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atpilotal.bsky.social
Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️
@atpilotal.bsky.social
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25 years airline and Instructor Pilot in real life 👨‍✈️ Modelmaker. Erstwhile writer of paranormal action and suspense thrillers. Not here for your politics or religious views, thanks.
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
1/48 Monogram B-25J Mitchell updated to represent US Navy PBJ-1J "Devil Dog" from the Commemorative Air Force, 2015. Top turret deleted and airframe and radio fitted to modern standards with VHF aerial, landing lights and red beacon. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 7d
Sometimes you just need a therapy build!
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 9d
Let's talk about religion and family and cultural tradition, like that's true freedom
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 10d
Looks like Darth Vader without a helmet 😅
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 15d
#HeaviesGB B-24 interior almost done, added crew figures from the kit.
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 15d
Wow! That's attention to detail 🏆
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 15d
😂😂😂
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
Things are getting better, but you're right 👍
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
1/48 Monogram B-25J Mitchell updated to represent US Navy PBJ-1J "Devil Dog" from the Commemorative Air Force, 2015. Top turret deleted and airframe and radio fitted to modern standards with VHF aerial, landing lights and red beacon. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
He must have been very busy!!! I'll try to do his design proud 👊
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
I like this technique of building as much of the model as possible before painting 💪
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
Same 😅 TGIS 😊
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
#HeaviesGB #histscalemodels PB4Y-1 Liberator is plodding along. Built up the waist gunner interior using Metallic Details photo etch and Browning 50 cal guns. Also showing my take on the interior colours: Dull Dark Green, Interior Green, and Zinc Chromate sidewalls which will get aluminium bracing.
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
Nope. I managed to knock it over even with that thing. I now keep it in a jar!
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 17d
You've either done it, or you're going to do it 😅
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 23d
Thanks 👍 yes it does stay in the new shape once you've boiled it!
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · 28d
Belated start to my #HeaviesGB entry but we're off at last!

New nose section has been un-warped in boiling water, and almost fits the fuselage 💪

Old supercharger sections have been cut out of the engine nacelles and new ones prepared

Gear legs have been installed in 'up' position with hinges.
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 19
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 18
Ready to go #backtothefuture
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 17
Very kind , thank you Stef 👊
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 17
Thank you! That's the look I was going for 👊
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 17
Spitfire XVIe is finished! 1/24 Airfix kit with Buchon Models resin conversion for E-wing and low-back/bubble canopy. Decals for 349 (Belgian) Sqn RAF, Fassburg, Germany in Spring 1945. One of the best kits I've ever built, luckily I've a few more in the stash 😉 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 17
Yes, clipped wings were applied to the variants optimised for low-level operations, to improve the roll rate. Something else I found out while researching the build!
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 16
Weathering complete, just the details to go. Spitfire XVIe, Airfix 1/24 Mk IXc converted to XVIe low-back version. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 15
1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion is nearing the finish line now... painting and decals complete, just weathering and finishing to go 👍 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
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Auto-Tech Pilot 📚✈️ @atpilotal.bsky.social · Sep 13
Thanks Ian, I used blu-tac sausages with cling film to mask it.
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