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Chris King
Chris King - Returned to modelling in May 2009 when wife bought me my first submarine model @ U534 exhibit in Liverpool, some 300 plus submarines later in the stash. I primarily build Submarines in a multitude of scales, other modelling interest are Babylon 5, 2001 a space odyssey and the Batman movies (figures and vehicles) with the odd sci-fi figure models as well.

Originally started building models at the age of 7 (1969), the airfix series one spitfire being the first, built aircraft then concentrated on sci-fi models til started work, then took up building Helicopters, in 1983 entered 1/32 AH-1W supercobra conversion in the Model engineering exhibition at Wembley. First wife lost me my stash of helicopter kits so lost interest around 1992.

Current wife's motto regarding my submarines is "the bigger the better - size matters". LOL
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Models 1 to 100
Thunderbird 3 2004
Thunderbird 3 2004
Klingon Vor'Cha Cruiser
Klingon Vor'Cha Cruiser
US SSN & SSBN's
US SSN & SSBN's
Batman & Robin Batmobile
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Batman & Robin Batmobile
SR71 egg plane Galactica
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SR71 egg plane Galactica
E-2 Hawkeye Q plane
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E-2 Hawkeye Q plane
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Thunderbird 3 2004
Thunderbird 3 from the 2004 Thunderbirds movie, 1/450 scale by Bandai
This is a snap kit although i did glue it. The fit fit was superb requiring next to no sanding. Hand painted in humbrol enamels, the only down side was that the decals were stickers, so no room for maneuvering when placing. Finished with a gloss cote to seal.
A fun build of something different, only 125mm long but looks much bigger LOL
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Klingon Vor'Cha Cruiser
1/1400 Klingon Vor'Cha cruiser, Kit by AMT OOB.
Hand painted in humbrol enamels. Colour scheme from DS9. 30 year old decals given a coat of decal cote before use. No disintegrating decals, yeah and a localised matt cote to seal them. Picked up a good tip, scan a copy of your decals to your computer before use, just in case, then if need be print a set off. As builds go this was a sweet build, no fit issues or filler required, which is a surprise as previous AMT larger scale Star trek builds have been woeful. A word to the wise, if your contemplating getting one, pick up a first issue as the painting guide is more in depth than the Vorcha re-release which leaves a lot of the detail painting out, whose instructions you can download from round 2.
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US SSN & SSBN's
USS Richard B Russell in her special ops configuration, USS George Washington, America's first SSBN and USS Daniel Webster with her experimental sail planes configuration, all 1/700 resin by OKB
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Batman & Robin Batmobile
Batman & Robin Batmobile, 1/25 scale model by Revell
This is the batmobile from Batman & Robin movie. It is hairy stick painted in humbrol gloss black overall with details in satin black and custom mixed light blue to simulate lighting. A couple of firsts for me, i used tamiya polishing compounds to try to get a mirror gloss finish and a final gloss cote to some success, also a Molotow chrome pen to paint non chromed parts to match the chromed parts, which i must admit the finish was superb. Finally i used some red and blue acrylic paint to represent lighting effects on the chrome in the side bays. All in all a challenging enjoyable build.
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SR71 egg plane Galactica
SR71 egg plane by Hasegawa
An enjoyable build with no fit issues, custom built pilot and co pilot added to cockpit, brush painted in humbrol satin black. The original decals had yellowed, so i followed a tip and left them in a window for a couple weeks and voila the sun bleached them white again, result. Until i came to use them and they disintegrated. A lesson learned as i now decal coat older decals. So sat on the shelf of doom for a while, until Graham J suggested i use any decals and have fun with it. So raiding my spares tin i found some battlestar galactica viper decals someone had given me. So now we have blackbird with Galactica markings and flown by Starbuck.
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E-2 Hawkeye Q plane
E-2 Hawkeye Q plane by Formoobby
This was a kit that caught my fancy, it is a resin kit of about 21 parts. Good fit and very little filler needed, decals were a pain in as much they had no separation, so had to be individually cut out from carrier sheet some with very little separation. Overall a fun build hand painted in humbrol enamels with a satin cote, with a cut down coffee jar lid for a stand.