1/72 Revell: Supermarine Walrus MKI

Derby City Model Club Collection 19th April 2012


This is a Revell 1/72 Supermarine Walrus MKI 'French navy' built for a Model Club Collection.

The kit quality was good and construction simple...until it came to adding the top wing!. This took several attempts and plenty of masking tape. If you look closely, it is not lined up exactly, but I had had enough and it as good as I could get.

The painting was simple as it is all aluminium. I sprayed it and it has come out well. I vanished this model and it has created a good finish. I need to add the wire supports at some stage before the competition and the guns. but that can wait.

1/72 Airfix: Grumman J4F-1 Widgeon V203 of United States Coast Guard

Derby City Model Club Collection 19th April 2012

This is a Airfix 1/72 model built for a Model Club collection. The Kit is a new Airfix design and is of good quality. I built it with ease and tried to take extra care of the details by using filler. I used wall filler, and it hasnt turned out very well - a lesson for thefuture. The painting was fairly simple. Silver and a yellow wing. I airbrushed the silver, but manually painted the yellow and it hasnt turned out very well.

Overall this is below the standard I am aiming for, but it is the first plane I have built for many years

HMS Victory

Diorama -'Desert Outpost'

This is a diorama built for a competition in the Model Club. It is a Revell 1/35 kit of a Volkswagen Kübelwagen with 2 soldiers.

Building the kit was very simple and painting it was an ease. There were no colour codes in the instructions, so I have painted by eye and it has come out well. The base was made simply using styrofoam covered in wall filler then sand. The tent was covered with old material to give a more realistic look.

I am please with this diorama, there are a few mistakes an some touching up needed, but it has turned out to be one of the best models I have done.

Diorama 4:'broken down'

Used:

ModelArt Street

w/ruined house

Tamiya Panzerkampfwagen III

Tamiya German Tank crew at rest

Tamiya German machine gun crew on manoeuvre

The story behind this diorama is that there is an army on manoeuvres or retreating through a town east of Germany. The Panzer has broken its tracks and so is on the side of the road. The Tank crew are unable to fix it and are sitting around the tank watching the infantry soldiers walking by. There is an annoyed tank member in the background shouting at one of the soldiers walking by.

This is the first 1/35 scale Diorama I have done. The base was fairly simple to construct using the vacuumed formed ModelArt kit. It took plenty of glue, filler and masking tape to make the ruined building, but it has turned out well. I painted it with a range of colours including oil paint rubbed off with a towel. The look is great and I am especially pleased with the brick work. I changed the green as shown on the box to yellow.

The Tank was built as per the instructions. I painted the base and turret first before adding the accessories. I added some extra accessories including a few sandbags, which were used to defend against shell impact, some netting wrapped around the turret, which looks like camouflage being transported. The barbed wire was made using thin wire with knots wrapped around in intervals. It is curled up as if being transported. The Tank commander that came in the box has been replaced with one form the Tank crew selection who looks to be in a more relaxed pose.

The figures were constructed and painted as per the standard instructions. I added some brown paint to the lower parts of the uniforms to show dirty and experienced soldiers.

Rubble has been added including a few spare weapons and shells I had in stock. The wooden beams were made from coffee stirrers soaked in black paint then dried.

I am pleased with the outcome of this diorama. It has an interesting Tank and several people, and is telling a story. I need to improve the faces of people as these were hard to do and could be better.

Tamiya - 3.7cm Anti-Tank Gun 1/35

This is my first attempt at 1/35 soldiers. I had plans to add this anti-tank weapon to a diorama with some machine gunners and an Ukrainian town house. however, I don't think the quality of finish is good enough for the diorama I have in mind. With more practise, the quality should improve, so for now this gun is ok on a bit of cardboard.

Revell - Krupp Protze Kfz 70 w/3,7 Pak 1/76

Here is a small model I have done which I hope to add to a diorama in the future. It is not weathered yet, but is done to a good finish as per the instructions. I changed the colour of the tyres to add some contrast. I have a sitting soldier to add to the back of the truck at some point.