Here is a pic I made up for the badge. I'll work on making it smaller

Here is the NEW & IMPROVED BADGE And the smaller version

Aces Group Build Roster

ajd3530

Clive "Killer" Cadwell's Spitfire Mk. VIII RAAF from 1945 Arii's (Otaki) 1/48.

English pilot figure in Tropical attire

BrandonD -

Adolf Galland Bf-109E -  Luftwaffe 1/48

Figure ?

BrandonK -

Neville Duke Spitfire Mk Vb - RAF 1/48  - Finished

Pewter "short sleeve" pilot standing

Karl-Heinz Krahl,BF109F-4 - Luftwaffe, 1/48 Finished

Verlindin Luftwaffe Pilot

William "Bill" Arthur Shomo  USAAF 1/48 ProModeler

pilot US    

Capt. A. V. Shlopov Soviet Union 1/48 Trumpeter Mig-3

Pilot-TBD

CheckMateKing02 -

Adolph "Sailor" Malan 1/72 Airfix Spitfire, Finished

RAF 1/72 figure from Revell/Germany.

GreenTracker98  -

Lydia "Lilya" Litvyak Yakovlev Yak 1b Alley Cat  1 32

VVS Russian Lilya in 1/32 scale

Hogfansfs 

George "Buzz" Beurling RAF 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Vb Trop

1/9 scale custom made bust of Beurling

JoeRix  TBA

JugJunklie  TBA

lostagain 

Captured Luftwaffe Hasegawa 1/48 G-2.Me 109 Trop Piloted by Bobby Gibbes RAAF"Black 6"FINISHED

Figure  from Tamiya's British WWII Field Marshal Montgomery figure

Mij

Guy Pierre Bordelon USN 1 48 F4U Corsair

1 48 Navy Pilot

 Modelcrazy 

Emanuele "Ele" Annoni Italia 1/48 Hasegawa Macchi C 202 Folgore (lightning).

Generic 1/48 pilot.

The Red Barron 1/24 Revell Fokker Dr1, Finished

Figure from Kit

William Whisner 1/32 Hasegawa P-51D,  

Generic 1/32 pilot.

Nomad53

Fred J. Christensen, 1/48 Lindberg P-47D Bubbletop Ace in a day.  "Miss Fire"  - Finished

1/48 Pilot in seat.

PlasticJunkie 

Hauptmann Franz Dorr 1/32 ROG  Bf-109G-6

Ernest C. Fibelkorn 1/48 Monogram P-51D "Miss Miami" Finished

RaymondG   Robin olds?

SchattenSpartan

Gerhard Barkhorn Luftewaffe 1/32 Hasegawa Fw 190 D-9

54m (1/32) figure

 Trabi

Jorma "Zamba" Sarvanto Fokker D.XXI. Kit Pioneer 2/Frogg, 1/72 Finished

Ken:  I'd like to contribute a 1/72 Airfix Spitfire, in the livery of Adolph "Sailor" Malan, with a 1/72 figure from Revell/Germany.

Finished Projects

Brandon K's Spit piloted by Neville Duke - Royal Air Force

Congrats on having the first one finished

Brandon K's BF109F-4 piloted by Karl-Heinz Krahl,  - Luftwaffe

Nomad's P 47 Jug piloted by Fred Christenson - U.S. Army Air Force

Plastic  Junkie's P-51 Mustang Piloted by Ernest C. Fibelkorn U.S.Army Air Force

CheckMateKing02's - Spitfire, Piloted by Adolph "Sailor" Malan - Royal Air Force .

Lostagain

Hasegawa 1/48 Captured G-2.Me 109 Piloted by Bobby Gibbes' Libya in 1943, Australians 3 Squadron RAAF

Ken,

I guess that my entry was deleted. Can't find it. My plane is a 1/48 Lindberg P-47D Bubbletop piloted by Fred J. Christensen, Ace in a day. The plane is called "Miss Fire" Pilot in seat.

Doug

Ken,

I will look into that. I am going to have to wait until next month to get back on the build. I need to order some AlcladII paint for the plane. No money right Now.

Thanks,

Doug

Also can you put me back on the roster? Lindberg 1/48 P-47D Bubbletop.

Doug

I know the feeling I have no money now either. I probably shouldn't have, but I bought the Lufftwaffe Pilot ace figure. But then I had to get a new computer. Oh well. I have gas in the car to get me to my doctors appointments and I have food in the kitchen. So I'll be alright for the most part

Anyway, my apologies, I neglected to put a link in for that web site. Anyway, here it is.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/04/10/fred_j_christensen_at_84_world_war_ii_flying_ace/

Here is just a little beginning part of the Obit

Fred J. Christensen, at 84; World War II flying ace

By Bryan Marquard, Boston Globe Staff  | April 10, 2006

"To make a point to fellow fighter pilots in World War II, Fred J. Christensen always flew with Sinbad, a stray black cat he had found.

Seeing him return safe from combat missions -- black cat and all -- helped motivate the other pilots, his daughter Diane Haagensen said yesterday.

And counter to traditional superstitions, Sinbad was very good luck for her father, who shot down 22 Nazi planes during the war, including six in a two-minute span of one air battle. . . . "

Hey Ken,

I too had to get a new laptop. My old one was getting too hot and would shut down. I know the feeling about gas in the car and getting to doctors appointments. I read the piece you sent me the link to. I have been looking for a cat figure that I can use. I will put the cat on the base as the cockpit is too small for two figures.

Doug

Hello,

I'd like to join this one with my 1:48 Tamiya Bf-109 E4 that will wear Galland's paint scheme from JG 26.

Thank you!

-BD-

Doug - You cab put the Cat on the wing or anywhere he would sit

Brandon - I'll get you on the roster later today

Hey Everyone,

I just finished a new & Improved Badge. I think it looks a lot better.

Good idea for the cat sitting on the wing.

I may be out for a bit as we have had a death in the famoiy and other major things happening here at this time.

I will be back on as soon as I can.

Doug

Nomad53

Good idea for the cat sitting on the wing.

I may be out for a bit as we have had a death in the famoiy and other major things happening here at this time.

I will be back on as soon as I can.

Doug

Hi!

I still can´t find my name from roster, but the starting day was yesterday, so I venture to post my wip pictures from yesterday.

The kit:

Parts:

Instructions:

Decals. Have to find better ones.

To me that engine wich comes with kit looks more like few tin cans tied together, than radial engine, so I decided to replace it with resin one. I have suitable Bristol Mercury made by Vector and some time ago I took mold from it. Casted copy:

Next thing was, that the engine didn´t fit inside the original cowling. And if I would start to thin it it would be paper thin. So I made new one from sheet metal from mustard tube. Also plastic one was missing those bumps:

Now it fits!

To be continue...

Still looking good over here, Trabi!

Trabi - I could swear I put you on the Roster, Anywho, Sorry for the mistake, As soon as I post this I WILL add you. Ken

I added you Trabi. Make sure I have it right

Everyone Don't forget to Get a Badge! I worked on it and made it better I don't like what this new computer does to the posts. does any one know how fix; it its windows 8.1

Thanks!

And no worry Greentracker

Minor progress. Wings  and skis glued together. Needs bit sanding still:

I managed to get started on one of my 4 kits for this build, the Nevelle Duke Spitfire. It is an Airfix kit of thier dogfight series in 1/48. Initial impressions with the sprues in the bags was good. It seemed to have decent detail on the surface. It had raised but very light panel lines and rivets. They would be easy to completely remove.

Once I got the bags opened I discovered that this kit is pretty shoddy. There is a lot of flash and some quick trial fitting showed me that the fit is crap. So, since there is really very little detail to the cockpit, including no decals for instruments nor any raised features on the panel I will build it closed and in flight. Casket closed viewing if you will. I am going to make this a quick and dirty build and focus on making the exterior look good. The kit is not worth my time to try and detail it up. I would rather buy another maker's kit instead.

Now the Bf109 in the kit will get different treatment as I will have some left over PE and interior bits to use on it from my Zvezda kit. I will wait a bit to get started on that one. 

Alright, I've had several hours now with the kit and I want to point out some things so I don't scare anyone away from Airfix kits.

First off, this kit I am doing is a 1979 mold and is rather sloppy and poorly detailed. That said, the newer Airfix kits are not this way. I have a new Spitfire with the new molds and the difference in the kit is night and day. The new kit is really nice with lots of surface details and plenty of small bits to give  it much more realism. This old kit just doesn't have that. The old kit is all pretty much small raised details while the newer mold is all recessed and much more detailed, very nice. 

There are two different Airfix dogfight series kits that have a 109 and Spitfire. One, mine, is a 109F4 and a spitfire Vb, while the other kit is a 109E and a NEW mold Spitfire, a much nicer kit. So, if you see one don't bother with the one that has the 109F4, get the other one though.

Now, back the Spitfire. The pieces just don't fit right and take a bit of work to get them somewhat lined up and even then I have had to sand a great deal away to get decent edges. I think when it's done it will look not too bad, but is not a kit you want to go all out on. If you want to challenge yourself and really go whole hog and doll this up, it will be like trying to make the old Revell Corsair look like a show winner. It can be done but your gonna test yourself with it. Just start with a better kit. 

I have the cockpit painted up in cockpit green with black highlights on controls and whatnot. I dry brushed the area with Tamiya's Master weathering kit in silver and cleared the whole lot. Then I gave it a wash of Flory black and sealed it all in with MM flat acryl. The seat is usually a red brown leather color so I used Mr Color brown to simulate that as I found it closer to photos than Tamiya's red brown, as it was too dark. The instrument panel lacks gauge details so I painted it gloss black, dry brushed the gauges and sealed it in with MM flay acryl also. I then dropped a dab of Future on each gauge to simulate glass.

I now have the two fuselage halves together and as you can see I have some work to do to get it nice. From bad panel alignment to sink marks and low detail, this will be a rough go to make it look decent. The wing parts are also complete now and look better than I though they would when I started at the leading edges were off my 1\16 of an inch. WOW !!!  They sanded out and look good now, so dodged a bullet on the one.

I was also working on the fuselage when I noticed a pen mark on the starboard side and when I went  to rub it off I found it to be a CRACK in the plastic. The funny thing is there is not stresses there and I haven't worked it over to cause this. I guess I will call that one an OLD AGE crack and glue it and fill it up. Not much more to do. I should be ready for paint Saturday sometime if things go well. We'll see.

Well, I hope the landing gear on this kit is strong enough to hold up this kit with all the filler it now has in it. The wing roots were huge and many of the parts fit together with way too much play and large gaps. I sanded and made things fit as best I could and now I have Milliput smeared in all the cracks to close them up. The kit is actually letting me fix most of this without too much trouble so I'm happy about that. Here is what i was up against before I added the filler.

In this last photo you can see the gap under the fuselage behind the wing root and the poor fit of the engine cover, etc. but you can also see that I've drilled a hole at each end of the crack to prevent it from getting any larger and then I glued it closed and added some filler. It will disappear but I was afraid it might return if I didn't prevent it from doing so by drilling it out.

Hi Ken

Please update my entry to these two:

ROG 1/32 Bf-109G-6 flown by Hauptmann Franz Dorr, 128 kills.

Monogram 1/48 P-51D "Miss Miami" Flown by 8th AF Ace Ernest C. Fibelkorn. Being a Miami boy myself, and having the same first name inspired me to go with his ship.

Hey Ken,

Which thread are we using to update our photos on our builds? I have kinda got lost here.

I am ordering the Alclad paint in a few days so I can get baack on the build of the P-47D bubbletop.

Doug

Nomad53

Hey Ken,

Which thread are we using to update our photos on our builds? I have kinda got lost here.

I am ordering the Alclad paint in a few days so I can get baack on the build of the P-47D bubbletop.

Doug

Doug - We started using this one. So we'll use this one and go from here

Good Deal about your getting back to your Jug.

Ken,

I've added 2 more aces, but I guess I'm informing you on the wrong forum.

Anyway,

#2 1/24 Revell Fokker Dr1, the Red Barron with a figure from kit.

#3 1/32 Hasegawa P-51D, William Whisner with a generic 1/32 figure.

I've added the info on my original post on the Aces forum.

Steve

I don't seem to have any problems with 8.1 and my posts. I switch to the desktop, but I don't know if that makes any difference.

I know I had a "compatibility " issue with the website at first.