On models, whisky and other important things in life

[TomZ]

Oh Tom, what a coincidence. Via my girlfriend I heard a Dutch pop-up restaurant "de Maaltuinen" is doing a diner inspired by Laphroaig for Fathersday.

Nice, but have you seen what it costs? There'd better be two whole bottles of Laphroaig in that meal!

TomZ

[TomZ]

I'm looking forward to that Tom, is there, or will there be a build thread for it? I have one of those kits too, and have read awful reports of it's quality too.

No build thread I'm afraid. Probably would have been full of bleeps anyway if I would have to comment during the build.
It's a typical Airfix kit from their disaster years. Bad fit, bad molding, very low on details, thick plastic. And like I said a lot of ejection marks.
It would have had a functioning drop not, if you can get the parts to fit, but then if you drop the nose, you are looking into a void in the forward fuselage.

But it is big! It's almost finished but I haven't got a clue where to put it once it
White is almost done, now the engine nacelles in metalic and then the decals. Made my own custom KLM decals for it.
And I have to fill all cabin windows with clearfix. No cabin windows in the kit.

TomZ

[PR19_Kit]

Thanks for the 'review' Tom, it sounds as bad as I feared!

I've got a whole load of upgrade bits for it, but I doubt they'll cover ejection marks! I'll dig it out when I get home the week after next and see if mines as bad as yours.

[Captain Canada]

What an excellent blog ! Glad I checked in. So many cool builds going on here, For sure, love the Lion ! Where did the 350 scale Princess come from ? And your whiskey selection looks amazing.

[TomZ]

What an excellent blog ! Glad I checked in. So many cool builds going on here, For sure, love the Lion ! Where did the 350 scale Princess come from ? And your whiskey selection looks amazing.

Thank you!

The Princess is from AMG: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/amg-350-302-saunders-roe-sr45--1250362


TomZ

[TomZ]

I thought I'd share a picture of my Bf-109 assembly line.
These are the foreign 109s currently in the decalling stage:



In the picture are:

Romania - 1952
Argentina - 1946
Sweden - 1945
Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force - 1945
Yugoslavia - 1941
Kingdom of Bavaria -1936
Switzerland - 1946
Hungary - 1940
Austria - 1936

TomZ

[NARSES2]

Particularly like the Kingdom of Bavaria 109 Tom, or more likely the thought re the Austro-Prussian War that's now forming in my brain   

[TomZ]

Here is the Bavarian one in close-up.
Almost finished now....

Of course it is not a Bf-109E but a Messerschmitt M-38e.   



TomZ

[NARSES2]

That's looking really good Tom  and of course Messerschmitt were a Bavarian based company. 

[TomZ]

Mrs Z and I are on our holiday in Scotland at the moment so no modelling this week and next.
But I thought I'd send you a picture of the progress of the 109 collection.
A lot of the models are decalled and have their final semi-gloss coat.
They are now waiting for wheels and props.



Sorry for the bad quality photo but it's all I have at the moment.

Not much happening on the whisky side these two weeks either. Although I'm in Scotland, the prices here are between 1,5 and 2 times higher than in Holland so I'm abstaining at the moment. They say that's good for your liver.......

TomZ

[kitbasher]

Which Bf109 variants are the ones in the bottom right corner, Tom? 😉

[TomZ]

Which Bf109 variants are the ones in the bottom right corner, Tom? 😉

Bf-109 NT       

Just a glimpse of my F-16 project of what-if F-16s

TomZ

[NARSES2]

Have a good time Tom, hope the weather improves for you.

Not much happening on the whisky side these two weeks either. Although I'm in Scotland, the prices here are between 1,5 and 2 times higher than in Holland so I'm abstaining at the moment. They say that's good for your liver.......

TomZ

Shows you the amount of duty our Government (of any colour) charges us on all our spirits.