Mighty Mini's GB! 1/144 scale

It's still open. It's open as long as people have time to build. I'll put you on the list.

Thanks Mikey...I'll go through my stash tonight and will post what I'm going build.

I'll be building the Trumpeter F-86F Sabre.Markings will be for the Argentine Air Force.

Hi!

I would like to attend this GB. I have missed so many nice GBs because lack of time. I hope I have enough time to finish this one. Atleast there´s not much to do.

My model would be Revell Hawker Hurricane MK1.

Ok. Anybody going to continue? Want to keep this build going?

Don't we have 144 days?

MikeyBugs95

Ok. Anybody going to continue? Want to keep this build going?

I'm working on my F-86F and discovered the control stick has been consumed by the carpet monster.Not a big deal,will make another one.Hopefully I'll have WIP photos to post in a few days...

Hi!

And some update to Hurricane.

My huge plan was to make it straight from the box... but... Yeah. 

A little progress on the C-17.  I've assembled the landing gear.  Each gear has three parts but its important to glue them together so they all sit true to the ground when attached to the fuselage.

Here they are attached to the fuselage.  It is important to make sure they are all parallel and facing the same direction:

I accomplished this by placing the fuselage on the gear with a sanding stick acting like the nose gear.

More update with Hurricane.

All put together. Only lacking paint. Have to figure out where to get compressor. My old one blew up

Have to say, that fittings in this kit are not from the top. I normally don´t need to use that amount of putty to 1:72 model.

And I want to add another kit to this GB. Academy/Minicraft Heinkel HE 111.

I'm still planning to do my Tornado Mikey, I've just got a few others to finish off first.  I might use the whole of the allowed time for dramatic effect :)

Hey nice work on the Hurricane Trabi.

Cheers

Tony

I hope this GB keeps going a while.  As soon as I can figure out how to post pictures ,I would like to join in.

                 knox

I'll get more done on the C-17 after Thanksgiving.  You see, my kitchen ends up doubling as my work area.  Since I have relatives coming in for the week of Thanksgiving I'm trying to keep the place tidy and clean and I've put away all my modeling stuff.

Once they leave I'll get my stuff back out.

Here's some WIP shots of my Trumpeter F-86.She's primed now and waiting for her camo paint.Still lots of tiny parts to be trimmed off the trees and cleaned up.Slow but steady progress so far.Everyone's efforts look really great...

However my Heinkel isn´t listed to roster I´m still building it because I don´t have yet new compressor to paint Hurricane.

Because the cockpit is bit see-through I wasn´t satisfied how it was executed in this kit. Just one seat and small piece of floor. Floor was about 1/5 of the size what it should be. So I used Evergreen´s aftermarket set for it:

And I opened few windows:

Landing flaps were wrong shape. Also leading edge of the wing was sharp not round, so I replaced it with half round styrene strip and filled rest with putty.

And looks that there is some fishy with overal shape of the wing, but I come back to that later.

Ah, it's one of THOSE kind of kits :). A skill-builder.

Evergreen cockpit kit, LOL that cracked me up.  It looks good!

Thanks IL2. It looks "bit" rugged in these pictures, but irl. it´s so tiny that hardly shows at all

It will be really impressive when you put some wiring behind the panel

The He-111 is now on the roster, Trabi. Nice work so far everyone.

I said I was going to wait until after Thanksgiving to work on the C-17 but I actually had this whole week off so I figured what the heck and busted out my modeling stuff.  I got alot done!

Here's where I'm at with the wings.  I used CA glue to attach the inserts for the leading and trailing edges of the upper wing halves and then filled them with Mr. Dissolved Putty, Mr. Surfacer and some CA glue.  There are also some small filler parts that are inserted into the most inboard flap fairings.  These help you cut the fairings to the correct angle.  I also cut the fairings to the correct angle.

Different angle:

Here are the wings fully assembled.  I had to rescribe the panel lines that were filled/sanded out:

I also filled the gaps in the fairings and the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves:

I decided to give the flight deck just a little detail.  I don't think it will be very visible once the windshield part is attached but it will be visible enough to justify a little bit of detail.  I've touched up the ragged edges at the front of the seats since these pics:

I plainly painted the IP just to give it a little bit of life.

I painted the landing gear areas with Mr. White Surfacer followed by Mr. Color gloss white:

It looks like I'm carrying this GB at the moment.  I hope you all don't mind if I post bunch of replies in a row but I've made some good progress this week.

Anyway, I've started on the engines.  Each engine has 10 parts!  Here's a pic of what I'm dealing with:

Each nacelle half has this strange trench molded into it.  I don't know why.  So I filled them in with Mr. Dissolved Putty:

I painted the rear compressor parts Alclad Steel but I think I accidentally deleted the pics.  I also painted the interior of the "hot section" Alclad Burnt Iron but I'm afraid I deleted those as well.

Here's the final product:

Once all the parts were glued together I had to fill in some more small gaps created by the seam between the completed nacelle and the engine lip parts.  I created a special sanding tool using a dowel rod and flexible sanding pads to sand out the Mr. Dissolved Putty.  Here you can see the smooth intakes:

Those engines look great FlynHi

Thanks IL2.  The pics don't show them but there are 2 vortex generators on each nacelle. You can see the insert guides on the nacelle halves in the first pic with the engine parts.  The guide slots were wider than the parts so I filled them in with CA glue and then attached the parts with the CA glue.  I'll post some pics later this week when I get a chance..

The next step is gonna be a buttload of masking.  My goal is to get all the detail painting done before I attach the engines to the wings because once they're on it will be difficult to reach certain areas with the airbrush.  After all of that I'll attach the completed wings to the fuselage.

I'm pretty much making it up as I go.

Where are you at with the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy?

Do you remember the first part of Empire Strikes Back, when chewy is ripping the guts out of the Falcon and nothing works?  That's where I'm at right now, LOL.

I have a few projects that I'm giving as Christmas gifts, and I'm struggling to get them done in time.  Hopefully I can turn my attention back to the Falcon soon to finish before the deadline (~Jan 6, I calculate).  Still optimistic:)

My F-86F is coming along.I did get some painting done this morning and will post some pictures tomorrow.Everyone's projects are looking great!