To celebrate the Centenary of the Royal Air Force, welcome to our first year-long Group Build. With the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918, the RAF is the oldest air force on the planet, so there is plenty of scope in the Build. Anything RAF-related goes … aircraft, vehicles, boats, personnel, you name it.
Runs from 1 January to 31 December 2018.
What do people think to the idea of informal mini-GBs within this to give it some structure - say Battle of Britain between August and October 2018. Will that kill the fun or sustain the momentum? I don’t know. Just a thought. My only fear is that a yearlong GB might peter...
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If everyone is in agreement, I will lock the GB8 forum later this week. Should provide enough time if anyone wants to make any last minute comments.
here's some of my previously built RAF models in 1/144 8-)
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Definitely hours of viewing pleasure. Indeed, if there's anyone on the forum that hasn't visited Merlin's Modelling Man Cave yet, I urge you to do so. Even though he often transgresses into, cough, splutter, larger scales, it's a lot of fun surfing through his ginormous...
I was going through some issues of Air International dating back to the mid-1970’s when I came across a series of articles entitled “Viewed from the Cockpit”, most of which were written by the late whom I know a couple of forum members met prior to his passing in 2016 aged 97....
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Nice piece of research there, Smeg.
I needed a new compass cutter and, to fill out the packaging, I decided I 'needed' a Bren Gun Komet War Prizes ...
Grumman Goose - F-Toys and Airalex
Short S23 Empire C - Welsh Models. Impressed into RAF service during WW2. Also some converted to S23M with gun ports.
Mike
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Just FAA. 100 were ordered, not sure how many saw active service. Perhaps some enterprising manufacturer may add a Stranraer or Singapore during the course of 2018? Oh, and here's one that not many would have thought of ...
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With a truckload on my plate work-wise coming up to Christmas, Annoying Orange Hurricane was going to be my last hurrah in the RAF GB. However, as I wrote in , I promised something with invasion stripes before the GB was done. So I have committed to one final build in honour of...
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Ah fear not Smeg - my Hurricane will join you on the dreaded shelf!
This has been such a fantastic group build. Everybody has done an amazing job, and the variety and quantity of completed works has been an inspiration.
Just before the sun sets on this GB and the section becomes closed forever, I thought it might be nice if we could share our...
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As you will see from my final post in the Revell Hawker Tempest, I was stymied on the decal front again. Hopefully unlike some of its GB predecessors, this beastie won't reside long on the Shelf of Shame. Otherwise, nothing pending, which is definitely a change from some...
Like some others on the forum I am drawn to the irresistible siren call of 144th's new series of EE Lightnings. I also am the proud owner of one each of their Meteor NF.11, NF 12, NF.14 and NF.12 Hybrid kits (for complete-ists, you can also make an NF.13 easily, by the way -...
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Somehow I missed this. A lovely job as usual Angus. I'll be getting one of these soon hopefully plus those Lightnings...
Some of you may remember this from a few years ago: :evil:
Without sugar coating it too much, it is fair to say that Zvezda's Fairey Battle is a bastard of a kit. It's horrible. You could assemble it out of the box in less time than it took for the original toolmaker to give a...
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Dribble worthy. Truly amazing work and all the more masterful to have seen this emerge from the zvezda kit throughout the thread. Wow.
As promised; I'm starting a Hawker Tempest build for this GB,
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The kit is an old Mini Hobby Models that i found on ebay, it looks like an old trumpeter tooling,you're greeted with one sprue and lots of flash :?
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So as...
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Well done that man. It looks so much better for that hard work.
David
One of the side-effects of having family spread through several different countries is that I'm always meeting new relatives.
This Christmas I got to meet my 6 year old grand-nephew for the first time. I was just as horrified as you might be, dear reader, to learn that his...
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My step sons, age 61, 41 and 38 regard my hobby as just a little eccentric habit. We've all been to airshows over the years but they have never resorted to building aircraft. Our grand children might be an option, maybe a Peppa Pig Spifire for Charlotte, age 3, and a tractor for...
As we approach the end of the GB and the A330 is taking a long time I think I have just got enough time to rescue my A model Lancaster that got squished in our move 3 years ago. So with your permission here are the bits as they came out of the packing.
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Well spotted Angus. I bought it at the southern expo about twenty years ago. The parts were covered in tiny holes and it fought me every step of the way. I'm not sure about its accuracy but it catches the look. One of my favourite models.
David
I have just been looking through all the contributions to this group build, both finished or underway and I'm a bit shocked at the lack of helicopters so far. Therefore I have decided my next few contributions (two with luck!) will be helicopters. First off will be a nice red...
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Nice work, good to see a Wessex finished and with such a good result. Small, judicious additions and the effect is way beyond the box.
I have spend some time looking at the rotor head figuring out how to do etch part to replace it, but so far failed to think anything that would...
This is a bit of a sneaky one. I've been pecking away at it all year and only stalled when it came time to do the instrument panel. I hate doing those!
Eventually though as a couple of the other GB projects were slowing down due to extreme fiddlyness, I decided to pick up the...
With November here and the other models I’ve started during GB8 either finished or just awaiting Mark I decals, I’m going to commit myself to one last build. Supreme optimist or total idiot, you decide. There’s still several RAF aircraft I could do without resorting to any...
Well, I know I have been fairly quiet lately but I have been watching what goes on 8-) !
Anyway, as a means to getting my mojo back and finishing my 7/8 completed cutaway Beaufighter I have decided to make a RAF airfield to use as a display base for photographing my models...
Inspired by David's excellent as much as the box itself arriving. I agree with Merlin that the nose is off (have a look at some of the completed build photos on the and decide for yourself though) so I've set about trying to remedy...
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I must be getting smaller. That looks like 1/48 scale to me!
As soon as the captured Fw190A-3 was squared away, I pondered my next move on Messrs Hurricane (since finished), Harvard and Vickers 432, all sitting idly awaiting some curvy masking action. However, at the time I was suffering CMAS (Curvy Masking Avoidance Syndrome). I did...
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Nice one Smeg!! I like that scheme and it came out really well. Congratulations!
Here's my second project for the RAF Centenary GB, The Bristol Blenheim Mk I
I'm beginning to realise that I have a bit of a thing for ill-fated British aircraft. Not sure what that's all about, but top of the list has been the dear old Blenny for as long as I can remember....
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Thanks very much for the offer! I'll see how I go with the latest version of the pieces I've moulded. If they turn out to be a bust I may need to come calling. :oops:
I am now settled in my new abode and have transferred around 90% of my collection to their new home, so I'm quietly confident I can finally resume GB construction duties. Indeed, the workbench has already seen action with minor repairs made to models damaged in transit (a...
A week out from the start of the RAF’s big 100-year birthday bash, I have chosen my first cab off the rank for 2018, the Vickers Type 432. Designed to meet a number of Air Ministry requirements that changed several times between 1939 and 1941, Vickers built a single prototype of...
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