Fagot fettling

This follows on from my earlier post which dealt with the initial build of this horrible old kit.

 A coat of spray silver has been applied, along with some minor detailing in red.  While it dries I'll ponder the decals.

Mystery air support - a mystery no more!

Quite a few of you identified the kit part as belonging to an Alpha Jet - some even specified the Heller version!  I picked this up on eBay a few weeks ago.  I'd been after one for a while to serve as close support for my Little Cold Wars West Germans.  I admit that the version I finally secured didn't look promising as the box art features an aircraft from the Patrouille De France aerobatics team.  Burt more of that in a future post.

 The Patrouille de France showing off.

 The more sober Teutonic look I was hoping for.

Mystery air support

I know that model mysteries are generally the preserve of Paul at Plastic Warriors, but here is something to get you scratching your heads.  It's a 1/72 aircraft which I am building as part of my Little Cold Wars project.  You can have 100 points for getting the name of the aircraft and a bonus 50 for the kit manufacturer.

I will turn on comment moderation until Monday to prevent copying!

UPDATE 18/08/14 - it is the Heller kit of the Alpha Jet.  There was a clue in the photo above - of 'half a jet.....'

Murderous Marder musings

The arms race that is Little Cold Wars continues.  As I intend building a West German (remember them?) force and I didn't want the infantry to be walking everywhere, you may imagine that I was pleased to discover the availability of this 1/48 scale kit of a Marder IFV.  Pleased that was, until I started to build one.  This is a Kitech motorised kit and it is a horror.  Some of the parts go together nicely.  But only some.  The rest, including the hull top and rear plate needed a lot of wedging in place while the glue dried.  And then there were the wheels - lots of them.  All of the road wheels needed to be drilled out in order to fit on the stub axles while the sprockets and idlers required the intervention of a hammer to fit onto their steel rod axles.

Open this box at your own risk!

While the kit was a complete bugger to build, it does at least look OK when complete.  All I need to do now is paint enough infantry to fill them!

Speaking of infantry - or rather Panzer Grenadiers - here they are again.  See also my earlier post.

Only another 24 figures to paint then.....