to stay in the stash for the moment. Voyager, on the other hand...

Here's the box again.

And a preview of what's inside

It's a real flash monster, and the shapes of the small details are quite crude. I picked a propeller from the old Airfix Ford Trimotor from the spares box that has a much better shape than the kit props. The pusher prop didn't have a spinner, and the hub is very much like the Airfix prop, not to mention that it's already pitched as a pusher anyway.
There's no interior, but that's okay, because you can't see anything through the windows. I'll just give it the Rolling Stones treatment and leave it at that.

Hi Jessica
Lot's of flash on that one,enough flash to make two models out of it.
All the old Airfix die makers must have moved to Amodel.

Looks like I've got to fill in the more modern end of the timeline.

Everybody is in 1/72 except the Wright Flier
Bleriot IX (Eastern Express? real dog of a kit.
Spad and Fokker Triplane
Ford Trimotor (not exactly 1/72, but close..)
Spirit of St Louis
and peeking in at the corner Northrup Gamma (Williams Bros.)


Dh88 Grosventor House (Airfix, and a REAL old dog of a kit)
Lockheed Electra (MPM? another meh of a kit)
He 178 first jet (Mpm?, don't remember)
Airfix Spitfire, Hasegawa P47 and Revell Germany ME 262
V2 (Mpm again?)

X1 Hobbycraft?
Lockheed Shooting Star (Revell Germany?)
F86 and Mig 15 from Hobby Boss
X-3 Stilletto Revell
U2 Lindberg?
X-15 Revell
X24A -shudder- Mach 2

sr 71 Italeri?
Lunar Lander Airfix
Yak 28 Revell
Other X24, still shudder, still Mach 2
F16 CCV Hasegawa
Space Shuttle Columbia Revell
X-29 Hasegawa


Somebody's F117 w flag decal..
Rutan Voyager (A Model)
F14 Bombcat Italeri
YF23 DML
Berkut Zvezda

Welcome to the campaign Jessica.

Some progress on the Comet just serves to highlight just how bad this kit is. The inner side of the right engine has a short shot that must be a common problem as my Grosvenor House had the same fault:

Although the fuselage is a pretty good match side to side with one exception, the wing roots are poor:
Top and bottom:

and the fit of the tail plane poor:

and the fit of the engines to the wings is terrible:

Next job, get the filler out.
The exception in the fuselage fit is the nose, where there is a plastic gate that is wide and difficult to restore the profile

Hi Andrew.
I just went and checked the Comet kit I have in my stash and all parts are molded fine.
Must be the luck of the draw!

Looks just like all three of mine.
One sold on a bagged card without decals...
Black magic and the newest Green One too.

Oh the good old Airfix Comet! That kit is a definite contender for the proposed "worst kits" or "silk purse" (or whatever it's going to end up being called) Campaign.

Must be the worst kit in my stash!

you must not have much Mach 2 in your stash then , huh??

A Model's Rutan round the world jet, brought to you by the new Micheal jackson/Vincent Price song for modelers
Filler!
"Gonna need some filler, filler...
takes a tube per wing becasue it's filler, filler..."

sorry if you're humming that for the rest of the day.







I switched from Squadron white ( why waste the good stuff?) to Tamiya grey so you can share the agony..

filler.. filler...

Mike

You could sell your table cover to an art gallery

No, I think that they described how dies are cut on an international phone call (the old scratchy ones before the days of comsats). Unfortunately the Airfix people were doing their describing in English and the AModel people were listening in Ukrainian. This is the only possible explanation for the state of some AModel kits.

Late start but this puppy should be a weekend build:
ZTS Plastyk RWD-5bis.

This small sportsplane set a record in 1933 when it flew non-stop from from Saint-Louis, Senegal to Maceio in Brazil. The flight took 20 hours 30 minutes (17 hours above the ocean). The distance was 3,582 km (2,226 mi), establishing a distance record for straight line flight in the FAI light tourist plane class. See Recordfile from fai.org here: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9200

Read more on the plane here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWD_5

Welcome Eirik!

Hello Everyone.

I've finally got around to working on my little build.

I'm building 2 of the minicraft F104's in 1/44 scale, the one for this build will be in U.S. markings. The other one will be in German markings for another build.

here are the photos of the kits in the box and my started assembly I've worked on tonight.





So far I've not had any problems and the assembly has gone well.

Delbert

Rutan jet is primed and spraypainted white.
Building it gear up is a challenge, becasue the gear doors do not fit in the bays. Oh well, more putty to the rescue.

It's a little disheartening, it looks like the bare parts out of the box again..

...except without all the gaping caverns that used to be there. What colour are you going to use for the purple?

I've cleaned tons of flash from Voyager's fuselage halves

and given them the Rolling Stones treatment

Now the fun part is going to happen when I try and get the canard halves to fit and stay level at the same time.