Blast from the past....

[Gary Boxall]

Sorting things out today in preparation for our move, discovered an old photo I'd completely forgotten about. At best guess, I would have been in my teens probably when I made this and without doubt, it would have been a Tamiya offering. Gotta love the red fire extinguisher



Gary

[John Everett]

Not bad, really. Might need a dust off. Is the model completed? If not, it might be considered the ultimate shelf queen in need of completion.

[Philipp Gross]

Don't make me bring out my ancient attempts at model building

That being said...how about we all post some of our old stuff? I'll happily join once I'm back home

Philipp

[Gary Boxall]

Not bad, really. Might need a dust off. Is the model completed? If not, it might be considered the ultimate shelf queen in need of completion.

Sadly, only the photo exists now....

Don't make me bring out my ancient attempts at model building

That being said...how about we all post some of our old stuff? I'll happily join once I'm back home

Philipp

Cracking idea

Gary

[Steve Hutchinson]

Nice thread

I still use my old kits for air brush practice, so they are very bashed but multicoloured, I did save 2 finished ones, but they are "old"

I will photo them when my camera batteries are charged, and someone else has committed to the embarrassment of teenage work, only 45 years ago with Italeri and a paintbrush with the Airfix magazine and the first year of the Military modeling magazine from 1972, for guidance and inspiration

I still have my first copy somewhere

More to come

Steve H

[Raoul Kunz]

All right... when we are presenting embarrassments here anyway... let's bring it on...

This is a Tamiya IV D, the one that comes with the late model (~late 1943) 40cm tracks, I think it's a kit from 70something. For that age actually fairly good details, I'm thinking of building one ootb, just to see how much I can achieve just with skill and no AM on an kit that old .
Aaaaanyway - here we go... it's brush painted... not that it would make much of a difference. I suppose it's better than "early pattern Raoul" AB with the Revell starter single action gravity feed AB, powered by a bottle of compressed air...somehow this sounds positively archaic today .



Awww hell, what's the point hiding it...here's a Tiger B painted in what Revell suggests for RAL 7028 Dunkelgelb ("sponge cake dough colour") "sprinkled" with un-thinned Revell acrylic Brick Red, claiming to be the appropriate representation of RAL 8017 Rotbraun ("jelly filling") applied with a Revell pattern single action gravity feed AB with some "mud" exceedingly unconvincingly modelled by a layer of brown coloured structured acrylic paste ("brittle" to keep with the gastronomic references ). All in all a veritable piece of cake...haha...very funny I know... .


Let this be a warning example to younger modellers never to listen to Revell suggested colour patterns... ever!


Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz who regrets nothing!

[Rob Matthews]

Not at all bad - You can see the early promise was there for Gary That level of face painting still adorns many figure models

Same for Raoul. With a bit of weathering that Tiger camo would come out nice.

Considerably later in my modelling career and marking my complete move from Wingey things this was the first completed model I submitted to Vinnie on Military Modelling
I can remember being incredibly nervous



Looking at it - I'm not certain I've improved that much

Good call Gary

Lets see some more Team

Rob

[Philipp Gross]

I'm back from that absolutely terrible vacation and have finally trawled the uncharted dephts of my archive for suitably horrible model photos

Please note the correlation between photo quality and model quality


Zvezda IS-2 and Italeri M47....yes, that's the same M47 I completely rebuilt a while ago.


Trumpeter KV-1...has since been stripped of paint and is being turned into something slightly better.


Academy Wirbelwind....a bad copy of the old Tamiya Wirbelwind.


Dragon (ex Gunze) Panther G - My oldest model which I don't consider completely ruined by youthful incompetence. Also the place where I first dabbled with aftermarket additions: Etched grills and side skirts!


Dragon's M4A3E8 - my first Sherman. Still full of mistakes, so I took it apart for rebuilding, which I will hopefully complete some day

Philipp

[Steve Hutchinson]

Finally found some interesting stuff from the early 70's and my teenage modelling
My first attempt at painting by an non brush method, as you might imagine not very good

It is now an antique
Some cutting edge paint catalogues of the time, we were well served in the armour department


Stunning
And another airbrush antique with an old paint product from Airfix

My wrecking yard test subjects

The only 2 surviving tanks from my teenage building, my only excuse it was early 1970's




Early Panzer's have always been a fascination

I think this little journey back in time might help get the "mojo" moving but the knife damage to my thumb is still holding me back somewhat

Hope you have had a stimulating peak into the past

Anyone else ready to show their early work

Steve H

[Raoul Kunz]

Actually they don't look all that bad Steve! Certainly better than my output of roughly 2004/5-ish .
The I does have a distinct "Verlinden feel" to it what with all the ultra-obvious dry-brushing going on .


Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz