I built the Airfix BE2c and it was a pleasant build.
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I last built the Airfix Mk I tank maybe ten years ago. It took a little effort to remove the Mk II features, but was fun to paint in a Solomon J Solomon paint scheme!
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Iāve heard nothing but good things about the Airfix BE. Iām thinking the version with the anti-Zeppelin rockets.
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Theyāre good quality kits with very fine detail. I built one, my first, for the Biplanes campaign earlier this year, a Westland Wapiti. Requires a lot of test fitting and patience.
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So I am in. Thanks!
Let us know if the campaign kicks off. It will be surely another very interesting and multi-dimensional thing covering tanks, vehicles, planes.
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Thatās good news Tamas! With seven āgoingā and another two interested I think this will be fine and will definitely kick off! But Iām hoping we might get more boat-builders joining in.
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OK let the builds begin! Welcome to 2026, hopefully a good year for us modellersā¦
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Hi Folks,
As already mentioned, I will build the Miniart Ausint 3rd series kit during this campaign. It will be a vehicle in Russian (or Soviet) service, currently uncertain about it. No plan for any update or a/m part to use in the build - as per my experience on a T-55 and on a T-34, the Miniart kits do not need any additional part. They are simply good.
My start photos:
Cheers,
TamƔs
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very cool!
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Hi Gents,
Build report about the Austin kit. I have spent about 16-18 hours with the kit and got to step 32 of the 75 total.
I hoped a relatively simple assembly with a new subject (never build truck before) and I mistakenly forgot that āThis is Miniart!ā.
Not an easy kit. Full of details, many extremely tiny parts to add (many of them are impossible to clean perfectly as they are too tiny to securely hold AND remove the sprue residue at the same time), unnecessary engineering (many parts could have been simply molded with others, but Miniart decided that the modeler shall have a great experience with a real assembly of the vehicle instead). The craziest thing is that there are many parts which are glued in the first steps and their counterparts are coming 10 steps later, when there is no chance to simply correct any alignment issues.
Long story short: a typical Miniart kit. Perhaps the Bronco KV-85 made me mad like this. However I am sure that (just like the Bronco KV-85 and Miniart T-34/85 and the Miniart T-55 I built earlier) it will look great once finished.
I will spend some more time with the kit next week but after that I will travel to UK for two weeks, so next update is planned for February.
Happy modeling!
TamƔs
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Looking good Tamas! MiniArt is not for the faint of heart.
Where in the UK are you going? Will you have time for museums? I live on the outskirts of London so IWM Duxford, the Tank Museum, and all the London museums are within easy reach for me, but a challenge for tourists with limited time and transportā¦
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I will be at Salisbury. Duxford, the Arm Fly, Navy Air, Brooklands, Beaulieu and the Tankmusem - I had all already (spent about three months in the UK in 1-2-3 weeks sessions in 2022-2024-2025). Visited Stonehenge 5x, too.
Loved all museums, they are all very informative amd aome of them can be visited unlimited times in one year after ticket pirchased.
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Sounds like a great itinerary!
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I have been thinking of building the Copper State Models Nieuport 11. This will be a bit of a stretch for my modest skills but Iām looking forward to seeing how it will come out. Getting the clear doped line finish will be an accomplishment. I have started by reading the books I have squirled away over the years.
Paul
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That plane should be great! For myself Iām thinking of a little diorama using the WWI troops that came with the Tamiya Mk IV tank. The tank is a year too late so not for this campaign, but the figs will certainly work for 1916.
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You are brave going with figures, a real test of the skills. Iām looking forward to seeing how they come out.
Paul
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Iām OK with the uniforms - just donāt look at the faces!
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Well itās been a bit quiet here in this campaign! I grabbed some time this afternoon and made a start on the Tamiya figs. There are five in the set, an officer with swagger stick and pistol, a running rifleman, another infantryman getting up, another kneeling while aiming, and a Lewis-gunner lying prone. The first three are all good for a Blackadder-style āover the topā vignette, but the other two are a bit out of step as they are rather static. So Iāll use the first three and make a segment of trench behind them. Work started with the Rupert, followed by the two squaddies, and as the saying goes they fell together - typical Tamiya engineering!
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Hi,
Being back from the UK trip, I could catch up with the kits on my workbench. The Austin has been completely built up, now applied the Gunze Black 1500 surfacer. I am planning the paint session for this weekend.
The chassis, the body and the turrets are just put together to have an impression of the whole thing - they will be painted separately as the kit is with full interior and I kept many doors and windows opened to show the interior, too.
So far I am satisfied, however it is another fiddly kit from Miniart - only for experienced modelers.
TamƔs
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Looks good so far! Just primed my figures this morning tooā¦
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