Wow, its only day one and some of you are already almost finished! Any way, I started last night (well, 12:45 AM Nov. 13th actually). The kit is actually an old Matchbox kit rather than the LS kit I thought it was. I mistook it for an Oscar kit I had been building.

As you can see, my cat Grace has taken an interest in my activity. 

By the time I decided to hit the sack (2:15 AM), this is where I got:

So, not as far as some of you have gotten but I still have two nights left. I need to try and finish building tonight though.  You guys are looking good so far! Good luck!

WOW!  Here we go.  Great to see so many allready going on.  Dave is gonna lose his mind again keeping up with all of the builds.  Poor lad!  Besides that, he is gonna build too.  I gotta learn that trick on how to run a GB AND build something there too! LOL...

Aaron- You are really doing it, good luck to you!  

Bondo- A Mach 2 kit, AND a second kit to boot?   You are as nutz as Aaron.

Dave- Can you change my build to a Hasegawa Corsair Egg Plane?

 Guy? Since when do you need a whole weekend to build a model anyhow? If you must I will be here! Neu and Fupes have entered the forray!  Best of luck to ya! this is where we tell the men from the pups!

 As per the rules dictated by Dave the dictator and reuttered by Cpt Bondo the utter here is the start showing the 1/48 Tamiya  Landcaster Grand Slam! (prop action).

 Here we go.... been nice knowing you fellows!  I'm going in! Start time  right now!

ok here i go

Wow, i forgot how quickly this GB got into gear. Yesty, Nada, today, WOWZERS.

I see some awesome work being produced but whos going to be 1st past the post. Looking at Billy Bondos Ford, i reckon itll take longer to decal the beast than build it. Still waiting to see the uncut sprue shots of Aaronski's Lanc. Thats going to be good.

My Alby build is sheduled for the 17th and 18th. This as i dont have a weekend as im working. Youll all still be here? Right?

...Guy

Welcome aboard Dupes and Brown Eyes.

It looks like I will have a fair bit of reading to catch up on in the morning

Brett

1:30 am here.

16 hours into the build.

that's it for me tonight.

I'm not as far along as I hoped to be at the end of the first day, but the results are better than I expected. not too many set-backs so far, just annoying fussiness.

Hopefully things will continue to run smoothly tomorrow, and with any luck I might even get this build completed.

Brett

Just about game time for me and BrownEyes, shooting for a noon start. First order of business will be to dip the canopies in future, then prime the Aeroclub white metal ejection seats. They provide waaaaaaay more detail than the kit pieces - hoping that you can see them through the glass!

Assuming the kit decals pan out (going to test one at about 12:05!), we'll be going with the kit provided two-tone markings, British Dark Sea Gray over white. Should look pretty cool. Two different birds to model, and they'll have considerably different weapon loadouts as well.

Very excited! Got everything all planned out, dinner is already in the crock pot so we don't have to waste any time cooking...these are going to be sweet. Good luck everybody!

The obligatory uncut-sprues pic: 

1am Saturday here, 11 hours in.

Harrier is mostley built, maskol applied to canopy awaiting painting tomorrow. Wheels and ordnance will be applied after cam is done, but that will have to wait till tomorrow as I dont think the missus or kids would be to happy if I fired up the aircompressor at this time of day (large workshop style not smaller desktop compressor).

Andrew

I've just passed the 12 hour mark... I can't believe I am already 1/4 of the way through the build.

there are no more parts left on sprues, everything has been tacked and taped together, and now it's back into the spray booth to tidy up the primary colour, and lay down the camo.

Brett

dioramator wrote:

back again for round 2 Brett

ditto

Took some time out for tea and the latest Star Trek movie (seems to of hooked my 10y/o daughter so it cant be to bad). Oh well back to the slave pits

Andrew

back again for round 2

Brett

 Go Billy Bondo! 

"Here are the rules:  Must post pics at the start of the unbuilt model"- Davidicus I:7

Heres the two kits; the flashmonster and the ford:

Andrew and Brett,

Looking good so far.  Looking forward to LOTS more pics.

Neu,

You could just leave them be, but you won't will ya?

Mac,

I got faith in ya pard!  Look forward to seeing the Lanc done by Sunday.

As for myself, I've done my research and decided to do the AC-130 OOB.  Look forward to watching the "Bring the rain" scene from Transformers many times this weekend for inspiration.  Will be starting Saturday after I get off work. 

 Go Brett and Andrew!!!!!  Run with it!

As for me I am calling it a night. Got the bench all set up. New stuff! Paints, Brushes, glues, the works!  The Tamiya kit is sitting there waiting for me!  Can I pull it off?  Dunno but I will have a completed Landcaster very soon!

Me again...

here I am 7 1/2 hours into the build, and now time to take a break (at last I can breathe again) and stop for dinner.

I've been building like a demon posessed all day (not that you'd know it by looking). I didn't realise how much of a fussy bugger I was, until I tried to will myself to take short-cuts (but couldnt bring myself to do it...)

anyway here it is so far, will be back again this evening for a marathon late night.

Brett

The Two Hour Mark...

Before starting on th epilot I felt like a copper a football or cricket game, as their was an awful lot of flashing to clean up

Ok enough of helping to turn this in to the bad joke build, I've got the cockpit together. I modified the rather basic paint scheme for the pilot and seat, Google is your friend :D , I may need to touch up the pilots helmet but otherwise cockpit is basically done

Andrew

razordws wrote:

Just don't dump your cookies

ROFLMAO

Okay, great start Brett.  Looks like you've got a big head start on the rest of us which means you'll be able to sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch the rest of us sweat it out later.

Dupes had me a little worried so I went to my email and checked the notice on the newsletter regarding this weekend.  I'll quote it here...

During the times mentioned above, you will not be able to register for a new account or log in to FineScale.com with an existing account. Reader forum users will be able to post as long as they've logged in and have a cookie set prior to the times mentioned above. The site will be back to normal and open for new registrations at 8am CST Monday, November 16th.

I'm not sure what the part in red refers to but it sounds like the forum should not be affected. Hopefully we will all be able to get on to the site and post our works in progress.  Just don't dump your cookies (sounds bad I know) or you won't be able to get back on until Monday.  If for some reason you are affected by this just continue to take progress pictures and post them all on Monday.

welcome aboard Andrew.

I've just passed the four hour mark, got a little bogged down with the wheels for the last couple of hours (pun intended)

Here's where I'm up to.

Brett

OK, about to start, heres the kit

Andrew

dioramator wrote:

Is anyone else far off starting yet? it's getting lonely here building by myself Brett

Sorry Mate. Being as I'm in the Western USA, I'm at least a little over 5 hours away from when I can start. If I want to start at Midnight!? Which I don't. LOL. But I'm sure some other crazy modelers from other parts of the world will soon join you.

See ya

Scott

2 hours down.

I Have just finished in the spray booth, and have everything in primary colour.

where has the time gone, "time flies when you are having fun"

the yellow is not covering too well (I knew I should have gone with the grey... too late now). everything required a good solid 3 coats to get the colour even.

anyway, on with the assembly.

Is anyone else far off starting yet? it's getting lonely here building by myself

Brett

razordws wrote:

WooHoo!!!  We are underway folks!!!

ALLRIGHTY, HERE WE GO!!! 

Dave- Is it too late to change my build?  I am thinking about building a Corsair.