Secret Santa GB 22/23

castelnuovo

The main landing gears were a nice little sub-project

 

BK

Thanks Brandon. The springs are plastic, painted metalic gray.

BK, I agree. Of the few years I've participated, I've only seen a couple kits I bought actually built. Not really a GB meant for adding kits to someone's stash. 

castelnuovo

The main landing gears were a nice little sub-project

 

castelnuovo

The main landing gears were a nice little sub-project

 

I'm also a sucker for a really good 219, and those look fantastic! Really enjoying seeing this bird come together.

BrandonK

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT !!

Just a quick announcement for all the wonderful peeps that join me every year in this super fun build. After this year wraps up I will no longer be doing the SSGB. If someone wants to take up the mantle and run it and do their own thing with it, they are more than welcome to do so. Sign ups are pretty steady over the years, but actual participation in GB's is at an all time low and I'm getting tired so I feel it's time to pass it on and move on. FSM seems to be dying, I don't know why, but it shows big time in the GB's over the past few years. This year is the worst I've ever seen. We will continue to have fun with this one and watch as everyone builds those super cool gifts.

BK

 

I feel like I am a part of the problem in that I am now seeing this this two weeks later when going to post an update...yikes.  Thanks for putting these together over the years BK.  It is a true story when I say that the SS GB was what drew me back to the FSM forums after a multi year hiatus.

The Phantom is on a break, and I was out of town for most of last week, so I decided to start the F16.  Unfortunately, it seems my camera corrupted some of my early WIP shots of the Falcon.    

Here is where I am at:

Robert, too bad about the pics but what you show looks pretty nice and I am looking forward to seeing this build up. I need more modern jets in my life. I should build some of my own. One day I suppose. Glad to see you enjoying your gift.

BK

This is a great little kit.  For the average builder, it would make a great weekend project....for me, count on a month.  

I had a chance to get started on the GT 40 this weekend! The Wright Field Scale Modelers have a build day at a local hobby shop and I thought it would be perfect to open the box there. This is a really superb kit. The body is so smooth that it is gonna paint up really nice. I think I'm gonna do Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi 1968 powder blue and orange scheme for it. I don't like any of the standard red blue white black that they do now.

Since we're working on a folding table i focused on subassemblies. Here's where i left off...

more to come. I've got some great MCW Enamels to use for the paint scheme!

Always great to see WIP pix. Here is the latest from Hans and Fritz...

On the side of the pic and on the top of the paint jars are 2 of the 5 radar antens. They are thin and fragile and attached to the sprue at 5 places. So one has to do 25 very careful cuts in order not to break them and then 25 more careful trims. Phew, made it without breaking anything.

TheMongoose

I had a chance to get started on the GT 40 this weekend! The Wright Field Scale Modelers have a build day at a local hobby shop and I thought it would be perfect to open the box there. This is a really superb kit. The body is so smooth that it is gonna paint up really nice. I think I'm gonna do Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi 1968 powder blue and orange scheme for it. I don't like any of the standard red blue white black that they do now.

Since we're working on a folding table i focused on subassemblies. Here's where i left off...

more to come. I've got some great MCW Enamels to use for the paint scheme!

 

 

 

 

BK

castelnuovo

Always great to see WIP pix. Here is the latest from Hans and Fritz...

 

On the side of the pic and on the top of the paint jars are 2 of the 5 radar antens. They are thin and fragile and attached to the sprue at 5 places. So one has to do 25 very careful cuts in order not to break them and then 25 more careful trims. Phew, made it without breaking anything.

 

BK

Gotta love those surprises in the mail.  My Santa delivered this week!  The wonderful Eduard P-51 early-version (Without the tail fillet)

I'll post some pics shortly when I can pry my phone away from my son.

The downside?  I'm still several weeks away from my workshop being completed as part of our basement reno.  While they're 3-weeks ahead of schedule, we're still waiting on flooring, paint and electrics.

DiscoStu

Eduard P-51 early-version (Without the tail fillet)

BK

It'll be a fun one.  Already picking out some AM stuff while I wait for them to finish downstairs.

Yeah that Ford GT looks like it has some of the cleanest molding I've seen on any car kit!

Castel, looks like you can almost see the finish line for that 219!

Here's last years SS gift complete and ready for the shelf!  Time to get cracking in this years gift!

Mopar Madness

Here's last years SS gift complete and ready for the shelf!  Time to get cracking in this years gift!

 

BK

Edit, nope. It's a PM kit from 97. Great kit.

Bravo Chad!  Nice build you have there.

The Falcon finally looks like a plane jet:

And it has it's color too:

It is now at the same place as the Phontom...I have a lot of decalling to do on these two birds now.

BrandonK

 

 

Mopar Madness

Here's last years SS gift complete and ready for the shelf!  Time to get cracking in this years gift!

 

 

 

 

Nice finish, Chad. That is awesome. For an older Revell PM kit it is really nice. I wonder if this is someone else's kit reboxed. Excellent finish, gorgeous!!

 

BK

Edit, nope. It's a PM kit from 97. Great kit.

 

That Me looks super good! Well done.

Thanks guys!  Glam, nice progress!  That's definitely my favorite modern jet. 

G'day mates I'm back and I have really missed you all. I've also got a lot to catch up on. Chad that's a beautiful job on the 410. BK I'm truly sorry to hear about your decision with the SSGB, but I fully understand. I have not been doing a lot for obvious reasons, but just before Jill passed I received the 1/48th scale workable tracks for my King Tiger from last years SSGB.

Dodgy

G'day mates I'm back and I have really missed you all. I've also got a lot to catch up on. Chad that's a beautiful job on the 410. BK I'm truly sorry to hear about your decision with the SSGB, but I fully understand. I have not been doing a lot for obvious reasons, but just before Jill passed I received the 1/48th scale workable tracks for my King Tiger from last years SSGB.

 

BK

Thanks Chad, I agree the F16 is growing on me.  It is like the go cart in the fighter jet world...and I think the Wisconsin ANG flies them out of Madison so I may try and find a decal set and build another.

Dodgy, glad to see you back at it, well done on those tracks!

Thanks fellas, the tracks require a lot of patience, but the detail is beautiful. Now waiting on paints, Tamiya and Mr. Colour, to finish the King Tiger and start the Zero. I'm told they may take some weeks! It seems to be getting harder and harder to obtain supplies out here and considering where I live, it's not like I can just pop into a shop.

Dodgy

Dodgy

Thanks fellas, the tracks require a lot of patience, but the detail is beautiful. Now waiting on paints, Tamiya and Mr. Colour, to finish the King Tiger and start the Zero. I'm told they may take some weeks! It seems to be getting harder and harder to obtain supplies out here and considering where I live, it's not like I can just pop into a shop.

Dodgy

 

As far as supplies, yup, even here in the states some things are getting harder to get and I don't have any shops around me at all. I've been stocking up on many things in the event we can't get stuff I'll be ok. Keep on trucking.

BK

Well, Hans and Fritz finally got their  together and are ready to fly...

Very nice job!  Sure do like that plane.