What's YOUR favourite model? & WHY? 🤔 Ep.2
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- A thought - provoking, brief look at some of my own work & talk to make you consider: WHICH models are YOUR favourites, and (more importantly) WHY?
Was it the kit quality? Nice build? The detail you added? Or just an amazing result? OR was it a nightmare kit that you managed to defeat with a great result like my recent SEA HARRIER?
For more similar content, please check out my channel: / @peter-oxley-modelling...
Please Like, share, comment & subscribe!
When I refer to the 1/32 Meng Me 163b Komet "That not many other people do well..." I mean the kit manufacturers, -not other model builders! 🤭
A few of my favourite kits are my latest build, the Tamiya 1/35 Sherman, after putting together the vintage Airfix me 262 and mosquito dogfight double with a missing canopy off the mosquito which I had luckily one in my spares box which almost fitted and went together with a little filling the Tamiya Sherman was just a joy to build! No issues went together like a dream and with the crew figures looks fantastic. My second was the Matchbox Victor, I did it in a white bomber scheme with aftermarket decals and is proudly displayed in my living room. It was also my first attempt at using spray rather than just brush painting and thirdly, for pure nostalgia the Matchbox BF 109 E. I have 2, one in a mint original scheme box which will remain that way and the one I built was in a later battered box. I did it in desert camo with the mottling and it turned out great, much better than the child me could ever have hoped for. I'm currently battling with a vintage Airfix P38 Lightning which, with its slightly warped nacelles, is proving a challenge but with patience I'll beat it into submission and make it look presentable by the time I'm finished with it.
I think my favourite is my 1/35 Tamiya Tiger 1. Fist time I used an airbrush, first use of Tamiya plastic tracks, first use of etch (on the grilles, machine guns and aerial) and first time i used hairspray to get worn snow camo. I spend weeks on it and it ended up in a nice custom case with a (Tiger ! ) nameplate i was so Happy 😊
They all look great Peter. Like you I don't tend to build multiple of a kit amongst some of my favourite kits... Airfix HMS Victory, I did some great detail painting on the stern gallery as a teenager and it looked fab. the Airfix HMS Ark royal loved the freedom of placing all the aircraft on the deck and in the lifts. generally my favourite were all the matchbox AFV kits on thier diorama bases. I am revisiting some of those kits now but its not the same as I see it through an experienced modellers lens its very different experience to building as a kid.
I read a lot of history about the 1943-45 European air war, so my favourite aircraft is the B-17. I have built many 1/48 and. 1/72 variants from Revell, HK and Airfix. On my Wall are two more or less perfect builds 1/48 and 1/72 B-17G together with a 1/72 Lanc and a couple of fighters from the period. To get a new challenge I have a razorback Jug and a Mustang in 1/32 scale waiting in my stash. It is very rewarding to look at a finished model and know that I have done my very best. Maybe I will get the Tamiya 1/48 Lanc too as a tribute to the Brittish bomber boys.
I got that silver one but the glue put melting bumps in the wing on top of the wheel bay. So that is a done deal. LOL
Favourite build…. I got two I’d say. Okay back in the day being a model build in the middle of nowhere on the Canadian prairie well. It’s hard to get good models. My dad and uncle tried. And some times they lucked out. But. My first few models I butchered. Lol. I had no idea what I was doing. But two models I loved where the monogram 1/48 scale mosquito and I got a hobby craft b-29. Think it was 1-100th scale. Anyway. Over the last two years I found the B-29 (from a different company but same tool. And I got the tamiya mosquito kit. Both kits I gave all the love. All the extra detail and patience. And we’ll they look great. However. Currently just started the Trumpeter 1/32 scale Vought F4U 4 Corsair kit. It’s more old school do it yourself detail. And I’m liking it.
Tamiya 1/32 Corsair (probably the best kit I've ever had), second place goes to the 1/24 Airfix Hellcat. Both give very unique building experience.
What a great selection of kits, the ME 163 was a really wonderful lovely paint job actually there all were 😄l remember one well it was three models l made when l was about 16 years old and had just started work in London at Sunday Times and going towards Holborn Station was Beatties so l bought three 1/72 Airfix B17s painted them in olive drab with dark grey undersides hang them from my box room ceiling in a vic formation with cotton wool on one of the engines and at 65 l can still see them hanging there in my mind's eye 🤔also that shop was where l bought my first Tamiya
Oh thats a great memory, Barry...especially the cotton wool! 😆
After the bizarre evening I've had it soo refreshing to come back home and get in touch with normality. I have a little story regarding model making if you will indulge me. Many years ago I served in the RAF and my hobby for making models became known where I worked in South Wales, one particular guy would always take the mick out of me because of my hobby to quite a large degree and always made out my hobby was childish in some way. Fast forward to one Christmas when the sqn had a Christmas bash and through a quirk of fate the group of us ended up at this guys house, walking into his front room was a 8'x4' sheet of plywood mounted on legs and frame. And upon that was every Phantom jet the airforce had in all their sqn markings and early prototype F4 s . I was absolutely gobsmacked and he then sort chuckled and said he wouldn't wind me up anymore and we became good friends after that. Strange race of creatures arn't we?
Great story! 👍🏻😆
My favourite kit is the 1/48 Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair. One of their single engine WW2 fighters where you only have to squirt some glue in the box and shake to get a good representation 😀😀 . Very good detail for it's time (and now) and plenty of marking options available. A beautiful kit in my book. Did mine, unsurprisingly as a New Zealander, as an RNZAF machine in the Pacific.
Any fw190 kit..I just love that plane..and all variants
Frog Sea Fury, absolutely beautiful, assembled back in the 70's too
Enjoyed that, Peter, thanks for sharing. Really like the Komet and Chaffee.....built a few of those tanks in the 80s and have a Revell kit ready to go...!
Just going through some of your older videos Peter. The Mustang looks superb, the paint finish and all the details so well picked out 👍 As an aside, where are your modelling lamps from please? Thanks, Chris
They are Lightcraft lamps Chris. 👍🏻
Love the P-51. My favorite kit that I have recently built is the Eduard 1/48 Wildcat. I tried to follow Spencer Pollard’s build of the same kit and my finish came came pretty darn close.
The 1977 Airfix 1/24 Stuka, by a mile, which I got as a pressie when it came out (Cost about £7 if I recall). I wonder if the soon to be re-released version will be as nice as I remember - and whether the mould has stood up to the test of time. I Think No. 2 is probably another ancient one from an even earlier period of my youth, around 1970, the 1/72nd Frog Westland Wessex. Which may be the first kit I made, back in the days when glue came in a tube, and parts were snapped off the sprues, and glued on in any old order. I can still remember the taste of the Airfix glue.
Nice stuff. Just the spit was flat white on the bottom in 1940. Gives me that calk board scratch thing. LOL
BRILLIANT job on that Mustang. 🤣👍🏻 On my to-do list is the Airfix 1/72 A Bit of Lace B-17G. My younger brother was building one in the 70s and messed up by trying to clean off the clear parts after a botched paint job (brush, no airbrush/masks then). All the clear parts frosted over and the kit got binned. I want to wipe that stain off our modelling history by doing it right this time but getting one of those kits at the right price today is quite the challenge. Pride of place so far is the old Tamiya 1/35 Tiger tank where I fixed all the inaccuracies (that I knew of) with cardboard, plastic card, metal wire and bits of sprue - even printing out unit insignia on a clear decal sheet with an inkjet printer (then clear-coating the printed emblems with light coats before applying the decals because the ink would run if they got too wet). There are many other (and far better) Tiger tank models but this one is MINE. 😅 A favourite model is one that you slogged over to finish or one that you have a history with, in my opinion.
Thanks Ronald, thats a great tale that many people will identify with! And stay tuned as the 3rd episode next week (Spitfire on the thumbnail) features that Tamiya Tiger as well!👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab looking forward to it. 🥂
Believe it or not, one of my favourites is the classic Tamiya Kampfwagen 2 because it was the first kit I built as a kid and the first build when I restarted the hobby a few years ago. And yes, there were some subtle differences in the quality of the finished product. I also enjoyed building the Revell Schnell boat because I really went to town with scratch-building and modifying the kit. I normally build armour and aircraft, so the pleasure came from getting a result that was unexpected and over-coming the challenges of building a type of kit that was not my usual type.
Impossible to name a specific Fav; honourable mentions ; AFV 1/35 clear T34 tank & Zoukei Mura HO229 & Dauntless SBD-3 1/32 by Trumpeter
Yes, I have heard good reports on those before, - good call! 👍🏻
Mine was the Airfix 1/48 Boulton Paul Defiant..
.. not just because its my best plane build so far,or even because I just love the look of it.. it was just a pleasure to build. ;)
Andy
My favorite till now is the AFV Club F-5E Tiger II, that I built for the Flory Out of Africa Group Build. Even though i didn't finish it before the GB closed, I did stick with it and finished about 8 months later. I was very happy with how I was able to solve a few of the kits challenges, and end up with a great colorful camo scheme for the Royal Moroccan Air Force. The kit itself had some amazing detail. A bit fiddly, but nothing some patience and test fitting couldn't solve. My only criticism of the kit is that they included a nice sheet of photo-etch for the intake splitter vents and canopy frame with mirrors, but couldn't enlarge the sheet a bit more to include seat harnesses. I had to rob them from an aftermarket Aires cockpit set I had.
I recall seeing it Ken, great work by you! 👍🏻
Thank you Peter! I really enjoyed your video and seeing your favorite builds as well. The Me-163, Spitfire and Mustang are stunning!
My favorite kit is M4A3E8 Easy Eight, 1/35 by Tamiya. New tooling very good kit. It fitted pretty well. I found out the Easy Eight is the suspension and not the gun.....
Favourite model?&WHY? most defiantly the Abrams M1of any variant I fell in love with the M1 by Tamiya back in 1982 when it was first released and spent a substantial amount of my YTS salary on it. unfortunately the Tamiya kit no longer cuts the mustard mainly as much like the real thing it has undergone all the improved variants but still retains components from the original 1982 release hull and running gear which gives the kit the appearance of a low riding M1. Enter the new order Dragon although a little complicated with over busy instructions and requires some fetteling. but by a long shot the new kid on the block Meng hold the gold standard for me good build and most importantly the right stance for this evolving MBT platform. I will probably be building M1s till my final days.
I like Tigers, Fireflys and RAF Buccaneers! 😬
Mine was the Gunze Sangyo QE2 because I did a great job on the building and a great paint job and gave to my father as a Christmas present as he overseen the repainting of the real thing !
WoW! That's Awesome Jeff! 👍🏻
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Thank you Took me 2 years but i was working abroad only a few weeks home every year, but the smile on his face was my greatest present ever!
@@Jeff-cv4qn Great job! 👍🏻
Have 3...all Matchbox...the F'86 and Saab Tunnan as 1 of them was the first kit i ever built (cant remember which 1 it was as it must be about 40 years ago now) and the Grumman Panther as it was the 1st aerobatic team kitl i built....the Blue Angles
All three aircraft look great and the Chaffee too. The Mustang does look like a warbird but hey so what! I think Tamiya may have made a boo-boo with the Spitfire. I seem to recall that early Mk1s and 2s did not have the crow bar in the cockpit door flap, this being introduced on later marks. Tamiya is now in my dog house with Kinetic! I tend to enjoy the history and markings of an individual ship or aircraft aspect of modeling. I like representing a moment in time from a photo or a plane or a moment in the service life of a warship. Call me a closet historian. BTW your P-51 is from a famous color photo of the 4th FG probably in spring 1945 and I have several references of this aircraft....see CLOSET HISTORIAN! Can't wait to see the Canadian squadron Spit 9 in the upcoming video...probably have a photo of that aircraft too.
Yeah, It's Charley Fox from 412 Sqn RCAF, The pilot who shot-up Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's staff car...
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab I will have to dig out my SPITFIRE: THE CANADIANS and have a look. I have been a big fan of the RCAF in WWII ever since reading WING LEADER by Johnny Johnson as a kid. 😀
My dark secret is I like bad kits. Misaligned fuselages, gapped wings, warped components, an abundance of flash and a casual resemblance to the prototype, only serve to entice me. As long as your expectations are low, dodgy kits are good fun.
Your reaction to British airplanes being flat white 1940 t0 1941 is fun. No, your right cheerio. That's classic we will fix that hold the phone. No, I didn't have to much wine Yank. LOL
But Peter it's the Apple effect you may never see the interior ever again but you know the detail is exquisite made of beautiful components all laid out perfectly.