It’s been too hot and moist the last week or so. Whilst most of my modelling is done in my new indoor room any airbrushing is consigned to the garage.

This means the weather needs to be a little milder before I can get stuck in favouring Autumn and Spring.

In the meantime I have been going through my boxes of Doom. In my last blog I’d rejected one railcar kit but I’ve now rejected the other one too. I think this is scale issue. In 1.72 the plastic is not strong enough to deal with all the fiddling neccessary to get six wheeled bogies lined up. Everything gets bent out of shape and is just too frustrating. This was a double kit box so the untouched kit will be sold.

The extra strength and size favours doing this in 1.35 sometime.

Next up was the Dragon Helldiver, now part of the pooch screwing here was my fault but basically it is not well designed if you want to have the cockpit and gun position open as was often done with this plane. If I see the Academy one I will give it a go. Again I just can’t be bothered so parts were stripped and the remainder is another paint mule.

So next up is this 1/700 Bandai Anime kit from Future Boy Conan. I bought it because I liked the shape and didn’t mind the movie. Initial thoughts were to Germanify it in a Luftwaffe bomber scheme. I got it out and fixed a couple of bits and then was about to reapply some primer. The more I looked at it the more I realised I had no further interest in this kit. It’s back in the box but I think it’s going to Melbourne with a $1 sticker on it to give it away!

And lastly today I had a look at my Hase Shinden that I was Germanifying with X-4s and a Luftwaffe Fw190 camo scheme.

This one is a bit different, it just needs a few things done. I need to do the 5% things before painting. I often don’t test fit my undercarriage and other bits like guns,  wheels, cockpits etc so this time I’m getting all those done in the next few days. After that it will go back in the box but it will be in my painting pile.

Love a Wurzberg

And this time like the other tanks etc already there I will know it’s truly ready to be finished.