OFFICAL NO AFTERMARKET Group Build

Vetteman welcome back! Thanks for the comments. I like Calvin and Hobbes comics so I through it in my signature. Considering every time I build a model airplane I pretty much feel that I can't get it to look right, so I thought it was fitting!

Well, 12 years to a computer is about 93 in human years. Did you recycle her, or salvage parts from her?

Well Railfan I have the parts to rebuild it and get it going again so what I think I will do is finish it then find a kid in need of a computer and pay my sisters generosity forward. Its the least I can do. It should last another 5 or 6 years I hope.

Ah, the old Re-building program. Well, at least she'll have a seccond chance at life. Who knows, you may run into her again on the shelf at the thrift store.

Guys the front page has been updated with finished builds I am happy to announce, impressive builds to I might add

Railfan can you tell me what the donner kit for was for Roscoe's cruiser was and what kit you are using for the dumpster mobile ? You know scale and manufacturer.

Sure is good to be back

vetteman42

Railfan can you tell me what the donner kit for was for Roscoe's cruiser was and what kit you are using for the dumpster mobile ? You know scale and manufacturer.

Roscoe's Monaco is the AMT/Round 2 kit in 1/25 scale built OOB, but with scratch-built radio aentennas.

The Dumpster Mobile is in 1/25 scale and is using the chassis/ drive system/ axels/suspension parts from the Revell/Monogram 64 Impalla, but I've changed out the motor with a drag-race engine  from a Revell Firebird kit (unknown year on the firebird)

I'm glad to have you back Vetteman.

vetteman42

Railfan 223

Sharriff  Roscoe P. Coltrain's Dodge Monaco. with scratch built interior, engine detail, antanna and CB whip. Finished on 7/30/2010. The build starts on page 7, with finished pictures on page 16.

 

Acually, Vetteman, the interior isn't a scratch-build. I did scratch-build some interior details, but not the whole thing (mainly wiring for the radio stack)

Catching up a bit here…

Railfan – really nice builds on interesting subjects. That dumpster mobile takes the prize, what a cool build (also the 1;1 lol)

Oddman rush – P47 looks good, very good paint job. Looks dirty in a good way.

JMabx – flamingo coming along nicely.

 Raptordriver – congrats on the finish, SBD looks good.. I have that kit, it is truly an old mold!

Commodore puters? Lol we are dating ourselves.. I had the C128 with an external floppy drive! Whoo hoo lol .

This is not my official build, but a WIP of a second revel P51D Im building (unless you accept a partial build lol). But I did some scratchbuilding that came out ok.

 A tad of a scratchbuild project. Masking tape which has been “brushed” with graphite powder shaved from a pencil. That will be the seatbelt material. Wire from inside an electrical cord, wrapped around a “D” shaped metal file, making the metal hooks. Implements:

The seatbelts look good JMart. I would have never thought of using tape colored with graphite powder.

I've never heard of Photo-etch seat belt thingys.

Man, I really need to do more in the way of aftermarket stuff. For all of my years in the hobby, I've been making do with what the kit provided, or going through my spares box, or scratch-building. Never have I spent a dollar on after-market parts of any kind (Well, O.K., there was that one time I gave in and spent $1.50 on an air horn for a locomotive. I felt so much guilt over getting that thing, I scratch-built an interior for a track-side factory afterwards)

I must be really cheep if I think $1.50 is too much for a horn on a locomotive

It's baAAAAAAAAaaaack!

Now that I got the regulator and moisture trap in last week, I've resumed work on the Scooter. I've complete the base coat, with pre/post shading effort. She is lookin' Ok, but I'm almost starting to think I do a better job with the brush

Jmart thanks for the comments! So seats and belts look pretty killer. I use the same method as you, masking tape. Though, I"m pretty sure yours look better than mine. I hate having to fashion buckles from bits of PE. Never look quite right....

YES! The Skyhawk is back in action! She is looking great.

I can almost see her on the deck of a carrier right now.

Commodore puters? Lol we are dating ourselves.. I had the C128 with an external floppy drive! Whoo hoo lol .

OMG... don't start... I can clearly remember fiddling with a screwdriver to get the tracks on the C64 tapedrive to align or the game wouldn't load...LOL. But boy did i have fun!. Found a commodore emulator for the pc a while back and played all the oldies for a weekend; bit of an emotional moment

Your tip on the seatbelts is fantastic and i am going to try it out with my spitfire when i get back to her. Thanks alot!

Richard

Shoot, that is some small writing.

How were the games Richard?

Oddmanrush the Skyhawk is back !!!! She is looking really good to, I need to build one of those someday.

Railfan 223 ok I think I have the front page corrected now

Oh yes the Commodore 64  I miss mine . Used to use it to get weather reports way back when I did pilot stuff. Now I got this super fast modern top o the line computer that one needs a collage degree just to navigate the desktop. But it is fast

Yes, it's been corrected. Don't worry about it, we are all human.

As for the Commodore 64, I have simpothy for you.

Thanks Vetteman, its good to have the Scooter up and running again. Here's a quick update. There is a lot of little areas to paint on this guy so I didn't get much progress done. As you can see, I painted most of the red parts today, including the edges of the wheel well doors, the rudder stripes, and the intakes....

That's all for now. I'll carry on tomorrow with some more fiddly little painting areas.

Glad to see the Skyhawk back!  Yes, one advantage of using masking tape, you can use two strips to give it depth (PE looks flat), and you can fold in ways that look more natural. Not like *I* can do that, but have seen great examples lol.  Read somewhere that ribbon also makes for good seat belt material due to the texture. Love the Commodore talk, we are dating ourselves here… remember when wargames were the state of the art in computer games? SSI anyone?

Thanks, its good to have it back!

I never had experience with a Commodore and never really got into the SSI games like Panzer General or the like. I played mostly flight simulator games and I recall playing a lot of the F-117 stealth fighter games as well as some early WWII simulator games with terrible graffics. Otherwise, I played some hard core Civilization and Civilization II. Any one remember those games?

oddmanrush

Thanks, its good to have it back!

I never had experience with a Commodore and never really got into the SSI games like Panzer General or the like. I played mostly flight simulator games and I recall playing a lot of the F-117 stealth fighter games as well as some early WWII simulator games with terrible graffics. Otherwise, I played some hard core Civilization and Civilization II. Any one remember those games?

Played Panzer general on Play Station I. Very addicting, furthest I made it was to Britain & was defeated there and in Russia.

Now that everyone has been side tracked with mention of Commodore computers how about some WIP's for the GB?

1 more... Remember Colleco game system with the plastic cards that had to be changed on the controller for different games?

SuppressionFire

Now that everyone has been side tracked with mention of Commodore computers how about some WIP's for the GB?

Don't worry Suppression Fire, I'll try to get some photos up soon. I have slowed down on the Dumpster mobile, but I have made some progress (including a transmission tunnel, and an engine swap) I still need to paint it, and then I'll start on the interior detail

This post is so interesting.

I'm a great fan of no after market details for building pleasure, alas I have completed most of my single kits notably the UH-34, Huey, BF-109, Stirling, M48 Magach, M551 Sheridan and Curtiss SBD-4 without the aid of AM.

I'm now concentrating on a dio which I believe is not allegiable as one of the figures has a AM Hornets head(modified no doubt) and AM banana tree that's already covered in the Dio forum.

Since it ends next year, I'll see if I can scrounge up a half built kit and progress on it. Perhaps the LVT-A4 Amtank(Saipan) also posted in the armor forum.

Cheers,

Richard

Thanks for dropping by Richard! If you can dig up a kit, I'm sure you'd be more than welcome to participate.

Hey, have you ever had one of those modeling days where it just seems like everything is coming together perfectly? A day when every thing fits? A day when you don't lose a part in your shag carpet? A day when every thing you touch turns into modeling gold?? Well, tonight wasn't one of those nights.

I got very little done. Set up and tear down of my work station on the kitchen table takes time, especially when I need to airbrush. This is what I got done...

Mmmm. Not much. Only the 'anti glare' panel and the little red stripes on either side. The red gave me problems. I initially mixed it too thin so it was shooting very diluted and runny. Not good. So I back washed the AB so I could thicken the mix. Well, the back wash was too forceful and a single...SINGLE...drop of red paint about the size of a pin head landed right smack in the middle of the wing! WTF. So I tried to mix some similarly colored gray and cover it by brush painting but I was waaaaaaaaay off. So instead of a tiny red drop, it became a large dark gray smear. So I had to get the mix right in the AB and attempt to cover it that way. Can you believe I got the perfect mix on the first shot?? I know, right, crazy. Any how, later on I didn't burnish the masking tape flush enough when painting the stripes along the nose cone and some of the red ran under neath. What a frickin' pain in the rear. This time I just brush painted it to cover. Wasn't perfect but its good enough.

On that note, time for bed. Oh hey, Suppression Fire, speaking of GB progress, how's that Hetzer coming along, hmmm?

Rtfoe you would be more than welcome to join us, just let me know what you are going to build.

Oddmanrush wow sounds like the Gremlins had an all out party on your bench tonight, I feel for ya. However looks like you dealt with them well, and held them at bay. The Skyhawk is still lookin good so keep the pictures coming.

Oddmanrush,

Love the work buddy! I am not that familiar with the A4 but it does look neat and you are doing it alot of justice at the moment. I second Vetteman and demand MORE

Ok, haven't been working on my spitfire for ages so that simply had to be rectified....

Lemme see.... some stuff to work with.... strip of styrene.....Low E guitar string.... painters tape with some paint on it.... Yup, were in business here

First off i really missed that little leather pouch on the fuselage side (for maps or briefings...?) so i took some strips and a little knob of electrical wire:

Painted it... and ended up like this:

Next thing i missed was this tube or hose that is pretty prominently present in this picture i took in a game i play:

So thats where the guitar string came in handy:

Lastly, and to conclude the pit work i followed the example that Jmart so kindly shared on the seatbelts. Instead of the graphite powder that he used i painted the painters tape. Again using some electrical wire for the buckles i ended up like so:

Hope you had fun looking at my amateuristic first steps in scratching sofar. I know i had

Richard

Now, that's another use for gutar string: to simulate that mysterious tube that seems to be prominant in the cocpit. Nicely done with the cocpit Richard.

Now, that game looks familiar. Is it one from the IL-2 Forgotten Battles seres? I havn't played much on my copy, but I turn to it as my #1 resource for refrence on WWII aircraft (unless I have an all-acess pass to the real thing).

I can't wait to see what's next for the Spitfire. Mabe I out to pick one up some time this week.

Thanks Railfan. The kit is pretty basic, i have to admit. Much like the hurricane in the same "classics" series. But with some scratching like you do and some filling here and there they build up quite nicely. Also very cheap considering the scale.

On top of that you get enough flash on the sprues and parts to build the kit twice over

Richard

Kermit wish my first try at a seat harness came out as well as yours did. How did you bend the buckles ?

Well done

Like Jmart i used a tool to fold a piece of electric wire around it. In my case i used the kind of tweezers that open when you squeeze it so it acted as a sort of clamp at the same time

Painted a strip of wide painters tape, folded it double and then folded it again lengthwise with the buckles inbetween.

Btw, i did fold the top ends of the belts over the top of the seat after i took that pic.

Richard

Ok boys 'n girlz...

The last 24 hours i have been working on closing everything up and assemble the whole lot. Also did some seam filling altough i am not ready with that. Especially the canopy doesn't really fit great but to show off all the scratched goodies i will be building it opened up anyways:

The engine panels are secured with a tiny bit of silly putty because i wanna show the engine wiring too ofcourse:

Thanks for watching,

Richard

can i join this please iv had an idea for a what if that would require some scratchbuilding

it would be 1/72 scale i dont wanna say what plane though ;) the only clue your getting is it uses the pheonix missile system but isnt swingwing