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Hi All - Long time, No post! I've been very busy outside the modeling world the last few weeks. I am still in this build though, my Natter is sitting on my bench just waiting for a little glue...
I haven't decided if I will have it on the launch tower or if I will have it in a maintenance setting. Having never done PE before, the PE on the engine looks a little less daunting than the PE on the tower so I may go the maintenance route. We shall see.
Mikey and Jeremy, very nice beginnings! I am looking forward to seeing these progress.
BTW, nice looking badge! I will have to load it onto my photobucket account and start displaying it!
Kirk
Hey gang, not sure if I'll be able to squeeze this in or not, but the timeline is long enough to maybe work!! Just wabnt to comment so I can keep track of it,
Vance
On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister
VanceCrozier Hey gang, not sure if I'll be able to squeeze this in or not, but the timeline is long enough to maybe work!! Just wabnt to comment so I can keep track of it, Vance
Your more than welcome to join up, im not gonna be too strict about end dates. if it goes long it goes long.
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Hey Vance... I, for one, would love to see you throw something in for this build! You do some great work!
Mikey - How's your MiG doing? I need to get some bench time in so that I can get something done... I hate it when I don't have any progress to post!
Jeremy
just uplodaing some photos now, ill be able to post them in an hour or 2. Long story short i got the red down (omg looks so cool) carpet monster ate an aerial so i made another. Starting on the undercarrige so i can sit it on something other than the center pilon. photos to follow soon
Photos as promised
Masks
Paint is on
Changed the paint mix a little, more orange in the mix, you can see the center line tank in the background, im painting in like a barbers pole.
Latest news, i pulled the masks off and theres alot of work to do to clean it up. I should be able to put a coat of future on tomorrow.
Making good progress and she's lookin' great. I like the orange/red color
I see a little T-6 in the left of your photos. Are you working on them at the same time? I would like to see the Texan too when you are finished with it.
The harvards my girlfriends. she started it about 3 months ago and its been sitting in that state for about a month now. she hasnt done any more. i offered to finish it for her but she said shed work on it. shes also got a 48 scale texan and a 72nd skyhawk. neither of which im expecting to see finished any time soon
Thanks Scorpiomikey, jmabx, I'll try to think up a project for this whill ein between innings on the ball field this summer!
Scorp she's looking very vibrant mate!!
Cheers. ive got her cleaned up and sorting out the undercarriage. Ill try get some photos up tonight if i dont drown walking home from work lol
Ok, heres the latest couple of photos.
Nothing exciting to report. couple more coats of future. sort out the legs, decals, future, little bit of weathering (the harvards are kept immaculate, so are the plastic rats we fly atm)
Once finished ill set up a miini photo booth and take some real good shots of it. I dummy fit the canopy this morning. wow shes gonna look niiice, Clean up on the drop tank tonight, hopefully finished by the weekend. This is the smoothest build ive EVER done. its great.
Slight change in plans for the decals. had a count up of what ive got and only 8 kiwi roundels each aircraft needs 6, so ill be doing it with silver fern roundels which came in before the kiwi.
scorp she's looking good mate!!!! Picked up an AGA? Mig -21 today with Polish Air Force Team markings from a mate at work today. The kit is about early Airfix standards by first glance and will be interesting to find out(much) later how it all fits. Interesting markings, it is like an eagle head over a red nose. mate is thinning out his stash and is giving me these kits which I also told him WHATEVER you want to part with I WILL TAKE!!!
Cheers, shes going together surprisingly easy. If zvezda branched out a little into some bigger stuff id buy more of them. Low cost, high quality (very high quality) very finley scribed panel lines, almost perfectly to scale. Only complaint i have is theres a slight sink on the top of the wings where the gear bay is. only showed up since i started putting future on.
Wow! I totally missed the new start date. I il have tho change my modelling plans. The T-4 will have to get back in the box and the Me-163B on the bench.
All good, no rush, ill have to add you to the list (i think) i cant remember if your there or not, what was the kit again?
I am on the list, I wil be building the Academy Me-163, in red Wolfgang Späte marking, AM decals by Kagero.
Yup, sorry bad admin on my part. hosting a gb is slightly harder than i thought. im learning though
No problem.
I will start soon, but first I have to make an assignment for my MBA, that is problably going to take some time. So I hope to start in the next two weeks.
All g bro, take your time. your studies are more important than models (debatable but im sticking with that for now lol)
Short update on the mig, shes as done as i can get her at the moment, i realised the roundels ive got are way too big. so im waiting for another sheet from ventura. theyre beautiful decals. im getting the kiwi roundels sheet which comes with triband tail markings that have been raked off to match the angled tail fin. Also because of a difference in font i had to stick with NZ1076 rather than changing it up. Ill post some photos tommorow hopefully. just thought id let you know where im at.
I could not resist and, altough I should have studied, have started. I also could not choose between the Me-163 and the He-176, so I am building both.
Here are some pices of the parts, boxes and references.
I alos found out that the two books on the left are the same. Only in different languages..,english and german... that is what you get when you have to much books!
I think i spy a citidel paint there. great paints, poor adhesion if you dont prep properly. Looking faward to seeing these 2 come together. as i mentioned before i m a little stuck with mine, so im moving on to a corsair for a while till the decals arive
Borg, looking forward to seeing more of your progress!!!! I have the same 163 kit, let me know if you come across any issues please.
@ scorpiomickey: I have never had problems with citadel paints. But maybe that is because I indeed always prep the surface by degreasing it with alchol of ammonium.
I do not expect any problems with the Me-163, I have only read favorable reviews on that kit. I have added some pe seatbelts, the rest of the cockpit is out of the box.
The He-176 is ok until now. It is a short run kit but I have definitly seen worse.
I'm definitely looking forward to the He-176! I've never seen one built before.
jmabx I'm definitely looking forward to the He-176! I've never seen one built before.
Same here, hows your beast going jb?
I used some skull white on my mig the other day to check for gaps, id prepped it for tamiya which is slightly different from citidel prep work and it just pulled away like water in an oily pan. fun to watch, just frustrating
Just uploading some pics of my completedmig, the roundels really make her pop. ive got the RATO bottles on and she looks gorgeous. photos to follow shortly
More to follow, god im sick of this slow connection
Ok, last batch of photos
What do you guys think? any changes i could make? C&C welcome
Scorp, you done well my friend!!! She's a lil looker I must say!!!! WELL DONE!!!
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