3RD ANNUAL SECRET SANTA GROUP BUILD FOR AIRCRAFT

Here she is - all wrapped up.   The walk areas were overpainted in a dark grey.  I think it looks better than the green decals.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year All !

Chris

Chris, very nice work indeed and she turned out great. I agree with the new wing walk area, much better than what the decals looked like and well worth the effort.

On my front the JU-88 is done also and all I have to do is put the antena wire on it tonight and then get some photo time to post some pics. Should have them soon

Steve

Thanks Steve,

Looking forward to seeing the Ju-88 finished.  the build pics have been very impressive.  The detail on the interior is especially nice.  Is it very visible when all closed up ? 

Chris

I finished it up last nite by adding the wires and touch up paint. Too late to photo it and I have to go out of town for new years so I will probably post pics fri or sat. The interior looks good and a lot of the detail is visable but not all the work that went into it

Steve

P.S. Happy New Years to all

Chris, another amazing job friend! Funny thing is I got this kit for Christmas. Higher powers must be trying to tell me something. I love seeing your builds. You do a wonderful job on all of them. Hope you had a great Christmas and hoping the New Year finds you and yours happy and healthy.

God Bless

Zip

Thanks Zip - and good to hear from you man. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours as well.  Christmas was great for us with our eldest home from college and everyone healthy while visiting extended family.  It's been a good break.

Good Luck with the Intruder - and be sure to post pics !

Chris 

Well guys Im calling this one done. I chickened out on the balloon cutter as the PE was way to fiddly and couldent keep its form. I may play with it at a later date when I have more time and patients. In recap, gift was from Warhammer, thank you very much. Its the dragon edition of the 1/48 JU-88 A6. Kit came with an extensive PE sets for everything and it made for a slow build. I didnt use all of them and a lot flung off never to be seen again. Still it was an enjoyable build and happy how it turned out. Model master enamels used and a wash and pastels for weathering. Antenna is fishing line

Once again this was a great GB and its my favourate yearly build. Thanks all for looking and now its on to this years kit.

Steve

Wow,  that's very impressive.  Great detail work and great job on the painting / weathering.  I can't imagine that much was lost with the unused PE.  That's really fine work Steve.

Chris

Nice work, Steve.  The canopy looks great., as does the overall paint and weathering.  I would not think the props would have the kind of wear you show, instead more along the leading edge toward the tip. 

Great Job Steve.   Love the weathering.

Thanks guys. Enjoyed the build a lot but one skill I havent mastered yet is the prop weathering. That big silver streak was a mistake of dry brushing and has been corrected. Still havent figured out when is too much or too little. Anyone got their favourite method of doing this they would like to share

Steve

Steve, looks great!  I would like to say that I haven't forgotten about my Wildcat from Max, I'm still plugging away at it, slowly and surely.  Even slower since I'm building another cat to go with it.  This very well could end up being transformed into a diorama sometime down the line.  Anyway, painting is pretty much done.  I've applied decals and just shot the overlying coat of future to seal them in.  Here's how they look right now.

Tamiya Cat

HobbyBoss Cat

In a couple days I'll figure out some more to do with them.

Mike

Everyone, your builds look great! I like the JU-88, I've got one of my own, but without all the PE goodies.

Mike, Glad to see you're making progress on the Wildcat! Looks like you've done a great job! Now you just need to paint the pilot and moto-tug I gave you!

I'm working on mine, I think I'll finish the wash tonight (I hope!) and if everything goes ok, I'll be able to finish by this weekend!

RadMax8

I'm working on mine, I think I'll finish the wash tonight (I hope!) and if everything goes ok, I'll be able to finish by this weekend!

Aha!! A deadline I can finally meet! Well, a personal deadline anyway! The P-47M is finally done!

Stick a fork in it!

Kit was the 1/48th Tamiya offering with Superscale decals, a Quickboost gunsight (delightful, btw!), and a wired-up engine. I made the aerial with invisible thread and a tiny spring I made with an individual wire out of a small gauge wire.This was one of my better builds, however the paint job fought me pretty hard. I'd like to say thanks to Leaadas for sending this kit to me!

Very nice Max.  Superb painting and detail work.  Please don't stick that fork in it !

Chris

Has anyone herd from Azgaron? I sent him the Mitusbishi T2 kit and ive not seen any progress here.

Mike, very nice progress and the cats are looking good.

Max, very nice finish on the Jug. That has to be on of the wildest paint schemes ever on a 47. Came out great.

I havent seen Az in a very long time anywhere on the forums

Steve

Ok guys, I'm calling the wildcats done.  As you may or may not remember, Max (whose P-47 looks great by the way) got me a Tamiya F4F-4 for Christmas '08.  Finally it has been completed.  He also threw in a moto-tug for the kit that is in the process of being completed, however, I haven't been documenting that.  I must say that this kit is great.  Detail is excellent.  Fit is Tamiya.  It's awesome.  thinking that I didn't have enough on my plate I decided that I would do a side-by-side build with the Hobby Boss F4F-4.  Another good kit.  Each kit gave me a little trouble along the way, but I think that the outcome is desirable.  Without further ado...

Tamiya is 28, Hobby Boss is 2

Now thats some great work! Thanks for posting, the wildcats always looked like a goofy yet tough plane. Which one to you was a better pleasure to build?

Progress update on the F-105D.  I managed to score some OOP Albatross decals for the, um, "adult" themed nose art from e-bay.  Cockpit tub has been painted, sidewalls too.  Working on the seat and IP now.  Still trying to decide if I'm going to *Gasp* rescribe this.  Guess I'll see how assembly goes first.