Major manufacturers have always relied upon injection-moulding to produce model kits. The downside is that the moulds are expensive to produce and so these manufacturers have tended to be conservative in developing their ranges. Starting in 1969, smaller companies like RAREplanes, Contrail and Airmodel employed vacuforming to produce kits with much less capital outlay. The result? Models of types never imagined from any of the major manufacturers. Since those days, we’ve seen the growth of other technologies and materials, including resin, white metal, paper/card and, most recently, 3D-printing. This GB celebrates all these “non-injected” options and includes scratchbuilding.
Runs from 14 January to 31 December 2021.
Convair XP6Y-1 (which should really be called Pelican)
Anigrand kit, some injected plastic parts from the spares drawer here and there, but otherwise out of the box.
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Hawker Sea Hawk Mk 101
West German Navy, Marinefliegergeschwader (MFG) 2, Eggebek, late '50s
Miniwings
Either of the topics that were voted upon for this Group Build were fine by me, although it is fair to say I have a lot more kit options now the topic is known. Apart from the AeroClub Dragon Rapide I bought from McYellowbelly last year, there's...
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Have at it, I say.
If there's one thing a GB is good for it's for nudging us to do things we might otherwise set aside for another day.
While I'm here, I just want to say I was browsing through on my way to get lunch and was struck by what an impressive and diverse line-up...
No injection - well this scene had cardboard, whitemetal and fabric. Not sure about the scale, the buildings are 1/148, the figures are a mix of 15mm wargame, 1/160 and 1/72... so I guess it might average out to 1/144!
I do love the Arrowhead whitemetal vehicle range, great...
With the Firefox well ahead, I have come up with an idea for the other kit in the box. This is the XF-92 masquerading as a MiG-23 for the 1957 film Jet Pilot although in the end the footage with it wasn't used.
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For starters, the kit (or at least my boxing)...
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Thanks Smeg. I'm very clear on the finish: natural metal ;) !
In all cases, I'm not coming at it from the German angle. It's a Convair F-92A in JASDF markings - ideal to fight Godzilla :lol: !
I'm going to make a second placeholder since this is a year-long GB. Something completely different from my usual. It's the MiG-31 Firefox , the advanced stealth fighter that Clint Eastwood's character steals from the Soviet Union in the film Firefox . I was really...
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That's one snazzy looking beastie. Great progress, Miguel. :D
Just realized, I don't even have anything started in this GB! So hereby at least I commit myself! :D
Watching all the beautiful builds around - very inspiring! Yet I wanted to do something not yet covered in this GB.
So I dug out the Miniwing Sea Hawk still waiting to join the...
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I can't believe I had missed this one before. It's fantastic. I love the display. 😊
Roberto’s beautiful work with the Altaya/IXO aircraft is a great reminder that even diecasts can serve as the basis for repaints and conversions. True, with even the former, there’s some ground work involved, with the minimum requirement being to fill those cavernous voids...
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Problems with cloudy Humbrol varnish seem to be a daily comment on the Airfix Facebook groups. I think they are quite sensitive to climactic conditions.
My wife had a couple of matt varnish sprays go bad from Humbrol cans, but fortunately she's an armour modeller so can hide...
As I mentioned in the GB14 General Discussion, I am spoilt for choice with an overly large number of resin kits in my stash. Based on past experience, the Anigrand, FE-Resin/Miniwing and later Peter’s Planes’ castings are likely to go together in a relatively straightforward...
This will be an attempt to do a Supermarine S.5, one of the Schneider Trophy winners from the Venice race in 1927. Alas, there aren't any kits of it out there so I'll be making it out of plastic card. It's a tricky shape but hopefully by...
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Thanks for that link! I hadn't seen that one while trawling for images.
It's sad that none of the S.5 aircraft survived. Apparently one did survive well into the 30s in a fairly derelict state. The engine was removed and the airframe sat outside a British petrol station with a...
OK, I'm overdoing it. This is my third placeholder and I haven't started anything in the Group Build yet. The first project of the year (Italeri 1:72 F-104A) has been dragging along but the end is finally in sight. Hopefully just a week more tops.
I'm sure you all heard about Beacon Models and their interesting project for new plastic kits productions. I'm very excited about this, especially for the Spitfire Mk.1 that need a model in our scale conformed to the actual quality standard.
With the Lightning nearly finished my next project is the Air Wing of HMS Eagle in the 1960's. Five models, two resins, two vac forms and a conversion of a vac form............................................
Of course Angus will have this lot ready by the end of February,....
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This goes beyond hairy chested. This is the full silverback gorilla! 😎
I will start the GB building this pair of V-1s from Owl.
One as a German flying bomb and the other as an American JB-2 Loon
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I think they will look nice next to my Space related models.
I am a little afraid of the transport trailer as it seems very...
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This weekend I managed to make a 3D model of the JB-2 trolley. As I tried to find references I realized there are, in fact, different types of carts.
There is this one, which seems to be used to launch the Loon from rails on the ground:
This will be a place holder for now, but sometime in the future I'll get back to this one as I have a number of review models to finish (only one that is 1/144, though). As I posted in the Group Discussion forum, this one was dropped while I was moving and I only discovered it...
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Those juicy thick FE-Resin/MiniWing resin gates again. Deep breath before cutting ... ;)
So here we go, three topics in one model. Its the 144th.co.uk Lightning T4 to be finished in 92 squadron markings and here are the obligatory out of the box bits pix.....
With some of the wondrous work going on in this thread, can we be sure you are not using the Brengun spanners and hacksaw to actually build your Lightnings? ;)
Tons of older stuff in the stash and my first on this group build is the relatively new Kokusai Ta-Go. Not a lot to it, my biggest gripe is while Brengun molded the tail pieces with the connecting points NOT connected to the pour blocks, the wings - on the other hand - are...
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Interesting model Matt, it looks like a kid's drawing.
David
I'm nearly there on the massive Convair seaplane so I thought I might make a gentle start on the next 'Anything but injected' build while the last pieces fall into place. Something smaller this time...
As many here know, Anigrand provides four kits in each box. There is the...
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Talk about an ugly duckling :lol:! Definitely not my cup of tea but interested to see how it comes out and, while we're at it, how you deal with the struts.
Disclaimer: this will not be a very exciting pair of builds!
Back in the mists of time we had a Cold War GB on here. Back then I had a very limited mancave and little spare time so I resolved to build because it was easy and I was just really getting into photographing...
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Thanks Smeg! Goodness me that Swordfish crew must have had balls of steel with those big 12 inch naval guns opening up on her no matter how much line you'd paid out to separate you from the drogue!
Well now done. Some final pictures in decent light.
As I regularly build resin things anyway (around half my output last year was resin), I want to use this GB to force me to build big resin things. Or particularly difficult resin things. I think I'll have a crack at this. Anigrand's latest typically niche release:...
From Glehn -
T-27 tucano
A-29 super tucano
A-1 M amx
Still have to make a Emb-326 Xavante.(delayed due decals.. always ..)
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Luis, your Winjeel has arrived in my stash and I can concur that your 3D-prints are definitely worth paying for the FUD quality (or whatever Shapeways calls it now). Lovely model. I will definitely take a leaf out of Roberto's book and do a plunge-mould of the canopy. And if my...
This will be my first group build.
Anything not injected sounds like a fine reason for something not very common in this scale, an Autogyro!
A year is about right for me as my builds can be agonisingly slow.
At the end of last year I did a bit of practice with 3D modelling and...
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I am from Brazil but I moved to Germany 2 years ago. I live in Donauwörth, Bavaria.
This is a altaya die cast do-217 with a new nose/canopy made by Peter hawkins and a resin wing 144 kit of Lippisch P13A
I had some problems with primer/thinner/paint in do-217(due metal I had changed the primer)
But since the Lippisch cover the area.. is camouflaged
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Concur with that last comment. Altaya/IXO releases are often at least half plastic which not only improves the detail and makes them easier to modify, it also makes the models considerably lighter (thinking about international postage here). Whilst some filling here and there is...
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