BTW...this museum has a rotating exhibit of original cars in the 1930 art deco style showroom.

http://www.welcome.to/acd.museum

It's a Duesy !

SuppressionFire:

You can't be very old if you don't know about Auburns.

http://californiaclassix.com/archive/35_Auburn_c167.html

The only thing classier was a supercharged Duesenberg

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/duesenberg-cars2.htm

Scotty Good news! Looking forward to some WIP's once you get the Lindberg kit on the go. A 1935 Auburn Speedster? Is that a raceing areoplane? Im really interisted in seeing a picture of the box for now.

supressionfire,

I went digging through my stash over the weekend, and was about to settle in on a Glencoe release, when I came to realize that the Lindberg kit on my bench is actually made in the USA.  My father-in-law purchased the kit at the Auburn-Cord-Dusenberg museum on their way home last year, and asked me to build it for him.  I started some initial work after the first of the year, and have so far painted the leather interior.  This is the Lindberg 1935 Auburn Speedster kit.  I am working on a couple of other projects in ernest right now, but I will be working on this more once I finish the priority builds.  I may still try to slip in the Glencoe kit later on.

Indeed, well Arifix has new releases coming out soon. I am looking forward to the De Havalland Mosquito in 1/24 scale. Are you interisted in building a domestic kit for this Group Build? Cool then.

'Freddie and the Fonz' Completed today! First off they were sprayed clear flat, then a red arcylic wash...

The mechanic got a panzer grea target wash on shirt, the pilot on his lacket. Mechanic also a dark green arcylic wash on coveralls which kind of turned out not as well as would of liked. eyes a hull red arcylic wash. Various shades of pink drybrushed and applied to upper surfaces of faces. Hair turned our to yellow and red / orange. Used desert tan + yellow flat to dry brush hair on both. Pencil crayons used to pick out final details on faces, black under eye brows, red for lips, pink for cheeks.

Final pencil crayon of black on leather jacket, few highlights dry brushed. ~fin

konigwolf13 i have a chart showing revell's income and amounts of units sold and i compared them to DML. revell has made a cent compared to what dragon has made. i don't know if its just me or if anyone else thinks if you don't have good income your business may collapse. take a look at aifix. that company is moving slower than ever and is not even growing (actually airfix is dieing!) Tamiya is doing fine but they are diversified as a company and branch out into different markets.

-Adam

Suppressionfire,

The cutoff will not be an issue for completing this, but I may not be able to start until after our spring refueling outage starting at the beginning of March.  I definitely have some old, made in the USA kits to select from.  I will take a look this weekend, and will let you know my initial selection.

Actually, it has been a fairly calm January weather-wise.  We had a decent storm roll through January 1st and 2nd, but since then, not much additional accumulation.  The weather definitely keeps me off my bike though, so I do the most of my building outside of "cycling season".

EliteModelling Check out Ultracast or The Resin Shipyard Both are sculpted and made in Canada, for you all down south I found Alpine Miniatures to be top quality and made in the USA. In my opinion the top three manufactures of resin cast models in the world. Ask your local hobby shop to bring in a few.

Patriots and defenders of the faith Should have figures finished in a few hours, WIP's to follow.

Jason

elitemodeling, I disagree.

Revell (of germany) are putting our some very nice releases, be it from their own or reissues of other companies kits updated. Heller have had one or two nice kits here and there and Italeri would be missed, while possibly not of the quailty of say tamiya or dragon, IME they make nice, good fittings kits of above average quality at a nice price.

While I dont think eduard will go under soon, they are a euro kit producer that would be missed as well as some of the more dubious czech companies that do produce the odd gem.

As for america, AMT=Mainline Star Wars/Star Trek Kits

While I dont go out of my way to support one company or another I found this GB a nice difference. On a quick count of my stash while my far east out weighs the rest of the world my nearly 2:1 I would miss kits from both lots just as much

just my 2c

Andrew

i find that Canadian, American models have really bad molding lines and many other visual and phisical defects. not to be unsupportive and all but i think i will stick with my beautiful DML kits. even if Airfix, revell ect disapear it would not really effect our economy, the model industry is very small compared to otheres and we would only have the better quality models avilable, the only problem with the other companies leaving is DML will take control of the market and increas prices if Tamiya does not remain a Major competition.

Kongiwolf 13 Looks great! You are the first modeler to complete a kit in this group build! I would post your accomplishment on the first page in a cool chart thingy, but lack the computer kung-foo to do so.

Anyhow I admire your dedication, efficency and problem solveing skills. Your grandpa will be proud to display your work. 

I need to refelct on whay you achieved in under three days, my mini-Me seems to be takeing longer than a 1/144 scale kit should. Like all my projects its more about scratchbuilding and making things look cool to me than timelines. The figures should be done today, first off I will spray them with clear flat as some shine issues and a good layer of protection needed before the final painting. WIP's later today

DONE

completed early this afternoon

A bit over two and half days to complete. I cant say it was a super enjoyable build but it is nice to sit back and see my first ship built. Given some of the issues with the kit if it had of been a normal build i may of just chucked it (missing parts, some part both small and large way out of mold alignment) but being a gift for someone to be built in a few days made me buckle down and do do do.

Andrew 

PS as far as Airfix kits go, I am sworn of them for the indefinite futre. Between this kit and a 1/72 Hawker Tempest that got tossed into my sons army toy box after it landing gear kept collapsing I've had enough for the present (nb I do like their 1:24 wwii series just no room any time soon)

Scotty No  cut- off, just try and show the country of origin printed on the box with a WIP' Vintage is super cool and i'm sure somewhere in the back of the stash is something that will work. The deadline for completion is October 31 2010

Must be some chilly nights up there for building models

Suppressionfire,

I wish you had started earlier, as I just put the finishing touches on a Revell Astronaut on the Moon kit (the 10" one).  I saw your group and finally took the time to read through, and what an interesting ride that was.  I like the premise of your build, and I understand that you are not asking us to stop buying our eastern kits (I have a Trumpeter 1/32 Tomcat on order right now).  Anyway, I do want to enlist in your group.  Let me take a look at what I have in my ever-growing stash that was actually made outside of Asia (with several hundred kits to choose from, I think that I will be OK).  I have some older kits in my stash (it's not a collection, it's not a collection...) so please let me know if you do have a cutoff for production dates.  I saw mention somewhere of mid-1980's, but later saw individuals mentioning kits of the 1960's.  Let me know, and I will get back with a selection.

Konigwolf13: Keep up the good work and AIRFIX will have a run on KMS Bismarck kits !

Regarding the missing Arado seaplanes for the catapult : My memories of the kit are a bit fuzzy but the phrase " two plastic blobs with stretched sprue floats on a plastic plank"  is conjured up by that experience. The Revell substitute is a better choice.

Cheers!

Bob

Spruce, small gap at both anchor bow housings, and a couple of tiny one along rest of deck/hull matings. The two hull halves were the pains.

OK a little after 48 hours..

Well after last nights update, I continued work. I got to the main guns a little after midnight. only seven barrels, nearly two hours later I had this

not to bad an effort IMO, trimmed down from old sprue. Well continuing work this morning no bloody seaplane for the catapault . think think think, well I came up with this

Well I'm one dauntless down for my carrier but its almost a perfect fit .

And here's my current level of progress

I have the AA guns to finish, the boats, anchors, some touch up painting and then a sealing coat

Andrew

Konigwolf13: KMS Bismarck anchors:

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/technicallayout/anchors/anchors.html

SupressionFire: Very nice shading and painted seams on the green coveralls!

Cheers!

Heh gang! Great progress today... mostly on the Mini-Me 262. Figures well on the way...

Set your pallet for a dark skin wash in arcylic. Flat dark brown, white and red.

Mix it up and just do one figure at a time, the mechanic is out in the sun more than pilot.

Leather! Flat black and brown enamel thinned so some primer shows on high spots. Then use remainder for area pin washes... mechanic needs to start looking like it!

Flesh highlights in.. enamal flesh, red and flat dark brown. Hit lighter areas of skin, forehead and arms. Vary mix and do one figure at a time.

Cool looking dudes... 'Freddie and the Fonz'. ha ha ha anyhow don't handle without gloves! Watch delicate ears, and the rest should be finished tomorow.  Thanks Ultracast for the excellent resin figures, it really makes it easier to have top quality sculpts.

I always liked the Bismark, i remeber watch Ballard's shown finding it when I was a kid.  I think I'll do a monogram Mig 29, the Glencoe Venom's plastic looked kinda scary to me.  It'll be a llittle bit before I get any pics up though, I've got a couple other projects on the go that are almost done and if I don't finnish them first, it'll never happen.

Konigwolf13:  Thanks for the additional photos. Any gaps between the deck around the anchor housing and bow area?

One thing you must admit, those turrets are thick, sturdy parts even if the superstructure halves don't fit well together.

I saw the Ballard Bismarck book on the book store shelves last year.

Supressionfire: thanks for the photobucket link and encouragement. I'll check out the macro capability of my point and shoot vs. the AIRFIX 1/72 kit and upload ASAP.

Heh Goose, photobucket is fairly user friendly. If I can figure it out then anyone can, the link is the bottom one out of the four choices to post on this site. The preview won't show the photos? Anyhow looking forward to your pictures. Once again I have all day to hobby out! WIP's to follow...

Spruce Goose, thanks for the info. I only have the ballard book on midway/yorktown, would love the bismarck as well.

Oh well didnt get as much done today as I would of liked. I hate to say it but this kit easily goes down as the worst kit I have ever built. Mostley down to most of the parts on all three frames are molded off kilt with each other about 1/2 a millimetre so up to a millimetre all up. This has contributed to a bit of extra work, gettings things trimmed, lined up etc.

So pics, first shows some of the wonderful fine molding

These two are just general progress

Andrew

Konigwolf13 I dug ou the old AIRFIX exploded Bismark assembly drawing and then sifted through the resources I have. Per a topview drawing in the Ballard book on the Bismarck exploration, the old Airfix kit are correct. I'll post if I can find clear anchor photos that differ from the drawing.

Re: 1960's AIRFIX Bf-109. I presume I'll need to obtain an online photo storage website account before I can post.

Thanks buddy! Between that and my mini-Me262 I had a great day ;)

Looking good Supressionfire!

Ahh vintage bagged air! The new kits just don't have the same smell. I seen the 'Made in UK' on the instructions. 48 hour maddness eh? well I hope you have lots of coffee in the house!

I broke out the paint and here is some progress photos from today's work, first up the set up.

Second the flesh color pallet on glass. Resiste the urge to use scrap plastic etc.. it has mold remover ect. I know my glass is clean. Three for the basic flesh tone, Testors enamel Flesh, red and flat dark brown. Do one figure at a time and change up ratio. Work fast and use largest brush possible, dip in thinner first. Use thinner as needed to have just enough coverage.

There flesh is on, the darker guy has been in sun longer!

Final for today, basic clothes colors. None mixed, tomorow will paint leather jacket. One thing I strive for is less is more, in that the fewer layers of paint in figures the better. Also precice resin casts by Ultracast make painting easier. The exact line between color isn't terribly important at this stage, arcylic wash will seep into recesses tomorow.

Spruce-ce Goose, whats the difference between old and new?

Will include a pic of them next time update

Andrew

Konigwolf13  Your post brought back a few forty-plus year old AIRFIX build memories.

The kit I built contained old style sailing ship anchors.

Does yours contain modern ship anchors or old style?

And my old AIRFIX 1/72 Bf-109 was wayyyyyyy inaccurate compared to the currect offering.

Thanks for posting the photos. I look forward to seeing the built up kit again.

Ok change of build

Airfix 1/600 Bismarck

And I have to get her built by Friday for my father in-laws birthday. But I can do this, I did the 48hr madness GB (Well I hope I can do this, as I'm going to use the tamiya 1/350 paint codes, not the rather basic ones from the airfix kit)

So here was the start earlier this evening

OK here is where I am at after several hours fighting. The Hill is almost complete, just a little more sanding. Then I have to clean up the deck joins and edges.

The badge works for me. Best idea I could come up with for 'domestic' was a guy whittling his own model out of a block of wood...