Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his F100 Super Saber. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Phantom. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his HS 125. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Sea Harrier. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Canberra. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his SR71

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his P47 Thunderbolt.

Alan's Meteor

Alan's starting the airfix 1/48 meteor F8 in Korea as a mig killer.

Leon's Twin Otter

This one will be completed as a Trans Maldivian Airways example. 

The cabin seats ahve been installed and the fuelage closed up. Leon is currently preparing the seams ready for primer .

Jim is currently working on the Airfix Sunderland which is a nice model but some awful flashing as it dates from 60's.  Interesting to see how things have moved on.

Jim also shares his HMS Dreadnaught whilst is off topic , it was a real labour of love.

Jim has built the Airfix Do17 and says it was a nice model to build. Finished with Finish markings purchased online.

Vince's "Short" Christmas break!

Vince has promised something different and bigger, (1/32 may be?), to flying boxes from Belfast. 

*** Illegal content warning*** Not actually an aeroplane!!

Leon has finished his  Airfix Willys Jeep. It is finished as a British Airbourne variant. Great little build and a refreshing break from the normal aviation models.

Completed!!! Leon's quickest ever build!! Here we have a Tamiya 1/100 Fiat G91 R1 'Gina' of the Italian Air Force 51st Brigade. The kit needs a bit of TLC to get a good result, it's not perfect but a good enough. Unfortunately the  canopy is an awful fit, not noticed until the end of the build! 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his F15. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his DH Chipmunk. Who doesn't love a Chippie!

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Avro Shakleton.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his take on a Tornado F3. 

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his tribute to the RAF recruitment advertising of the late 80s. It depicts the route a trainee pilot would take to becoming a fast jet pilot.  

Vince is currently working from the Airliner SIG's virtual display to co-incide with when the Nationals would have been. The theme this year is commuters so Vince is working on three of Short Brothers sheds, starting with the Skyvan and 330, both in Loganair colours. 

Vince is currently working from the Airliner SIG's virtual display to co-incide with when the Nationals would have been. The theme this year is commuters so Vince is working on three of Short Brothers sheds, starting with the Skyvan and 330, both in Loganair colours. To follow, the 360 is to be in the older Jersey European scheme (commissioned by Densil).

Here we have Alan's completed Curtis P40. Finished in the famous Flying Tigers Squadron. 

Alan has completed his Sea Vixen. It is an Airfix 1/48  kit of NAS 899 of HMS Eagle circa 1975. 

Alan has completed his Aifix 1/72 Mk1 RAAF Vampire circa 1947.  

Here we have Alan's F6F Hellcat. Looking good with some nice weathering. 

Here we have Kit's  new AZ Hornet PR2, but his is a PR5, the ultra-longe-range version that was used on PR mission over Japan prior to the US invasion in 1946. Needless to say, it has longer wings. Yes, really! It uses British pacific Fleet roundels to ensure the trigger happy USN AA gunners didn't shoot them down. He says that it was a LOT of work getting it looking right, I think he's got it spot on! 

For a 'Captured' group build Kit is building a Savoia Marchetti S-77 flying boat that was captured by the RAF in Abyssinia in 1941 after the Italians surrendered there, and which was used in an anti-shipping role against the Afrika Korps supply convoys across the Med.

You may never have heard of the S-77, as Savoia Marchetti never got around to actually making one, but they could have.

It's an ancient Delta S-55 kit, which has had Revell Lancaster outer wings added (yes, really...) and has had paired, back-to-back Merlins added on pylons over the wing centre section. It also carries two torpedoes under the wing, has an ASV radar under one wing, and has twin sliding bomb racks like a Sunderland under its outer wings. It also has two Lanc gun turrets, one on each hull.

Kit is also building a KMD-11 tanker, probably of the Irish Air Corps, to keep their SAAB Grippens airborne out over the Atlantic.

It's the Eastern Express kit with hose pods from a Roden VC10 K3 added and the larger DC10 tailplanes to help its CG stay within limits.

***Illegal content warning*** Not actually an aeroplane!!

At Vince's request we have a picture of Kit's Prototype' car model. As you can see it's got one of those dummy body shells added over the top of the real car, and that's camouflaged within an inch of its life. 

Kit used to test drive cars like this in the 60s so it's wholly 'authentic', with trade plates front and rear, an instrumentation package on the back seat and the front passenger seat faces backwards so the observer can operate the instruments. It's a got a V-12 engine, where the original had a V-8, and independent rear suspension where the original had cart springs.

The REAL car underneath is a 1962 Minicraft Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, but fitted with rear suspension and engine from a Tamiya Jaguar XJR-9, and front suspension from a Revell Mustang GT 500.

Barry has sent through some photos of his newly refurbished hobby room, or "The Factory" as he has christened it. Barry will set to complete partially completed and refurbished kits before the fresh stuff, a lot of which has come via the addictive E Bay.

As can be seen he has space left under the kit shelves, this gap will be filled with another shelf with his model railway running around the room. So as one can see there's going to be plenty more holes drilled in the walls and plenty more work to do overall.

Leon's Revell 1/72 Avro Lancaster 'Dambuster'

Finally finished! A long slog but we got there.

Finished as Maltby's Lancaster on it's return following the raid. Maltby's was chosen as his was the first successful aircraft back home to Scampton. Photographs in the gallery. 

Here is a photo taken by Vince of a 1:1 scale BAe Hawk T2s at RAF Valley....

Alan's completed Sea Hornet NF21

Leon's Twin Otter

This one will be completed as a Trans Maldivian Airways example. 

The cabin seats ahve been installed and the fuelage closed up. Leon is currently preparing the seams ready for primer .

Alan's completed Dehavilland Sea Venom

Alan's second completed Dehavilland Sea Venom.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his SAR Wessex.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Blackburn Buccaneer.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Airbus A400.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Lockheed C130 Hercules.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Handley Page Victor.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Dehavilland Heron.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Sikorsky CH53 Sea Stallion.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Hawker Siddley Nimrod.

Vince 2 or (or V2) has been busy building during lockdown, here we have his Grumman F14 Tomcat.

Alan's Mk 22 Spitfire build progressing nicely.

Alan's

 F-101B build completed and looking fantastic.

Vince's Welsh Models Lockheed Constellation

Vince has decided to do this as a freighter. Having decided to open the freight door it was more consistent to open up the glazed areas rather than use decals. The rest of the kit is resin but the vacform fuselage lends itself to being hacked about a bit. Vince is replacing the cockpit glazing bars with brass rod which is a bit of an experiment and a fiddle.

Vince's update:

1. a Welsh Models, Canadair Argonaut onto which he is test fitting some Overseas decals. This scheme is a one off for him to finish this kit.

2. a finished set of Argonaut decals, complete with instruction sheet and box label, for Derby Airways. These are of course for Welsh Models.

3. a 747SP, one of Densil's epic vacforms. Still very much in the prep stage and I aim to have it fully primed and ready to put on ice again.

The reason being that there is a promise of some new silk screen decals being produced by the end of the year. They are by Jennings Helig and are the bees knees for we airliner types.

4. the Valiant box is part of Vinci's Harrier series, one of the early test rigs. He has  managed to buy an Anigrand P1127 which will fill another gap his Harrier theme. (Jim, as a new member, you may be wondering about scales? - everybody else knows I only do 144).

5. Still languishing on the side is the Constellation freighter.

Jim's 1/72 Hawker Hurricane. 

Kit's contribution to the WhatIf Forum's Group Build entitled 'In the Navy'.

This is a Fairey Barracuda with its Merlin engine replaced by a Hercules radial, and a Blackburn Roc turret installed at the rear of the canopy, this to dissuade Japanese fighters from getting up close. Modelled the Barracuda with both spread and folded wings (both types can be plugged into the fuselage) with the aid of some nice PE & resin bitsf from Airwaves to do all the wing fold stuff. 

The second of Kit's 'In the Navy' group

Aeronavale Mirage F1P, a photo-reconnaissance navalised version of the standard Mirage F1B.

The third of Kit's 'In the Navy' group

The even more unlikely, a 2 seater trainer version of the Vought XF5U-1 'Flying Pancake'. The real thing never did fly, but this version has turboprops and 2 seats and a VERY Hi-Viz colour scheme! This one is a competition winner well done kit!

Alan's completed F9F Panther

Alan's completed Mosquito

Vince's Welsh Models, 1/144 Vickers Varisty T1.  

This is a resin kit with metal undercarriage and propellers. Vince is concerned tha it looks too factory fresh. Looks pretty good to me!

Kit's Gloster Lance FAW3.

Kit has finished his one week build of a conventional version of the Javelin, mainly because the Air Ministry weren't sure about delta wings so asked Gloster to make a straight winged version.  This one is a competition winner too!

Kit's completed Canberra F10

As you can see it's pretty heavily armed, two Firestreaks in  each wingtip pod, two HUGE Red Deans on the underwing pylons and if all else fails, two nuclear Genies on extendible racks in the bomb bay! It's assigned to 34 Sqdn. at Binbrook as a long endurance interceptor, and can also guide Javelins and Lightnings onto targets with its large AI18 radar set.

Kit's Jet Provost T6.

A delta winged trainer for intended Vulcan pilots. Avro really did design a trainer for that exact task, the 707C, but found out it wasn't needed as the Vulcan was dead easy to land. But in Kit's world it was a pig, and needed a specialised trainer, thus the JP6. It's made from an Airfix JP5 fuselage with the wings from an ancient FROG FD2, with some leading edge extensions so it looks more Vulcan-like. It has the complete FD2 landing gear as nothing else will fit, and is finished in a scheme for 230 OCU, which was the real world unit at Waddington that trained Vulcan pilots. Just for whimsy it has a dummy radome painted on the nose too

Kit's DH Venom T5 trainer

Which the RAF somehow never seemed to buy, but that's maybe because De Havilland didn't actually build it.  It's 23 Sqdn too, Kit does seem to have a thing about them.

Kit's current theme is 'Prototypes' 

Here is the prototype Meteor PR19. That was the one with only the standard Derwent engines but a Lockheed supplied set of U-2 wings and tail, and flown under a B Condition reggie as it was a private venture at the time. 

Kit's final build this month is a Defiant IV, 

A short run tank busting version with two 40 mm cannon like the Hurricane IId, but with an air cooled Napier Epee engine, which was a larger Dagger. It also had twin 0.5" guns in the turret to handle any soft skinned vehicles. 

Here we have Kit's WhatIf Forum 'Prototypes' Group Build. He has finished his Avro Leeds. Mixing vacform and injection models didn't work as well he'd like. He says the flying surface joints to the fuselage are pretty fragile, even with the hefty spar that FROG give you with their original Shackleton kit, so the Leeds will need careful transport in future.

Finished  as private venture prototype in Avro colours and a B Condition reggie again, like the PR19 prototype he showed last time. The biggest problem was the AIM vacform windscreen for the York was MILES too narrow, so he has modified the Shackleton canopy to fit and had to taper the forward end of the York fuselage with lots of PSR. (Putty, Sand, Repeat...)

Jim has provided us some of his late friends' work i.e. USS Hornet with B25s ahead of Dolittle raid on Tokyo. Sadly it has taken a bit of a battering in various moves and is in need of a bit of TLC.

Ace's Revell re-release of the Ta-152

Ace is polishing off some old models that need some TLC. The undercarriage is so embarrassing he has deceided to put the wheels up. He has mixed up a colour that any sane person might call 'braunviolett' (assuming that they were German, of course) and stuck with it. This really rather poor kit is pretty much redeemed by a stupendously good sheet of decals, and the drawing in the instructions is about five times as accurate as the kit. For a late-war aircraft this model has turned out to be flamboyantly colourful. It's going to be competed in an action pose, maybe without the propeller.

Ace's other model is a response to the problem of what you might do with a disappointing Trumpeter Lightning. 

It has received about four coats of white undercoat on it when it should have had about ten, his words. Modelled as a what-if, the conversion of RAF fighters into target drones (by Flight Refuelling Ltd In Llanbedr) shut up shop before they got round to the Lightning, so this is a representation of how it may have looked.