AirportsEd

No, I have never used it. It sounds good; many thanks for the info. Ed

Nice work. What did you use for the rigging?

Looks good. Thank you.

Hello. May I ask what the Hobby Buffalo is like from a quality point of view? Thanks, Ed

Yes, excellent work. If I can do half as good a job, I'll be pleased!

Nearly bought the Stuka kit today having seen your good work, but went for the Gladiator instead. Might go back for the Stuka next week!

Nice work; it looks very time consuming! I presume you have gained those skills from modelling vehicles?

Looks good, T2B. What did you use to form the edges of the camo mask? It looks something like Blu Tack to me, but when I used that on my Hurricane recently, it left a kind of greasy line everywhere it had been, which obviously meant that it had to be repainted. Ed

Nice work, T2B. I presume that you cut the cockpit mask from a roll of masking tape, rather than using an after market mask (if such a thing is available, yet)?

Nice work. Hadn't seen the Mk VI kit before.

Interesting, I must give it a try...

Very nice! Did you have to cut the wing panels out of the Hurricane or is that an option on how you can build it?

I too thought it was the real thing at first glance! Nice work...is it straight out of the box?

No problem, pb, I understood the gist of what you wrote. I'm amongst the lesser-skilled modellers, so the idea of having them would encourage me to buy kits and display them as airborne, but perhaps I should have posted my thoughts on the wish list section instead. If Airfix can invest significant sums in Lego like snap together kits, then anything is possible! Ed

Thanks again, Chris.

"The reason manufacturers don't make stuff is when they don't perceive them as being commercially viable/profitable." Er, yes, that goes for everything, but perceptions about what is commercially viable change from one year to the next, otherwise there would never be any new models. Who would have thought that Airfix would produce Lego-like Quickbuild models that represent such a move away from its traditional products...anything is possible, that's why we have wish lists. The point about most spinning props looking different due to the number of blades, and / or RPM speed at which they operated is of course true, but maybe that's another reason why the manufacturers should produce them as they could bring their expertise into play. Thank you for posting those instructions, Dogsbody, I built a few Frog kits many years ago (and still own a few now) but I cannot remember seeing the the prop disc in any of them! Thank you too, Ratch, for the image of the Lysander. It's hard to make out the detail of the prop, but is that a kit that you installed an electric motor in?

Nice detail there, well done...

Hello, thank you for your reply. Although I have yet to try making my own, I simply thought the kit manufacturers could make a better job of producing them than would be possible with home made items, although that might be purely down to my lack of skill! I haven't seen any aftermarket examples but I will search for them.

I've always thought that making the spinning propeller effect by using clear plastic disks and drawing on hazy representations of the prop blades is a very tough job and I hope that one day Airfix may introduce spinning props as an option with their new tool kits. Does anyone else thing that would be a good things for the kit manufacturers to do? Maybe it could be an opportunity for the after market suppliers...?

Ok. I saw some pictures of a friend's Airfix 1/72 SFOR Sea King yesterday and was impressed by how he had achieved the whitewash effect of the temporary white paint applied 'in the field'. Would seem to fit well with your comments about "no right or wrong way", but the end results certainly look the part. Thanks.

Very nice...did the 'camera man' come as part of the kit?

Sorry I've never heard of them! Looks like it must be a very fiddley job, so well done. I have a Hood, Bismarck and Belfast to get round to, someday...

How did you make the railings?

That's a double 'yes please' from me! I have only just returned to kit building but am already leaning towards building dioramas and there is a distinct lack of crew buses available.

Agreed! In my opinion it would be a great addition to the Airfix's 1/24 scale Battle of Britain range. I do hope that the type's success as a re-tooled 1//72 kit and then further success at 1/48 (back in stock as of this week I understand) will ultimately lead Airfix to have the commercial confidence in the type to do a 1/24 release. Time will tell, I guess...