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Patryk S.
Following!

Neil
Welcome Patryk! 🙂

Stefan Fraundorfer
I'll take a close look at your model. I have the same one in my stash and would like to build it myself in the near future. Have fun Neil!

J35J
Taking a chair👍🏻

Mark Sherwood
Parked the 360, watching. You should have prolific as your middle name, the amount of builds dude. It would make me more confused than I am. Hurrichurchspitwell anyone. 🤟😵‍💫🤘😵‍💫🖖😵‍💫👍🤣🥸

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat of course!

Chris
Che bello aereo!

Neil
Wow! Welcome all. Really great to have interest from such a talented bunch of fellow modellers. @stephan, looking forward to your version very much also 👍👍 @mark, I know, I'm a bit nuts! I love having lots of the go, takes a while to complete and I'm useless at doing reveal photos. But it keeps it all fresh for me! My job is all about multiple projects, so similar state of mind! 😂

John
I do NOT envy you your masking job but it should look amazing when you finish (or run out of tape). 👍

Neil
Hi John, thanks for your interest mate. I should be ok tbh as the kit comes with a superdecal (cheat) sheet! So although there's some stressful masking on a metallic finish, it's hopefully all doable 👍 I've added some more images today. Thanks for your likes also to all who've dropped by too 🙂

J35J
Looking great! 👍🏻

Donald Dickson II
I did this one as well. Those decals are actually pretty good.

I tried acrylic metallics for the first and last time on this one. When I removed the masking for the red, it pulled EVERYTHING, primer included, right up. The finish was awesome until then. Alclad and Metalizer for me from there out.
Diavoli Rossi F-84 | Album by smokeriderdon (1:48)

Neil
Hi J35J - thanks very much 👍 🙂

Hi Donald, Yes, I agree, the kit decals are nice - though they are on the thicker side. On application they hide a lot of the kits surface detail in my opinion. However subsequent passes with more (and more!) softening and setting solution is doing them justice - more pictures to follow. Sorry to hear of your paint issues when building. Yes. My version is painted solely with Vallejo acrylics: Vallejo primer, Vallejo colour and Metal Colour 👍 You rescued your version well, looks good 🙂

Donald Dickson II
Thank you. In person you can see the areas that pulled fairly clearly.

I used Solvaset on the decals. That managed to get them to settle down fairly well. But yeah, it did hide a bit. BUT, i liked the thickness as those large ones required a good bit of fiddling to get where they needed to be and they stood up to the handling perfectly.

gorby
Looking good so far.

Neil
Thanks Gorby! 🙂 and others for liking also. Pretty much finished this one now, more images to come soon... 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
I'm always down for stuff like that. Following. 👀

S M
More kit bashing Hawk 😄 I'm in!

Neil
Hi WhiteGlint & S M 🙂 Excellent! I've pretty much got it built already. I'll get some pictures loaded asap - hopefully tonight 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
You're fast, didn't you just start? 😄

Neil
Yeah, started it last night. I just set myself the task of using all the parts and building as I went. Whether you'll think it looks any good or not is a different matter of course! Think a bit 'Steam Punk' in style 😉 I'll get the card outta the camera and get the piccies on here 👍

Spanjaard
really curious about what you do with it.

Robert Podkoński
I am equally curious - following, of course 🙂

Neil
Hi Spanjaard and Robert 🙂 Great to have you here also 🙂 👍 Here's hoping it's any good!

Greg Baker
I LOVE this kinda stuff. Count me in~!

Robert Podkoński
Looks threatening, I must say, already at this stage... 😉

Neil
Ha-ha Robert. I get yer meaning... Yeah the threatening bit just sort of 'grew' out of the bits on the bench! Still a spaceship's gotta have a big gun, surely? I'll get the newer pics on tomorrow 👍

David Taylor
Curious.

JD
That's the spirit Neil!

David H
This should be fun, I've got my seat and popcorn ready

Bruce Huxtable
I'm enjoying your creative sculpting 👍

Neil
Thanks guys 🙂 You're all being very kind. I took some more pictures last night, so will get them on here later.

Neil
@David - I hope my finished product will be worthy of your curiosity 🙂 @JD - it could go either way, my spirit may be crushed or soar - who knows?! @David H - Cheers just be careful with that popcorn we're in zero gravity now and @Bruce - yeah that's one way of describing my 'efforts' 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
That vertical part sure is curious. I am very interested how it will look in the end. 👍

Neil
Hi WhiteGlint 👍 Thanks for dropping back again 🙂 Hopefully it'll work out? I figured as there's no real requirement for a spaceship to be aerodynamic or streamlined and as another lifeform could also potentially be any shape. I thought I'd go a little bit bonkers and just flip the habitat part. Of course it could end up looking terrible!

Thomas Espe
Oh, another one, this looks promising. Now I really regret selling my hawk a little while back... This is inspiring.

JD
Finally! Here's an aircraft build that I will actually follow. Lead on!

Neil
Thanks Thomas! 🙂 and great to hear that @JD also 👍 🙂

Torsten
That's exciting 👍

Neil
Thanks Torsten 🙂

Neil
Updated imagery added...

Robert Podkoński
I am not an expert at all, but in my eyes this looks a bit like some Transformer now 😉

Bruce Huxtable
I'm looking forward to seeing how you add colour and bring this ship to life 🙂

Neil
@Robert, well flattered with that as a suggestion 😊 I'll take that! 👍 @Bruce, thanks, I have actually gloss black primed it now. So likely a gunmetal paint job or a Red Dwarf red maybe? Not sure... Any thoughts? Course no matter what colour I choose it may still look rubbish!

JD
Perhaps imagining a backstory of this ship's purpose may indicate it's colors and markings? Looks like a combat vessel for sure, but maybe the missiles are actually weather vanes or something. Let's see that black primer..😁

Neil
Added in new colour scheme imagery and cockpit progress 👍

Sergej I
The build reminds me of this scene:
Youtube Video

😄

Neil
😂 Hahaha, agreed 👍 if I'm gonna mash it... Mash it good!

Bruce Huxtable
Building up the coloured details is making it more and more interesting 🙂

Neil
Thanks Bruce 👍

Rv
Hi Neil ! Just discovered your project, glad to follow that from now. Great job so far !

Neil
Thanks RV!

Neil
I'll likely do another (better) kit bash again sometime... For now I just wanted to get this album finished up and reveal imagery uploaded. I never use any image editing software on my albums (not even colour correction - as that's a large part of my day job, so I purposely try and avoid in my free time). However I did 'cheat' a little (not as much as I could!) And mocked up the front cover as obviously space travel photography would be a bit difficult for me!... That's all folks! 🙂 👍