Ok so Manny I am confused now What is the end date gonna be for tghe group ?

...2-29...or March 1st, whichever comes first.  29 day extensions are available upon request...

Hans probly isnt reading this anymore, but i did find this for him

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/DN5505

Although its probably still way out of his price range

Hey guys there is an outfit on Ebay selling the 1/48 Dragon Ho229A kits for 29.99 with free shipping, got mine from China in about a week. A great deal in my book considering most there are going for close to 50 bucks with shipping.

Did someone here say they are going to reissue the kit ?

Well, started on my Revell kit last night. I was happy to notice that the kit can be built up as a series of sub-assembies that can be painted and then assembled into a whole. I put together about 75% of the kit in two hours. Then I airbrushed the cockpit, tonight I'll try to add a wash and then drybrush it Friday. Hopefully everything will be dry by the weekend and I'll be able to paint the seatbelts and other details as well as put on the decal for the instrument panel. At the same time will be spraying the interiors of the engines with Alclad metallic paint. Will try to have photos when everything is painted and just before I close the model up- probably this weekend.

Only problem noted is I found the directions on where to attach the retraction struts to the main gear struts a little vague. No locating hole or anything, I think I got them in the right place though.

Hey gang, doing a quick search this morning,looking for more details & stumbled across this "what if" image of -229s over NYC...

horten+229

kinda neat.. I can picture King Kong swattin' at em...

also has that early Dark Knight feel...

ooh... found another on eBay....sssssh...

ok,, which one of you outbid me ??? ...lol. if it is.. let me know,, and I'll not rebid as I have one coming already..

VanceCrozier

Hey gang, doing a quick search this morning,looking for more details & stumbled across this "what if" image of -229s over NYC...

horten+229

Reminds me of the flying wings in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"...

p38jl

ok,, which one of you outbid me ??? ...lol. if it is.. let me know,, and I'll not rebid as I have one coming already..

What's ebay??

Not me, I've officially committed to scratchbuild this one, I'm in the market for sheet styrene, maybe some basswood for the ribs & runners.

For those of you wanting a little inspiration and can get the channel...National Geographic Channel is starting the show on "Hitl*rs Stealth Fighter" in about 20 minutes. Good show with some good close ups of the 229.

Did that just censor the word Hitler??

Guess not, lol

Gamera

SP: When I think of the 229 and superheroes I tend toward Batman (wonder why!?!) but the Punisher sounds cool too. The Revell kit seems pretty common so hopefully you can find one.

Manstein's revenge:

Gamera:

Haven't really started on her yet. Just washed the spues off with some detergent ...

 

I'll get started on the cockpit tonight-

Jester75

Did that just censor the word Hitler??

Guess not but I did not know...some places censor it so it is completly unreadable so I figured I would beat the bot to the punch...guess I just punched myself.

I think I might be in... I have the excellent little Revell kit which I opened for another GB about 18 months back but never had the chance to finish. Here's a perfect excuse! (If I can  find the time... again!)

Cheers, Mike/TB379

I want to see some WIP's...

Manny, you might want to take some fine grit sand paper and knock that rust off of your sprue cutters bro

Herr Field Marshal here you go:

I'm not that good with 1/72nd cockpits but I think it will do. I ended up with a bad case of eye strain just from this:

Exterior of the engines painted Alclad jet exhaust with a little aluminum dusted on the tops:

Interior of the engines and the aft landing gear bays. I'm assuming they were metal and not wood too:

Overall shot of the Alclad aluminum painted gear legs and wheels plus the gunmetal cannons. Also I went ahead and painted the wings with the yellow leading edge ID stripes, masked them and painted the white home defense bands:

Very nice build so far. I've used a little putty but everything seems to fit quite well.

Looks pretty darn good to me Gamera, well done.  I wouldnt even attempt one of these in 1/72.

Lookin good Gamera - and Manny should be pleased with the non-slip gelb leading edges!

Gamera

Herr Field Marshal here you go:

I'm not that good with 1/72nd cockpits but I think it will do. I ended up with a bad case of eye strain just from this:

Exterior of the engines painted Alclad jet exhaust with a little aluminum dusted on the tops:

Interior of the engines and the aft landing gear bays. I'm assuming they were metal and not wood too:

Overall shot of the Alclad aluminum painted gear legs and wheels plus the gunmetal cannons. Also I went ahead and painted the wings with the yellow leading edge ID stripes, masked them and painted the white home defense bands:

 

Very nice build so far. I've used a little putty but everything seems to fit quite well.

One thing you may want to consider before closing it up is blanking off those exhaust areas with paper or thin styrene stock so that you can avoid the "see though" effect once you close em up...many reviewers have noted this to be the only shortcoming of the kit...instrument panel decal looks decent...

Hey folks,

Started my own Mannymobile from Revell last night and here's where i am at.

Pit:

Forgot to mention that the IP is a flat piece of plastic so you are forced to use the decal:

Guns... Still needs a drybrush of white and then gunmetal. Also added a light black wash to dirty it all up:

And for some obscure reason i just used a piece of cigarette wrapping paper (the thingy you pull out) after just opening a fresh pack. Ah well it was lying there and the gold looked cute. Will be all blacked out ofcourse once i glue everything together. It's closed and that's all it needs...:

The afforementioned "gap" (NO,... my hands and other parts are not green in real life; only when i get mad...) :

Hope it reaches the standards expected..

Richard

EDIT:

Oops... just realised i glued those sidewall thingies next to the guns the other way round.... Easily fixed...

Richard

I see we have two motivated MOJO's in this GB...what are the rest of you babies waiting on, Christmas?

Thanks Kermit. Glad to see I'm not the only one here. It's good to be backed up by my fellow mean green machine.

Don't smoke so I took a piece of alumium foil and wrapped it over the bottum of the engine but it was too shiny. Sprayed the foil down with Alclad dark alumium and think it will work.

hey... sheesh.. ease up the Herr Field Marshall...

My slow boat just came yesterday... 1/48 Dragon Night Fighter version was on the kitchen table when I got home after my fire Dept meeting..

Construction to start soon...

Manstein's revenge

I see we have two motivated MOJO's in this GB...what are the rest of you babies wating on, Christmas?

Not familiar with this term Manny, in accordance with Wehrmacht directives I'll delay starting anything until the term has been clarified...

BTW Thanks Vettman and Vance!

P-38: Wow - looking forward to seeing the 1/48 kit. I was suprised how large the a/c was in 1/72nd, the 1/48th should be quite impressive.

And I call Manny Herr Field Marshal since I was brought up to respect my elders and Manny is what- about 120-130 years old now?

PS I thought about asking Manny to replace the term MOJOs with HOHOs considering the Christmas season. Then on second thought the idea of having Manny refering to me as his 'ho' is somewhat disturbing...