After enjoying my last Lindberg build so much I rushed out (to Ebay!) to see if they had any more unusual planes to build. I picked up 2, and here is the first - the German late war Emergency jet fighter Heinkel He-162.

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I've had a bit of a varied experince with Lindberg Kits, with my Kingfisher being fine and the Sabre being awful, and started this one with the extra trepidation of the horror taht was the JU-88 kit earlier in the year....

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 I was really looking forward to building this iconic light bomber, but it ended up as the worst kit ever, and combined with busy work, completely draining my hobby mojo for weeks and weeks!

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A staple for the finished model collection, alongside the Spitfire and Hurricane, is obviously the Messerschmitt Bf109, so I'm glad to get mine done.

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Was up in the loft again making space to store Halo*Star's plastic sprue collection whilst he moves, and during shifting my own hidden gems around this model box toppled off the scale model stash. Obviously a sign!

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In my previous model kit I mentioned that this kit might be finished in the near future. Well in the same blogging year counts, right?

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 So not quite D-Day, but the opening game at the club arrived and this is how I'd managed to get the figures. From my RPG days I'd knew that if the flesh and weapons are defined on a primed figure it's enough to avoid the mono tone blob effect.

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I started this Airfix starter way back in the summer as a change from wargame projects, as I sometimes do. It was meant to be a quick and easy project, so I picked this as the painting would be nice and easy. Ironic then that it's taken me 6 months to finally finish due to complications with painting!

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Part 2 has been long time coming. Pretty much a good indicator on how little hobby time I've had over the past couple of months. Finally finished my other "rest project" however - an Airfix Starter Supermarine Spitfire mk1.

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A great video review (as ever) from Gary @ makingmodelsagain. Looks like a interesting wee distraction project. The conversion kit may be beyond my scale modelling abilities mind you.


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The latest Wings of War models are ready for action.

(USA) Bell P-39 Airacobra:

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The first set of fighter models for pimping up my Wings of War set are now complete.

(USA) F4F-4 Wildcat

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After painting two 15mm warbands (Dwarves posted up soon) I've been feeling the painting strain of squinting away at the detail and realised that I need a complete change of pace and subject to keep me from the dreaded Painting Mojo loss.

So I've pulled out one of the Airfix Starter kits I'd picked up on the cheap around New Year to construct. The kit in question is a mk1 Hawker Hurricane. Being a starter set it includes a basic paint set for the kit, so no faffing around experimenting with pigments this time round!

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Over the last few weeks I had more than the odd occasion where I've found myself taking a sharp intake of breath and going all glassy eyed in front of a set of shelves full of Airfix models. Fortunately the Arabian Queen has been around to give me one of those patient looks to remind me I have more than enough in the hobby shed already.

So after another plastic kit induced heart flutter at the end of this week I decided it was time to start one from the shed. It must be around 26 years since my last kit (at the tender age of around 14 I suspect), and with quite a few vehicles bought waiting for the WWII project I thought it best to revisit some of the old skills and tools needed.

I'd "started" (ie painted the cockpit) of a Revell 1:72 RAF P-51 Mustang III (kit code 04167) a few years ago, so could launch straight in.

Early impressions? Well the set plastic was much thinner (with more flash) than I remembered, but the assembly was simpler and better fitting than several kits I had as a lad. Also I'd bought some glue (Revell Universal Liquid glue Contacta Special) on a naive assumption that if it had a brush it was good old liquid poly. This stuff is more the old glue from the tube I remember, but with a brush. So thicker than expected with a bit of stringing if you're not careful. Might make an effort to look out some thinner liquid poly before embarking on my panzers!