SimonB.
@buchanansj
Father and husband. 🇬🇧🇨🇦 Probably called grumpy by most, but deep down quite light hearted. Many trips around the sun, most of it on the bike.
Very nice. Belgian beer has become my preferred beer this year. This one is local to us......
I was promised this would be a quick build and it is. Final pieces in place and a dry fit of the large PE pieces. Paint and decals this weekend, hopefully. With this, have to resist adding more details and weathering as it will become box art.
Goddamn the pusher man. Good friend has a side business producing scale model railroad kits for locomotives and rolling stock. He's just sent me four kits to build as samples, no pun intended but derailing current projects. Work in progress doing a proof build on a cement hopper. #modeltrains
When I was a kid we had an F10 as a second car…calling it awkward is being kind….
Where did the month go? This Class 40 project getting ever so close to being done. A chunk of the month spent scratch building the small details that never did arrive from an online order. My daughter thinks I’m crazy. Justifiably so. #ModelTrains
Class 40 project (MTK kit) update: Still waiting on detail pieces to arrive from a vendor and now have resorted to disputing a refund. A part of this project remains on hold. Moved ahead with touching up the paint and getting the decals applied. Now in need of some more decals! #modeltrains
Tense moments masking and painting this Class 40 project. Masking the yellow warning panel with all the fiddly bits I added was maybe not the best idea and could have been painted last. And using a paint I haven’t used before; some potential to mess it up. Happy with the result. #modeltrains
HMS Hood project…well I’m accustomed to resurrecting beaten up brass and white metal kits. Now I’m in the process of cutting pristine plastic…removing the degaussing cables from the hull as they are incorrect. Photo etch details to be added. #histscalemodels
Back to the Class 40 locomotive project, still waiting for 3D printed chassis details to arrive. Because the kit is a white metal kit with no interior, naturally it needs something passing as a cab(s). Scratch built two cab interiors....and they will barely be noticeable once in place....
I started the Hood build a couple of weeks ago. Haven’t built a ship since I was about 10, and nothing of this size. Had been reading about reinforcing the hull to prevent sagging or twisting over time. I’m ok with over engineering somethings. 😎 Mounted on pedestals and temp base. #histscalemodels
This build is turning more into a project. My grandad, as a radio mechanic in the RAF, was stationed at Scapa Flow (1942/1943). He made this destroyer from teak over the winter of 42/43. Research on the Hood, I also narrowed the class of destroyer and now I have 2nd build to create a story. 3/3
So, while one project is paused, this HMS Hood project has been waiting for a couple of years. Gifted to me from a colleague for helping his team on a year long project, this build takes on bit of personal tone through the connection of my family in WW2 and the Royal Navy. 1/3 #HistScaleModels
An update on the Class 40 locomotive I'm building....it's almost a stalled project. Waiting for some detail pieces from a small hobby business where I've learned they're not the best at shipping or communication. 🙁 The chassis for this has gone through more surgery, all the big problems solved.
Making supper tonight, playing a record from The Beat and this furball thing, in the same room, slept through it.
Oh, that's cool. The F9 Panther, I finished one of those about a year ago but I used forced perspective against B&W photo to give it a sense of backdrop.
I’ve always luv’d the Gulf livery up to this day. Very nice finish you’ve done there. Hope you don’t mind, just had to edit your image to give it some motion.
Aaron, you complete asshole! Thanks for the birthday greeting, gave me a good a laugh.
It’s the little things in life….in my timeline following this post, something for a small laugh.
Well, I couldn't keep it simple. Had to build a cockpit for it and went with adding flaps down. Now if I saw that Buccaneer kit, I wouldn't think twice about buying it. Simple enough for a quick build yet you can add more if the madness takes hold.