Beech King Air

Nice job as always Brian.

I was swimming in near comino last sunday and one of these flew right over us at high speed and at veeeery low altitude! I found myself cheering it on in a "WOOOOHOOO!!" fashion with my fist out of the water only to find out the rest of the swimmers looking at me as if I was mad or something

Wayne wrote:Nice job as always Brian.

I was swimming in near comino last sunday and one of these flew right over us at high speed and at veeeery low altitude! I found myself cheering it on in a "WOOOOHOOO!!" fashion with my fist out of the water only to find out the rest of the swimmers looking at me as if I was mad or something

that is called flying passion Wayne ...

Although i can't say i am enjoying this build, it is a very sweet aircraft and looks just great when in flight. It is very streamlined and with its twin engines, highly pointed spinners looks really fast and powerful. I have really come to like them, pity that the kit i am building is so terrible, it takes all the pleasure out of the build. But i don;t blame you for your reaction.

Great work on all of that Brian! Lots of little parts to scratch build. The jig for the propellers is pretty neat.

Work on the undercarriage finally done. the front wheel legs are totally scratchbuilt. The main legs are modified and detailed from the kit ones.





Undercarriage doors next, then i will start masking the windows and painting.

absolutely brilliant Brian.......coming on nicely...can't wait to see them finished.....a fine tribte to AFM...
in nannu

Thanks Nann, by the way where on earth did you find that cool avatar?? I always thought that the Me262 looked like a shark and whoever did that artwork really merged the two nicely.

Coming realy great Brian...

Here are both planes, complete, primed and ready for final inspection and maybe some touch up in case of scratches etc. Then off to the paint shop. You can now see the characteristic large radar/electronics fairing on the underside which characterizes our king air's. Nearing the end hopefully.

Very impressive!

bellezza !
in nannu

Good morning Brian,

Prosit Habib - beautiful work. You are doig a very good job.

Basic painting is done at long last. Sorry for the delay but i have not been doing any modeling for a long time and these small monsters took up a lot of my time.

The real aircraft are brand new and kept in immaculate condition. I did not go with the usual shading and they might seem a bit too clean. But in reality that is the way they are. I did preshade the entire airframe but the effect is subtle and does not show up in the photos.

Either or Brian, they are a fine tribute to your amazing modelling prowess & our AFM ALIKE

Ray wrote:Either or Brian, they are a fine tribute to your amazing modelling prowess & our AFM ALIKE

Ditto....
In nannu

Great job on the paint job, in some ways, it's almost harder to do one of the modern military aircraft since they are so clean can any little thing in the model will just stand out, it's not like you can do any blending with weathering. Even doing a wash you have to be really careful as it can really stand out from the model is done too dark or too heavy. Just like when working on a car or motorcycle.

What colours did you end up using Bri?

The colour for the underside and the anti glare anthracite grey were given to me by AFM and they are the actual paint used on the aircraft. I found an exact match for the darker grey using a humbrol paint. I will give you details of the RAL Numbers later.

Cant wait to see these finished to your usual exceptional standards

Steve

Finally got some decals on these models. Decals are curtesy of Gordon. Still very basic yet. Lots of work to go.

This looks interesting to say the least

Steve

Heq... it's one of ours uhx...good work Brian...