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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Rebel U-Wing from Star Wars Rogue One. 1/100 by Revell
This is a build and play kit with a lights and sound module. It comes pre painted externally but unpainted cockpit. So we started with a repaint using satin white enamel, underbelly was supplied mid grey. Having watched the movie for reference there were a few discrepancies with the paintjob which i have righted. The cockpit was painted up with paint dots for lights added, the crew figures were both humanoid, whereas in the movie the co pilot is a lanky robot K2-So, so a little sanding to the head and cocktail stick painted silver eyes, we now have a robot co-pilot. The U-wing in the movie is not a pristine example but a well worn one, so the final job was a touch of weathering applied with acyrilic black paint randomly applied, left to dry then gone over with a acetone free nail polish remover soaked cotton bud.

Reman Scorpion Fighter from the Star Trek Nemesis Film, 1/25 Scale kit by Polar Lights.
A snap fix kit, glued together with a very good fit. No filler required with the two figures of Picard and Data provided pre painted. The sticker provided for the cockpit had to be glued in place and satin cote over. Brush painted in custom mixed humbrol enamels, with the main colour being a mix of satin black and metallic green. An enjoyable build of an unusual subject.

MSC (Motorised Submersible Canoe) Sleeping Beauty, Scale 1/35 kit by GMU
Developed by the SOE at the Queen Mother Reservoir near Colnbrook during the second world war. It got its nickname as the inventor was caught asleep in a canoe by a commanding officer, who dubbed him Sleeping Beauty, the name stuck. Approximately 70 of these where made and used during and after WW2. The Kit was of a very soft plastic and gave its own challenges in building along with extensive PE for valve and control handles and breakwater around the pilot. The rudder guard had to be replaced with brass rod. Brush painted in humbrol enamels. Overall a challenging but enjoyable build.

USS Barbel 1/700 scale by OKB Grigorov In resin and PE
The Barbel was the USA's last diesel powered submarine class of SSK's with all subsequent boat's being nuclear powered. Painted in humbrol enamels, model being only 95mm long.

Sunflower 11 Japanese car ferry, 1/700 scale model by Arii.
A nice build not requiring much filler, hand painted in humbrol enamels and rusted to match photo of ferry.

Kylo Ren's shuttle 1/96 scale by Revell
Built OOB and hand painted in humbrol enamels. The kit went together quite well, no filler needed, but was lacking detail to the upper wings channel. An enjoyable build with the model standing over 350mm (1 foot 2 inches) tall.

Diorama title "Budding Test Pilot", a take on a youtube video of a breakers yard grab swinging an executive jet around like a kid with a toy aeroplane.
Kits are Hawk T1A 1/32 scale by Revell and Hitachi Astaco Neo 1/35 scale by Hasegawa, with eduard PE for the ejection seats and miniart pallets, drums and truck. All hand painted in enamels.
The Hawk was a real nightmare to build, with the nose not closing up when assembled without shaving the cockpit interior down, requiring filler in numerous places.
The Hitachi was on the overhand a dream to build with the level of detail stunning. Hydraulic hoses in rubber, all hinges work as do the cylinder rods, allowing this model to be posed however you like with a gentle touch.

Dastardly and Muttley
Muttley is a resin figure of few parts. Dastardly's aircraft is a chopped Frog/Novo Fairey Swordfish in 1/72 scale, the figure came from a diecast wacky racers car, which was my six month challenge entry.

Interstellar Alliance Victory class Destroyer, Excalibur from Babylon 5/Crusade, by Agents of Gaming.
This is a white metal model, approximately 150mm (6") long. Built OOB and painted in humbrol enamels.

Spectrum Passenger Jet by Imai
Originally a toy model with firing missiles and an undercarriage for a pull back motor. With some cutting, filling and addition of jet exhausts a reasonable example of the jet from Captain Scarlet can be made. I had fun as the kit was missing the front canopy, so a microwave and clear 1mm plastic sheet finally produced a replacement canopy, not perfect but will do. Model hand brushed in Humbrol Enamels. Did have an issue with the aged decals but a paint touch up sorted this.

George Clooney as Batman in Ice suit, 1/6 scale resin figure.
Brush painted in humbrol enamels with a satin clearcote, cape left glosss black.

US Marines and US Air Force Osprey's, Egg planes by Hasegawa.
A fun build with lots of decals including the walk way markings, not found on some accurate kits. Handpainted in humbrol enamels with a clearcote varnish.

Chinese 4500m Shen Hai Yong Shi submersible, 1/72 scale by Trumpeter.
This is a very nice kit, it comes prepainted and is a snap kit. So to take it to the next level i drilled out the observation ports and filled with kristal clear to create the acrylic lenses that dont come with the kit. The sample tray at the front was solid, so with a careful opening out with a sharp knife it became a mesh as the real thing is. All the external parts to add to the main body have been detail painted. You are given a choice of stickers or decals, The decals are a bit thin and have a tendency to wrap themselves up, so it was fortunate to have a replacement sticker on one occassion. Finished in a satin clear cote.

TR-5 Harpy "Norma" , 1/72 scale by Hasegawa OOB from Japanese Anime Crusher Joe
Brush painted in humbrol enamels with a coastal kits base. A very enjoyable build, no fit issues. A paint as you build model due to the complex assemblies you build and add as you go.

Volkswagen Type 2 Micro Bus 1963, 1/24 scale by Hasegawa. A tribute to the 60th anniversary of the IPMS.
Custom colour scheme and decals, brush painted in humbrol enamels. The matt black window seals caused no end of frustration, not perfect but enough is enough. The interior is populated with model kit boxes and ipms mags.
Figure is from Master Box, modified and aged, Any resemblance to John Tucker is purely intentional LOL.

This is an Aquaphibian from the TV series Stingray, approx 1/12 scale, Limited run 3D resin print.
The figure is hand painted in a custom mix of Humbrol enamels and finished with a light silver wash after spending many hours watching Stingray.

PLAN type 033G Wuhan, 1/144 scale by Trumpeter.
This was China's single attempt to turn an aging Soviet Romeo class, built under license to a carrier killer with six guided missiles housed in a modified fairing. The kit has all the parts to build a standard type 033, plus the parts to build the 033G with some cutting of the main hull. The fit is good, requiring little filler, except to blend in the new fairing. I bit the bullet and drilled out all the flood holes and windows in the sail by hand with a pin vice and knife. The fairing needed a few repairs along the way for obvious reasons. There is a fit issue around the sail, which Trumpeter have tried to address by putting the hand rail around the sail too high, its also too thick and it fouls the centre missile hatches, as a result the centre missiles are slightly askew to fit in launch position. The handrails on the main deck fore and aft are scratch built from brass rod and rigged with twine supplied in the kit Its not a small model at some 560mm (22") long. Windows in the sail were filled with Kristal Clear. Brush painted in Humrol and Tamiya enamels.

Dune Atreides ornithopter, 1/200? scale by MENG.
Humbrol enamel brush painted, then decals added and weathered with AK dust effects hairystick applied.

Dune Harkonnen ornithopter, 1/200? scale by MENG.
Humbrol enamel brush painted, then decals added and weathered with AK dust effects hairystick applied.

Why so serious? Joker in nurses uniform Bust, 1/10 scale Fanart £D printed in resin
Painted in humbrol enamels with the exception of the pink, humbrol acrylic. Another learning curve, not happy with the satin white, but this was a trial piece before tackling the full body figure. Overall pleased with results, even printed badge on photopaper came out ok even at this scale.

Mr Freeze from Batman and Robin Movie 1/16 scale by Hasegawa
A fun build no fit issues painted with Molotow liquid chrome and Vallejo acrylics.

Fen Dou Zhe submersible, 1/72 scale by Trumpeter
This Chinese submersible has been to the deepest parts of our oceans including the challenger deep at over 10,000 metres deep
The kit comes pre coloured and snap fit. With detail painting and gluing together this can be taken to the next level, Painted by hairystick in humbrol enamels

WASP Spearhead bomber from Stingray, 1/72 scale modified Italeri kit
Based on the B-58 Hustler, this build was to replicate the bomber as used in the TV series, which was a modified Hustler. Hairystick painted in humbrol enamels.

Mini Thunderbird 1 by Aoshima
A fun build brush painted in enamels, decals to fins are a challenge, definitely needed decal fix.

Mini Thunderbirds Mole by Aoshima
A really enjoyable build, brush painted with enamels and a Molotow liquid chrome pen for the drill.

Mini Thunderbird 4 by Aoshima
Egg plane like Thunderbirds, good fun, brush painted in enamels.

Captain Scarlet SPV by Imai
A bit of work required to get this toy kit to look the part, scratch built grills, fixed fin. Given the age of the decals, a coat of microscale decal cote made then viable and went on with no problems. Red stripes added using stripe decals purchased separately.
The rubber tracks went on fine but be careful they come off as the rubber snaps after being stretched over the track wheels after a few weeks, would recommend replacing them.

The Pod Mole from Thunderbirds Are Go animated series 1/48 scale by Tomy
This was a joy to build and motorised to boot, no filler and all parts fitted well. Brush painted in humbrol enamels with the drill finished using a molotow liquid chrome pen.

Spectrum Angel Trainer, based on F-15E Eagle 1/48 by Revell
This was my six month challenge build, what to do with an F-15E, what if? Contemplated a Macross scheme, then thought about the Idolmaster decaled planes, finally settling on something Captain Scarlet themed, having never seen an Angel Trainer and sitting with a two seater F-15, mmmmmmmm.
So heres the result, main body flipped, blanked off areas, extras added, custom decals mixed with spares box decals. Hairy stick painted in humbrol enamels. ' Teaching Angels to fly since 2067'

Model shop diorama, shop by academy, figures and scooter by Tamiya all 1/24 scale.
Model shop customised with West Middlesex banner and additional models added to shelves. Sand paper roof added and painted to resemble a felt roof.
Brush painted in humbrol enamels and weathered with dry brushing.

Obsidian Fury from Pacific Rim Uprising by Bandai,
Joy to build, hand painted in enamels, no masking (id still be painting in 2026 if i did). Markings were stickers, tiny and absolute nightmare to apply and stay down, should have been waterslide decals.

USS Skipjack early (5 bladed prop) and USS Snook Late (7 bladed prop), 1/700 scale by OKB Grigorov
Hand painted in enamels.

Thunderbird 5 & 3 mini (egg plane style) by Aoshima.
A fun build that stretches your painting skills for TB3 as tiny.

Star Wars AT-ST 1/54 scale by AMT/Ertl with Wallace figure
Wallace and Gromit took a wrong turn on the way back from the moon, Via woodworm hole and ended up in a galaxy far far away. I give you the wrong trousers (star wars style).

A Grand Day Out moon rocket from a Star Wars Millennium Falcon 1/251 scale by Revell
Continuing my Wallace and Gromit star wars epic, one for all the rivet counters LOL.