Sal and Simon Wow what speed both of your builds looking great. Simon good idea using wire rod for the wake that,s another little tip for the note book

Hi guys thanks for the positive comments

@ Simon, you little dio is looking good
Here is my up date, coat of gloss has been added

The insignia on the top of the wing got attacked by gremlins and has been repaired with paint
Needs a few pieces of clear and then it will be a wrap should get to that tomorrow

Really striking looking plane you have got yourself there sal great stuff first to finnish

That plane looks excellent! nice to see bright colours on that particluar type of aircraft! It really mkaes me want to break out my Catalina... but there's too much much other stuff to do.

.... very inspiring work though!

Cheers,
Guido

Hey guys thanks for the positive feedback, I had fun with this campaign and learned some new things as well. This was only the 2nd wingy Thingy that I have done since getting back into the hobby last year. I may have to do some more like a Catalina but like Simon said to may other things going on right now

While out on a day trip to the local beauty spot beach Seahouses near Holy island I was having a look around the RNLI boat house and got some photos unfortunatly the bigger Mersey class was not out and it was a bit cramped inside but did get a good shot of the inshore ribbed boat being launched for a call-out

A bit more progress. The base has been sprayed, as the scene is intended to be in the English Channel / North Sea I have used Tamiya TS68 Field Grey as a base.

The life raft has been cleaned up, attached to the base and painted a mix of yellow and Khaki.

The boat is just places to set the scene, I am still searching through my decal stash to find something suitable



Si

Sal That's a super build and impressive SB-17; must have been some sight to see one of them overhead if you were awaiting rescue

Simon Nice update and like the "wire for a wake" too....very effective.

Nice work on the base so far Simon. Here is my update have painted hull and some of the cabin deck masked off and hull on the inshore launch painted


Please remember to add some in-progess photos to the gallery aswell as just your finnished builds to show your build skills off to those who want to find out info later

Cheers Keith

Keith, is that a requirement to post in progress photos in the gallery, I posted them in the tread and then posted a photo of my completed project in the gallery
If so I have to figure out how to get the in progress photos out of my Photobucket page

Sal it is NOT a requirment of the campaign but we do have the in-progress gallery with the Kitmaker network to use to store photos aswell. Just seems a shame not use it after it has been so kindly set up for us to use. It is up to you if you choose to use it or not it just means that other folk can acsess it at a later date if they want to look through our work.
On another note we have 22 signed up for this campain and only four building at the moment come on guys let,s see some other work going on here

Cheers Keith

Great build, Sal. It looks great in that colourful scheme. Maybe a few exhaust stains? The B-17s were notorious for staining the wings with exhaust.

Nice little diorama, Simon. Coming along nicely.

I am gettting ready to get started on my old trusty Matchbox 1/72 Walrus. More to follow...

Sal: Nice work bud! You need to build aircraft more often, just sayin

Simon: Watching with interest. How well would your water technique work for 1/700?

Keith: I'm currently playing catch up with the other campaigns I'm involved in. Sadly will have to drop a few because of life circumstances so that I can focus on campaigns that I can actually finish such as this one. Will let you know as soon as I get started on my Catalina

Jesper nice to here from you looking forward to your build

Jeremy understand about the life things hope to here from you soon when you are sorted

Cheers Keith

Hi Jeremy,

The Fairmile is 1/350th. I did cut my teeth on the tinfoil method of water in 1/700th, before I fell to the dark side. the only real difference in technique is finer wrinkles & the wake tends to more paint effect than structure,

Si

Gents,
I've enlisted in the campaign with a 1/72 Fujimi KV-107 helicopter with markings for the 30th anniversary of Hamamatsu Air Rescue Squadron.

Here's some pics of what I've done: I airbrushed the interior last night and tonight I hand painted the seats and the control panels using Vallejo paints. They dry super fast so you can move along quickly.

I began putting parts onto the fuselage halves and put together the sponsons/fuel tanks, and the winch. Then I added some Eduard seatbelts from a Sea King Mk 41 set, did some more detail painting, and glued the interior parts together.

This campaign is great, it got me back into doing some modeling and I happy for that!
Michael Smith

hope the pics come out OK, #1 haven't uploaded pics here before so not sure how it works, #2 took the pics with my Blackberry, my camera was 3 flights up from me when I got done, too lazy to go get it!






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2 more pics, think I've got the hang of posting images now

Thanks again guy the positive feed back is encouraging
@ Jasper you always have great suggestions after I have completed my built so I use them on the next build

@ Jeremy, I build mostly planes in my youth so its sorta like riding a bike, I'm looking into some more aircraft

@Mike, great looking cockpit and nice bright blue color, i like it

Michael Good to have you with us, Great detail on the cockpit nice work with the seatbelts
Cheers Keith

Thanks Keith. This should be an "interesting" build , what with learning how to paint those bubble observation windows half green and half clear, plus masking them off...never done that before....if I make it past that point, it should be pure enjoyment, painting and decaling are my favorite things. Let's hope the Fujimi decals have held up over the years, they're still sealed and look good, but you never know till they hit the water.

Michael Lee

I found this picture from the model show that was held at the same time the Shizuoka Hobby Show was going on in Japan this year.

I thought it might be inspiring for anyone doing a rescue scene for this campaign. I think this has to be the best modeled water I've ever seen...even a dolphin jumping out of the sea.

I might try to feebly emulate this with a helicopter hovering above creating that circular spray pattern from the rotors....

A bit more progress. I found some decals, from the Hawk 1/350 RN/RCN escort carrier sheet. The roundel is about the right size, maybe a fraction small & I know the number should be yellow, but the white numbers on that sheet were about the right size and the right font.



The base has had the first layer of the wake airbushed. this is the first time I have tried that & I am quite pleased with the result.



I have also fitted the barrels to the two bow 20mm, and adjusted the angle of the port one to cover the raft.

next jobs painting the crew of the fairmile and the airman for the raft and more layers on the sea.

Si

Looks good, never recreated water in my modeling, I'll be following your progress.
All I've added to mine since last post has been to dip all the clear parts in Future. More progress this week hopefully.

Michael nice photo cool water effect

Simon looking good have you thought of using clear yellow to go over the white decals or are they too small
Cheers Keith