This channel is now devoted to scale modelling. This is an old hobby that I used to like doing when I was a child. All content will be devoted to building Airfix kits as well as other manufacturers.
Love the interior detail on this kit Steve, can't wait to start mine but promised myself I'd finish my Severn class lifeboat first. Should be about Christmas then!
I will get round to doing it eventually. I need to book time off work to get real work done to the bedroom and get it converted into a hobby room. Only when that is finished, I can start work on a diorama. Also I need to raise funds for getting the materials to build a work bench.
Kitchen worktop is ideal for cutting photo etch, nice and flat and hard. But a better option would be a tile or a piece of glass, ideal,for your workbench, much more portable! Cutting mats are not good for photo etch, too soft and springy...Good luck with it 😊
Stevie I gave the comment re lighter fluid and its legit - works very well for stickers -as I said it evaporates very quickly - do a you tube search am sure you will find it works - I got it from channel PB probs
Stevie - mad as it sounds lighter fluid will remove the stickers - it melts the tacky stuff and then quickly evaporates it wont damage the box art if your gentle with it - and no it wont burst into flames 🙂
So, it did end up in the bin 😂 Apologies for inciting the negative comments on that Tamiya kit, some of those comments were bang out of order. I adore Tamiya kits but they too have a small number of kits that really should have a sledgehammer swung at their tooling. Any newcomer buying those kits will end up disappointed and will probably blame themselves for their failure when its the kit that's at fault. Those old tooled kits do nothing for the hobby, Airfix classics are another example.
Fengda FE 186k. Superb brush, 3 sizes of cup, different size needles included. All for under 30 quid. Dont be fooled, they are cheap to buy but not an inferior airbrush. I have three of them and even use them for commission work, i have that much confidence in them. No need to spend hunderd quid or more just yet! Plenty of reviews on you tube 😊
As for a good airbrush i recommend the Harder & Steenbeck ultra 2024 or anything from Gaahleri i have their model the GHAD -39 which is working great for me
Steve I think you have part 6a the wrong way round (the domed section goes towards the rear of the plane) which is why you were struggling. I nearly got caught out the same way when I built mine.
A wheels up crash landing, with both wheels still in situ, would be more realistic. If you warm the propeller blades you can bend them, either leaving one untouch for a dead engine landing, or all three bent for an engine running landing. If the propeller was of wooden construction, blades would be broken off.
Thanks Steve!!!watching your video is like visual comfort food.... my uncles were pilots when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s in the bright hot dust of central California. It just fills my heart with joy that everybody from all over the place can be into these little models... I must have built 50 of them at my little 4 x 4 folding table watching Hammer horror films on the telly. Keep going buddy❤.
My late father got me an Airfix kit once while I was growing up in Central England, but I fell away. I didn't really get back into the hobby until the start of the pandemic and I'm enjoying it. Its reading comments like yours that really gives me the confidence to keep it going.
I've built both the vampire and the jeep kits, and they are both absolute cracking models when finished, I also have an airfix He 111, but mine is the limited edition motorhead boxing, not too sure if I'll actually ever build that one!
