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Looking good man!
Chad
God, Family, Models...
At the plate: 1/48 Airfix Bf109 & 1/35 Tamiya Famo
On deck: Who knows!
Thanks BK.
Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!
Wow PJ, this is stunning work. You are really making it look so amazing.
BK
On the bench:
A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!
2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed
14 / 5 / 2
Did a little more work on the Salamander. I got the office squared away and added wiring and knobs. To replicate the leather cannon covers, I crumpled up some masking tape, rolled on the barrels and coated them with super glue and when they dried, painted them Vallejo leather. The flash makes them look more red than in reality.
I cut the gun bay doors out and fitted the CMK gun bay details then closed up the fuselage. The kit has a good fit but not so with the CMK parts. Prior to joining the halves, I had to shim and play with angles to make the pit and the gun bays fit. The right gun bay has a huge gap that needs to be filled.
Checked some great reference photos and did some plumbing work in the main gear well.
Thanks dog!
"Can you fly this plane and land it?...Surely you can't be serious....I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"
Mike and Toshi thanks for looking.
Amazing attention to detail!
Toshi
On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell
Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi
PJ,
Thanks for the tips regarding that red can. I have it in my shopping basket at Hobbylinc.
Your fine detail work is a wonder to behold.
Mike
Hector Berlioz
falconmod How did you get your seat cushions to looks so good? John
How did you get your seat cushions to looks so good?
John
They are resin and are ready attached to the seat. All I did was to paint them red-brown and then gave them a dark brown oil wash. The pe belts still need to be bent and attached. Thanks for looking.
Thanks all for the nice comments and for stopping by.
I also have The Detailer and have used used here and there but I like the results I get from my home brewed oil paint washes better. Only use Testors thinner in the red can from HL. I was using generic enamel thinner from Home Depot and it wasn't dilluting the paint properly, leaving a gritty residue in the mix that doesn't happen with the Testors brand. Just make sure you have a gloss acrylic barrier to get shap details and make the wash flow easier.
The engine fan piece has a small weird looking part which I replicated using thin plastic sheet and my Micro Punch.
and here is the part with an added pe ring
that goes in the fan unit cavity
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On the Bench: 1/72 Ki-67, 1/48 T-38
1/144 AC-130, 1/72 AV-8A Harrier
Holy smokes PJ! That is awesome! Great detail! Super job my friend!
Bobby
Grteat work so far Ernie .Looking forward to the rest and thank you for posting it here as well as the GB.
I'm finally retired. Now time I got, money I don't.
This is just one example of the amazing work you do.
I may have to take another trip to my optomitrist - all the fine detail is makiing me dizzy!
Seriously, you're doing a great job on this kit PJ.
I've been working on an office for about a week and have used water based wash (The Detailer) and I'm not happy with the result. Probably my poor technique/execution but I think I'll raid my oils sitting by my easel downstairs next time I try to do a wash.
Dwayne or Dman or just D. All comments are welcome on my builds.
PJ -
Okay...you impressed me with the pit....now the engine and the main gear well. Man it gets no better. Awesome detailing job PJ. I also echo MM....on how close the cannons were to the pilot.
Hunter
Nice engine detail! Interesting how close those canons were to the pilot seat!
Thanks Hunter. I'm glad you are enjoying the build.
I have yet to add a ton of things including the resin cannon bays I'm working on right now.
I was going to remove the molded wires on the gear legs but they are nicely detailed as is but even better after running the UMM scribing tool to sharpen the line details. The metal parts were painted with Humbrol silver enamel in the small tin. I have a bunch of Humbrol tins some being 30 years old and are still in excellent condition.
I put the CMK resin engine together and sprayed different metalizer shades then started adding wires while using reference pictures.
It's beginning to look busy.
I will add more wires as I go to busy it up even more. I also got the main gear well painted and washed with oil paint to pop the molded details.
Wow!! Such awesome detail on the pit. The resin kit and PE you put in there is so nice and detailed. It made the pit just pop out I will be following this build until you complete it. Outstanding so far PJ.....no surprise though.
I did some work on the pit and gear legs. Shot the pit with MM 66 flat acrylic mixed with Future to ge a glossy finish to run my oil washes to deepen details. The legs got MM Acrylic 02 with Future for the washes too.
Partially painted nose gear
Mains
The pit still needs more parts and detailing but it will eventually look busy.
I got the nose wheel unit done and the pit is ready for paint. Got the foot pedals bent and attached.Had to use a lot of PPP on the rear bulkhead due to gaps. So much for being made specially for this Revell kit. It's really easy working in this scale or maybe it's just an easy to work on kit. I will be opening up both gun positions on the fuselage sides so I have the gun well resin details on with Aleenes just to get the correct placement of things to eliminate surpises later on.
Here's the pe sheet. It has a nice IP and much better than the kit's. Lots of nice details to add.
Got this one cooking over in the Little Too late GB so I'm posting here for those not following the GB.
This a a nice big Salamander in 1/32 from Revell. I got this one on sale and is a nice kit as it is but adding a few things here and there makes it a bit more interesting. I got a bunch of CMK resin for it very cheap.
First the obligatory shot of the box.
The resin set adds more detail and did I say I got it cheap?
Using a grinding wheel in my Dremel set at low speed I removed the molded details to make room for the resin parts.
Now the resin part slides in place.
Did the same thing to the opposite side and super glued the parts together with Gorilla Super Glue Gel......great stuff!
I bent my own wires for the seat grab handles and Gorillaled them in place. Used some PPP to fill some gaps as the resin parts are not fitting well even tough they are designed for this particular kit.
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