Quote from: Old Wombat on December 07, 2023, 04:50:30 AMSome of you may remember that I already have Cora from Sol Model in both topless & clad forms, young Ev is going to be included with the corresponding Cora in suitable dioramas.

Lovely sculpting    It's always been the eyes that frighten me on larger scale figures. They can make or break the finished product.

Received from Special Hobby today

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72217 Blackburn Skua Mk.II "Silver Wings"
1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72360 A.W. Meteor NF Mk.12

Both bought through one of their Weekly deals so includeing P&P was 34.41€

Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on December 08, 2023, 06:31:38 AMReceived from Special Hobby today

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72217 Blackburn Skua Mk.II "Silver Wings"

Gondor

Has to be an easier build than the Pavla kit, but that isn't saying to much as I gave up with the Pavla one and the Wookster took it off my hands 

Quote from: NARSES2 on December 08, 2023, 06:36:18 AM

Quote from: Gondor on December 08, 2023, 06:31:38 AMReceived from Special Hobby today

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72217 Blackburn Skua Mk.II "Silver Wings"

Gondor

Has to be an easier build than the Pavla kit, but that isn't saying to much as I gave up with the Pavla one and the Wookster took it off my hands 

Just checked Scalemates, it's a completely different kit. Looks like a decent model through the bag, though the engine will be a bit of a challenge with al the exhausts from each cylinder to the collector ring 

Gondor

Quote from: NARSES2 on December 08, 2023, 06:21:22 AMThinking about it, my Ontos was probably the Renwall kit and I built the Skysweeper as well. We obviously grew up in the same era Kit 

I can remember the Aeroskin models, but never had the courage to tackle one.

We sure did. 

I built the largest of the Aeroskins, exactly because it WAS the largest, and that was the Bristol F2B. Although I say it myself it came out rather well, but it needed VERY careful handling during the covering phase!

I wouldn't mind trying another one, but I bet they cost a fortune on the 2nd hand market these days!

Quote from: Gondor on December 08, 2023, 07:02:38 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on December 08, 2023, 06:36:18 AM

Quote from: Gondor on December 08, 2023, 06:31:38 AMReceived from Special Hobby today

1 x 1/72 Special Hobby SH 72217 Blackburn Skua Mk.II "Silver Wings"

Gondor

Has to be an easier build than the Pavla kit, but that isn't saying to much as I gave up with the Pavla one and the Wookster took it off my hands 

Just checked Scalemates, it's a completely different kit. Looks like a decent model through the bag, though the engine will be a bit of a challenge with al the exhausts from each cylinder to the collector ring 

Gondor

Very definitely a different kit, I have a pair of the SH ones tucked away and IIRC one is started.
I do have a mould for a Perseus cowl, so I may shortcut the whole assembling it nonsense.

Rescued from my local Royal Mail sorting office and purchased from eBay just after the doors opened at 8am

1 x 1/35 AFV Club AF35405 British Tank Destroyer FV4005 Stage II

and from the normal royal mail delivery

2 x 1/72 from jscotterill, 3D printed TSR.2 Crew ladder sets

Gondor

It's not very often my model stash grows. But it sure did today. 
Got a bunch of models today at my local model club meeting and Christmas Gift Exchange. 
For starters, a member decided he didn't want a Gundam robot model kit that he had won in last month's club raffle. So he asked if I wanted it and I said Sure. Gundam kits aren't that difficult to build. Sure, the instructions may be all in Japanese, but if you study the pictures very carefully, they're not that hard to put together.
For the club's Christmas gift exchange, I was at first undecided which present to pick. But ultimately decided on the biggest one there was in red type wrapping paper at the bottom of the pile.  To say I was in for a surprise when I opened it would be an understatement. Inside the large box was not one kit, but THREE. How the hell did I get three when it really should have only been one? From what I heard from another club member, there's another longtime member who is no longer able to build and paint models due to a debilitating condition in his hands that he has had for a long time, therefore, this member most likely is getting rid of models from his kit stash. So instead of wrapping one gift, he probably wanted to thin his stash a bit faster and put three models in a large box instead and wrap up the whole box as one big present.
So I ended up getting a British scout car, a Nantucket ship, and a Sherman tank kit. Not sure what I'll do with all the kits or if I'll end up building any of them. Only time will tell.

Heads.
Delivered from BNA.

Heads by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

German, DAK, British tank crew in berets, and Italian.  The DAK set gives me a couple of pith helmets for my "Professor Challenger Lost World" dio which will also get some of the goggled heads all the sets have.  Other heads will become Hydra heads for my Pz4.
The Legend German set will possibly not get used with the others as the heads appear obviously undersized.  Pinheads - appropriAte for nazis...

Just heads? 

What do you do for the bodies?

There are LOTS of 1/35 figures in both styrene & resin, most of them come with separate heads, one simply swaps the kit head for the aftermarket head desired.

Many of the figures I build are Frankenstein-builds of bits from several figures melded together to achieve the look & posture I want.

Ah right, thanks. You can tell how much I DON'T know about that scale.................

Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 10, 2023, 04:52:58 AMJust heads? 

What do you do for the bodies?

Unmarked graves dios?  Mme. Guillotine dios? 

FJ43 "SUV"?

Quote from: seadude on December 09, 2023, 05:38:33 PM

Got a model of Titanic you can relabel as Olympic for a foggy dio?