Here's my latest batch of kits.
No 11 - 1/48 Airfix Hunter F6 Black Arrows with Xtracolour Enamel Black (needs some Gloss varnish to finish it - any recomendations?)
_20210309_160804 by Mike Hiley, on FlickrNo 12 - 1/48 Airfix Gnat T1 Yellow Jacks with Humbrol Paints (I hate painting in yellow!!)
_20210309_160741 by Mike Hiley, on FlickrNo 13 - 1/48 Airfix Jaguar GR3 54 Sqd with Xtracolour and Xtracylix paints - Struggled to find any after market decals for this, so ended up with the box decals which are quite old, and a lot were ripping. Luckily the main ones survived.
_20210309_160855 by Mike Hiley, on FlickrNo 14 - 1/48 Airfix Canberra PR9 39 Sqd with Xtracolour and Humborl paints
_20210309_160724 by Mike Hiley, on FlickrNo 15 -1/48 Phantom FGR2 56 Sqd with Humbrol Enamel and Acrylic, and Xtracolour Enamel - Great kit, will be getting another one for sure!
_20210309_160817 by Mike Hiley, on FlickrNo 16 - Just finished the 1/48 Airfix Meteor FR9, parts of this are superb (Cockpit and engines) and parts not so good (wing joins, fuselage joins). It's almost ended in the bin a couple of times, but I persevered.
_20210309_160839 by Mike Hiley, on FlickrNext will be the Italeri 1/48 Gripen for a change, then another 1/48 Hunter, this time in the Blue Diamonds scheme, then the 1/48 airfix Javelin that I got for a tidy price due to an admin error at the supplier!!
I've also been repainting some, after realising the Enamel X017 Barley Grey from Hannants is the most wrong (see the 11sqd Typhoon here viewtopic.php?f=294&t=192061). I first thought something was wrong when I ordered a new batch, they came back very dark, almost like Strike Eagle grey. They were taking ages to get back in to stock so I tried Humbrol 167, as I needed some for the Phantom. Then the penny dropped!!
So I've repainted the Barley Grey sections on my Tornado F3, the underside of my Battle of Britain GiNA Typhoon and the whole of my 11sqd Typhoon - they look so much better.
Just need to repaint the Nimrod R1 now.....
On a side note, does anyone know if there are any Typhoon stencil decals produced in 1/48 anywhere? The latest Revell kit only has one set of decals for the German special scheme, not like the original version that had some nice stencils included.
I also have some 1/48 decals for sale if anyone is interested!
viewtopic.php?f=109&t=201462
Cheers
Mike
