Well after about 10 hours toatl worktime put in here is where I stand. I am at a standstill until the morning and then I can begin painting. All the major building is done.

Now just a base coat of white, add decals, paint and attach the afterburner, attach the canopy, touch up any colors needing such, and paint and attach tires and pitot tube and one other probe. Most will be done before work tomorrow afternoon if all goes well.

Well, I hate to say it but I'm going to miss the deadline too.  No excuses other than I've been in a terrible funk, no motivation whatsoever.

I'm going to work on it some more tonight and try to finish it up in the morning.

Hopefully some of our missing comrades will show up in the morning too.

Well, why 48 hours is up.

Not quite done, but here it is.

Did I mention I was not even close to done?

Anyway, not Weekend GB no aircraft for me. I think I'll stick to a nice simple cannon!

See ya

Scott

sfcmac wrote:

Should look really odd next to your other Corsairs!  In a good way of course.

It certainly does!

Sean- Now that makes a lot of sense!  That way, the enemy aims to the left of the cockpit and misses the pilot- VERY clever!

 Frank -  Eggcellent

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Daywalker wrote:

Any idea why they put the Starboard national insignia closer to the fuselage than the Port side?  Always wondered why they did that...

Frank - The Asymmetrical wing insigna  was adopted during 1932. The purpose of that arrangement was to deny enemy pilots a convenient aimming point.

I had similar issues with decaling the harrier, caused by wet fingers on not dried long enough acrylics, rubbed most off with 1200 greade wet/dry with no obvious signs.

As for that corsair well, um, err, uh... got a SD anime figure to go with it? My best bud in highschool was a corsair fan, I was a hellcat fan, old habits die hard, sorry, gotta try to stop myself going for the cheap shot...

Andrew

And, FINISHED!!!  46 hours total.

Unfortunately, I didn't give the final coat of Future long enough to dry so while holding the model to paint the stripes on the arrestor gear, I left two big fingerprints on the vertical tail!

AAACK!!!  Oh, well.  She's done now.

sfcmac wrote:

Dave! 46????   How do you say Happy Birthday in Canadian?

 I cant believe I missed seeing It was Dave's B-Day also

Happy Birthday older dude then I

Sean- Well done, I love that upside-down looking Corsair look-alike.   Excellent job!  Any idea why they put the Starboard national insignia closer to the fuselage than the Port side?  Always wondered why they did that...

Hoping my last Future coat dries soon, so I can attach all of the bits and be finished!

Well I am now back in town, the clock can restart now and I will be continuing construction momentarily.

Great stuff here happened while I was away I can see...

 Dave! 46???? Man that is older than Sean's dinner!

 How do you say Happy Birthday in Canadian? 

 Whatever floats yer boat I reckon!

 You finished yet?..... No pressure... would not want to add  any stress to you as you are of a delicate age.

Tom, yep, that's the best way to do it.

Frank, 46

Sean, Congradulations on a sweet if very odd looking build!    Those markings look great.

Jeff, looking forward to the pics. 

Seems a few of our illustrious members are having difficulty this weekend so I'm looking forward to seeing lots of pics on Monday (I hope)! 

Mia's birthday ?Happy Birthday Mia !!!!!

 Dave? B-dirthday as well?

 Dave seems to be looking a little rougher with age though?  Hmmmm Glad I am not that old!  I think the decals on my Landcaster are older than Mia though!

 Great Harriers Fupes! , Mia and that PzII thingie turned out great Sean! Great Polish Subjects the both of them. Speaking of which where is Karl?

"Yeah Roy I know ..... But I like the Search Forever System..."  The diff Sean is you found yours! I think I must need some of Frank's Ensure!  Of course  I am not as old as Dave! Thank goodness!

 Hey Dave this is just great!   I think this is what is finished so far!  Smack me if I missed anyone!  We are getting some great builds here from all!

Noticeable abscences abound though!   Cpt,s Bondo and Roy?  Hellcat? Karl?  so many  Missing in action!   Are we going to have a ceremony for those that transition to Roy's GB?

 Probably not as I think it is much more about the comraderie! Fun! Enjoyment of sharing the hobby and learning ....right?

Wrong!!!!!!!

 Get them builds finished or it's the Rancor Pit for ye!

Ok, so I finished with about 10 minutes to spare. (too many distractions this weekend) And now Photobucket is acting up so I can't upload anything. I'm going to keep trying for awhile and see what happens. Otherwise, I'll post pics tomorrow.

Oh, and Really nice work from everyone!

Regards,

Jeff

Where are my Manners - Happy Birthday Mia

I am calling the 1/72 Heller P.Z.L. P11c  done. I spent close to four hours this morning trying to get the two upper Heller wing decals to set.  I was able to find a set of aftermarket ones in the collection. Had to look several times as they were mixed in another packet.  Yeah Roy I know ..... But I like the Search Forever System... Once I decided to remove them they decided to hold with a vengence.... 3M Green Making tape did the trick and left the paint in tact..

The 1/72 Heller P.Z.L. was a fun kit to build , now I have two aircraft in my Polish Airforce.

I built a Airfix  Pe. 2 with Polish Markings for last years 48 hr.

Thanks Dave for hosting another Fantastic 48 hr GB

dupes wrote:

Ohhhh...and that egg would have looked so good with the checkerboard.

I was thinking bacon and toast myself! 

Mia and Dupes,

Nice job on the Harriers.  Can't wait to find out whose is whose.  Mia and Dave! Perhaps we can give him the day off from everything being his fault?

Spectre sitrep:Woke up later than planned.  Had to be at work by 2, but had to make a trip to the not so local LHS (the local LHS won't carry the newer Tamiya spray bombs) for paint and glue.  Before leaving, I attached the last of the window fairings and shot the bottom with some Tamiya fine white primer.  Got the cargo bay doors in last night with a little bit of fuss, but they look ok.  If everything goes according to plan, should be in the black by lights out.

To those still working keep up the good work and show us lots of pics!  Where's Bondo?!

Summit wrote:

Dupes & Mia - whos is who

razordws wrote:

PANZERJAGER wrote: Now that I am done, how do I get my badge? Thanks for the GB Razordws! it was fun. Tom Looks like you already have the badge in your signature line, that's all there is to it.  Your welcome, glad you could join us.

Thanks Dave,

 I don't know if I did it right, but I coppied the badge from the 1st page of the thread to my computer.

Then I uploaded it to Photobucket.

Then pasted it into the appropriate window in my profile.

Is there a better way???

Tom

P.S. Thanks again for running thi GB.

Frank, The F4U is looking eggalicious!!! 

Dupes, Mia, awesome looking work!!!   and a to you Mia.  Looks like we have something in common as I celebrate dread this day too.

Ohhhh...and that egg would have looked so good with the checkerboard.

Made it with time to spare! One hour, to be exact. Wrapped everything up at 11 o'clock sharp, 47 hours in with 18 hours of bench/spray booth time. Quite happy with how they turned out - didn't realize at the outset how difficult that two-tone scheme could be...not that you can make it out in this shot. The pic is here:

It being Mia's birthday , I'm going to post this one and run as we're off to celebrate (both the birthday and making it through a Weekend Madness GB! ). Both of us will take close up pics of our individual birds to be posted tomorrow when we've both had time to catch some collective breaths. Hopefully we can provide some decent commentary as to what went right, what went wrong, and what we might do differently next time.

For those of you still plugging away - keep at it! Great work, everyone.

PANZERJAGER wrote:

Now that I am done, how do I get my badge? Thanks for the GB Razordws! it was fun. Tom

Looks like you already have the badge in your signature line, that's all there is to it. 

Your welcome, glad you could join us.

 Dougums! Great jeep!

Frank! Polka Time!

You can have her I don't want her she 's to fat for me!

Dave er... nice sanding? 

Bob! Ok by me!  Take a pic of your real car!

 Um lewbud! Scratch the crew! Plenty of time!

 Everyone! Even Fupes!

Now where the heck is Cpt Bondo!  Been missing him!  Knew he had church this AM ( and if anyone needs it)

Buddy - Time to wake up and get some paint on that bird..

Osher - Its coming together pretty Fast now.. What type of enamels are you using ? Humbrol ?

I was threatened severely by my wife to Never eat 40 year + canned goods.. I told her that was the Nature of C-rations no matter how old they were

Im in the Process of trying to tame the Heller Decals. From what I have experienced so far they must be similar to the Academy decals.  

Frank - Paint the checkerboard, you have Tamiya tape   

Dougums - I really like your jeep dio.At first I thought the soldier had a shovel over his shoulder looking for dog bombs..

Dave -  Whats the holdup, thats a smalll kit. Get the belt sander out..  Looking Fantastic - I need to get one of those myself...

Update...

Got the stickers on, except the wrap-around checkered decal for the cowl ripped into dozens of pieces when I tried to maneuver it into position.  So, I left it off.  Plan "B" called for masking the cowl off and painting it yellow, so that was out too.  So, plan "C" is now in effect!  I added the prop decals, stars, and wing walkways and am leaving it like that.  This way, it matches the plain dark blue Corsair i build last year.  So, here it is so far...

Thanks for the feedback guys!   I'm about to start the decalling, some clearcoats this afternoon and finished this evening!

Dave- Looks like that Shinden is gonna fight you till the end, but I KNOW you will prevail!  Can't wait to see the AB work you do on this one.

Doug- Well done, that's a lot of work to do in 48 hours!

Buddy-   You are realy making great progress, keep it up!

osher- Bummer about the deadline, but keep at it!

Thanks guys for the great compliments on the howitzer.

That thing was rough!

Vision Models who makes it, needs to work on thier engineering more.

There were some major fit issues and ejector pins.

I'm sorry that I didn't respond last night, I was spent!

Lots of good work going on here!

Now that I am done, how do I get my badge?

As for What I am building next, Check out my Opel Maultier w/ Flak 38 Thread;

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Thanks for the GB Razordws! it was fun.

Tom

Oh, the PZL looks lovely.  Well done on the Jeep.  As for the egg plane...beautiful madness!

Here's mine, but, I'm going to miss the deadline, as I'm using enamels now, which will take too long to dry between coats.

Konigwolf13 wrote:

How about an absolute madness 1 week build- 25-31 dec (yes its supposed to be a joke, just a bad one)