Of course not! 

Oh my  You got the room to build those?

Here's a bevy of heavies I recently acquired. 

Gamera

Real G: WOW, that's awesome!!! I've always been fascinated by manufactured monsters like the Jenny Haniver and FeeJee/Fiji mermaid. I really want to see what you end up creating, please post it - I assume scratchbuilding forum?

Yeah, it's gotta be a scratch.  If the guy sold kits with printed paper patterns , I'd be interested.  So the first step is something easy - the fly is looking like the most likely candidate.

Now I have to check my light fixtures for some deceased bugs.  Gotta gather the reference materials.    I have thought about extensively photographing said expired bugs for shape, proportion, and color, then carefully dimembering them and scanning the parts so that enlarged images can be used to augment the macro observations.  I can also make the bugs BIGGER than life-sized!  Mwu-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Real G: WOW, that's awesome!!! I've always been fascinated by manufactured monsters like the Jenny Haniver and FeeJee/Fiji mermaid. I really want to see what you end up creating, please post it - I assume scratchbuilding forum?

John 3:16 KJV

 

 

Gamera

 

 

John 3:16 KJV

Which AB did you have before you bought the Talon?

 

 

 

 

Well I had a couple of Badgers. Never had much luck with them, I know some people swear by them though. Went to a Paasche Millennium which is a great brush, still use it. Only issue is it's not the best for detail work and I don't like the siphon feed. So I bought a Grex, excellent brush, used it for years for detail work. Later bought a second Grex and it worked fine for awhile and then the seals went bad. It wants to leak everywhere. So I figure I'll try another Paasche now. 

 

 

 

 

Hmm. The Talon is my first AB; and I may have lost one of it’s rubber rings. There’s supposed to be one between the nozzle cap and the main body, right? Anyway, I just use plumbers‘ tape in that area to seal it whenever I have an AB session. I could just try to buy some replacement rings and use one of those, but I haven’t done that so far.

 

You can probably get one, Paasche is really good about replacement parts. Sadly Grex isn't. 

Real G, 

That looks cool

This just arrived, and I'm so jazzed I wanted to share it:

It's a how-to book on making realistic bugs using tissue paper.  Not the kind you use to make small flying airplanes, but the Kleenex kind!  And pretty much nothing else except glue!  For transparent wings, he soaks the tissue in gloss.  For the other general use sheets, he soaks them in diluted white glue, hangs them up to dry, then IRONS THEM.    So Japanese!

I had some projects in the back of my mind that could use stuff like this.  The techniques can be applied to other organisms like crusteaceans, arachnids... prehistoric invertebrates.  It boggles the mind! The author is obviously a craftsman, but I am just a hack - I plan on using any and all materials to make my monsters, er insects.

I have some serious reading to do now (thanks mom and dad for forcing me to go to Japanese school instead of allowing me to watch cartoons).  

EDIT:  I had a look thru last night, and it seems this guy is an artist who chooses a "pure" medium, i.e. only tissue paper.  I have no such compunction towards such things, so I plan on using everything at my disposal (epoxy putty, sheet plastic, stretched sprue, vac-form, etc.).  His take on transparent wings could use a tweak - maybe vellum or onion skin paper instead of Kleenex?

Now to find a suitable "first try".  A fly?

Gamera

 

 

John 3:16 KJV

Which AB did you have before you bought the Talon?

 

 

 

 

Well I had a couple of Badgers. Never had much luck with them, I know some people swear by them though. Went to a Paasche Millennium which is a great brush, still use it. Only issue is it's not the best for detail work and I don't like the siphon feed. So I bought a Grex, excellent brush, used it for years for detail work. Later bought a second Grex and it worked fine for awhile and then the seals went bad. It wants to leak everywhere. So I figure I'll try another Paasche now. 

 

Hmm. The Talon is my first AB; and I may have lost one of it’s rubber rings. There’s supposed to be one between the nozzle cap and the main body, right? Anyway, I just use plumbers‘ tape in that area to seal it whenever I have an AB session. I could just try to buy some replacement rings and use one of those, but I haven’t done that so far.

Going to try to turn this into my schoolbus yellow Boss302 Laguna Seca.  Wheels & decals may be challening

And this one just showed up :)

That's why I told my wife as long as I have kits in the stash I can't die. I think she almost bought it.

There was an estate model sale over the weekend for a deceased club member, and I picked these up:

Among the considerable collection of kits, there were several that looked (and "felt") familiar.  I had been thinning my own stash partly by having a LHS sell them on consignment.  I opened a couple, and I noticed my handwriting in the boxes.  He had bought the kits from the LHS.  No I didn't buy them back; that would have been weird.

All really good stuff, but I left thinking about my own demise and the stash I leave behind.  When we are young, we want to take on the world and don't think of the inevitable.  But as we get along in our years, it starts to creep in.  One day we will all put down the Xacto and switch off the compressor.

Sorry for a downer post on a Monday morning, but I had to get it out.  But perhaps a "glass half full" approach would be more constructive - let's all get out and build stuff for the joy of it.  Don't sweat the little stuff.  And remember to cherish your loved ones.

RIP Burl, and thanks for the models.

John 3:16 KJV

Which AB did you have before you bought the Talon?

 

Well I had a couple of Badgers. Never had much luck with them, I know some people swear by them though. Went to a Paasche Millennium which is a great brush, still use it. Only issue is it's not the best for detail work and I don't like the siphon feed. So I bought a Grex, excellent brush, used it for years for detail work. Later bought a second Grex and it worked fine for awhile and then the seals went bad. It wants to leak everywhere. So I figure I'll try another Paasche now. 

Im a fan of those vintage ESCI kits!

I forgot the biggest raffle win to my stash.

John

Found this 737-300 for under $8 + shipping (another $8) on ebay.  Sometimes you can find what your looking for.  Special plans for this one - Stardust Livery with the hottie on the tail!

Which AB did you have before you bought the Talon?

John, the Academy Storch is not easy to find in the UK either.

John 3:16 KJV

 

 

Gamera

BTW: The seals went bad in my current airbrush and I've been constantly cleaning it. So I finally broke down and bought a new one. I loved my last Paasche airbrush so I hope this one works as well.

 

 

 

 

Hey! That’s the one I have! :)

John - Nice, a Storch! 

 

Cool! I still haven't gotten a chance to use her yet... 

Gamera

BTW: The seals went bad in my current airbrush and I've been constantly cleaning it. So I finally broke down and bought a new one. I loved my last Paasche airbrush so I hope this one works as well.

 

Hey! That’s the one I have! :)

John - Nice, a Storch! 

Real G

Bish,

No, I meant the aircraft tipped, like a model that needs nose weight.  I thought I saw photos of Buccs being launched this way.  Stubby wings, even with full span blowing, are stubby wings.  But that small area wing is what gave the Bucc blazing speed down in the weeds.

I look forward to an RAF boxing - 2020 perhaps.

 

Got ur, i know what you mean now.

Ye, i reckon next year. Once the RAF Phantom FG.1 comes out, that will be 3 Phantoms in 2 years. I don't think they will waste much time getting out an RAF Bucc. And with the 30th anniversary of Op Granby coming up in 2021, it will be perfect timing.

I forgot this one, it's the only one I paid for.  I want to get Academy's 1/72 scale version but can't find it here in the states.  So this 1/48 kit will do for now.  I have hasegawa's 1/32 version but it's really big.

John

modelcrazy

Wow, quite the score John.  Where are the ships? 

 

by looking at your post I think you got all the targets! I mean ships.  Lol

John

Bish,

No, I meant the aircraft tipped, like a model that needs nose weight.  I thought I saw photos of Buccs being launched this way.  Stubby wings, even with full span blowing, are stubby wings.  But that small area wing is what gave the Bucc blazing speed down in the weeds.

I look forward to an RAF boxing - 2020 perhaps.

G, ye, that would be nice. On the Airfix Harriers i think they are raised lines.

As for being tipped on the tail not that what i can see in pics. The Bucc was designed to operate from the smaller British carriers. You might be thinking of the Phantom which had an extended front undercarrage leg to allow it to take off.

Wow, quite the score John.  Where are the ships? 

Bish

I wish i could G but the bench is already full for the year and i will be waiting for any AM to be released. 

What British a/c fans need from the aftermarket boys (or better yet the kit manufacturer) are tampo printed det cords in the canopy.  Decals show unsightly film, P/E is nigh impossible to fit and securely attach, and applying vinyl cut det cords are like pushing spaghetti up a hill.

The technology is already developed, and has proven that thin white lines can be printed with precision and opacity to handle even dark colors underneath.  So who will be the first to offer this feature?

BTW Bish, was the Buccaneer the one where they tipped it on its tail to launch off the catapult?  It would make a great diorama.  Hint-hint.  

Went to our "Nordiccon" contest this last weekend and got all these in the raffle.  Did pretty good I think.

The stash just got bigger,  now I have to live longer to finish these.

John

Bish

Popped into the LHS today to grab some paint. I had not planned on getting the new Airfix Buccaneer just yet. But you know how it is, i saw the kit and it just started screaming at me begging to be bought. What else can you do but give in

 

 

I know what you mean there.....still trying to get the teeth marks in my ankle to heal from the 1/24 Hellcat.

I wish i could G but the bench is already full for the year and i will be waiting for any AM to be released. I would guess the RAF version would come with the wraparound scheme, as well as a Gulf War option. That would certainly fit in with what Airfix have been doing the last few years, such as the Phantom kit.