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Steven Van Dyck
At this event I won 2 gold and 2 bronze medals, for the 2 carriers, the Saab Viggen, the Mosasaurus and the Cylon Raider. Also I talked to a lot of friends and bought some goodies.

Nathan Dempsey
Congratulations on the medals Steven! Thanks for sharing.

Lost_Erik
Well done. Looks like a good show. Thanks for posting all the pictures.

gorby
Taking a seat. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Me 2!

Augie
Thanks guys, fingers crossed I do it justice.

MARCO ORSENIGO
how did you the balistic protection on the sidewalls?

Augie
@Marco They are from the Kelic set, the only thing I would say about them is that, I had to superglue them in.

Augie
You'll have to mind the white stuff on the roof as one of the glazing cracked in half so I am trying to get a piece of acetate to fit and need the pva to dry so I have an outline of the hole.

Augie
Washed.. now letting it settle a bit before I mush much more with it.

CaptGPF
Following!

CaptGPF
Just too impressive not to follow!

Guido
Following 🙋🏼‍♂️

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Ben M
👁️👁️

Steven Van Dyck
I'm going to try to make the hydrodynamic suspension work really, now I've got workable metal tracklinks. This means I have to make torsion bars inside the tank, and a system to connect them to the underside of the base. For the painting I deviated from the quite useless painting instructions and bought the colors I recognized in the book.

Tom B.
Looks quite ambitious 👍

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks, Tom. Today I made some components and decided that the system of levers is replaced with cogs and wormwheels.

Steven Van Dyck
I found a way to combine 2 wormwheel transmissions and a differential construction and then made the inner 4 axles spring-operated. A video of the result of the differential working can be seen on Youtube Video . Then I opened up all grid texture parts with an Airwaves-saw, the Tetra PE will fit in this. There appeared an ominous warp in the upper hull, so it's not all Tamiya quality... I installed styrene plates in the typical Tamiya sponson openings and covered the front fender parts with metal plate where the tools are hollowed out.

Steven Van Dyck
The system had to be removed again because it could not move the R-Model tracklinks around. The cogs in it were too small to be driven by a worm. I found a solution but all components in the tank must be adapted. The upper hull now has a metal tray to fill up the ventilation system. The track pins were made with a heavy-duty wire cutter and the MasterTools slide caliper.

Steven Van Dyck
The Magic Models gun is now assembled. A new attempt is made to get the drive train movable.

André Silva
Insane amount of work and detail (in a good way). Following.

André Silva
Starting this project would be impossible without the help of the owner of the spanish online shop "ROBOTINES". He went above and beyond so this model could arrive at my hands. I now see (with regret) that in the many emails that we exchanged his name was not written. But credit where credit's due, please go check his store, he his one helpful and problem solving guy. If you ever see this post, it took me almost two years but i'm starting it, thank you so much for being so professional.

André Silva
BTW, apart from the tracks and some fit issues, it's going well.

Łukasz Gliński
Built this little bugger lately - are you going OOB or planning to fix the Airfix' errors?

Chris
Oh no, just plain OOB. I even don't know what could be corrected 😉

Finn
Cool with a kit that's older than I am. Will follow

Chris
Oh, I see it is from 1960, so it is even older than I am 😉

Łukasz Gliński
There are lots of things you could correct, but I didn't do it either 🙂
britmodeller.com/for..oe-sr-n1-hovercraft/
Watch out for these side-ducts, their fit is very poor, I added them onto the deck after looooong session of filling and sanding.
However they fit the deck quite well once assembled and painted..

Łukasz Gliński
PS. Watch the crew cabin holes too, in my case they looked randomly located 😄

Chris
Thanks for this! I will do some of the needed things.

Łukasz Gliński
I can post some reference pics I found - let me know if you'd like to take a look

Chris
Yes, sure, please. It is early enough to make those little changes. Yes, the cabin holes are strange and the angled instrument panel made me doubt 😄

Łukasz Gliński
There you go: Other stuff | Album by Woody
Pics #43-53

Chris
Cool. Interesting for coloring the model. And also interesting is, that there are no tiny little wheels to see. That vehicle must be updated every month a little bit. But it helps in some details that I will alter and I will have another look at them when coloring it. So much thanks for those pictures! 😄

Łukasz Gliński
No probs, the wheels are pure fantasy indeed. I also found these little wie-heisst-er-s on top of the side ducts should be coloured yellow, not red

Chris
😄 That's a cool name for that important engine details. I had to laugh out very loud! 😄

... and will paint them yellow as well

Neil
Thanks Villiers de Vos

Treehugger
Btw, there are two tiny thingies at both end of the big wings. These are nav lights of sorts. Red on the left side, and blue on the right side, according to some paint chart I've seen recently.

Neil
Hi Treehugger ? kind of you to offer advice... Excellent build help indeed. Thanks for the tip ?

Gary Victory
Looking good Neil.

Neil
Thanks very much Gary, kind of you to comment 🙂 👍

James C
Looking good and following 👍

Neil
Cheers James 🙂

Jos Jansen
Oh wow...missed this one...following mate!

Andrew Horton
Wow! I look forward to seeing this build completed.

Mirko Römer
You can never have enough Viggens... 👍

Neil
Thanks Jos 👍 🙂 and Flight Line Media 👍

Neil
I agree Mirko! 💯👍

Konrad -
Awesome Neil!!

Neil
Hi Konrad 🙂 thanks very much 👍

Robert Podkoński
Viggen in yellow and blue!!! I love it! Watching with pleasure, Neil.

Neil
Excellent! Welcome aboard Robert 👍🙂

Neil
Hi all 🙂 I've finally got around to taking 'reveal' pictures for many of my previous build albums. I shall be updating each and including a few build notes in the description too - especially on the bits I messed up!

Here is my version of that 'Blu Petter' kit for the Airfix Saab Viggen completed in 2021. Excuses alert! It wasn't the best fitting kit, being an earlier Airfix effort.

Thanks to all who showed interest and liked, it's greatly appreciated 👍

Robert Podkoński
Looks perfect, Neil. Congrats!

Neil
Thanks Robert. you're too kind mate 🙂 👍

Christian
Hey Neil, really nice Viggen!

Neil
Cheers Christian! 😁

Jennifer Franklin
Very nice Neil, looks amazing.

James C
Congrats mate, that's a stunning finish 👍

Neil
Thanks Jennifer!

Spanjaard
very nice result in this old kit, love it.

Neil
Thanks James C 👍 and to those who've liked!

Neil
Thanks very much indeed for saying that Spanjaard, appreciate it 🙏🙂

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Wow! Great looking Viggen. Vibrant Blue and yellow

Neil
Thanks very much Robin! 🙂

gorby
WOW! Amazing result Neil.

Neil
Thanks very much Gorby. Much appreciated 👍

Gary Victory
Really nice finish Neil. That blue really pops..👍. Great work Sir.

Daniel
Quite an eye catcher, very nice work 👍

CaptGPF
Loved the coloring and restrained weathering. Very well done!

Neil
Hi Gary, Daniel and CaptGPF, thanks very much mates. Really appreciate you talented bunch commenting. I too love the kit colour scheme on this one and with hindsight; and an acceptance of some kit flaws, in my opinion it builds up into a pretty decent kit for an older Airfix one 👍 Thanks also to all those who've liked my efforts here too 🙂

Shar Dipree
Very nice viggen. Good work! 👍

Neil
Thanks very much Shar 🙂👍 and thanks to others for the recent likes also 👍

Jennifer Franklin
I love the blue, it's remarkable.

Neil
Thanks very much Jennifer 🙂

Rando
Majestic!

Neil
Thanks mate! 👍

Mr James
Great shading work. Lovely build

Rui S
Beautiful model 👍

Mr D
Very nice, top job...👍👍

Neil
Thanks very much mates! Very kind 👍 😁

J35J
Great work Neil! Congrats👍🏻

Rui S
Well done. I like it👍

Alexander Krivenko
Thanks!

Stefan Schacht
Very nice 👍

Alexander Krivenko
Danke!

Ben M
Beautifully done!

Ben M
Masking all that in 1:144 had to be fun.

Skyhiker
I've never seen green crosses like that. Are they Japanese?

Lorraine Lin
Does it mean neutral or non military purpose? Some relief supplies transport ships had this marks during WWII.

gorby
Fantastic work for 1/144!

Neuling
I agree!

Ben M
The green crosses are Japanese surrender markings, so immediate postwar.

Skyhiker
Thanks Ben M. I learned something new.

Spanjaard
fantastic job

Nathan Dempsey
Following 👀

Desert Marlin
I'm looking forward to seeing this one come together!!!

Ben M
👀

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

CaptGPF
Taking a seat with popcorn!

Cristian A
Welcome my friends, I'm doing my best, the kit is very complex and so far things worked well.

Alexander
Interested too, following!

Michael Kohl
Nice build so far.

Mr D
Nice project 👍 your doing a good job, there an impressive model when built....lve watched few videos on the ....as l have the 1/72 version to build soon.
Good luck with it 😃👍

Cristian A
Thank you, everyone, for the kind words and encouragement! 🙂

@Michael Kohl – Appreciate the support! 😊

@Mr D – Thanks a lot! The 1/72 version sounds like a great build; I'm sure it'll look fantastic when you get started, best of luck with yours as well! Please share updates, would love to see how it turns out. 👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Gerald
👍

★ Starfish ★
That's some crazy detail!

Cristian A
Thanks Starfish, I'm adding magnets to them as well so I can play around with the loadout 🙂 Welcome Guy and Gerald!

Desert Marlin
Lots of windows! Love the complexity!

CaptGPF
Following!

Nathan Dempsey
Nice progress 🙂

Mr D
Great project, coming along nicely.... Now don't spray out your pre-shading like l did on my SU-30 🙄🤣.
Nice work 👍👍

Jan Janssen
Unusual subject wonder how it builds up, #following

Mr D
Thanks Jan 👍will update through build.
It's from the 1990's

Mr D
Thanks for the likes 😁👍 it's interesting to see how a 33 year old kit builds up ??

David R. Meizoso
Beautiful subject, I'm also in!

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Mr D
Thanks Grumpy Guy 👍👍 bit of a different one..

Skyhiker
Very nice

Ben M
👀

Mr D
Ben👋😀👍

Neil
Really nice work Mr D 💯 Following 👍

Mr D
Great Neil, 👋😀.... Thanks

J35J
Great progress! Following👍🏻

Edouard Carr
Great idea about the watch pins! ⌚ Definitely gonna try this out on my builds. Looking forward to the finished result.

Mr D
Hi Edouard👋😀👍.
Yes l just get cheap ones of eBay, the do different sizes, you can pull ends n spring out for barrel look, or file ends last to have a recoil cannon look.
The gun turret nearly there now....lots of sanding n filling low spot.
Thanks for looking in on build.👍👍

Michael Kohl
Following

Mr D
Thanks Michael 👋😀👍
Good to have you along ✈️

Zbynek Honzik
I'm very curious to see the result. I built this model as a young boy too.

Mr D
Hi Zbynek 👋🙂👍.
Thanks for your interest. Nice to know you had it too, l built X3 the Tu airliner and the bomber. But this was my favourite as l liked the shape and that it had floats n guns.
Got part of tail on this evening.
Keep looking in for updates 😃👍👍

Mr D
Airliner Was the Tu-134

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Mr D
Good to have you along Guy 👋😃.
Bit of fine sanding n tidying to do next then look at getting an engine effect in cowling area.
I replaced side vent for smaller one now, checked photos... and l made it way to big.
Catch you on the next steps.

Mr D
Thanks to Everyone who has liked n taken an interest 👋😃👍.. Appreciate it 👍

Edouard Carr
Hey Mr D whats the Gorilla Glue like? Is it a clear PVA or a resin Super Glue Type? Do you use it just for clear bits or as n all purpose? Thanks in advance E.

Mr D
Hi, it dries 100% clear but is slow.. to air dry ..so leave overnight.
But it's worth it as very strong. And is very neutral on paint and clear parts.
It's almost like an air drying epoxy, not harsh like super glue or poli ...very safe.
I only use it on clear stuff as it's stronger than PVA but not good for general building.. l do use it to fill gaps sometimes.
👍

Mike Montgomery
Don't think I'd trust those decals. The red stars are easy enough to replace or paint on, the bort numbers might be more of a challenge.

Edouard Carr
GG. Now added to my shopping list along with watch pins 😉

gorby
Looks like an interesting build.

Mr D
Hi Edouard 👋..yes 🤣 lm on 12 model with it and never had anything come loose.
Mike👋.... No mention neither! I've purchased some more Soviet stars now, may have some numbers leftover from others project's.
Gorby, Thanks buddy 👍

Christian W
This is a quite interessting plane you're building! I like the shape of the wings. Pretty good build and pictures.

Mr D
@ Christian W.
Thanks buddy 🙂👍
Yes it a bit different, yes has nice gull-wings.
It's a trip down memory lane for me... I slapped one together back in 1991 as a kid.
Thanks for the interest.... I like seeing people's build processes n history....so doing the same.👍👍

Dave Flitton
Looking good so far

Mr D
Thanks Dave.
Will be prepping for paint very soon... Stay tuned.
😁👍

Zbynek Honzik
I'm anxiously waiting at the monitor for the paint job! Fingers crossed!

Christian W
Mr D ... 🙂 I like too to see, how much progress my skills during the last 10 years did. Good for me is, that I own most of my model kits since I was a kid. My first plane, car and truck are still in my shelf or boxes.
Because I stumbled somehow over your wip, I checked the history of the kit. It is rally unbelievble, that those engine openings are on the bottom of the motors. Amazing. I wouldn't notice that without your hint.

Lorraine Lin
Cannot wait to see the result. Your work reminds me of my first kit, it was a Victor bomber by Matchbox (They had a JV factory in Shanghai at that time). But hard find it in the market now.

Mr D
Hi Lorraine 👋.
Glad your interested 👍 there are X2 colour schemes for the be-6 the Soviet green or the Chinese blue, l liked the blue version but could only find suitable replacement decals for Soviet.
My first kit was the Matchbox Electric lightning,.... Built it with my dad....was nice as was 3 colour plastic out the box.
The first models l built on my own were the Veb/Playfix be-6, & Tu- bomber, so nice to revisit.
Got X2 models at min I'm preparing for paint.
Yours is coming along well...."carefully work" 👍👍

Kesa Tiho
Ah yes, my favourite scale 1:no. Following with interest

Mr D
Thanks Cortex.
👍👍

Mr D
Hi Robert 👋
Thanks 👍

Skyhiker
That's coming together well.

Mr D
Thanks Skyhiker 👍
I usually use Velejo or AK acrylic, but I'm going to use Tamiya on this one as it won't fit in cabinet.....and l find Tamiya acrylic is a tough paint better for wear n tear, as I'm sure it's going to need dusting now n then 🙄🤣.
The Tamiya paint turns out to be darker than advertised on the lid n chart, I've ordered a white n thinner to Tone down.
Like you I've had 2x build going on.
The Fw-190 really pop's once decals are on..... Remember the trim tabs are red....l just had paint.
😁👍

Marko
As a child, I once built the kit with my father.
Very simple kit of its time. But the shapes and proportions are convincing and you really did a fantastic job with it. I'm looking forward to the finished model.👍

Mr D
Hi Marko👋
Nice to hear you have good memories too, first kit l built with my Dad was the Matchbox Electric lightning, it was good as had 3 colours... think my dad painted few bits silver too.
the Veb Playfix kits l would buy on Saturday morning with pocket money it came with strange pot glue.
I built 3 or 4 definitely built the Bear soviet bomber...l can remember.
Funny you commented on this tonight......as l was just checking it over ready for paint in next few days. I've just been wrapping up my IAR-80 project.
😁👍 Stay tuned

Weizenbrot
Wow, it would be very excited to see the finished model.Very detailed research and nice details. I visited an aviation museum in Beijing few months ago and saw this aircraft. A beautiful flying boat indeed.

Mr D
Hi Weizenbrot 👋
Yes it looks nice with it's gull shape wing, ione of its rolls was to search n destroy trespassing submarines with it's depth charges .
Think the Chinese one is Blue colour??
Thanks for interest 👍

Mr D
Hi Trez, l have recently painted the bottom colour, l will be painting the rest this week, lve had few other projects on the go... Won't be long.
😀👍

Weizenbrot
Hi Mr D. Yes they are light-blue for belly like the Soviet ones and dark blue for the rest part. Some of them have even been modified with turbo-porp engines.

David Taylor
Coming along nicely.

Mr D
Hi Dave 👋 thanks 👍
Been working on this long time now between other projects... try n push to get her done now.

Bernhard Pethe
Es freut mich sehr, wenn da jemand ist, der noch so alte Plasticart Modelle zusammenbaut und sich dabei richtig Mühe gibt.
Ein Teil, was ich in meiner Jugend mehrmals gebaut habe, nur leider habe ich keins mehr davon.
Ich schaue hier weiter gerne zu. 🙂

Mr D
Hallo,
Es freut mich wirklich, dass es dir gefällt und ich habe auch schöne Erinnerungen daran.
Ich habe auch den sowjetischen Bomber Bear gebaut, also werde ich mir diesen eines Tages zulegen müssen.
Danke für den netten Kommentar Bernhard 😃👍

Mr D
Hi.Trez 👋
Thanks 👍

gorby
Nice painting! Looks like a lot of masking tape died in the process. 😉

Ben M
Let p equal the number of tubes of perfect plastic putty used.
And let t equal the number of rolls of tamiya tape used.
Then let f represent fun: f = p * t

Mr D
Hi Gorby 👋 Ben 🤣🤣
Not kidding 😲 l need to re stock soon, un-masking was a marathon 😄.
I painted a thin coat of pink primer on the trim tabs tonight.... hopefully not need so many red coats to bring colour up.??
I have enjoyed the process on this one... nice now I'm getting towards the end a bit now.
Thanks for your interest 👍👍

Denis Dogadov
Be-12 is not a modification of Be-6, do not mislead those who are not familiar with the topic. These are completely different planes.
The evil irony of the Russian army and navy in 96 is also unnecessary.
I can also make fun of Britain's modern army and navy.
The color from the bottom is not the same.

Photos of the Be-12 cabin can be found without problems.
myskillsconnect.com/..-vnutri-24-foto.html

Skyhiker
Progress.... I like it

Jennifer Franklin
I can't wait to see it with the decals.

Mr D
Hi Jennifer 👋, hopefully get a bit of time get round to it soon, thanks for interest 👍

Finn
Looking so good, looking forward to see more!

Mr D
Many thanks Finn 👍
Just waiting on my number decals to come .

Jennifer Franklin
The numbers arrived, and they look great!

Mr D
Thanks Jennifer, looking forward to BB decal reveal 👍👍

Mr D
Thanks for the likes Mate's 👍
Appreciated 😃

Cuajete
Very nice color 👍

Zbynek Honzik
From the prehistoric era kit and it's hatching into a nice airplane. Fingers crossed with the completion!

Mr D
Thanks Zbynek 👍

Skyhiker
Oh yeah that's coming along nicely. From the photo of the original it looks like the plane is gloss or semigloss. I think I would go with a semigloss since it's not an airliner or racing plane.

Mr D
Hi Skyhiker 👋 l think your right 👍 just a bit of shine ...not to much!
I didn't think Matt/ flat would be right for water .
Thanks for 😀

Marko
Really nice to look at, color dress and all the color details.
Great model.👍

Mr D
Hi Marko 👋
Many thanks 👍👍 glad you liked it 😃

Cuajete
Those decals suit him very well 👍

Mr D
Hi Cuajete👋
Thanks 👍 .... sorting a bit of weathering now.

Mr D
Thanks for the likes guys 😀👍👍

Jennifer Franklin
That came out perfectly, love the decals.

Mr D
👋Hi Jennifer... thanks, I've taken the masking of the windows now... Antenna and prop work next.
Good luck on your Dio😀👍

gorby
It's looking very impressive so far Mr D.

Mr D
Thanks Gorby 👋....in the final stretch now 👍

CaptGPF
Wow! Following this interesting build! Looking great so far!

David Taylor
Looks really good.

Mr D
Thanks Captain, David.... glad you like it, just stringing the antenna,s. this evening.
😃👍

Neil
Coming along well 👍

Jennifer Franklin
That came out perfectly!

Alec K
Impressive nostalgia build. I also had this kit as a kid, unfortunately never built it. Following 👍

Christian W
Pretty good process 🙂

Thomas Kolb
That's one interesting project, I don't know how I missed it!

Desert Marlin
Excellent work with the vacuform kit! Always a challenge but you made it look easy!!!

Mr D
Hi Desert 👍 thanks....it's an old Veb white plastic kit, Not far of Vac-f quality 🙄🤣.
I'm just doing finishing touches to the props now n done...... been very much a side project.
Good luck on your.... looking great so far.
😀👍

gorby
Very impressive result Mr D! Even more so as it looked like quite a basic kit.

Guy Rump
Beautiful job Mr D, it is a very impressive model. 👍

CaptGPF
Agree with everyone - excellent build!

Finn
Well done indeed!

Cuajete
Mr D, you have made this old kit a great improvement. The result is very good and I like the color very much 👍

Congrats!

Mr D
Thanks Everyone for your kind comments, Really appreciated, Got there in the end 😀👍
Good luck with your projects.....some good stuff being built 👍

Alec K
Nicely done mate 👍

Mr D
Thanks 👍👍

Neil
Really nice Mr D 👍

Mike Siemers
Very nice job on an old kit. I always find the more obscure aircraft to be the most interesting, and it really was a beautiful seaplane.

Neuling
Nice!

Djordje Nikolic
Thank you my friend!

Rich K.
Wow! Amazing work! Love the way you painted the figure!

Łukasz Gliński
Following, of course

Zbynek Honzik
Welcome, Łukasz!

Robert Podkoński
Me 2!

Zbynek Honzik
Welcome, Robert!

Zbynek Honzik
After a long time I got into modelling and so managed to move a number of things forward. Now I have to let the putty cure properly on the transition between the pylon and the engine. And then the careful sanding and cleaning and final painting of the pylon and engine will begin.

Łukasz Gliński
Great to see you back on this one, the livery looks v.cool indeed.
And don't even think that Zvezda nacelles are much better 🙂

Spanjaard
wow it it is looking really good. I really like the windows, and the shades you added

Zbynek Honzik
Łukasz, I've got 373-800/700 waiting for me from Zvezda. And I'm looking forward to it. However, given my snail's pace, I don't know when their turn will come... 🐌🫣

Zbynek Honzik
Thank you, Spanjaard.

Łukasz Gliński
My both 800s are waiting as well 😄 Revell & Zvezda
Btw. How did you do such a nice pair of landing lights? I'm looking for ideas as decals are not available for all liners in 144th.

Michael Kohl
I am impressed by how clean and evenly you cut out the windows. Which material did you use to cover the windows before pouring the resin. I use regular Cello tape but the resin dissolves the glue and this sticks to the windows.

Zbynek Honzik
@Łukasz - I use either "little lenses" that I bought years ago at www.morellingtool.co.uk or nail glitter that I bought at a bead store.
I seal the headlight area first, then spray paint it matt black and glue the lights (glitter) in the appropriate places.
Then I sealed everything with transparent resin. After the resin hardened, I sanded everything to the shape of the leading edge of the wing and then polished.

Zbynek Honzik
@ Michael - I use an electrical tape that I bought on e-bay. I got a reference for it on YouTube here: Youtube Video
It's High Temperature Resistant Kapton Tape. The packaging says it is "Advanced Polymer Tape" and is characterized as "Clean Removal". And the adhesive doesn't really stick to the resin.

Łukasz Gliński
Velke diky Zbynku - I might use it on my next airliners 👍

Michael Kohl
Thanks Zbynek. I will try this. The Cello tape glue can be quite easily removed with IPA, but lazy as I am, I like the idea to omit that step.

Zbynek Honzik
You're welcome, mates!

Zbynek Honzik
So I moved forward a bit again and sanded and cleaned up the transition between the pylon and the engine.

Zbynek Honzik
In between letting the putty cure in the transition between the pylon and the engine, I started speculating how to improve the cockpit window frame.
In the end, Authentic Airliner Decals were used. I really like the way the authentic metallic finish looks on the decal, plus they depict the rivets and the thin black line showing the insulation between the glass and the frame. I had to cut the decal because the dimensions are a little different on the model, but I really like it. So I ordered another set. The windshield is wider, so one set was not enough for me.
On the photo you can see where the original frame is sprayed with Alclad and where the decal is.

Robert Podkoński
These window frames look perfect indeed.

Zbynek Honzik
Thanks, Robert!

Zbynek Honzik
So I found some time for modelling - Pylon/engine transition painted, wash oil paint on top of wings done, airline name decal placed on fuselage.

Mr D
See you like your Airlines 👍.
I may do a Soviet era TU in future.
You done some nice projects 😀👍👍

Zbynek Honzik
Thank you for your kind comment Mr D.
I am also going to do a Tupolev, specially TU-134 Malév. That was the first airliner I flew in from Budapest to Prague.

Zbynek Honzik
A small step forward has been made. The window frames on the starboard side have been installed. Emergency exit also. The cleanliness of the window glazing, unfortunately, did not turn out the way I wanted due to my mistake. I have to learn to live with that. Hopefully it will be better on the port side of the fuselage...

Mr D
It's all a learning curve, as in all art forms ......it's the persute of perfection very rarely we achieve it.
Looks great to me and I'm sure others think the same.
Your Tu-134 sound like great idea.
😁👍

Zbynek Honzik
"It's all a learning curve, as in all art forms ......it's the pursuite of perfection very rarely we achieve it." - Exactly! Thank you for the precise wording, Mr D!!!
That's also my curse...

bughunter
Today I came across this: what a wonderful work 👍
Such glossy finishes (on cars or airliners) are not easy because it brings all little mishaps to the surface. But I like your careful work, and it is great that you go a step back and fix things even it is more work.

Zbynek Honzik
Thank you very much for your encouraging comment, bughunter!
Thanks to my almost obsessive nature, everything takes a very long time though.
Your fast forward while maintaining exceptional quality and cleanness is one of the things I highly admire. Your masterpieces are a great inspiration to me.

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

Spanjaard
it looks really good, what is the issue about the windows? they look great in the pictures

Spanjaard
maybe some tiny white spots? you can say it is result of condensation, I have seen that in quite a few real flights 😉

Zbynek Honzik
Thanks for the kind and witty comment, Spanjaard.
The tiny white spots are bits of dust that got into the fuselage, although I tried not to let that happen.
The other problem is that melted paint from around the windows has soaked into the clearcoat when I dripped too much diluted varnish over the dent left by the masking tape. It created some weird maps...
But you're right, it could be some condensation, I've experienced it in real flight too. Thanks! 👍🙋🏼‍♂️

Zbynek Honzik
Thank you, Guy! Welcom.

Agnius
Looks great! 👍

Zbynek Honzik
Thank you, Agnius!

Zbynek Honzik
After a while, some progress again. The windows were framed on both sides of the fuselage. I finished washing the bottom of the wings and started decaling the fuselage with doors, stencils etc...

Vintas
Good job, and just a terrible airline

Zbynek Honzik
Thanks Vintas for the comment!

It is a horrible airline today, you're right.
But this is a version from way back, from 2004, when they were subsidiary of Icelandiar Group. They started with two Boeing 373-500 on leased from Lufthansa. From my point of view it was a sympathetic activity at that time to make a low-cost carrier in the Czech Republic.
But it turned out very sadly...
And eventually they liquidated CSA, a more then 100-year-old airline, originally our national carrier.

Vintas
Sorry about the CSA. It was one of the oldest operating airlines along with KLM and AEROFLOT. You are absolutely right. By the way, they also have the TRAVEL livery.

Mr D
Looks Great Zbynek 👋😁👍
Have you seen any other models like yours ??
Or is it quite unique??
I'm just doing some finishing touches to one of my models at min....all takes time n steady hands 👍👍👍

Alec K
Excellent modeling 👍

Zbynek Honzik
Gentlemen, thank you for your comments. They are very encouraging.
@ Alec K - Your modelling mastery is a great inspiration to me. 🙋🏼‍♂️

Zbynek Honzik
While decalling I found out by reference photos that I have a incorrect positioned VHF antenna on the bottom of the fuselage. I was misled by the side view in the kit instructions without checking it against the photos. How many times again! I move forward like a snail and then fail to check such a thing! 😱🫣
So I ripped it out, sealed the hole and now I have to clean it up and repaint it. The photo shows the incorrect location and the future correct one.

Alec K
Ahh, I feel your pain! I was just using a jar of paint yesterday and thought: "Why the heck do I even HAVE this??" Turns out I bought it for a recent build and completely skipped applying it in one of the final steps! At least you caught it (and mine is the next level of "forget") 😄

Zbynek Honzik
That's a funny story too, Alec! Yes, that's the next level of "forget"... And that's getting worse with age...
Well, I wonder where I'll end up... When I forget what aircraft I'm actually building?🤣🤣🤣

Zbynek Honzik
Christmas holidays also brought me time for modelling. I started by repairing decals that I damaged by careless handling. And then I went on to apply other decals. In doing so, I encountered a number of inconsistencies that I had to address. In some places I compromised with the fidelity to the original, in others I had to make my own decals.

Zbynek Honzik
Other small steps done - first phase of weathering and anti-collision beacons.

bughunter
Oh, the finish line comes closer 👍 Good luck on the last mile!

Mr D
It's looking really good so far Zbynek, 👍👍

Michael Kohl
Jep, looking good indeed

Zbynek Honzik
Yes, it seems that somewhere in the distance the finish line is beginning to appear.
Thank you very much gentlemen for your kind comments.

Zbynek Honzik
I found some time for modelling again and here are some partial results.

Mike Siemers
Thank you for the likes, it was a fun kit to build, and once I said to hell with trying to follow the kits camo scheme, I really enjoyed painting it.

Troy Campbell
Thanks alex

Troy Campbell
Thanks jean-louis

Troy Campbell
Thanks villers de vos

Troy Campbell
Thanks mr E

Troy Campbell
Thanks walaroo

Troy Campbell
Almost done with deck fixtures

Troy Campbell
Thanks LucLuke B

Troy Campbell
Thanks ben

Lochsa River
sittin in

Troy Campbell
Thank you lochsa river
Best take your shoes off and get comfortable...
It will take a bit...lol

Troy Campbell
Thanks alexander

Ben M
👁️👁️

gorby
Nice work so far.

Troy Campbell
Thanks gorby

Troy Campbell
Thanks prdrag

Troy Campbell
Thanks ben

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Troy Campbell
Thanks guy

Troy Campbell
Thanks Jiri

Troy Campbell
Thanks mona

Dave
Troy your ship looks great. That rigging looks like a nightmare to organize.

Troy Campbell
Hello dave
Thanks and yeah its getting weird if i can pull it off with out destroying standing rigging the pay off will be good! My hopes at least i appreciate it....

Guy Rump
The complexity of the rigging is awe inspiring. Looking great! 👍

Troy Campbell
Thanks guy
.... need six eyes to keep fixed lines in check...lol

Troy Campbell
Constantly mumbling to myself...
STAY AWAY FROM THE JIB,STAY AWAY FROM THE JIB...
HA HA

David Taylor
Brill.

Troy Campbell
Thanks david

Troy Campbell
This is a very nice build for an old kit no major issues other than brittle plastic.

Greg Baker
Love it!

Troy Campbell
Thanks greg

Finn
Looks interesting and looking forward to more pictures

Zbynek Honzik
It looks very nice so far, Igor! 👍

Nicolas
Very interesting, I'll follow. Good luck with the canopy.

Skyhiker
Thanks Nicolas, the canopy will be a challenge. I sanded out the blemishes on the kit part but there are stress fractures and a crack going through it. I'll have to see if I can vacuform it but there is a ball turret behind it that would be a different thickness and I doubt I could vacuform a ball turret.

Dave Flitton
I have this kit (with extra parts), I hope this turns out well!

Skyhiker
Welcome Dave. So far I like the kit.

Skyhiker
After putting the ball turret together I realized that it would be very risky and way too much work to try and vacuform it. So it looks like I will have to use the damaged canopy because I don't want to mix and match glazing thickness.

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting kit, way better looking than I thought. But the transparencies are a bummer indeed

Skyhiker
I only paid 5 euros for it so I guess I can't complain when the canopy is a mess. I bought someone's entire stash and it was one of the kits in there. Hopefully after it's painted it won't be too bad.

Cuajete
I always had in mind to buy this kit, but I forgot about it because I think it has some problem or difficulty (maybe those transparent parts? 🤔). I hope for a better tool in the future.

Well done so far.
Following!

Air no
Très bel avion, merci et félicitations à toi !!

Skyhiker
Thanks Air no. It's really an interesting early war bird. The turret is pretty cool.

Naram
the canopy.... I have I think 2 my stash from ICM I do not dare to go and check....

Cuajete
Nice color base 👍

Skyhiker
Touch of weathering done today.

Naram
Look very good !

★ Starfish ★
Love that chipping!

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Skyhiker
Bit more progress today

Skyhiker
Decal adventures

Kenneth
Sorry to see that; what combination of paint and setting solution resulted in this?

Skyhiker
3rd generation paint and varnish with Mr. Mark Softer. The decals were shit and I probably used too much solution. I ended up having to brush paint over the decals and problem areas.

Skyhiker
Any Sukhoi specialist out there? All the original photos show the Su-2 propeller going in the opposite direction of most airplanes. But the Volgograd Panorama Museum Su-2 and the two mock-ups at the Moscow - Victory Park (white 27 and yellow 39) seems to be different. Anyone know anything about this?

Nicolas
As far as I can say the M-88 engine turns counter-clockwise, the ASch-82 engine turns ckockwise (viewed from the engine to the propeller). Both engines were used in Su-2 aircraft, but I don't know about diffrent type designations depending on the engine.

Skyhiker
Nicolas thanks that helps a lot to understand what is going on. Now I have a point of reference to do some more research.

Denis Dogadov
You have a Su-2 with an M-88 engine. Here is the M-82 engine for understanding-
Sukhoi Su-2 M-82 Conversion .. (Prop & Jet RR-72023, 1:72)

Skyhiker
I finished this one today. Photos will be uploaded tomorrow.

Robert Podkoński
That's a great idea!

Spanjaard
interesting, I am in

Skyhiker
Ok that all for tonight. Pretty good for one day.

bughunter
Sweet 👍
Reminds me of the real one, still trying to collect data. In the loneliness there, far out ...

Thomas Espe
Nice! 👀

Jennifer Franklin
Oooohhhh... I am following. What are the rotor hubs for? Aren't they used in wind turbines?

Skyhiker
Welcome Jennifer, the propeller blades will be connected to the hubs once I get them finished.

Живко Джаков
Incredible idea! This device is a first in many things. Starting with the fact that it is the first time something like this has flown to another planet. Who knows, this is a planet inhabited only by robots. The last interesting thing is that his disaster is the first one investigated on another planet. I look forward to seeing the finished model..

gorby
Looks interesting. 🙂

Skyhiker
Живко Джаков these are exactly the reasons why I decided to try and make this model.

Skyhiker
Worked on the rotor blades today. Still more to do on them.

Skyhiker
Working further on the contra-rotating propellers today.

Skyhiker
I'm not sure I can fit all the parts to make it accurate. It's very small.

Jennifer Franklin
It's so small

Skyhiker
Yes, at 1:72 scale it is less than a centimeter tall and the propellers are about 2cm wide in total.

Skyhiker
I had a real scare when I was priming the model today and it flew out of my tweezers. I couldn't find it anywhere and it took a half an hour before I saw it stuck to my sock! Lucky nothing got broken.

bughunter
Nice progress on this little heli 👍 Do you find pictures for the coloring?

Skyhiker
Hi bughunter, yes there seems to be enough photos around but the drone went through several redesigns before it went to Mars. For example the foil was gold for a while. The rotor blades' nubs were both pointing up at one point. Little things like the feet changed and the size of the battery and solar panel. I always have to go back and check the Mars mission photos to make sure what I am doing is correct.

Skyhiker
I'm very close to having this done. Let's hope no catastrophes happen before it is mounted and framed.

Живко Джаков
It won't be a precedent. As we've already commented, NASA crashed, so this won't be the end of the project 🙂. And one question. Where did you get your Martian soil from? Isn't the source of the survini too far away?

Skyhiker
Ok. After a few last minute repairs, of course I knocked off two propellers and the antenna while mounting it to the diorama, I 've finished this.

gorby
Very nice work! The last photo made me laugh.

Skyhiker
I'd like to have better photos but it's so small the camera on my phone can't do it justice.

Skyhiker
Thanks gorby. This is by far the smallest model I have ever made. I'm pretty happy with the results considering it's a scratch build and I don't have any special tools to do micro surgery.

Robert Podkoński
Chapeau bas! Fantastic work.

Martin Weinpold
Nice!

Rui S
I agree 👍

Alex K
I silently followed this right from the start - and now it's time for respects and congrats - for a number of reasons: for the choice of the inspirational topic, for sticking to 1:72 scale, for the implementation and the final result in scratch... Two thumbs up! 👍 👍

Skyhiker
Thanks guys. It's nice to have another one of a kind in my collection.

Guy Rump
Very nice! 👍

Spanjaard
wow congratulations, fantastic result

Jennifer Franklin
Love the martian in orange. Beautiful result and astounding given the scale.

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, what a tiny job. I might have lose it while trying the assembly 😄

Michael Kohl
Alex K nailed it.

Skyhiker
Thanks guys. Now I am considering doing an even smaller model: I might make the Sputnik satellite in 1:72 scale, it would only be 8 mm!

Skyhiker
After doing further research I realized that the Sputnik satellite in 1:72 scale, would be bigger than this. Only the ball is 8 mm but with the antennas it would be bigger.

Skyhiker
I framed this up today

Spanjaard
cool frame!

Skyhiker
It took me several hours to make the frame into a box frame. I think it worked out, black seemed appropriate.

bughunter
The frame is the cherry on the cake of this nice little scratch project 👍

Skyhiker
Thanks bughunter

Maciej Bellos
Fantastic!

Patrick Hagelstein
I really like the way you framed it! 🖼️

Ben M
That looks great!

Jennifer Franklin
I love the frame. Did you start with a regular frame, or is that something special?

Живко Джаков
Great model. It was a pleasure to follow its creation.

Skyhiker
Jennifer, I bought a cheap metal frame for 3 euros. To extend the depth of the frame I made an outer box out of 3mm MDF sheeting that someone was throwing away. Then I made an inner box out of MDF to hold the model. The middle between the two boxes is filled with cardboard for support. After I hot glued this all together I printed images of the Mars surface which I designed on the computer and the label so people will know what they are looking at. The black matt I cut out of paper. The front of the frame slides up if I ever need access to the model, which I may, because I will probably fill the gaps at the base of the model with sand since those black lines on the sides annoy me.

Finn
Awesome, a gem!

Jennifer Franklin
It looks better than store-bought Skyhiker. It came out perfectly.

Finn
What scale would you say it is?

Живко Джаков
1:72

Dean Cikins
Just saw this. Very cool idea!

Skyhiker
Thanks Dean

Mark Sherwood
Liking that scheme, Jacob. 👍

Mark Sherwood
Sorry Christian, wrong comment to wrong project. Still like that scheme though. Wuurrs me glasses, think I need a pair like Gorby's. 😑🙄🥸

Christian Abraham
No problem. At least I have a two color camo with threecolor markings 😂

Christian Abraham
The End is near. Just some small works

Rui S
Great work 👍

Christian Abraham
Thanks Rui

Spanjaard
looks great!

Mark Sherwood
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥸🤘 Christian.

Sebastian Meyner
Klasse Lackierung und Alterung, Christian 👍

John Mulhall
Excellent work Jacob

Stefan Schacht
very nice, I like the weathering 👍

Christian Abraham
Thanks guys

Christian Abraham
Project is finished!

Guy Rump
Beautiful! 👍

Spanjaard
fabulous

Nicolas
👀

Cuajete
Very interesting project to start the year 👍
Good start!

Kenneth
Följer…

Harry Eder
Very promising start! 👍

Robert Podkoński
Quadruple build? Ambitious! Watching with pleasure!

Łukasz Gliński
Oh man, 4*Viggen 😮

Patrick Hagelstein
Very cool! I'll join in! 🍿

J35J
Massive project! I'm in!👍🏻

Spanjaard
4 Viggens? print row, please!

Guido
Taking a seat as well. 👍🏻

DerMattes
Watching 👍

Michael Kohl
Me too. Already learned to better open up the RAT turbine at my Viggen. A step I lazily omitted.

Daniel Mysak
Nice start👍! ...will follow your progress.

Mid Franconian
😎 Following!

Thomas Kolb
Main assermbly done on all four models, but now I have a few days to spend sanding and filling unwanted seams and crude areas. A bit tedious, but that's what you get when you choose to build four nearly identical models at the same time.

Łukasz Gliński
That escalates damn quickly! 👍

Robert Podkoński
Impressive progress indeed

Mirko Römer
Oh my... Good luck, Thomas! 🙂
I own two of them and was thinking of a double build but rejected the idea. Thanks for the encouragement!

S M
Very ambitious project and well explained steps! Following indeed! 😄👍

Cuajete
Good progress! 👍

Mr D
Great project 👍
Was there much difference between the kits ?

Patrick Hagelstein
Wow! That's a quick build! 😳 I can only dream to build ONE kit that fast, let alone four at once!

Thomas Kolb
Mr D, no, they are pretty much the same. Most of the parts for all versions are provided in every kit. But there are some subtle differences that need attention, like the extension of the fuselage for the fighter version.

Thomas Kolb
Patrick, haha, I am a pretty fast builder, but I am extremely slow when it comes to painting. That's where my projects usually come to a crawl.

Juergen Klinglhuber
watching with interest - I love SAAB aircraft anyhow, but 4 of them in one project --great!!

Skyhiker
This is more interesting than I thought it would be. The subtle difference between them are pretty cool.

Thomas Kolb
With only a few minutes of modeling here and there this week, it's quite a slow progress, but I am still inching closer to the finished assembly.

Cuajete
Veryt nice wapons and pods 👍

Dave Flitton
Excellent work. Can't wait for the finished product!

Cuajete
I agree with Dave 👍

★ Starfish ★
Really looking forward to the paint jobs! Great work so far!

Clement
What a glorious project!

Thomas Kolb
Primer coat applied, a few filling errors need to be fixed. Time is unfortunately very difficult to find because of work, so the project moves very slowly for a while.

Cristian A
Following along

Thomas Kolb
Undersides sprayed blue-gray with Mr Paint. Now let's wait a day for the paint to dry and then it's time to start working on the splinter camo. With my current speed, I expect to be finished by midsummer.

Patrick Hagelstein
Oh yes, once you get used to MRP, you'll never want another paint brand anymore! I love their colors, pigmentation and general ease of use. And, as a bonus, their sheen is perfect for adding decals directly on top.

Cristian A
Nice work Thomas, keep it going!

Finn
Following

Thomas Kolb
I am trying to find a way to avoid tiny gaps between the splinter camo color zones. I think I have figured it out - before spraying a color zone, also remove the masks for all adjacent surfaces not yet painted. Thereby a slight spray overlap is created, so even if the mask is then replaced with a tiny bit of offset, it should not be visible. Special Hobby writes something like that in the mask description, but it's written in a very obscure way.

Martin Weinpold
Wow, looks good!

Nicolas Lopez
Thanks for sharing, Thomas. Following.

Łukasz Gliński
Ahhh, dat splinter! One&only!

Frank Brzobohaty
Looks great just give the corporal in charge of painting a reprimand on his record and send the plane to the flight line......do you know how much it cost to paint aircraft, lol.

Spanjaard
macro is a bitch for this kind of details... if you place the model in the display cabinet, can you see that microline with wrong color? i think you can not 😉

Thomas Kolb
I have now started to add the masks to the models. It's quite a tricky task because I need to be extremely precise with the application - even the tiniest errors will be magnified as more mask segments are added, until things no longer add up. So it's a matter of constantly realigning the segments, which makes it all rather time consuming. BTW, I noticed that the pattern has a few minor errors, but I definitely won't lose any sleep over it.

Cuajete
Thanks for your explain, Thomas. I thinked to would be more easy to apply 👍

Spanjaard
this camo is one of the most complicated to achieve and the fact that you are doing it 4 models at once... my deepest respect!

Łukasz Gliński
Your the master of splinter suspense! Dosing it bit by bit 😄

Thomas Kolb
Cuajete, Spanjaard and Łukasz, thank you for your interest! I am certainly not doing any cliffhanging on purpose - I am actually this glacially slow in reality. I also try to avoid aggravating the wifey by disappearing in my modeling man-cave for hours.

Łukasz Gliński
Good and fully understood strategy 😄
As our common colleague (the one, you share initials with 😛) used to say: "Happy wife? Happy life!"

Juergen Klinglhuber
Watching with interest. You will master the splinter camo for sure 👍

Thomas Kolb
I am still struggling with the masks, trying to making sure that they are applied exactly identical on all three models, which slows down the process a bit. Not that anybody except me would notice.

Daniel Mysak
Nice progress, I'm looking forward to the splinter camouflage. On my AJ-37 I used vinyl masks from DM Models, it looks like the masks you are using are a bit easier to handle.

Kenneth
I have always had the conspirational theory that the Danish air force had a secret department dedicated to making life miserable for modellers, with their odd fonts, colours and aircraft modifications. The splinter camouflage is clear evidence of a similar department in the Swedish air force.

Thomas Kolb
Daniel, thank you! I am right now hoping that my end result will be at least in the general vicinity of your beautiful Viggen in flight!

Thomas Kolb
Kenneth, haha, you may be right! Nothing in the Swedish Air Force is easy to model! I however think that this splinter camo is actually easier to do than the elusive flat bare metal surface of the old Soviet chimney pipe jets.

Alex K
I'm in - of course...

Rui S
Me too 😎

gorby
Thanks for tagging along Alex & Rui. 🙂

Kesa Tiho
Looks like a tuk tuk, anyways its really nice to see you on another project. Im excited to see the fuck ups and final result. Hope your misses doesn't mind you being in love with another woman 😄

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here, of course 🙂

gorby
Welcome Kesa & Robert. 🙂
Kesa Mrs Gorby is used to my plastic passion obsessions. 😄
And yes it does look a bit like a tuk tuk. Incidentally there have been a couple of screw up so far but obviously I won't be telling everyone as I want to make it look like I know what I'm doing. 🙂

Spanjaard
certainly joining this new gorby's strange subject being created 🙂

gorby
Thanks Spanjaard, you're always welcome. 🙂

Mr D
Hi Gorby 👋
Another interesting one 😃👍
Nice project, they used 3wheel trucks like these at Cadburys factory as they need tighter turning circles round the plant.

gorby
Glad you're tagging along Mr D.
Their turning circle was one of the reasons they where so successful. Do you have any association with Cadburys - other than eating their products of course. 🙂

Mark Sherwood
Remember these trundling down Zetland Road and Linthorpe Road from the train station. BR and their parcel/freight division use to operate them.

gorby
Hi Mark, apparently British Rail was the main user of these things.

bughunter
That will be another session of scratch modeling of famous (with 30,000 it must be famous) British cars 👍 So ugly that they begin to be beautiful.

gorby
Hi Frank, they certainly are famous in Britland...although probably only with men of a certain age. 😄

Mr D
Hi Gorby...No just eating 😂 l live not far from factory n seen documentary on it too.
Like the project 😁👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D.
Been on their factory tour, as a chocoholic it was wonderful. 🙂

Alex K
One interesting thing to have in mind is that Gorby set to build the ancient 1962 tool of the Scarab and scratch the Mechanical Horse precisely when there appeared recent (and immeasurably better, as for the Scarab - I guess) 3d-printed 1:72 kits of both the Scarab and the French relatives of the MH (i.e. FAR tractors)... But that's Gorby (much to our delight!) 👍

gorby
THERE'S 3D PRINTED KITS!!!??? 😄 😄
I'd be too tight to buy them anyway.
I'm about a month into the build so far and quite enjoying it....mostly.

Alex K
We know you would enjoy this - and we enjoy too... Plus: if you are going to turn the Scarab into a wrecker / recovery vehicle (!!!)... extra joy. Very Gorby-esque work! 👍 👍

gorby
Thanks Alex. 🙂

Ben M
👀

Mr D
"Would you like some parts with that Flash sir" 😂
I know you will pull a great job out of it Gorby 😀👍

Jan Peters
Following this masochistic exercise 😄
The tow truck you fell in love with, was it used to tow Reliant Robins?

Zsolt Czegle
I take a seat!

Intresting project! Go Gorby Go!

gorby
Good grief, I appear to have attracted a crowd. 😳
I didn't realise the Robin was globally infamous. That would be a great idea Jan if I can find a cheapish 1/76 one. 😄
Thanks all for taking an interest. 🙂

Alec K
Taking a seat. The nasties the kit, the more Gorby likes it… I'll forgo spelling out the logical conclusion from this. 😄 😄 😄

gorby
😄 😄 😄
Welcome to the show Alec. I have some nice kits in my mini stash, for some reason they keep being overlooked. Maybe I choose kits which make scratch-building feel like an easier option. 😄

David Taylor
Always worth a watch.

Mr D
X2 trucks under way 😁👍

Jan Peters
Great job on the fiddly bits Gorby 👍🏻

gorby
Thanks mates....as usual I'm playing catch-up with the build report.
(I'll let you into a secret. I don't start the report until I have a very good idea that things might work out. If I'd completely screwed up - you'd never know about it.) 😳

Mr D
🤣🤣 prevention better than cure 😜
Where about in the UK were they produced ?
I vaguely remember the 3 wheel electric milk floats as a kid.

gorby
I think they were built at Scammell Lorries Ltd in Watford.
In fact there is now a road in the area called Scammell Way.
Typical of Britain, close the factory and name a new road after it to remind us that we used to actually make stuff. 🙁

bughunter
Your 'secret' is a good idea: start a build report lately not only shows a success, but also makes the build look quick! Must copy this idea 😉

gorby
😄
The one down side is that as I only do one project at a time it looks like I'm doing bugger all for about a month. 😄

Alec K
Gorby, I follow the same strategy with build reports. Trouble is, I eventually catch up and then snail-pace it to the finish…

gorby
😄

Alex K
Fabulous work going on (as it was to be expected)...

gorby
Thanks very much Alex. 🙂

Jan Peters
What a load of rubbish, in a good way that is 🙂

gorby
😄 😄 😄

Lex Jassies
Nice to see this kit. Build the Scammel Scarab as a youngster from Airfix. And looking at the sprues I would say these are from the the former Airfix kit.
Have fun building it 😉

Alec K
Great progress and entertaining narrative 🙂. The trailer wheels turned out nice, I can't imagine making something like that. Just curious: why not make one and cast a copy (I think you have done that in the past)? Or does this have to do with that logical thing…

gorby
Thanks for the comment mates. 🙂
Lex: Yes this is from the old Airfix kit. Quite enjoying the build so far - although that's probably because most of the build is scratch work. 😄
Alec: Typically the trailer wheels look like a different size to the other wheels in the kit which is why I had to cobble something together rather than cast them. I've been meaning to try and scratch wheels for a while so it was also a bit of an experiment. Hopefully future ones will be better.

Michael Kohl
Love the subject and the build. Not really knowing what I'm talking about I'd say it's as british as british can be

gorby
Thanks Michael. You're quite right, they are as quirkily British as it's possible to be and unlike most quirky British vehicles these were a actually successful. 🙂

Mr D
Like what you have done so far, good thinking on utilising items , l always look at a item before l throw it away to see if it could be useful.
My fire extinguisher handle was just offcuts laying in my scrap tub., ps it finished now will photo tomorrow.
Your right...a MC Donald's or frozen pizza box would be bit out of place 🤣 Fire ash, tin cans, spud peel n bit of dog poo most likely 😄.
Quite rewarding the scratch build l imagine.
Looking good 👍👍

Michael Schubert
Looks like I'm a bit late to the party, but pulling up a chair way in the back to follow along 🤣 looks like a fun little project

gorby
Thanks mates. 🙂
I have to fight against an inherited hoarding gene, so it's a bit of a fine line I have to walk with saving odd and sods for scratching.
At the moment it's very enjoyable project. It's helping to keep my grey matter from seizing up completely, working out how to make something from a pile of bits.

Jennifer Franklin
I am pulling up a seat. I can't wait to see what you do with the scratch building of an I beam.

gorby
Thanks Jennifer. Hopefully I'l show more work soon. 🙂

Kesa Tiho
Really creative way to make rubbish. Im honestly surprised at how well you can DIY and scratch stuff, top notch stuff. Either way the progress is nice.
Also if you don't mind me asking, what operation did your missus go through? Having to administer blood thinners sounds pretty serious.

gorby
Thanks Kesa. 🙂
Mrs Gorby had a hip replacement op. Normally she'd just need medication for the blood thinning but fortunately for my scratch-building junk pile, they thought injections would be better.
Okay, that makes me sound like a bad person. 😄

shadowlight
Not at all... you are aware of your "waste footprint" ^^

Kesa Tiho
Gotta agree with shadowlight. Your not a bad person 🙂. This reminds me of a quote from one of my favourite games: "I'm not an angel, but when you see Trevor your gonna swear I am one." Except It's "I'm not an angel, but when you see Kesa your gonna swear I am one." 😄

Mr D
@ Kesa
GTA-5 by any chance Kesa ??
Interesting build this one ... good to follow.
Did you have any 3wheel vehicles in your part of the world ?
👍😄

Kesa Tiho
Yeah Mr D! Do you play the game?

Mr D
Kesa ...l have played it,
I like retro gaming mostly now👍

Mark Sherwood
Holy Chewbacca on a bagel. Who's, who?

Kesa Tiho
I like the exhaust (yeah i know, a half assed comment) but good god I have never seen a more perfect card... ever.... Truly a masterpiece gifted to us from the scratch building god 😄

gorby
Progress has been slow. I have a problem with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) so everything slows down including brain and enthusiasm. Particularly enthusiasm. It's the part of the year I have more difficulty working out how to make parts and usually the first or second attempts end in disaster before something passable emerges.
Perhaps I should drum into myself "Must do KITS in the winter…. Must do KITS in the winter..."

Alec K
Sounds like a road trip to southern Spain is in order. 😊

gorby
😄 😄 😄
I'll see if I can work up some enthusiasm for that. 😉

Mr D
Great work and like the updates, taking shape well now.😃👍

Jan Peters
You're on a roll now Gorby!

gorby
Thanks Mr D, Jan, and the other peeps for their likes. 🙂

Jennifer Franklin
The second attempt on the engine cover looks nice!

gorby
Thanks Jennifer. 👍
It almost certainly isn't accurate but I won't be loosing any sleep over it. 🙂

Rui S
Excellent scratch work, as usual 👍

gorby
Thanks Rui. 🙂

Spanjaard
that jib is just AWESOME!!! amazing job my friend, amazing.

gorby
Wow, thank you Spanjaard! 🙂

Robert Podkoński
I fully agree with Spanjaard! AWESOME!

bughunter
Luckily this dusty work in between didn't kill you (even if the mask looks like it tried hard), so now we see new marvellous scratch work 👍

gorby
Thanks Robert and Frank. 🙂
It was quite a good mask Frank, it's now black on the outside but completely white inside. Mind you my entire workshop* is completely covered in a fine black dust which I haven't had the enthusiasm to clean up yet. Maybe tomorrow.....or the day after. 😄

* I call my workshop 'The Hutch'. I'm a veggie, which means I eat rabbit food, therefor.... 🙂

Mr D
Hi Gorby 👋
The trailer looks great 👍 pulling of some nice scratch work 😁👍

Jennifer Franklin
Learning a tonne about scratch work, thanks for all the details. Everything looks amazing.

Alec K
Wow, impressive scratchbuilding. I love it. Nice to see you do something useful once in a while… 😂😂😂

Jan Peters
I agree, quite impressive scratch building.

Michael Kohl
As expected a joy to follow.

gorby
Thanks very much everyone for your nice comments.
I must admit that this part of the build was more irritating than enjoyable, although having said that it was certainly preferable to 'Useful work'. 🙂

Mr D
Thought I'd pop n see how Gorby is getting on with his scratch building 👀.
Very nice... Great job on the Jib 👏 very skillful to pull this build off the way you have.
Pleasure to follow 😀👍

Stefan Schacht
very nice, I take a seat.

Jan Peters
After the labour of love you did for your daughter, which of course isn't a chore being the loving dad you are, it's back to the salt mines to get some real hard work done 😀
That's some great scratch building on the jib, and the
Scammell is really looking the part.

gorby
Thanks mates. 🙂
Hopefully there should be another update in the next couple of days.

Marko
It's great what's being created again - the kit base seems to be a challenge.
Good succeed!

gorby
Thanks Marko.
Of the two builds, I'm finding the kit conversion (the Scarab) to be more of a challenge than the full scratch-build (The Mechanical Horse & trailer) which isn't what I was expecting at all.

gorby
Still progressing slooooowly. These tiny 1/76 bits seem to take longer to make than they do in larger scales. 1/48 feels huge in comparison and 1/35 would probably blow my mind.
This update means the Mechanical Horse is now complete, yaaaaaayyyy. 🙂
Eeeerm, except the tiresome colouring-in bit of course. 🙁

Spanjaard
looks great as it is!!

David Taylor
I had a brush very similar to that one.Had it for twenty years,changed the head a few times and the handle thrice.LOL.

Mr D
Trigger has got his broom 😉
Great 👍

bughunter
gorby, your pic 73 reminds me an old joke:
A drunk man comes home and his wife is waiting for him with a broom. He asks her: "Do you want to clean or are you going to fly off again?"
Nice scratch work again 👍

Robert Podkoński
This is simply the master-class scratch work tutorial. Chapeau bas!

Jan Peters
Small scale scratch building at its best 🫡

gorby
Wow, thanks very much for the comments mates. 🙂

Alec K
You managed some magic with this build (y )

gorby
Thanks very much Alec. 🙂

Michael Kohl
Really fine stuff

Mark Sherwood
True about the binmen, pick a metal bin off the floor to their back, everything was in it. No recycling back then. By the way that's a rather fetching brush ( Erm, Boom, Boom)

gorby
Thanks Michael & Mark. 🙂

Mr D
Gets better every time 👏, the old bin wagon used to have a storage bucket on the side... remember they had brooms n couple shovels...for when the stuff fell everywhere,
I remember they used to come round the back of the house open the gate "which they never closed" and Cary the old black rubber type bin on there back, they used to hopp on the side of the wagon between streets " Before Health n safety 🤣" most bin-men were on the sick with bad backs before 50.
Remember the heavy rubber lids that said "No Hot Ashes"
No faffing getting it built 🤣 famous word's.
Great work so far 😀👍

Dave Flitton
Another Gorby Masterpiece.

Jennifer Franklin
Gorby this is a little mind-blowing the things that you can do.

Mark Sherwood
A funny thing happened to me the other day, this duck said. . . . . . . . . . . . .

gorby
Thanks very much for your comments mates. 🙂
Mr D: I'm old enough to remember the predecessor to the black plastic bins, the galvanised steel ones – the ones which rusted and sometimes when they were picked up the bottom fell out. Thankfully they were replaced before I started to work nights because bin day used to be a very noisy business. 😄
Thanks to everyone again. 👍

Daniel H
Such an interesting subject. I'm enjoying both your writing *and* watching the build. 🙂

Jan Peters
I was just about to write the same, love the humorous comments to the updates Gorby

gorby
Thanks very much Daniel & Jan. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
We all love Gorby's works and narrations, as it seems!

gorby
Thanks Robert...you'll make me blush. 😳
🙂

Spanjaard
fully agree with Robert!! 🙂

gorby
Thanks mate. 🙂

Alec K
Aye aye, I think Gorby may have missed his true calling 😉

I love the garbage collection nostalgia. I got the feel for the British variety from Mr. Bean. 😄

Mark Sherwood
@Alec K. Try the Dustbinmen, you can get episode's on You Tube. A late sixties, early-ish seventies sit com. The cart was nicknamed Thunderbird 3. I think it was written by Jack Rosenthal , which I think he wrote London's Burning too.

Bas Tonn
Hmmm... what iis this? Strange, unusual, I like it. Will have to check it out.

gorby
Thanks for the nice comments mates.
Alec: When I left school in the late 70's there wasn't much call for someone who talked rubbish in Coventry. The politicians were mostly in London. 😄
Mark: I've never head of that programme.
Bas: welcome to the oddness. 🙂

Mark Sherwood
Gorby: Based in Manchester cast of characters included Heavy Breathing, Cheese and Egg, Winston and Eric. Cheese and egg was the gaffer of No.3 Gang, Heavy Breathing the lothario, Winston fervent Man City fan and Eric who was Welsh.

David Taylor
May I humbly bow to the king of faff.LOL

gorby
😄 😄 😄
Oh, dear I'm not sure I can keep up the same standard of utter drivel. 😄

Mark Sherwood
Two buttons and a milk token , surely a man of affluence. Very nice scratch building Gorby.

Ben M
Gorby can set up a side business making buttons.

Michael Schubert
Apart from the amazing scratch building going on, i think the commentary near takes the cake, i check in every day for further updates and have a really good chuckle after work..really brightens my day, thanks @gorby!

gorby
😄 😄 😄
Thanks all. I think my button business might struggle with two buttons per hour. Mind you, they're hand-made….Etsy here I come. 🙂
Michael: I can't guarantee the quality of my prattling but it's nice to hear my own flavour of odd is appreciated. Also, I like your little furry friend (No that ISN'T a euphemism 😄 ).
Although progress has been slow there was a bit of a boost yesterday and I'm hoping that something (hopefully not the kitchen) will get painted by next weekend. 😮
Now that's jinxed it hasn't it.

Mr D
A Wheely good job 🫣 , They would say it was a visual obstruction now days.
Keeping to the photos nicely 👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. 👍

gorby
I'm slowly getting the the finish line. Someone pointed out this nice video about the Scarab which shows what a game changer it was (why does everything on YouTube have to claim it's a 'GAME CHANGER!!!!!' and when you watch it seems they've only found the cure for insomnia.).
Youtube Video

Robert Podkoński
These details you've made from scratch are simply unbelievably awesome... I suppose I should buy the same glasses (photo #99 😉

Alec K
Nice magnifiers! I have been using an optivisior in conjunction with 3+ magnification readers for years. The trick is not to let anyone see you wearing that. What magnification is that Amazon find you are sporting?

Jan Peters
Watching in awe, yet again. Really enjoying the ride Gorby 😀
Oh, and warm beer is an awful nightmare to us savage continentals 🍻

gorby
It isn't the first time I've used magnifying glasses but these are a GAME CHANGER!!! 😄
Alec: I usually use the 3X magnification although these do go up to 5X – which may take some getting used to as it's like being drunk without any of the pleasure. 🙂
Jan: Obviously non Brits have to chill their beer to hide the flavour. 😉

Thanks all for taking the time to comment mates. 👍

Ben M
I went to Zenni optical website and got on the online chat. Told the person I wanted glasses with my short distance correction for doing close up intricate work with +2 magnification. He helped me adjust my prescription to this and they made me a set for $35 that are an amazing help.

Spanjaard
that seems a great idea Ben. gorby, those details are truly stunning.....

gorby
Thanks mates. 🙂
Ben: The new eyes cost me £35. The built in LED light is a revelation as much as the better vision. The old mag glasses had a light but the extra batteries made it too heavy and very uncomfortable to wear so I didn't put batteries in it. The new one has a rechargeable battery built in which make it much more comfortable. Which is just as well as I need it for about 90% of my modelling now.

Mr D
Better...got to have the tools , project looking great 👍👍

gorby
Sorry about my tardiness in updating this album, blame my daughter. I keep telling her I've retired and should be leading a life of leisure but that apparently means nothing to daughters. I can't hold her entirely to account as I've been pruning a tree this morning. I can be a bit, errm, lets say "vigorous" when it comes to pruning. The trees probably think of it more as a near-death experience 😳 . Is attempted arborecide a thing?
Aaaannnnyyyway, the fun is over. Now it's time to suffer. Yes I've arrived at the colouring-in bit where I traditionally snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. 🙁

Jan Peters
Great job on the colouring and marking Gorby.
The captions to the pictures make it an even more enjoyable experience 😄

gorby
Thanks very much Jan. 🙂

Alex K
No need to apologize, dear Gorby, the Feb 22 update was something worthy for us in the gallery to wait for... 👍 👍

Mark Sherwood
That's why I sent my Daughter to Canada.

gorby
I think Mrs Gorby wouldn't be impressed if I sent our daughter to a different continent so I could spend more time playing with plastic. Might be worth considering though. 😄
Thanks very much for taking the time to comment Alex and Mark. 🙂

Alec K
😂🤣😂👍

Rui S
Great teaser photo109. Incredible Beautifull small scale work

Spanjaard
wow, paint looks really good in this flea with wheels 🙂

Diorama Dude
Great scratch-conversions with this old Scammell Sacrab kit. Impressive work.👍

gorby
Thanks very much mates. 🙂

Mark Sherwood
You're welcome, she did it under her own volition (I think the smell of lacquer thinners drove her) a nice outcome on your Scammels too, brought back some memories of when I were a lad.

Mr D
Looks great.... should be very proud 👍 you put a lot of work in and created something very unique... Great model work 😁👍

Живко Джаков
These figures are better than mine.

CaptGPF
Nicely done and weathered!

Ignacio von Braun
Thanks a lot!

Mr D
Nice work 👍👍👌.
I didn't the Revell 1/72 , this looks a better kit.
Good stuff 👍👍

gorby
Nice!

CD Soltysik
Amazing work! And I've never seen pre shading like that - I dig it!

Desert Marlin
Nicely done! Great weathering and panel lining!!!

Mr D
Very nice work 😀👍 looking great

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Chrisswe
Hope I can make it interesting to follow.
The kit doesn't seem very complicated and the Eduard photo etch is mild level. Just the open doors are a new thing for me. They might cause problems when painting and building modules together.

Guy Rump
Following too! 👍

Chrisswe
Progress has been slow but I got some work done last days.

Jörg Schäfer
Come on board too.

Chrisswe
I think this project will pick up pace now when I have finished Schleswig-holstein. This is the first ship I build with waterline option and it was very hard to fix the hull seam. I did several cycles of filling, sanding and priming and still it is very visible.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Chrisswe
Thanks Villiers! My daughter asked me today if I had only built two ships and one small plane after working such a long time. She looked incredulous when I told her that was actually the case🙂

Cuajete
Following.

Cuajete
Nice interior 👍

Guy Rump
Me too! 👍

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

Rui S
Great work. Beautiful model & photos 👍

Gary Victory
All i can say is beautiful. Really nice clean build and finish. A real work of art. Thanks for sharing Angidridor.

Spanjaard
I agree with Gary

Sven Schönyan
Very nice result!

Treehugger
The hollowed out barrels on the turrets look really nice I think.

Robert Peach
Is the kit built out of the box?

James C
Very nice work 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Wow, awesome work! 👍

Neuling
Top result!

Lochsa River
Clean and excellent

Angidridor
Thx u all

Robert Peach
Its out of box + metal barrel

Julien
Look's absolutely phenomenal. Real work of art

Gary
shes a Beauty
Step right up, and don't be shy
Because you will not believe your eyes
She's right here, behind the glass
You're gonna like her 'cause she's got class