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Supressionfire I see the Chwat keeps getting closer and closer and better and better too, beautiful work so far. The gun looks fantastic and I really really like the camo so far. The red outline really makes it pop out at you.

Ruddratt that engine is gorgeous man !! All the added detail really makes it come to life, had it not been for the monster clips on it I would have thought you posted a picture of the real engine. Very well done

Hans von Hammer as always I do enjoy watching your work progress and learning from it. Hope you get the war room back in order soon.

Eatthis I like it That has got to be one of the meanest TSR 2's that I have seen to date, all that iron hangin on those wings would be enough to pound most anything on the ground into submission me thinks. I will get it posted on the front page in the morning

Jmabx The Flamingo is coming along very nicely indeed. I am going to have to try you trick next time I want to pose a control surface.

SF - "Chwat" is looking great to me! Bummer about the tracks but do you think it will be obvious when she's finished? I don't think it will be too bad unless someone really studies it. I'm curious to see how you'll lighten up the colors too.

Eat - Nice job on another one finished! Looks like it's armed for some hard ground pounding!

Hans - The interior of the Val will look good with the little details. The engine will look good too with the PE wiring. Looking forward to seeing the engine painted. What happened to the "war room"?

Ruddratt - Simply marvelous engine!   You're in a whole other league of modeling than me!   Nice!

Well, I pulled out the old Flamingo again. A little work here and there is better than none at all!

Worked on the rudder because I wanted to position it off to one side. There was no line for a rudder so I laid down some Dymo labeling tape and started scribing with a needle in a pin vice. Once I had scribed a good cut in it, I finished it off with a PE saw.

I then drilled three small holes in the back of the tail and glued in some .020 styrene rods and cut them to length.

Next, I needed to make matching holes for the rudder. To do that I added a dab of red paint to the rods and put the rudder in place. Now I have a nice guide as to where i can drill my holes.

Then I drilled the holes in the rudder at an angle. Slide it in place and... "taa-daa"!  All finished!

Eat,

Looking good! That is a lot of ordinance for you plane, keep us posted!

Hammer,

Excellent scratch built details on your Val, Japanese aircraft make excellent platforms for extreme weathering.

Chwat update*

The Good,

Painted a experimental panel for the oil wash, it turned out acceptable as seen below:

the Bad,

Hand painted the reddish hue around the green camouflage, overall everything is too dark and will try and correct in the weathering.

& the Ugly.

Like said before the tracks are pigeon toed! Oh well to major of a error to fix now. Also the scratch built gun interior is a tad over scale, had to sand 2mm off the front to move the assembly forward.

Comments & critique are welcome!

right this ones done :)

its a tsr 2 what if assuming it entered service with the raf

iv got to make a stand for it

After alll the crap that happeded to me & my War Room, I'm happy to say that I've kicked off finally.  Not much so sar, but at least something.. Even if it's 28 pages into the thread, lol...

Fujimi 1/48th D3A "Va;" Diver Bomber

I did some interior work here with stretched prue and styrene strip to make the the stringers and formers, as well as adding a few interesting bit, just some strip that I drilled hole into to make it look "Aviaition".  Howerver, I did scratchbuild the throttle quadrant from strip and sprue for the throttle, prop, and mixture levers.

The panel was painted white, then I used a black Sharpie to paint it, then gave it some light swipes with an alcohol-dampened swab to bring out the underlying white.

I lost the kit pilot seat, so I built this one with a piece of sheet that I thermo-formed by cutting a piece about an inch long and half-inch wide, then holdong it in a tweezers, passed it over a candle flame to soften it, then formed it into shape with my fingers. After that, I added some strip to the sides and sanded to shape. 

The ignition wiring harnes is not an actual "after-market", but robbed from a 1/48th Monogram Pro-Modeler B24D, making it a kitbashed engine...  It fit on the Fujimi engine like it was made for it, although the dual wires aren't quite  where I want them, it looks fine inside the cowl...

 I'm hoping that I've recovered most all the pieces to this kit, as I don't know how easy it will be to find a replacement for anything major (Haven't found the canopy yet, but it's gotta be in here somewhere, right? Hopefully, I won't find it immediately after hearing a *Crunch* under my wheelchair, lol).  Fiddly bits are easy to fabricate though, and so far that's the only area in which I've noticed a missing part or two. 

Very nice Eat, i dunno about the weapons, both would look cool

tooled up tsr 2

looks angry :)

i may change the outer dumb bombs for another pair of the smaller gbu what do you think?

Jason, fantastic work, i can't beleive you have crammed so much into a 1/72 Hetzer

Ruddratt, very nice work, like SF said if not for the clip it would look real.. love the wiring and weathering

ruddratt,

Great looking inline 6 aircraft motor! If not for the giant clips in the picture one might mistake it for a real one.

Brushed on a coat of Future befor the color tinting wash. Thinking it will be a good time to catch up on some interior work and better yet to paint a 'test' sheet of plastic to experiment a bit. I have 'Raw Sienna' oil paint which should work, the problem is I have never used oil paint on a model and figure experimentation is the best angle before hitting Chwat'

Your hard work is really paying off, SF. I can't wait to see it when it's weathered. All that added detail will really pop!

Well gents, I was finally able to make some major headway on my Albatros. The engine is finally complete. Lots of wiring added, the tricky ones being the bundles that attach to the distributor caps. Had to use some very fine wire to pull that off, as the rods that house the wiring are quite skinny and drilling into each end was a challenge. The molded on rocker springs were removed and replaced with real ones salvaged from damaged electrical plunger-type contacts. Model Master enamels, Alclad II lacquers, Pollyscale acrylics and pastels finished her off. Hope you like it so far.

It looks good SF.

It will be a high-quality model, that's for sure.

'Double post'

Well its allowed as time has passed sense my last post.

Krylon flows smooth as butter and flatter than a pancake! (Puns intended)

Chwat is looking like a butter sculpture... actually a base coat of Krylon 'Buttercup' Being anxious for progress I skipped or forgot to 'pre-shade' with a flat black enamel wash... Doh!

Glare in next photograph was intentional, look close to see ridges of green that are from the masking. They will be wet sanded before continuing to the 'color correcting' brown wash / thin paint. Masking was done with fresh blue poster tack.

*Upper hull is not attached as there is a bit more interior decorating to do. Its been a long road getting this tan chunk of plastic to this point, hopefully it turns out to some sort of high standard.

Firefox...

Now how come there isn't a limited production release of that aircraft?

The last years of the cold war always portrayed the Russian pilots as ice cold professionals behind tinted face masks. I think 'Top Gun' based the Val Kilmer's character 'Ice Man' on this stereotype.

I know I am easily sidetracked... speaking of which Chwat' is Pigeon toed! the tracks are 2mm wider at the front. Oh well too far along to correct that disaster. Besides the skirt armor & fenders should hide the horror.

WIP's to follow! Upper hull very close to paint, give me 10 minutes and 'BAM! they will be posted...

...10 minutes later....

Here is a evolution of the MG 34. Tried to drill out the plastic kit barrel with little success. Broke out the Pb foil for a bit better luck, shown on the drill bit is the almost acceptable barrel cooling jacket. Also shown is a scratch built muffler in white styrene vrs. the kit one.

Upper hull with the muffler on but not glued. The brown stubs are for the spare track brackets, they are Tichy Train Group rivets glued up side down. The 1/2 round green plastic is the periscope guards. Shown also is the scratch built detail on the loaders & commanders hatches.

Lower hull with removable handle for painting & handling. The tracks will need to be brush painted, washed & dry brushed to complete. The stubs are spare track brackets like on the top hull. 

Eatthis nope not over done on the weathering at all in my opinion, looks really good in fact. Makes me think of that old Clint Eastwood movie, Firefox I think it was, because of the shape of the wing.

Ruddratt bummer man, I have been wanting to see the pictures of your engine, I hope it cures soon.

ruddratt

eat, I have to agree with the others - the weathering does not look overdone at all. Your build is really coming along nicely!

I'd have had pics of my Albatros engine posted days ago if I'd thinned the artist oil wash with mineral spirits like I usually do instead of turpenoid. I applied it last sunday and as of today it's still not nearly cured. I would have stripped the whole thing down and started over if I hadn't already applied the data plate decals to the engine block. Oh well, live & learn I suppose.

hairdryer?

eat, I have to agree with the others - the weathering does not look overdone at all. Your build is really coming along nicely!

I'd have had pics of my Albatros engine posted days ago if I'd thinned the artist oil wash with mineral spirits like I usually do instead of turpenoid. I applied it last sunday and as of today it's still not nearly cured. I would have stripped the whole thing down and started over if I hadn't already applied the data plate decals to the engine block. Oh well, live & learn I suppose.

Nice work eat! I don't think that the weathering is overdone at all. I really like the camo and Jag style missiles.

Looking pretty good Eat, nice camo job, i like the lines of that model, looks fast]Y]

decals and weathering are done just gotta fit the pitot tube and hang the iron off it (wont get here for another week or so)im not taking the masking off till im absolutely certain its done

eatthis

do you think iv gone too dirty with the weathering? 

Well, I'm not too sure.

From a distance (like in the seccond photo) it still looks shiny and new.

In Photo 1, it looked like it was wethered too extreme, but I realized it was acually the shadows from the window

I think it looks fine. (Definately better than my wethering attempts, all of which turned the route of the Rust Buckets)

SuppressionFire

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Eatthis,

Great job, I really like that build and must ask are you planning to have the landing gear up? I think not enough models are done 'in flight' as less that 10% are modeled this way at contests I have attended.

Rain today may mean I get some much needed bench time tonight! Been busy catching up on side jobs I took on before I became employed full time. Chwat has been calling for some TLC to finish up. Hopefully I can get some WIP's up tonight or tomorrow. Been adding the hull roof details like hatch lids, periscope guards & scratch built  a new muffler. It sounds like a lot yet accomplished all that in a few short sessions.

yeh gears gonna be up even though the doors are a right mess

do you think iv gone too dirty with the weathering?

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Eatthis,

Great job, I really like that build and must ask are you planning to have the landing gear up? I think not enough models are done 'in flight' as less that 10% are modeled this way at contests I have attended.

Rain today may mean I get some much needed bench time tonight! Been busy catching up on side jobs I took on before I became employed full time. Chwat has been calling for some TLC to finish up. Hopefully I can get some WIP's up tonight or tomorrow. Been adding the hull roof details like hatch lids, periscope guards & scratch built  a new muffler. It sounds like a lot yet accomplished all that in a few short sessions.

Looking good eatthis.

I can't wait to see the wethering.

ah ok my bad i couldnt work it out

eatthis

asl all get out?

asl lol my bad typing  should be " as all get out " = mean and nasty as he!l

asl all get out?

Eatthis lookin good there bud Cant wait to see it all loaded up should look mean and menacing asl all get out. Nice work on the camo too.

ready for weathering :)

i may delete the outboard hardpoints im not sure yet

Eatthis, great progress on the TSR-2, looking very nice indeed

Ruddrat, Yeah this will be my first WW1 kit (probably should have chosen the DR-1 or D-7) Looks like i'll have to jump over the fence into the paddock and steal some more horse mane hair for rigging...I've heard a lot of good things about Wingnut Wings kits...Unfortunatly i'm stuck in 48 scale, old habits die hard i guess...

Randy, thats great news, i was hopeing i wouldn't have to scratch a gunsight... I'll kitbash with the brass set i have for an old Polish fighter which name escapes me, i hated the model and gave it to my boy to play with but i kept the brass set...

ready for decals :)