Lidl? (I was tempted to buy one from there the other week.)
Think you’ll be able to fit the glass bits without getting glue all over them and making them milky opaque?
Ah, reminds me of being a kid, with my poorly assembled and badly decorated planes with ripped and creased decals. My dad would heat up a needle on the hob and then pierce holes in them to thread the fishing line through, to hang them from the ceiling
Now you have to paint it. I’m sure there were more parts to lose 60 years ago when I was a kid.
Do they still come with transfers?
Good God man, you can’t just assemble it like that! You’ll never be able to paint the prop properly with it assembled! It’ll *seize*!!
Nice and clean with no mould lines – good job!
An evening well spent.
I loved assembling plastic model airplane kits. Can’t say that any of my efforts were worthy of museum display. Painting them was something I never quite got right.
Best wishes and thanks for sharing!
You my friend, should try gunpla!
Airfix dogfighters – now that was a game 👌
“can’t beat some Airfix!” sounds like a challenge to me…
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I can still smell the glue!
I loved me some Airfix when I was a kid … a Spitfire kit for 45p! Sadly 50-odd years later I no longer have the patience or steady hands needed for painting.
Good job. Personally I would Humbrol paint the parts before assembly but only if I was off school sick. I’m sure all are aware that they do not fly. Even if slung out of a top window. There are many pointless tasks, like just building models for example, that have real mental health value. I think it is to do with a kind of focus on the abstract. Just concentration with no penalty for failure really. Imo.
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Lidl? (I was tempted to buy one from there the other week.)
Think you’ll be able to fit the glass bits without getting glue all over them and making them milky opaque?
Ah, reminds me of being a kid, with my poorly assembled and badly decorated planes with ripped and creased decals. My dad would heat up a needle on the hob and then pierce holes in them to thread the fishing line through, to hang them from the ceiling
Now you have to paint it. I’m sure there were more parts to lose 60 years ago when I was a kid.
Do they still come with transfers?
Good God man, you can’t just assemble it like that! You’ll never be able to paint the prop properly with it assembled! It’ll *seize*!!
Nice and clean with no mould lines – good job!
An evening well spent.
I loved assembling plastic model airplane kits. Can’t say that any of my efforts were worthy of museum display. Painting them was something I never quite got right.
Best wishes and thanks for sharing!
You my friend, should try gunpla!
Airfix dogfighters – now that was a game 👌
“can’t beat some Airfix!” sounds like a challenge to me…
James May approves this.
I can still smell the glue!
I loved me some Airfix when I was a kid … a Spitfire kit for 45p! Sadly 50-odd years later I no longer have the patience or steady hands needed for painting.
Good job. Personally I would Humbrol paint the parts before assembly but only if I was off school sick. I’m sure all are aware that they do not fly. Even if slung out of a top window. There are many pointless tasks, like just building models for example, that have real mental health value. I think it is to do with a kind of focus on the abstract. Just concentration with no penalty for failure really. Imo.
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