Kitbasher's blog: City slicker turned beach bum

[kitbasher]

[PR19_Kit]

Hmmm, 'LY'?

That'd be 541 Sqdn. or the Photo Recce Development Unit as it was called previously.

[kitbasher]

Hmmm, 'LY'?

That'd be 541 Sqdn. or the Photo Recce Development Unit as it was called previously.

1 PRU, 1941.

[PR19_Kit]

Hmmm, 'LY'?

That'd be 541 Sqdn. or the Photo Recce Development Unit as it was called previously.

1 PRU, 1941.

Benson or St. Eval?

[kitbasher]

Hmmm, 'LY'?

That'd be 541 Sqdn. or the Photo Recce Development Unit as it was called previously.

1 PRU, 1941.

Benson or St. Eval?

I think Benson

[The Wooksta!]

I'm calling Mosquito.

[kitbasher]

I'm calling Mosquito.

You're calling..........maybe right, maybe wrong.

[kitbasher]

OMG a build is complete!  First in about a year!!

More to follow over the weekend.

[kitbasher]

Old school Airfix Blenheim IV being progressed - loved it when I built one as a yoof, bloody awful kit by today's standards.  Still, it was cheap. 

So that's the Blenheim done (http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,44903.msg799752/topicseen.html#msg799752).  Third one I've built and never again.  The first time as a kid when stuff didn't matter, then 15 years ago in the middle of the GAFA whilst OHMS.  Did that in the Free French colours, actually quite enjoyed the build and left it in country (there is some foreign field that is forever....).  but this one.  A combination of not really being in the mood, work getting on top of me a bit, I don't know what, but after the initial burst of building I went off the boil.  Tried to work out what it was as the boxing was not different to the second effort.  Then I realised: the clear parts were awful and the masking was tedious beyond belief, not helped by the parts breakdown and poor fit.  Hey ho!

I swore never to make another Blenheim again, and then I was distracted by the recent Airfix Blenheim IV, which is unsurprisingly light years ahead of it's ancient forebear.  I look forward to building that.

Anyway, numerous part builds that are slowly making there way towards completion and I'll press on with these.  I do have a Cold War GB idea that'll be a newbuild but I do want to do it (if the measuring up makes it feasible).  And the Blenheim's got me thinking about my approach to whiffery: I'm happy chopping cheap old kits (Revell Flitzers excepted) but maybe after the current ongoing projects are done I need to be more discriminating in what I buy to whif and make more use of better, mor recent kits (not saying more accurate kits, just better produced its).

[kitbasher]

Yesterday's playtime in a Tilbury lock up:

[PR19_Kit]

WHAT'S all that about? 

It looks like de Havilland's reject line some time in the late 50s!

[Steel Penguin]

like wat Kit said, ?? spill the beans

[NARSES2]

Interesting photos, like the lads say ; more information needed

[kitbasher]

Modding this year's one week GB, throwing my hat in the ring with the RAF100 GB and failing miserably in meeting the Cold War GB deadline got me thinking about the eligibility of part builds in GBs.  So I'm not going to argue the pros, cons and any associated moral issues, rather pose a couple of questions:
• To what extent is an unstarded Hobbyboss (or similar) quick build kit any different to a partly built 'conventional' kit? 
• Could a Hobbyboss quickbuild be taken 'standing guidance' as to what constitues a part build in the GB context?
The role of GB moderators could be made easier if the 'Hobbyboss' metric is applied, but it would remain a guideline with moderators having the final say.

[Leading Observer]

Modding this year's one week GB, throwing my hat in the ring with the RAF100 GB and failing miserably in meeting the Cold War GB deadline got me thinking about the eligibility of part builds in GBs.  So I'm not going to argue the pros, cons and any associated moral issues, rather pose a couple of questions:
• To what extent is an unstarded Hobbyboss (or similar) quick build kit any different to a partly built 'conventional' kit? 
• Could a Hobbyboss quickbuild be taken 'standing guidance' as to what constitues a part build in the GB context?
The role of GB moderators could be made easier if the 'Hobbyboss' metric is applied, but it would remain a guideline with moderators having the final say.

IMHO any kit, quick build or not, which is unstarted, should be considered as OK. After all, some of the Hobbyboss kits probably contain as many parts as the early Airfix kits and can be useful fodder of whiffing