Eye In The Sky GB - January 2010 - October 2010

It's a very nice job on the paint scheme and the shark mouth.  Morning dew on the windows, I like it!

Art Love the paint job !!!! Very well done. Actually most of the Peacekeeper pictures I have seen, the windscreens and even the side windows looked pretty beat up with scratches and crazing. And considering the conditions they flew in that would be a likely thing to have happen to them. Over all I would say its a build to be proud of

Thanks guys. I appreciate it.

Art

Sweet lookin' plane, Art!   Love the paint... too bad about the windows. If it makes you feel any better, I've done it before too.

If you feel up to it, mask around those windows and wet sand them with some 800 grit paper and maybe follow up with a light wet sanding of a finer grit like 1200. The idea is to smooth out that flat coat some. Once it feels nice and smooth, just brush some Future on those windows. Even if it's still hazy, the Future will make it look much better. I know it sounds like a pain in the butt, but the hardest part is masking around the windows and you don't even have to be perfect at that because you can touch up any spots of paint you might have damaged while sanding with a small brush. HTH

Now... after seeing yours, I need to get one!

jmabx

Sweet lookin' plane, Art!   Love the paint... too bad about the windows. If it makes you feel any better, I've done it before too.

If you feel up to it, mask around those windows and wet sand them with some 800 grit paper and maybe follow up with a light wet sanding of a finer grit like 1200. The idea is to smooth out that flat coat some. Once it feels nice and smooth, just brush some Future on those windows. Even if it's still hazy, the Future will make it look much better. I know it sounds like a pain in the butt, but the hardest part is masking around the windows and you don't even have to be perfect at that because you can touch up any spots of paint you might have damaged while sanding with a small brush. HTH

Now... after seeing yours, I need to get one!

Thanks for the suggestion and the complements, Jeremy. I'm probably going to let her be. By the time I'd finish the polishing, I'd have to start gluing all of the bits & pieces that I would have broken off with my ham-handed butterfingers.

Discretion being the better part of valor, I think I'l leave well enough alone. If it was a low-wing a/c, I'd go for it.

Art

Art overall it looks great mate!!!! I understand about wanting to leave it be and negate the inevitable fingers through the ordanance and struts. Only if it was an acrylic flat.....Q-tip and alchohol would do the trick with no dame to the clear bits.

simpilot34

Art overall it looks great mate!!!! I understand about wanting to leave it be and negate the inevitable fingers through the ordanance and struts. Only if it was an acrylic flat.....Q-tip and alchohol would do the trick with no dame to the clear bits.

Lessons learned.

Art

Made some progress on my Mossie.  Got the decals on and they're drying. Tomorrow it'll get a another coat of Future,and some weathering, then a flat coat and all the small parts.  Almost done with her.

Looking sweet, Pilot!! 

Art

Nice job on the Mossie!  I've always liked the look of that warbird.

Looking good B17pilot! All that Canadian plywood, and I have yet to build a Mosquito! Although I do have on in the stash. (It'll look good next to my 1/72 Beaufighter whenever I get around to it!)

Beautiful Mossie!!! Looking forward to seeing it unmasked!

jmabx

Beautiful Mossie!!! Looking forward to seeing it unmasked!

Beautiful work!!!

I am roughly three-quarters done with my second build, a Tamiya Storch like the one that Vance completed earlier.  And silly me, I've yet to take a single picture!  It's been such a painless build overall and has gone so smoothly that I just forgot to take pictures, DOH!!! Anyway, she's built up in the same scheme that Vance did his in and is now awaiting weathering and final construction.  I promise to take some pictures and post them by the weekend!

As promised, some pictures of my Storch.  It is painted in a standard Luftwaffe splinter scheme with a white wash applied over for winterizing.  It is weathering with diluted oils, I think a bit too much in that regard so it no longer really looks like my reference photos, but I like the effect nevertheless.  (The dirtier the better is my opinion).

I have a bit of a fit issue on the upper glass, probably more a result of builder error than kit error.  I'm not sure what I'm going to be able to do to fix the mis-fit between the wings and the glass piece but I'll work on it once the wings are set and fully cured.

VERY NICE!!! I'm with you Aggie, the more weathering, the better. I just wish I was better at weathering. Yours looks awesome!

Aggie, I love it. I think the weathering looks very realistic. Great job.  

Art

Here she is, completed and ready for the final reveal.

Outstanding mate!!! Really looks the part of a workhorse!!

Nice stuff so far, realy loved that Taifun. Well I'm down for a 1/144 scale bird so I figured I might do a base as well, Work so far

Yet to start on the plane, rather basic so when I do shouldnt take long

Andrew

Nice work on the Storch Steven!   She looks like she's been put through the paces. Well done!

Andrew - A single engine floater in 1/144??? You're crazy!!!   

Aggieman that Storch is over the top BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!! man.  She looks like she has had a very hard life, the weathering is perfect I love her. Leme tell ya if you ever get tired of her, ( and I don't see that happening) there is room on my shelf for her.

Konigwolf13 wow I cant wait to see this build It amazes me how some of you can work on something soooo small and make it look so good.

vetteman42

Aggieman that Storch is over the top BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!! man.  She looks like she has had a very hard life, the weathering is perfect I love her.

Konig, Really looking forward to seeing your mini-Jake come together!!! Quite partial to that one you know.

Konig, you are a brave man going after a 1/144 single engine WWII plane.  The only time I touch a 144 scale kit is when it says Airbus or Boeing airliner on it

Alright! Got my PR Mosquito all done!  Kinda of nice to go back and do an OOB build after a very long AM/scratch build.  Just in time for a contest in two weeks!

The the bottom of the aircraft:

And finally a nose/prop close up:

Now onto my Bf-109 for the BoB GB!

Wow, that's a nice Mossie!  I really like that color for the photo-reconn Mosquito. 

I'm considering that BoB group build as well.

WOW B17 that looks stunning mate!!! Surely will take home a trophy!!!! Best of luck at the contest buddy!!!

Great weathering Aggieman, looks like they rode her hard!! I've missed a bunch of pages gang, I'll go back through & get caught up on the next rainout  day

Vance

Thanks Ya'll!  I don't know about a trophy, guess will see here in a couple weeks.