War In The Pacific Group Build 2009 - 2010

Frank great job on the stand.

One question why the tapeing of the wheelwells now. I usually tape it like that after the bottom is painted?

Jason

carsanab wrote:

Hey Frank.....didnt I see a similar thing on late night TV...made by RONCO....saw it on the same spot as the "Buttoneer" and "Mr Microphone"....

LOL, you probably did!  Be careful though, there are folks out there offering cheap imitations that are nothing more than toothpicks stuck into a piece of styrofoam.

jay12472 wrote:

Frank great job on the stand. One question why the tapeing of the wheelwells now. I usually tape it like that after the bottom is painted? Jason

Jason,

Usually I just spray the wheelwells to proper color, then mask them and paint the lower colors.  But on this Zero, the wheelwells are going to get a coat of lacquer-thinner gloss black, Alclad II NMF, and finally a coat of clear blue green.  I thought about spraying all of those, then painting over the overspray, but didn't know how the light gray would cover all of those coats.  So, I masked the wells and when they are finished, mask them again from the gray undersides.  Hope that helps explain it!

See?  There IS a madness to my method.

KJ200 wrote:

Guy, you now what, I've never been to a model show. When's Telford anyway?

Its the 7th of November. Its one of the biggest shows in the UK calender. Ive never been before but im going up with Big E. It would be great to meet up. Go on, you know you want to.

Right, once i finish this message, im going up to do battle with the blue one. I want all of you to wish me luck, IM GOING IN....

...Guy

Luftwoller wrote:

Right, once i finish this message, im going up to do battle with the blue one. I want all of you to wish me luck, IM GOING IN.... ...Guy

I've got my fingers crossed for you Guy!  Best o' luck, I know you will prevail!

Geez, it seem like forever that ive been on this build. Thx to the prayers from Frank, I heard em Buddy, shes done. I had nightmares throughout and really wanted to bin the thing. But im a Brit, and we never give up, Yeah right. I would love to know what the english version of Windex is. What i thought it was ate through the paint. Involving a partial respray, Boo. Anyhoo, heres some pics, starting with the repaired wingfold,

As the plasic had broken fairly unevenly, i used the 'Hot pin' method of marking the centre,

after it was marked i drilled a hole the same dia as a paperclip, my rod of choice,

which, hopefully, as you can see, worked a treat,

Im fairly sure i made a few errors here and there, but I did enjoy the build in the end. Thx Frank for your pics and encouragement. I filled in the step in the Stbd side inner flap. Was that right btw? I made a semi educated guess.

...Guy

Hey Guy....great looking Corsair there!!!!!great camo job and i really like the weathering and look of the landing gear...overall a solid 10!!!! 

Carlos

Guy:

I knew that last picture of yours looked familiar.....except of course "the Hand of God"

Carlos

Frank Thanks that makes perfect sense to me

Guy Awsome job on the corsiar the weathering is top nocth, really like the work on the droptank

Jason

Guy- Glad to hear those prayers worked!  And boy, did they ever!  Sublime work on this baby, I wanna take it up for a spin!  It does start up, right?  Sure looks like the real deal to me.  BTW, good call on filling the step in the inner starboard flap section, those didn't appear until later models.

I bow to your Corsair-ness!

Finally, I found back this forum! Pfoei!!!

I started to build an Akagi diorama, placed during the battle of Midway. The material is all in my house, only has to be placed to the dio!

First off course find out the right colors. The fusilage of the ship is not so hard, light grey. The deck however is another issue. There are only drawings, other models and black/white photo's. From these B/W pics I could see the deck has a light color, like unpainted wood. Most of drawings are dark brown, so at the end I made a mix of red-brown and desert yellow.

The bridge of the akagi is protected with sandbags. To make these sandbags, scale 1:700, I know nicer jobs, but at the end you got something. I opened a door in the bridge so the crew can walk in and out.

Tonight I make the waves of the ocean so the ship can be in the water. Next step is the dogfights of the US planes against the Zero. Some of the US planes will be in the water, exploding. I place the scene just before the US-divebombers place there bombs in the elevators.

If anyone can tell me how to upload pictures I can show how it looks...

Hi Duiker, to post pics up you need an Online photo account. I use www.photobucket.com. Once you have registered (Its free btw) Start by creating an album name for your build. saves time finding pics in the future and you can open a new album for subsequent builds. Then you just scroll down to find 'Upload Images and video'. Find where your pics are on the computer and D/L them. Once youve d/l ed them, you get the option to name them. I personally dont, but go for it if you want to. To post the pics, you will see if you put the mouse over the picture, 4 options appear underneath. The one you want is the 'IMG code' Right click on this and then copy and paste in here. There you go. Thats all. Get those pics up.

...Guy

In my previous posting I asked for a way to show pics. Thanks Luftwoller!

Tonight I painted the flydeck partly, the sea and waves will follow next week.

More to come...

(changed the links so the pics can be seen here. Thanks for the tips on that!)

duiker Welcome  Nice job on the carrier. I just started to dabble in 700th ships so I will watch closely.  As for the pics use the photobucket one with IMG code it will bring the pic rite up. Its the bottom choice

Jason

I've been away for a fw weeks and it looks like I missed quite a bit! Great Corsair, Guy! I also saw Carlos's LED floatie...what a beauty!

I'll have to page through the last 10 pages and see what else I missed.

I hope to finish the Hellcat shortly.

That carrier is coming along quite well!  Looking forward to the next round of pics.

Charles- back my friend!

mucker wrote:

I've been away for a fw weeks and it looks like I missed quite a bit!

Hey Charles...was wondering were you wandered off too...I thought maybe the elves got to you since I stopped them cold....

CS

Welcome back Your Highness, you have been missed my friend. Well???? Whereve you bin? Eh?

...Guy

Here are a couple of updated shots pf the p-47

Well I'll be off to the region 2 model show this weekend in Jersey. Have a good weekend

Jason

SHe's coming along tremendously, Jason! Wow! I built the same markings a few years ago and learned that friends of another forum-goer (waynebaker) actually knew the family of the pilot in Lodi, OH.

I love the lines on the razorback.

Good morning all.  I took a week off in Hawaii and am just getting back to the workbench.  The pics I've seen so far of your work are incredible!  Nice job fellas!  I have an affinity towards the Jug and love the way that P-47 is turning out.

I snapped some inspirational pics of the Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma Memorial, USS Bowfin, Ford Island (Which I thought was interesting in that the hangers on the island were left as-is from the attack, shattered windows and bullet holes included), and the Pacific Aviation Museum.  I'll post some pics.

I'll head back to the bench this weekend.  I have the Jill ready to mask and paint and am still plugging away at the big 1/32 Avenger. I've included some pics of the Jill's cockpit.

Jason the 'Jug' is looking great!!!! Very nice pre shading!!!

Stu that office is looking sweet!!! Looking forward to pics of the Avenger as well!!! ANd of your trip!!

Some more mighty fine work on display here.  I managed to get a little done on the Zero and the Corsair yesterday.  Finished the Aotake coating in the gear bays, then masked and painted the dark slate gray on the Corsair (took a whole stick of Handy Tac and nearly an entire roll of Tamiya tape!).  Some more shading is needed on the Corsair, then I can remove the masks.  Here's how they look:

Painted the flight deck of the Akagi. Probebly the paint was a bit to thin so it did go under the tape. Now I got a browm flightdech with beautiful white spots... (I allmost start to cry...)

Back to the drawing board, start over again with the painting of the fligh deck.

By the way, next saturday there are the Dutch Nationals. I hope to be there with the Akagi-diorama.

http://www.ipms.nl/nats/hoofdpagina-full-text.html

Stu, great job on that Avenger interior.

Jason, that Jug is looking spot on. The paint job has come out perfectly.

Frank, the Aotake looks great. What paint did you use?

Duiker, don't give up, we've all been there with paint running under masking.

Karl

Jason, great looking Jug. Ive not seen those mnarkings before. Very nice.

Stu, the Avenger pit is looking spot on. Ive saved the pics as i have Acc Mins in my stash. Looking forward to seeing it coming together.

Frank. Great work and pics as weve all come to expect. The Aotake looks great. I dont know if ive ever seen a colour image of the real deal. Do you have one knocking about in your immense reference library? Or anyone for that matter.

Duiker, Keep the faith man.

...Guy