Gamera yeah what Richard said we want pictures man. Julez like tghere are gonna be 2 B-29 builds going for round 2
Kermit now that is another slick froggie save my friend, looks to be a very smooth finish from where I am sitting. Actually I was thinking if I was to build another I would tone down the surface detail a bit for a NMF finish. It just seems to my eye to pop out at you too much, so your miss hap may have been a stroke of luck, or the work of the styrene gods. What markings are you goin with ?
AlterEcho you look to be well on the way to having a P-47 in your stable for sure. You say this is only your second build and the 109 pictured was your first ?? Man that 109 looks better than my tenth build. Very well done sir.
Ok I am gonna go off topic a bit here I guess, my sister and her son Kenny went to Michaels last weekend and Kenny informed his momma he wanted to get a model. Now this didnt tickle me at all, course I did get this story second hand mind you. Any he comes bouncing into my room all excited and yelling for help with his new model while bouncing up and down on my chest. Upon waking and askin him where the model is I am promptly told its on your bench. Well out to the mancave we go him tugging and pulling, of course I couldn't let him know I was more than willing to go with him. So we set down and open his new model, its a pine wood racer, I didnt know they even made those anymore. So I showed him how to sand, sand paper, paint and, stickers were all included now how cool is that I ask you. Anyway he sanded away until lunch was made for him so as he ate his lunch in the house with momma I finished the sanding for him. I tell ya for a 3 year old he did a pretty good job of it too. Now for paint, yes he did paint it all him own self, needed a little help with the stickers then a clear coat before nap time. Course I had to glue the parts on and push the wheels on, cause unlike paint, glue all over doesn't work very well. So without further longwindness from me heres a picture.
I know I know, but the engine is chrome NMF, and the rollbar is black oxide, AND he does have good taste in models because it a Revell model
Kinda makes my WIP pictures seem insignificant dont ya think ? Anyway here goes.
I found the fuse where the nose fits on was 1/16th smaller than the nose at the joint was so I gave it some thought and decided to cut off part of a chopstik, sand it to the correct length and wedge it into the fuse opening. Worked out perfectly too.
Heres the bottom with all the filling done before I added the nose and wings.
Now she looks like a jet
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I hope to make a bunch of progress this week but we will see.