keavdog

Mail call - Giving Mission Models paint a try.  I haven't done a Japanese plane since I was 19 or so and realized I don't have the colors.  So after hearing some great things about this line of paint, I bought their entire Japanese color set.  I haven't had much luck with acrylics in the past, but I'm going to follow their program to the letter so we'll see.

Gloss Clear Coat MMA-006

Flat Clear Coat MMA-004

Thinner / Airbrush Cleaner 4oz MMA-003

Polyurethane Mix Additive 2oz MMA-001

Japanese J3 Hai-Iro Lt Grey ( Zero ) MMP-107

Japanese Q1 Anti Glare Blue Black Cowl WWII MMP-108

Japanese D1 Deep Green WWII ( IJN) MMP-112

Japanese Propeller Brown MMP-115

Aotaki Blue Green MMP-113

Japanese M3 Mitsubishi Interior Green WWII MMP-109

 

Nice decals John. I haven't checked out Werner's Wings before even though I've seen them mentioned on the forum before. Maybe it's me, but I had a hard time finding the set you bought on their site.

I'm curious what you think of MMP. I almost bought some to use on the BF-109 I posted earlier, but decided to try Mr. Color instead. I still have a lot of different brands of paints I haven't tried yet. Not sure if you saw the fairly recent MMP thread in the paint section.

I tried posting this yesterday with a link to that thread, but kept getting the "403 forbidden" error.

What other forums are you guys on? I like the guys on this forum, but the "403" error is aggrevating.

Jay

The jury is still out on the Mission Models paint for me John.

I'd like to see thoses sets GH

Nice find Stick.

I received some items myself in the past few weeks.

First one that came in is a Williams Brothers Pratt and Whitney Wasp Jr. It's out of production so it cost more than it did while they were in producion but I got it for a friend of mine so it was worth it. It WAS still in the wrapper.

Next is the Tamiya 1/72 Boeing X-32. Gawdawful looking thing but I always wanted one.

Next was the 1/72 Special Hobby Short Sunderland Mk III. Nice looking kit and its big.

Then finally I got some resin AM for my little 1/72 Heller SBC-4 Helldiver. Cowl and engine and cockpit interior.

Well lots of talk of Hurricanes, Typhoons, Tempests, etc. on another site where I'm active got me wondering how I could make my second Monogram Hawker Typhoon different from my last build, aside from armament (bomb racks or rocket rails) or backdating the kit into a car door type, and I remembered that for half of their wartime service career, they had a three bladed propellor, while the kit comes with the later four bladed type. So a bit of searching on eBay later, and I came up with this old KMC conversion set, which also included exhausts. And then I think somebody tossed a set of wheels in there as well, because those are not shown to be included in the set, but came in mine. I’m not complaining.

Got the eduard pit set for the 1/48  RF4-C yesterday, and the brassin alq71's, along with the old Italeri RF4-C today.

Got a set of the old Fox One decals for it a couple days ago.  The designer of those bent over backwards to help out with those.

Mail call - Giving Mission Models paint a try.  I haven't done a Japanese plane since I was 19 or so and realized I don't have the colors.  So after hearing some great things about this line of paint, I bought their entire Japanese color set.  I haven't had much luck with acrylics in the past, but I'm going to follow their program to the letter so we'll see.

Gloss Clear Coat MMA-006

Flat Clear Coat MMA-004

Thinner / Airbrush Cleaner 4oz MMA-003

Polyurethane Mix Additive 2oz MMA-001

Japanese J3 Hai-Iro Lt Grey ( Zero ) MMP-107

Japanese Q1 Anti Glare Blue Black Cowl WWII MMP-108

Japanese D1 Deep Green WWII ( IJN) MMP-112

Japanese Propeller Brown MMP-115

Aotaki Blue Green MMP-113

Japanese M3 Mitsubishi Interior Green WWII MMP-109

Mail call - Giving Mission Models paint a try.  I haven't done a Japanese plane since I was 19 or so and realized I don't have the colors.  So after hearing some great things about this line of paint, I bought their entire Japanese color set.  I haven't had much luck with acrylics in the past, but I'm going to follow their program to the letter so we'll see.

Gloss Clear Coat MMA-006

Flat Clear Coat MMA-004

Thinner / Airbrush Cleaner 4oz MMA-003

Polyurethane Mix Additive 2oz MMA-001

Japanese J3 Hai-Iro Lt Grey ( Zero ) MMP-107

Japanese Q1 Anti Glare Blue Black Cowl WWII MMP-108

Japanese D1 Deep Green WWII ( IJN) MMP-112

Japanese Propeller Brown MMP-115

Aotaki Blue Green MMP-113

Japanese M3 Mitsubishi Interior Green WWII MMP-109

Nice looking decals from Werner's Wings came in for my F-4E - Steve Ritchie and Friends.  And enough decals (though not specific) to do my Chico build

Bish

Go on, give it a go. Would liove to see that 109 in the GB. Can't be as bad as the Chieftain will be in that Berlin scheme.

 

Thanks. I'm disappointed in myself that I didn't join your British Army GB. I'm not confident enough in my skills yet because I haven't built enough since getting back into the hobby last Spring/Summer. I don't want to c**k it up. I doubt I'd be able to get another set of decals. Plus I build slow due to lack of time. Actually the Chieftain paint job doesn't worry me. I think my masking and basic painting skills are decent. It's some of the detail stuff, washes, and weathering that I haven't really tackled yet will be where I struggle.

Steve I couldn't quote your reply due to the 403 error I kept getting. So haha with your drool comment and the checkerboard is a combination of multiple decals.

Jay

keavdog

Wow!  Nice haul.  That 109 will be killer looking.

 

Thanks. I hope so lol

Sorry Bish;

 No Photos! But my only acquisition so far this year are as follows. Jeep " Mountain Goat" kit. Another one I couldn't pass up is the "El Camino SS " with teeny dirt bike( Waste of plastic,That!) I did order, But haven't recieved it yet is the 1/35 Scale model of the "TreibFlugel" As reviewed by Aaron and Tim.

 It obviously hasn't arrived at Hill Country Hobbies yet.That's it for now.

Go on, give it a go. Would liove to see that 109 in the GB. Can't be as bad as the Chieftain will be in that Berlin scheme.

keavdog

Wow!  Nice haul.  That 109 will be killer looking.

 

You're making me drool over here.

That 109 more than likely had decals for the checker board.

Wow!  Nice haul.  That 109 will be killer looking.

What I've acquired over the last month. I'm tempted to join Bish's GB with the BF-109 in the box art racing livery, but I'm not sure I could do it justice at this time. I haven't done a NMF since I built a B-58 in elementary school in the '80s, but that was painted with a can of silver spray paint. I figured the P-51 weekend edition would be good practice before attempting the very long range version.

Those look cool John and the Raiden is a good kit. 

Now those are the 71's I know.  In Thailand we used a two canister configuration as shown.  At Shaw we ran a three can ( six antennas).  One antenna is a horizontal and one is vertical dispersion of the output signal.  None of ours from '73-76 used the fan generator, at least on Phantoms, they drew power from the aircraft.  They were gloss white, the antenna inserts looked like bare fiberglass.  They could chip on the nosecone, but got sent to the paint shop before they got too beat up.

Got to get some of those.

Mail call.  Raiden for the Japanese group build and under wing goodies for a planned F-4E Chico build

modelcrazy

 

 

Gamera

I looked with both the search engine on the website and an off-site one and didn't find the thread.

 

 

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/165145.aspx

 

Ahhh, I'd forgot you ran it. Gee, six years ago- I can't even remember what I did yesterday...  

Thanks again Steve! 

Gamera

I looked with both the search engine on the website and an off-site one and didn't find the thread.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/165145.aspx

modelcrazy

 

 

Gamera

Wish I had some photos but looks like they're all still on PhotoBucket and I really don't want to go dig out the kit now. 

 

 

I have the pic of your build I posted on the Artillery GB, what 5 years ago? BTW, they are still there but with the stupid watermark.

 

Thanks Steve!!! 

I looked with both the search engine on the website and an off-site one and didn't find the thread. Thanks again for finding the photo for me!!! 

modelcrazy

Cool looking figures Kdog. I stink at figures so I steer away from 'em.

Bish, how did I miss your score mate! I'm keen on all of them.

Here is what I got the past few days.

A late arriving Christmas gift from a friend.

One of favorite biplanes. Seems like the only manufacturer of it 1/72. Starfighter makes American decals, resin engine, cowl and interior for it.

And here it is.. The Bruno arrived!

 

Gamera

Wish I had some photos but looks like they're all still on PhotoBucket and I really don't want to go dig out the kit now. 

I have the pic of your build I posted on the Artillery GB, what 5 years ago? BTW, they are still there but with the stupid watermark.

Can't seem to post images.

Greysnake: Congrads on some really cool stuff there! I built the B-4 howitzer a couple years back and it's a really nice kit. Wish I had some photos but looks like they're all still on PhotoBucket and I really don't want to go dig out the kit now. 

Real G: Commented on the armour forum but still that's a cool AFV. 

When I built the Tauro A7V, it was new as well.  But I was young and not terribly picky nor skilled.  The armor panels did not fit exactly, but I did not care.  The track pins gave me some trouble, as I did not file down the cut ends, which ended up splitting the tracks when I inserted them.

But anyway, Meng's kit is light years better.

I built the Tauro A7V about 40 years ago when it first came out.  I thought it was pretty good.  I did not have any trouble with it.  I thoght the tracks with single link held together with little pins was hard on my fingers was fiddly, but I had fun doing it.  I was an experienced modeler and the kit was just fine. I was young guy then, I as only 29 then .  I built another a few years ago, it won at club contest.  I haven't tried the Meng kit yet, but looks nice.  I have several books on the beast.  

GreySnake,

Tankograd published a good book on the A7V.  It attempted to cover each vehicle produced as best as photographic records permit.  It covers the differences in the gun mount and side armor plate, and has a couple of nice multi-view drawings.

I know your pain building the Tauro kit, as did one back in 1980 or so.