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Thursday, 6 July 2017

Painting Tray Update: Planes and Ships

1/72 scale Airfix Fw-190 is finally finished (I say finally but I [we] know that there really should be swastikas on the tail, but thanks to European law they are now illegal to sell even on historical models (!), so I would have to "free hand them" which I frankly bottled doing), so it should now be hung up like the Star Wars TIE Fighter (see below):


A slightly bigger (1/48) Airfix Spitfire Vb, now repaired with "odds and sods" from the spare box. The 20mm cannon, rear landing wheel, aerial and "watch your six" mirror, Requires a bit of touch up painting (see below):


A hive of ship building activity (Seventeenth Century style) as the paper, balsa and cocktail fleet takes shape. WIP includes 4 French, 2 Dutch and 2 British "man-o-war" (see below):


Note: The ship building has had to been put on hold to be resumed at a later date. The dockside crowds are chanting "We want forty!" But the wife is pointing to some DIY painting jobs to be done first!
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3 comments:

  1. Sun of York6 July 2017 at 13:37

    Excellent - love those ships.

    I don't remember a short nosed Airfix Folke. Looks good.

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  2. Geordie an Exiled FoG7 July 2017 at 21:15

    Cheers Sun of York
    I think it is a Series 1 model

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  3. Red_Cardinal3 September 2019 at 22:00

    >>but thanks to European law they are now illegal to sell even on historical models...

    Hope you'll forgive the (years later!) correction but...

    The reason we don''t get Swastika decals is because the Swastika is illegal to display in Germany (except in very limited circumstances). It's easier for kit manufacturers to leave it off decal sheets rather than mess about with different sheets for Germany and for everywhere else.

    The Swastika is not illegal in the UK (and one can buy seperate Swastika decal sheets should one wish - I sold one on Ebay UK last year).

    Nothing at all to do with "European law" :) Incidentally, not having Swastika decals in kits has been the norm now for at the mimumum the last 10 years+

    Now back your great Airfix builds :)

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