A tiny Tornado in german marine livery next to a Vallejo paint bottle

Top view of Tiny Tornado. I went a bit overboard with the shading but I had to try out my new airbrush. I kind of like the bit stylized „video game“ look. Maybe not realistic but interesting looking xP

View from the other side

Belly. I decided to leave it as is without much weathering

Calling Tiny Tornado 2 done!
Had a bit of trouble at the end but overall turned out to be a nice little plane (if you don’t look too closely 😂)

Revell 1/144 Tornado german Marine
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Westland Sea King 826 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Culdrose 1970

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1/2

#OTD in 1942, A Lancaster B Mark I from 97 Squadron practicing for a low-level attack on the diesel engineering works at Augsburg, three days later. #WW2 #HISTORY

A 1/72 scale model of a Gloster Meteor NF 14 from starboard side. 64 Squadron, RAF Duxford, 1958. Kit by Xtrakit (ex-Matchbox). Mainly Hataka paints.

A 1/72 scale model of a Gloster Meteor NF 14 from the front. 64 Squadron, RAF Duxford, 1958. Kit by Xtrakit (ex-Matchbox). Mainly Hataka paints.

A 1/72 scale model of a Gloster Meteor NF 14 from above. 64 Squadron, RAF Duxford, 1958. Kit by Xtrakit (ex-Matchbox). Mainly Hataka paints.

A 1/72 scale model of a Gloster Meteor NF 14 from the starboard front quarter. 64 Squadron, RAF Duxford, 1958. Kit by Xtrakit (ex-Matchbox). Mainly Hataka paints.

Calling this one done.
Xtrakit (ex-Matchbox) Gloster Meteor NF 14. 64 Squadron, RAF Duxford, 1958.
Build was a fight and the decals very fragile. I've defo built better. First time I've used Hataka paints. I like them.
Next one will be better.
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Tamiya 1/72

#histscalemodels #scalemodels This is my "palette cleanser" after a long building spree of WWII tanks and aircraft: a 1917 Model T ambulance. Still needs post-shading and weathering.

The blue color was a challenge. I ended up using Vallejo's Model Air IDF Blue with a drop of flat black.

All done. Airfix 1/48 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk1 NF. N3340 255 Squadron, RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire 1941. #AirfixDefiant More photos here: bowemodels.co.uk/gallery/airc...

Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

Luftschiff Zeppelin 11　 Viktoria Luise
完成です。なんとか形にしました。
LZ10、LZ11は私が大好きな飛行船ですので再挑戦も考えております。
出来上がると愛着も出てくるもので今では「そんなに悪くないんじゃない？」なんて思ったりしています。
LZ11は1912年に初飛行し9000人を超える乗客が空の旅を楽しみました。
第一次世界大戦の勃発でドイツ軍に練習船として買収されます。
1915年に飛行船基地での格納作業中に後部を破損し修理不能となったため廃船となりました。このときに撮影されたであろう写真を見つけてそれに仕様を合わせて作った次第です。

Luftschiff Zeppelin 7 Deutschland (1200mm)
LZ11の紹介も終わったので止まっていたLZ7を進めたいと思います。
LZ7は船体のほとんどが同じ径のリングですので、そこから進めていきます。リングが出来上がってきたので仕上げに入ります。1㎜角棒の入る穴を棒ヤスリで通しておきます。若干広めにしておくほうが後々の調整が楽になります。リングの縁は結構とガタガタなので100番のヤスリで平にしておきます。立ててまっすぐ立つようなのでこんなところでしょうか。最後に治具に14枚設置して今日はおしまいです。新作ですのでこれから週1回くらいの投稿になります。

Finished with this for now…lots wrong with it but some things worked out OK. My biggest issue is finding the figures that I want that also have good detailing…this one doesn’t really…ho hum…happy Easter all…😊👍

Red…yeah I have massively cheated here I know…😊🙄

very much considering pitching (threatening?) my editor to let me go to Mariner's opening day to write about the FRIED FOOD SOUVENIR FERRY VESSEL (i do not write about food)

Not quite finished with this little jewel, but getting close. The Yellow Wings Decals set is spectacular. It has complete decals for five aircraft, so I am buying every one of these Monogram kits I see now! #histscalemodels

And nothing moves around once the lid is on and the box stored.

Still think putting everything in bags would have been better and that the box should be thicker.

Decided to get rid of the bags.

Instead, I packed the chapter contents flat with the instruction sheets as seperators between each chapter.
The instruction sheet is the same size as the box.
Then placed the basic game content including dice etc on top.
Everything fits!

I was concerned when I started on the first chapter.

The box should be about 50% thicker.

So I completed the campaign in 'Under Falling Skies' and I have a problem. The campaigns were all initially flat packed into the box, but once you use them they don't fit back in.
I put each chapter in a bag and now the box isn't big enough to hold all the game components.

Has any one solved this?

At the height of the US postcard craze, “tall-tale” cards imagined a land of giant-sized plenty. In this 1909 series, Californian rail cars haul colossal fruit and veg — turning agricultural pride into something surreal and strangely beautiful: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Messing about with a bit of stage setting I guess…the only reason for the red gas canister is because it’s nice and red and I like the way it brightens the scene. Working title ‘dank’ at the moment perhaps…🥃😊🤷‍♂️

This is the kit the shroud frame came with.
(Galleon, not a Galley)
It's 1/200 and nor 1/400, which explains the gap between ratlines being twice it should be!

But hey, it's free.

Random picture from the CJHM archive

The distance between the ratlines on the shrouds are a bit big, but I think visually they work.

It's a tough build
The nets sort of worked but it was frustrating to do and I just had to do my best. I did use some Uschi thread because i thought it was easier, but it wasn't really.

Anyway the shrouds are easier, I saved a frame that came with a Heller Galley kit. Had toi relearn how to use it.

Hawker Sea Fury FB.11, 801 Naval Air Service deployed to HMS Glory 1952. Another super kit by Airfix.

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Decided to not use the Uschi elastic rigging thread, the reels I have are to thin, instead I'm using some fine plastic (nylon?) sowing thread.
Will probably paint it when complete.

Not sure what to do with rigging.
The rat lines are a particular problem.

Do I bother?

an engineer wearing white overalls at work under the propeller of a Typhoon aircraft standing on an airfield. A second engineer leans on the wing on the left, also at work.

Typhoon Aircraft undergoing Minor Repairs is this weeks artwork, a 1943 painting by Elsie Dalton Hewland. #Art #YearOfArt

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Decals applied, also the timber to support the anti-boarding nets done. Some of the tiny 1/400 sailors clinging on for dear life.

I'm thinking of trying to use Uschi fine elastic rigging thread to implement nets. Probably need to start thinking about the sea and base!

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HOLY CRAP! I got 2nd place in the diorama category with my stuart!!

Seriously unexpected but so chuffed with that!!

Thanks to all who wished me luck it's certainly paid off!

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I have ordered some tiny 1/400 20th century figures which I hope I can paint a few to look 17th century.
Note the guns on one side look a mess since the ship will be listing to one side.