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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2020 17:00:58 GMT
Apparently the BUFF will go on to serve alongside the B-21 while the B2 and Bone will be retired early in the 2030's. By the time they go out of service they will have served for around a century. How about THAT for a record?
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Post by ChrisM on Sept 23, 2020 18:53:54 GMT
Not a model, but a real plane. Will probably be sad for you to listen and see this, Mike, and a few others on here:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2020 20:53:33 GMT
Seen it earlier but yes, a sad sight. No idea if the remains can be salvaged but the the UK Blenheim had a similar accident and they managed to fix that. It did take tracking down a home made electric car for the front end and recreating a short nose MK 1 from a long nose MK IV but the beast still flies.
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Post by alf on Dec 31, 2020 12:10:46 GMT
With christmas giving me some more time I have been building again, on and off - this time a Tamiya FW190A (I like the original, snub-nosed rotary engined ones more than the later D variants). I'm more interested in the painting/finishing than endless building of tiny parts, so the Tamiya set is nice to use - the modern Airfix ones I have used look great but can be fiddly. German WW2 aircraft were given a lot of schemes and often locally finished/altered with whatever paint was about, and I'm intending to give this one a desert finish, but one with the green mottled shapes on it. It will be a PITA. With no airbrush, and with spray finishes on large surfaces looking so much better, I'm limited to what colour is available in paint cans of the right type - I have one Tamiya can too dark, and one too light, brown - I'll probably layer both. I want something like this (you can see there is a lot of variation of base colour and green on top already) - the green will be with sponge brushes (he says confidently having not done it before):    Lastly, kudos to this pro build, which is historically accurate for the simpler more typical north africa design, being based on one captured when the hun was kicked out of africa:  |
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Post by Boxer6 on Dec 31, 2020 14:07:06 GMT
With christmas giving me some more time I have been building again, on and off - this time a Tamiya FW190A (I like the original, snub-nosed rotary engined ones more than the later D variants). I'm more interested in the painting/finishing than endless building of tiny parts, so the Tamiya set is nice to use - the modern Airfix ones I have used look great but can be fiddly. German WW2 aircraft were given a lot of schemes and often locally finished/altered with whatever paint was about, and I'm intending to give this one a desert finish, but one with the green mottled shapes on it. It will be a PITA. With no airbrush, and with spray finishes on large surfaces looking so much better, I'm limited to what colour is available in paint cans of the right type - I have one Tamiya can too dark, and one too light, brown - I'll probably layer both. I want something like this (you can see there is a lot of variation of base colour and green on top already) - the green will be with sponge brushes (he says confidently having not done it before): Lastly, kudos to this pro build, which is historically accurate for the simpler more typical north africa design, being based on one captured when the hun was kicked out of africa: It's a very nice scheme, but difficult to get anywhere near 'decent' looking without an airbrush. My dad and I built a Ju-87 in a similar scheme when I was about 12, and used a sponging technique for the patches. It wasn't 100% to our satisfaction, but it was 100% better than using a brush! No pics unfortunately, and it went to 'the great plastic bin in the sky' man years ago. |
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Post by PG on Dec 31, 2020 16:54:04 GMT
An airbrush was something I always aspired to own as a young modeller but never got.
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Post by alf on Jan 1, 2021 13:30:19 GMT
I feel I lose nothing painting large surfaces and anything with hard edges with cans - but blended edges and patterns can be painted with an airbrush, and you can mix the colours and not have to try and find a can in the right colour and the right type of paint (the Tamiya paint specifically for aircraft models is great but not in many colours)... Having one and being an artist with one are two different things, and you need a ventilated room etc - Currently I spray outside in good weather... see below another I did with Tamiya cans and a hand painted nose.. Zoom in and you can see the lovely way the detail shows through the paint.....  |
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Post by alf on Feb 25, 2021 17:26:01 GMT
It's finally warm enough to start spraying up the FW190 in the "blotchy" desert colours as per the pic in flight above. I've done the whole top in the green that the patches are - now I'll add small cardboard shapes to the body and upper wings (probably larger than above!) to retain the green, but held slightly above the surface so there will be soft edges, then spray all over in at least 3 coats of light brown. He says confidently, having never tried this before. A shame in a way as the green has gone on really well (expand the below to see) but most will now be over-painted... The underside has already been done in light blue - I hope I got the masking right, this game is very much about the masking at this stage! I mask the whole underside as I learned that some overspray comes up onto the underside otherwise...  |
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Post by Tim on Feb 25, 2021 17:42:56 GMT
I'll be interested to see how this goes, having never used an airbrush myself. I think my first attempt is going to be 'painting' the house  |
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Post by alf on Feb 26, 2021 17:18:36 GMT
OK so this was a right PITA but I'm happy with the results so far. I painted the underside blue, masked it off, painted the top dark green. Then cut out random shapes of card and attached with bluetack, plus used bluetack itself for the smaller shapes, and gave it 4 or so thin coats of desert brown on top, before removing the stuck-on bits. Holding the edges above the plane resulted in the soft edges I wanted, but the paint has got under many and the bluetack marks are too clear - so I worked on the edges of these round edges with some thinner then very fine sandpaper. Happy with the result, and the masking worked well for the main edges as the last shots show, some imperfections are OK as these were hand painted in the field originally! With a bit more work on the edges of green, the decals on, and weathered, I reckon this will be a winner...       |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 18:04:10 GMT
Looks good so far.
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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 26, 2021 19:58:17 GMT
Excellent progress.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 20:53:28 GMT
The newest Sukhoi.
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Post by alf on Mar 7, 2021 15:45:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2021 16:34:42 GMT
Looks good, not sure if it's an A-5 or an A-9 from those views but am leaning towards an A-5.
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Post by alf on Mar 8, 2021 11:39:08 GMT
It's an A3.... Very much not aimed at being built into a desert version but the age is about right - I don't go for super accuracy :-)
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Post by Tim on Mar 8, 2021 11:42:03 GMT
That looks very good indeed.
What scale is it?
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Post by alf on Mar 8, 2021 16:05:03 GMT
1/48: I should have said that, its the Tamiya FW190 A-3 kit... I like Tamiya for minimal building...
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Post by Tim on Mar 9, 2021 9:01:42 GMT
That's my preferred scale although I haven't found anyone who does a Vulcan model at that size yet.
The Tamiya kits always used to be far superior to the normal Airfix and Revell ones but I remember making a Hasegawa Harrier and being impressed by that too.
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Post by alf on Mar 9, 2021 12:06:44 GMT
Some of the older Tamiya kits come up for sale really cheaply sometimes, and I have not disliked one yet. I have a Tamiya Sea Harrier to do (I was watching too many Falkands documentaries!) but normally stick to WW2 fighters as I just like the designs.
I have a Tamiya Mk1Spitfire which obviously - being British - I want to do a good job of! And a Revell BF109G as I like the later 109's with the big spinner. And finally a HobbyBoss P-47D, that was a cheap kit - will be interesting to check out.
I'll be interested to see just how big "the Jug" (P-47) looks against the others. Until this kit I had not realised the FW190 was - like the BF109 - so compact. It was quite heavily armed and yet is really small next to the Sea Fury, which is from a few years later but they look like different scales!
When these are done (the P-47 will be simple as its mostly silver, the 109 will be more of a hassle with the mottled paint again!) then I'll look to find a Hawker Typhoon and build that with the undercarriage down and a full bomb load, which will take time...
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Post by Boxer6 on Mar 9, 2021 12:36:31 GMT
Some of the older Tamiya kits come up for sale really cheaply sometimes, and I have not disliked one yet. I have a Tamiya Sea Harrier to do (I was watching too many Falkands documentaries!) but normally stick to WW2 fighters as I just like the designs. I have a Tamiya Mk1Spitfire which obviously - being British - I want to do a good job of! And a Revell BF109G as I like the later 109's with the big spinner. And finally a HobbyBoss P-47D, that was a cheap kit - will be interesting to check out. I'll be interested to see just how big "the Jug" (P-47) looks against the others. Until this kit I had not realised the FW190 was - like the BF109 - so compact. It was quite heavily armed and yet is really small next to the Sea Fury, which is from a few years later but they look like different scales! When these are done (the P-47 will be simple as its mostly silver, the 109 will be more of a hassle with the mottled paint again!) then I'll look to find a Hawker Typhoon and build that with the undercarriage down and a full bomb load, which will take time...Don't forget the 16 (I think) rockets; they are a major PITA .. .. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 18:20:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 12:39:47 GMT
Are drones getting faster too? If they get this fast it will be tough for soft targets like refineries, to deal with.
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Post by Boxer6 on May 18, 2021 18:20:59 GMT
Lovely stuff! At our club we have several guys with models that will comfortably exceed 100mph, though perhaps ironically, the turbines are some of the slowest!
I can't find the link I thought I had to the fastest RC Glider flight, in which the model recorded speeds somewhere in excess of 560 MILES per hour!!!!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 19:23:04 GMT
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Post by Boxer6 on May 18, 2021 19:38:23 GMT
Only 548mph? My memory is obviously worse than I thought! |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 20:53:00 GMT
I think that's enough for a glider.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 21:34:10 GMT
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Post by Boxer6 on May 19, 2021 9:26:52 GMT
I thought I'd seen 560mph somewhere - I feel a bit better about it now! |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2021 15:18:30 GMT
I'm not a nerd for nothing.
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