Very nostalgic, when I was a kid in the late 70's/early 80's I'd spend my pocket money on Matchbox kits and knock one out every week using my Dads 'borrowed' Stanley knife and Humbrol enamel paints and eventually I achieved a finish something like your example. I always had trouble free handing canopy frames ( It was years before I felt up to tackling an He 111) and my childlike fertile imagination actually invented canopy masks using sellotape, although I failed to take out a patent.🤨 I also remember dissolving sprue in liquid glue to use as a filler before I even knew you could buy the proper stuff. Thanks for this vid, it brought back many happy memories.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anton ! You were a trendsetter 😀 I started in the late 90s as a youngster and eas much the same. Paint the parts with enamel and put them on the windowsill to dry. Too much glue and what on earth is filler !

@tomaspisecky4835

2 жыл бұрын

i used PVA glue for a mask, doesn't react with styrene so do not leave mark, it is flexible and can be applied with brush into small corners, peel off when the paint dries, and on the edges for peeling paint

Good result considering the quality of the paints. If Airfix's aim is to encourage people into the hobby then supplying quality paint in the starter sets would be a useful investment. Also a small piece of sandpaper, perhaps a knife with those snap off blades and a 'hints and tips' card with the instructions? Or a discount card to buy some decent paint and glue?

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve ! Even a nail file style sander would be fine. They served me for years ! This one came with a hints and tips sheet which was a nice addition. I think over primer the paints would be ok. But they aren't fantastic by any means.

As an only brush painter. I’d say you did an outstanding job of showing what you can do, with such little you have. Amazing brush painting skills man. :-)

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Modkits ! I think if I had access to all of my paints and still brushed them it would have been much better

@richg4051

2 жыл бұрын

If i could brush paint like that I would die a happy man.

When LPJ uses trash paints and still makes it look better than I can with good paints and an airbrush.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

😋

This was the funniest modelling video I’ve ever watched. You have my sense of humour. Made me laugh several times as well as keep me attentive to the things you were explaining.

I think you did a great job. Those paints that Airfix include are absolute pants. So you've done well to get an even finish.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ekmad I agree completely with you on the paints.

@Kickback-dm7zt

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels didn't turn out too bad all things considered... And they say you learn something new everyday... Thanks to this video I learned how to make my own filler which I NEVER even thought of so thank you very much. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thats a cracking build fella!! with only the contents of the starter kit.........

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian !

Wow! Impressive outcome given the paint. Almost as if they’re trying to discourage beginners.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

It makes you wonder really with the paints. If you're a kid maybe, you don't care so much, but for an older builder you want performance

That brush is great for one thing... Cleaning out the airbrush!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

😁

You have every right to be pleased with this result! I think it looks better than anything I could produce with a full range of modelling gear. Brilliant! Well done James. Stay safe my friend.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou Ferb ! Take care

Looks great to me! Nice tip on the Sprue glue, just mixed up a batch myself 😀

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Craig ! The best sprue goo comes from the same styrene as the kit, but it's not always economical to make up a new batch every time, I have a standard goo I use with 50% clear sprue and 50% grey takom and a drop of black laquer for visibility that I use on most of my builds. Clear styrene is the most pure so I try and add a bit of that if I can.

@craigkershaw8593

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels thanks for taking the time to reply. I am at the beginning of my model making journey and advice like this is much appreciated :)

Probaby the best starter kit challenge out there! Really amazing result

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks !

Really great result. Having seem Matt's BF109 build I think the big difference is that you applied a professional approach to the challenging limited materials and quality whereas (and I mean no disrespect) I think Matt was simulating a less experienced approach to the problem to see what the average customer at this level could achieve. The result is very good indeed with the clever workarounds really making a difference . I don't get why the included paints are so poor, Hornby should address this.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Octane, we both ( Matt and I ) have different approaches to the hobby as you said, I'm hoping that some beginners see this and think. Well I can fill these gaps if I need to, or, I dont need an airbrush to do shading e.t.c or maybe inspire folks to try something different. Appreciate the thoughts and kind words !

@ModelMinutes

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels yeah, i'm a complete noob :P

LPJ: I guess we will be using 3 paints *OAAAAAH* sound effect 😂

@lpjmodels

Жыл бұрын

It was definately a fml moment 😆

@erorrrrorr3884

Жыл бұрын

Haha OAAAAAAAH

Surface tension can be helped with a touch of detergent, I use this when doing washes with acrylics, maybe helps on raw plastic surface.

Utterly sexy build given the restraints. Nice one mate!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks my freind!

Vous démontrez tout votre talent sans l'artifice du matériel sophistiqué !! Bravo encore une fois !!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Merci Lag ! Je ne parle bien francais, mais j'ai google lens. Although that was my school level French helping me to write that comment. Very kind thankyou

@laghelach2654

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels 👍😉

It looks nice👍🏻, perhaps adding a drop of dish detergent to the thinning water would help to break the surface. I have some of those paints, I will try with and without. That was fun, thanks.

it's pretty impressive what you got out of this. loved the selfmade putty idea. and sanding was a good idea I assume. great work

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou Ricky 😀

excellent , again , you got it spot on , less intensity and more of the this is what makes model making fun, if you have all the tools in the world airbrushes , fancy paint , setting solutions etc etc , well as far as I'm concerned you may as well go and work for british aerospace , when i was young we didn't have all of that and it was still so much fun ,, well done , well done , well done , ingenuity is a craft in itself , if you haven't got something try a way round it , love the use of sprue and glue as filler , genius 👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍

Looks stunning nice... really

You should build another one with all the bells and whistles and techniques you usually use and show the difference.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

I'm tempted. But it wouldn't be soon.. lots to build at the mo

That turned out ludicrously great, given what you had to work with. Great job!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bruce !

@adeofbass

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video mate

This is a sign they need to do something about those paint pots. Could you imagine some total beginner to hobbling buys this all excited to build their first model…..only to open the paints and realize they now have to go out and buy more because the paints supplied have dried out.

As a kid, building Airfix/Matchbox/etc in the 70s.... I got my parents to save used matchsticks for applying glue. Also would blag an occasional stanley knife blade from my dad - And my paints back then were all enamels, with much better coverage on un-primed plastic. Otherwise, this video is pretty much what modelling was for me in those days.

Considering you only used the basic starter set bits provided it’s a pretty damn impressive build! It really makes you appreciate all the extra tools we use to build kits now but also shows you that you don’t need them to have fun making a kit.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy ! I think solving some of the challenges presented was one of the best things about this kit. For example I had no idea if the sprue goo would work with airfix glue.. usually it's extra thin that you make it with.

I think you did a great job considering everything.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jan 🍻

I wonder how many people get put off the hobby by these starter sets - it’s extremely difficult to achieve anything decent looking with the combination of a mediocre tooled kit, imprecise glue, and very poor paints. I know it’s about fun, but I think many would be disheartened You’ve done a great job with the very limited materials, but you’re someone with extensive modelling experience!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bibblebob ! The kit itself is a new simplified one aimed at beginners. And the fit was pretty decent. I feel sorry for those that buy one of the reissued older kits as a first kit.

🤝Interesing. Very good video👍

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Igor 🍻

Nice Work James!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Pete !

Great effort, showing useful tips and skills, brilliant👍🏼🤣

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Liam 🍻

Hi James! This is exactly the way I made all my models as a child. Except for the fact that the only paint supplied to my kits was silver... Later I have added black, white, red and brown leather paints (lacquer) and a yellow automotive paint (enamel) to my arsenal. Great times obviously! 🙂 You did really well! You should have won the first place. 😉

Very nice

@ModellingWeekly

2 жыл бұрын

Loving the cameo! ;D

@ModelMinutes

2 жыл бұрын

Good intro too - that Matt guy sounds like a right laugh :)

@ModelMinutes

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, and good build . . :D

@ModelMinutes

2 жыл бұрын

@@ModellingWeekly is good bants :P

*The result is very good for a Starter Set, well done!*

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Forever Plastic Kits ! It was really hard !

Looking at this, the starter sets from Airfix are a real terror for starting modellers :)

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

I thinks it's the paints that cause the most issues... but if you don't know any different it won't matter so much. Coming from having a fair bit of experience it helped but it also highlighted and reinforced that quality materials help so much when it comes to having a decent finish 😀

Jajajaja, good job James ! These remember me when i was 10 years old and building hasegawa kits, and now i look to my models 14 years later and i can beliv-it! Thanks for the cool vid!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joaquim ! It's was a good bit of fun. Thanks again for watching 🍻

Great job sir 👏

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob !

Fair play bud, I couldn't dream of putting decals on with no solutions or varnish, came out pretty damn fine at the end.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate ! Yeah it was so hard not to reach for the extra goodies 😀

Looks really good considering how little supplies you used. The revell starter sets have much better paint and glue imo.

I think after seeing a bunch of people giving the Airfix starter sets a try we should now go over to the starter sets from some other companies. From what I know Revell starter sets seem to be the most common over in continental Europe.

Lovely 😊👍

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks SF ! It was a bit of fun

Thanks for help

Soon as you put the glue on the wax paper, I could smell the video lol

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

It has such a distinct smell

It's a starter kit for children, without them, the hobby dies. It's meant to be fun.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

It's not very encouraging for a newbie to be fair. I did have fun though.

Very nice! Not bad at all considering what you had to work with. It just goes to show that even basic tools and supplies can produce a good looking model if you know what you're doing. I really liked that sprue goo trick too. I hadn't seen that before, so I learned something new there :)

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man ! I'll be doing a standalone tutorial on sprue goo properly at some point. Usually you use a thin glue, but the humbrol cement got me out of a spot

Looks great 👍

@lpjmodels

Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Great video! I used to do loads of Airfix models 40 - 50 years ago & saw this very kit in our local Aldi, I mentioned to the wife that I could just fancy buying it (was it just a fiver? I’m not sure) & building it in my spare time & take me back to being a kid. I didn’t, but my wife must’ve remembered & bought me one for Christmas! However she splashed out on the Tamiya 1:48 Spitfire & it’s so good I’m frightened to make it in case I spoil it!! 😂

Great result the airfix starter sets are quite good but the paints could be better if your prepared to do a couple of thin coats you can get good results as in this case

To be fair there is a hints and tips sheet supplied with this kit which mentions extra tools so I think you would've been justified in using a pair of cutters and sanding boards as these are specialist tools, nail clippers and some emery boards from Superdrug will do the same job and I'm sure most people will have these items in the house anyway.

Great job. I sometimes wonder if Airfix is shooting itself in the foot with these kits. Whilst it is an admirable idea to try and encourage people (especially youngsters) into the hobby and the kits themselves are pretty good I wonder how many are put off by the rubbish often dried solid paints? Probably better off without them - I never minded as a kid and it would lower the cost of the kit.

You did a great job

got a 1:48 tamiya spitfire in progress, its an airbrush job but im gonna give your glaze technique a try, looks quite good

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks ! Its something I'd usually do with oils because it's easier to fix if it's too heavy.

Great result given the "putty paints" used. Would really like you to do the same kit with proper paints and airbrush.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

That's a cool idea Loken67 thankyou

You did a great job with what you had!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stephanie , I made the best of it for sure 😄

It would be entirely fair to add some windscreen washer fluid to the paint. That would aid with the thinning and break down the surface tension. I think most of us have access to it. Your sprue goo was also a great idea. I have a few tubes of what would be useless glue lying about. Great video though. Possibly another video is to show a beginner how to take the next steps without busting the bank.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Trevor ! That would have helped a lot, but my sandpaper and toothpicks were already a bit cheeky to use !

Great video and i think i will make the same Challenge but with revell it will be interesting video 😊

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds good mate 😀

@masemodelassembling

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels for sure 🤘

Very nice James! I don’t think you cheated, model looks great!

what would be good to see is if you did the exact same kit again using every upgrade available and all the modern washes ect ect ect then compare them side by side.....PS first class job with just the very basic things you used... love old school......

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

There have been a few comments asking this, there aren't any upgrade sets for this exact kit. But.. I could pull out all the stops with the finishing.

Well done mate, the paints are shockingly bad in these kits, so hats off 😉👌

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tim, they certainly are below the quality they should be. I wonder if the standard hunbrol acrylics are like this

@the-primered-thumb

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels I have a few, they are a little bit thick, but on the whole they are as good as revell and vallejo model colours in their coverage 😉👍

looks good

Great video dude!

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate! I know how much you love spitfires.. maybe I should do a star wars one 🤔

@SullysScaleModels

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels star wars spit?! Would make a change from ax wing spit lol

Five yrs worth ( easy ) of 1/16 RC Tanks to build not counting all of the other military vehicles and yes, I too was secretly hoping for a 75mm Sherman Gun Tank to match off against my Jagdpanther Build. I hear and understand about secretly wanting another model for Christmas. ;o)

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

I hear ya. This was one of two I got for Xmas. ( the other is the new eduard zero) but I have too many anyway so 2 is a good number

Holy cow 😅 Good job!

You already had the kitchen towel and could have used that to press down the decals but the model looks great for a starter kit.

@lpjmodels

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ricardo, didn't think of that lol

@ricardoroberto7054

Жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels 😁👍

Wunderbal

The beading up of the paint appears to be more due to not washing the parts before hand. That's roughly the way they behave with residual release agent still on the plastic... though to bead that much that would be a heck of a lot of mold release remaining >.>' If it was purely a surface tension issue, the second coat wouldn't have gone on as nicely, I'd imagine.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

I dont think manufacturers use the release agents of yore, and I have never had a greasy kit, I think mould release is more in the plastic that's used these days. ( see here www.crodasmartmaterials.com/en-gb/effects/mould-release-additives ) I guarantee if it was an enamel it wouldn't have done it. It's in the chemistry of the acrylic applied to a smooth surface, once there is a tooth in the primer or base layer the grip helps the carrier to disperse properly without beading. Notice the application was a lot smoother over the sanded surface too. ( but with that argument you could say I sanded away the mould release if present)

@fenrishunter5005

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels Huh, interesting, using the release *in* the plastic. Never heard of that, that's actually pretty cool!

Just wondering if adding a tiny droplet of washing up liquid t the paint could've solved the surface tension issues?

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

It would have yeah !

🤝👌👍

Great result considering the condition of the paints. Lucky they were water based and not that enamel from the 70's

Any wonder why Airfix has not as a company overall made a profit for a while ? Kits like this need better quality control and also they need to think about what they are providing as a user experience.

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

I think last year was their first year of profit. Thanks to the lockdown I think

You know hopefully the quality control over at humbrol is not an issue here but I think it will be anyway

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

You were right: D

would be good to see how you would do it if you had unlimited tools and paints - apologies if you have already done this on your channel as I only just subbed

Yeah, 100% same brush

It is very very hard to build nice looking kit from StarterSet. Why they include this glue and brushes?

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

It gives you a taster I suppose. Not a bad way to get a feel for the hobby before diving in

@arghons.hobby.workshop

2 жыл бұрын

@@lpjmodels Poor quality of paints, brushes and glue could scare youngsters. It will be better to buy good paints, brushes and glue. Costs shouldn't be much higher.

you need to wash all your sprues first, the mold release is wicking away your paint

As I say Matt always thinks his model from his challenge is better but I disagree

@ModelMinutes

2 жыл бұрын

lol :P

I don't think that Airfix are doing themselves any favours with these starter sets. The paints are abysmal and the moulding on some of the sets made from ancient moulds is simply terrible. There is a danger of disillusioning young modellers trying the hobby for the first time and discouraging them for life. I have set myself a different challenge of trying to build a couple of the starter kits with no holds barred to see what can be achieved with unrestricted tools and materials. I have chosen two road cars, as that is where my interest mainly lies. I appreciate the notion of the challenge, but am not prepared to invest my time and funds in a build with which I would never be satisfied, and it would be a waste of of kit - however poor it may be - if the model finished up in the bin or being used for airgun practice, which was the fate of some of my Airfix models from my youth many years' ago.

That paint quality looks terrible

@lpjmodels

2 жыл бұрын

It was not great . Lol