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For my sixtieth birthday in 2020 my family gave me a model I’ve wanted to make for 40 odd years, the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is the Mobeus Models 1/44th Discovery(they also do a 1/350th version too) with the Paragraphix interior sets and Green Strawberry pods. I’ve set up lighting...

Wonderful work!

TerryP wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 12:32 pm Your vac-forms are fantastic, I always think that Vac-form building is the most difficult method. I have a vac Buccaneer, I've had it for years but never got up the courage to tackle it.
Terry

Thanks a lot Terry.

Yes I have

Thanks and I know what you mean. I know it’s not 144th but the new Airfix 72nd Phantom is excellent.

This is a fairly serious conversion from an old LS F4E Phantom to an RAF Spey powered aircraft. Obvious changes are of course the nose but I also thickened the fuselage slightly too.

Another Welsh Models Vacform, this time done during the lockdown earlier this year.

I've had this for a long while but last year I decidedto really do a job on it. At Telford in 2019, when I met up with you guys, I got a set of decals from 144th.com and that completed the job.

It's 41 inches long. The gift included all the etched brass interior parts so that means lighting needed too.

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