G'day from the Antipodes

[Novasquad23]

Retired and getting back into the hobby. My current theme is aircraft used in Russia, from the Imperial Air Service, through the USSR years and the post-Soviet era. I intend to cover Lend Lease types as well as captured Luftwaffe planes used for evaluations (the thought of an Me-163 Komet with a red star tickles me). Scale wise its going to depend on what is available. Most of the big Antonov's and Tupolev's are going to be 1/144 (though I'm currently working on the 1/144 fighters such as the Mig 29, Mig 25, Su 17/22 for comparisons sake pps the Academy 1/144 Mig 23 is a waste of money, it lacks any covers for the undercarriage). My preferred scale is 1/48 so I hope that many of the builds will be in that scale. Otherwise its going to be 1/72 as a default. I'm not restricting myself to military types either, those big Tupolev' airliners ring my bells as well. This project should make for a productive retirement.

If I need a break from that project I'm also planning on doing the same thing for aircraft of the RAAF (hey I'm a colonial) and strategic bombers from WWI to now (I'm currently waiting for Airfix's HP Victor to arrive from Hong Kong.

I'm an Airfix generation kid so filling and sanding are not the put off that they seem to be to some younger modellers. I view such travails as ill fitting parts, misalignments and gaps as just part of the process.

After 50 years I've bought my first airbrush ( yikes) and I'm hoping I haven't bitten off more than I can chew in that regard.

So that is me.

Novasquad23

[bfrd]

Welcome! I look forward to seeing your builds!

[ElCapitan]

[Twokidsnosleep]

Welcome to ISM
Very friendly, helpful bunch here so post lots and you will get back what you give
Certainly some good airbrush threads here and Paul has done some good videos on uTube as well
Scott

[Panzergrau]

Novasquad, you landed in the right place! Welcome. I love Cold War soviet aircraft as well, and I'm not stepping back from WWII VSS aircraft either! I cannot wait to see what you have to share!

I bet you're going to wonder why in heaven you haven't bought that airbrush decades ago!
Gabriel

[kiwigav]

Welcome from New Zealand
Look forward to seeing your builds

[Nev]

Welcome mate

[Novasquad23]

Thanks for the welcome.

[DRUMS01]

Howdy, nice to have you in the forum.

I found this forum to have a nice group of blokes with skills, knowledge, and humor.

Oh! and while your at it, don't forget to go to the subject: "Forum News", and open the thread: "Image Host Integration". It will provide instruction on how to attach your images much easier.

Your interests intrigue me, show us what you got...

[Novasquad23]

Drums01,
Prior efforts haven't survived 2 changes of abode. We now own our own place so modelling is worthwhile again. Nothing is currently complete as yet, although the stash has grown (see what the postie delivered thread for details. I'm working on a 1/72 MiG 27D. I'll show and tell when that's done. Thanks for the heads up on posting pix. Cheers. Novasquad23.

[digger303]

another Aussie ...yippee.
50yrs modeling that's a lot of skills

[Novasquad23]

Digger303. Some very rusty modelling skills. I'd rate them as intermediate at the moment (so I'm building cheapies for the time being, I wouldn't want to destroy that lovely Tamiya 1/48 Lancaster) especially as I'm not up to speed on airbrushing nor these wonderful "new" metallic paints. I do know about acrylics from a fine arts angle though, they beat the old enamels hands down for me. I'm enjoying rediscovering the skills I did have and today's kits are so much better. I'm still adjusting to photo etch as some of it seems pretty meagre e.g. Seatbelts and a dash don't cut it value wise (a FW190 I built a few years back was all rah-rah about the PE, it turned out to be a canopy slide, seatbelt and intake grill you couldn't see in the end -:() Mind you some PE parts from Eduard are works of art. Have you noticed the markup in Oz if a kit has PE?

[Kevthemodeller]