Russ: Lol I figured you were! Just that the giant truck looks like something designed to transport a missile - that crazy boxcar was a complete surprise to me though!

Mike: Super work there, always thought the Dinah was one of the best looking aircraft of the war. I believe I remember one of the issues with it was it was so darn fast it could outrun Allied fighters as a recon bird.

Jim: Again looking good. Very good news that the fall didn't do more damage.

Jim, Cliff thanks for the input. And yes it was quite agile and very well equipped to intercept and shoot down high altitude bombers. In particular the B-29 was a choice target. Fortunately for our side by that stage of the war they couldn't produce enough of them or trained aircrews to fly them, if not they surely would've cost more American casualties.

The model itself was fun to build but I found there's not a bunch of reference books out there. Certainly not like the Spitfire or Bf-109 so I took liberties with the painting and some smaller details. The paint I used was MM Japanese Army Green and Army Grey.  Along with Tamiya's interior Japanese green. I mixed up some "Aotake" with Tamiya clear blue, green painted on top of an aluminum base for the wheel wells.

FYI, paint reference should have been Tamiya for the exterior not MM, just to be accurate. I remember because although I liked the color I had issues with too fast of a drying time.

The A-10 office turned out pretty good for my first BG. Or is it Bunk? I'll resize the pics next time, sorry.

Matt: Looks pretty good to me!

THASKS! - Gamera

Matt-Joachim

I think it looks great!

Nice work on the pit Matt, looking good.

Voodoo work:

Decals, decals, decals! There are more of the smaller ones added since the last photo....

And underneath as well....

And I pin washed the fuel tanks. They get decals, too.

Here's what I was going to show the other night, but I deleted the picture by mistake. I opened these two vents under the nose of the aircraft. They look rough in this photo, but in actual eyeball view, you can't see it. You just see them open. It just bothered me that they just were flat across the front and no opening was showing. This took me a while as I was using the smallest bits I have to drill a series of holes, then try to open them up with the point of a sharp Xacto blade.

If you remember, I opened the 2 afterburner cooling intakes as they were also just blank across the front. These were easy compared to the other ones. (obviously taken way back before painting!)

Well, I have my 3 day weekend, but after that it is a long stretch from hell as we go live on the new warehouse system. We are supposed to work all the way through next weekend, giving me a 12 day straight work week. I love how these companies can dictate this and take your free time. I may not have a family or anything, but my time off is still important to me. This old stallion ain't what he used to be and the 10-12 hour days plus Saturday's has already taken its toll on me. I spent most of my 4th of July sleeping it off.

By the way, hope all had a good 4th!

Jim

Great work on that Voodoo, Jimbot....had to check the build list to find out that it's actually 1/72nd scale and not 1/48th scale like I thought.  Impressive!

Awesome progress!

That is awesome dave, are you entering this group build??!

Matt...great looking cockpit you've got there,

Jim...That looks phenomenal

jimbot58

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Those are a lot of great photos, Ken! Makes me thing of something you might see in a book! I'm curious if you kept some notes as you went, so you could remember that this was an "A" version, that was a "C", on so on? I don't think I would remember it all.

I know what you mean about taking pictures for too long. I spent about 3 hours at the little museum here, and was pretty much done for that day. I exhausted both my batteries, (they go fast in flash mode) and was surprised that I came back with way less than a 100 photos.

I have to post a few more of those, but later as I don't want to steal your thunder of the moment! Bring on more pictures!

Actually Jim, what I do when taking those pictures is find the placard with the description and take a picture of it first, that way I know the aircraft type, and some of the history behind it.

Ken

Ken, that idea is so simple I feel stupid for not even thinking of it!

I have been looking the web site over, and this museum would be a place I could die in! A cool thing is that some (not all) of the aircraft have a virtual cockpit! What a great resource for a modeler!

  I was in the cockpit of the F-4G and looking to the right, what do you think I could see?

It's even more impressive with my new monitor!

Here is the view of the business side of the front office!

I was also looking at the virtual cockpit of the B-36 Peacemaker, and learned something new! It appears that the Aircraft Commander (left seat) and the Pilot (right seat) look after and control the 4 that are burnin'...

And the flight engineer looks after the 6 that are turnin'!

With all that going on, it's no wonder it took a crew of 15 to fly it!

Unfortunately, the F-101 does not have a virtual cockpit, but I urge you guys to check it out.

In the meantime, I'm going to jot this down on my bucket list.....

Jim

Hi Jim,

Anytime you want to go to the USAF National Museum let me know.  If you are going to fly there, I could pick you up at the airport, and we could share a hotel room to save money.  It would be cool to have someone to go with.

Ken

jelliott523

Awesome pics Jimbot, I'm going to have to check that out when I get the Aries parts for my F-4G!

Hi Jelliott,

The first thing you will want to do when you get that cockpit is wash the resin release agents off of it.  I usually soak mine overnight in Black Magic Bleche-Wite.  But be careful, it is caustic!  Be sure to wear gloves that are made to handle the cleaner.

What I do is use one of the heavier food storage containers with a lid.  I put the resin parts inside and pour enough of the Bleche-Wite to cover them.  Then I seal the container with the lid.  The next day I use a cheap small long bristle soft paint brush to scrub the parts while it is still in the solution.  Be careful not to break any of the small detail pieces from the resin parts!

After scrubbing, I rinse the parts in warm water.  (Be careful not to lose any.)  Then I use compressed air to dry the parts to avoid any water spots and get into the tiny crevices.

Ken

Striker8241

Gamera

~

Russ: Now that's interesting, I didn't know anything about those missile toting boxcars. Thank God the Cold War is over...

Roger that, Cliff. Many things in those days to put a chill up your spine... , but I was referring more to this...

 

 

Cool picture Russ!  Thanks for sharing it!

Ken

jimbot58

Not sure how to do this right...

6 Turnin' and 4' burnin'!

Scene from Strategic Air Command

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk

I can never figure out how to embed you tube.

Great movie Jim!  I bought that movie just for those scenes like that one.

Ken

Hey, Guys,

Robert Baldo is putting up a whole series of aircraft photos on the USAF SIG site. Today he put up a group of tanker photos. Check it out - you may find something useful.

http://www.usaf-sig.org/Forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=5a3144c5d370917c815b6569462cf7b3&topic=668.msg2611#new

These threads are in: The Real Thing/Aircraft, Helicopters, Missiles and Space.  He's got the whole series of century fighters as well.

And you're welcome, Ken .

Cheers,

Russ

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Not sure how to do this right...

6 Turnin' and 4' burnin'!

Scene from Strategic Air Command

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk

I can never figure out how to embed you tube.

Great movie Jim!  I bought that movie just for those scenes like that one.

Ken

I love how the wings and the whole aircraft is shaking with all power as they just about to roll! A nice touch is a recording of an actual dialog between the engineer and the ground crew. It's pretty obvious that we aren't hearing Sherman Potter there!

Well, the long weekend is over and leaving for work in a few so just getting caught up on some of the fine work here. Matt, you're off to a good start; very realistic detail and depth on the side console switches.

Jim, you may need some more solva-set or micro-set before you're done! That one's got more decals than any I've done recently. All the extra stuff you've done thus far is really adding up to a great finish! I suspect progress may slow slightly as you transition back into the salt mines, i.e., dreaded work!

Striker8241

Hey, Guys,

Robert Baldo is putting up a whole series of aircraft photos on the USAF SIG site. Today he put up a group of tanker photos. Check it out - you may find something useful.

http://www.usaf-sig.org/Forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=5a3144c5d370917c815b6569462cf7b3&topic=668.msg2611#new

These threads are in: The Real Thing/Aircraft, Helicopters, Missiles and Space.  He's got the whole series of century fighters as well.

And you're welcome, Ken .

 

Cheers,

Russ

Thank you Russ!! 

Ken

mikeymize

Those B-36 interior shots made my day Ken; don't know why but I really like that plane! As much as I've read on it and I didn't even know that about the engine monitoring thing. I always watch the SAC movie with Jimmy Stewart whenever it's on just for the panoramic views. 

I finally got my 3/4 shot of the Hyakushiki for this GB which you may put on the "wall" whenever you get chance (no rush). Work has been getting the better of my time lately and that's why it's taken so long to get the thing posted. Thanks again for the amazing photos, I think we all appreciate you taking the time to do it!

Great picture Mike!!  The front page has been updated!

Ken

mikeymize

BTW there should have been a dorsal gun on it but it became a casualty while being moved by me for the pic. So I decided to make it a recon version.

Great sadness Mike!   

Ken

jimbot58

I have managed a bit here and there on the Voodoo.

More decals:

This light needs to be red, the other would be clear, but I will probably just paint it silver.

The Voodoo took a tumble to the floor the other day. The only casualty was this sensor on the side that I had to re-attach. My museum trip showed that I should have flattened out the base to fit flush with the fuselage and they are actually pointing slightly about 10 or 15 degrees.

They are a bit overscale and you can still see the blob of CA where I repaired the breakage.

I also had done something underneath I wanted to share, but I accidentally deleted the photo.I reshoot later.

Until next time!

Jim

Your Voodoo is coming alive Jim!  Great job on those decals!      That has to be super labor intensive at 1/72 scale!

Ken

Matt-Joachim

Great job there Matt!      Very nice job on painting the detail!

Sorry for not replying earlier.  I was under the weather last week and then the holiday weekend kept me busy.

Ken

jimbot58

Voodoo work:

Decals, decals, decals! There are more of the smaller ones added since the last photo....

And underneath as well....

And I pin washed the fuel tanks. They get decals, too.

Here's what I was going to show the other night, but I deleted the picture by mistake. I opened these two vents under the nose of the aircraft. They look rough in this photo, but in actual eyeball view, you can't see it. You just see them open. It just bothered me that they just were flat across the front and no opening was showing. This took me a while as I was using the smallest bits I have to drill a series of holes, then try to open them up with the point of a sharp Xacto blade.

If you remember, I opened the 2 afterburner cooling intakes as they were also just blank across the front. These were easy compared to the other ones. (obviously taken way back before painting!)

Well, I have my 3 day weekend, but after that it is a long stretch from hell as we go live on the new warehouse system. We are supposed to work all the way through next weekend, giving me a 12 day straight work week. I love how these companies can dictate this and take your free time. I may not have a family or anything, but my time off is still important to me. This old stallion ain't what he used to be and the 10-12 hour days plus Saturday's has already taken its toll on me. I spent most of my 4th of July sleeping it off.

By the way, hope all had a good 4th!

Jim

Awesome work once again Jim!  I don't know how you do it at 1/72 scale!  And great work on opening up the holes on the front scoops.  I bought replacements for my 1/48 scale Voodoo.

Ken

mikeymize

Well, the long weekend is over and leaving for work in a few so just getting caught up on some of the fine work here. Matt, you're off to a good start; very realistic detail and depth on the side console switches.

Jim, you may need some more solva-set or micro-set before you're done! That one's got more decals than any I've done recently. All the extra stuff you've done thus far is really adding up to a great finish! I suspect progress may slow slightly as you transition back into the salt mines, i.e., dreaded work!

I guess I didn't really realize just how many decals there were! The decal sheet was numbered to 94. That doesn't count all the ones that may duplicated on both sides of the aircraft and also ones like "NO STEP" that there are a bunch of, all the same number. Then take away the decals for the alternative version and there are still a lot of decals! I would bet that number comes close to around 150 total. And yes, I am one of those nit-pickers that puts on every dang one of those "NO STEP" decals. I have had a couple of aircraft that had more! It takes me a while to do these as I may only sit and do 5 or 6 at a time.

Yep, the dreaded salt mines! The good news is that we won't be working Saturday! However, Sunday is still on! That day we go live on the new system and we will be test driving it before we hit the ground at a run on Monday.

I am told that at that point, I will officially be off the warehouse roster of picking and shipping orders, and be able at last, to concentrate on returns, shipping errors, and inventory management, as my job is supposed to be.

Jim

jimbot58

mikeymize

Well, the long weekend is over and leaving for work in a few so just getting caught up on some of the fine work here. Matt, you're off to a good start; very realistic detail and depth on the side console switches.

Jim, you may need some more solva-set or micro-set before you're done! That one's got more decals than any I've done recently. All the extra stuff you've done thus far is really adding up to a great finish! I suspect progress may slow slightly as you transition back into the salt mines, i.e., dreaded work!

I guess I didn't really realize just how many decals there were! The decal sheet was numbered to 94. That doesn't count all the ones that may duplicated on both sides of the aircraft and also ones like "NO STEP" that there are a bunch of, all the same number. Then take away the decals for the alternative version and there are still a lot of decals! I would bet that number comes close to around 150 total. And yes, I am one of those nit-pickers that puts on every dang one of those "NO STEP" decals. I have had a couple of aircraft that had more! It takes me a while to do these as I may only sit and do 5 or 6 at a time.

Yep, the dreaded salt mines! The good news is that we won't be working Saturday! However, Sunday is still on! That day we go live on the new system and we will be test driving it before we hit the ground at a run on Monday.

I am told that at that point, I will officially be off the warehouse roster of picking and shipping orders, and be able at last, to concentrate on returns, shipping errors, and inventory management, as my job is supposed to be.

Jim

Well all that work does show Jim!  The Voodoo is looking fantastic!

As far as your job goes, I hope it calms down soon for you.  That is good news that you will not be doing multiple jobs at the same time anymore.

Ken

Hi Everyone,

Here are a few of the photos that I promised from the Dayton Air Show: