Dont be sad Carric, im not a master painter with my brushes but its still alot of fun and my fiancee always thinks i have done a good job so thats enough for me

on the building board at the moment is a 67" Bristol F2b, Peter Rake design, and short kit from Manzano lazerworks, going to go all out with this one regarding detailing, probably a 12month build.
i have a wing built up for a Hawker Tempest V from Ron Daniels as well, but that can sit there cause there are bipelanes to build! after the Bristol is done there should be a Heinkel He51 to build and prototype for Peter Rake, he has finally relented and agreed to draw one up for me after years of pestering
the Biff




my old pup floating along,


the Pfalz, now with about 20 great flights under her belt


Cheers Craig

Amazing! i hope you keep us updated with how the building is coming along. those in flight pictures is stunning!

Cheers mate, got plenty more and some vids here if your interested
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=195553

Craig

I didn't figure this would get a response! No pics yet. It's not my best effort, really - I'm still getting comfortable with my airbrush and I made the camo much too hard-edged. I used to enjoy flying the Iraqi MiG-21s in the old Strike Fighters Iran/Iraq War mod, so I decided to build one. Then the canopies got lost and delay, delay, delay-it's been forever. I do feel proud of the cockpit, as I added lots of cables and cut a resin cockpit tub down the middle to get in and do detailed painting-I think it looks nice, but the exterior paint job isn't the best. I have a slew of BoB planes I want to get to and I admit I just want to finish this up.

The standards...I have the Tamiya 109 and Spitfire, Eduard's 110, and a Hurricane by a company whose name escapes me, but they make snap-together models that build into actual good-looking planes for very little cash (Pegasus? Is that right?). I will do the Hurricane true justice with the Russian one I have (forget by who) when I build it. I have read good reviews of Italeri's new 1/48 Stuka, so I may end up getting that as well.

thanks for the kind words u r a gentleman SWE

Building, or attempting to build the following at the same time (not a good idea!)

Revell Red Arrows Hawk 1/32nd
Airfix Vulcan 1/72nd
2 x Airfix Nimrods ( 1 x MR.2P, 1 x R1 )
Airfix Baccaneer 1/48th
Airfix Concorde 1/72nd

I also have many many more in various states of construction that have been put back in boxes so I can concentrate on the bove ! which includes a 1/24th airfix spitfire, and the 1/24th Mossie

Atm I don't build anything but I'm waiting on my Hunting Percival Pembroke (Tp 83 in Swedish Air Force) and J 35J Draken in 1/72

Right now, im building the Wingnutz Se5.

When Im done with that Ive got 2 waiting kits waiting for me.

http://www.odinartcollectables.com/images/gulfhawk.jpg

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal6/5201-5300/gal5222_Cessna172_Mustafa/00.shtm

I built both of these as a kid and they were great kits, but I was in a rush to build them so I could play with them. So now Im building them and taking my time so I give them the justice they deserve. The gulfhawk, was cool because when you turned the prop, the wheels would go up. I never got it to work when I was a kid, so this time, Ill make it work.

The cessna was a very detailed kit with working lights and an electric motor. A very nicely detailed kit.

Rob