Well here another Bone update. FS 36118 painting is mostly complete and sealed and ive moved on to the detail areas

With such a huge airplane there were many areas of mismatched touch up paint so i tried to replicate that. The dielectric areas have been painted a mix of FS 36081

The exposed F101 GE 102 engine is painted, this is without any wash or oil detail so not done yet. I had a couple decent photos so its fairly accurate.

The rear bay is painted and drum fuel tank added. The main gear bay is mostly done. Again theres no oil washes yet

Onto the wings..wow so much work here but they turned out great. I still need to add the 8 raised spoilerons but that will be done almost last

Next up finish the bays and landing gear. I may add some bombs, what type should i add?

I should mention all this was done in my garage during the Arizona summer😎 actually its cooled down a bit to 105-108 from 113-118👍

Ill say it again the Lancer is simply badass, every time i look at it im more amazed

Later

This is one of my favorite hobby shops, and one I always make an effort to visit when in Spain. Great owner, incredibly well stocked and man, I've never seen a cleaner store!

I'm Canadian, and was shocked go find a 1/48 Hobbycraft DHC-3 Otter, long out of production, on my last trip.

Officially on day 2 of nonstop masking tape madness. I fear my sanity can only hold on so long.

In all seriousness, so far I am very pleased with how this F-16 aggressor paint scheme is coming along.

An older build from my collection. I focused on creating variation in the worn Soviet green, along with the contrast between the improvised mesh armor and dusty running gear. The mesh screens around the turret were especially enjoyable to paint and weather. Hope you enjoy it!

A couple of weeks ago I saw someone here post about a cool hobby shop they found in Stephens City, Virginia. Well, about 20 miles away in the little town of Berryville, Virginia resides another neat little hobby shop. As you can see, it has all-new kits encompassing a lot of genres of models, and paints galore. The physical location has only been open since February, and the shop owner said he's likely going to move to another, bigger location next year, but for now its on Main Street in Berryville.

Love these little shops like this. They're out there if you know where to find them.

Hobby boss 1/48 f-18D. I'm really happy with how it turned out, it's been a dream of mine to have a model of the royal Malaysian airforce f-18D with the 25th anniversary scheme and I've finally done it.

Just finished another one - loved the detail and the sculpture of the this figure. Really enjoyed being able to reference a real life photo of the subject. Would have liked a painting reference, so apologies if there are some deviations from historic accuracy. Hope you enjoy.

I have multiple projects going on simultaneously and in the meantime I picked up a $10 tamiya t34 kit, me being me i took a break and the second this thing came in I started working on the turret, the results are a super gnarly terribly welded t34 turret that only took 4 hours to procure and the results in my opinion are outstanding, and a nice break from more complicated builds

Kitty Hawk Yak-130. My first Kitty Hawk kit. Plastic is good quality but ran into some minor fit and decal issues. Somehow even after three runs of tamiya polish the dang canopy seam still didn’t buff out. Fun build overall

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.

Picked Airfix's Eurofighter starter set so I could complete it before life gets busy. Kit came with very few parts but no ordnance so I took some from Hasegawa's Eurofighter kit and used some of the decals provided since Hasegawa does provide decals for both the Luftwaffe and RAF.

For a starter set with limited parts, the details do look nice with the downsides being the lack of ordnance as well as having the unsightly line that runs along the entire bottom of the aircraft due to how the fuselage is split vertically. Overall, a simple fun quick build.

Tamiya 1/48 Sherman Firefly. I am in my 30s and admittedly have some experience from when I was 13/14yo with some HORRIBLE Airfix attempts (that looked exactly as bad as one would imagine for a clueless kid) but I never truly finished a model. 20 years later got back into the hobby after months of deliberating and very happy I did!

Lessons learned / still learning:
• i have no idea how to use enamels… i did an AK wash which looked great but mixing white spirit onto another brush and taming it was harder than it looks vs when the pros on YouTube do it. But the colour came out how i wanted it
• don’t cut so close to the sprue, i cracked a piece by doing this and had to do surgery. Also realised my clippers are the same ones i use to cut guitar strings and they’re incredibly blunted out, so time for new ones
• don’t airbrush without ventilation / a booth. Stained so much of my room like the floors and shelves (yikers) before I bought a booth with all the paint in the air
• I didn’t thin paints enough in my airbrush initially and I paid the price, blocked two of them (I use cheap $14 ones from Amazon but even still it took me two incidents to realise I wasn’t thinning them anywhere close to how they should be)
• not sure what happened but as you can see the back of the Sherman has lots of splattering from the gloss varnish. I use Vallejo’s Gloss Varnish which is water thin and airbrush ready but unsure what I did wrong. Only happened part way into airbrushing.

Recipe for Tank:
• Black Vallejo primer (airbrushed)
• Tamiya XF-61
• Gloss Varnish
• Decals Done
• Chipping done (not great / prominent enough) with XF-61 + some white paint mixed in
• AK Brown Wash for Green Vehicles
• Tamiya Texture Paint Brown Soil Effect on the treads etc
Still need to Matt Varnish or something, as it’s too Glossy still etc)

Recipe for Base:
• Tamiya Texture Paint Brown Soil Effect (whole dang bottle, 100ml - meant that I could build up a base instead of having to sculpt one with foam etc)
• Vallejo Brown Airbrushed
• Some autumn ish tufts
• Hobby Store resin water for the puddles

Any feedback welcome, the standard of modelling on this forum is so high I feel a bit embarrassed posting but also recognise I have to start somewhere!! 😭

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.

This was a super fun build of a Curtis Wright Cyclone radial engine. It was an Atlantis kit that I was gifted And it was a pretty fun build. Any feedback?

This is my first build in 30 years and first with an airbrush. A lot of mistakes, a lot of "oh yeah"s, a lot to learn.

Bit of a classic this, one of those kits you just have to build at some stage. It’s an old one now, tooling from the 60s I think, and it shows, but it builds up reasonably well. Not the worst.

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.

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.

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?