#scale model build

So are there any kits you are looking forward to over the next 12 months? I love it when something gets announced that really peaks my interest. Makes me feel like a kid waiting for that birthday present you have been nagging your parents to buy since the day after your last birthday!

So now I have to decide whether to try and take the wings back off and seperate the halves, or just to build her clean with no ordinance. To say I am a little annoyed would be an understatement. I think it's time to put this one back in the box for a couple of nights whilst I think about this although I fear my choice has already been removed and made for me by the error. In the mean time though I think it’s time to get the SR-71 back out.

I know I havent posted for a while, things have been a little hectic in the flat so I haven’t had much time at the bench, here is a quick look at the paint on the MiG build, needs a couple of touch ups etc but its looking ok. Load out is going to be a couple of OFAB-100 on the rear pylons, UB-32 pods on the wing gloves, UB-16 on the outer fuselage pylons and the centre line will carry an external fuel tank. After all, who doesnt like rockets!

Progress slowed a little of late on this one but the intakes are looking OK to my eye, I put primer on to see what they looked like in paint and I don't think they too bad at all considering the size of the step that was there. I left her belly up with the primer drying on the underside last night, which meant I spent a lot of time looking at those dodgy wheel wells. I may throw in some cabling or something to try and add a bit of interest, depends if I can find any reference images or not. 

Fat one made by me. Everyone wants the fat one. #StarTrek #PicardSeason3 #Picard #StarTrekPicard #NextGeneration #UssEnterpriseD #ModelBuild

Returning to the theme of quick and easy builds I decided to get another of the small Revell Star Wars kits out of the stash, this time I plugged for the iconic TIE Fighter with this kit being 1:110 scale. I have to admit I find the lack of consistency with the scales on these small Star Wars kits a tad annoying. I would much prefer if they were all done to one scale, whatever that may be, but thats just my own personal hangup and it I am sure this doesn’t bother most of the builders of these kits  and I suppose this would maybe cause a few issues when it comes to displaying them alongside one another. I did toy with the idea of lighting this one up with some LEDs/Fibre optics but looking at the internals there probably isn't a lot a room in this one to embark on my first lighting project so I’ll leave that for another build.