Sailorman

You have uploaded loads of excellent photos in this thread but in time it will disappear below all the new threads. Have you considered creating your on album on the site? Go to Gallery and create an album for yourself then all you pics will be there in one place easy to access.

This email popped up in my inbox yesterday.

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I've just realised that Roy Cross .... who I'm sure will need no introduction here is 100 today! I wish him all the very best! He painted most of the Airfix box art during the 60's. Many are to be found in his books... The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art and More vintage years of Airfix Box art. His illustrations are what attracted me to Airfix kits in my early years! One cannot underestimate the effect his paintings had on a generation of children. Ad multos annos

Tour de Airfix is right about the spray cans ...... you have to be very, very careful when using them or you end up obliterating all the detail. I use short squirts whilst passing over the model. Keeping the can in a fixed position and then pressing the button results in a big mess.

This one just flew into my study this morning. Been after one for years. I finally decided to go for the 1:144 kit. The 1:72 version with a 3 foot wing span was a bit to big to fit in any of my display cabinets ...... still it can sit to my other 1:144 airliners. Such a weird plane - 6 propellors and 4 jets!

Can never have enough Mustangs!

Wow .... Brilliant idea how to set up that display of the to choppers ...... I had missed that. They look great.

I rarely build using the schemes included in the box. Makes life more interesting and I end up with a model slightly different to everyone else's......as you can see from recent my DC10 and TriStar.

They are both virtually done. Tomorrow I will give them a protective coat of satin lacquer but they are otherwise complete. Not perfect, but they were great fun to build. They look so massive next to the Boeing 737. Goodness knows what an A380 would look like next to the 737! The Canadian Pacific Colour scheme is pretty gaudy but I must say, the British Airways Tristar colour scheme is great. Very eye-catching. Now that I've got my shipbuilding mojo back it's time to proceed to my next build .....a 1:600 scratchbuild SS Rotterdam.

Looking great!

Before I switched to building ships I used to sometimes crash mould canopies using the old canopy as a master. It was always a bit of hit and miss effort with some being easier than others to produce. I remember trying quite a few times before I had one I was happy with. This is the old snapfix 109 kit with a canopy made this way.

That's a great looking build!

Unless they can come up with a procedure that makes financial sense I can't see anyone doing it.