Scale modelling

This was on our Lloyd interest group.

Skip to 56s if you are not interested in the cars.

 
@Claymore I was more stuck at the streetlight lower left side at train station.

One does not realize how much work is needed in all this.

First is to finish said houses. Got some parts for cheap, meaning no windows or roofs. Just walls.
 
My_King said:
@Claymore I was more stuck at the streetlight lower left side at train station.

One does not realize how much work is needed in all this.

First is to finish said houses. Got some parts for cheap, meaning no windows or roofs. Just walls.
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I think it's awesome. I love those layouts. And so much detail in every item.
 
Completed, the Airfix 1/72 Bristol 192 Belvedere. It's basically a 1959 kit, and I have the 1970s edition of the kit. The kit itself doesn't match the actual helicopter it's modelled on, since the kit was based on a prototype. It was definitely too much work to convert it to the final production helicopter. The kit itself is terrible; poor detail, terrible fit, and a canopy that is straight out of model hell. The decals were yellowed, but I trimmed around them, and with nice white and silver paint, the strange, slender helicopter model actually looks OK. For the canopy, I found pictures of a canopy mask online, printed it, and used it as a template to cut masks that I placed; there are no markings on the canopy itself.

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Completed, the Frog 1/72 Fairey Barracuda Mk.II torpedo bomber model kit, depicted as flown by the Royal Navy in the Pacific war in 1945 off HMS Vengeance. Not a bad kit considering its age, though a little lacking in detail. I added an extra seat and the machine guns inside, and did some aerial wires. The landing gear is quite fiddly, and the glasswork - canopy and side windows - were quite tedious to mask. Mistakes were made, but I quite like how the paint came out.

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Completed, the Frog 1/72 Grumman Avenger Mk.II torpedo bomber model kit, depicted as flown in the British Pacific Fleet, HMS Indomitable, 1945. Decent enough for its age, with a surprisingly sturdy undercarriage. Lots of masking of the canopy and turret to do! It technically uses the same colour scheme as the Fairey Barracuda - Sky underneath, with Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey (that's the green) camouflage on top, but the Avenger was a lend-lease aircraft, and the American factory, Eastern Motors, painted the Dark Slate Grey in a slightly different, more olivey, green. You can see the difference in the pic of the two of them together.

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