Rolling Shelf of Doom GB

Looks like real beauty!  I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Hi 68GT, yer I think I have the clear parts issue solved. Ok, so I'm happy with the primer coat and it's time to replace some lost detail and then a top coat. 

No pressure at all mate. But now that I've got the 247 out of the shadows, I've fallen in love with it all over again and I need some progress. Thanks for this GB mate. It has proved stimulating for me and once the 247 is complete, there are a few more waiting......

The idea was to be low pressure since these are shelf squaters anyway.  The only pressue is to get it done by the end of the year to get the badge for that year.

Hi fellas. My project went on hold because of a couple of significant issues to do with clear parts and the pressure of other builds, but!!!! Hopefully I'll have some photos to share next week as I have made a couple of brakethroughs.

Hey 68GT... Nothing I signed up for on this GB unfortunately. I fished the F-16 obviously. The F-4J is in limbo for some reason, although I did pick it up yesterday to try and figure out where I was on the build.   I have sever other hangar queens I have been working on lately.  I have debated whether or not to add them to this build -- problem is for me, these never ending GB's don't seem to motivate me. I need a deadline to get motivated sometimes..even though I seldom finish on time, it gives me something to shoot for!

Happy Modeling.

68GT

So, it's been a few months since there were any posts in here. I'm just wondering if anyone has had some bench time with a shelf queen.

So, it's been a few months since there were any posts in here. I'm just wondering if anyone has had some bench time with a shelf queen. I myself have been busy with other things since life keeps rearing its ugly head to me. I unfortunately haven't had any bench time at all in a while.

At this point my current builds could qualify as shelf queens!

Going to dig this one out again.  I just have to figure out where I put it.

68GT

Of coarse I ran out of Tamiya fine white primer and the Hobby Lobby by me still hasn't replenished their stock of it. Been 3 weeks now. I/m just going to shoot the rest whit regular Tamiya gloss white.

 

Thanks 68GT. Good advice.

Thanks Dodgy, really not sure how to tackle that one. You might try asking in the Technechs forum.  You should add a picture so people know what your trying to join.

68GT, your A10 looks great. I'm not much of a fan of jets, but there is just something very business like and awesome about that beast. Great job.

Waynec, I would never have considered a dino until I saw yours. Brilliant. Just love the colour effect you have achieved on the bones.

I have gathered all the pieces of my 247 and am working hard to clean up the two canopy halves. They join in the middle and were broken of the sprue leaving very damaged seperation points. Once cleaned up I will have to glue the two parts together before fitting in place. The join is going to have to be fairly strong and I'm not sure what to use. Normally when fitting a canopy to the fuselage I would use white glue, but these pieces are going to require some handling for masking, etc. Any suggestions folks?

and another one. Sue is done. BTW  the real Sue is the most complete T-rex to date and is displayed in The Field Museum in Chicago.

base primer is Vallejo bone "white" with oils. snap kit. scale is 1/43ish.  have another, a triceratops, and 2 stegosaurus skeletons. plus a bunch of Tamiya 1/35 diinos all sorts of goof vignettes are swirling around in my brain.

another one done. Tamiya SHERMAN. another one of my generic base. probably do another base and turn this into a vingnette. also a wartoons M5 for fun.

68GT

Thats what we're talking about! Nice job and a great back story on your build.

Thanks Ed. movers come Monday and they leave Wednesday. i swung by the house today to give it to him. he was quite pleased. i left with a ton of food, wine, and enough peppermint schnapps for all the hot chocolate they gave me.

68GT

Looks great and definitely looks the part with just being dusted up.

REF is to PZ-IIc. another one done. on to M3, M4, and Wartoons M5.

A-10 is done.

Tamiya PZ-IIc early version with rounded front hull and BIG target crosses before they learned to cover them up with mud. length and link track, Legend resin storage.the fuel cans were annoying as some of the handles were broken but i have at least 4 kits of fuel cans in the stash. vallejo gray, tracks are Tamyia dark iron. i know they should be shinier steel, maybe metallic gray, but i am of the artistic school. oil filters and pin washes. some of that was covered up by the powders and pastels for the dust. this is early in the Polish campaign so pretty new for damage and dirt. i did have a bogger on the upper left turret i got tired of filling, masking, pinting, and blending so i turned it into a glancing blow from an AT Rifle.

generic photo base. i would have used my more colorful ones for modern armor but this looked lost on them .

Ed

here are 2 pics of the finished TIGER MODELS ERC-90 F1 LYNX in at the top of my previous post.

waynec, post whenever you can in here. We can use the traffic to promote getting things done no matter how rugh or messed up

2020 was an off year and different focus plus semi-emergency gallbladder surgery.

2021 and recovering from shoulder surgery and cleaning the bunker. one result is getting the 30 or so shelf queens in one spot. so far i finished the TIGER MODELS ERC-90 F1 LYNX. a bit funky in places and i really screwed a lot up on it. this is the export turret. would love to buy another one and do it right since i have 11 or so French ACs in the stash. plus have them come out with the French Army version

and finished

next in the queue AFV CLUB M5, Tamiya (?) M3, Tamiya M-4, Tamiya PZ-IIC, T-REX

Not yet, still trying to get my normal stuff out. 

Anyone else been working on a shelf queen? I havnt been doing much modeling lately but I applied a sludge wash a couple weeks ago and should have taken it down sooner. Just would have been easier and blended better. Used a combination of dark green and dark gray craft paint in the sludge wash.  This morning I was scubing it to get closer to the finish line.

I still have a little more work to do.

Can I join? I haven't been on here for a couple of years. I started building a French Indochina M24 Chaffee for a defunct "Import" group build. The tracks didn't fit and broke the wheels and then the tracks rotted and fell apart anyway. Lol. The group build fizzled out and I gave up. I bought a replacement kit from Japan for dirt cheap. I'm going to see if I can mix and match what I need and see if I can get this POS kit together and present something respectable. I see there are a lot of the same people here which is awesome. I'm trying a new image host app so I hope the pics are ok. Imma going to make a comeback.Rob.