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Classic box art

Martha's got some work in progress...

Main assembly done.

End-opener boxes get on my proverbials. Have hung onto part of my Thunderbird 2 top-opening box just to keep Vince's sp...

Quite chuffed with the "rusted pipe*" look I managed on the left hand (AEC, original) engine. (Made both engine options ...

Open fire!

Sprues all ready to go - back in February, before the Covid-19 Lockdown.

Skyray buzzing an MTB

Oi, camera, sort the focus out :)

Fullback beginning to take shape...

PR XIX looking good

Just uploaded this photo for completeness (8 years later!) as I saw that the photo album ended somewhat abruptly.

Weathered and satin finish, on a mirror to show the underside.

A bit of clamping required... :)

Phone camera is shot, but here's an idea of the cockpit detail (thank you Eduard Zoom)

Box art - note bargain price!

Added a set of seat belts (only one set with the kit!)

Bf109 dogfight with my Sea Hurricane :)

Replacement top-panel painted, varnished and fitted. Left: Storm Shadow / SCALP in flight, wings and ventral fins extend...

Impressive amount of stuff in this set.

Weathered model ambulance on a mirror so you can see the underside too!

Recreating the classic box art :-)

Bristol Mercury engine before cowled and hidden away.

And so it begins :)

Box art

Just some more decals to go

Scratch built ladder to flight deck (that my mother got stuck up!)

A tale of two Minis. Really shows the size difference (same scale!)

Made a proper start over "twixtmas" - bit of priming, bit of paint, bit of glue here and there. Have raided the spares ...

Mast up!

Time for a sprue-wash

"adjustment of parts and filling required" - understatement of the year. The instructions were more like hints, suggest...

Obligatory start photo

The Blue Steel missile from the old Airfix Avro Vulcan kit, unused when my daughter and I built the kit, was used as a e...

All done and on display, keeping my TSR.2 and Bristol Bloodhound company.

All going to get sealed up, but here we have ammo boxes, gunner seats, bomb rack and some (clumsy) weathering.

Bristol Blenheim (centre) meets grandson Bristol Beaufighter (right) and great-grandson Bristol Brigand (left). (And get...

Nearly ready...

Decals next...

Looking a bit silver... for now :-)

All over bar the varnish and decals, thanks to quick drying and self-priming Mr Surfacer and hot weather.

The kit only comes with a pilot, so I've scrounged together the rest of the crew: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, D...

Lighting rig on an Arduino Nano

Box art

If you squint really hard, you might be able to see Dom in the back.

Cockpit and engine

At least the "Arizona" bit is clear, near the tail. Hmm, got a 1:700 Arizona in the stash, that could be heading to my...

Box art is sooooo wrong.

Box art

Box art

The dog has come to inspect... everyone's a critic!

Keel laid

Incom T-65B X-Wing, 1:112 scale, ready to join the Rebellion

Bristol Brigand TF1

Open fire, lads! Spots the lights in the wheelhouse. (Those gun positions, like the shrapnel padding and the big gun on ...

Su-34 Fullback under what appears to be an attack of the dreaded Post It Notes.

Engine (rubbish photo - phone camera) - May 2019

The old artwork!

Martha's

White and pristine

Mixture of live and training/inert missiles for the bigger ones, just for variety.

That missile design just screams 1950s - could imagine Chuck Yeager flying it!

Finished!

Shiny Peggy all finished

Primed and ready to go...

All finished, despite the trail of disasters that made the plot of Armageddon seem uneventful.

All finished, despite the trail of disasters that made the plot of Armageddon seem uneventful. Magnetic stand too, just...

Pointless bit of metal lacquer on the engine inside!

Douglas the toast rack is in business again

All 3D printed so lots of filament sprue to cut away. Tauruses were very brittle, managed to snap various fins off just...

Mounted all the crew on the universal carrier to save losing them :)

Shiny Shar, my Bae, is complete..

Umpteen disparate parts from the spares box. Gannet wings because I got an after-market wing-fold kit, not sure how I e...

Cute

Doesn't look too bad at this distance

A bit of aotake splashed around.

Box art

Box art

End-opening box - would much rather have a top-opener, easier to keep the unused parts in there then as I go along. Shou...

This is where Martha's Focke is headed...

*rubs hands with glee*

First steps - wooden framework and machine guns magazines inside (used Orange Clear to "varnish" the wood and it got a b...

HMS Kelly