Special Wingdings GB - April 2012 ~ Sept 2013

Hey all,

The GB doesn't really feel alive around here, but I was bored about a week ago and made this one.
Little new extra badge, for the more Jet lovers.
Maybe I'll throw in another one real soon.

With regards, Ninetalis.

Missed some update here

Nice work on the berkut and corsair guys

Nice work on the badge ninetalis !!

My workbench is actually too busy to start the tornado, plus have 4 GB's near the end and need to complete respective works

Ill be starting my summer building season soon. I just have to finish with a family visit and get my work schedule figured out, and then I can start building!

I recently bought the Air Force Legends No. 213 book on the Vought / Hiller / Ryan XC-124A VSTOL Transport and this past week I've been reading through it .

Lot's of great photo's and info on the XC-124 and I was thinking of cutting open the rear ramp , however it's not just the lower ramp that opens , part of the upper section opens as well and fits around the little tail prop

So I won't be cutting anything open . A couple of interesting photo's of parachute drops though

Anyway I'll wash the resin parts today in some warm soapy water and get ready to paint the cockpit pieces .

John .

I know that most of the people are waiting to finish other projects, so I don't mind anyway,
I just wanted to remind everybody that this thing is on their list to (:

Great pic's Helo, that's one crazy looking bird anyhow you want to put.
I'm looking forward to your project!

With regards, Ninetalis.

Just a couple of quick WIP pics. Finished painting the main body and got decals and a first sealing coat of future. Going to start adding fiddly bits and panel line wash this week. working on a quick UH-1 Huey build at the same time, so i'll post some pics up when I make some progress.

Krakan

Just a couple of quick WIP pics. Finished painting the main body and got decals and a first sealing coat of future. Going to start adding fiddly bits and panel line wash this week. working on a quick UH-1 Huey build at the same time, so i'll post some pics up when I make some progress.  

I did a paint scheme like that with my Su-47, too! Sweet looking birds arent they?

Crazi cool paint that!

I would like to enter my Academy 1/72 ME 163 Komet for the GB.

A really nice and simple little kit. They supply the fuselarges of either the single or two seater and different tailwheels for both.

The fit is very good and the detail is typical fine Academy.

There is also a nice little "sub -kit" of the carrier/tractor that moved the plane arround the airfield.

That instr pannel BTW is the one for the rea seat, I only realized after taking the pix LOL!

Note the nice fit between the fuse and wingroot. This has just been glued, no sanding done yet. Same with the fin to rear fuse

Theuns

I decided to go for a "low viz" sceeme LOL!

Theuns

Nice looking Komet, that came along nice and quick. Nice to see it in red.

This Komet is one of the easiest and quickest builds I have done to date -highly recomended!

I did it in red as we have a "unusual colours" chalange for the IPMS meeting (and I like the fact that there is no masking to do LOL!)

Theuns

Krakan great looking cammo!

Theuns thats a great looking fire red Komet,the kit looks a lot better than the Testors offering I did last year!

I'm jumping in here with this beast,one of my favorite X-planes and inmho one of the coolest looking Airframes ever flown.

The XB-70 is a lot larger than I expected!

The box art is nice

tho a tad of false advert is apparent with the exhaust,wonder what the builder used here?

The office is spartan and clunky ,geuss it hardly matters once buttoned up you wo'nt see much of it at all

I can tell already that my fingers are going to be aching from sanding! The main wing area has a very long seam,thankfully one side is covered by the main body thats 1 molded piece

This has some seams that are going to be a challenge in the intake areas

I've got a case of glue and industrial rolls of sand paper so off to the fun!

Thanks. I did get the kit a few months back, far better than the Heller kit.

Are you putting any decals on yours, apparently there is some dispute as to whether it was marked or not.

Well done Krakan!! i think the berkut is the most "wildwings" around

Theuns

This Komet is one of the easiest and quickest builds I have done to date -highly recomended!

I did it in red as we have a "unusual colours" chalange for the IPMS meeting (and I like the fact that there is no masking to do LOL!)

Theuns

nice to hear but i'm fine with "is academy" nice looking tail-less plane

Trey you put down some little kit there

"a case of glue and rolls of sandpaper"  LOL! Brilliant

Say what you will about Academy, but I like the "bang for your buck" they offer. Here in SA the "name brands" are way out of my leque. SO I will stick to the "el-cheapos" for now thanx  LOL!

Theuns

LOL when i choose an aircraft to build, first of all i check if the academy have it in catalog :D

I'm happy to see the GB coming to life!
There all very good builds that I'm seeing so far.

I like Academy like half/half,
They have fun kits, but, all the ones I've made so far have VERY spartan cockpits in my eyes,
I allways wonder if I buy bad cockpit kits or they're all very spartan on the cockpit.
But it isn't a bad brand at all!

With regards, Ninetalis

You must get the Academy 1/72 P-51 B kit. For the size the cockpit detail it VERY nice. Sure it will never hold anything to a full resin office but in my humble opinion the level of detail was pretty close to the Tamiya 1/48 109E I did in terms of "busy looks"

When I can I will build a model as much out the box as I can as here in Sout Africa most AM resin stuff has to be imported and is amazingly expensive ! Sometimes as much as the kit of just a bangseat :-(

Besides, my skill level will not make the model any more "wow" even if I put all the extras in anyway LOL!

The gloss on the 163 hopefully will cure today so I can decal tonight and do final assembly.

Theuns

Thanks theuns, but I only build 1/48 models...

As we are talking about Academy, they have a new release up their sleve,
A IL-2 with skies in 1/48, but offcourse, we should put in question why we'd buy that one, when there is that brand new Tamiya mold (except for the price ofcourse)

The thing I'm more interested in is their 'new' P-36A/C at Pearl Harbor,
But this is just a re-release with different markings...

Pzl66, maybe something for you is another Avenger!, Academy has a new one up their sleve, with Bunker Hill markings.

With regards, Ninetalis.

I have built a few Academy 1/48's and for the price I like them. I am now onto 1/72 moslty because I am fast running out of space to store the built ones. Having siad that, I just bought a 1/32 Trumpeter F4-u4 Corsair (because of the rediculous low price) but atleast the wings can fold up lOL!

Theuns

Ninetalis

I'm happy to see the GB coming to life!
There all very good builds that I'm seeing so far.

I like Academy like half/half,
They have fun kits, but, all the ones I've made so far have VERY spartan cockpits in my eyes,
I allways wonder if I buy bad cockpit kits or they're all very spartan on the cockpit.
But it isn't a bad brand at all!

With regards, Ninetalis

Academy was the first brand when i started to modelling that give me the possibility to build high kits at very low prices :) at the start of the story lots of their moulds was old molds ofother brands, lately they increase their kits and my main ww2 fighter are academy, and think are actually the best for the price/quality :D (even speaking of 72 scale). I'm a maniac of cockpit details but i build their corsair, hellcat, bf-109, tempest, typhoon,with really few added details:

here some cockpit as example:

the corsair, here i added only seat belts and the sight on the cockpit

the bf-109

tempest

typhoon

hellcat, p-47 and f-14 have the same quality ,good but not high quality the fw-190.I also built the p-51 and p-40 and lots of other kits . For sure i can advice to not get the wildcat, the avenger and the f-104 :) very bad pieces but even between first kits from academy .

The real problem of this brand are decals :(

Office is done along with the seats

Seams along the main fuse

Intake areas cleaned up

The 2 mated up fairly nicely after hours of sanding and test fitting

The forward fuse and wing tips,I cut off the 3 fuse antenae as they run along the seam . I 'll scratch some repacement ones after the sanding is done

test fit of the Canards

Test fit of the forward and main fuse sections looks pretty good, will need minimal filler after a few sanding sessions

Rudders fit decent after some sanding too

Next I've got some delicate sanding to do and hopefuly I wo'nt damage the raised details

Wow, compared to the paint pots that is one massive model! I think you'll have to buy a big spraygun to paint it LOL!

Sanding inside the intakes must have been "fun"

Theuns

Liking !!

Theuns thanks,Yes the intake areas were a major pita! I do have a full size spray set up and gonna use it!

p38jl thanks

Main fuse assembly joined up and yards of sanding to do!

Really litle cockpit compared to the huge beast :D well done Trey

Bish

Are you putting any decals on yours, apparently there is some dispute as to whether it was marked or not.

Ninetalis

Bish:

Are you putting any decals on yours, apparently there is some dispute as to whether it was marked or not.

 

Hey Bish, I hadn't seen your comment,
marked or not? Why don't we let the pictures speak for themselves...





With regards, Ninetalis.

OPPS, not sure what happened there. My comment was aimed at Theun'sred  Me 163. Did i mis quote.

Oooh like that, well, I have some pictures of that one to, but not an orange one...

To be honoust, I've never seen any pictures of an Me 163 without markings...

With regards, Ninetalis.

Actually, i haven't seen any photos of it. I do have a colour plate in one of the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces books, and this has the markings on. But i recall reading somewhere that its un clear if these were painted. But if there are indeed photos of it in markings, then that proves it. It do know it was painted the night before its first mission and Spate wasn't to pleased when he saw it.