JACCS Honda Accord (Japanese
Super Touring Car Championship, as driven by Naoki Hattori). The
model is built from the 1/24 Scale Tamiya kit with some internal
details added, such as seat belts from MRM and various piping
and wiring added from fuse wire. The colourful paint finish is
achieved entirely with the decals supplied with the kit, plus
several coats of lacquer.
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Douglas DC-3 Dakota (South
African Air Force, ca. 1980). This is the Italeri/Airfix 1/72
kit, with a few additional aerials and details added to depict
the SAAF's single target tug "Dak". The complex colour scheme is
achieved by masking, with only the national markings and
numerals applied using decals.
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Gloster Meteor F.4 (Gloster
Aircraft, 1948). The model depicts Britain's first
civil-registered jet. It is based on the old 1/72 Frog/Novo kit,
but altered so as to conform to the Warpaint plans. The markings
come from one of a very small number of decal sheets of this
subject produced by Red Bolt.
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Hawker Hunter GA11 (FRADU
Yeovilton). This is a heavily modified 1/72 Airfix kit, the
centre section and wings having been replaced with resin items.
The nose and tail have also been modified, so as to depict this
naval variant of the Hunter.
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Hawker Hunter F.58A (Swiss Air
Force 1993). As the size of the paint tinlet testifies, this
model is based on the diminutive 1/144 scale Revell kit, but
modified to represent one of the last Hunters used by the Swiss
Air Force, in celebratory colours. Scratchbuilt fuel tanks were
cast in resin, whilst the decals were specially printed by Red
Bolt. The real aircraft was painted up to look like newspaper,
since the squadron's badge features a paper aeroplane.
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De Havilland Venom FB.1.
(ex-Swiss Air Force machine on British civil register, 2001).
The model is based on a 1/58 scale Glencoe (ex-Lincoln) kit,
which is dreadful! Major plastic surgery was required to make
the model look like the real thing, including moving the cockpit
forward, moulding the canopy, replacing the main undercarriage
and adding fuel tanks from balsa wood. Markings are a mixture of
hand painting and decals from assorted sources.
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Lancia Stratos HF
This is Sandro Munari's 1977 Monte Carlo Rally winner, built by
combining the better bits from two 1/24 Japanese kits (Nitto and
Eidai Grip) and adding my own seat belts and other details. Just
building the Revell (Hasegawa) kit would have been easier!
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Messerschmitt Bf109E
The model is made from the 1/72 Academy kit, but with a few
items (including the decal sheet) "borrowed" from Airfix's 109E.
Add in a carefully-bent propeller and a diorama base, and the
result is Helmut Tiedmann's machine, after he was taken prisoner
during the Battle of Britain.
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