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29-10-2007, 12:02 AM
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You're Top Poster: #10   | my 8-year old made this Hurricane With a just a bit of help from me, this is my 8-year olds work. Well, quite a lot of help from me actually. But she did show an interest. I didn't need to force her, she knew I would feed her if she helped me  Seriously, my two girls had seen the models that I make (very slowly - and not WW2 at present) and wanted a go. Call it gender stereotyping, but I doubted their commitment, however I decided it was fair to give them a chance. So last Christmas I bought the Revell models of a Spitfire and a Hurricane. Jennifer (now eleven) lost interest in the Spitfire about half-way through, but Alice (now eight) carried on and we finished the Hurricane about a couple of months ago. The model is the Revell 1/72 scale Mark IIc, finished according to the kit paint scheme as KZ136 of 336 (Greek) sqdn, Egypt 1944 (so presumably a squadron in reserve). I am dubious as to whether the undersides were really as bright a blue as this. And there is one error (that I know of), purely due to me being over-confident and not checking the instructions - anyone see what it is? Adrian |
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29-10-2007, 01:19 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Looks great to me! Is it to do with the wheels?
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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29-10-2007, 01:50 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | That's excellent work Adrian. Congratulations to Alice for a job well done, and staying the course (and small pat on your back for, what I am sure, is only a little assistance  )As to any "mistakes", I can't se any except for the possible use of the underwing bombs instead of the drop-tanks, or that the exhausts are slightly darker than usual camo pattern. And you'd be amazed, Adrian, how pale and "bright" the undersurface was in real.
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. Last edited by Kyt; 29-10-2007 at 01:53 AM. Reason: forgot to answer the "mistake" question |
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29-10-2007, 04:11 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Love a good desert schemed Hurri! Nice one, Alice!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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29-10-2007, 10:55 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Nice piece of modelling! Shows the young girl has talent!
__________________ WWW.Warfaretoday.com HSL130 picking up the crew of a downed Halifax  Et tantis pretis constitutis plures Macropodidas in hae caupona minime videbis |
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29-10-2007, 06:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Go Alice! I made the Victory at age 12. then got bored with the rigging and it slowly sank. However there are several Airfix kits waiting the completion of uni. Looking forward to them. The only minor problem i can see, and its probably all down to angle, is that the wheel cover doesn't seem to cover the wheel, which appears to be alongside it. Sure that is just the angle.
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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30-10-2007, 12:55 AM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | As to mistakes - any of those mentioned could be true, but what I definitely did wrong was to interchange the inboard and outboard cannon. In reality, the outboard ones projected slightly further forward than the inner, and Revell faithfully allowed for this, but assumed the inner ones would be further forward because it "looked right", and went ahead accordingly. The other thing is that on WW2 models, you really need to replace the undercarriage doors with thin plastic card using the kit ones as patterns, because the scale thickness of the kit ones is about three inches! But I don't think Alice noticed, and if she was to continue with other kits, I would have to swallow my pride and let her make mistakes and not come up to my standards, but let it be far more her own work. |
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30-10-2007, 01:02 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Ahh, never noticed that Adrian. Still an excellent piece of work. However, I am of the opinion that children should never take up the hobbies of their parents because the dad's become like Harry Enfield's "Mr You-Don't-Want-To-Do-That"  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwk38srACrA
__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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30-10-2007, 01:23 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Great job from Alice and the overseer!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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30-10-2007, 07:27 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Lets face it, it was Adrian and the Overseer 
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell |
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