Here are some photos of my recently-completed model.
Available as a free download from Landships, it went together reasonably-well. The wheels were monotonous and a bit difficult to built. I made the support railings from fusewire and applied the usual weathering.
The kit, and some photos......
Just completed this model. It wasn't easy 😮. It's a makeshift armoured car of the Spanish Anarchist group 'Columna Durruti', dating from the late 1930s.
The kit is designed by Alexandr Bondar, and is available as a free download from Landships.
I weathered it and added the machine gun. A spray coat of matt varnish seals everything.
Here is my recently-completed model of the Leduc 022, in a tiny 1/300 scale. It is available from the download section of
I added the pitot tube, browned the engine, and highlighted the Plexiglass canopy with translucent blue paint. A coat of satin varnish protects it.
I show it alongside my Fairey Delta FD2, in the same scale.
When you built up the fuselage, are the cardboard formers/bulkheads part of the kit or do you have to transfer from plan to cardboard?
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Some photos of my completed model (following on from the construction log) 😄👍🏻✂️
After spraying matt varnish, I coated the lenses with translucent yellow paint.
The varnish will be done tomorrow. In the meantime, I took a couple of low-light photos and the searchlight/headlamps pick up and reflect what little light there is.....
I will call it COMPLETED at this stage and post further photos in the Gallery tomorrow (after varnishing).
Thanks for the interest and thumbs up 😄👍🏻✂️
Applying a dilute black acrylic wash.....
Applying rust streaks, mud and dirt..... Not too much.....
Armoured wings being attached.....
..... and the chassis horns.....
Now I will apply some weathering.....
Wheels being attached to axles.....
Looking at the front, it seems the turning circle would have been very big 😄
I've also reinforced all the fragile joints with dilute PVA.
I decided to add a chassis to the bottom panel, to keep things rigid and square. I used coffee stirrers, cut up.....
Search light and driving lamps fitted.....
I've completed the four road wheels. The printed front (bottom) and rear (top, shorter) axles are shown.... These are meant to be rolled up into tubes, but I opted to use thin wooden dowel that I coloured black.....
The dowels are inserted through the body... The punched holes are a perfect fit.....
To fix each wheel to the chassis, I made up some hubs from plastic tube. These are glued to the inner wheel and fit over the axles.....
The hub caps are also shown. After the rear wheels are attached, the armour-plated wings are slotted over the axle, glued to the body, and the chassis horns attached.....
Wheels.... The spokes are double-thickness..... I found it easier to cut out the outer circles with curved scissors (the insides were cut out with a scalpel).....
The green rim and grey tyre were curved on foam after cutting out the glue tabs and scoring.....
Before glueing on the second half, it was used to trim the spoke lengths.....
One assembled wheel, after colouring edges etc.
I haven't yet glued on the hub.
Three more to go.
Driving lamps.....
Some gloss varnish on the lenses of the searchlight and driving lamps will make them look better.
Searchlight.....
Body shell assembly..... Slow work, I started glueing at the top and worked downwards.... The grey spreader plate was the final glueing.....
I have also started adding weathering along join lines, simulating dirt and rust...
Armoured rear wings......
The two grey chassis horns will be glued to the inner side of the wings after the wings are glued to the bodywork.
This is the assembly instructions.....
The two structures on the bottom right hand side are cross-sections of the wheels.
Hinges attached (25 of them).....
Layered panels applied, including the internal observation plates.....
I am doing the individual hinges now......
All the layered plates cut out and edge-coloured.....
I've been cutting out panels and hinges, which takes a while. This photo compares one component that I've edge-coloured (left) with one just cut out (right).....
I've been doing the edges first with a light green marker pen, then going over them again with a brown pen. There is a little 'bleed-through', but I actually like that as it resembles better a weathered appearance.
The print, itself, incorporates light weathering, but I will definitely be adding more.
The main body, cut out and scored where required.....
You can see where I've also cut out the observation holes and coloured the white edges. The separate panels are to be glued on the inside, as they represent sliding armoured plates.
The printed access hatches are to be layered with separate panels and hinges.
Next card project is this British armoured car that was built in 1915. The model is available as a free download from:
The Isotta-Fraschini was a light armoured car constructed on an Isotta-Fraschini car chassis in London. In 1914, there were concerns that Britain could be facing a German invasion and it was recognised that there were few, if any, armoured cars in Britain to support the cavalry. The armoured car was paid for by funds raised from the officers of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, a territorial cavalry regiment, and was completed in 1915. It is believed to have only been used for training (and not sent overseas).
The kit is by Alexander Bondar.
Today I made model number 1.3, from my 1969 Meccano Airport Service Set. Originally a scooter, I made it into a trike 😄
After a coat of satin varnish and making a display base (from cardboard), here is the completed model.
Thanks everyone 😄👍🏻✂️
Aside from a coat of varnish, here is the completed model......
The exhaust stack points slightly to the port side, as in the real aircraft. I think the windshields and 'grained' propellor look okay. I coated the model with dilute PVA and it feels much stronger. I will apply a coat of gloss varnish. I am making a display base for it and will post additional photos in the Gallery. Thanks for viewing and thumbs up 😄
Windshields attached.....
Tail skid, from card and plastic rod.....
Windshields..... Using the hole punch, I made a circle from acetate sheet. I then cut this in half and gently curved each one with tweezers......
Undercarriage attached. I had to use some card fillets to get it sitting squarely. Seen here before touching in the white edges......
Propellor..... I separated both parts rather than attempt to score and fold, trimmed them individually, and glued them together.....
I coloured the edges and added some 'grain' with a darker-coloured pen.....
Starboard wing and struts glued on...
I need to reposition the starboard elevator slightly.
Wing struts added.... They were slightly short (?) as they wouldn't line up on the top wing markers without significant dihedral, so I added very small strips of the same card to cover the wing marks. I also added a strip of card on the underside, to reinforce the fillet.
It's a fragile little model, so I will reinforce everything with dilute PVA before varnishing.
Highly-skilled!! Inspirational 👍🏻✂️
Today I made model number 1.3, from my 1959 Meccano Outfit No. 2.
Wings..... I cut off the joining tabs as the trailing edges can easily be glued together without them at this small scale. The yellow wing fillets show the profile required.
On the reverse, I marked with a pencil the leading edges and used a thin metal rod on foam to form the profile.
I then folded the wing halves together and held the trailing edge down until the UHU dried.... The weight of the cutting mat maintains the join...
Then I do the same thing with the wing tip...
The yellow wing fillet is then folded in and glued in place before carefully flattening the wing surface to get the correct profile. Here, the port wing is being glued to the fuselage....
I decided to enhance the exhaust stack using plastic rod, coloured black, and inserted into the four cylinders (after drilling)...
Attaching the tailplane and elevators......
These joins will be reinforced with dilute PVA.
