Aircraft modeling.. plastic Kits

[VapourTrail]

HI gusy,

Sorry for being absent for so long.. crazy end to the year and a bunch of family stuff has seen me offline for about 3 months.

Anyhow, above and beyond other items I have got up to in my absence is picking up a hobby I had over 20 years ago.. and that is the building of plastic aircraft models.

I thought I would do a quick post here and see if anyone else is into this, for two reasons.. 1, does anyone have any good reference sites for tips tricks and techniques (its been over 20 years since I did my last model and the internet didn't exist back then and things have changed). And secondly is anyone interested in seeing the progress.. I am in half a mind to do the whole photo / progress thing but it will take months and am not going to do it on some of the modeling blog sites I have found out there as i'm sure my finished product wil be no where near the one's that get posted.

Oh it's a 1/32 scale FW 190A-5 in yuo are wondering.

Cheers

VT

[ColKlink]

Vapes, good to hear from you.

I too remember the days of the plastic models. I had quite a few aircraft and just has many tanks.

I don't know of any sites for 'tips and tricks' of this kind of modelling.

Myself, I'm currently in the build process of a 18th century 44 gun frigate (2 yrs into the build), whilst a model of the Bismark. I'm also just starting on a model of the Lancaster.

All of these are mostly wood with moldered components of metal and plastic, so my skills/process here may not help you much. :lol:

[SkidMark]

Like this one?




...Just love the rear shape of it's canopy. 8)


Anyway....Dunno if these links helpor not,... but here yah go.
http://hsfeatures.com/features04/fw190a532ir_1.htm
http://hsfeatures.com/features04/fw190a532jh_1.htm
http://www.hyperscale.com/features/2000/fw190a5va_1.htm
http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/fw190a5jb_1.htm
http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/fw190a532jc_1.htm
http://www.hyperscale.com/galleries/200 ... a5lk_1.htm
http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/fw190a5md_1.htm


Your right...Tips n Tricks are hard to find. :?


Make sure you show us some progress pics.....They're great to view.

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[Silverdes56]

Like this one?

the scale in that is really screwing with my mind!

and yeah i would love to see the progress!

[Mavric]

Im building a 1/350 model of the bismarck and a 1/350 of the USS Missouri, slow going at the moment but im getting there

[VapourTrail]

Thats the one gents, I am probably going with a different camo on the end product, I have a couple of ww2 aircraft reference books that I'll use .. but hey who knows I could change my mind 100 times between now and then.

Anyhow.. a start... playing with the pilot as its optional to have one in the cockpit to see how much the old age blindness and hand shakes are effecting me..... ohh to be young again.. need heaps of practice.. but not to bad after 20 years .. almost got the 5 o'clock shadow happening.

[ColKlink]

damn Vapes, I'd be buggered to see that close these days. Good detail.

[Silverdes56]

you may hate me for this
http://makerbot.com/

either way you can either use this to print your own parts or cheat and print an entire plane

[VapourTrail]

LOL silver.. where is the fun in that

[WishMaster]

you may hate me for this
http://makerbot.com/

either way you can either use this to print your own parts or cheat and print an entire plane

I have one of those, not that great though.

[Silverdes56]

you may hate me for this
http://makerbot.com/

either way you can either use this to print your own parts or cheat and print an entire plane

I have one of those, not that great though.

print me the parts to a RepRap and ill pay you!!??

if you are willing let me know

makerbot has crazy lead times... its many months to get one...

[WishMaster]

Last time I tried I couldn't calibrate it properly so I just gave up.