In My Stash GB : Threepeat

As promised here are the progress pics of the Valom Devastator as chosen by you my fellow stashers.

First off the kit

This is a limited run kit and my first experience with this type.  What a surprise or chock as it were.  The resin and pe parts are quite nice however the styrene components are something else.  The fit of the wings and fuselage are very poor actually one of the fuse half's was longer than the other by a good 3 mm so aligning them was going to be fun then throw in the resin bits and the fun begins.

Here is a view of the wing assembly.  Even with all the fitting there was still gaps in the leading edge.  Because of the corrugations on the wing using putty was out, so out came Mr, Surfacer after a few coats the gaps were dealt with now to rescribe all those corrugations

Here is a look at some of the resin bits

After much sanding, fitting, sanding, fitting....

And more sanding and fitting

Now it's starting to look like an airplane

At this stage I've painted the underside and I'm getting ready to paint the upper surface.  I'm getting there but what a rough ride this is not an easy kit and I would'nt recomend it to anybody that has not worked with resin conversions for good kits just my .  More when I have it.

Cheers

Bear

Fellow Stasher my apologies at being a poor participant in this years GB.  Work and health issues contributed to limiting my online time heck it limited most everything else.  However all is not lost as I have been moving the piece of junk(more on that later) you chose for me forward.  I still have to sort out my pics and upload them, then I'll post an update. 

I've gone through the posts and to all that have finished their builds well done.

Cheers

Wow! It's been a long time since I've been to this thread!

There are some great looking builds everyone!

I finally got a start (albeit a small one) on the Polar Lights Mystery Machine.

Here's the box again:

I also found a set of waterslide decals to replace the kit's peel-and-stick stickers(which are curled badly!) It's still going to be hard masking the green areas. No pain, no gain!

Well, here's my "progress". I got the Scooby and Shaggy figs put together and primed. They're not perfect, but alot of their lower halves won't be seen once everything's together.

Thanks for looking!

Robert, good to see you have started.  Eagerly waiting to see that monster come together.

IL, welcome back. I see you are up to your typical standards.   Clever idea to get the rotors to work correctly.

Dupes, sure.  I'd be up for it if IL is, as long as Kenny has no objections and there is sufficient interest in doing another IMS here on these forums.

Hey, IL2 is back!

I'm officially nominating you and Arki as the new organizers of the IMS series of GB's with Kenny leaving to do his own thing elsewhere. Whatta you guys say? Huh? Huh?

Hello, Gents.

Seriously... ever since summer started, this has been the most hectic time of my life.  Won't bore you with the details, but it does appear that things are finally stabilizing once again.  I too have finally had an opportunity to sit down and accomplish something on my kit today.  I am also going to press for an on-time completion with what's left in the year. 

So... to a rather strange part of this build.  Recall I'm building a Ka-50 Hokum, with counter-rotating rotors.   Well the kit is designed such that both rotors are glued together as one peice, so they would spin together.   And that just stinks... so i'm trying to build a metal shaft-in-sleeve-in-sleeve apparatus that will enable both rotors to spin independent of each other. 

Kit part with my metal sleeve replacement parts.  Gonna have to dress them up a bit yet.

Balsa substrate

Drill bit in place of the shafts

Cheers.

ARKI - been watching your build.  Looks like it's been a royal pain in the arse! LOL
It's coming together beautifully.

I finally broke the seal on the plastic this morning of the 1/35 AFV Club Bigshot.  I have every intention to pound this out by the end of the year.  With two weeks of vacation time, it shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks dupes!

Thanks Steve. The USCG Dolphins are red with white highlights. 

You might be thinking of their larger rescue helicopter, the Jayhawk.

I'd love to do a Jayhawk as well, but that's a monster conversion from the Italeri Seahawk.

Nice looking red Arki, it turned out very well. Know what you mean about coverage, I have a lot of yellow to spray today and not looking forward to it. Thought most of the chopper would be white with red stripes etc. Is this one going to be mostly red. Its looking great

Steve

Eureka!  Finally have some real paint work completed.

The Chevy Engine Red IMHO looks pretty darn close to all my reference pics of the real deal.  I will say that it sprayed much like white or yellow, or in other words difficult.  Multiple thin coats and patience are required as everything shows beneath it.

Next is to begin masking off areas in black, mostly the front glazing and radome.

Cheers 

Umm your not the only one. I hit a stumbling block on the Saturn V with the body tube wraps. The kit supplied ones were pre printed and very thin. I had tried finding some thicker styrene sheets at the LHS but they were not big enough to make the circumference.. Even thought of using thin wall pvc pipe Soon as I find something to make the tubes out of it will be ready for all the preassembled structures and bits.

I have really enjoyed seeing the building and progress here ! Arki and Dave - Exellent Work

Hey Arki

I've been lurking in here from time to time to see your progress.  Your helo is looking great.

It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that I am not going to get my build done for this GB   My humblest apologies for entering a GB that I could not finish.

My build schedule has two armor kits at the top of the priority list, but following the Winter Warriors GB, I may switch to an aircraft, in which case I'll build the Avenger.  Better late than never, I guess.

Sorry guys...

MM Acryl Chevy Engine Red.  I've read on several forums that this is the best color for the Coast Guard Orange, because it's not International Orange.  International Orange is too...well, orange.  Nearly every picture I have of a Dolphin has a much redder tint to it than International Orange will give me.  Anyways, we'll see once I shoot it.

That being said, recently Testor introduced Coast Guard Orange and Coast Guard Red.  I have no idea how those stack up to the real thing.

Pics will be forthcoming, just let me get to a good point.  Primer is fairly dull.

Finally managed to get primer on.  Whew.  Now the real fun begins!

Next step, Coast Guard Orange.

arki30 wrote:

Sweet cockpit!  The extra detailing was worth it.

Man, ain't that the truth. Nice work!

Hey Arki, Ive been finished for a while but still enjoying your progress pics and its looking great by the way. I am bogged down myself in PE on a current build and beginning to wonder is it all worth it in the end.

Shooter, sorry to hear of your family problems, and of course life comes well ahead of build models. Your build is looking good though and looking forward to you finishing it.

Steve

Hi...sorry for being away from the build so long, between taking care of a sick wife and a dying mother and work it's been somewhat hectic here. I finally got some time in on detailing the HIND cockpit area and building up some of the sub-assemblies and weapons. What's slowing me down so much is just how far do I go into trying to detail out the cockpit/cabin or just stop, wrap it up and slap it all together.

This was at the start of the build.

And this is the continuing work in progress...

The circular tub behind the cockpit wall is one area I'm sctratch building by extending the walls up towards the pilot seat though once it's all together, it would barely be visible through the open aft cabin doors.

So much left to do here, I hope to have some more progress done by next week along with some new pic's.

Not as close as I'd like.  There's a bunch of exterior PE, and I need to determine from research photos what I should install when.  The sliding door needs some scratch-building, and the glass for that door needs to be installed as well. 

One step at a time, however.

Ugh, not as much progress lately as I would like, but that's life. 

I have managed to paint the canopy black to match the interior color.  As I've complained before, the canopies are way too thick and fit is terrible.  That little scoop is from the Eduard PE set.  The hoist is partially installed as well.

Vertical tail feathers are on, fan blades are installed, and some miscellaneous antenna are on.

And lastly I've started placing some of the Eduard PE screens and such to the outside.

Hopefully I can work faster and get this thing to primer stage!

Anyone else working?  Bueller?

Thanks, Steve.  If you thought it looked like a Dolphin before, how about now?

Woot!  Resin nose and tail are on, with a sigh of relief.  Unfortunately, I didn't get enough lead weight for ballast.  It still wants to sit tail heavy.  I might be able to stick some more in the front gear bay, just not sure how much.

Need to fill and sand the seams at the resin attachments next.

AHH young arki grasshoper you have learnt well and on the way to being a master. Realy like the way its comming along arki. Defo looking like a dolphin now. I was going to ask about the masks also, from here they look like electrical tape. Get er done.

Steve