Made a good bit of progress today but can't finish because other stuff needs to be done around the house.  Got the entire airframe of the Buffalo painted.  It's the first time I've ever done this particular scheme on the underside, with sky blue on one side and flat black on the other.  Looks odd to me, and I really fail to see how that would be considered camouflage ....

Started with the sky blue underside...

Then put down dark earth over the entire top side...

Then did the dark green roughly following the painting illustrations...

Then finished up by masking that straight line down the center line of the fuselage and putting down the flat black on the underside...

The canopy masking presented a problem in that it pulled up a lot of the painted framing.  Probably should have lightly scored along the edges of the masking before I removed it but I think I was getting in a bit of a hurry, not sure why.  I did repaint the framing by hand and have since attached the landing gear.  I hope to be able to finish in the next couple of weeks.

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Gig 'Em, Steven

Now the paint on the belly of your buffalo looks "out-standing" man, and so was the work on that Soviet Sherman., on the othere page.....you two guys have some realy grate skills. Here's some more of my work.

An before any of you tell me the shape of the hood is to squared or off, that's because I haven't sand any thing yet! I still have a lot of filling and reshaping to do. I hope once I get it closer to it's end it will look like the BM-13N "Katyusha"on a Studebaker US6.

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Building the Impossible Is my main goal!!

 Hey mg.mikael, just to prove I've started on the DUKW, I snapped a couple of pics of the pit under construction. 

                                                         So it begins, the epic tale of...

                                                                  Mobi Duck

 this is a pic of the kit intake screens. It would've been nice to have had these molded seperatley. A series of holes were drilled, then with a razor I played connect the dots until the screen section was removed. Then came a series of files starting with a coarse .5" wide flat all the way down to a flat needle file, then the sanding, and then a little work with the scalpel to finish off the openings.

 A frame was built with styrene angle to accept the screen and some strip styrene was added as a retainer for the screen. This is a pic with the shrould in place on the starboard side. I still need to add the exhaust pipe which runs out this side and tweak that misaligned styrene strip.

 The molded on pedals were replaced by strip and rod styrene. All the shift levers for the tranny, the transfer case and the E brake lever were kit parts cleaned up. The DUKW's cabin is nearly all plywood construction, and as such I added wood grain with a needle chucked into my pin drill.

 The kit provided seats were IMO are very well done. A little clean up was all that was required.

 I'll try not to post too many pics in the future. Should have most of the cabin finished and painted by this afternoon. Then it will be on to the cargo hold.

 Thanks for checking in...

 Mobious

Very nice work on the Buffalo Aggieman! I like the half and half belly on it.

The scratchbuilding looks good White_R34. Should make it look better.

Good work on the DUKW Mobious. The interior does look good and the PE makes it look better.

My Sherman is coming along very nicely. All assemblies are put together except for the running gear. Gaps have been puttied and sanded. Here are some pics:

Due to a very nice warm spell, I managed to get a primer/base coat of flat black on this afternoon. Everything seen along with the cupolas and hatches are ready for some Model Master Dark Green. (Though I am liking the flat black. Stealth Sherman anyone? )

I also found a figure set from Tamiya's Churchill when I was looking through the spares box. I pulled it out and found a nice commander to go along the Sherman. Here he is so far:

I want to join the group build. Since I recieved approval of my subject, I am going to build a Spitfire in U.S. service. Winged Sword

Hey mg.mikael, I had the dash ready to go. All the detail shaved off, the white areas painted for the instrument film, the other areas painted OD. Had primed the PE dash when I noticed it was only half of the dash. I couldn't find the other half of the film or PE. I looked at the instruction sheet and there was no film or PE for the other half of the dash. I scratched a new "complete" dash from aluminum and used Archer Transfers for the gauges. I couldn't quite get the layout exact but I got it close enough for a handgrenade. I am about to give up entirely on the PE. It's ironic that the only thing I'm considering using from the Eduard set is the windshield. The kit supplied windshield isn't that bad. It could use thinning down and additional details, but it should look ok. Must be the Karma with the DUKW. On a positive note the lower hull went together pretty well, considering it is a 3 piece affair and the upper deck fits nicely into it.

 Warhammer, Looking forward to seeing paint on the British commander and his ride. That figgie is cool. 

 Mo

 PS don't tell anyone I used German gauges. The German tach will be the PTO speed control gauge.

Had a doctor's appt. today and took the rest of the day off, so I was able to finish my Buffalo.  The kit is the Tamiya B339 Buffalo in 1/48, built OOB except for the antenna wiring.  Model Master acrylics - British Dark Earth, British Dark Green, British Sky Blue S, and Flat Black, with a light dusting of Tamiya Buff.  Additional weathering with Tamiya weathering set (soot mostly).

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Gig 'Em, Steven

Aggieman: That is one awesome looking Buffalo!! Love the camo scheme and the scratch antenna wiring, what more can I say it's an all around top-notch build and a great WIP. You certainly earned your badge, the first page has been updated.

WarHammer25: Your Sherman is looking sweet so far, can't wait to see it painted up!

Mobious: Can't wait to see this new scratched dash you made for your DUKW. Sorry to hear the PE set is being such a b****.

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

Looks good!! Aggieman.

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I'm 15 and I model I sk8board and I drum what could be better.

Sorry to hear about the PE perdicament. But it looks like your making your way through the "muck"/problems. Heck, at least your building slowly, my construction has completely halted. Due to the fact I've been busy with things other then modeling. One good thing though I will be heading to the 2009 Chicago Auto Show. Gotta check out the cars!

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney