Kampfgruppe144 BBS

I found this whilst looking at dispersal huts earlier today (honest)

DC-3s (obviously)
B-24 Liberators
Fairy Battle,
Martin Mariner seaplane (towards the bottom of thread)

even some tenuous De Havilland Wood

Well, Lex asked if members would do a separate thread showing their modelling environment, stash, etc. So, here goes with mine.

When my wife and I went separate ways last November, I looked for suitable accommodation that would be secure, within striking distance of work yet...

I am canvasing for opinion here. I am planning on building the Hasegawa/Frog 1/450 kit of HMS Vanguard (Britains last battleship) as she might have looked after a mid life refit if she had not been scrapped in the 60s. I have two ideas (cribbed from some artwork I found on...

I did not know there was another aircraft with stacked jet engines.

Creation Chaubet has a 1/144 metal offering:

Wikipedia link for more info and specs:

A old kit reboxed and re released by Hobby 2000, Here it is so far .... Building a Rabaul Based Night fighter. IJN green over IJN grey green.

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Just done the undersides in a combo of Tamiya IJN grey green and Gunze IJN grey green with some Gunze mixed with off...

Hello fellow Modelers!

Adding onto my 1/48th scale Jolly Rogers 320th BS / 90th BG themed builds (in honor of my grandfather who served in the 320th) I decided to build another aircraft that was used in the squadron. A Piper L-4 Cub known as Moby Dick Jr. .

I had already built...

the A60 is a nice-looking aircraft. Is it me or does the rear fuselage profile have a resemblance to the P-51?
the A50 is also a nice-looking retro frame (styling based upon a 1929 A50 )
the JU-52 NG, looks like a Baby JU-52 or W-35/Ju-52 love child?

Turns out there is...

As this year arrived to it's end it's time for rewiew what was done.
In fact this year not too mutch done but I am very satisfied.
Four intruders , AFV in 72 .
Three planes in 144, and maybe best part of this year production .
Maybe the highlight is for Tu141, I am satisfied how...

As a distraction from the standard aircraft and my other interests in warships, I occasionally muck about with 28mm SF gaming figures. Rather than Games Workshop, I have been getting some figures from Wargames Atlantic's Death Fields game. Briefly this has human troops from...

well, here we are 15 minutes into 2023.
but, wherever you are, Happy New year 8-)

Light AA jugoslav gun made on license of HS 803 .
Also mounted on light armoured vehicle BOV-3
Model is in 3D print.
Although is 1/72 it's dimensions are as usual in our core scale.

How long before Dragon/DML produce a kit of this ??

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If you want to split a modeling audience mention German wonder weapons. If you want to split the group further mention Nazi UFOs

Haunebu I & II & III in 1/350th by Takom

41mm, 92mm and 203mm

December 2022

OK so I have been building 1/700 ships and, mainly, submarines, for a few years and had picked up a few of Pit Road's aircraft and accessory sets along with some of the more unusual types such as the MTB/PT/S Boat sets, U Boat Base, LSM, LCI, LCT & LCT(R) set etc.

I hadnt...

...and a Happy New Year!!!

always disappointing to look through old threads and see
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And then there are the old laptops, that wont boot up anymore - just need to fix the cover open switch - or something... :cry:

Three cheers for BD99 and KG144, everything I have uploaded here is...

New coming out of an F-35B crash while landing. The pilot appears to have ejected OK. Was making a vertical landing but bounced on contact then came down on its nose wheel which snapped before the entire plane pancaked.

I always liked the space freighter in the Silent Running sci-fi movie (1972).

One of my favorite internet searches is the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) website for a movie/TV show triva section.
Came across this:
The model of the Valley Forge space freighter was 26 feet...

Got an early Xmas gift from a friend who knows I like 1/144 aircraft. They thought they had struck gold. Four AV-8B Harriers in one box...

Ooops

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Note the scale! Note the size of the box.

Note the size of the contents........

Like it says, I am trying to find US Style police car light bars in 1/64 to customize HotWheel and Matchbox type toy cars. Intended as an Xmas item for a friend who is into a table top game called Gaslands....

I have found some from a US seller at a decent £4.00 but the postage...

A small deviation from a serious standard ... And almost regrettable.
Trumpeter's model with light and dark sides, rockets are snap fit, terrible connections, transporter body has few parts but very nice, fine and clean details.
The tracks are very well detailed but... one is in...