Yep. Your up. Please send me one of these kits as payment for entry in to the GB, address to be supplied later.

Looking forward to some WIP.

See ya

Scott

I just purchased AFV Club's 1/35 T-34/85 with full interior and wondered if I could join in

Here's what I've got so far with the Trumpeter PT-76.  The base coat is on and I've started some of the detail work...

Update on the Frogfoot: The plane and its weapons are painted, tonight I coated them with future, so monday I will hopefully be doing decals and final assemblies. It's got plenty of imperfections, but for being my first camo job, I'm overall very happy with it.

Satch- I love that tank. The handpainted look is amazing!

Kustom- That Airacobra looks like it's going to be awesome! Can't wait to see it.

You lucky dog.  I just built that kit and it did not have the replacement fuselage.  Mine was definitely warped and did not match.  Also watch the top to bottom wing fit.  They don't quite match either.  The wing root requires much filling and sanding. 

Do you have the Eduard PE set?  I used that and True Details wheels and Master Model guns.  Good luck and happy building.

satch

Howdy all!! I'd first like to start by saying everyone's builds are looking great!! I am going to build Accurate Miniature's Airacobra in 1:48 scale.

It includes markings for Советские Военно-воздушные силы.

I will be building it as AH-636 of Capt. Ivan Dmitrievich Gaidaenko. The photo on the box stopped with his middle name, and forgot his last.

The kit is very nice, with flash-free parts by Eduard. The most noteable thing upon opening the kit is a note and a second fuselage sprue. The original, upon removal and test fitting, is very definitely warped, and the right side is too short. They have fixed this problem.

The other trees are excellent.

The decal sheet has some nice stenciling, but I wonder how much would be prudent to use on this particular bird?

I think this is going to be fun.......right up to the stage that has stopped me cold on the Phantom GB- bad weather. I have to paint outside when I spray, and weather right now has been nasty for 2 weeks solid. Either below freezing, raining/snowing, windy, or all of the above. But I will win through to absolute victory over the weather!!

Well boys, my second Soviet  entry is done.  It's an SU 76 somwhere on the Eastern Front.  I don't have any unit info, sorry.

The kit is the Malan/Maquette/Dragon Imperial Series.  It is pretty rudimentery and the plastic is very thick.  I built it OOB except I added some AM ammunition for the racks.  I used Badger medium green and Humbrol #159 green and the white is Model Master flat white accrylic.  The snow is baking soda mixed with hairspray for the clumpy packed snow and just sifted on for the fallen snow. 

It was time I finished this because it is already almost 80 deg here in Texas.

I'm also posting this in the Winter Warriors GB.  Thanks for stopping by.

Satch

I've got the PT-76 painted and will start the detail work this weekend.

I'll get a pic up tonight or tomorrow.

Richard

Cool! Thanks, I'll get started this weekend.

Your Both Add! Now make with the WIP pics.

Hey

      dzhonbaker and Kustomodeler1

                                      Your both in! I'll be adding you to the Main post shortly. And just an update for everyone my T-62A is nearly done. I've just been trying to get over a severe case of modeler's block.

See ya

Scott

I'm in. I'd like to submit an ACCURATE MINIATURES 1/48 IL-2M3 Sturmovik.

I need to finish up an SBD, but should be able to start mid February. Thanks!

Can I still join? I have Accurate Miniature's Airacobra in 1/48 and I would like to make it the Airacobra I AH636 of the 19 GIAP Soviet Air Force 1942 flown by Capt. Ivan D. Gaidaenko.

Some update. More plastic rod/tube/strip, led/brass wire and thin sheet metal.

There wasn´t any pattern in tyres. I think minor layer of putty and rolling along a file made the trick.

There was only ammo boxes in the kit, so I made supports from sheet.

I think primer would be the next.

Here is my Akula with the main painting done- upper hull in Polly Scale scale Black and lower hull in Humbrol Scarlet.

And with the Kilo and Alfa that I am also currently building alongside for other GBs.

Hey JD glad to see you back here, and hope things are going better for you now. Your Tunguska is lookin good hope to see more pictures of it soon. Gotta comment though that thing does look bad scary, would NOT wanna be on the recieving end of that tank.

Thats a hobby fan kit and you can get them out of califorina, still $100 + make 2 versions one on a trailer and one on a tracked vechial, I looked into them a while back

here is the importer

Jaguar Models, Inc
17421-B East Gale Ave.
City of Industry, CA 91748
Phone:  (626) 965-2292 

Yeah, there's a resin kit of the old M667 Lance missile system out of Taiwan that costs $120 US that I'd love to get too; but I still can't bring myself to fork over that kind of money.  My limit is $50 and the kit gets built OOB.

Yes it is a resin kit, but the way plastic kits are going , they are about the same price, $400 for a plastic aircraft carrier, then 2 to 300 on pe. It is out of control.....

Is that resin?!  I've been dying to see one in plastic!  I'm just too cheap to shell out the bucks for an all resin kit!

Great job too!

Hi guys been a while scince I posted but here is my 2S6M Tunguska, still have a few parts and then finish painting and weather

Boy Id like to see this in action, there is a you tube of this vrs an A-10 and the A-10 didnt have a chance, 8 rockets and 2 30 mm cannons

jd

Sub revolution, M1 A1 A2 Tanker, RESlusher, and Stikpusher, your builds are ALL looking sweet ! You guys are all gonna get me wanting to build a tank and sub man. I have a hard enough time building aircraft geeze. I do have a ship ummmm near the bench ? That I havent worked on in sometime, may have to get back to that one someday too.

Model on guys

Thanks Sub! Well today I got a coat of red on the lower hull area. I dont know which particular shade of red that the Soviets used, so I used Humbrol Scarlet. It has a nice faded red, rusty orange hue. With the faded black I have planned for the upper surfaces it should give a nice weathered look. You dont happen to have any info on painting for Soviet subs, do you Sub Rev? 

Stikpusher-

Thanks for the help, I'll probably just make them a "neutral" color, like dirty white.  And as the group's resident submariner, let me say I am greatly looking forward to seeing your subs done!

My Akula is ready for the paint shop now. All built, sanded, and everything attached except for the screws.

And here she is with a couple other 1/350 Soviet subs also being built for other purposes a Kilo SSK for this month's IPMS theme (new kit release) and an Alfa SSN for another GB going on here

sub revolution

 I think I'm just going to repaint the main wheel well because I have not found a good way to mask it. Oh well.

Sub, you dont need to worry bout masking off the wheel wells. from what I have researched, the wheel wells are often painted in the underside color of the aircraft. Here is a shot of the one I finished in late 2008.

Still looks good though!

Here's the PT-76 I'm working on.  I'm about to start masking off the ends of the suspension arms and prime everything.

Well, here is an WIP update on my Tamiya T-62A. Man I wish I had know about the NEW Trumpeter kit before I started this one! Murphy's Law of model building is always in effect.

See ya

Scott

Looking good Sub Revolution!!! Can't wait to see her finished. I know what you mean about some Revell kits seems like you used just a little putty on this one.

See ya

Scott

Well gents, the SU25 is built and ready for painting. Still can't say much about the fit. I seem to remember yaers ago Revell made good stuff but I guess maybe in recent years they've gone downhill(?) Anyway, I masked the cockpit and am going to put the canopy on after painting. I think I'm just going to repaint the main wheel well because I have not found a good way to mask it. Oh well.