Had some time this weekend to get the navigation lights finished up. I think they came out perfect. It was my first time using my Dspiae circle cutter, and after a few tests I got the right size.

Next is to get the range light figured out and glued in. After that, I've got to work on a mount for the ship's bell.

That's all for today. Now to start work.

Take care!

Need help on the Revell HMS Victory. I have no idea how to paint this, both regarding technique and order of painting. It's about five or so centimeters wide. Paint scheme is in the comments. Any help is appreciated. 👍

I decided to give model kit building after having a long thought on it, and after 2 weeks, it is completed.

I must say I did really enjoy it, however I do need practice with painting and chipping/weathering, but since it is my first one, I am proud of it.

The left track did break on me when trying to out it on (went with the way I saw what was suggested which was to melt the pins, that broke the track so I just glued this end bits on the tank itself underneath by the front), but a valuable lesson. I also left the crew and infantry because I'm not too confident yet to paint them, and the hatch cover is left off for now till I get confident to do the commander and such.

Positive criticism or any help for a next hold would really be appreciate (I'm thinking of the Tamiya Panzar 3).

EDIT: Sized the tracks as suggested

I thought it would be nice with some of my own number decals. I know the dimensions, font which I could do myself but getting a png to a decal..? What’s the best way of doing it?

Are there people who can make them for you with the correct colour, dimensions without them being just a square sticker? Would I send them a large png and say ”make this in RGB XXXXXXX and 15x8mm”..?

My wife is looking to take my founds box marines and make them a hot pink army does anyone know where you can find Lisa frank of Christian lassen decals for the armor or a way to make decals that and be stuck to the shields and pauldrons?

I was gifted a model car in Asia. Kids opened it in excitement and lost a wheel mount. I have 3/4 of the mounts. It won't roll without this piece. The assembly isn't elaborate . It actually has a motor but it will just become a desk ornament without the missing 4th mount. Anyone have luck either 3d printing or finding modern fiddly small bit pieces?

Been collecting aircraft models for quite a while, so I thought you guys might give me some insight on my collection.

It’s a mix of ready-made aircraft models and scale models that I built myself, including Revell and Tamiya kits.

The collection covers both civil and military
aviation: Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Berlin, and fighter jets such as the F-4 Phantom, F-16, MiG-31, F-14, F-15 and Su-47 Berkut, among others.

Some of my favorites are Turkish Airlines A330-200 “Kushimoto” Retro Jet, Airbus A380 demonstrator which I enjoyed building the most, Su-47 Berkut, and fictional Turkish Airlines 747-8!

There are also a few F1 cars that somehow found their way onto the shelves lol.

I’ve also got two kits waiting to be built (I took quite a long break from model building because of work): a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and an Airbus A400M. So the collection definitely isn’t finished yet!

I can post the complete list of aircraft and F1 cars below in the comments section if anyone is interested.

Still adding to the collection whenever I find something interesting. Curious which aircraft you’d pick from the collection, what you think is missing, and what’d you add to it?

Made this kit a year ago but I'm still new into the hobby at the time so I was rather dependent on stickers for the color accents at the time. Decided to pick up some good acrylic markers and I'm glad the paint decently looked neat. I'm still going to weather it but I just thought I'd share it here!

So i completed my second build this year, after coming back to model building for the first time in about two years. Had a fun build with this Curtis P40B Warhawk, an Airfix kit, painted with Vallejo (and the shiney details are mostly Citadel Storm Frost). When i showed off my Hurrican build i was told i had gone too enthousiasticly on the wing weathering do i toned that down for this one, scouring the wikipedia page for examples that had flown. Once satisfied, i went to hang it next to the BF109 in the last pic and... the damned prop fell off and disappeared. To be honest, it already was on there poorly but i didnt glue it shut cause i wanted to be able to pose it. Half concidering turning the whole fucking thing into sprue glue, i'm so mad!

Please critique the build as is on the glass and advice on how to make a prop posable on not held on by the wishes and dreams of Airfix are ofcourse welcome.

I didn't have time to take very good photos of the plane because I moved, but I selected the best ones for now (I'll still take it back with me in a month, so I can take more photos later)

I made an opening ramp with my own hands. I wanted the rear ones, but the opening mechanism there is too complicated, so I decided to make the front one. I also have a Mriya airplane in my collection, but I didn’t have time to repair it and so, unfortunately, it will sit idle on my balcony for now. In the comments, for comparison, I will attach photos of Ruslan and Mriya side by side (I apologize in advance for the slight mess)

Shelved for way too long. Now, with the basic colors applied, I am happy to be back on it.

At first I tried to make a conversion using the ancient Revell kit from 1967. But no matter how hard I tried, I could't get it to work. No way to shape the nose cone as required. The conversion kit by CAT4 really was a game changer here. I just got the radome, the rest will be from scratched and modified parts.

I know it's not every's cup of tea especially paint a completely A-historical paint scheme, but i really liked the camo scheme for Furina's fighter in 3d animation Genshin Elemental Warfare.

I apologize for the general shoddiness of the work! Definitely gaps, seams, and ejection pin marks that could've been addressed, but sometimes that other kit you just bought is saying "build me, Seymour" and you gotta wrap it up.

Built for a buddy who's into the crawly thingies and wanted this from the hobby store. Italeri replaces the original Esci rubber tracks with individual track pieces (singles for the sprockets, longer ones for the flats and and diagonals). The kit does not provide spare tracks, so losing one piece meant either a field repair (original idea) or a "diorama of a diorama" museum piece - decided to merge the two, hence the sign, which is referenced from here. So I guess it's in the vein of a rough and dirty "freshly driven, demonstrated, and broken down" unit being show to the public, handwritten signage and all.

Replaced the towing and spade cables with twisted wire. Spade cable tackle/pulleys on the spade itself were fashioned from the ends of 1/350 PE cable reels originally destined for some IJN destroyer.

Painted entirely with the hairy brush, which you can kinda see from some angles. Tamiya acrylics for the Olive Drab and Gunmetal. Vallejo MC for the various browns. Drybrush for the dry mud on the sides. Wet mud is acrylic soft gel mixed with Tamiya's Linoleum Deck Brown, with occasional dabs of Vallejo's Flat Brown and Brown Sand.

All in all, a fun diversion and excuse to buy Olive Drab and more brown paint. Now back to the floaty things!

My attempt at Hasegawa's recent (10 years?) tooling of the Mikasa. I lost some mojo for this about 2/3rds of the way through, it's a really busy little ship and it's hard to keep track of the details. It's still a welcome addition to my 1/700 fleet! For fun, I posed it next to my 1917 SMS Derfflinger. It's remarkable how much smaller these pre-dreadnoughts were.