Show off your plastic scale model kit / airfix (vehicles, mecha, real or fictional)

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I searched a few times for a dedicate thread for ppl to post & discuss plastic/resin hobby model kit building and showing off the photos. Feel free to share photos of your builds and finished kits of anything, wether it's typical planes, cars, ships, or more unusual like sci-fi vehicles, anime mecha, even built character figure kits.

I'll start off: I used to build all manner of military planes, occasional ships and some cars as a kid, but I lacked a lot of patience and maturity so I rushed thru kits a lot for immediate gratification and easy display. Later I switched to anime mecha modeling, particular with the Gundam anime series, aka 'Gunpla' to the japanese, but again, I built these again when I was pretty young and wanted something to play w and eventually break so I rushed thru these kits and didn't give them proper finish or attn to detail.

After about 15 years of not touching model kits, I've gotten back into it again and starting again with Gunpla kits because the technology has improved a LOT over the last decade. kits are more show accurate and with articulation that's better designed to replicate the dynamic poses shown in the anime shows.

From the Gundam Unicorn series, the HGUC 1/144 scale Geara Zulu Angelo Sauper custom unit

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Here's my attempt at making a model car (Camaro Z/28) after years without touching glue and paint:

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I was quite pleased with the result, until I saw how the finish of the paint turned out and when I put my glued finger onto the windshield...
 
Here's my attempt at making a model car (Camaro Z/28) after years without touching glue and paint:

https://pic.armedcats.net/k/ki/killpanda/2011/05/11/P5111734_001.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/k/ki/killpanda/2011/05/11/P5111733_001.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/k/ki/killpanda/2011/05/11/P5111736_001.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/k/ki/killpanda/2011/05/11/P5111737_001.jpg

I was quite pleased with the result, until I saw how the finish of the paint turned out and when I put my glued finger onto the windshield...

Could you wet sand it with 1000 grit onwards to get rid of the bumps?
 
It doesn't show up too much on the pictures but the paint application is really uneven on the whole body, I think I got the method wrong for this kind of paint (metallic blue applied with a tiny paint brush). To get a better result I'm pretty sure I would need to do the body all over again from scratch.
 
Ok these aren't plastic, but I'm proud of them all the same. None of these are 'kits,' they are all handbuilt from raw materials (like dimensioned basswood) with the aide of a laser cutter in some situations (only on the Florence model) In the case of the Florence model, all of the information was obtained from atlases or google earth to construct

Varying degrees of completion. Scale 1"=30' Materials: Basswood, Mahogany, Faux red wood (paper), Birch Plywood, White Pine, Cherry
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This was the work of about 6 people including myself for the most part. Took about 1 month. The model is intended to represent the construction of the dome and cathedral as an analytique for a project in the vicinity. Hence why the dome is only partially complete and half of the nave is not present.

This is a section model I built for a building I designed, cut through a gallery. Scale is 1"=16' Materials are basswood, mahagony, cherry, and polycarbonate. I use tacky glue.
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There is a little bit of plastic :p

This was my 'first' model I built. Final project for my first studio. One of my nicer models I think, craftsmanship wise.
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I want to build a nice P38 Lightning model this summer.
 
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I had dozens of those plastic models as a child: Planes, ships, cars. They hung from the ceiling of my room and took up all the space in my shelves. Was my no. 1 hobby back then.

Unfortunately, no pictures exist of them, because back then I never thought of photographing them.

As I grew older, they all ended being blown-up with fire crackers on new year's day.

I'm not sentimental with my old stuff...
 
As I grew older, they all ended being blown-up with fire crackers on new year's day.

I'm not sentimental with my old stuff...

I didn't keep any of my old stuff either, they went in the trash years ago, that's why I'm starting over w new stuff.

Another build I finished a month ago: 1/144 HGUC Stark Jegan, also from the Gundam Unicorn series

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Finished my MG 1/100 scale Crossbones Gundam ver Ka

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Whole set can be seen here
 
great work on the Gundam Models, although don't think i've seen a pink Zaku before (i may be wrong though, i've not seen all of the UC Gundam era)

i've got loads of Warhammer 40K stuff i should really get putting together at some point.
 
great work on the Gundam Models, although don't think i've seen a pink Zaku before (i may be wrong though, i've not seen all of the UC Gundam era)

i've got loads of Warhammer 40K stuff i should really get putting together at some point.

Thanks, its not pink (that's just the lighting and your monitor), more purple, and its a Zeon suit from the newest show, Gundam Unicorn, and that's the actual color.
 
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