Airfix Bristol 1:72 scale

[Lancaster630]

I have finished LvR Triplane and am Happy to announce that the Bristol Fighter very kindly sent to me is back underway again

[trackpad]

Hi, L630,

As your friendly neighbourhood supplier of the Brisfit, I'm really looking forward to seeing it in a completed state. Good luck with your build!

[Richard A.]

Hi, everyone - seems like you've been pretty busy lately.

Blymp looks great. We have replica Sopwith Triplane at the Canadian Aviation Museum and it looks the same colour, though it is of Ray Collishaw's Black Maria.

The Fokker E.III's rigging looks very good. That's a 1/72 scale model right.

It's been a busy winter, spring, and summer for me what with home renovations and so on. I did manage to start a 1/28 SPAD XIII which I received for Christmas (brush-painted, of course)

Man, those SPAD's wings were big when I painted them - I used the biggest brush i could, but I settled in on a medium size one to more carefully control the amount of paint I applied.

If you haven't tried Games Workshop acrylic paints - you should. The bottles have excellent seals, and the paints dry to a lovely smooth silky finish that doesn't obliterate detail. You can buy empty mixing pots too so that you can mix custom colours. These pots also seal very well. Ask your local neighbourhood war gamer where to get Warhammer figures - that's where to get the paints.

Stay tuned, if I can figure how to post pictures I'll show some pics of the SPAD even though it's not rigged yet.

Cheers, keep up the good work.

[Lancaster630]

thanks for the kind words

unfortunately one of the undercarriage legs has "run away" from me after I put it in the middle of the table, but all is not lost, as these aircraft are destined for time on the ceiling a aerial diorama where the undercarriage is being shot off by a pesky Albatross who himself has a crate on his tail about to knobble him

[Lancaster630]

I have built as much as I can of the Brisfit (basically all of it except the undercart) I have decided to keep looking for the undercarriage leg that ran off

until I find that peice I shall finish my other models starting with the 1959 Airfix 1:72 R.E.8