Eye In The Sky GB - January 2010 - October 2010

progress pics

primed the main body painted the belly and weathered the gearbay

1/48 tsr2 against 1/48 f4 and f15 shows the size of the tsr2 quite well

1st coat of 1 out of 3 camo colours

im just gonna do it and if its eligable then great if not oh well :)

hmm its a little vague technically it wasnt used for recon but its a realistic and plausable what if

Sure, so long as it adheres to the parameters of the GB. 

iv not touched the sr yet

ps would i be allowed to enter a what if recon plane?

Just a little bump!

jmabx

Thanks Jmart!

Hopefully you can get a start on your P-38 soon.

Cheers mate!!!

the back row are all 1/72 scale

front row are both 1/32 scale

nimrod (anti sub build)

vulcan (iv got 2 on the go im using them to learn and i like vulcans)

sr71 (eyes in the sky build)

f14d (for the cats build 2011)

the 1/32 spit is for the bob build

Thanks Jmart!

Hopefully you can get a start on your P-38 soon.

JMabx/Jeremy – Great job on the Taifun!  nice and clean build.

Vance –  Beautiful work on the Storch; love the paint job! Congrats on the finish. And “the finish” (weathering), superb job!

B17 – Brilliant work on the mosquito cockpit.  Love the final paint job, very nice and clean. and congrats on getting your model noticed and on display!Better than a placing at a contest, cheers mate.

Aggieman – Arado looks great. Very nice pit detailing and rigging, congrats on the finish!

Artabr – very interesting and new subject; nice build. Great technique on the teeth masking. Nothing that some touch ups cant fix! Bummer about the canopy, but I liked the dew idea lol. I think we have all done something similar.

vetteman – Avenger looks great. Nice work on fixing all the blemishes. Good paint work. Love the final set of pics! cheers

simpilot – very very nice Jake, congrats on the finish!

Not sure when I will be able to start my P38 Recon… backed up in many GBs! Will see if I can start by end of July. Cheers all

no its italeri no idea how old

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Sure, welcome aboard!  Is that the old Monogram (Revell) kit?

could i join this please?

1/72 scale sr71 almost unstarted

The Vigilante looks great! I really love the colors on the tail!

Yes indeed Sub revolution she is looking really good I will be awaiting the finished pictures, its gonna be awesome I am sure.

Sub she's really looking great!!!! I agree, when you get to this part of a build it seems to take on its own personality.

And now as promised, here are the shots with the decals added.

Just a couple of notes for these. The insignia for the wings as well as the squadron letters on the tail are cut in separate pieces which is nice if you want to have the wings/tail folded (which I am,) but it looks like it would be a bit of work to make them fit together smoothly if you don't model them folded. Also the red air intake warnings on the front of the engines are modified. They originally had a wrap-around stripe, but I realized it would not fit right and just look awkward. The reference photos I have don't have the wrap-around stripe, so I simply cut it off. Other than those, no issues.

Nice work on the Vigi.  Looking forward to seeing her finished.

Alright guys, after much fussing and fighting, the major paint work is done, here she is now...

Last night I got the majority of the decals on, hopefully I will get the rest on tonight and put more pics up. I love this stage because it's finally starting to look like an airplane!

Been practicing with the airbrush quite a bit and I doing well since I replaced some parts.  I just have to shake off 20 years of rust and I’ll be back in form.

Thanks Jeremy and Steve!!!!

68GT Looking forward to seeing your camo job!!!

Just getting started on the RF-4 and still want to use the Germen 72 Camo.  Also bringing this back around from the second page.

Very nice work on the Avenger and the Jake!

Randy - Nice work on the old Avenger! I love the pictures with the prop spinning... very cool!

Richie - So, I finally get to see the Jake finished. Well done! Seems like you've been at it forever with this one but it looks great so time well spent. I love the E Z Line because I can cut it a little short and stretch it taught. Plus my clumsy hands won't break it off. I use the "fine" for 1/48 scale and always wished they had it a size smaller. I never thought of pulling it apart!  Great idea!

Thanks Simpilot34 I will see if I can find Knitting elastic at the craft store I have a couple of golden age air racer builds that would work great on.

And thank you guys for your complements, I really am happy with the way the Avenger turned out. I would like to do her justice because she had such an interesting history, so I may try and get my hands on a better kit in the future.

Thanks guys!

Randy Your Avenger looks great!!!! The rigging on my floats was done with an elastic thread, there I believe it may be called EZ line? Got my stuff at a arts and craft store and was called knitting in elastic. Great stuff!!! Properly anchored at both ends you can put a wayward finger in it and it snaps back dead straight. Can also be pulled aprt for finer things. HTH!

Two very good looking aircraft!!

B17pilot this build did beat me up pretty good, but its finished now and only took 3 months. The Revell P-61 kit is a cake walk compared to this one or even the P-38. Anyway here are the finished pictures hope you guys like her.

And now for a bit of camera fun and games I found another use for my airbrush.

I took this one for giggles, what it would have looked like in a picture in the 1940s maybe ?

Simpilot34 you have one sweet build there, love the paint chipping. And what did you use for the float rigging, it really adds a bunch to your build. Very nice paint work too, the weathering is primo IMHO

Well as promised I am showing finished pics of my Jake. Wasn't the easiest build but wasn't hard either. I'm happy with it, hope you guys are. Here's a couple pics. Enjoy!

Chipping was done with a silver pastel pencil.