Military Veterans GB II

Ken,

Looking good so far!  I am anxious to see the finished product.

Wirraway,

I finished the Tullibee (SSN-597) yesterday.  Being resin, there was not much to take in-progress photos of.  I will get a picture or two taken this week to post here, so keep your eyes open.

Here she is, the USS Tullibee (SSN-597).  After Nuclear Power School I attended prototype training at S1C in Windsor, Connecticut, which was based on this boat.  The Yankee Modelworks kit is resin with a few white metal items, and photoetched propellor.  This was a relatively easy build overall, and the base was made from an old award plaque.  Any comments are welcomed.

kbuzz01 wrote:

OK, fellow vets, I'm finally underway with the Revell 1:48 F-89J.  Below are some pics of the pit.          Ken

Scotty - Nice work.  I had a friend in college who served on a nuclear sub, but that was a long time ago.  His name was Jim Greene.

Bondoman - yup, I worked on F-89s.  Actually, my first encounter with military aircraft was T-6s and P-51s.  Also, C-47, F-94B/C, T-33, F-89J, and F-102/TF-102.  Spent 10 yrs as radio/nav tech in AF and ANG.  Left service in 1963 to return to college, and maybe this will be more believable when I tell you that I'm age 75.

 Regards, Ken

Scotty/Ken.

Some nice work there.  My landrover is coming along.  I will post pics when I get all the resin bits on.  Then I have to wait for the paint to arrive (from U.K.)  White Ensign models was the only place I could find that sells Australian lustreless olive drab in tinlets.

Ken,

I am glad to see that it is possible to still do some really great modelling at an older age.  That means I really may be able to build everything in my stash this lifetime!

Hey, Scotty - at my age, I have a small stash. 

It's cooled off a bit and the grandkids have left, so I've managed to do a little painting.  This is MM buffing metalizer.

Hey Wirraway, way to go - glad to see someone still knows there is a group build going on here.  Hard to realize that we are a third of the way into this 6 month build!! 

I've made a little more progress on the Scorpion, as shown below.  Hope to finish it soon.  It's not as tough a build as I thought it might be as a Revell.  Also, hope to have better pics next time.

Ken

Ken, good one !  thats some nice work you got there.

Paul

 Well, here's my F-89J, ready or not.  It's not museum quality, but I'm reasonably happy with it.  I'm not much for weathering and such, so it's sort of a plain jane build.  This was pretty much OOB except for some additional details in the cockpit.  Paint is MM aluminum plate buffing metalizer with touches of MM titanium metalizer on the exhausts.  I finished with a coat of Future which didn't turn out too well - should have used a top coat specific for the metalizer.  Decals are a combination of kit and home-grown.  Over the years, I'd forgotten how large this plane was in its day - it really had a monster wing.  In the display cabinet, this model really dwarfs my group of P-51s, T-6, T-33, F4U, etc.

Thanks for looking - I hope it's acceptable for the Vets GB.

 Ken

Looks like a solid, clean build to me. 'Pit looks good - is it OOB?

That first pic especially gets

Hans - thanks.

Dupes - also, thanks.  The pit is mostly OOB.  I added Eduard seatbelts and built the yellow ejection handles.  I used a silver pencil for highlights over the flat black panels.  Page 5 of this GB has pics of the cockpit.

Ken

I am about 90% done with the building so far. Here are a few shots of my progress:

everything that hs been glued together...

body and hood placed on the chassis (to be glued after painting)

soft top placed on vehicle (glueing after painting)

Ken.

That F89 looks great.  Congrats.

Landrover and trailer are done, just need to screw up the courage to use my AB for the first time.  Been existing on Tamiya rattle cans up till now, but just too expensive.  This would be the ideal test bed, as its all one colour (lustreless  modern australian olive drab).  Mind you, I do remember painting the real thing with brushes !

And here she is so far. Base coat of NATO green on the interior, bottom, and sides. Chassis, suspension, and wheels in Flat Black. Detail work due up next.

Helloooooo!!  Did all you guys re-enlist and go off to war? 

Ken

That Scorp looks fantastic!  Is it too late to join?  Was a Centurion tankie, but my particular model (Sh'ot Mk.4) isn't out yet by AFV Club, so, if OK, I'd build a Revell Merkava III, as I was there during the transition to the Merkava III, and the Revell kit has the right badge for my unit.  I never actually drove a Merkava III although, just saw them, and watched the 120 smooth bore being fired at night (an amazing sight!).  

If not, I flew in a Herc, and guarded AH-64As (got to know them very well), and worked with the crews of AH-64A and F-16 A&B (and sat in the cockpit of an F-16A!), been in jeeps, command cars, trucks, and Gawd knows what else!  I could even justify, just, a Hotchkiss 2 seater or a T-62, as we had both examples on my base, or, the earlier Sh'ot, as mine was a development of these earlier ones, and AFV Club do produce one of those.